Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-06-20
WEeelin9 Register
CAVALIERS SENTIMENT.
Ths Changes that Thirty Years
Have Seen.
p,.,,v That Was Beautifuller Than Print
But IS Now FOrgOttsn---The Skip
uer's Revenge on a Fair and
Tickle Widow.

.,5 Hudson canal Who was wing on NE
o.,. 90 10 speak, while his boat was tied
m along With half a hundred others, wait
-, for the repairing of a break in the ca
81 down the line. When | first went to
bo.in, long tore the war, people knO"'d
5ov the boys stood on matters and things
}, ,spsrsl, cause they always painted their
ailments on the stern, or on the bow, or
,l,Dg the sides o their boats, so as a man
=, bs tsrrible blind or else fearful short o
.,so,TD' if he couldn't make out the rules
:, ,~ayulaions them boats Was run on,
N,vsdsys things is changed. Maybe its
,o.uss the boys amt maxim no money on
,boir hearts amt light, an maybe it's
,o.u,at bey don't run their own boats no
mo-s lint have to sail on the ccnpany's
,vr craft. Anyhow, it's only now an then
~, sf.ller sees any poetry verses on q boat
srv cbeerin' proverbs, or the like. kin
ar,bsr when tier wasn't q boat tn didn't
Il nndar some kind o colors or 9 name
20, made the boys either laugh or feel
-o,5 o,bsr wsys when they seen 1t was q
Sr,ca r,fo' timber 'tsixt here an Ron
., S,ne old-imers kinder tries to keep
~ N. circus, but they're rather lonesome
-, kin call no some o the sentiments o
-. o;d boats that baAut,tuiier than pSlnt
So .mar, fellow use TO find a little fault
81 ,ns %sp=lliu.' and said the stops an
-, wasn't slapped 10 jist right, but them
p.me,,s WAS beautiful tor u, that An
80 the funny verses that the boys writ al
80 On the boa's was better than the
p, N 4 pstsut medicine almanick. Now
yy"I ,bso q cannalsr who had an idee big
- he could handle hisseelf would git 3
S"Eo hos here or a Roudout maybe, to Tx
:, IN Tor him. an then he'd put 1t in big
80. IN ms boa, an feel Drouder'n a tow
- NV On a new mule that hsdn't lost
go VII an was sound in every leg.
S,s what do you think o this for proper
,aIkg ssid rhe old bostmsn, shutting his
80 and scratching his head, as he recalled
one ofthe old steamboat mottos. 1T goes
ike this" said he:
The miseries o life
AIRS, wan, 10 tell you" said the veteran,
;D,srrnpupg himself, and opening his eyes
n s~.plsiu. want TO tell you this poetry
vas, writ By Squire Eltin' o Ulster county,
an irs nv sentiments to q dot.
oTb. ni,srias O. life an the ;orments o hades
r1r he canaller that E0pt 20 his last cent on tue
ladies'.
"Vow THAI FUR THE rSoPER D~ocrRINEt
OF eourss YOU know what hsdes means.
Tia, verse got a cher every time the boat
hat carried il gen through a lock, ar. sll
,bs boys greed to it, till one season Sam
Dackar Who was captain OF s boat, got the
MIN from a gal at ROGdout on one o his
tr,p. That kinder soured Sam, ana ne
d,rhal IN bis hoatin big red letters TINS
l.l-.,.,,y r. go y little strong but then
va c,pl3b't more o us 'zactlY 90 back on
II ns,ber. Sam writ Ike this:
9TH. w..rfs.o q al, an the tOrments o h
r,-rb. ,r,muE 20 won't treat a cIudler well.
The old canallers thought a heap o
tho fsir ssN. an used to write miles o
800 n, EN-. Nobody couldn't ind no
S.1Ir With the spirit that Captain Riley
tb,ox'd into the verse ha writ aud posted
on his boat. 1t went as follows rs nlsn As
/ kin call:
Woman, lovely woman
That's the uncompromisiu' way the
c,u,siu begun his Ena7," the veteran broke
in an the line of his "reminiscences to eX-
Main There wasn't 10 two sides to them
sentiments.
"Wsman. lovely woman, God blesSer.
"a .FT...1,ar Fn the winter lUr 10 NIeta
her.
The trouble with Captain Riley was
though, thst he wanted to carry his ssnti'
men,s a leetle too fur. BE tried to dress
more lovely in the winter TIM ~hot
bs made a ~runnin' coal in the summer
would stand an so fust thing be d
he run again a snag, an the sheriff had 20
step in. an sell his boa, sentiment an all
One Of the 5oys got . young chap named
Brodhsad Gogn TO ROG6out, TO write nun
atouch.up On the air eek ! never could
list undersrand them lines, bat the way
they used to Jingle when the boys d hoiisr
EN- on, as the boat heaTia' en- went ey u
made plain That thsy had the right doctrine
an thar eY ~ c~auallrr proved OF EN-.
This is the way they used to run:
We eauaUler hlin't Al Apoller,
INT when a lliy loves 4 eInawlrr
There h,In't nothin' else that can ever splaI het'
An sad / couldn't never j''t git 1t
through me whether the lines Were tsForih
the fsr sex or the csns,ler-yoGN
thsr the NAG that writ the poetry calico
EN- earawIsrs, 500 the jwgie wouldn't De
split but ,hev was IS popular long the
canal as ZIP Coon on the 'eoSceon'
The names that the bostmen la tAem
good old days give 20 the bos's was toucn,
in sometimes su' sometimes amusin ana
the fair sex most slRags fEuSd 10 EN- L
member Jolly Pat Collins He boa s DAT
TIA, be called the Lightnin' Fanny she
was named after q girl he thought he was
goin' 10 msrrv-that is. the Fanny part OF
the came came from her. The hRhtnln
psr' he hirched on 70 it cause ne mace q
tno With his boat once t5St oesf the oes'
record by more'n su hour.
hE DIDN'T MARRY FANNY,
cause FANNY wasn't wllin' 10 make neT
Eeddin' trip on Pats boat; 80 Pat msrrieo
the widdpr Of 3 s~oSDmsker. when ne
changed the name Of his S3stto the Ghoin
jane AFTER the wilder. To make rnt
chrsteuin' O the boat more stristu Ia
painted & verse on the bow o his boat
'StsEd aside The poetry began:
stand aside. let ne glide,
WHar makes me such a sksdderF
The cap Is married, an his bride
Was a soap tat Pedler's wilder.
Them .inps made the boys hoSl every
tine the GhGr' Jane hove in sight an
Ehan. a year aGsrwsrd Captain psf had t
PSinr EN- out, CT asa HE glidin, bride ha'
Gid away one nigh, with n G, the cap
Crew, u ere was = universal vail 0 sorrow
30 10 speak. went Up all long the lire ron
uro-sds'- 70 tide Some O the boys wsdte.
Patio paint on bis bostths words, It's 3,
round ny hat | wears q green Vllier, itsa
round ny hat fur q tWsfmonth On q day.
bot Pat aid them wasn't bis senhRenis
lie writ another verse. The spirit 0 IN
piece WAS a little reckless, an kInde
looked "a Il Captain Pat had lost eonhdene
in his hOat Thia u the Nav he wrote.