The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-04-09
HERE AND THERE.

foto sis.er was 30 p!s, AZ WaS HUE
She never had no notions moron real chit.
dren have, says sho; t
An she calls mo foolish JUS cause I've
tired o. tho cat.
Now. / don't see why little girls can't also
put on style.
An stand up fore tho iookln' glass, an
An have n lady como an fix dresses this
An say. "Ain't she ioycly!" when you try
on your Easter hat
Bus sister says II aIn't such fun as little
girls suppose.
A.dealln' It'll the mllliners, an quarrclin'
An her head aches 80 to-day sho cam,
l wouldn't like her headache. but I'd like
her Easter hat!
Tho war fever had become an cpldem-
lie. The boys who loafcd IN tho shoe
store caught Il flrst OF all: for II war
news, or any other kind. gets the start
OF q shoe shop crowd, 1t must put Oh
full steam. So II was with this crowd
OF boys; OF course, most OF the crowd
had children, but they were still ''boys''
TO each other affectlonatcly. especially
In questions such as tho saving of their
country. When the Maine was blown
UP n bombshell was thrown into the
shoe shop. An Indignation meeting was
held next morning. and resolutions au-
thorIZinEtwar on Spain were scratched
on the shoemakerS leather. That after
noon the shoemaker cut up the leather
TO purify several mill mems soles, so
new resolutions, were adopted and car
rled OH zach mans tongue, to be re-
pcated with emphasis ut sundry inter-
walls until the board OF inquiry made Its
report, when war was declared forth
with. The authorities at Washington
were denounced FOR their hardness In
not bombarding Havana, and blowing
every Spaninrd to Jericho without even
pause for him to say his praYera The
shoemaker even got so warmed up nc
couldn't work. 1t should have been
stated earlier In the game that he was
the only one in the crowd who worked.
There was nothing left but to call out
the army. The President didn't seem
disposed TO do It. The shoe shop would
do 1t. True, It's frequenters had passed
middle age. but older heads ore the
wiser. They would organize an army.
and solicit recruits. Through the town
the orders went. Men coming home from
work were halted on the highways and
the byways, and cnjoincd to lay down
their dinner buckets and their tools,
leave their homes and families and GO
forth TO their duty. The hour demand
cd It. What was work and pay to the
honor OF wad!ng knec-decp in Spanish
gore, rich. red. ripe and rare? The
workingmen halted: they listened: they
went on their several ways; the shoe
shop officers pleaded in voin. Another
series of indignation meetings was
held. and the shoe shop trembled from
the tenor of the powder OF crisp cut in
Examinations OF speech. Another call to
arms was made. and to rouse up cour-
ago campaign times were patterned Of
ter and a series OF inrolllnE kegs was
inaugur;tted. With the inauguration
recruits came 10 recruit the country's
forces and their own. With every key
Spain was drowned In defeat. Recruits
came and the war spirit ran high, while
there was other spirits 20 run down
But the shoe shop saw only In 1t
glorious army. Everything has its end.
likewise 4 key. and with the draining OF
the iost spisot passed there away also
the recruits. Next morning the shoe
maker pcSged away at his work., and
later in the day greeted his disguised
audience. They picked up the papers.
and read about the war-no. everything
else, but chiefly resteratives for that
tired feeling. for the spring was coming
on.
The war news thrilled no youth more
than one, who may or may not be con-
nected with the Elm Grove motor line.
The glazing headlines wrought HIS
breast within him SO that lie howlcd
for war in his dreams. He sighed and
yenrned for call 10 arms. and his In
tention 10 enlist almost gave his young
wife hcmorrhaGe. His mother was al
so cas-. down by her sons declaration
to grab musket and hustle down -
Havana. Its no use to argue" u.
said to both ot them, I'm going 10 join
the army" He said Il several days
ago, and repeated 1t with increasing ar
dor as the days came and departed. 1t
must be stated, however. tina: the tenor
of the war dispatches began TO grow
iierccr In tore. yet the young man wilt
ed mot. AS thewa- cloud lowered nearer
and nearer yet, the mother and the wife
paled at the thought OF death In the
family. II was natural that they ap-
pealcd 10 his brother, also more or less
connected with the motor line which
Gisturhs the serenity OF Elm Grove.
Said the august brother: Let him
alone and he'll come home, like Little Bo
Peeps lanbliins. 7 advise You, though,
to give Eour sanction 10 his lntentioa,
and I'll guarantees he won't monkey
with the war" The mother ami til"
wife accepted tho suggestion. md she
next evening when the young man
came homo. and filled the house with
war talk and how certain he was to he
called on. they surprised him by FIy-
Ing that they had made up She!r minds
20 give in. 1t was better he sho nd pro-
tect his country. They hated 10 separate
but It was better that he SHOULD 80. l.,
as he stated, lie wanted TO go. Next
evening they saw him approaching; with
n bundle In his arm. They We're certain
1t was his army nccoutfements TheF
questioned him not. and after the sup
per table was cleared, he unfolded his
bundle. disclosing 4 newly purchased
music box. Ee d!da't mention war. but
he ground out attempts 10 play Home.
Sweet Home" mil! bed time. WA. TAX
is over In that household.
An Island woman doesn't care to
laugh when told OF II. but she laughs
when she tells It. 1T was dis way" 10
borrow of ChImmIe Fadden. She re-
Gently took up her residence In this city,
on the Island, and became o customer
OF Il rural citizen who hawks butter
about this community. Last week she