Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-30

say W lie.
'Sammis, Miss Perkins is a strang-
er in a strange city, and it may be that
she wants some scrap-book advice.
You needn't hustle right up to her
room to say that | stand cheerfully
ready to give her the benefits of my
worldly wisdom, but if you ever hap
pen to drop in and think of 1t you can
just mention it."
Just casually mention it, sir?"
Exactly Sammis. Casually ex-
press it, and l am glad to see you SO
well informed. By the way, here's q
dollar to help pay off that mortgage.
| meant to have given it to you last
week, but it slipped my mind"
Then young Mr.. Plattner waited
until l was off at noon to walk me
around the corner and say:
"Sammis, 1 know you are discreet,
close mouthed boy, and I'm going to
say that should Miss Perkins ever get
stuck in her bookkeeping and seem to
want the services of an expert to
straighten out things
I'll tell her about you, sir"
That's it, Sammis. The fact is,
have written a little note to offer my
services, and knowing that | could
trust you
I took the note and he remembered
that l was fatherless and gave me hall
dollar He had only walked away,
when old Mr.. Barlow, the sole leather
agent came sauntering up to say:
"Sammis, l don't need all the room
in my office, and I've been thinking that
| could share half of it to some one
having light employment. If you
happen to know any one you might
mention the matter
Miss Perkins might go in with you.
sir"
Miss Perkins-Perkins? All! the
| scrap book agent Why, yes, it would
be just the thing for her. Plenty OF
room, light and cheerful office, and only
half the rent to pay. Here's dollar
on the mortgage, Sammis, and neat
time you happen to see Miss Perkins
you can mention the matter. You'd
better make out that the idea is your
own, and you can add that I'm faith
| erly sort of man and one not given to
nonsense"
In the course of three or four days a
| full dozen OF the tenants had been to
me. and the trap was baited. | gave
| Miss Perkins another chance before /
went further. AS she rode down in the
elevated, with me l asked her if the
serap-book business was turning out
as well as she hoped for. but she put
on a frigid look and replied:
! Remember what | told you, hubby.
When l can't run my business without
your help I'll ask you in. You elevate
the elevator and III run my office. Are
you still fatherless?"
"Yes'm."
wen, tildl UOHe Vi NY dndiI, anu
don't you presume on the situation.
have always found fatherless boys worse
than any other"
After that was determined to show
her no mercy. 1t didn't take me but
one day TO lay the rest Of the wires,
and one morning at 10 o'clock Miss
Perkins had callers. There were IL
of them, and all were tenants of the
building. They began with old Mr..
Barlow, who is 70 years old, and ran
down to young Mr.. Syke, who is only
is. Each one carried a bouquet, and
each one called TO tender the young
women the best advice he hes, in his
head. Five minutes after the first one
enteerd the last one was in | heard
old Mr.. Barlow and others trying to
make explanations, and Miss Perkins
had her voice away up as she talked,
but after three or four minutes the
climax came. Some one reared out
that some one else was a blamed old