The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-08
n, NEW WARS REaOlUTlON,
m, IN 1896 wa. 10 Get out and ons In
O"' 1907 was 90 stay ont.

on. In 1896 wa 10 S'' w"
1891 was 10 s'ny ont
New York sun; They were hnddlea
.a,,d t5e stove IN q mountain station
~ me- Union Pacific road-seyen or
VI S,,h, ~ tben-waiing for a delayed
..s,n when the talk turned on New
ys,r,s resolves, one after another re-
,,,od his various resolves for several
az hack and finally Il came 10 the
- ,,i,b ,he Van Dyke beard and
H oiI ri,,med spectacles, whom every
t,4 mt down as a professor.
w .,v,aII Gentlemen" he began, Il don't
-, as t1F NJ ny resolves will inter-
van unless II Is the one | made In
COS wns lyinu on my bed when the
"a ysar died and the new year was
w, "A ibs las. stroke OF the bells
S - away determined to begin opera
Mons a, once, and five minutes iater
cav me At work on my tunnel
"ryruse me-" said the man with the
.,rIy wniskers, as the professor paus-
81 "6ut were you in the mining pusl-
ue.'2' go, ,.o,r ,,,rl, q,
uv ,un1el. and though had made an
"s,sf,srr start before daylight came,
had 10 abandon the work. Thar
.,sr..s amed To put new life into me,
a-5 was Impatient for night to come,
srd .flrr in on the work again
couldn't you work ON the tunnel In
,rs flrll,ht." asked the same man, as
before,
IS sir" was the reply mo; my on
II. rrlnae was from 10 o'clock at night
"rtI ,lout in the morning, and as
y,st as / dug the dirt and cement out !
had 10 conceal the stuff from all pryins
eyps. ], was terribly nara work. but
MAS determined TO let nothing daunt
ne 49,, Wa. 49,,
s.cu,uc Ia strike some other claim, and
wTre the other fellows suspicious OF
yon'' ,..,, -,
distance bg my eye | had matter OF
ann 'eet TO go. / must, however, sink
mg shaft depth OF six feet first, and
determined TO work only four hours
rsr n sht / got hold OF an old chIsel to
do with, hut Il was matter of three
months before finished the shaft. \
score OF times | was on the point OF
abandoning the work, but that New
Years resolve always came up to
strengthen me-
Look here, professor" said the man
with the sandy whIskers, you couldn't
have oeen entombed In mine?"
No, sir. %
and YOU we're not running a drift In
to a mountain"
no, sir. When I finally got my shaft
sunk to the required depth It was cas-
Ter digging, and made better progress,
blt Il was heart breaking work after
ali think It was six months before /
reached the wall, and there was not an
hour IN all that time when my work
was not liable to discovery. l had to go
down three feet extra to get under the
wall and then the foul air"
say, now exclaimed he OF the sandy
w1iskcrs. as he rose up IN his excite
ment, u want TO know where you
were"
and you were tunnellng your way
OUT
"JI course
And you-you escaped"
Ms YOU see. Yes finished my tun-
nal and got out only two weeks ago, and
my New Years resolve for 1897 was TO
STAY out"
They all looked at the professor, but
hs s,roked his whiskers and bent over
the stove aud remarked that II seemed
to be growing colder. The passenger
ws1 had asked all the questions wanted
80 isk one more-what crime the pro
issslr had committed-but the ethics OF
De FAR west forbade him to do so, and
Dr. went out for walk up and down the
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