Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-23

cAOIuS OF Union would again ring out
over our broad land when North and
South were touching together with the
better angels OF our nature.
WASHINGTON BANQUET DAY.
There are to be public and private
banqueJs on Saturday here, the Wash
ing,on day. and at one under patron
age of the Sons of the Revolution this
toast will be given: Washington and
Lincoln The Gemini stars in our Ma
tiOnai ornament, the creator of the
country twin patriot with the Saw
Jour of The Union" Brentano informs
me that into his eclectic book empor-
iun he had an enquiry for a life of
Washington in the style of "up-tO-
date Chief Justice Marshalrs life of
Washington does not meet the advanc-
ed tastes of nowadays readers. Nor
others Of the early times. And it is
wonder TO me that one or our mag
az.ne editors has not taken up Wash
ington in tone of rhetoric and illusUa-
ton as Napoleon, Bismarck and other
foreign celebrities have recsiyed Of late
magazine treatment Our age is
greater one for hero worship than any
previous one. No novel or dramatic
work has yet made Washington a CEN
tral figure of plot or on sage.
NEW WASHINGTON NOVEL AND
DRAMA.
The times are ripe for a new romance
of our Revolutionary er3s. and HOwells'
fountain pen survives. as also Actor
Augustus Cook. whose marvellous per
sonatiOn OF Napoleon l.. in the play of
Madame Sans Gene" electrified play
goerS. Then Richard Mansfield has
proved himself a capital maker-up and
pOrtrayer before fooJlights of celebrities
in history. Both of these actors with
a good play could bring Washington
again into popular representative life.
But to return TO holidays. There is a
correspondent this morning of a daily
newspaper who demonstrates against
the Legislature making more holidays,
stopping business and labOrers' wages.
Nor is he alone in his heresy. Crowds
Of American husders are with him.
A ROOSEVELT ANECDOTE.
I once heard Col Monroe. a son of
the President of the era of good feel
ing. narrate a clever anecdOte OF a call
lie once made upon Millionaire Cor
nelius Van Setback Roosevelt. the
grandfather of our police Teddy, when
soliciting contributions to the eques-
trian statue Of Washington contem-
plated for. and now illustrating. Union
Square in this city. and confronting
the statue of Lincoln, and viewing as
kance that one of Lafayette whom the
sculptor has made a mincing dancing
master in the act of showing a pupil
of the past century how TO cut a
pigeOn-wing step. The millionaire did
not seem to take a lively interest in
the scheme and listened coldly when
Col. Monroe appealed TO his listeners
selishness and discanted upon the pro-
pinQuity of the statue improving the
value of his house, into the windows of
which Washington on horseback would
gaze as he proudly waved his heroic
hand. But the millionaire grew colder
and colder. and finally surlily observed:
Washington don't need statue TO
keep his memory alive-he lives II
the hearts of his cOuntrymen." Col
Monroe. now nettled exclaimed: well,
sir, if Washington lives in your heart,
DO IS i0 -.rh-er 0l7ca than no wa- ~
Valley Forge" II is not likely that
the constructive and restrictive quail
ties of the grandsire have been Inherit
ed by the police grandson. who so I'M
popularity enfOrces the letter of Sunday
prohibitOry laws to the sacrifice of their
intention and spirit. Daughters of the
Revolution also intend to celebrate the
day with teas. or dinner. or receptions,
or theatre parties.
WASHINGTON ON LUXURY.
And perhaps the daughters amid
their luxurious entertainments may
call each others attention to the orig
inal draft of the farewell address, not
now i'm the printed one, wherein ap-
peared these sentences: "Is there not
room to regret that our propensity 70
expense exceeds our means for It? Is
there not more luxury among us and
more diffusive than suits our national
prOgreSS2' If that warning Of the
Father Of His Country was needed in
the closing years of the last century.
how much more appropriate is if in the
closing years Of this century: wherein
the rich tend toward growing richer
and the poor toward becoming poorer.
And it is this city which sets the pace
of luxury and extravaganza to every
other metropolis in the Union. As
Goldsmith eXclaims i'm the poem of the
Deserted Village" ooh. luxury. thou
Curst by heavens decree"
LENT HAS BEGUN.
But this holiday week and devoted
to feasting in its close. was Yesterday
the Ash Wednesday commencement OF
Lent. and the forty days fast which
are kept by fashionahles even within
the pale of other religious denomin--
tiOns than Catholic or EpiscOpalian
Church. The chimes of down----
Trinity and Of midtown Grace rang
Lent blithely in to the brokers Of Wall
street. and the shoppers at the Broad
way stores but nevertheless many o.
the streets teemed with worshirpere on
route. | heard a club man saw. Co.
found it why did Lent come q ,.
close Of winter or beginning Of s~~i7g.
just when the season OF turtle eri7.
pin. ducks and West India ve--- -os
and fruits impended2 Think ~ .oz.
ing at such a time, Lent should have
been ordered in January. when the
market looked economical"
Lent is called by the publishers and
booksellers their spring harvest. Thsy