Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-12-23
THE MAYNARD YOUTH.
That Milwaukee Boy and His Poor
Pa.
Heaney Has His Usual Weekly Converse
ton With the GrCceyman He Tells
What He Thinks Of the Old
Soldier Boys.

a niece of advice said the grocery man
10 the bad boy, rs the youth entered
the grocery one cold morning with al
cid veteran from the Soldiers Home,
who went up to the coal stove and rub
bed his hands, and turning to the old
veteran, the ggoceryman added: mo,
sir, you can't have any plug tobacco
unless you hsve got the money to plank
right down on the counter, and had
rather you wouldn't come here to trade
anyway, because YOU look hard and
smell fTOWy, and my customers don't
like 10 NIX up with you" The old
veteran warmed his hands and went
out with tear IN his eye, and the gro
cerynantOOk the bad boy to the back
end OF tue store and said: "YOu want
To let those old soldiers alone. Your pa
was in here last night, and he said he
was ashamed OF you. He said he and
Your ma were out riding, ana he saw
Yuu walking up towards the Home,
with soldiers on each side of you, hold
ing Oh your arms, and your pa
Thinks rhry Were Drunk.
Now, you ought 10 &c ashamed. Let
those Old soldiers alone. They are
bsd iJt, and the gruceryman acted a.
though he had been the means of saw
ing the boy from terrible fate. The
boy WAS 50 uiad he couldn't speak for
minute, and then he said:
"NUU and pa are pretty crowd to go
back on soldiers, amt you? How long
i il since You were humping Yourself
around town trying to hire a SUI 'itG'e
40 go To the WAR for you? Then sol
der who volunteered WIS the noO!est
WORK Of God, ant You helped pass resO-
luiiOuS to the effect that the country
owed debt OF gratitude 10 them that
could never Ue paid. Every dollar pa
has got except what he won playing
IUkrr before he reformed, he got Gus OF
soldiers, when he was suffer Of Tegi
ment. Every muu,hiIl | eat now =
the price Oi a suffers wages, who spent
his money WIKI pa for brandy peaches
or >ardiueS. p wasn't ashamed OfsOl-
dlerS ther, when they got drunk On
brandy peaches he sold 10 them, and II
that uue a soldier would have Oaen
welcome 10 a plug OF tobacco out Of your
store, and nov YOU turn an old wound
al veteran gu, Of doors because ne
hasn't gOl five cents To buy tobacco
"Ihi T., there" said the grocery man,
ItttIllfILG G~lldAbNNl VI llllLStll. Ol
don't undo r>taud your pas situation, or
mure. You ste"
"Nes, see" sail the bad boy, al see
ii lust rs plain a. can b., and 1t is my
turn 10 talk, and | am going to talk.
The time j. past when you need the sol
der. When you wanted him to stand
between you and the ayOnetS OF the
enemy he Was u thoroughbred, and you
smiled when he came in the store, and
asked him 10 have n cigar. When he
was wounded you hustled around and
got together sanitary stores, such Is
saUeTkTUUt and
FiaJin Cards
ard sent them To him by the fastest eN-
press, and you prayed for han, aud
when he had whipped the enemy you
welcomed him home with open arms
and said there WAS nothing too good for
him forever after. He should always be
mcmUered, his children should be
cared for and educated, and all that.
Now ne is Old, his children have died
or grown up and gone west, and you
do hot welcome him any more. lie
CONES in here on bis wooden leg and all
YOU think Of Il whether he has 60. any
of his pension money left. HIS Old eyes
dEt 81 HNNAN N-AAlA'N CNN NtaN ShANNA
with which YOU drafted patriot, who
sent a sub-tiiute to war, looks at hIm a O.,
he asks YOU tur - plug of tobacco and
sgrec- - pay you when he draws his
next tension, and ne goes out with
pain il. his great big heart SjIch "a you
will never feel u | 81 you nave SOME
Cudiisn spoil on your hands. Bah.
You riots make me tired"
"lOu are pretty hard on US, " aud the
Croceryman acted hurt. The govern
mrnt pad the soldiers, and gives them
pensions, and all that, and they ought
10 know better than 10 get drunk"
Paid them, SAID the bad boy indig-
nantly, What is
Four Dollars q Month
pension TO a man who has lost his arm,
Orwho has bullet holes all over him? If
q train runs over a mans leg, the rail-
r0ad Is in luck If it does not have to
pay ten thousand dollars. What does
The soldier get? He gets left half the
tine. ! am opposed to people getting
drunk, hut as long rs pa and lots of the
hes, }euple in town, get drunk when
tuey leel AXE il, why Is It worst for an
Old soldier, who HAS no other way to
have iun and teel rich, To get drunk. III
YOU had To live at the Soldiers Home,
and WtIk on the road, and do farm
work, for YOUR OaId, you would get full
a. goo WHEN you came in town.
Outside ofthe Home grounds the old
soldier feels free. He looks at the bright
sunshine, iuhal,S Gods free air, walks
upright towards town., and just rs his
old wound begins TO aOh2, he sees a
beer sign. amt Instead of the worls
imam iu lofwOe, coming to his mind, hC
thinks ~ Il e words Of the Constitution,
FL ne u arr born fee ana equal, endowed
with certain lual'eu1b.e rights, among
which are lie, liberty, and the pursuit
Of happiness and he goes IN and orders
= >ChC, uer uf beer, like q white man.
The saloon is the OJlv place Oh Gods
green earth where TIE Old wounded
veteran il free and equal, and he makes
the mv.t Oft. When he gets full he is
the prey Of foolish boys, like fire bugs,
who have fun jeeriBg him, and they
SNOWFALL iIIa.
l and say, look az the old druukard.' If
lie lays down on The railroad track and
Killed 10y the ears, you read in the
paper Oi another veteran killed. Your
only anxiety is rs to whether he is the
n came cu>s you trusted for the tobacco
without tear. Now, | have had it
drove into me me by the conversation
OF people Older than me, by newspapers,
anu Gy resolutions that have been
laSStd before Was born, that soldier
l. one OF the salt OF the earth. You may
say that the idea is Ourlawed, and that
Sheh YOU have got through having use
FORA soldier that he becomes thug un-
worthy TO De recognized, but as long as
I'VE man who fought to save nv
country eau have a share of what /
nave got, and 1 will help him home
when ne IS full of benzine, and whip
any boy that throws snowballs at him
,t csliS MN names, if you and pa aud
e Shoie gang goes back Oh me, aud
ooht you forget it. The faded Glue
oEereost OF the veteran looks better TO
NE, am bad, than the syallow-tail
Do 'iS. 0i the dude, the diamonds of the
f"tiIi'Onalre, or the sneers of the darn