The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-06-03

To rest and peace In home. sweet home.
Sir their hearts with the thrill Of pride,
In greetings ringing far and wide:
Honor the boys as theyre marching by;
Shout till the echoes reach the sky.
Rooray! hooray! both you and me
Hooray all round for Company G!
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Children that behave well away from
home are Jewels OF double value. Obe-
dlence in child is like consistency In
an adult. according to the poet. But
obedience as we'll as other novel qualit-
tiles should be tempered with Judgment
and the happy faculty of grabbing OPP
portunities. The foregoing sage advice
is dropped from reflective pen part
ly to nil space and to Introduce on the
scene n nine-year-otd girl whose ODE
d.ence to one of the rules of the
| Wheeling G Elm Grove railway caused
her some inconvenience last Sunday,
when she and her little girl chum took
a motor for the Peninsular cemetery.
there 10 meet her mother, who preceded
her, and strew flowers on the grave of
baby sister. The beautiful Sunday
weather packed the motors. and prob
ably the conductors ears didn't catch
| the little girls destination. At any
rate. the motor few past the cemetery
| without stopping. much to the big-eyed
wonder of the2two little passengers In
their Sunday frocks And II happened
that no stop ensued until Fulton was
reached, where the girls got off. Thence
| ,hpv ak at. tha HiIS.v ii-.p n tina
| cemetery When demonstrated With by
her mother for not getting the conduc-
tor 10 stop at the cemetery. the obedi-
| On; child rer!ied: We'll, mamma,
saw ,siHn at said. Don't talk to the
| rNCt1rman.'"
Two coorc9 men of the typical hap
pg-go lucky type one rejoicing in the
nickname of Big Mit,." owing to the
! prodigous eXpansc of his hands, vera
| approached by berry merchant on
Market street shortly before midnight
last night and offered tempting sum
to dig up grave In 4 cemetery. out
the pike. NO. sa!," replied big
Mitt," You don't done cotch dis chick,
en- gwan out 10 emmy graveyard at dis
time O. night" The consideration was
doubled to no avail, the eyes OF the
colorcd gentlemen rolling eXcitedly.
"You'll only have to dig down n few
feet to get the stiff" coaXed the berry
merchant, "and after You dig It up DR.,
| Grab-etn-ai: Will take charge OF the
body" Not TO- hundred dollahs."
insisted Big Mitt.' who was the spokes-
tnan for his dusky. iaose-jointti conf
panion. "Doctah Grab email kin grab
all he likes. but I don't wan. none o.
dat business In mine. No. sab, II yo'
lay down all kinds O. money" Further
coaXing and tempting offers were su-
tile. and the berry merchant. who is n
great joker. said he had tried it often,
but couldn't induce a colored man 10
| agree to work In n graveyard at night.
| A col5red man who has travelled much
with circus as museum freak Is now
employed by South Side doctor. He
dropped off here from Wallace's circus.
and figured in the attractions at the
| Knights % St. George picnic on Decor
alton day. His turn" then was hold
| ing three .nen by his hair, of which he
has an abundant shock, almost free OF
kinks, He has posed as the Congo
chief. wild man from BorHee." and
| other appeals to curiosity. and relates
an amusing experience In n small town,
when business was dull. In order 10
| liven things up, the circus manager
circulated report that the ";vilh man"
| had broken loose. and carrying out his
| instructions the colored freak "escap-
] ed" from the tent. Great excitement
| ensued. Children fled crying from his
| sight and strong mems cheeks blanched
with fear. The wild man hadn't dash
ed very far. however, until a rural cIti-
zen attempted to bring him down with
gun. Then the wild man" stopped
suddenly. frightened almost to death.
| Don't shoot. m!stah,' he cried, be-
seechingiy. Use no wild man. Tse
just been foolin'." The farmer was
! rather slow about putting up his gun.
ard the wild man" declares ne would
never try the game again for fortune,
In the makeup of nearlT every indi-
vidual is a sense which develops Itself
BY Giggling in church, school and at
the table when grace Is being said,
more apparent fortunately. In the boy
| than the man. An insignificant cause
produces the titterlDu and the same
cause wouldn't provoke smile out
doors. nor would 1t Il the giggler had
no shnrer In his breach of the DroprI-
eties = boy or girl will get an uncOn-
trollable attack OF the giggles In school
when ou;wardlY there is no jus,iilca
ton. and fly crawling over the preach.
er's bald pate substituted commissions
In part OF his congregation for rapt at.
tention to his prayer Then while grace
| 10 hninp SnlI pnrp1Inr -
voice. or the antics Of the baby at the
other end of the table works woefuly
on the risibilities. Shame confusion
| and regret seem powcrfcSs TO resist the
onslaught of what appears so etrikInu-
| ly ludicrous. Why IL Is so Is difficult,
to explain, and unfortunate Is the
susceptible mortal. Psychologists tell
! OF people h.lng overpowercd with The
desire TO laugh at a funeral. when real
ly they were profoundly sorrowsul and
sympniheiic.
It's n poor rule that won't work both
ways but the son OF Il prominent Ger
man~AmerIcan citizen started on his
| mission OF learning plumbing recently
found fault with the rule furnished him.
The story goes that the plumber dis
| patched the boy TO the rear OF tho
building, giving him a two-fao, rule.
There wos several feet OF pipe To meas
IRE, and the, plumber was Mortified
when the cub" returned to inform
him thatsthe rule wasn't long enough.
The hot weather has brought from
his lair the young street merchant.
whose wares consist of ice balls, sold nj
n cent piece. Armed with a shaver
q chunk or two Of Ice. n piece OF rag
carpet. bottles of iiavorIrE extracts
etc. the energetic boy stands ready Ia