Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-08

published his name or line about
him he would Wgllup the life on, Of
him.
Il returned With the .uormation AMI
the editor asked M lEl thought t9uld
write up nv experience giving Il dts-
cription of the man aid 80 form. l sat
down in a cha" I'll dc5l. T. was
luxury for me- I had not been in a
chair in months except occasionally,
for a short time, in a hotel Office. If
you have ever had any experience in
holding down a chair in q hotel office
when your appearance was against you
you probably know how much rest
there is in it.
Il wrote my experience, however.
and handed it to the editor. He said
the facts were all right, but the style
was not quite no to that Of his paper.
But he said he would fix it up so as to
use it. He had several errands for me
that afternoon all of which tried 10 do
faithfully. 1t was the first time in
many moons that 1 had undertaken to
work About 6 o'clock in the evening
he said I could go home and that l
might come around in the morning ]
had to smile. 1t may not have been
the sort of a smile that would start an
uproar. but it was the best I had /
told him had not known what home
was for so long that if / saw one in the
middle Of the road l would not know it.
told him l was hungry and that l
thought I had earned at least one meal.
He said he had no money, but if l
wanted TO I could sleep that night on
the lounge in his office He looked at
me in a funny way and said he reckon
ed wouldn't steal anything. He went
away and ! sat there in a comfortably
furnished Office before a crate fire
made from the coal / had begged and l
fell asleep. | had no use for the
lounge 4 chair before a CRATE fire was
good enough for me- The next morn
! ing the coal was all gone. / took the
scuttle and went over to hotel and
begged some more and returned and
had q good fire when the editor came
in. l told him where I got the coal.
He gave me ten cents and told me I
had better get something TO eat hit
a lunch counter and had filler and
two beers. Then I returned to the Of
fee. He kept me on the run all day,
and late in the afternoon he said |
could sleep in the Office that night
He seemed to think that sleep was all
I needed l should say he got a quar-
ter of a ton of coal that day and | car
ried it up. This was New Years eve.
q had another night Of it in a warm
room. The next morning about ten
o'clock the boss came in and did some
work. It was a bleak day, / can tell
YOU. He asked me good many ques-
tons about my life, and l gave him as
much of my history as was necessary.
Then he got up, put on his great coat
and told me to come with him. lie
went to a saloon where people were
enioving the day He seemed to be
we'll known and had several drinks,
but I was not in it. Finally heard
him order a half dozen quarts Of eX-
ira dry. TO be put up in package, and
then he bought box of cigars. / saw
him nav for all this He called me to
take the package and follow him.
ct followed him. It must have been two
miles. I thought my hands would freeze
shifted the package in as many different
WAYS as I could. and kept up the circu-
ra+ion. we went into a house which De
told me was his home. a man took 'fe
bundle his butter I suppose. and 5 s
told me 20 sit down in the pa 1t was
well furnished. It had been many a DAY
ei7ca had seen one like f.. The boss WIS
IN and out Of the room 7 don't know how
-,a,v times. But after q long walt be
told me to follow him again. De ed the