The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-10-20
Pa and the Heartless Coal Barona.

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We got our coal Last week. When
paw bot It they told him It would be
Twenty-Five cents a ton extry to put 1t
in the seller. Becoz we haven't emmy
shoot and 1t Hast to be Carried Id from
the street across the yard.
That's what I call a noutrage." raw
scd when he Got home. I'm against
the coal barrcns from this minute. Here
they go and Raise the price just when
a person Begins 10 need II. and then
want to charge extry to Bring 1t In the
house. Does the grocery boy make
you pay evtry when he brings In your
pptatocgs and sets them down SO hard
that the bagabusts and they spill all
over the Kitchen floor? No. Does the
butcher make you pay tribbewt when
he brings your sossidge In and Hangs It
over the Back OF the chair the hirde
girls DO sits In OF mite? Not nlutchi
The first thing you no these Bloatel
gorGons and Blud-Sucking troglodites
won't do u thing but make you pay for
the ware and tair on their Scales while
they are waying out your fifteen hum
drcd pound tun. So I'm a-golng to put
the coal In the seller myself. | need the
cxercize emmy way, and It'll save So"
When they had the coal all piled UP In
the street, paw came home erly In the
Afternoon md Took OF his Cufts and
Got u bushel baskt.
The captun came over from next Door
and stood around with his Hands In his
pockets and asst paw II he didn't think
1t would be Better 10 Try to Save the
mummy some other way.
That's the great trubble with most
people" paw Told him. "They always
think 1t Would be Better TO Try to Save
the mummy some other way. It mite dol
they would ever think some Other way
was the. rite way, but they don't. When
purson Begins to thlnk he'll save up
some other Way he's lost. The only
way Is the way that's Before you when
you think about It first. Nobuddy ever
got TO be u liloso!er by thinking he
would look around for Some other way
toGt Hlosoiickle When SO2kratecs for
got TO match the sample his Wife gave
him in the morning end she found out
about 1t he dint Gra5 the poker and
think 1t would be better to commence
getting tilosotickle some other tine. lie
held up the Table cloth he wore for
bizness suit, SO wouldn't get tripped on
~ anu "ChI DtlHS u
from that minnit I'm going to put this
coal in Just for spite"
So me and little Albert got some
Shovels and filed the basket and pay
commenct carrying It In. BY the time
he made four trips the onnust SWEET and
Some OF the coal got to running down
inside OF his collar, and pritty soon
when he went down the seller steps
with the basket on the Back Of his neck
our Daw6 was coming up after the cat.
and didn't seem to see paw. becoz 1t was
dark there and they were In a Hurry.
emmy way. a
The captun was standing out on the
Sidewalk Smoking his pipe and telling
me and little Albert about when he ,lst
to be a Stoker and stocked with sides OF
Bacon sometimes II they got into II race
with another Botc. and Suddenly 1t
Sounded Ike II all the pins In the Bowl
Ing alley got rocked down ut once and
two or Three OF the balls went on
through the end OF the lBilding.
Crate heavens the Captun says,
have you boys emmy relations ihat'n
take care OF you when you Get to be
Homeless orfnna?
The? We ran to the seller and down at
the Bottum Of the stnres they was a
urge dark LOOKING pile OF Sumthing.
We could tel THAT part OF It was paw
by the Groaning.
Hey. there. Monett," the Captun scd,
has ennything happcned?"
BY that time NAV Got on the seen OF
trubble. too, and paw sat up among
the chunks OF coal, with one laIg throo
the bottun: OF the basket and felt round
his face to see II ennything was gone.
After awhile he loolst at the captun and
sed:
ago?''
Il lust wanted to no II ennythIng hap
pered," the cantun told him.
Paw picked Up a lump OF COIL and
then laid II down again and said:.
NO "A man oRly lowers himself to
ursue with HIS interiors; F
So the coal company sent man and
wouldn't throw OF ennything for what