The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-07

cent spell OF hot weather. Grnudp
wilkins Is conservative and Il good dea
Of Il pessimist, while Uncle Jerry Sutton
Is a bit Of u radical aud invariably opt
mistic id his views. Grandpa Wilkin
holds that we don't have any ouch no
weather rs wo did when he was young
When ahot spell comes along he Away
pooh-poohs Il and threatens to 70 up II
the attic and get his red yarn mittenI
out OF the cedar chest. He is fond o
telling how, in 1928. they had TO shea
the sheep every month NIL summer be
cause 1t was too warm for them. Some
times he puts this In 1872, at othe;
times in 1916, and when excitec
has been known TO place 1t ava,
back somewhere before what h,
invariably speaks Of as "the War
meaning the War Of 1918, always referr
ing to the late Rebellion as that scrim
mage down South thers somewhere
Uncle Jerry, on the other hand, holds
that the weather Is getting warmer al
the time. Ona hot day he takes of biz
shoes and stockings, puts on a pair o
carpet slippers and sits in the shade ant
fans himself with a copy OF 1.-THE Barn
stable Postboy and Planters Gazette
When Grandpa wilkins tells his sheen
story Uncle Jerry recalls the summer o
1910. when they couldn't shear theil
sheep at all for fear they would take
cold. Even as late rs 1888 he remem
bers seeing sheep bianketed in July, anC
then they baa.ed with the cold.
Wednesday of last week WIS a warm
day In Barstable. About moor Grandpa
Wilkins came along with a woollen
comforter" around. his neck and re,
marked to Uncle Jerry, who Eat under 8
tree plying "The Postboy," that 1t ap.
peared to be getting cooler. Uncle Jer.
~ looked at him scornfully and asked
him II % in the shade looked as il 1t was
getting cooler. Grandpa wilkins but.
toned up his coat aud said he went
more by his feelings than by these
new.fansled thermometers, but Their.
mometer or no thermometer, he hadn't
heard Of anybody having to reshear his
sheep like they did in the summer OF
'2e5. Uncle Jerry replied sarcastically
by asking him If he bad seen enybody
building bonflres in the sheep pastures
as they had to do in the summer OF is.
He followed this by Offering to bet his
jack.knife against Grandpa Wilkins's
that the thermometer would be up to
ll0in the shade at 8 o'clock. Grandpa
Wilkins Instantly answered that he
would take the wager, though it
wouldn't be much il it was, as it was up
to lis in Boston in IL. Then he sneez.
ed aud said he must get into the house
before he took cold, aud started OF
home.
Uncle Jerry's thermometer hung on
the north side OF the woodshed, directly
over a knot.hole. About half past . the
gpileless old fellow put brick into the
kitchen fire. A few minutes before 3
o'clock the brick was about as hot as it
is possible for brick to get in a kitchen
fire. Uncle Jerry took it out with the
tongs, and with the aid OF a pair Of buck.
skin gloves fastened a wire around it
and hung it up inside the woodshed so
that it covered the knot.hole on the in
side as the thermometer did on the out
side; then he went back under the tree
and again began tanning himself with the
PLANTERS Gazette" Promptly at 3
o'clock Grandpa Wilkins came down the
street, wearing q fur cap. Uncle
Jerry arose and led the way to the
thermometer, glanced at it and stepped
aside. Grandpa wilkins looked, rubbed
his eyes, looked again, adjusted his spec
tacles and looked again. The thermom-
eter stood at ZIG. He looked twice
more, then he silently handed Uncle
Jerry his jack-knife, renarking that he'd
"better whet it . little on the g!indotun
before he tried any lue whittlin'."
Then he turned to take a parting look
at the thermometer, remarking es he
did SO that though ZIG was tolerably
#sym, the weather didn't seem to affect
sheep anything like it did in the sum
mer of 7 after all. Unfortunately, his
glance this time took in one edge Of the
knot-hole. He pushed the thermometer
10 one side, blistered two OF his fingers
on the hot brick, and then picked up an
old broom handle apd hit Uncle Jerry a
resembling whaok. Uncle Jerry lost
his temper and replied with a barrel.
stave.
AS we said in the start, they fought
all over the yard and out the front gate
aud half way across the street, while the
Barustab;e small boys whooped at the
tops OF their voices, and bet their Sun.
day school cards on the result. They
finally both sat down exhausted, and
were carried to their respective homes.
But their example WAS fatal to the Barn.
stable small boy. He has been fighting
ever since. \ meeting Of Sunday sch0ol
workers was called for yesterday at q
o'clock in the First Congregational
Church, 10 consider the best way Of at.
tempting 10 reclaim him. Whatcyer
may have been the condition Of the
sheepin the year \, the small boy Ii
certainly greatly dcmoralized in this
year 100.