Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-20
PEcK's BAD BOY,
In sympathy With Women Who
Have Fallen.
Iaiss TO MAKE A CHARITY HOSPITAL
Out Of the Old Man, and Gets Himself
Into Trouble, as Usuai-He
Gets the Cat and Greens
Mixed.

nose pseled On one side, and sat down on u
bosTd scross the coal scuttle, and began
whistling as unconcerned as possible.
What's The matter with your eye"
"BOy tried to gouge IL out without asking
my consent" snd the bad boy took dried
herriI 2 out Of the box and began peeliug
il. Hes in bed now, and his ma Is poul-
tiring him. and she says he will be out
about the last of next week"
20. YOU are going to be a prize tighter,
amt you, said the grocery man, Disguised.
when boy leaves a job where he Is
working, and goes to loahng around. he
becomes fighter the first thing. What
your pa ought 10 do 10
Bind Ton Out with n Farmer,
where YOU would have to work all the
time. i wish you would go away from
here, because you look like one OF these
fellows that comes up before the police
Judge Monday morning, and gets 80 days
In the house of correction. Why don't
you go out and loaf around a slaughter
house, where you would look appropriate
and the grocery man took hair brush
and brushed some loose sugar and tea,
that was on he counter, into the sugar
barrel
We'll, If you have got through with your
sermon, will tOUt q little on my horn"
al q the buy threw the remains Of the Ter
ring over behind barrel Of potatoes, and
wiped his hands on 4 coffee sack. IF you
had this black eye, and had got il the way
did, il would be a more priceless gem in
the crown of glory you hope 10 wear, than
ary gem you can hope to get BY putting
quarters in collection plate with the
Holes FILLED with Lead.
SIS you did last Sunday, whcn vas watch.
ing you. ., didn't you look pious when
you picked that filed quarter out, aud
held your thumb over the place where the
lead WAS The way of the black eye was
this. / got job tending soda fountain,
and last night, just before We closed, there
was two or three young loaferS in the place,
and girl Came in for glass OF coda. Five
years sgo she was one of the brightest
scholars in the ward school, when | was
in the intermediate department. She was
just as handsome as = peach, and every
body liked her. At recess she
used 10 take my part when
TIE boys knocked me around, and
she lived near Us. She had heart as big
as that cheese box. AMI guess that's what
the n sitter Anyway, she left school, aud
then 10 was said she was going to be mar
Rid 10 3 fellow who Is now in the dude
ku.iness, but be went bsck on her and after
awhile her ma turned her out doors, and
for year or two she was
Jerking Beer In n Concert saloon,
until the mayor stopped concerts. She
tried hard 10 get sewing 10 do, but they
wUuldn't have her, guess cause she cried
50 much when she was sewing, and
the teAIS wet the cloth she was sewing
on. Once asked pa Why ma didn't give
her some sewing TO do, and be said for me
20 dry up and never speak to her if met
her On the street. IL seemed tuf TO pass
her on the street, when she had tears in
her eyes as big as marbles, and not speak
TO her when know her so well. and she
had been so kind TO me at school, just
cause a dude wouldn't marry her, but I
wanted to obey pa, 50 | used to walk around
a block when | see her coming, cause |
DIDN'T want to hurt her feelings. Well,
last night she came in the store, looking
pretty shabby, anu wanted glass of soda,
and | gave il TO her, and D, how her hand
trenlbled when she raised the glass TO her
lips. and how wet her eyes were, and how
Pale He Face Was.
choked up 50 couldn't speak when she
handed me the nickel, end when she look.
ed up at me ana smiled just like she used
TO, snd SAID vas getting to be almost q
man S'nce Ne used 10 90 TO school q; the
old school house, and put her handker-
chief TO her eyes, by gosh, my eyes got so
fu | couldn't tell whether IL was a uirksl
or q lCZepger she gave me. Just then one
OF those lOsfers began to laugh at her,
and call her names, snd say the police
ought TO take her up for a stray, and
tS made fun OF her until she cried
some more, and got hot and went around
It. here he was and told him II he said
another unkind word 20 that girl | would
maui him. He laughed and asked ii she
vss my sister, and told him that poor
fiisDdiess gill, who was sick aud in dis.
tress, spd who was insulted, ought to be
every boys sister, for a minute, and any
boy Nho bad spark Of manhood should
protect her aud then he laughed and said
ought to be ole of the Little Sisters Of
the Poor, and he took hold of her faded
shawl and
PuIIed the Weak Girl
against the show case, and said something
me an TO her, and she looked as though she
wanted to die. and l mashed that boy one
riEht on the nose. Well, the air seemed to
be full Of me for a minute, cause be was
bigger than me. and he got me down and
be got his thumb in MY eye. | guess he
was going to take my eye out, but turned
him over and got on top and l mauled
him until he begged, but / wouldn't let
HIM up until be asked the girls pardonl
and sN ore he would whip any boy that in.
INSULT her, aud then let him up, and
the cir thanked ne. but | told her |
couldn't speak 10 her, cause she was TUT,
ard Ia didn't want me to speak to ybOdy
who was tuff hut If any body ever Insulted
Der so she had TO cry, that | would whip
him il ] had to take 8 club. l told pa
about il, end though he would be mad at
ne for taking the part OF girl that was
tufT but by gosh, pa Rugged me, and the
L. ars came in his eyes, and he said l had
got good blood in me, and did Just right,
and IL | would show him the father OF the
boy that whipped, pa said
He Would whip the Old Man,
and maSatd for me to find the poor girl
and send her up to the house and she
would give her Job making pillow-caSes
snd night shirts Don't il seem darn queer
to you that everybody goes back On poor
girl CausP she makes a mistakey and the
blasted whelp that IS to blame gets a chro-
mo. IL makes me tired 70 think of IT,"
and the 10y got up and shook himself, and
locked in the cracked mirror hanging upon
q post, to see how his eye was getting
along.
''Ssy, young fellow, you are thorough
bred" said the grocery man, As he
spribkled some water on the asparagus and
lettuce, and you can come in here and get
all the herring you want. and never mini
tie black eye | wish / bad il myself.
zee. IL does seem tough to see people never
allCS girl to rrform. Nov, in Bible
tine. the Savior fovgsve Mary, or some
BODY, forget now what her name vas,
ana che Was . oettsr girl than ever. What
we pstt Ia more o. tn spirit Of Christ, snd
the world would Ne better"
~ hat Ve want Is about ten thousand
ChIisEs, We ought 20 have ten or fife, i
right here in Milwaukee, and they wos.d
Plenty OF Business too.
But this climate seems TO be too rough.
SAY. did l tell you about Pc and ma having
,rCubls?'
mo. what's the row."
.GWsIl YOU see ma wants 10 econonize
al sbe can. ant d. hiss been getting thin
Dpr since ne qui; drinking end reformed;
.anS have Kept on crossing until
I am bigger than he is. Funny, si9t
:, that a hoy should be bigger than his
uaf Pa wsrtsd new snit o: clothes,
md ma said she would tx biui,, s9d so
she took one Of my old suits aud r-sde Il