Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-07-15

"DEAR MAsTER-What should i DO
for Telling on the finger which drives
me to distraction i write this by the
hand OF my little Deter Sacbut VIII
liams for the good lords sake give me
q relesf or | shall lose my reason. Lit
tie Sacbut have staid out OF school TO
write this letter and II you could spare
her a quarter sir to pay for her time, 1t
would be no more than right. l wrote
to man In Cherkey about my telling
and said that lived at Haddam d he
said that my spelling would indicate
that haddam and he said no moar at
present than that, and nothing to help
the rising on my finger which hurts
right much"
Rev. Myron w. Reed says that he
once knew man who had felon on
his thumb and who went about moan
ing over it day after day and growing
pale and hollow eyed with loss OF sleep.
A near neighbor said, Henry, what's
the matter OF your thumb?'
BLAINE take it," said he, eve got
a felon onto IL, and aln't slept airy
night for two weeks and goin on three"
Well, why don't you doctor it?"
doctor it?" he says. i've just done
nuthin else all the time"
"Well, but you didn't do the right
thing. What did you do for itp"
"Oh, done everything"
"You didn't do what you ort to OF
done. l bet on that"
What's that?"
"Why, you take p zee OF salt pork
. kn1 ha, haa. EflIah
in the glow Of wet moon and put IT
scading hot on the finger over night.
and twice you want to get up and heat
the pork again, so that the felon'll have
no chance TO get it's breath. Under
stand? And 10 the mornin' she'll be
plumb dead, and you can just shuck the
core of the thing out like the kernel OF
q goober."
Henry did that, but the felon didn't
shuck. He did, though. He jumped
out OF bed like a disem bodied spirit,
wearing only o knit band around his
abdomen TO keep his liver warm, and,
with a walling CRY and the door Of fat
pork, he fed away into the night, and,
the opera house foyer ss the play closed
at IL o'clock and the people had started
for home. Friends brought him back,
snd the next day . nsig b Dor dropped In
TO see how he was coming on.
You probably don's know how TO
handle q fslou." he said. "foa cant
fool with felon. She's got 20 be dealt
with prompt and severe on the start"
What should do?"
"Well, In the very start you should
poultice IL with the aches OF weeping
wiler and pour on enough hot vinegar
to make a strong I've, which will eat out
the ielon, aud In the morning you can
slip # out like you would the pit out OF
a prune.
He tried that. and the lys ate pretty
heartily all night, got up 10 tine 70 get
an early breakfast aud eat some more
later on, but IL seemed 70 relish the
thumb more than IL did the felon. So
be gave II up and concluded to welcome
death at an early date.
A painter and glazier friend dropped
in By and by and said he heard that
Hank had feloD, so he came In TO kind
of see what was being done for H. he
was afraid they'd fool along with IL TIL
they got proud flesh into IL, and then
blood pizen would set In.
What would you do with it?" walled
Henry, sticking out a mass OF red fan
mel that looked like the swsb OF nine
~ pound gun. II want TO be able 10
tell the people OF the New jerusalem
that I've tried everything"
"WelI, you've got 70 cut that thumb
open down to the bone, and there you'll
| fad a sort of white skin over the bone
about like the lining Of an egg, and un-
derneath tha. 10 . little white speck