The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-08
HERE and THERE.

You've blazed your way TO other scenes
since first we gave you birth,
TIL the fame OF Wheeling stogieS engirdles
the known earth
soothGd the stntesman's cares,
All in your simple raimeut, devoid Of fancy
airs.
You've had your imltators, as good thing
Who copied fern and title, yet couldH'j
These frauds tribe paled the halo Of your
But henceforth the Wheeling stosle must
emit from stogie Town,
SO here's to you, little fellow! May your
praises reach the skies,
And you reign the topmost pleasure In the
smokers paradise!
And every whlff OF comfort that with Joy
VIM pay pay t ,i} to the city of stoESs " Nm
When you see man on the street
or in car. with his right hand care
fully guarding his left arm between his
elbow and shoulder, you can put Il
down that he shas been Yacctnatedl
and that the vaccination took. II
you want the sore-armed citizen "a
cherish you In lingering memory until
he Is finally relieved of mortal cares,
catch him and his arm unawares.
Tramping on a mans corns, while pro-
voklng much profanity and ire. can be
handed down the hntchway Of forget
ness, but monkeying with Vaccluated
arm. never. The victim is peculiarly
hardened individual while passing
through the siege. and Is made callous
byhIs failures to extract sympathy from
anybody, from the doctor to the lay
man. II his arm Is hurting day after
day the doctor consoles him with the
remark that the Virus has taken" II
he complains OF pain to his neighDor
he is given laugh. and told that any
schoolboy could stand Il. He gets no
satisfaction even from the man who
went through the same ordeal. for then
he Is termed Q fool to have been vaccin'
ated. But after all, the victim does
feel satisfied. He feels immune from
that most loathsOme Of diseases, and
rides care free hencefortn in crowded
cars and railroad trains, among all
sorts and conditions OF men, strangers
home citizens. the weak and the well.
A years service with the volunteer
regiments seems comparatively free
from much glamo.or renown in the light
of the present day, but in another de-
cade or two every boy that shouldered
muskct and underwent the routine and
diseases of the camps Will reap re-
ward. He Will be pointed out as are
the veterans OF the civil war. as an ''old
soldier" and this dlsGnction will cut q
prominent figure II he asks for political
recognition. Time Is the great healer
and leyeller and all that, but nowhere
does the old gentleman with the sands
and the sickle shine as in pllins up
glory on past deeds. What seems COM
parutiVely commonplace In the enlist
ments OF to-day will be glOFttied and
ll-honored by the sedrchlight OF fu-
ture years: so the volunteers now Will
be known as war heroes distinctly then.
In this connection 1t is interesting to
note that the mastering out rolls Will
also have an additional value. They
are the proofs positive Of each mans
standing, and can easily settle the dis
pute whether Colonel Henry Brown, OF
Heyville, wore shoulder straps or q prt-
Yates plain blue blouse. But It's hard
to keep the colonies down.
The EIks' fair was an object lesson in
booming big gatherings. No similar
affair was more systematically pushed
along, and the local committee merlted
the praises their efforts deserved. i've
learned one thing from 1t all, said an
Elk yesterday, land that Is. We doomed
1t too long. Hereafter II I'm connect
ed with big enterprise Of this nature
would suggest plan of booming the
affair about two weeks before Il came
OF, and giving 1t to the people strong
in all kinds OF advertisements every
day. This thing of stretching 1t over
several months doesn't have the effect
desired" The Elks' fair, by the way, de-
rived nearly all Its patronage from the
city, as harvest time detained the rural
brethren. In consequence OF the expect
ed rush Of visitors falling to materlalize
the hotels were not overly crowded,
and some nights OF the fair had room
to air and spare.
The kissing bug" has struck Wheel
ing, which creates little surprise, for
the festive little black bug surely heard
in other towns of wheeling's pretty
girls. But the winged Hobson isn't de-
voted exclusively to pressing the lips of
the gentler sex. He Is liberal fell
low; mankind in general becomes his
prey. Up to date several cases have
been reported in this vicinity OF the
winged ,Hobson's depredatlons, Con-
trary to his reported plan of campaign
elsewhere, he kindly kissed most Of his
victims on the back Of the neck. For
further particulars see Chief Clemans
or Committee Clerk Walter WorlsS
would be n good suggestion since these
gentlemen got II in the neck. Several
spInsters have been heard to remark
that the kissing bug couldn't come fast
enough.
The Grand Central Hotel, Wheellng's
recent acquisition to It's best hostelries,
has adopted the novel innovation OF
feeding music to Its guests This de-
lectable treat is afforded them three
evenings OF each week. between the
hours Of and 10 o'clock. by an Orches-
ira OF five pieces, stationed in the par
lors. and the Innovation was the con-
cepuon Of Mine Host f. b. Potts. Else
where In the larger cities the same plan
is followed, and big summer hotel
minus an orchestra would be Uncle
Toms Cabin without Little Eva.
TIE RIVER.