Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-19

her sex, whose beauty caused such ruin
and disaster and was also the inspira-
ton of Holmes 'sIlliad,' that treasured
relic of ancient verse.
Turning from this picture we behold
Iphigenia with looks of scorn for
Helen, to whom she ascribes her blast
ed youth. According to fable, her faith
er, Agaimemmon, offended the goddess
Diana during the siege of Troy. To
make atonement for this he vowed to
sacrifice the most beautiful thing born
during the year. This happened to be
Iphigenia.
Next comes "a queen with swarthy
cheeks and bold black eyes, in whom
we recognize Cleopatra, Of Egypt, the
woman who governed men by change
and swayed all worlds, but was unable
to subdue with her power that Caesar
whom Providence had destined for
nobler purposes.
In "Jeptha's Daughter" we have the
willing sacrifice ." of her that died to
save a fathers VOW" that if victorious
in battle he should sacrifice the first
object he beheld on his return.
Visions of fair Rosamond's bower"
and the romantic story of the jealous
Eleanor, tracing her husband, Henry
the Second, of England, to that abode
with the tragic death of Rosamond
form striking picture.
With these the dream proper ends,
reluctantly for the poet, as well as for
ourselves, ere he had seen her who
clasped in her last trance her murdered
fathers head" Margaret Popes, the
devoted daughter of Sir Thomas Moore,
for whom conscience and Henry the
Eighth procured the martyrs crown.
Denied also the vision of Joan of
Arc, the inspired peasant of France,
who saved her country and her king,
and of the heroic Eleanor of CASTLE,
wife of Edward the First, who Drew
forth the poison with her balmy
breath when the king was wounded
in the first crusade, the poet sought
without avail to strike:
Unto that wondrous track of dreams
again,
But no two dreams are alike"
The people of Wheeling will have an
opportunity OF seeing illustrated and
enacted this most popular and beauti-
.,
Fair Women" at the Carroll Club aud
itorium on Tuesday evening, Septem-
Der 18th. Tickets on sale at c. A.
Houses music store.
The Barnum & Bailey greatest show
on earth will give two exhibitions here
next Friday on Bridge Park, Wheeling
Island. 1t will arrive early in the
morning, coming from Sistersville on
the Ohio River road on four special
trains. The work of unloading these
trains and establishing the show in its
temporary quarters is a process we'll
worth watching, as an eXemplificatiOn
of the large amount of work that can
be done in a short time by hard labor
and thorough discipline. The real cir
Gus day will begin, however, at 8
o'clock in the morning, when the free
street parade will leave the grounds
and pass through the principal streets
Of the city. The route Of parade is
as follows: Kentucky street to North
York street, to South York street. to
Virginia street, to Suspension bridge.
to Tenth street, to Market street, to
Fourteenth street, to Main street. to
Twenty street, to Chapline to
Twentieth street to Market street. to
Tenth street, to Bridge, to Zane street.
to ground.
One of the finest features of the pa
rade is the driving of forty horses to
one wagon by an expert driver. These
horses were all green at the work at
the opening Of this season, but no one
would guess it to see them now. Every
one of them is jet black, and they make
a fine appearance as they prance
through the streets drawing the wagon
as If it were light as wheelbarrow. 1t
is estimated that the driver holds in his
hands eighty pounds of reins, and the
work of directing the course of the
horses and keeping them in control is
a wonderful feat.
Horses will be made prominent in
the ring performance also One Of the
acts will show seventy of them in the
ring at once.
The following unique advance notice
was furnished for "A Paper City" which
will be the attraction at the Grand the
last half of this week, with Saturday
matinee:
a KLONDIKE ROMANCE.
Gold in my haversack; gold
Held in the belt a my girth;
Nuggets which l have caioed
Out OF the nav of the earth.