Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-12-20
BILL NIE.
Boston Ghbs.

i uhN6 hui WElttcn muSh AVA PSNN'-~
in the great moulder Of public opinion
lately because did not feel we'll. | was
iatigued. / took ride on the cars last
week, and II shook me up good deal.
The train was crowded somewhat, and
so / sat in the seat with woman who got
aboard at Minkin's siding. | noticed as
We pulled out of Minkin's siding that this
woman raised the window SO that she
could bid sdieu to man in dyed nous
rsche. do not know whether he was her
dolce far niente, or her grandson by her
second husband. | know that if he had
been q relative of mine. however, / would
have cheerfully concealed the fact.
She waved little 2x6 handkerchief out
of the window, said "good-by," allowed q
fresh zephyr from Cope Sabine to come
in and play q xylophone interlude on my
spinal column, and then burst into
psroxysm of damp, hot tears.
l had togo into another car tor mo-
ment, and when returned pugilist from
Chicago had my seat. When l travel l
am uniformly courteous, especially to
pugiIsts. A pugilist who has started out
IS an obscure boy with no money, no
friends and no one to practice on except
his wife or his mother, with no capital
aside from his bare hands; q man who has
had to fight his way through life, IS it were,
and vet who has come out of obscurity and
the attention of the authorities and won
the good will of those with whom he came
in contact, will always find me cordial and
pacific. So allowed this selfmade man
with the broad, high, intellectual shoulder
blades, to sit in my seat with his feet on
my new and expensive travelling bag, while
sat with the tear-bedewed memento from
Minkin's siding.
She sobbed several more times, then
hove q sigh that ratified the windows in
the car, and sat up. l asked her if | might
sit oy her side for few miles and share
her great sorrow. She looked at me
askance. I did not resent it. She allowed
me to take the seat, and / looked at q
paper for few moments 80 that she could
look me over through the corners OF her
eyes. ! also scrutinized her ineaments
some.
She was dressed up considerably, and
when woman dresses up to ride in o rail
way train she sdvertises the fact that her
intellect is beginning to totter on its throne
People who have more than one suit OF
clothes should not pick out fine rsiment
for travelling purposes. This person was
not handsomely dressed, but she had the
kind of clothes that look as though they
had tried to present the appearance Of
affluence and had failed to do 30.
This leads me to say in all seriousness
that there is nothing so sad as the sight Of
a man or woman who would scorn to tell
a wrong story, but who will persist in wear
ing bogus clothes and bogus jewelry that
wouldn't fool anybody.
Ny seat-mate wore cloak that had start
ed out to bamboozle the American people
with the idea that it was worth 500, but it
wouldn't mislead any one who might be
nearer than halt mile. also discovered
that it had an air about it that would indi-
cate that che wore it while she cooked the
pancakes and fried the doughnuts. 1t
hardly seems possible that she would do
this, but the garment, / say, had that air
about it.
She seemed to want to converse after
awhile, and as she began on the subject OF
literature, picking up a volume that had
been left in her seat by the train boy, en-.
tiled Swallowed to Skowhegan and Back;
or, The Child Fiend: price g. we dritted
on pleasantly into the broad domain Of
letters.
Incidentally l asked her what authors
she read mostly.
"Oh, don't remember the authors so
much as / do the books" said she; II am
a great reader. II should tell you how
much l have read, you wouldn't believe
it,"
said / certainly would. | had fire.
quently heen called upon to believe things
that would make the ordinary rooster
quail.
II she discovered the true inwardness
of this Anglo-American "Jewdesprit," she
refrained from saying aything about it.
81 read q good deal" she continued,
"and it keeps me all strung up. weep,
oh, so easily" Just then che lightly laid
her hand on my arm and l could see that
the tears were rising to her eyes. | felt
like asking her if she had ever tried run
ming herself through clothes wringer
every morning? Ibid feel that some one
ought TO chirk her up, so l asked her it
she remembered the advice of the editor
who received letter from young lady
troubled the same way. She stated that
she couldn't explain it, but every little
while, without any apparent cause, she
would shed tears, and the editor asked her
why she didn't lock up the shed.
We oonversed for long time about lit
ersture, but every little while she would get
me int deep water by quoting some author
or work that had never read. | never
realized what hopeless ignoramus | was
till l heard sbuot the scores Of books that
had made her shed the scaldipg, and yet
that had never, never read. When she
looked at me with that far-swsy expression
in her eyes, and with her hand resting
lightly on my arm in such way as to give
the gorgeous two-ksrat Rhinestone from
PIttsburg full play, and told me how such
works as The New Made Grave; or, The
Twin Murderers" had cost her many CO.
pious tear, l told her was glad Of it. If
it be blessed boon for the student of such
books to weep at home aud work up their
honest perspirStion into Ecslding tears,
far be it from me to grudge that poor
boon.
hope that all who may read these lines
and who may feel thst the pores of their
skins are getting torpid and sluggish, oW.
Dg,to an inherited snipsthy toward physi.
cal exertion, and who feel that they would
rather work up their perspirstiou INTO woe
and shed it in the shape of common red
eyed weep, will keep themselves TO this
poor boon. People have different ways
IF enjoying themselves, and hope no one |
will hesitate about accepting this or any
,ther poor boon that do not happen to be |
using at the time.
Mr.. Cleveland and His Friend "Dan."
Washington Letter.
Colonel Lamont, the Presidents private
is not very tall himself, so that |
ne sits in an immense arm chair that he
'crews up to the top like piano-stool His
visitors sit in q low ottomsn.ike chair, so
hat no matter how tall the caller may be,
Colonel Lamont can look carelessly down