Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-08
The Editor of the Arizona Kicker Gives His
Opinion of a Few Late Works.


Opinion of Few Late Works.
A book entitled 1.-THE Mystery OF
Hog Hill'' has reached our editorial
table. 1t it not book which will find
much of a sale in this locality. Hen
ry Liyermore, the villain of the story
wouldn't earn his salt trying to be a
villain in this territory. He swims a
raging river with a bowie-knife be-
tween his teeth to kill Sunday school
teacher who has been in bed and asleep
for two hours, and after reaching the
victim he does no further damage
than to rob the house of a cuckoo
clock and boiled ham. He has three
chances to steal a mule and passes
them all by, and on five or six differ
ent occasions he could have robbed
clothes-lines or soap barrels if he had
had the nerve of Chinaman. When
cornered at last he bolts away and be-
comes entangled in a barbed wire
fence instead of standing his ground
and using his guns, and though he
owns up to seven different murders, it
is found out that he lies in every in
stance and has never even stuck a
knife into cold pumpkin. We would
not spare the time and the rope to
hang such villains out this way.
We acknowledge the receipt at the
hands of the publishers of a book en-
titled False PRIDE George Hender-
son loves Mary Atwell and is loved in
return. They are engaged and the
day set, when George receives an
anonymous letter to the effect that
Mary had been Tilted by st. Louis
man previous to his knowing her. BY
the same mail she also receives an
epistle warning her that George had
been turned down by a Boston girl.
Two minutes of confidential converse
tlon would have settled things and
brought about happy marriage, but
false pride prevented. George sets his
Jaw and Mary sticks up her nose, and
SO they grow colder and colder, and at
last separate. After several years OF
mat tired feeling" each marries some
one else to spite the other, and of
course they go through heap of suf-
1erlng and do any amount of signing.
AFTER hfteen years they happen to
meet IN a parlor car, but before they
can explain matters the train strikes a
COW on the track and the car is de-
rallied and everybody killed. While
both are buried in one grave at last.
and are no doubt having a happy time
of it, we cannot say we like the book
as whole. The author proved his
ignorance of human sentiment as por-
trayed in daily life when he had George
Henderson walk away from that girl
and ask the price of Goldfish at the
nearest grocery. He might possibly
have done it as bluff, but it doesn't
seem natural.
A book for which we bespeak large
sale in Giveadam Gulch is entitled
The Seventh Man" The scene of the
story is laid in Chicago. Esmeralda
Johnson, daughter of millionaire, has
six different admirers, all of whom say
"cawn't'' for cant" and wear corsets
to give them figure. The girl is not
sure which of them she loves when a
seventh man makes his appearance. He
is from the far west He enters the
presence of Esmeraida unannounced
as she is crimping her hair, and she
starts back and exclaims:
Villain, what do you here?"
L have come to marry you," he re-
plies, as he coolly takes seat.
But | do not love you
THAT makes no difference"
She calls for the police and the sew
enth man gets it in the neck; but he is
not discouraged. He hangs around the
house and saves Esmerelda from being
bitten by a mad dog. Then he yanks
her out of the path of a cable car A
day later he rescues her from the grasp
of a Milwaukee anarchist, and she has
hardly returned her thanks when he
breaks the neck of a Texas steer which
is about to immediate her on the front
steps. Such deeds of heroism finally
win her admiration and she beckons
him into the house and says:
William Sneiburg, do you still de-
sire my hand in marriage?"
You bet," he replies.
"Then here it is. / am only too glad
and proud to become the wife of such