The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-24

come in. Uncle told me that Merge
! was lively kind of a shoemaker, that
understood his business, and things look
a good deal like it. He said that Merge
always had lots of boots to pick from,
and that he used the best kind of
leather, and made the pref lest kind of
boots, which he sold at the cheapest
kind ofprices. Uncle said he would go
big on Merge because he could always
depend on getting the right kind O.
things from him, aud"
{ where nextT said we by way OF
parenthesis. 81.
"Why let's 60 over there" he said,
pointing towards the fine store. No. log
, Main street, where A. W. PAUL. & Co.
deal in
BOOKS, STATIONERY, WALL PAPER, &c.
"There," he said, sis where uncle used
, to buy all his books. He said he could
always get the latest books there, and
and from men who knew what was in
them" We were in in a moment, asd
{ then he broke into ecstacies about the
holiday books, the richly bound books,
| the books for the children, and cor peo-
pie older, whose tastes like his were not
? inclined to metaphysics. This stock is
enormous, and 50 spread out that we
could not wender at the surprise of
new man. Gosh, but PAUL & Co. have
q nice store," he said, on reaching the
street. They have lots of paper to paste
t on the wall, too, haven't theyi Uncle
3 never told me, that they had halfas much
as they have. And then did you see
the games, and the church built out of
3 them building blocksi bought one of
, those games, I did,"
We were tired, and proposed ride in
the street cars. Off we started, but as
we pas sed the famous store of ,
GEO. R. TAYLOR 4 co.
l In we went among silks and satins,
poplins and reps, cloth and wooden
goods, displayed in vast quantities.
"No wonder Uncle didn't want to
get married, when there was so much
for the women TO buy. Why, a woman
D.. coming in here would buy feller out of
pocket in no time, if he had all the gold
of Californy, or the United States
Treasury, or the Slacktown Bank, or
any of them places. Why, look at them
calicoes; why, my old grandmother
never wore such things as that. 1t
beats all, the way the women dress"
We told him that perhaps it wouldn't
cost as much as he supposed, as the
: goods, though handsome, were put down
az moderate figures, and then told him
some Of the prices. He went off in his
accustomed astonishment at the prices
of tue silks, satins, laces, prints and
linen goods, as we name d them to him,
ideclaring that when he got married he'd
bring his gal to that store to buy her
weddin' iixin's."
AS we came out his eye was caught
by the display at
j. S. RHODES & CO.'S
Trade Palace. Here nephew's eyes dila-
ted tho size of saueers, and his msuth
was in a perpetual cape Of astonishment
over the wonders that he saw. He had
read the REGISTER, but he never be-
lieved that more than half what was
said about them Rhodes fellers" was
true. He stared till we became red in
the face at being his pilot. The silks,
the satins, the lsces, the gloves-all
were wonders to him. But the Dollar
Counter was too much for him. He
broke loose into one prolonged whistle |;
:. then began: IfUncle Blobbs had ever
told me about all these things, l would
have been here long ago. Why, it's
worth more'n the price of show to
, stand here and look around. III take a
, lot o these things. Look at these
FALSELY shavls, did you ever see any.
thing as fine, aud these muffs and collars,
cheaper than wooden goods. Now what
pile O. money it must take to buy all
, them stacks o. goods. Just look at
them. He didn't buy out the nation,
did he, when he got up the storei
On we went until we came to No. 80,
Monroe street where our friend Lucas
. dispenses
WHEELER WILSON'S SEWING MA
CHIMES.
IL want to 60 in here, for
Uncle said Wheeler & Wilson were
good fellows, aud made an A No. first.
class machine. always wanted to see
that machine, and I'd never forgive my
self if l didn't" By this time we had
got to where one OF the machines was
at work, silently and swiftly in its
wonderful way taking stitch in the
linen, fastened it tightly and we'll TO-
gether, and leaving it's work beautifully
i dcne. "Uncle never told me half. Why
Mr. Lucas has sold 1900 in the last year,
au" Sumner & Co, in FIVE States sold
10000" That Uncle was very derelict
iE his duty not to tell his blessed
nephew all about the Wheeler & Viii.
son. We gazsd in admiration at this
loquacious youth, fresh from nature,
and thought that we had together in
him and the Wheeler & Wilson, one OF
; Natures and one of Arts greatest pro.
ductions.
The street cars had not yet arrived so
We went into Mrs. Garforth's.
HOLIDAY BAZAAR,
l Where We found an immense display OF
hobby horses, wax flowers, fine French
vases, children's tea sets, games, can
dies and nuts, masks, &c. We turned
to lock for the nephew aud found him