The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-29

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Wiz w Easy to Eat,
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NNuaker Oats
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Yin 2-lb. pkgs. only
kinds of fancy racket. but it dldn't dis
turb me any more. managed to keep
busy, though, as a cheerer of the down
hearted. I wasn't In the same class
with the young ladies' who were dis
pensing good advice just as cool as II
there wasn't any danger within hum
dred miles. Comparatively speaking,
things were getting Gained down-that
Is. the yelling wasn't such a continuous
performance but what you could hear
yourself think now and again-when
young grocer's boy came hittlng out Of
a wagon where suppose he'd been
sleeping through all the mess. with his
eyes Just popping out OF his head. He
began to shine up one OF the cabin sup
porters, and paint my nose green II he
didn't cling there and begin to crow like
rooster. 1t was the welrdest perform
ance saw In the whole show. There
was nothing about 1t in the rules Of the
game, and the way he did 1t made little
shivers go down my back. corder came
up and he says to me:
Hes going mad he says. First
thing you know he'll drop down and
bite somebody. or throw himself over
board. We ought to get him down
Not for me- says. That isn't
the variety of willies like to NEEDLE
with. That ought to be in the padded
cell, says. and dodge
That's where corder had more nerve
than had, for he hauled the kid down.
and, sure enough. the kid bit at him
like u dog. 1t gave me such bunch
that swear II I'd had gun I'd have
come pretty near putting a bullet in
his head, like shooting wild animal.
But Corder got him down, and with the
help of the broker partly Strengthened
him out. They said Hfterward IT was n
sort OF eplleptlc fit. Whatever It was
It started the whole crowd Of loonles
raving again, and right in the middle OF
it little. thin. wlzened guy came up to
me with hop. skip and jump and gave
a sort OF howl.
ITS you he says.
"'of course it's me- told him. Who
did you think 1t was. the icemnn?
"oh. It's you; It's YOU he says. doing
a double shuttle. I knew it the minute
1 saw those eyes
"'Now, be nice says I, for cross
eyed man has some feelings Of his own.
he nice, and don't make cracks about
my eyes or something might heppen to
yours
"'Those eyes. those eyes, he yawped.
dancing the highland fling. You looked
at me when I came aboard, and now
the boat Is sinking
well, that chap was honestly Of the
opinion that my oft-slde eye had wiz
arded the craft and brought about the
accident. and he looked like an intelli
gent citizen, too. Pretty soon he dane
ed away still bemoaning my peeps, and
/ went through to the rear Of the cabin
TO see II there was anything doing
there. Nobody had got busy around
that region and there was little fam
uy group that had been forgotten; a
young German mother and three
youngsterg. When came up she was
talking to the oldest, boy OF six or so.
in German. and from the tones Of her
voice, / guess she was trying to keep
the little fellow from being scared, but
she was as white as sheet herself and
the othe: two kids were whlmpering.
grabbed out some life preservers and
told her TO put them on. but she shook
her head Didn't understand life pre-
servers or English either. Hoch, der
Kaiser. is about the limit OF my Ger
man, but / dove In and made signs to
he- to put on the preservers.
They'll aoat you says. Fifteen
like corken.' says, making a stab at
the Dutch.
"wen. got preservers on the kids all
right, and got another for her and
then l managed to make her under
stand that I'd stick by the family. At
that she got me around the knees and
began to cry and do the gratitude gabe
until felt like thirty cents change out
Of hundred-dollar bill. 1t got too
good and I broke away and sent corder
back there, telling him It was case Of
necessity Then peeked through the
cabin when he got there. laughed
myself blue In the face to see the catch-
as-catch-can wrestling match he'd let
himself in for with the grateful lady
Then the engines got going and
pretty soon we were In the slip, and the