Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-11-27

But, alas! l fear that both the letter
from Oregon and that from Baltimore
are merely idle attempts to enlist me in
a cause in which there is no real earnest
ness. Somehow at night, as look up
into the quiet sky and try to count the
stars through the roof aud endeavor to
believe that all men are good, even
architects, and ! ask for strength so that
may do ever what is right, no matter
how disagreeable it is, and that 1 may
never break over the rule established
years ago not to do anything whatever
that my mother would diSapprove Of,
sometimes even going so far as to tele-
graph her before taking glass Of wine,
unless l am very, very thirsty indeed
1 sometimes while 1 lie thus (that is,
while thus le) in the nighttime, with
my hot temples bathed in the cool
moonlight like the temples Of Jerusa-
lem, il comes oyer me that possibly
these people are cOnyersing with me
through their hats!
Oh, can it be that 1, who. while other
men ere putting their arms lovingly
about the taper waist Of the beloved
voter, 90 about myself from house TO
house comforting the DISTINGUISHED
wife and sister and daughter, sometimes
for days aud days-I who would
protect even a poor cur from its
prosecutors (he who has never
had a dog Instinct, or been tainted
with the blood Of the dog family
ln any way, let him cast the first StoneD
-thetI, I say, should be thus monkey
ca with by distant strangers VINO pro-
pose 90 elevate society and scandaiize
the stage gives me a dull neck pain
which 90 is hard 90 describe.
Perhaps this prune grower Is a wild
over. IN so De may be in earnest, for
Do has been truly said that the life OF q
wid1wcr Isl like that OF a baby-the
FIRST six months be does nothing bat
weep: the second he begins 20 sic up,
look around and take notice, aud &c is
mighty hard 60 get him through the
second year.
But let Us pass on.
was in New York FOR a week not
long ago on metropolitan busineSs-cOl-
lectIng some OF my unearned increment
and took occasion 70 visit the chirOp-
odiSt. He was q very busy man, and
has outside the door on the street one
of those large, CHASTITY marble feet as a
sign, aud clambering over it are rank
grOwths of hardy Indian cOrns, with
here and there the bulb Of a buniOn.
Closing my eyes till got past it, went
upstairs to the ingrowing nail parlors,
and was waited on by one Of those po-
lite, highly refined people who lead the
conversation away so that one almost
forgets that he has a hOle-in his sock
which he had forgotten.
The day was rainy, aud hastily pay
ing my bill, put on my new grey
macintosh in the hall and went down
the street TO where I was going to have
a two hundred dollar battle scene paint
ed while waited. All the way down l
met people who seemed to recognize me
by my well-knowh features, and 1t is in
deed a comfort 10 know that one is
known. / can see now why 1t Is that
Deople commit the most hideous and
sickening crimes so that they may be
noted and recognized. At the art works
it was so too. People got through their
business and still seemed reluctant
about going away.
/ tried to look unconscious, and yet |
was a little IN at ease. told the man
TO please hurry up and paint my two
hundred dollar picture, as had to
catch train. He did the best he
could. but seemed to be thinking OF
something else all the time.
You have seen, no doubt, sad faced
man walking slowly up and down
Broadw falsely lsboring under the
IMPRESSION that he was thinking. He
wears. rain or shine, q light rubber
overcoat, on the back of which is sign
~ a we'll known chiropodist and the
figure Of knobby foot, with gladio-
luses growing on 1t.
Well, that was the coat had worn
down town while the man was gone
a nav IN DelmOnicO's for his lunch.