Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-07-31
when the sun goes down

! Mr.. Ransom could write good cam
paign song if he would turn his atten-
| ton to it. Campaign songs are more
/ CHEEKY than the moan we give above.
| Here, where we regard clay as victuals,
! is not pleasant 10 think OF Poke
uncle turning 10 kindred clay and be-
coming edible at his time OF life.
Let Polk turn in and write campaign
song. Let il be a reversible song that
can be used by either party. Any man
who can paint such word picture OF
his uncle's death could build a campaign
song that could be easily heard above
the noise of the workmen engaged in
mailing the campaign lie.
But let US pass on to speak OF more
agreeable subjects. Those who are In
terested IN the subject Of wells will be
glad 10 know that workmen on this
well-known structure OF mine struck
water on the evening OF the sth inst,
and were compelled to get out with
great haste 10 avoid being drowned.
Two feet and ten inches o! water were
reported by my well superintendent,
who tapped me for another assessment
and went home TO obtain much needed
rest. / thought that two feet would
hardly be sufficient for our family, sew
eral members Of which use water ex-
clusively as a tonic, so got another
man to putin final blast.
This blast was ill-ndvised, as 1t cracked
open th e bottom OF the well aud let out
the two feet and 10 inches Of water
which had been put in there on the
night of the Sth inst. 1t is low enough
to salt a gold mine, but the man who
will carry water from the branch" all
night to Stat the well Of kind-hearted
northern invalid who is willing TO let
bygones be bygOnes and ready to let the
dead past do It's own undertaking is not
going 10 encourage cobwebs on the
mouths Of your cannon kthe way feel
like doing.
did not murmur when ! found that
in charging two dollars per foot the well
digger meant two dollars per foot down
and two dollars up, or two dollars for
digging and two dollars for slowing.
Also I paid for hands, materials, dam
ages, medicine, etc. never said any
thing unless 1t was that did not hold
myself responsible as late as this for the
damage that General Sherman did IN
the heat OF passion, while was toe
young to be held sponsib!e, and that a
! little deal over a well. l thought, was a
poor place to work in the entire expenses
Of war.
Even when I found that the well al
the depth Of 100 feet had tapered so fast
that Ii was merely little feverish point
in the thirsty bowels Of the earth did
not murmer. Even when l found that
I had II. 600 yards OF earth piled up al
the mouth Of the well on top Of ny
strawberry bed, ! did not speak bitterly
or refer with acrimony 10 the wooden
cannon which were so placed as TO keeI
! Mcclellan falling back TO the Arlington
hotel in Washington every evening foi
weeks. l did not rake up old person
! slities even when I went down once e
| see the well and the hands al the wind
lass went 10 Asheyille to spend gala
week, leaving me TO enjoy the glorious
| scenery known as the Land OF the Sky
But say that we should not expect tC
wreak the vengeance OF century upor
/ or collect the consequential damages oil
four years OF hard fought and calamit
Gus war from a peacesble man who ba.
| been already "picked On" by the so
called artists of the United States I'll
ne does not dare TO unveil himself II
public till after twilight.
l do not come before the public ask
ing for 400 PInkeTton 4 u to protect mG