Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-27
PECK'S BAD BOY.
He Relates the Story Of His True
Devotion
TO THE GIRL WHO REFORMED HIM.
The Old Man Mistakes Members Of the
Young Mems Christian AssOcia-
ton for BurgIars-A Wife's
Mistake.


with the wind on the day of the cy-
clone, and left the door open. SAY,
shut that door. You want to blow
everything out of the store? Had any
more fights, protecting girls from
dudes"
"NO, everything is quiet so far.
guess since L have got a record as
fighter, the boys will be careful who
they insult when l bm around. But l
have had the hardest week l have eX-
perienced, Jerking soda for the Young
Mems Christian Association" said the
boy, as
"What do you mean, boy? Don't
cast any reflections on such noble AS
ISOLATION. They don't drink, do they"
Drink! o, no. They don't drink
anything intoxicating, but when 1t
comes to soda they flood themselves.
You know there has been National
Convention of delegates from all the
Young Mems Christian Associations Of
the whole country about three hundred,
here our store is right on the street
where they passed four times day, and
never saw such appetites for soda.
There has been one continual hZZ in our
store since Wednesday. The boss
wanted me to play it on some Of them
Ivy putting some
brandy an with the Periumery.
few times, but | wouldn't do it, !
guess few weeks ago, before l had led
a different life, wouldn't had to be ask
ed twice to play the game on anybody.
But man can buy soda of me and be
perfectly safa. OF course, if man
winks, when ask him what flavor he
wants, and says never mind know
enough to put in brandy. That is diff
ferent. But | wouldn't smuggle it into
a man for nothing. This Christian AS
sCciatiOn Convention has caused a cold
ness between pa and ma though"
"HOw's that? Your pa isn't Jealous,
IS he?" and tbs grocery man came
around from behind the counter to get
the latest gossip to retail TO
The Hired Girls,
who traded with him
jealous nOthin'," said the boy, as he
took few ralsins out Of box. you
see, the delegates were Shuliled out TO
all the church members to take care of,
and they dealt two TO ma, and she new
er told pa anything about it. They
came to supper the first night, and pa
didn't get home, so when they went TO
the Convention in the evening ma gave
them a night key, and pa came home
from the boxing match about eleven
o'clock, and ma was asleep. Just rs pa
got most of his clothes off he heard
somebody fumbling at the front door,
and he thought it was burglars.
Pa Has Got Nerve Enough,
when he is on the inside of the house
and the burglars are on the outside.
He opened a window and looked out
and saw two suspicious looking charac-
tiers trying to pick the lock with a skel-
eton key, and he picked up new slOp-
jar that ma had bought when we moved,
cover and all, and dropped it down right
had hit one of them there would have
been the sOlemnest funeral you ever
saw. Just as it struck they got the door
opened and came in the hall, and the
wind was blowing pretty hard and they
thought q cyclone had taken the cupOla
off the house. They were talking about
being miraculously saved, and trying to
strike match on
Their Wet Pants.
when pa went to the head of the stairs
and pushed over a wire stand filled with
pOtted plants, which struck pretty near
house was coming down sure, and they
better go into the cellar, and they went
down and got behind the furnace. Pa
called ME up and wanted me to go down
cellar and tell the burglars we were
onto them, and for them to get out, but
| wasn't very well, so pa locked his
door and went to bed. l guess it must
have been half an hour before pas cold
feet woke ma up, and then pa told her
not to move for her life, cause there
were two of the sayagest looking burg
lars that ever was, Iumaging over the
house.
Ma SmeIIed Pas Breath
to see ifhe had got to drinking again,
and then she got up and hid her Oraide
watch in her shoes, and her Onalaska
diamond earrings in the Bible, where
she said no burglar would ever find
them, and pa and ma laid awake till
daylight, and then pa said he wasn't
afraid, and he and ma went down 10
the cellar. Pa stood ON the bottom stair
and looked around, and one of the del
egates said, "MiSter, is the storm over,
and is your family safe" and ma re-
COgniZed the voice, and said, "Why, its
one of the delegates. What you doing
down there" and pa said 'what's a
delegate" and then ma explained it,
and pa apOlOgized, and the delegate
said il was no matter, as they had en-
iOyed themselves real well in the cellar.
Ma was mortified most TO death, but
the delegates told her it was all right.
She Was Mad AT Pa,
first, but when she saw the broken slop
bowl on the front steps, and the ported
plants in the nall, she wanted TO kill
pa, and guess she would only for the
society Of the delegates. She couldn't
help telling pa he was bald-headed old
fool, but pa didn't retaliate. He Is too
much of q gentleman TO talk back in
company. All he said that a woman
who is old enough to have delegates
sawed off on to her ought to have sense
enough to tell her husband, and then
they all drifted off into conversation
about the convention and the boxing
match, and everything was all right
on the surface, but after breakfast, when
the delegates went to the convention,
/ noticed pa went right down town and
bought new slop-jar, and some more
plants Pa and ma didn't speak all the
forenoon, and guess they wouldn't up
10 this time only mas bonnet came
home from the milliners, and she had
to have some money to pay for it.
Then
She Called Pa Pet
and that settled it. When ma calls pa
ret that is twenty-five dollars. Dear
Old darling means fifty dollars. But,
say, those Christian young men do a
teap of good, don't they. Their. pres
ence seems to make people better.
some boys down by the store were go
ing to tie a can on q dogs tail yester-
day, and somebody said here comes the
Christian Association, and those bad
ths dog after the crowd had got by, but
the dog knew his business. Well, !
mnst 90 down and charge the soda