Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-09-16


can't put the old neiehbor down to the
table with the servants, and you are
fdgsting all the time IL he should be Ct
table with an aristocrat.
Let Us consider for . moment the ex-
treme misery OF an effort to reconcile
at once the naoob and the %neiehoor.
Years z In q moment Of exhuber-
ance | told Elias Mccartney to "come
and see u.s." said | was living In the
country and took IL easy during tbs
summer, so that IL would seem like old
times II be snd Mrs. Mccartney would
come and stay q week. He pulled me
out Of . mill pond when l was 3 young
ster, the summer after / was expelled
from Yale.
He was . good, plain man. With q
clear, honest eye, aud his wife always
cut his hair for him.
He thought IL would be a nice trip TO
just hitch up his W team and drive 20
my country place, with his horse feed
In the back end OF the wagon. He got
a new thimble skein wagon made and
started out TO drive TO my estate. de
took Off his coat during the middle OF
the day, and Mrs. Mccartney had al
ways ONSG SkRNoNA W NSASN
years ago.
They drove up to our back door on .
hot June day, accompanied by q sweet
little coltie that had been born on the
road.
We were at the time eating lunch
with q guest whose name 10 in the book
referred to.
My wife and Mr.. Mccartney had
never net before. They had not ex-
changed calls.
Mr.. Mccartney left his wife on the
back porch and drove out to the barn.
whistling: 'Ihere'l 30 No More Sor-
row There" de was engaged In tiei9l
his team TO the hind end Of his wag(
aud feeding them undAy 5 large 81
trade when my coacsYan, COY
Frederick Douglass, pounced' 49,
Mrs. Mccartney knocked
Kitchen door, but the chef said or
that we did not want any more
tables and shut the door.
You know how 4 we'll trained SER
can sometimes ostraciEe q plain pers
Mrs. Mccartney asked for me aft
awhile, however, and vas told by "
girl TO please wait till | was done WIN
my lunch. She sat In the hall tanning
herself all through our long, chatty
lunch and had 4 nance 10 compare her
clothes with those OF the help.
/ presume that during the time she
sat there she had made mp her MIN 10
cut down her visit a good deal, for when
| learned the situation, and Mr.. Nc.
Cartney. hot and hungry, bad settled
his trouble with Colonel Frederick
Douglass and come up to the rear door, !
kicking imaginary mud from his dura- J
bic kip boots and wiping them on tha/
lawn, the wldo smile on his face had
faded a good deal.
Toward sunset, In spite OF all thaY
could do, they started homo. He 81
that they only "calc'lated" TO stay SIN
tie while, out | noticed that he hady
horse feed enough left TO last 4 Tort
night when be started home.
After they had disappeared through
the big gate | resolved that i would
have nav name taken of the list OF eapi-
talists, aud ! now wish TO file my Appli-
cation for that purpose.
After Mr.. Mccartney had gone was
very unhappy, and ny guest noticed IL
that evening. lie spoke OF IL ana asked
II the watermelon was hurting me, u
| told him 20.
He was q pretty decent man, and so L
told him oil about IL with 4 husky
voice. n
Then he told mo his W experioncsI
His parents had cops - visit 1p
his country place. and
wife were gone for an afternoon the OLD
folks were almost eaten up by a Dig
mastlti while they were trying 10 get ~
the electric button In order-to pull IL.
81 am a self made man." said he'
ane the majority OF my boyhood friends
think that an electric button ought 10
be pulled. As II Is, / have 10 work ~