Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-03
ENGLANDfS VAIL.

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| To the Editor of the Register
/ Dear Sir:-What a wall was that you
| published in the Register of Tuesday
taken from the London Spectators wal
from the poor old lady across the water
| Madam England.
| Like that other famous old parsonage
mentioned in Anglo-Saxon literature, she
| sits by the fireside. veritable Mrs Gum
nudge. bemoaning her misery. 1.-THE poor,
| lone, lorn crittur." She sits and whines
and falling in sympathy nearer home
| looks across the broad Atlantic, and with
! tears in her eyes cries out, IF all Others
| forsake me, know YOU my cousin, will
help me. Your great grandmother was my
great grandmother. and relations at least
ought to help one another Those naughty
Beers forgetting ali I have done for or 10
them, are giving trouble to me. their best
friend, and in my distress look for sym
pathy. Russia spurns me- she says she
knows me too well: calls me a willy old
hypocrite: and declares that ike a naughty
girl deserve to be whipped. She sarcas-
tically adds that blood is not as thick as
molasses candy, and charges me with
feeding Uncle Sam Chats youl with inn
mense quantities of that commodity just
now F'rance-France is my neighbor on
the other side of the Straits of Dover. and
like the duet of certain well known ladies,
arguing from opposite premises. we never
agree. Like the seesaw. my rise is her
fall her decline my elevation; and realz-
ing all this she wir1ks. actually winlls. at
my misfortunes and abandons me in my
grief any-well, William never did
love his grandmother, and even now one
of the most heart rendering OF my miseries
is the narrowing suspicion that William
is so far forgetful of filial affection and
duty as to provide the rascally Beers with
old slippers to fling at his grandmother.
Spain and Italy, having their own troubles,
like all in such circumsg ances are obliv-
ious of another's and so Ike the solitary
sparrow alone on the housetop, | sit and
there is none to offer me comfort.
But you, my own, across the water, you
will extend what everyone else denies.
Similarity of interests will move you to 1t,
for am as innocent of harm toward those
ingrates out there in South Africa, as you
are to the Filipinos and you know how
guileless that is
And SO the old feline whimpers and
| news in her senile weakness, tearing at
her heart strings. exasperated by her baf-
fed greed And the worst of it is there are
fools here (and they are not all in Weston
| and kindred places who listen to her cat
erwauling, rub her down and endeavor to
smooth her hair and her temper by whis-
pering of Anglo-Saxon alliances. OF course
these creatures memories are not long
enough to remember Revolutionary days
in this country-such a feat would be a
mental effort of which Their minds are in
| capable: for these apes are gifted by ma
ture and grace with so limited a mental
capacity that, in the words Of the late
great editor of the Iconoclast bean pod
might pendulate for al eternity in their
Uranium and never touch brains. Any
thing more desolate, more humiliating,
than that wall eff the Spectator-unless it
be Whites lamentation when his fusiliers
were gobbled up-would be hard to con-
ceive. Baron JONES' here's a subject for
your fine and caustic pen.
HIBERNIAN.