Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-24
MARRIED BY THE GREAT SORROW
WHICH HAS COME UPON
THE NATION.
The Usual Announcement Of the
Royal Christmas Dinner Appears
in The Court Circular, hut 1t
Reads Like a Hollow Mockery.
Cool Determination to Retrieve
the Disasters of South Africa Has
Taken Hold Upon the People, and
They Are vieinE with Each
other in Their Efforts to Prove
Loyalty.
Copyright, Associated pres..)

tOOpyTlknt, ASSOSIAIC0 FEeS8sp
LONDON, December pa baron of
beef for the Queens Christmas will be
roasted next Saturday, December %, at
the Great kitchen fire, Windsor, in
readiness for the royal dinner party on
Monday. The great joint, when cold.
will be garnished with the Royal and
Imperial monogram in shredded horse
radish and, with a boar's head and
game pie, will assist in adDrning Her
Majesty's %sideboard on Christmas Day."
This quaint announcement in the Court
Circular, with the spirit Of royal plenty
breathed in every line. sounds almost
like a hollow mockery OF fae sorrow and
shadow of death which aaYe turned the
season of rejoicing into one of mourn
ing.
bad news from thu Cape" writes
n society authority "has made Lon
don the trtariest city IN the world at
the seasoa when it ought to be the most
gay"
Though this may b, exaggerated,
there is certainly much truth in it.
The queen will spent Christmas at
Windsor, instead of, as for years, at Os-
borne, owing to her wish to be nearer
the Cabinet, thereby sacrificing a habit
very dear - her for gears past. With
her will he the Duchess of Albany and
her children.
The Prince of Wales
will spend Christmas at Sandringham,
and the Duke and Duchess of York Will
also be there. But, neither at Wind
sor, at Sa~ndringham, nor in the mob
lest or lowest homes in Great Britain
will there be much m~errymaking, for
with 1000 men killed, wounded or miss
ing in South Africa there are few famll-
les which have not been touched with
this depression, which only serves to
| make the nation more determined than
ever, and which Is a silent ACCOMPANY
ment to one of the most spontaneous
outbursts of patriotism and universal
desire to risk life and give up property
that ever marked the history OF an
country. Cooks sons are no less anX-
ious to serve their country on the bat
tlefeld than dukes sons or than the
dukes themselves. The Duke of MARI
borough's offer to equip $50 men of his
Yeomanry Regiment for service IN
South Africa is merely one among hum
dreds of such offers from his class.
Peers with vast business, property and
political interests are exhibiting the Ut
most eagerness in their desire to nave
their names enrolled among the voiun-
teers who are going to endeavor 70 re-
trieye the reyerses to the British arms.
The day of wild, war enthusiasm and
/ oyer-confidenee has passed and tnere
| reigns in its stead a grim determin-
alton to atone for the mistakes OF the
past by individual effort, regardless or
! consequences.
An instance of the spirit which per-
| vades the country is that in the Cum
berland and Westmoreland Yeomanry,
of which the Earl of Lonsdale is col
onel. every officer and nearly every man
in the regiment has volunteered
And is Using Every influence
to get accepted. Among the officers is
| Captain Hugh Jefferson, we'll known
in America, formerly manager of the
Sand Creek Cattle Company, OF wy
oming. The Duke of Marlborough
| will probably receive an appointment
on Lord Chesham's stan.
IN the northern counties there is
keen rivalry as to who shall do the
most for his country in the hour OF
need. Northumbrians, headed by
Earl Grew. have subscribed large sums
to equip one hundred men, and the
Earl of Durham calls on the men of
his county not to be outdone by the
Northumbrians, and heads the list with
a substantial Cubscl 9tion. Lords
! Stanley and Wolverton go as Yeo-
| many troopers, though the former at
| one time was an officer in the Guards,
and the latter is an admirals son.
| Two nephews of General Lord Roberts,
both ex-majors of the regular army,
have volunteered to go in any capacity
in the Yeomanry. The Earl of Es-
sex, who is a major of the Hartford
shire Yeomanry, accompanies the con-
tingent Of his county.
In short, the 5000 mounted men who
have responded to the call for Yeomen
will have the brains, blood, muscle
and dare-deviltry of the famous Amer
lean Rough Riders.
By the death this week of
The Earl of TankervilIe,
Lord, Bennett, who married Miss Leo
nora Van Marter, of Tacoma, succeeds
to the title. The new earl is a well
known evangelist. He me- his wife at
| a revival meeting at Tacoma in 1895.
The late earl was the Oldest member
of the House OF Lords. His career was
marked by many eccentricities.
The theaters are feeling the effect
of the gloomy phase of the war. The
most popular attractions are suffering.
Even at the Shaftesbury, where THE
Belle of New York" had come to be
regarded as a permanent institution,
notices are up that the company re-
turns to New York forthwith. The
sudden withdrawal of this production,
however, is due partly to a row be-
tween the company and the managers
over a play which was ultimately to
succeed The Belle of New York"
THE Black Tulip has failed at the
Haymarket, and Barrie's new comedy
not being ready, as a stop-gap for the
| season as old comedy will be subsei-
tuted.
Ada Rehan returns to the stage in
| the spring, opening at Manchester.
After a long provincial tour, she will
| appear in London.
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