Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-08-28

wos voted out of the treasury TO nsss
nm the losses, nearly all the members
| .aolr tho sums due them. Judge Hol-
msn had about s400 in the safe when 10
was rifIed. and there is $500 now to bis
credit. He SAYS he will never draw IL.
president Harrison doesn't know what
q is 70 he hard up nowadays, for he IS
putting aside about $4,000 a year Gus
OF his salary, but there was DAY IL
which a silver dollar appeared rs dig as
1 a cart wheel. 1t was just after ne was
married. and he and Mrs. Harrison hae
gone 10 housekeeping in cottage In
| The outskirts OF Indianapolis. The rent
was only twelve dollars month, qua
the future President found IL very diffi-
cult TO pay even that much, ana he
used TO walk TO and from his once In
order 10 save car fare.
We have in Washington Official lie
a number OF men who have known
what is To tramp for JOB" Amos
Cummings was a tramp printer, ana
though he tramped principally for the
fun OF the thing he was more often
without dime than with one' Amos
tells a story OF how he sprnced up
once on a squirt and astonlshed all the
residents Of Auburn, n. Y. The niRhe
Amos reached the village after long
and dusty ride on a coal car, thare was
10 be a dance, for which several OF Amos
compositor friends held tickets. They
CAV. Cummings one OF them, more as
matter OF Joke than anything else, for
the future congressman didn't look as
n he would dare show himself In the
presence OF ladies.
But Amos knew all the tricks OF the
trade and he wanted to 90 TO that dance
He borrowed fifteen cents To get ashavs
with. Then he went into the printing
Office, aud with pair OF shears cut Qua
of a piece OF white cardboard one or the
neatest and most immaculate shirt
fronts YOU ever saw. Collar and cuts
OF the same material followed, ana a
strip OF rich, creamy wedding lnlald
note paper made very handsome neck
tie. The trick OF mixing little kero-
sene and printers ink In just the pro-
portion TO put good shine on an old pair
u shoes Amos had learned long ago.
At the ball no one showed up 10 better
advantage or attracted more attention
from the ladies than the. handsome
tramp printer who now represents New
York in Congress.
Senator Hansbrough used 10 be
good deal OF wanderer too. He was
out I'm Burlington, Ia, once busted
He tried 10 get job at typesetting, out
failed. His landlord was about 20 turn
him out because his bill was unpaid, aud
something had To be done. Hansbrough
had made the acquaintance OF 4 Ken
tuckian who had brought over from his
State "A lot Of stock TO sell. lie bad a
few common looking horses, cattle,
sheep and one old Jimmy" Let mo
help you sell your stock" said Hans
brough to the Kentuckian. "l'll write
your animals up as biooded, give their
pedlgrees, etc, aud after you sell out al
fancy prices you can give me what you
can afford out OF your profit" The Ken
tuckian Jumped at the chance.
A long account OF the importation OK
thoroughbred Kentucky stock, with an
elaborate pedigree OF each animal and
cOgent reasons why the Introduction or
such blood in Iowa should be encour-
aged, appeared In the next number or
Frank HdttOn'S HdWkCVe, being printed
without charge as q news itam. There
was rush for the blooded stock. Fancy
prices were obtained, the old "Jinny,"
which the Keutuckian afterwards adj
mitted he had bought Tor seven dollars,
bringing 1915. or course HansbrOngh
got a generous stake out OF the profits,
and he says IL tho Iowa farmers who
bought this thoroughbred stock will for
GIVE him how'll promise never to repeat
his offense.
Frank Hatton knows what II Is 20 be
"broke" himself. About four years ago,
after an unsatisfactory newspaper eX-
perlence In Chicago. he rode into Wash
ington on pass. He had money
enough 10 pay his hotel bill and other
expenses for two weeks. In ten days
he had bought the Washington Post,
paid $4,000 cash on 10 aud obtained
control. Now ho isa moderately rich
man, with an income OF 5000 year.
Good luck? Yes, and IL came to good
fellow, who Is always ready 20 help his
fellows who are down, But there was
genius In II too.
Captain Meredith, the popular Super
intendent OF the Bureau OF Engraving
and Printing, used TO tramp. He was
printer, also. He now has In his en-
ploy, at a good salary, man VINO ones
helped him from Harrisburg TO Pits
burg when the Captain was ont OF luck
aud had walked from New York over
the ties.
1t IS no disgrace to be "broke" and
even the man without dollar doesn't
need 10 abandon hope for the future or
love Of this splendid world.
WALTER WELLMAs.