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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29


I have heah $40 mem Each one has a
Ions of blood have been soaked up by
the thirsty soil of Virginia, yo'r 10000
men can march over this feld!'"
That's what | said, sub, and as my
brave heroes cheered my words Gen
eral Sheridan held out his hand in adj
miration and said that history would
do me justice. He led me to expect
that General Grant would show up
next day, and soon after noon the
great man arrived. He looked around
for bit befo' saying anything to me,
and then he observed:
hurkel Bunker, l see yo' have only
Two hard-tack left for rations in this
whole camp. Yo' are also short of ammu-
nitlon. have you surrounded by 10000
men. Don't it appear to yo' that this is
good time to surrender and give my
army show to go home?''
General Grant, says 1, looking him
straight in the eye, 1 entered into this
war to conquer or die. Either withdraw
your army or make arrangements to bury
the 640 cavaliers yo' see in battle liner"
lie was put out at first, sub, but pres
emily smile came to his face and he held
out his hand to me and said that my name
would outlive his own. Then he rode
away, and for the next fo days we hourly
expected to be attacked. No attack was
made. sent Captain Crabtree out to see
what was wrong and he returned to say:
Kurnel Bunker, the foe has disappear
ed without daring to attack US, and there
Is nobody for us to fight
% 1'ant9in Crahtrea +looro
nobody for us to fight, how are we going
to die like heroes?'
We can't"
- How about the GAO gallons of blood? "
Wen have to save it up and take it
home"
And, egad, sub, Indignantly continued
the colonel, that's exactly what We had
10 DO! We were willing to die, but we
didn't propose to shoot each other or com
init suicide. 1t was a mean trick in a
great general like Grant to march away
and leave us there waiting to pour out our
blood. but he did it. When we had been
without food for two days / ordered out
the regiment and asked how many would
follow me to Mexico and there continue
the war. There was no response They
had become tired and discouraged and
wanted to return home, and I have never
blamed them for it. Under those circum-
stances l sent a messenger off after Grant
to say that 1 might be induced to sur
render"
And so you laid down your arms at
last?" 1 queried.
We'll, suh not skassly," replied the
colonel after long pause. General
Grant returned word that we might go
home or keep up the picnic, just as we
felt about it, and we went home There
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29

"You won't credit the fact that our in
surance became a neighborhocd affair and
more. but it did. Stories were set atioat
that had been married before, and that
my wife had died under suspicious cir
cumstances. People who had always call
ed me the soul of good nature suddenly
discovered that my smile was put on TO
hide soul as black as midnight. If l went
up the street looking happy they said l
had struck plan to safely kill off the
family: if 1 had a sober look they said l
was studying how to come into possession
of that $4,000. I tried to laugh it off, not
realizing the strength of the feeling, but
the family doctor opened my eyes very
wide. One Of the children came down with
the grip, and when 1 asked the doctor to
call and prescribe he hemmed and hawed
around and suggested that another medi-
cal man accompany him on account of
what might possibly be the result. II l
went to the druggist with a prescription
he putered over it with unusual care and
made notes in pencil which might be used
at an inquest. l had the formula of an ex-
cellent cough syrup for family use, but the
druggist with whom / had dealt Tor ten
wears refused to let me have the ingred-
tents separately. before we loOh Jul NiIe|
insurance he'd sell me iodine, carbolic
acid, Harlem oil. Paris green or any sort
of powder to wash or kill insects, but af-
forwards he shut right down on me and
would not even sell me porous plaster
or a bottle of soda mint without haggling
over it and making a mental note as to
whether my mental condition was placid
or excited. On one occasion my house
caught fire from the kitchen range. II
was the carelessness of the cook and |
was two miles away. but there were plen-
ty of hints thrown out that had planned
a tragedy. One of the children fell down
stairs and broke her arm. and there were
people mean enough to declare that gave
her a push in hopes TO break her neck. I
can smile at those things now. and you
are my witness that I am smiling, but they
were anything but funny at the time. One
day my youngest wandered away and got
lost. The police picked her up and
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29
WHIST

A Sur on the Ladies - More of Tormey's
Whist Whys-At Last an Ideal System.
Whist Celebrities The Game Among Roy.
atty George II. Talleyrand, Prince Meter
Mich, Emperor Napoleon and Won Moltke.
All Famous Ministers.
HARD ON MRS. BARLOW.
81 used to think Barlow's wife was
a woman who knew something. | i'm
agined that she had brains and used
them" well, don't you think so any
more?" Let US drop the subject. She
was my partner in a duplicate whist
roast last night. "-Cleveland Leader.
MORE OF ToRNEY's WHIST WHY'S.
Why is it so many continue to play
whist without making an effort to
learn the leads?
Why don't you acquire the habit Of
counting your hand on picking it up?
Why don't you always get in the
first kick at the end OF the deal? Try
tit silences your partner.
Why do you call a deal in whist
a "hand?" A hand in whist is ID
cards; deal is four hands of Is cards
each.
Why not encourage your partner, at
the end of each DEAL if you must talk,
instead of blowing him up?
Why is it that SO few whist players
know what is meant by the entire
command of the other suits?"
Why don't you at once return your
partners suit when you have not a
better one in YOUR hand?
Why not try to establish the suit
your partner originally opens, if 1t is
good one, and not try to establish
two?
Why is the remark so often made,
81 saw your CALI" How could you help
seeing cali if one was made?
Why do some whist players lead a
winning card in some peculiar manner
which says to their partner, Don't
trump this?"
Why are the plain, simple American
leads, without frills or fads, good
enough for nine-tenths Of the whist
players of America?
Why do some whist players think 1t
is good whist to Immediately return
adversaries' suits through the original
leader the first chance they get?
why did you draw N.Y. last trump,
dear?" Il hate to tell you, P. j., but
did it so you would not trump my
best heart and stop me from making all
the others"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29
Il DRuMMER'S MASCOTS.
They We're All Highly Recommended and Vouched For
But Only Disaster Followed Their Use.

NO, sir, I don't believe in mascots,"
replied the dry goods drummer as he got
settled down for long and steady pull at
good cigar. II know that most of the
boys have leaning that way, but / got
over it two years ago. l know a chap
travelling out of Boston who would no
more start out without his rabbits foot
than he would do without his hat, and yes
terday / was with Chicago drummer
who had the wishbone of chicken in
morocco case. j have logged about with
men who believed that horse chestnut
would keep off rheumatism, and have
met fellows who were carrying all sorts of
coins as lucky pieces. It's all right if they
think so, but l have quite lost my faith
in talismans.e
No, don't mind relating few of my
experiences" continued the drummer, as
several of us looked at him in an encour-
aging way. MY first mascot was bullet
which had cut lock of hair off a babys
head and buried itself in the wall. No
photograph of the baby accompanied the
bullet, but | thought it cheap at two dol
lars. That bullet went with me on my
first trip in this line, and 1 started out
feeling perfectly guarded from all kinds
of accident. / had to exhibit my trophy
and brag about it, of course. and l found
several persons who offered me double
price for 1t. l had carried it for two
weeks and luck had come my way in
everything when l got off the train at a
small station in Indiana one night. There
was long platform with one end up in
the air, and | walked off that end and got
fall which sent me to the hospital with
broken leg. So much for the bullet. 1t
got lost in the shuttle, and when 1 was
able to take to the road again L found an
old darkey who was willing to sell me a
rabbits foot for $40 in cash. OF course the
rabbit had been killed in graveyard on
the full of the moon and all that, and
with thS>foot in my pocket 1 did not see
low | could get smashed UP on the rail-
road or burned out in a hotel A rabbits
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29

"Just one more. l wanted to give the
mascot business a fair trail, and so
invested in the claw of a crow. l don
know who originated the idea or bellet
that a crows claw would bring luck to
the possessor. The man who put me on
to it was a Baltimore drummer. He
wouldn't part with the one he carried,
because it had saved his l.fe on numerous
occasions and was going to Kill of his
grandmother and bring him big legacy,
but he knew of a man who might be IN
duced to sell his, and in due time mad
a crows claw in my pocket. NO written
guarantee accompanied it, but L had the
word of several possessors that its virtues
were known 200 years B. c. Nothing
out of the routine happened for month
or so, and 1 was standing neutral and
waiting for developments, when the claw
gave me the dull thud. I got up one
morning to find that 1 had been robbed of
$50 in cash, and while was raising
row about it there came a telegram IN
nouncing that my firm had failed and l
was left stranded on a cold world. l
haven't fully recovered yet, but I am not
hunting for mascots to help me. l don't
say that rabbits foot won't help certain
men to reach the top of the ladder, or
that the goose-bone or the crows foot
won't chase away the shadow of death,
but there are men who have to depend
on their own exertions, and l am one
of them. If any of you are carrying
button from the vest of Jack the Ripper,
or have pinned your faith to pebble
picked up in the Garden of Eden. I'll look
at them as curiosties, but don't ask me
to invest. I've got through"
CHARLES B. LEWIS.
Copyright, 1899, by John Brisben Walker)
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29

more faith in that buckeye than in any
of the other mascots, but it did not last
as long. l was in Toledo four days after
l bought it, and | got into row over
a game of billiards and was licked by a
man who was notorious coward. car
ried black eye down to Columbus. and
had scarcely got settled in my room
When / was seized with chill and de-
veloped a case of typhoid fever. l could
never figure out what became of that
buckeye. 1t was missing when / got we'll,
and l have dim suspicion that | must
have eaten it when out of my head.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29

/ was also renowned for my good ma
ture, / was always smiling always
ready to see the humorous side of
things. That insurance brought a
change within twenty four hours. In
their happy ignorance of the wicked
ness of the world the children went out
on the street and boosted of their in
surance, and the good wife felt obliged
to run into a neighbor's and let it be
known that in case of her death 1
would be the recipient of $4,000 In cold
cash. If both the children happened
to die with her, my cash capital would
be doubled. Poor wife Poor chill
dren! Poor me! The ink on those in
surance papers was hardly dry when
| had become an object Of SUSPICION
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29
FAMILY INSURANCE.
How the Innocent Fat Man Was Tor
mented Until He Lost Ills
Good Nature.

mo" said the fat man who had
been rubbing his hands and smiling
for the last ten minutes-'no, l hav-
emit drawn the capital prize in lot.
terry, come into receipt of legacy or
hit an army contract to pay me 500
per cent profit. l have simply got rid
of a burden which have been carrying
for the last year, and l feel like a
school boy on his holiday. For the
first time in year l can go home and
face my wife and two children with a
clear conscience, and by tomorrow
night l hope to be on speaking terms
again with most of my neighbors. Ex-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29
AT LAST THE IDEAL SYSTEM.

Since the invention of new systems
seems to be regarded by many as the
chief end of whist, why couldn't an
attractive one be constructed out OF
the odds and ends of plays not yet ap-
propriated but which are prime favor
ties with this or that individual
player? Did you ever notice how at
billiards the crack" will draw, fol-
low, masse or cushion, always accom-
modating his stroke to the require
mnets of the position, while the
amateur almost invariably has some
pet shot that he is forever trying?
1t by no means follows that our friend
is particularly expert in the execution
of his favorite stroke, but he likes it,
attempts it whenever possible, and
sometimes when it is impossible, and
the chief pleasure he derives from the
game is in counting with it say about
twice in every four trials. His twin
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29
LOUIS XIV OF FRANCE.

Whist was played in France by
Louis XIV, and under the first empire
it was favorite game with Josephine,
and also with her successor, Marie
Louise. 1t is recorded that Napoleon
was in the habit of playing whist at
Wurtemberg, but not for money. He
did not play attentively. being pos
sibly occupied with other schemes.
One evening when the Queen Dowager
was playing against him with her hus-
band and his daughter (the Queen of
Westphalia, wife Of Jerome), the King
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29

was no surrender and nobody laid down
his arms Sometimes I think it was a
compliment and feel proud, and again
there are times when it looks as II kur-
mel Bunker and his 60 heroes didn't
amount to shucks, and our holding out
was nothing to brag of. 1 notice that 1t
is Il o'clock, suh-12 oclock-and my IN
variable custom at u o'clock is"
And locked arms with the unsurren-
dered Colonel Bunker and went in search
of a nip. CHARLIE b. LEWIS.
(Copyrght, 1899, by John Brisben Walker)
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29
HOW TO GROW THIN.

NY dear sir, II you would be thin,
Remember these DEGREES.
Forswear potatoes, sugar, cream,
All butter, II you please;
Drink not much water. neither eat
OF candied dainties many.
Eschew all pastries. pies and cakes.
And, further. eat not any.
Rise with the sun and seek your couch
At setting of the moon,
Run up and down the stairs all day,
And youn be thin full soon
But better than all this. II you
'TwIxe ponderous rollers round
Would place yourself and be pressed fiat,
You'd lose flesh, I'll be bound.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29

ter with contempt. but here was more
of it than 1 thought for, and it kept
growing. Inside of three months |
had to take the children out Of public
school. Every kid for mile around
had gotten on to the fact that each
was insured for $4,000, and they made
the most of it. They were told over
and again that l would kill them off
to get the money, and in time they'd
run and hide when they heard my
step.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29

cuse me, gentlemen, for what may
seem undue hilarity, but | am gratified
-pleased-rejoiced.
You see, it was this way" contin-
ued the man as he choked back his
chuckles but preserved his beaming
smile. AN agent for life insurance
company-one which insures your wife
and children as well as yourself-got
after me, and after almost living in
my house for couple of weeks he
brought me around to realize what a
good thing it was to insure the whole
family. l hung off about it, but my
wife was enthusiastic. She loves our
children with a love which can not be
questioned, but it was her proposition
to insure them as well. One day the
papers were made out, the premiums
paid, and we we're an insured family.
Up to that date, as all my friends can
make affidavit, was at peace with all
mankind, and l had the respect and
esteem of all my neighbors. may say
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29
GIVING IT OUT GRUDG1NGLY.

Mrs. Chugwater-Joslah. what do they
call the people of Honduras2
Mr. Chugwater-Hondura believe.
Can't you see am busy reading?-Chica-
go Tribune.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29

is soft and silky and pleasing to the
and the eye, and it's wonderful how
faith you can come to have in its
\nkef~ carrying it around for
lay, after had had it about
1t down and figured out that
my life at least four times,
drummer who didn't carry
st pocket deserved any fate
overtake him. l had that
by hand when started down
play game of billiards. At the
the stairs L tripped in a hole in
bet AUD Ihep they picked me up
t the bottom was booked for another
Two months in the hospital.
THAT rabbit S foot ought to have warn
ed me of the hole in the carpet, or shifted
the stairs down the hall few feet, but as
t rather led me on to destruction l threw
ut aside and invested in Kentucky goose
,one. OF course you have seen them? The
genuine talisman is a piece of the breast
zone shaped like heart. To be genuine it
must come from perfectly white goose,
md the darby who fashions it must do his
work at midnight with jack knife found
on the highway in the second quarter of
the harvest moon. A St. Louis drummer
who never had anything but good luck
put me on to the goose-bone racket and |
had to do lot of hunting and pay out sis
to get one. I didn't give that talsman my
confidence all at once. l remembered how
the baby bullet and the rabbits foot had
served me, and l paid out rope as l went
along and watched to see what would
happen. 1t was only after L had taken
three or four old customers away from
Philadelphia drummer, and just missed
two railroad wrecks and a hotel fire, that
] gave that goose-bbne due credit as
mascot knnI-o Ken good offers to part
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29

pPED BY A MAN HALF MY SIZE.
but l would as soon have sold my
other's tombstone. l had just fig
t that my luck would make me a
partner in the firm in about two
more, when down came my house
DIS. The train of which I was whiz-
yer the soil of Ohio missed rear
|ollision by less than ten feet and
d me safely at Bucyi-us and l hadn't
in that town two hours when l was
over by a twenty-five cent express
n driven by an old negro, and had
ribs broken and my shoulder dislo-
The talisman was broken into fine
nents and l didn't mourn for it. The
k-bone adherents have tried to excuse
explain, but they have failed to con-
me.
Perhaps some of you gentlemen are
e double horse chestnut in your
pocket as mascot? Down in Ohio they
call 'em buckeyes, and every third inhab-
liant firmly believes they are a safeguard
against all sickness. In hotel in Cleve-
land got into a row with believer in the
virtues of the buckeye, and when it
ended / was a licked man. He never
could have convinced me by argument
but when found myself beautifully
walloped by a man hardly half my size I
was forced to believe that the buckeye
in his pocket had helped him out
humbled myself before him to get pos
session of his talisman. 1t hadn't grown
on a tree shading the grave of a muir
derer, nor had it been found in the
clutch of a woman who had died of q
briken heart. He had simply picked it
up off the earth in broad MONDAY, and
was quite willing to sell it for five dol
lars. He had carried it for ten years
and during that time had never had
cholera, smallpox or yellow fever He
had also got the better of every man
be had. scrapped with. I think I had
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-09
hange of Time of Trains on Pennsyl
vania Lines

Under a new schedule in effect Sun
day, May 2lst, 1899, passenger trains on
the Pennsylvania Lines leave Plymouth
station as follows:
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-09
From Saturdays Daily.

The summer term of Bourbon college
and school of music opens June q.
A. r. Zimmerman, of Etna Green,
was In Plymouth today ON business.
On the whole the grass crop through
out Marshall county is said to be poor
Etna Green is to have Maccsbee
reunion about the 18th of this month.
j. NJ. Beckner, of Nappanee, is visit
ing John Ringenberger and others in
this city.
NJ. Altman & Son shipped the first
carload of wool of the season, out of
town yesterday.
Miss Grace DUR returned from Fort
Wayne today where she has spent the
the winter in college.
III. w. Steckman, of Bourbon, died
last evening after protracted illness
caused by consumption.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin, of Bremen,
were the guests of the Boss family at
the edge of town yesterday.
More people violate the fish law by
catching too many fish than by dang
ling their rods in running water.
DR.. Table How is making arrange
ments for moving his office to Bremen
where he will locate permanently,
Peter Suit, of Huntington, Ind., an
old soldier, we'll known in Plymouth,
passed through here on his way to
Bourbon.
Mary Wright, life long resident Of
South Bend, in bad health and de.
spondent, committed suicide by swal-
lowing laudsnum.
L. Il. Crensher of the 7th cavalry, u
s. regulars, lately from Cuba, is visiting
the Culver Military academy. He was
In Plymouth today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Cook left today
for Pauline county, Ohio, after visiting
their father, Robert Baxter in the
county near Plymouth.
A few of the ladies of the WOodmen
circle surprised Mrs. Mitchell last
evening it being her birthday. They
gave her some beautiful and useful
presents.
Miss Florence Smith went to Craw-
fOrdsyille TODAY where she will attend
the commencement exercises at Wabash
college. Before returning she will visit
relatives at Perrysville.
1t is interesting to hear w. f.. Peterson
tell of some of the things he takes out OF