Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-07

tions only limited by the capacity Of
the places OF worship, there will be
especial musical programmes, of which
the Register has given due no.
tice and deliberately prepared
sermons, most or all of which
have been mentioned. 1t will be a day
of Christian rejoicing among the ma
jority of our people, and the turning
aside from ordinary worldly thought if
but for single day will do immeasur
able good.
To-day is the day of flowers-of
roses and of lilies. Of roses Bryan we'll
sings:-
.Loveliest of lovely things are they,
On earth that soonest pass away.
. The rose that lives its little hour
Is priced beyond the sculptured flower"
And Julia C. R. Dore, in a Rose
Leaf" says of the lilies:-
And the stately lilies stand
Fair in the silvery light,
Like sanity veStals, pale in prayer;
Their pure breath sanctifies the air.
AS its fragrance fills the night"
And Caroline May says in her for.
gotten poem THE Lilies:"-
Every flower is sweet to me
The rose and violet,
The pink, and daisy and sweet pea,
Hearts ease and mgnonette,
And hyacinthS and daffodillies;
But sweetest are the spotless lilies
The demand for flowers yesterday
was something tremendous, and the
local stocks were almost exhausted
when the time for closing business
came last night. The volume of bust
ness could not he ascertained-every-
body was too busy. In one or two local
centres of distribution, however, there
were considerable assortments of vari-
GUS flowers and plants even at late
hour last night, and the proprietors
will keep open to-day for the benefit of
those belated buyers who lacked an op-
portunity for purchases yesterday.
Flowers, both cut and plants, brought
all sorts of prices yesterday, with an
unprecedented demand. The minor
flowers were comparatively cheap, but
lilies commanded fancy prices, and
when it came to roses, particularly
American beauties, it took a weeks
salary to secure modest bunch. The
last named flowers sold all the way
from five and six dollars 4 dozen up
to twentyfour dollars, and In one in
stance thirty dollars was asked, while
in another the owner declined to sell
his plants at any price, refusing re-
peated offers from both in and out of
Gown, saying to a Register reporter that
he preferred to keep them. Franz
Laup said:-
I'VE have a few choice roses, but |
don't care to let them go. Common
roses are plentiful at from 81 per dozen
up. Carnations are generally scarce,
but | have plenty of them. Lilies are
also generally scarce. but l am, for
tunately, well supplied. | will be open
all day Tomorrow, and will be able to
fill all orders
At the Wheeling Greenhouse Com
pany's place of business, No. 66 Twelfth
street, it was said that business was
exceedingly brisk, at good prices, and
that stocks had been pretty we'll cleared
away There WIS a great rush of GUS
toners during the afternoon and even
ing. and last night the shelves and
Benches looked decidedly bare
Mr.. Max Hess, supplied with a verv
extensive and handsome assortment of
flowers and plants, did a very large
business, but still has some choice
flowers left
Some of the business houses made
elaborate displays of ported plants and
lilies, notably the City Bank. which
followed out an old-time custom.
Yesterday was big day in the retail
stores. The big department stores were
crowded from morning until far into
the night and the growing tendency to
make Easter season for the giving
of gifts--almost rival of Christmas
was we'll illustrated. The dry goods
stores were also flooded with belated
: purchasers, and the millinery shops
were great centres of attraction for the
ladies' although as a matter of course
avoided by the gentlemen, who flocked
from choice, to the hatters and clothing
and furnishing stores, that they might
emerge upon the scene to-day resplen
dent in new spring suits. loud ties.
light hats, colored socks, and all the
paraphernalia OF masculine egotism. II
may be whispered gently that the men
are just as bad as the women, when il
comes to the question of clothes. pro-
viding, as matter of course thew
"have the price" or its equivalent of
credit. The confectioners also came IN
for their share of the accumulated nat
ronage yesterday. and the dealers in
's-NASS SAoSN-ANs 'NCIb IOl lOISOIlbu. nor
the dispensers of fruits as well. for the
Easter dinner has come to be a thing
of beauty and joy.
To-day the sounds Of the church bells
will fill the air, and the gaily attired
multitude will ill the streets-if the
weather be at all good. which Is very
doubtful at this writing. At ali events.
however, the churches Will have ,--o...
flowing congregations. ard the praises
of the arisen Chris. will be sung il.
tolerable verse and to sweet music. To-
day let US worship. AS Young says in
Might Thoughts =
"Reiigiou's all. Descending from the
skies
To wretched man the goddess in her LET.
Holds cut this world, aud in her right
the rcxt.'
Last evening. despite the drizzlirg
rain and the promise cf very wet and
nasty Easter Gay. shopping was very
lively. and the streets were filed with
eager buyers and sight-seers. the .;ats
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