Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-10


he had given up the stage to edit
Scottish Life. At the height of the
season at the most fashionable hour of
the day, he was always to be seen, i'm
maculately dressed and ~bejeweled,
seated under a tree, ostentationsly cor
recting a mass of proof sheets. AS
with four pebbles and laid 1t out beside
him until he was surrounded for yards
around with white slips, which never
ceased to be
A Source of Huge Amusement
to the passersby and apparently of
immense satisfaction to himself; yet,
when he cabled from Pretoria every
paper in England, including the Times,
believed him implicitly.
With the arrival Of a semblance of
summer the Thames has taken on its
usual gay hues and all the world and
his wife have gone boating on the pic
turesque reaches. Yet. at its murky
mouth, miles from where the COUNT
less pleasure parties punt ard row,
there has been reaped from its muddy
waters a harvest of death, extraordi-
narily large even for this stream of
tragedies. Within the last two days
thu 2olice finding no less than seven
bcdLAs. One lies at Greenwich, uniden-
titled; another at Rotherhithe, that
of a woman of the Hawker class. So
far only two have been identified. The
others, probably, never will be, and
this brief record of f1otsam and jet
sam in the greatest city of the world
of accident, suicide and possibly
In11rdnr an 1CnG M nnnl M nnf hIIf 1G
stuck away in a corner of an after
noon paper, headed Mysteries of the
River"
The Ascot Race Meeting,
which occurs next week, promises to
be largely attended, and, doubtless will
be marked by a continuation of the
successes Of American jockeys. The
Prince of Wales, as usual, will be pres
ent, besides many other royalties,
while many other American visitors
now in England have arranged to view
what is known as the Royal Meet
ing"
The serious condition of Mrs. Glad
stone has caused Mr.. T. P. O'Connor,
member of parliament, to write to Nj.
A. P. giving some hitherto unpublish-
ed "reminiscences of the aged partner
of the great statesman. Just after
their marriage" says Mr.. O'Connor,
Mr.. Gladstone, who had already been
Minister, asked her, Shall I tell you
nothing and you can say anything, or
shall l tell you everything and you
say nothing?' She chose the latter
and he told her everything and she
lev told anything"
IN fhn Eft5nfH ,n-;or. &C 1.:
wedding Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone went
to a reception at an old friends house.
When it began to get late" adds
Mr.. O'Connor, "Mr. Gladstone went
over to his wife and, with an express
sion of sweetness and tenderness, took
her by the hand as though she were a
little child that had to be reminded
that it was time to go to bed, and led
her out of the room. 1t was a sight
that might well have brought tears"
These and other anecdotes bear out
fully the previous accounts of the in
tense affection existing between the
great Liberal leader and his wife and
also point to the fact that Mrs. Glad
stone exercised a more powerful polit-
ical influence over her husband than
generally credited.
Those who believed that Great Brit
aims navy would, in case of war, prove
nearly
AS Full of A-nachronisms
and mismanagement as the South Afri-
cal campaign, proved the army to have
received additional confirmation of
their fears by reason of the severe
structure passed by the admiralty upon
the irregularities of the target prac-
tice and reports thereon among the
fleets now in commission. The admir-
atty practically declares that the per-
centage sent in are worthless. In a
circular to all the commanding officers
the admiralty says:
Practice appears to have been car
ried on without a supervisor; the COM
missioned targets were not properly
checked, and the markers are not
drawn from another ship"
Such a serious reprimand is likely
to have the desired effect of enforcing
the regulations this year, at any rate,
and, at the same time, of considerably
decreasing the efficiency in marksman-
ship with which the British navy has
hpop oradifod