Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-12

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Dalpable odor Of stale beer and red
! liouor. which lavish use of cheap per-
I fume had not wholly disguised. Gar
friend was also trife shaky 40 TO
nerves. and had the general appear
ance of a man who, although ne had
eaten neither breakfast nor dinner,
still had no tangible or pronounced
appetite
AS the newspaper man shook hands
he rapidly noted these outward eNl-
dences OF "a night Of and suggested
q cocktail. A second invitation was
not necessary. and the visitor 10 the
city almost smiled while the prescrip-
tion clerk behind the bar was stirring
the things together. After the compln-
alton had been placed where it would
do the most good, the Srstersyille man
felt better, and q second life-sayer,
same as before" made him almost
genial. Then the reporter casually in
| quired:
What have you been dOing?'
"WeU. I'll be BANKED il | know all
the details" said the man from the oil
metropolis. but Judging from the way
| feel. the fact that I'm dead broke, ana
that when I came to this morning l
was sleeping in the same bed with a
coal black colored gentleman, up on
Morrow street. | must have cut a wide
! swath the last three days.
Three days?" suggested the SCRIBE
artlessly. do YOU mean to say You have
been in Wheeling for three days with
out hunting up your friends? this
with a tone Of reproach.
Friends? HI. Say, this is the
friendliest town l ever struck-as long
as fellows wad lasts Fact is. Wheel
ing is lust running over with people OF
p friendly disposition. Never saw a
town il was 80 easy to get acquainted
in. unless it was Oil City, along in the
boom days Every time come up here
I don't DO a thing but strike friends,
from the moment ! get out of the cars,
but-say. I've noticed one popularity:
! There's lots of people meet YOU at the
train when you come in, but there S
d-n few to see YOU off when you leave.
! Lets have another cocktail.
And so You came up Thursday?' suS-
gested the newspaper man.
"wednesday" corrected the man or
oil: "Wednesday afternoon. ! had
quite wad, having been working
steady for about eight weeks, and |
thought 7 would take a couple Of days
off and see how Wheeling was getting
along. take a hasty "Trip TO Pittsburg
10 see a young lady / know up there,
and be back before / was missed from
the boarding house ! got this far,
and III get no farther. If have been
correctly informed, this IS Saturday,
late in the day. / haven't got rouble
about my clothes, and if I'm not back
at the derrick in time to start in Mon
dav morning. somebody else'll be twist
ing the drill rope on the wildcat. But
there's one consolation-Ive had real
giddv period Of rest and recreation, and
anyhow. it's all in a lifetime. You
couldn't lend me ten till l strike the
town again. could you?'
The reporter delicately expressed his
financial inability, but mentioned the
name of a mutual friend who might be
induced to risk a grub stake under
me cIfcull9(""tS9' CIV G - ga
terVieW WIN lHIS '"I'IdI ian lI"u
suited satisiactuorlly' anu 'he expert III
grease mad drank TWO SelIAeIs' WIN
teaspooniul oil DlcaIOoha'e Oh soud II
each. he resumed:
As l was te.iIhg YOU i gC1 mere w eu-
nesi3y afternoon was IL tA.S week OF
lasJ?'-and ne rel INTO a ruin-n an,
mood, rom NA-ch mr. Vas dI0u75" d" IN
some d-ilculty. IS; IL was li-s "eeh'
got on tAe traln Iee.-ns IKE d pro
and before STRUCK lHe Nd'eI sIIee
sidewalk ran pLumD against a leiIoW
We seen up mere once or Iw.ce, ana ana
VINO ! was Pf-Vuy sur nau I lgII n 9ls-
ierSV.iIe "HeI / S.'l'el, NJ nau d
coupe Oh soo.' ~ w. W .'' i-i 49, anu
we shook hanas all AROUND 'aiheG o. a
spell ana 4au d coupi5 VI u. ms l
mentioasa 0.1 . Iir'sa 10 . feI room