Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-07-17
Nc THE CURB.
4 THE THINGS PEOPLE ARB TALKING
ABOUT.
Chd ard Chatter Of Various Sorts, Illustrating,
Among Other Taiags, Some Phases
Of City Life.

sis much alcohol used in Wheeling as
stimulant?" asked reporter Of a
wholesale LIQUOR dealer.
"Wel, I should say so. 1 have custom
ers who come in for pint or quart
pretty regularly, but most Of the alco-
hol sell for that purpose is not con-
sumed in the city, as you perhaps might
think, but in the country, and along the
river. Lots of Couutrymen bring jugs
TO town along with their produce or
hay, and 20 back with a half gallon or
gallon OF alcohol. Diluted with rain
water and a couple Of rusty nails added
Il makes drink which some peoplf
fancy above the finest liquor that monel
can buy. Steamboat deck hands ar
rather partial 70 it, also. Here in tow
a certain class Of drinkers, whose pa
ates have become sort Of csse-hardenec
drink diluted alcohol because it's abOu
the only thing they can taste. The.
can't afford French brandy, whisky u
longer answers the purpose, and alcohP
fits right into the space, being bot
'cheaD and film What is known O
Italian whisky-the sort or thing goo
deal was sold of when they were dig
ging the Terminal tunnelS-had a goo
substantial basis OF raw alcohol, wit
some trimmings OF various sorts. o.
binary folks who got a drink OF
didn't get the taste out Of their mouth
Tor several days, but a Hungarian q
italian miner takes 70 it'like kittens I.
milk"
'eThere are strikes and strikes, sale
a member Of a labor organization.
man who has taxed a very cOnsiderab.
part in advancing the cause in this cit.
last evening.
"What calls forth that rem9rk?"
"Well 1 was thinking over the gen
eral situation. A good many working
men have ideas about strikes which }
don't approve Of, and / sometimes think
that In carrying out those ideas they do
themselves aud the general cause OF
labor a good deal OF harm. remember
one strike Of miners, some time ago,
where three hundred men went out be-
cause four members OF their own or
Ranization wouldn't pay their dues, and
the bosses wouldn't discharge them, be-
cause they we're good miners and at
tended 20 their business right along.
The way for the men to act
would have been % have gradually
froze those four men out OF
the mine, but instead Of doing that
they struck, making their aggregate
loss over five hundred dollars a day
from loss of wages. l talked to some
of their leaders about it, and they
finally agreed that my view OF 1t
was right, and the men went back 20
work, and in week those four men had
left. III the strike had gone on. the
whole force might have been out FOR a
month, while the four Objectionable
men worked, and In the end there
might have been non-uniOn men, or
some other complication. l believe in
strkss-when they're right.
"You can talk about this being a
cruel and heartless world. and all that
sort Of thing" said q gentleman on
Market street, last night, "but occa-
sionally see something which makes
me think there is a good deal OF that
feeling which Shakespeare described as
'wonderous kind floating about. a
while ago was coming down street
and heard a little child crying as though
his heart would break. His mother
had given him a cent, and it had drop
ped onto the sidewalk and rolled into
the gutter. Someone found ont what
was the matter, and In moment half
a-dozen men were down In the gutter
with lighted matches, looking for that
cent, while a dozen more stopped and
looked on, and a lady or two took 70
petting the child. In two minutes the
cent was found and the kid went of re-
joicing, while every man in the crowd
looked as happy as though he had found
a gold dollar
fVas - said the DOiirRmQn. "there was