Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-02-17
BILL NYE In ST LOUIS
P0NP PRIDE AND CIRCUMSTANCE OF AN
ARREST IN THAT CITY.
A Chicago Justice Of the Peacs-Equity and Red
Llquor-The Two-Hsaded Nightingale
4 Few IDEAS on the Dscolls!is
Style Of Dress.
S. Louis Poa-Dipaich.

a delicats tribute to arrest nm. Mnen
you are arrested in st. Louis you do not
20 reluctantly to TIE nearest station by
means Of tie scruff of your neck, through
a hooting and maddipg crowd, but the
policeman who has arrested you sends IN
a signal from the nearest box, and direct
IL, rs the English put it, or right away, as
the American has it, beautiful silver
mounted droska, or Rise-up-Willism-Riley-
and.come-along-with-me phleton, drawn
by gaily caparisoned, reigbing steeds,
dashes I'D to The curb driven by an
Olive street gondolier. You bound lightly
into the beautifully-hecked chariot, tiny
silver gong about the size Of railroad
tire table tinkles gayly, and away you 20
a1ou.ing the envy ard admiration OF those
who have never been under arrest
But how, asks the keen and pungent
reader can ST. Louis afford do this while
in civ Ike New York the criminal must
either walk TO the statiOu-hOuse or torego
TIE ioys Ct arrest entirely? TIE answer IS
simple. Here the criminal pays 10 5O icr
an arrest which ne usei TO get at 50. This
pavs his droska hire AID makes his arrest
something 20 look back 20 with pleasure
PEG le who yield 20 the police and become
arrested from Tina 20 time Go 70. care for
the expense. Mostly they refer the eX-
penss to q plaza which ehOuld be alluded
10 very spaliDgly in aSunday paper. And
so 50 so doesn't bother them at all They
nav il if they have il, and then If they DO
net sn opportunity IS given them to earn
il later on. at some sort Of skilled labor
like pounding sand. This makes the ar
rest an ornament to the city, and the gem
tlemanly criminal or misdtmeanor obli-
gate pays FOR it, thus contributing to his
own comfort and making his arrest an
ovation and a delicate tribute to himself
which the papers can use ard which will
read well in a scrap book when torked over
to future generations.
ST. Louis points with pride to her police
system and methods of arrest. New
York man who comes TO st. Louis and
ge's arrested is treated ju.t as well as fhe
had been born here whereas, st. Louis
man who gees to New York, when arrest
ed, is at once looked upon with suspicion.
The people of st. Louis love TO compare
their police and arrest system with that OF
OTHER cities and ID speak of Chicago with
quiet scorn. They love to point with par
doDabe pride to their five Mayors, neither
one Of whom dared fer some lime to leave
town for fear one OF the Others would be
sole Mayor when he got back. They
also speak with some acrimODy Of an
old-time Chicago Justice OF the Peace,
who used to have his shrine over a
gilded hell. He had a deai-and-dumb
waiter blilt ia back of the bench, also q
speaking tube, by means OF which be
could refer difficult points Of law to low
proved chemist in his shirt sleeves down
stairs, and SO, as we say on the Rue DE
Bowery, be would ever and anon roll the
rock, - and it fell out that in his Court JUS
tice was rot only blind, but she had bad
hiccough as the day wore on, while now
and then the hoarse overriding power Of
the Justice mingled its accents with the
whistle of the speaking tube and tie low
moan of the tipless dumb waiter
Thus it happened that in the records OF
the Office the stenogrOpher has enormously |
embodied in the JUSTICES rulings such r.
relevant remarks as another hot whiekee
for the CooTt, - and other holdings and find
ings of the Court which have been used in |
Chicago and other cities as precedsnts in
cases of like charaster, to the great eleva-
ton of bench and bar.
Mr.. Riley and l played here against
Mile Christine, the two-headed nightin-
gale She is touring over the country this
season, accompanied by herself A man
who owns a lurch. counter in Illinois
is hopeless lunatic because |
10 could not decide whether to
charge her for one meal or two. Her sue
cess tas certainly been most remarkable |
Star ing out as she did, under the most ad- |
verse circumstances rot knowing for two
or thea years whether 10 regard herself as |
an anomaly or twins, she has had Won
derfully placid cageer. Nov she is known |
wherever the English language is spoken.
She is Of African descent, and as black as
the deuce OF spades l say tie deuce, be-
cause the acs Of spades is very rarely |
black, IS l am informed, also because IN |
her case 2 comparison with the two-spot |
would be more appropriate anyway.
What like about Mile Christine nOre
especially is her harmonious disposition.
Had she been otherwise it wouli have been
fatal to her success. A two-hesdtd girl
relies very much on the friendly feeling ex-
istiDg bstIeen her t8ossts Of heads for her
popularity. Should eyetler head fall out
with the other, nyethsr would succeed.
| So it will not do for one to ba Jealous OF
the success of the other, when one head
sings soprano and is enchored, and
| if the ether head gets hot and wants
to quit. it worries the management and
breaks up the show. No two-headed girl
can succeed when the relations are strain
ed. S0pposirg that the soprano desired to
eat onions for supper in order to improve
her voice, Of course the alto has right,
owning a half interest in the same stom-
ach, to object, provided that the nut brown
flavor Of onions is distasteful TO her; and
yet these two people ges along together, as
they have for years, without any bicker-
ipgs 2t all and still under the same mar
agement.
Surprising again that the soprano is
sleepy after a prolonged matinee and even
ing performance, answering repeated en-
cores; she, therefore, desires to 90 to sleep
at once, while the alto, who has no enccres
to answer, would like to have the gas
burning and read ''RObert Elsmere."
One eau readily see that in an ordinary
musical combination this would break up
the show in five minutes, bat it is not so
with the two-headed nightingale. While
one head is a Methodist and the other q
Baptist, there is 10 religious fight between
the two, and the alto even went down and
allowed herself to he baptized through a
hole in the ice rather than have trouble
with the Baptist soprano. Is this not
truly a spirit of sacrifice? That is
not all. The Baptist head fally
believes that the Methodist head has
said and done things which eternal pun
ishment is too good for, and yet, rather
than have trouble and break up prosper
GUS business, she doesn't insist on it.
Then, again, the two disagree vastly as TO