Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-11
GREAT BRITAIN PLEASED
BY AK|NLEY'S ELECTION.
SPREAD or TMPERIALIsTIC IDEAS
AMONG ENGLISH SPEAKING
PEOPLE.
INFLUENCED THE ELECTION.
GOSSIP OF L SORTS FROM THE
METROPOLIS. OF THE
WORLD.

lions in America and Canada held the
interest of Great Britain throughout
the week to an unprecedented extent.
OF the two great contests, that between
Mckinley and Bryan was by far the
more closely watched. There Is no
concealing the fact that Mr.. McKinley's
reelection meets with the almost
unanimous approval of the press and
public. while the foreign Office ex-
presses ~undisguised relief that it will
not have to deal with a new set OF
diplomats in this critical stage of af-
fairs in the Far East and in other parts
OF the world.
Among the columns of comments APP
pearing in the journals there is COM
mo to all an expression of surprise at
the return to power of the existing
governments of Great Britain, the
United States and Canada; and. rightly
or wrongly, the deduction is drawn that
this reversal of the usual order OF
things is due to the wondrous spread
Of 1mperialistic IDEAS among English
speaking peoples.
Amid this unusually keen apprecia-
tion of events occurring on the Amer
lean continent, the return of General
Butler excites only a faint ripple OF
enthusiasm. The sobriquet Ferry
man is TOO fresh in the public mind
to allow
The complimentary References
now made to him to have much force,
though he will be the object of many
demonstrations.
The ancient controversy on the Sub
ject of the Delagoa Bay railroad award
should at last be settled with hard cash
next week. Communications are still
passing on the subject between Wash
ington and London, but only one
minor point remains unsettled, and
this should not prevent the bondhold-
ers from receiving their money in a
few days.
Another international matter likely
to come up between the United States
and Great Britain is the suggestion to
prevent the Filipino junta at Hong
Kong. Inquiries reveal that no instruc-
tons have yet been received at the
United States embassy to this end,
though should the United States am
bassador. Mr.. Joseph H. Choate, be in
structed to apply for the suppression
of the iunta, it is likely his request Will
be granted. An official of the foreign
Office said to a representative OF the
Associated Press:
1.-The extent of the steps we could take
in this matter entirely depends on the
strength of the case Washington can
Make Ont Against the Junta
If it is proved the Junta is materially
assisting the cause of the Filipinos we,
certainly, shall only be acting in the
spirit of ordinary international friend
ship in suppressing the organization.
Moreover, the British Empire has no
desire to harbor such bodies as Juntas."
Those who have long agitated against
the docking of horses tails have won
a great victory. The Queen, in sending
out an order that none of her horses be
treated in that way, also announced that
she had persuaded the Prince Of Wales
to follow her example With Royalty
taking up such a vigorous stand it is
likely that the locked horse will soon
be as rare in London as f~ull-tailed
horses are at present.
Another startling change in appear
ance is the Prince of Wales wearing
eyeglasses. The future king has long
enjoyed good eyesight but now, on the
advice of an eminent ~oculist, he has
had recourse to this fashionable form of
spectacles. They are selected from the
best obtainable lenses, are framed in
tortoise shell and form an
Altogether Elaborate Addition
to the royal eountenance.
Holy Trinity Church, situated close to
the Tower Of London, in which is one
Of W~ashington's ancestors tomb, bear
ing a coat-of-arms which is supposed to
be the origin of the Stars and Stripes,
is threatened with destruction unless
$500 is subscribed for its repair. What
makes the church of interest to Ameri-
cans is the tablet erected to the memory
OF Colonel Legge, who married Eliza
Washington, who died in 1910, sur
\ mounted by the Washington arms, con-
sisting OF five alternating bars of red
land white, above which are five-pointed
red stars. These, it is said, suggested
TO George Washington, the American
national flag.
The latest discovery of successful
American enterprise in England is in
the boot and shoe trade. Daily the
American article is gaining Roadway.
One agent, after three years work, got
LOO large customers, his turnover this
year amounting to many thousands of
pounds. According to the Daily Mail,
the ability of the American firms to
compete so successfully is chiefly due
TO tn" superiorlty of the American
lasts, which are modelled On the hui
man foot, and also to the large outputs
OF w~ell-regulated factories, in which
work is done by the piece instead of on
time, as prevails in Great Britain, with
the very latest machinery"
The Widow OF Captain Mayne Reid,
U. S, a, (author of the Rifle Rang
ers," Scalp Hunters" eac.), has been
discovered in a poverty-stricken condi-
= ton, in spite Of the popularity his
novels once achieved. The widow is
daughter OF Mr.. George Hyde, who
to be related to the first Earl
Voherts' recommendation that