Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-06-23

ran away from luxurious home and
dressed up as an Indian squaw and sold
medicine from wagon. She is now
the proprietress of shooting gallery,
and likes the life so we'll that all over-i
lures from her family for return tc
the parental roof have met with deter
mined refusals.
Another young lady who made quite
a name for herself as a writer of fine
fiction suddenly whirled into the finan-
cial field, and now occupies the position
OF financial editor of well-known
commercial paper.
FO'CASTLE TO ART
An ordinary SIS month sailor, en-
ployed three years ago on the yacht
Conqueror. Fred Vanderbilt's boat, is
now an artist Of considerable fame,
particularly in marine work Mrs.
Vanderbilt took an interest in the man,
supplied the funds necessary for
thorough training and launched him
in the world CT art
Lillian Russell had an Indian coach
man few years ago. He became i'm
bued with the histrionic fever and is
now touring the country towns in the
title role of Uncle Toms Cabin.
The bass viol player of an orchestra
is now an actor, and in old man parts
he has won reputation second to none.
Warner Miller. ex-senator and head
of the Nicaragua Canal project, was
once a chore boy around a country
mill.
Sir William Van Horne. president Of
the Canadian Pacific Railway, not so
very many years ago occupied subor-
dinate position on the Chicago. Mil
waukee and st. Paul Railroad. He was
knighted by the Queen because Of his
services In the construction of the great
railway system. From poor Ameri-
can boy employed by a western rail-
road to the English peerage is quite a
jump.
John H. Inman, railroad magnate ana
cotton king, was a mountaineer in the
ragged hills of East Tennessee.
A nobleman attached to the court OF
Emperor Franz Josef of Austria. and
eXiled because of some ugly scandal, Is
now a bookkeeper in a Broadway inn
porting house at SO a week.
Another nobleman, who gambled and
frittered away his fortune and the re-
spect of his family, worked for some
time as interpreter at Ellis Island, and
looking out for tho wants OF the immi-
grants. He always wore a scarlet waist
coat as an emblem of the faded glories,
and every once In a while would chal-
lenge some of his fellow employees to
show his high breeding.
A jockey who grew too heavy to ride
isnow employed by large tract society.
A S22 A WEEK PLUNGER.
A man famous years ago as plunger
in Wall street is now earnings week
as cashier In an uptown hotel restau-
rant. He says he is saving some money
now.
A former prize fighter now conducts a
florists Establishment on Broadway, and
has displayed no little ingenuity infioral
decorative work He secures mnny rich
contracts from fashionable people, and
besides has genuine love for his dam
ty wares.
A bank burglar, notorious twenty odd
years ago. and known TO all the police
offiials on both sides of the Atlantic, ia
HOW tOlDtClSd Win ~ tcohi~eiS $1,000
lishment keeping books and collecting
bills from the ladies who have been
beautifed. He regularly attends church
and until recently sang in the choir.
An aeronaut, wearied Of touring the
clouds. is now a manufacturer OF warm
ish I'm Pearl street. He is regarded as
a safe and conservative br-.nass man,
nv his associates
Here Is a strange change. An artist
who was rapidly building up compe-
tence at portrait work, closed his studio
one day without warning his friends,
and took up the business Of training
race horses. He was kentuckian by
birth. and had been reared in the thor
oughbred section Of the State. Thous-
ands of dollars had been spent upon his
education by foreign masters, and just
when he began 10 realize the hopes ana
expectations of his friends, he gave up
everything for the pleasure Of being in
the company Of fine horses.
A Brooklyn man, who had studied for
the priesthood and was just about to
take orders, relinquished the idea and
opened a butcher shop on Court street.
he is a finely educated man, but he
wears a white apron and cuts up meat
from six in the morning until in tho