Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-16

(, out them night-hawkin', rubber-neck-
| in campaigns? From my humble at
| titude OF observation-them's another
| pair O. beauties l got from the Notre
Dammer-1'm thinking that a lady IS
goin' to bump up agin a plinty OF sin
an sorrow in the nacheral course OF
| evints in this here vale O tears and
abidin' place Of wretchedness an
| guile-an' there's another one OF them
Notre Dame looloos. Now, amt that
| about the proper verse o. scripture TO
| fit the case, Mr.. Benham?"
| "Sure's you're foot high, Martin.
| You're all right. You ought to be a
preacher insteaed OF motorman on an
owl car
mot in a thousand years, Mr.. Ben
ham-not in hundred thousand years,
not this lad; no, sir! This lad is a
motorman, and a good wan at that.
know my business an | tind to 1t. l
am on to everything about the run
min of a trolley car, and Charlie Yer
KEGS himself can't tell me nothing. l
| don't allow no perfessor of mimi en-
cheering to give me no tips on my
! business, and likewise l don't set my
self up fer no guidebook on fine arts
ner dressmakin' ner plittycal econo-
my. | amt fitten to be no preacher,
I'm tellin' you right now. I'm think
in it's no disgrace to be trolleyman
if yer a good wan, but II yer a good
trOlleyman why not stay there and do
somethin' right-end-first instead O git
tin the big head and goin off half
cooked on a wild goo2e chase after |
glory, l dunno?"
That's right, Martin, the worlds |
full of incompetent people of all kinds, |
but so long as human nature is what |
it is | don't see how we are going to |
help it any Ambition is great thing |
you know"
ambition, is it? There you are, Mr.. |
Benham. Now you've got it. Ambi- |
ton. That's the stuff. Now, there |
wan thing | been thinkin' about for a |
long time out here all alone, and there's |
just wan question I'd like to ask, and |
that's this: How the divil is a felly |
like me goin' to know the difference |
betwixt ambition and discomfort? |
Ambition is good thing, bully good |
thing, they's go getting around that;
but how do | know that when | get it |
into my head that I'm too good for this !
place l amt gettin' nutty instid or !
ambitious, and the thing that bothers |
me is, amt ambition spilin' whoopin' |
lot O. good men? Now there's my |
brother Terence. Terence is a likely |
sort of lad, an he's got a good JOB. |
He's a porter in big store in Market |
street, but he's all the time complain |
in to me that he knows such divil of |
a lot more about the business than |
the foreman what's bossin' him does. |
He thinks the firm is a set O suckers |
that they don't make him the boss and |
put the foreman to shown a truck, but |
the trouble with Terence is ne don't |
know nothin', and he don't know that. |
Now l says to him, | says: Terence,
me boy l says, them fellies in that
firm has made money because they has
brains, and the chances is they're hir-
in that foreman for the same reason
in a smaller degree, and it amt fer
you to say they're a set O chumps IN
til you can prove it, and when yer able
| to prove that same then yer firm will
find it out before liver you do, never
/ you fear, and they'll drop yer postal
card and invite We into the band wag
GIN But all them words is lost on
| Terence. He keeps gettin' his little
eight week and cussin his luck and
cryin' Down with capital Now I say
Terence is the sucker and by and by
he'll be wishin' he had even the eight
a week, while if he was tindin' strick-
ly to business and tryin' to make
dollar fer the firm he'd bin raised by
this time if he was worth it, an if he
wasn't worth it he never would be
raised anyway
Pretty nice piece of track you have
| here to run over said Benham, think
ing to change the subject.
Say, now, amt it? Say, l want to
tell you there's the crackerjack piece
G. street car track in swim States. by
the clock. I've run a car on mighty
near every piece o. track on this sys
! TEN, but this beats 'em all. Say but
FELIX'S dead lucky to get this run.
! You don't catch this lad putin up no
kicks an gettin' transferred on to no