Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-17
THIS Is ST. pATR|Ck'S Day,
And It Will Be in Evidence by the
Wearing Of the Green
The Local Celebration Will Consist
Of Religious Services and an En-
tertalnment o-Night-S M g
thing About the Life and History
of the Patron Saint of the irish.
Matters in Controversy.

" VIC l c1ttNll sOdlHL VI IiAS -
Matters in Controversy.
There will be ocular evidence OF the
arrival of St Patrick Day this morn
ing, when every loyal son Of Erin
will have the lapel of his coat deco
rated with a shamrock, or will have
conspicuously displayed upon his per-
son the favorite color of his native
land. Nor Will the wearin' of the
green" be confined to those of Hiber-
'nian extraction, for in recent years peo-
pie of all nationalities have manifested
"a disposition to compliment the Irish
man by displaying his favorite color
on the feast day Of Ireland's patron
saint.
There will not be a very elaborate cell
ebration of the day in Wheeling, but it
is never permitted to pass unobserved
by the local divisions Of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians At St. Josephs
Cathedral, at ten o'clock this morning,
a special high mass in honor of st.
Patrick will be celebrated, and the
Rev. Father Mcbride will deliver a dis
course appropriate to the occasion.
Tonight Benwood Division Of the A.
O. H. will give an entertainment at
their hall while the Wheeling divisions
of the order will combine in an enter
tainment at the Carroll Club Audi
torium, under the auspices of Mullen
Division and Ladies Auxiliary. There
has already been a heavy demand for
seats, and a very large audience is as
sured. The programme has been here
tofore published in the Register. The
Irish comedy drama, Shaun Aroon,"
will be presented by a splendid cast,
under the direction of Miss Lima Hem
mig
There are numerous lives Of st.
Patrick so full of fiction and fable that
the learned Gibbon says: THE sixty
six livcs Of St Patrick, which were
extant in the ninth century, must have
contained many thousand lies" Sixty
six thousand lies are great many
to have been written about one man,
SO that it is by no means surprising
that many writer's have been led to
deny his existence altogether But
that St Patrick was a real parsonage
is proven by his own writings. not
ably the 'Epistle to Coraticus," who
was probably the Roman admiral Car
ausius, and the Confession or Epistle
to the Irish"
The date of his birth is uncertain.
Some authorities place it in the third
century, and others year in the
fourth or fifth Concerning his parent
age, Calpornius. his father, is said to
have been a Roman Decurio, a position
in colony Of the Roman Empire SINH
lar to that held by Senators in the city
Of Rome.
From this fact. st. Patrick lays claim
to noble birth. 1t is the opinion Of
those who have carefully considered
the subject that he was born in Scot
land, at Dumbarton, on the Clyde.
There is every reason to believe that
he was taken captive at that place,
owing to the very slight hold which
the Romans had at any time over that
section of territory. 1t was ALWAYS the
most easily assailabIe part of their
nroyince in Britain. and was I'M
douhtedlv the scene of MANY Irish
invasions In one of these. believed by
the hest authorities. to be by King
cormac ITIfada. St. Patrick was cap
tnred He was sold as a slave and for
six years herded sheen on the bleak
Stone Of the mountains in County An
trim
uona i so1i,uda HE mind tprned to
cod and while carefully doing the
r,- 80 hie bord noste, he emnloved
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