Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-11-03

a purely mock ncounter-between the
champion. Lipshutz, fresh from Euro
pean prominence in the game, and the
Kentuckian, Showalter. The best anna
teur chess player whom this city eX-
PLOTS is Mr. Rowland, the business
manager of the New York Herald,
whose moves on its exchequer board
have certainly been mastery; and he
often advisedly calls check to the pro-
prietor Of the board. l once witnessed
while a student of civil law in New Or
leans, chess encounter in the Pelican
Club between Paul Morphy, the very
noted chess player, and Judah p. Ben
jamin, (who subsequently lost, as At
torney-General Of the Confederacy, all
his knights, pawns and castles in the
great military chess game between Lin
coin and Davis. And one may realize
how clever a player Benjamin was
when at the game instanced he won
from Morphy in twenty moves, in an
almost purely pawn game.
Next comes here the autumnal
horse show al the Madison Garden,
where fashion will go to show its ignor-
ance of the equine race And this year
the fair viii be attended by the Rever-
end Charles Josiah Adams, manager Of
the Bureau of Animal Biophilism," OF
which the versatile Eugene Field is al
so an officer. Biophilism is a word de-
rived from the great bios, meaning life,
and philein to love. A brOpholist Is
one who gives every dumb creature full
credit for what there is in it; who would
Inn
and make it happy; who would mete
out to all creatures immortality if he
could, and who. consequently, hopes for
the Immortality Of the whole senti-
ent universe. Parson Adams-how ia
miliar that phrase sounds to admirers
of Fielding's Tom jones' loves the
horse and believes, with the Rev. J. G.
Wood Of the English Church author
of a book entitled Man and Beast.
Here and Hereafter, that the horse,
the dog and the elephant sagaciously
demonstrate possession Of soul, and will
have an immortality. Along with my
cOnfrere, Eugene Field, | believe it:
and any Biblical scolar ought to be able
to prove it by citations The belief
gives new joy to the owners of a be-
loved dog or horse whom he perceives
reasons and memories.
A. Oakley HALL.
Written for the Sunday Register.
MY BOY.
He went away IN the summer.
OF morning thick with mist
And wiped the tears off quickly
FROM the cheeks his lips had kissed.
1 took up life's great burden
With eyes that We're so dim,
And whate er my hands We're doing
l alyaws thought of him.
prayed for my child at midnight
Ontil my sleep became prayer.
Heaven protect my darling.
l breathed il everywhere.
My boy just growing to manhood,
With fully a manly air.
And with a heart that was so truly
AS he was welcomed everywhere.
Gone through the lovely summer.
That was lovely with charm and grace.
I listened oft for his footsteps
And looked for his speaking face.
Now autumn has passed and It's winter
And his chair is vacant to-day
My boy that was loved so dearly
Is so many miles away.
Oh In that far of city
Do the people who watch his form
Know Of The heart that loved him,
or of the home he left so warm?
Can they ever guess what a blessing
He was to his parents heart,
or how lonely he had left us,
or how hard IL was to part?
Do they think in that far off city
As they watch his manly tread.
Do they think Of the shower Of blessings
Invoked on his manly head?