Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-08

/ All, Hall, hlnR carnival!
EDITORIAL NOTES.
And the Intelligencer howled to have
the arches taken down!
Mrs. Mckinley doubtless agrees with
the poet thai there's no place like
home"
This morning at ten o'clock the
Wall street brokers will take up the
burden of life again.
P~aradoxical as it may sound, the
people will not have another general
play day until Labor Day.
To-day we welcome the advance
guard of Wheeling's Carnival visitors.
the glad hand is extended.
Railroad earnings this year are ten
per cent. in excess of last and twenty
six per cent. in excess of the year be-
fore.
Andrew Carnegie emphatically de-
clines to be a candidate for Mayor OF
New York. He says he has other
work to do in the world"
Now the stationary engine iremen of
the entire State of Pennsylvania
threaten to strike for an eight hour
day. The 18th is the date set.
The cruiser Newark is home from
Hong Kong, via the Suez canal, hav-
ing made the run in forty-seven days.
1t was rather a long distance squirt.
The English Liberals are to hold a
! conference and try to get together
again. What he Liberal party has
needed for some years is a great leader.
One result OF the .torrid weather has
been a marked advance in the prices
of certain articles of food in the big
cities, notably in milk, bread and ice.
King Edward has declared that an
automobile is a necessary part OF q
gentleman's outfit. Suppose the gem
tleman can't afford it? All gentlemen
are not rich.
II itHtQVAlJ hldStl oiOuid NHdhSc
his mind and issue letters of marque
some English merchantmen would I'M
doubtedly contribute to "the price that
will stasser humanity"
DeA the Inauguration of tire
comm .iity of interests" idea the rail-
roads between Chicago and the Mis-
souri, river are cutting rates gleefully
and in the good old way.
Word m from st. Petersburg that
the Commercial Bank of Ekaterinslaff
has suspended payment. The jaw
breaking name suggests a joke of some
sort, but the incident is anything but
an Ekaterinslafing matter.
The indications are that the friction
between the United States Steel Com
pany and the ~Amalgamated Associa-
ton will be settled amicably during
the present week, as a conference will
be held during the next few days.
The Boer generals "have decided to
continue the war and accept no terms
short of independence" The British
governments resolution to conquer
and subjugate the Beers will remain
mistaken. This is the Kilkenny cat
fight yer again and on a larger scale.
Another Dowie follower has died
because medical aid was O sum-
moned. Meanwhile Elijah III. is
scheming to make SIS, 000, 900 by sell
ing town lots in Zion City. and Satur-
day was busy lodging a constable with
q warrant.
Minister Leishman, our representa-
tive to the court of the Sultan, is to
have a fleet of warships to back up
our demand for the settlement of that
little bill Of 500, 900. The protected
cruisers Chicago and Albany and the
gunboat Nashville will sail first, to be
followed by one or more battleships.
The last issue Of the Irish World
was suppressed by the police in Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut cities be-
cause it printed a cut of the American
flag. with these words printed on it:
This flag stands for liberty, equality,
independence, justice and fraternity,
if Congress or the President so VIII"
This week a conference Of represen-
tatives of all the various unions of
steel workers. eight hundred thousand
in number. will be held, the object be-
ing to form one gigantic industrial
combination, to the end that all may
act in unison in case of emergency.
The trusts have set the example, and
labor will follow it.
Joseph Cooks AphOrisms.
lions Herald.
Cant is the use of cool cinders in place
of glowing Goals.
The most appropriate prayer, when
one takes up the penny newspaper. is
an invocation of the spirit of unbeiief.
Perdition is permanent dissimilarity
of feeling with God.
God cannot be an %enswathing kiss
without also being a consuming fire.
By nature we mean always Gods will
expressed in his works.
Because | am a defender of the poor
l am against socialism.
Scott and the Soldier.
The Ohio Soldier.
Before the presidential election Sena-
tor Scott, of the Republican National
Committee, authorized General Sickles
to assure leading Grand Army COM
rides that he would see to it that