Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-03-19

None OF his cashiers ever went 10
Canada. That was understood when the
cashier was hired.
Colonel William Horatio Roat IL now
a connoisseur and buyer Of rare wild
animals in a live State. He does not aim
TO be literary, but he has the faculty OF
conversing freely and writing letters
with ideas in them, and he does IL with
out the use OF compendium. He had
gone with a carload OF live elk when
was there, but he buys everything IN
the heavens above or the earth beneath
or the waters under the earth. He will
al an order for anything from a prairie
dog TO the grizzly bear, aud would DO
glad II some little boy who wishes 10
know the business would accept posi-
ton as caretaker OF grownup bear.
The last boy was satisfactory. but ac-
cordlng 20 the contract he will have to
be shipped inside another bear just sold
to Fairmont Park.
James Milton Sherrod Is still on hand,
a neatly dressed sQuaw man, whose face,
as the California editor said OF James
Whitcomb Riley. one has 10 become
gently acclimated TO. He has a queer
habit while engaged In deep thought or
conversation Of rolling a small ball or
wagon wheel tar between his thumb
and forefinger. Many time he has
been engaged in conversation with me.
say at the university or the penltentlary.
and he would halt, look wildly about,
tears would Gil his great moss agate
eyes, and he would say: Excuse me a
moment; / want TO step over TO town
and get new piece of tar. ! can't ric-
collect when I'm out Of tar. Tar is my
inspiration, understand? / can't coat
Scripter. can't reconcile. I'm Kko
like a cow that's lost her cud. i AIMS
with d"
He was the first to greet me when
landed I'm Laramie years and years ago
and tell me that Laramie WAS the only
town that had particle OF prospects or
progress or pop or gitup.
"She never he'd a boor. She jest
moves Study right along. Ever now
and then she strikes new mine rich
with all kinds OF things 10 her. That
gives confidence TO the merchants. and
that's the time | Guy my supplies on
credit, understand? Then when the cold
WlUltI WlNu ~ tuIhliAh W hhA
who has let his wife work his extra
winter wear up into rag carpet / can eat
and sleep content.
when a mine is struck and the paper
folers IL up with editorial comment At
so much ham per comment, take ad-
vice OF my better judgment, and during
the mercantile rainbow purchase"
Then be told me that Laramie was
very healthful and said that never had
she had boom; that the wind wouldn't
blow down a stovepipe. which suppose
was because IL didn't have 20.
He also said that you'd be aw,ully
fooled on distances here. the air was 30
"pyore."
"Once there was feller out hyrr-if
don't tresspass on your time" etc.
That was II years ago. ] saw him the
other day by the merest accident. His
hair has grown gray, aud Nance, his
child wife, as knew her, fresh from
the upper alcoholic circles OF the Ogal-
lalla Sioux, 10 whom she traced her line
age. was with him. They are both old
and living now on Vulgar creek
We sat and talked for a long time, he
kneading bis wheel tar slowly betweea
his finger and thumb as he looked down
into the sad depths OF my wonderful
eyes. and | examined his ianRs and
found him TO be 6s years old on Thurs
day evening at 8 o'clock AZ the home Of
his parents.
"Jevver notuss how clair and mIslesd-
in the air is? Now, up on Vulgar creek.
where we are plain people. the place
never havin' had boom At all. but jest
a good healthy growth, we often notice
how clair the air is. It's mighty mis-
leadin', too, Mr. Nye. Once there was
Teller out there-if / don't poster ye By
tellin' IT,
I said: "Sherrod, you told me that
thing II years ago, and I've heard 10
since. I have also 10 five years visited
GOO towns and over that just lad
healthy growth and bad never been
doomed at ell, but had hoped that Vul-
gar creek had escaped. l change cars
here" / said. ''to visit yet other towns
that are having . good. healthy, nice
growth and well settled By class OK
people far superior to those OF the I'M
socIable and cold blooded bat educated
east"
Nancy said goodby also. Her cheeks
were Just ss red as ever they were.
Every fall and spring she paints them
still with a paint which she gets OF Mr..
Studebaker at special rates. She looks
even more like kippered Ozalalia than
ever. People used 20 gossip about her.
| asked Sherrod II she were not . good
wife.
Ae wiped the tar on his trousers and
said slowly az he looked al the cory sun
set: "Sbe Is that She's RELY too good
to be true"