Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-17

When a colored man asks for money
ahead Of what he has earned, we may
well inquire, What is to become OF the
country?
Below is the pitiful appeal Of Henry
Clay asking for rations and Offering
that 1.-THE first work that Jeffrey (his
SOM do you could tax it Back"
And yet we have been crying out for
months, "Give US more 'Rashing,
whether you demonetize silver or not.
We need the 'Rashing' bad"
These letters are absolutely genuine,
the names only having been changed:
June II, 1898.
"lIr. HOWdrl BGLconlbe:
"DEAR SIR write to tell you
have very Bad Painn in the Right Side
Work from my Side to my Back Tuse-
day EWING / sick | think il is Simmer
Conulanik Please Sir let me have fifty
cts for to get Sumo Rashing the first
DAYS work Jeffrey do you coud tax IL
Back | need the Rashing Bad.
"HENRY CLAY"
The following indicates the state OF
the money market, also the fin de steele
method of spelling "allow." 1t also
shows how the writer understands that
a vague allusion to death will get funds
sometimes when all other efforts fail.
He does not state whose death he is 60
ing to blow the S1.l5 in upon, but prob
ably il will go to buy cut flowers for the
grave OF Ham, who was cut down a
couple OF thousand years ago by maIa-
rial fever brought on by the service wa
ter and hot weather around Ararat:
"MR. BALCoMBE:-Please arrow me
to have one Dollar & % cts this week
for am in Sure Deth. | like to pay
yours JOHN T. CALHOUN"
Mr.. Calhoun, on the back of the note,
states that he is not bimetalIist, but
Baptist with a tendency toward SOM
nambulism. Many are the times, he
says, that he has awakened from a
sound sleep and found himself in the
middle of a watermelon patch bathed
in cold sweat and big melon rind in
his hand.
MIR. Mason, who accidentally discov'
cred last week that be had been eman-
cipated 80 years ago while be was serv-
ing term with the gang, writes as
follows:
Captain please Sir yu can Be kline
anuft TO let me have my thirs day money
and will pay the Day on next week II
yo VIII Do So for me please Sir that Is
all SLIDELL MASON
Mr.. Lemons, who writes below, no
doubt indicates as fully and uncon-
sclously between the lires how times
are with him as any exhibit that has
been made this summer, and notice TO-
ward the close, where be admits In his
own touchful photography, Il would
not worry, but am distressed why
worry you"
His wife also is "BeaT feet" meaning
no doubt that there has been Wall
street movement TO depress her feet.
He also intimates that il Mr.. b. does
not "trus" him he will bust:
"MR. BALCoMBE-You and Mr.fW. b.
Ralcombe can Len me $500 dolor and
tell l hav the chanc of making Sum
money. Do if you Pleas Sir you can
Len me becos my Wife is Bear feet
and If YOU don't trus me Sir you can Git
a Lean on a half aker OF Rice but
know Sir can pay you before that Sir.
il Twas not destrus Sir Wod not Wor-
~, but am deslrus Wi IVORY you dc
II Won Pleas Sir you can Len me.
"PETER G. T. BEAUREGARD LEMONS"
The following item also, taken from
the Asheville Citizen q few weeks ago,
Indicates that chickens are close and
hard 10 obtain this season and that
money matters were never more sell
dom, especially among the colored
! people, than al present:
"Wil Young, colored. aged about IS,
was tried for stealing TWO chickens and
found guilty. He has served two terms