The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-12-02
Here AND THERE.

llERE AND iitRt.
From th3nkagivtng to mourning std is
And Sad dfe the causes that lead thereto
And sad are the phantom1 % puncture
Ana tips I mans thoughts a dspreas-
ing blue.
For Christmas Il coming. and woe Il me;
For happy and Joyous the season. ]
The leason Of good cheer the gilt-lldsn
But my private ezchequer Is low.
Oh, what would do Il I had the colin
Id--oh, Il poverty didn't sternly epioln
TO all hands round, I'd NOT DO thing.
The which Is the why am much won't
TO sigh,
Though t ~ EobhIer sian fingers to glad
For &c 5ogle q Christmas glOons dis-
To the go, coinissS chap with the ordeal
~ iace' Nv
Evidently there Is no need of Good
Citizenship agitation in FaIrmont, II
one Is to believe the story going the
rounds concerning the Marion county
metropolis, Sunday Observance there
would do credit to Massachusetts, In
the rigid old Puritan days. and preach
ers must look to other fields for mu.
nlclpal reform topics, Judging by this
story A Wheeling man. a furnace
builder, tells It. According to his reel.
tai he was sent to Fairmont recently
to ut out a big building with heating
furnace, The Jobs finish didn't ma
teriallze on Saturday. as he had hoped.
for he wanted to return to Wheeling
not later than Monday. BY Saturday
evening his work had progressed so
well that he was satisfied that he could
finish II In a few hours on Sunday. He
announced his intention Of working on
Sunday to the owner of the building,
who threw up his hands IN horror al
the suggestion. remarking that such a
thing was unprecedented and would
call for the condemnation of the COM
munity. The Wheeling man replied |
that his presence in Wheeling on Mon
DAY was imperative and he didn't want
TO return to Fairmont for a few hours'
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hammers and sundry other tools to |
complete the Job, and in his lntentness
he reckoned not OF the disturbing |
sounds he made. Ever and anon he !
thought Of the many natives of the |
town that sat through the week on the |
store boxes and he wondered where |
their income came from. As he solil- |
oqulEed he doubted whether he had no.
ticed any man performing manual la |
Dor since he entered the town. But his |
dreams and his hsmmering were rudely
interrupted as a red-faced. pOmpous
parsonage strobe into the building.
What do you mean. sir, By working |
on the Lords Day?" quoth the consta-
~ want to finish and get away from
here" meekly replied the toiler.
Stop this minute, or I'll have you ar
rested. said the constable. You won't
work to-day"
"All right, sir" was the response. "I
guess It's a crime to work in this town |
any day." And the Wheeling man went |
forth on the next train.
The Thanksgiving holidays were
chosen for the wedding trip of Mon
roe county. Ohio, couple to Wheeling.
unusual or out-of-the-way in
that, of course. only that it served to
recall an amusing experience the groom
figured in year ago, when he came to
to purchase for his intended
an appropriate Christmas gift. He
elected to purchase ring on that oc-
casion. The jeweler In wrapping It up,
In some manner got mixed in his dates,
hanH,a 1, I
enough for watch. The box was
empty and in II were a succession Of
smaller boxes. the inner one containing
nothing but cotton. The mistake was
not discovered until the Ohio ruralist
by parlor fireslde unified the string |
10 display his present The girl was all
expectancy as he unwrapped one box
after another. His feelings may be i'm
agined as their eyes looked down dis
appOlntingly on the tiny bunch Of cot
ton. The young man hardly slept that
night in his haste to catch the first
steamboat bound for Wheeling. The
ieweler was only too glad to rectify his
error, and the box containing the ring
was found in a moments search. rest
Ing among some empty ones on reRr
SHELF
All hlNllllua VI Tue altAlG university 10
asking II the education of scientific
house maids doesn't come high, when
the instructor in domestic science at
the university gets Sl,4OO per annum to
instruct two girls in this fad, or 500
'or each. Neither Of the girls resides In
West Virginia, he says.
Some squlblets from the Clay County
stars
Buck" Ashley, who has been at
home for the last two weeks gathering
his corn. has now resumed his work of
Itave hauling at this place.
Monroe Kefne-. who Is engaged in the
stave business at this place. is hust-
Ter and would make a likely catch.
Sheriff Stephenson was in this vicin-
ty this week. He was wanting the boys
10 whack up and give cheerfully
Moonshine whiskey or some other
kind. is getting around once or twice a
week. 1t is bad medicine, circulated by
agents.
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