Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-21
a CHRISTMAS EVE EPISODE
a Queer Tour in Dreamland that
Wasn't So Very Queer Either.
4 Night With Millionaire and What Came
of lt---The handspring Of the Mans
Ambition---R Great Lesson
Behind it All.
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A night with millionaire! Think OF III
Did YOU ever spend night with NIL
lionaire. truly millionaire, who made his
money by gripping pennies till the Gag les
souesled, by pinchiug, starving Interesting
everybody connected with him, whose &c
cvrula,ions run far up the line OF monu-
mental wealth, until they come a!mos: IN
sight Of the phenomenal accgetoni Of
Gould and Vanderbilt? have That's, l
dreamed did. 1t seemed to me that 1t was
Christmas Eve, and this is the way my Gu
trammeled faculties ran:
lis the night before Christmas, and
everybody else is wide awake, Of course
they are, for, although the City Hall clock
SON the verge Of u and all the angels are
clearing their throats for Hail the Bright
Morn" there are stockings to be filed AID
sick beds to be tended all over the city.
The beginning of 1t All.
uslIo vbet'a this-where am II a NO.
mert since | seemed to be walking up
broadway with halt frozen policeman ana
a belsted traveller from the South Ferry, opt
here am up town before marble palace,
and, although the walls are SOLID msroie
and the doors are solid iron, pass through
them as though they were but air. ana l
find myeelf alone i'll this great bazaar-no'
by George, I'm wrong. I'm not alone
The cas- Barns but dim'y end ! see halo,
the I,ht is out But for all that soc as
clearly as il It were day.
Everybody does in dream.
Rut my friend over By the glove conu!eF,
where the clerk sells double-hutton gloves
Inv the thousands and remembers the SIZE
ofeycry man, woman or child he ever fits
this man wlo stands near the glove counter
has his eyes vide open ani can see any
thirg
Some people never car.
T7obailyifhe were aSlce? now, az an,
lie could see me as well az | see him, !
wonder who he is Tie seems to be an Old
fellow, with reddish haic and sandy com.
pexjOn. q,
Why, .onder-yes-.t mast be-the
Old Man hjmscir
This ia rooi. Ivonlrr what he's up to-
and being a. eff.ctVally hi from his sight
as If wore harlc9'inS cap. Il draw H,Sf
him. Poo fellow be seems f;igh!elsf Il"
puts out his hands, he gropss, he Stlm5ies
Ha! hal he hit his hose against The very
desk where little Jim Quincy was arres ct
for stealing, because he foLud a ten cent
niece on the floor and put it in his pocket
There he goes round the cashiers desk
with both hands stretched out, picking his
rsy along SLOWLY. painfully, like any other
ragman, or Iuting and grlmbl,ng, an! per
picked in his ve:y soCl woncer nov ne
came down here at this time OF nlghtY Fer
laps he wanted to get list o! his clerks, SO
that he could send each one turkey and
! perbsps he didn't. Possibly he WAS looking
| for the address of some OF the hollow chested
sewing girls who earn the enormous sum Of
$50 or S. er week in his service and
| ether make tire rest Us they can or starVt
| themselves 10 the yery edE- oil the grave
| Quite EE.lv that's wha: he wanted, 50 thai
| he could send them checks for SO or so
and q politely sympathetic note, suggesting
| that Christmas is at hand-ard death -anI
--~-.l! I:i.-, -v-L~..:.JJl IT'S -rsy1 uf.vt
in glass hcarse with six gray horses,
With plumes,
TO his granite tomb in Greenwood
| wbatth Old Man Came To.
However this may be, he has hit his head
and hungcd his nose, knocked his knees anC
| punched the counters in his stomach till h.
| is almost crazy At last he has reached the
door. See him kick his equity toes against
! the solid isstenlngs. No use, old man; here
| you aTe and here voI mul, Say. | know
it. Twenty million do!,..rs is large sum
| No m-n will deny that. Int what OF it
They don't help YOU uut. DO they? Here
you are. aiu't you? THERE'S 40 possible
| good in Jour yelling aud screaming. Stop
| it, OF yCu'll burst something. and, rich a.
you arc, you cant afT1-l thac, can you
Come, now, really begin to Ike this. A
night with q millionaire! II isn't every fel
low who can sleep in marble palace with
man or woman, and here have the chance
to sleep
Perchance to dream,
With the greatest, riches', mcanest" Of
mankind;
hHu al iOE uOtnluH.
Bat, dear me, how spry he is He has
WORKED and worked his way along from the
ayerue door to the side street windows. He
has tried every one, but, alackl his orders
have heed too we'll obeyed He is fastened
in, ard he might as well try to get out oil
his rosewood overcoat with silver buttons,
os to get out of this great marble msgniG
cencc tonight. I'll call him.
Hello, young Teller"
The echoes rolled around the rotuuda
and male fearful racket.
81 say, hello, old buster"
No answer.
TITO cd man started, looked up aud
down, bat made no sign of interest:
"Sa-ay. 81 az. old buffer, what's the
matter with you. Does your mother know
you're OUT
Down On the floor like an iron log, he
falls.
Dear, dear. what have dono? Has
frightened. Goodness grac Gus, les in a
fit Help help, help, somebody, anybody;
here's a man in fit, and don't know what
to do. Oh ii he had only been a clerk, or
a porter, or even a $3.50 o week carpet
sitcher, he wouldn't be here; hed have been
at home, or on the street long ago and now
'slikc ~ not he'll die before my very sight.
rich as be il mean 10 he is, with money all
over him, and lace shawls worth $l0.O
before his eyes. need hardly say that,
iast asleep as | am, | rush n: once to his
side
Say, old boy: say, say
No response.
And, what's worse no water
Honey No Object.