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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19

tended each nfefts ~ the members ana
their many friends, and as 4 resuIk
there was q large sale Of articles IN ali
the departments. A brief, interesting
musical and literary programme, in
which folks OF Wheeling took part, was
rendered for the occasion.
The Ladies of Honor will give their
annual supper and entertainment on
Thursday evening, March 23d, at Odd
Fellows hall. The following is the
mi
Oyster Soup.
Potato Salad. Spanish Pickle. siaw.
Hot of Biscuit. Rolls. Celery Byeaa.
Milk. Coffee. Tea.
Ice Cream.
Supper will be served from 5 until s
o'clock. The programme of the enter
tainment will be published in the daily
papers.
Quena, the little daughter OF County
Commissioner Stanke, gave an enjoy
able afternoon party at the home of
her parents in the North End last week
to about twenty-four of her little
friends, in honor Of the sixth annivers-
airy of her birth. The usual social di-
versions were INDUCED in during the
afternoon. At 5 o'clock an inviting
supper was served.
Invitations have been issued for a
mask ball to be given by the "Sanspar-
ell" club at the Ariel hall next Tues
day evening. All arrangements have
been made and an enjoyable evening
is anticipated. The masks will be re-
moved at half-past eleven, when
luncheon will be served. The follow
ing is the committee having the affair
in charge: Albert Liefler, Andrew
Friedrich, Frank Armbruster, Albert
Mehl, w. D. Flood. Killmeyer will
play.
On Thursday evening Miss Adelaide
Parks, at her home in Bellaire, delight
fully entertained quite a number of her
friends. The chief feature of the af-
fair was the playing of various sorts of
games. At the conventional hour the
guests partook of tempting refresh
mentS.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19
COMING EVENTS.

The members of Spangler Post No.
1872, w. r. c., at B~ellaire, are making
arrangements for a May festival, to be
given during the early part of May.
1t is very likely that Turner Hall will
be decided upon, as the place for hold
ing the festival.
The Twentieth Century Club, at
B~ellaire, will be entertained next Tues
day evening by Miss Minnie Leech at
her home on Gravel Hill.
Arrangements are being made by
the members of Liberty hose company
and Hacketts' band, at Bellaire, for a
masquerade ball to take place at Tur-
ner hall On Monday evening, April Sd.
The ball will be preceded by a street
procession, to be participated in by
quite a number of the ladies and gen
tlemen, wearing masks. The music
for the occasion will be furnished by
an orchestra, composed of twelve
pieces. Ladies attending the affair
without masks are to be fined twenty
five cents.
A number of people at McMechen are
making elaborate preparations for a
lecture and entertainment, to be given
on Monday evening, March 9th, at the
McMechen hall. The proceeds of the
affair, which promises to be very large
ly attended, will be added to the fund,
now being raised for the erection Of
a new Catholic church at McMechen.
The pupils of the grammar depart
ment of the Benwood Central school,
under the direction Of Prof. c. f. Car
rigan, the principal, are rehearsing a
three-act comedy entitled What
Next" to be presented some time dur
ing the coming month.
The Twentieth Century Club at Bel
laire, are making elaborate prepara-
lions for an Easter dance, to be given
some time after Easter Sunday. The
Windsor Hotel may be selected as the
place for holding the hop.
A social will be held at the Benwood
NJ. E. church tomorrow evening and
will be under the auspices of the Will
ing Workers of the church.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19

And proceed, without a doubt,
To complain because they hadn't
Anything to KICK about.
Thursday afternoon, at her home on
Fourteenth street, Miss Martha OFT
charmingly entertained the Twentieth
Century Girls at progressive euchre Ten
games were played, and a delectable
luncheon was spread after the final
progression. The first prize, a hand
some tortoise shell comb, was awarded
to Miss Mary PAUL. The second prize,
q leather p~ocketbook and card case,
with gold mounting, went to Miss Don
molly, of Hartford, w. Va. A volume
of Ian Maclaren's works, in substantial
binding, went to Miss Ethel Bailey as
the lone hand prize. The next meeting
of the club will be held in two weeks,
and Miss Henrietta Rinehart will be
the hostess.
Tuesday night the No Name Club, an
organization of prominent young soci-
ETY. gentlemen, entertained friends in a
delightful manner with a hop at the
Arion, for which Prof. Chas. Killmyer
made the music.
The event of the week in Bellaire So
ciety was the masquerade ball Monday
night, given under the direction of
Prot. Delbrugge, the popular instructor
in dancing. There was a large attend
ance from Bellaire, but the ladies and
gentlemen from that city were hardly
prepared for the visit Of a score of
Wheeling gentlemen, who went down
In . special electric car, and brought a
hrocc hand Tho XNhna1inc hove Tnro
every conceivable costume, from the
handsomest to the most disreputable in
appearance.
Mrs. Sophia Knabe very pleasantly
celebrated the seventy-fourth ~anniver-
sary of her birth at her home on Sew
enteenth street, Thursday. She was
surrouned by all her near relatives,
and children and grandchildren, and
the affair partook of the nature of a
family reunion. One feature of the day
was a big dinner, which was a verit-
able feast of good things. All the
guests united in extending the wish
that Mrs. Knabe may be spared to cell
citrate many more birthday anniver-
SarieS.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Mar
tins Ferry Christian church gave a
very successful supper and social yes
terday, realizing a handsome sum on
the affair.
Friday afternoon, from two until five
o'clock, Mrs. G.. H. Carpenter pleasant
" entertained her lady friends at her
home IN Martins Ferry. The hostess
was assisted by Mrs. Thomas I Sharth
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PERSONALS.

Ouoth he: "Of course I'll stand pat!"
Then he sat and he sat and he sat
In this nice, quiet game
Till it really became
Uncertain just where he was at.
Detroit Journal.
Mr.. Frank Kennedy, son Of Mr.. Pat
rick Kennedy, is home for a few days
from Columbus, O., where he is en-
gagged in the practice of law.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. NJ. Rothenheim, OF
Philadelphia, are the guests of the
Misses Gutman, on Thirteenth street.
Miss Laura Crangle Dalzell, of North
Chapline street, is expected home
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19

The dawn grew golden in the east.
The dancing and the music ceased;
The world, the world of men, awoke,
And then the guest who tarried spoke
And as he spoke he took her hand
In his Che could not understandO
And held it, tiny, white AMI slim,
While she in silence gazed at him.
Soft little tender birdlike thing,
May Time or Toll" he bring
No line to thee, poor girlish hand!"
(Oh! he could never understandD
The she, with one strange wistful look,
Drew back the hand he idly took,
And smiling hid it from his gaze,
While he bowed low, and went his ways.
The Yittle hand remained the same
Soft bfrdlike thing, and no toll came
To take its tenderness away,
Nor steal it's beauty day by day..
For in the world it's only part
Was but to press a maynard heart
(Ah! little hand SO white and slimO
That ached with all her love for him.
-Harper'S Magazine.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19

Notwithstanding it is mid-Lent,
there are still a sufficient number of
more or les elaborate affairs to main
tain an interest in society. There is
not manifested the disposition to con-
form to the conventionalities of the
p%enitential season which has marked
previous years. Religious and charit-
able entertainments were numerous
during the week. The next two weeks,
in SO far as outward appearances are
concerned, will be dull, and even the
informal card parties which have been
held every week since Ash Wednesday,
will be postponed until after Easter.
The designing and preparation of the
Easter costume is a matter which de-
mands no small amount of care and
attention from femininity, while the
other sex is busy in planning the elab-
crate functions which are to be a fea-
ture of the post-Lenten season.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19
ENTERTAINMENTS.

If we didn't have the weather,
With it's cloudy skies and clear;
If 1t never got too frigid'
Or too warm for comfort here,
Men would band themselves together
And proceed, without a doubt,
To complain because they hadn't
Anything to kick about.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19

Miss Kate Wincher very Hospitality
entertained a party of her friends Fri
day evening, at her home on South HUI
ron street. Various diversions were
provided for the early hours of the
evening, and an excellent luncheon
was served at the usual hour.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19

At her home in the North End,
Miss Helen Reilly was hostess to a
merry party of her young friends Fri
day afternoon, the occasion being the
anniversary of her birth. The hours
from two until five were filled in with
Juvenile games and diversions, and be-
fore departing the misses and masters
partook of toothsome refreshments.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Warsins eel
ebrated the twentieth anniversary OF
their marriage yesterday at their home
in Benwood. Quite q number OF their
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-14
When He Comes.

THAT a homecoming it will be
y" for Dewey! OF course, the
West will not conceal its dis
appointment over the fact that he is
not to land at San Francisco; it vas
hoped that the Olympia, because she
belongs to the Pacific squadron, would
be ordered to our chief Pacific port
the idea was to carry Dewey on one
long wave of glory from the Golden
Gate to Governors island.
1t cannot be that way. The recent
word from Washington is that the navy
department expects that Admiral Dew
ey will make the homeward run by the
Suez-canal route, and that will prob
ably land him either at Hampton
Roads, whence he will go to Washing
ton, or in the harbor of New York 1t
is intimated that the admiral was real
ly given his own choice of routes. He
can hardly be blamed if he chose to
avoid the dining and the excitement
that would have been incident to the
transcontinental trip; that meant that
his liver would certainly get out of
order again.
Wherever he lands, it will be great
day for Dewey when he steps on this
| countrys soil, and a very large day
everywhere in the United States. Those
| who cannot celebrate the occasion in
actual presence at the landing place
will celebrate in spirit, and it will be
| tr;I 70 i'd
admiration for George Dewey is almost
! phenomenal. You read it in every
newspaper. you hear it at every cor
ner In his case there are no excep-
tions and no reservations in respect to
the popular esteem in which he is held.
The Lord spare him from political am
bition Yet, in our country the public
sometimes likes to show it's admira-
ton by telling how it would enjoy the
work of bestowing on this or that man
the highest honor possible in American
| citizenship.
In this spirit, the steady-going Bos-
ton Herald breaks out in these words:
1T is fortunate for President Mckin-
| ley. and for those, either in his party
or the democratic party, who aspire to
presidential honors, that Admiral Dew
ey is lacking in political ambition, for
| if he continues to hold for twelve
months more the confidence and regard
of his fellow countrymen to the extent
that he does to-day, he could almost
write out his own platform, nominate
himself and, in spite of opposing polit-
ical organizations could command such
a popular outpouring at the polls as tt
insure his election as president"
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Grim Stories of Two Old Men.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Monsignor Casanova tells story about
the pope and Congressman Mccall, of
Massachusetts,. in his new Life of Thad-
deus Stevens, tells a story that are very
much alike and which indicate that the
head of the chamber of Rome and the
great commoner' of Pennsylvania pos
sessedfthe same kind of courage and grim
humor.
Said Stevens in his last days to the two
robust young men who were carrying
him to the house of representatives, WHO
will carry me when you two men are dead
and gomez Said the pope to Casanova,
who had tearfully expressed his wonder
whether they should ever have the joy
Of meeting again: "Why not? You are
still young and may live to return
There is also as much truth as humor
in the replies of these two decrepit old
men. The chances of life, of course, seem
to be with the young and robust; but the
old who have seen hundreds of the young
and strong fall before them know that
life Is not always for the vigorous any
more than the race is for the swift.
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Where Mr.. Flower Lost.

~ S was remarked yesterday, In the
Standards mention of the late
Roswell P. Flower, he was one
of many men who for years cherished
an ambition for the presidency that
was destined never to be satisfied, and
it was an ambition that was not shared,
in Mr.. Flowers behalf by any consid-
cradle number of people who have been
active in the running of the democratic
machine. That which Mr.. Flower
craved, in respect to politics, came to
Grover Cleveland hands down, uneX-
pectedly and practically without effort.
Cleveland was an accident. The truth
is that Roscoe Conkling's quarrel with
President Garfield and resignation Of
the senatorship did more for Cleveland,
as things shaped themselves, than all
that Cleveland could have done for
himself in lifetime
AS was said yesterday morning, Mr..
Flower was aggressively candidate
for the gubernatorial nomination in
New York in 1882 and he believed that
the convention was his. He did not
take kindly to the arrangement that
resulted in Cleveland's triumph over
him in the state convention; it was
realized at the time that, owing to the
quarrel resulting from Conkling's con-
duct. the man nominated by the demo-
Gratis was as good as elected, then and
there, to the office of governor.
Later on, and long after the election
held that year, Mr.. Flower showed no
friendship for Cleveland-he was one OF
the Buffalo mans critics, and he oper-
ated with the large element in New
York democracy which believed that
Cleveland was a colossal mistake and
that it never would do to let his name
get seriously before a national conVen-
ton as presidential possibility.
Brought suddenly to the front by a
sort of .sfuke," in 1882, Cleveland
thenceforth, for more than dozen
years, stood squarely in the way OF
every other democrat in the United
| States who cherished a high ambition.
| In 1884 Mr.. Flower was aggressive IN
| his oppos1tfon TO CieVeidhu' he
his hostility into the national conVen-
| ton. He insisted that New York DEM
| ocracy did not recommend the nomina-
ton Of Cleveland for the presidency;
| he announced himself a candidate for
the nomination and, on the first ballot
Flower received four votes, in total OF
| $40 Cleveland was nominated on the
second ballot. There was no love lost
Elected to the presidency, Cleveland
did not select Flower for presidential
| compliments The anti-ClevelanS fac
ton was active in New York for years
but Hill, and not Flower, got the gooc
| of it. except that Mr.. Flower had 9
term in the Office of governor.
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government has absolutely no right to

government has absolutely no right to
march these volunteers one inch. 1t
may be said that if they do not COM
plain, nobody else should: the fact
remains that the presidents first duty
was to offer them the opportunity to
re-enlist: that would have been the
only fair test. And. especially, it is
to assail with epithet and blackguard
abuse those who call attention to the
fact that these volunteers are unlaW-
fully detained. The sentiment in the
case is another thing. All honor to the
soldiers from our own state who have
Loyalty kept in the service! But shame
on the men, who, because they fancy
they uphold the administration there
by, shout back that these men are
fighting because they have to and be-
cause their refusal would be mutiny.
They don't have to; even their refu-
sal would not, under the coerced SER
vice, discredit their citizenship.
In dire revolution days Washington's
troops went long unpaid and ill-fed
in many instances they served beyond
the time of their enlistment. In in
stances, they broke out into open dis
order. Washington did not call them
traitors and hang them or publicly de-
nounce them. Yet you would dis
cover if any of these Philippine reg
iments were suddenly to announce
halt, that these epithetthrowers would
with one accord denounce the volun-
teers. The case is, if you please, an
exgency; the administrations organs
and agents ought to be making very
profuse excuses for it, Are they doing
that? So far from it, they presume
arrogantly to denounce thoso who ven
ture the suggestion that the citizen
soldiers in the Philippines have rights
which the government at Washington
ought to recognize, if not respect.
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Openings for Heroes.
~HE offer of $1,000 by the Kansas
state fair managers to General

~HE offer of $1,000 by the Kansas
state fair managers to General
Funston to do his great SWIM
ming act during the fair suggested an
answer to the question What shall We
do with our eX-heroes? AS a fair at
traction any good hero would easily
take the shine off the entire collection
of prize pumpkins, hogs, moving ma
chimes and jackasses; especially if the
hero could do turn of some kind, if
nothing more than a song and dance.
Not every hero can swim like Funston,
| and not every fair has a river at hand
| to swim in. But put the hero in side
snow along with the snake charmer.
| the fat girl the bearded woman and
| the SHELTON man, and he would be the
best drawing card on the grounds. If
Funston is as enterprising as he is
| courageous he might go still farther
He might pattern after Buffalo Bill.
| The st. Paul Dispatch, in fact, suggests
| that he get up a wild Philippine
| show, with himself as the star perfor-
mer of course, in his great swimming
| act. Add thereto company of Tagals,
| in war dress, a few squads OF Maca-
| bebes, a selection of Papuans and a
! body of former United States volun-
| teers. Bridge-climbing, swimming
| long distance running, interchangeable
| lying by the Filipinos and some feats
| of horsemanship would make the show
a great success"
Probably there would be more money
! in such an enterprise than in doing
state fairs at $1,000 per- for the state
fair season is very short. Two othel
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The Right of 1t.
~ PITE of the froth and foam and
. epithet with which they are at

C P1TE of the froth and foam and
~ epithet with which they are at
~ tackled. the men who courage
ously take the stand that the president
of the United States violates sacred
rights when he keeps soldiers in the
Philippine service beyond :neir' period
of enlistment. have the right end of
the argument. These men are de-
nounced as traitors, seditionists, cop
perheads and all that-but this style
of attack on them changes no facts;
they have the right Of it on their side,
just the same.
: These soldiers enlisted to Ike up :he
quota in the presidents call. issued
on April 90, last year, for 125,0O0 vol
unteers. They were to serve for year,
unless sooner discharged by the ending
of the war. The year was up good
while ago; the wars end has Eaan affl-
cially proclaimed. 1t was the adrrin-
istration's duty to offer to- these vel
unteers in the Philippine service an
/, opportunity to enlist again. Some Of
them would have enlisted, some would
have refused; what the proportion Of
those who would have continued in
the service. there is no guessing The
list of refusals would have included
volunteers who very properly feel that
they have done their full share-it
would have included some who en-
listed to whip Spain and who are not
persuaded that this conquest Of The
Philippine islands is the right thing to
do.
1t Is all very easy for well-paid and
well-fed men at this safe distance fro
the hard fighting to shout, Let the
war go on and cursed be he who says
that these volunteers must not stay
with it to the finish" That is CHEAP
talk; it is lag-fying by men who
didn't enlist. The choice of remaining
on the field or of coming home is one
that ought to have been left to the
men in the ranks. 1t was for them tC
say whether they would stay or quit
surely, it was their right TO quit
without discredit. 1t is all very pretty
to say that these volunteers actually
prefer TO stay and fight. That may OIL
may not be true. None of US know
the truth on that score. We all dc
know that there is an administration
censorship on the news from Manila
some of us lnAow, by the testimony O
private correspondence that, even j.
there is no audible murmur. the feel
ing of many excellent American citi
zens in this volunteer service is tina
they are being unjustly dealt with
Their sentiment of loyalty prompt!
them to march on, but the conviction
that injustice is done them remains thu
same.
We are speaking of the right anC
the wrong Of the matter-the fedora
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In Dewey's Place.

~HOSE who know both men say
that Rear Admiral Watson and
Admiral Dewey are not unlike;
Watson replaces Dewey at Manila. For
a time, last year, it looked as if Wat
son, in the fortunes of war, was going
to have his opportunity. He was
brought suddenly into fame as the
commander of the fleet that was pre-
pairing to cross the Atlantic and make
trouble for Spain. AS a commodore he
had temporary command of the block
ade at Havana.
The cratic policy at Madrid that
started Camera off, to sail to Suez and
then sail back again, prompted the de-
partment at Washington to organize a
flying squadron which was to be COM
missioned to take active measures off
Spain's coast. The hope was that there
would be a meeting Of Watson and
Camera in Mediterranean waters and
with an enthusiasm which the days OF
fighting fostered, we were all trying tt
guess the place where the sea battle
would take place.
The war didn't last long enough-oul
flying squadron did not sail. Rear Ad
miral Watson is Kentuckian. He
comes of grand stock; he is the grand
son of John J. Crittenden who once wa:
attorney general of the United States
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SUNDAY, MAY IA, 189'
TWENTY-FIVE PAGES
In Better Mood.
JUDGED by what he has been say
r ing since he went abroad. Speaker

JUDGED by what he has been say
r ing since he went abroad. Speaker
Reed is not intending to abandon
his habit of sarcasm simply because
he has concluded to quit the house of
representatives. For that matter, Mr..
Reed will find in the walks of pri-
vate life an opportunity to give to his
skill in sarcasm a wider range than
he found while he was in the ways of
politics.
Most of the political filings in which,
during the past year or two, he has
INDUCED, have been rather ill-natured
things, betraying a jealous spirit and
serving to advertise the fact that, in
his relations to the presidency and to
the Mckinley coterie, Mr.. Reed has
of joint.
Hereafter. Mr.. Reed can be more
genial in temper and talk. In fact
he is already revealing a friendlie1
mental mood, and the newspapers FIND
that he is at his best in a series OF
off-hand remarks which have a sample
in a recent interview in which he de-
clined to have anything to do witt
the cars universal peace convention
on the ground that he does not fee
at home in a deliberative body.