Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

bicycle he says. 4 guess that's fright
/ They say he was a purity tough man
i before he left Wash'n'ton.' Sure he
was. Why, so-an '-so-an' 'Ye don't
| tell met Is there anything in that
story about his beatin' his poor oil
aunt an her iliven children out iv
four dollars?' I guess that's straight.
Ye can tell be tn looks iv him he's a
mean man. / niver see a man with
squintin' eyes an white hair that wud-
dent rob church. He's a cow'rd,
too. Why, he r-run away at tn bat
tie iv Manila. Ivirybody knows 1t. I
r-read what Joe Whats-His name
wrote-th' brave correspondent. He
says this Teller was sick at his Stun.
mick an retired befure tn Spanish
fire. Why, what's he have to fight
but lot of oil row-boats? A good
swimmer with sharp teeth cudve bit
his way through tn whole Spanish fleet
An he r-run away. l tell ye, 1t makes
me tired to think iv til way we abus-
ed tn Spaniards not long ago. Why,
say, they done a lot betther thin this
fellow Dewey. with his forty or iifey
men-iv-war an this gran nation, miles
away, standin' shoulder to shoulder at
his back. They niver TURNED over
their property to their wives Yes
says wan man, Dewey was a cow'rd.
Let's go and stone his house No,
says tn crowd he might come out.
Let's go down to tn vriety show an
hiss his pitcher in tn kinetoscope.',
Welt"
well. what?" demanded Mr.. Hens
messy.
Well" Mr.. Dooly continued. X was
on'y goin' to say, Hinnissy, that In spite.
iv me haGhred iy George as a man---Al
married man--an' me con-timpt f'r his
qualities as a fighter, in spite II III
chickens he has stole an th' notes me
has forged an the homes me has rooHed.
il he was to come r-runnin' up Archeyi
road, as he might, pursooed by ladies'
an gintlemen an tn palajeem iy our
liberties peltin' him with rotten eggs
an oil cats, I'd open hh' dure FIR him.
an within he come in I'd put me ftlt be-
hind it am I'd say to the grateful peo-
pie: 'Felloe-citizens,' I'd say, lave U.S.
I'd say. 'They'se another hero down I'M
Halsted sthreet that's ben married. Go
down an shdyaree him. An YOU. ms
thruNted colleagues iv I'm press, dis
perse to y'r homes I'd say Tn key
holes Is closed f'r tn night. I'd say.
An thin I'd bolt tn dsIre an I'd say,
George, take off ye'er COAT an pull up
to tn fire Here's noggn' Nv whisky
near yeer thumb an a good seegar Fl
We TO smoke I'm no worshiper.
I'm too old. But | know a man whin
/ see wan an though we euddent come
out an help ye whln TN subscription
list whit wild. be sure VIC think as
much Nv We as we did whin ye'er name
was first mintioned be tn gtanch an
faithful press. Set here, oil la-ad, an
warrllm ye'er toes by tn fire. Set here
an r-rest firm TN gratichood Nv ye'er
fellow counthrymen, that as Shakes
pere Says, biteth like q asp an sting
eth like a adder R-rest here az yo
might r-rest at tn hearth iv millyons ~
people that cud give ye no house but
their oWni"
81 dinnaw about that" said Mr.. Hen
messy
II like Dewey, but / think hs
oughtn't to'ye give away tn gift ~ th
nation"
well" said Mr.. Dooley, III twas q
crime fr an American citizen 70 have
his property in mis- wifes name they'd
be close quarthers in tn plnitinchry."