Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-03-12

20 back 10 England, Wnere you can leC-
ture in LondcA one evening aud take
breakfast in Paris the next morning II
you wish.
Here one tears himself away from an
audience that has just learned to love
him, and changing his evening dress In
the cab on his way TO the 10:40 train
rides till $50 a. M, gets out at a juno
ton where there is a we'll and liberty
pole, and waits two hours for way
freight, on which he rides all day, eat
ing what the engineer doesn't want, and
at 7 o'clock he drops fainting into the
arms of an old acquaintance who wants
10 take him out TO his home in cutter.
The thermometer Is 30 odd, or at least
il would be 20 odd IL it had not been
that way for three weeks and ceased TO
be odd.
The manager advertlses 1900 laughs
In two hours" and below is given pic
ture Of the two men who are TO produce
them. 1t is made on the spot, just be-
fore the curtain goes up.
Yesterday met lawyer on bis way
to catch tarpOn IN Florida. He goes
down there every winter after Christ
mas and lets the warm breezes blow the
tobacco smoke and courtly air and the
odor OF the juryroom out OF his clothes.
He was telling about fighting an cleo
ton return a few years ago in his State.
He was sent for by the county attorney
70 yet bold OF the matter. for he was
sure the cunt was fraudulent, yet he
did not see how
The lawyer w1pt up TO the county
seat and asked 70 SIC the returns The
count had been cloe. Box had been
defeated by q majority II 50 votes, and
this majority was in one Precinct. The
lawyer, Mr.. Chase, asked tosee the re-
turn from that precinct. twas East
BASKERVILLE. The figures were O. Is as
made by the county board, though a
great error had been made the other
way by the precinct in its count.
Then the lawyer asked for the bag
containing the ballots. Ia was brought
to him with the ballots still in IT, The
county board had only cut open the bot
tom, leaving the seal on the top undis-
turbed. The ballots had been recount
ed by tho board and found correct, with
enough extra ballots to defeat Box.
But the seal was evidently Intact.
The mouth OF the bag was closed and a
ridge OF dark green sealing wax run
over IL along the fold or lap OF the enve-
lope.
1t was pretty clear that, whsther
there was fraud or not, IL was past tie
detection OF the human eye.
In the evening, however, the lawyer
asked the local attorney some questions
and had the express agent come over to
the house for awhile.
Next day the trial began. The usual
business had been conc through With.
Each lawyer had said 81 object" a num-
Der OF times 10 make time. the Court
had overruled the objection, and the at
torney had asked that the objection DO
noted, together with the ruling OF the
Court.
Finally, after all the questions had
been asked and the lawyer was about 70
rest. he called the express agent and
had the ballot bag and its seal exam
ined. Then the lawyer cleared mis- throat
and said:
"Mr. Garnsw, state your business.
81 am am express agent In this
town" ,
estate, IL you please, n you have had
any experience in sealing and unseallng
express packages.
ayes, slrA have done that sort OF
work for twenty years, more or less"
"And you sometimes have 70 nnseal a
package and then reseal It? How do
you do it?"
Il plow furrow with hot. pointed
instrument along the sealed line OF the
envelope, and before the wax cools |
null II apart. Then after have exam
lned the contents 20 see II they are all
right close the envelope exactly as II
was aud run little wax IA the furrow
| made 50 as 10 round II ont, and there
IS your package again oil right"
"Are there other agents who do this"'
There are. II Is generally under
stood among them, but ID Is considered
hest not to give It out 10 the public for
obvious reasons. We generally confne
Il TO our own matters-that Is, express
matters OF the company and not the
pubic's business"
Examine this envelope and see " II
has been tempered with"
After examining IL he answered:
ayes, II has.
"Come over to the light and state 70
the jury how it has been monkeyed
with. please"
"Well, 1t has been unsealed In the
way spoke Of, and then wax a shade
lighter has been used 10 Oil up the fur
row. Besides" said be, ''tbe original
wax was put on by heating IL over a
candle, while the other job was done by
an artist with an alcohol lamp"
Then the jury themselves could see u
and the tallowy surface Of the old seal
ing. II was clear enough, so that the
clerks count was thrown ont, and Box
was elected.
Afterward 10 was learned that the
East Jasperyille express agent had for
$50 gone IN over the transom and
changed the returns Of East Jssperyille
IS above and reseeled the bag, so that
only the ingenuity OF the lawyer had
found him out.
This should teach US that when we
enter politics we bad better forget the
teachings we received az our mothers
knee and lead life OF sin as soon as
ne can get at Il.
"Ten US another" Il >i@sf two or