Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-03-04

chemical thermometers on me, and then
l thought it was time TO move. My
practice here is small, but my lady pa
tients do not die here with their sun
bonnets on"
give that just to show the strong
prejudice which exists between the
dyed in the wool Yankee and the hoi
pOlloi of Ducktown and the Murphy
Branch, near where I live. or course
we have our peculiaaities, but why
should we be misjudged on that &C
count
My neighbor, Mr.. Lolless, who runs
the Arden Park Hotel. says that he
bought chickens all summer at IS cents
apiece for broilers, and that they were
almost uniformly stolen for him at
night and sold TO him at 10 cents in the
morning. Those people don't mean
anything by that. They do not do it TO
make you feel badly. but just because
they do not see any other way Of obtain
ing an honest livelihood.
Last week / discovered that my rail-
road ticket on the New York, New
Haven and Hartford road read: Good
either way" This surprised me because
had not been used TO that, and, in fact,
had to, years ago. walk over 50 miles
in order to ride back on a ticket which
I bought Of scalper. and which ran in
the wrong direction, / found after IL
was too late.
Inquiring about this matter. learned
that years ago quiet gentleman OF
medium height riding from Bridgeport
to Providence produced his ticket and
was told by the conductor that IL would
not work in that direction. The quiet
gentleman OF medium height said that,
il not, the question should be settled at
the earliest moment. He was not noisy
or belhgerent but they removed him
from the car by main force. breaking
an arm and injuring him considerably.
Holding his valise In one hand and his
stomach ia the other, ne went TO an at
torney and councillor at law practicing
in all the courts, conVeyancing done
and dispositions taken while you wait.
Relating the circumstance TO him, the
quiet gentleman gave the case into bis
hands, and then hailing a shutter that
gas going Oy be started for the hos
piJal. He slowly gained strength, but
never fully recovered. The cass was
lost over and over egain In the lower
courts and hung on for years. The poor
crippled gentleman Of medium height
chung to his case, however, aud demand
ed MS SlOO, 00O, even though he had 10
borrow money to pay his lawyers.
Time passed on, and he grew feeble,
for the chasm in his midst refused 70
unite and retain even his broadcast prin-
ciples, but at last the supreme court OF
the United States, which was not az
thar time waiting for two selfish New
Workers 10 til a vacancy, took up the
case. and one day when the great au-
tumnai alchemy OF God had turned
the forests and the sky to pillows Of
gold and bronze the weary, worn aud
plucky gentleman got his verdict and
his money, and SO to-day you and /, fell
low citizens, owing TO the grit and hero
ism of that shattered man, may ride
either way on the same ticket without
being disemoowled among total strang-
erS and while there are ladies present.
We were talking together the other
day. Mr. William HawleY Smith aud I,
regarding the habits OF man who rise TO
sudden wealth, and who are not pre-
pared for il either by birth or breeding.
The country is fsil OF them, and though
they get along very well for a few
hours without eorking themselves, they
cannot hold out very long without an
nonnclng themselves
He was telling about st. Louis man
who had risen 70 wealth on the traffic
in hides, pelts, tallow aud dressed pork.
This man was asked what was the
meaning Of the phrase. E pluribus
mum, and company being present, and
the inquiring child very determined, he
vas Obliged to SAY thai the Greek ex-