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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-10-28

room No. 237 than he sent for nae and
said:
"Sammis, my boy, the owner of this
building do not care TO know, and
shall pass the agent by with a cold
nod. The janitor and the engineer will
be naught to me. but. l wish for the
good will and friendship of the elevator
boy. l hear that you are fatherless.
Let me be father to you. hear that
you are trying to pay off gigantic
mortgage on your widowed mothers
little cottage. Take these S. as freely
as they are offered. Let us be father
and comrades-friends."
That's the way he talked, and he won
my young and innocent heart at once
| started right out to make life worth
living for him. He was agent for a
smoke consumer, and l told everybody
who got into the elevator that it best
anything ever invented and ought to be
in every respectable family. When
girl came looking for a situation as
typewriter | told her how benign and
fatherly Mr.. Roosevelt was, and that if
he employed her she ought to be glad
to work for So week and pay for his
ginger ale besides | stole lemons and
mint from Mr.. Rasher, the agent, and
carried them up to room 237 on hot
days, and when collectors came around
with bills l lied to them and said Mr.
'MczsweN was out in California TO de-
veiop a 100000 gold nine. No ele-
vator boy III the fa2c CT this earti ever
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neighbors? If there was ever a wife
who seemed to want TO pick a fuss
with her husband, you are the ore.
However, you don't bluff me. l will
now sing"
He drew long breath and began.
The first effect was On the cat. She
had rather taken to the music Of the
phonogrgph and purred over it, but as
Mr.. Bowsers first notes rose ON the
air her eyes began to glare and her
back to arch. and before the second
lire was ended she was ready to fight
the battle CT her life. Other things
speedily followed The cook came run
ning up from the kitchen with the
bread knife in her hand and defiance
OF tramrs in her eyes, and shouts OF
alarm from front and rear proved that
the nelghbors were wondering whether
it WAS 4 cyclone or cioutiJursa. Things
became plain even to Mr. Bowser. He
struck at the cat, jumped at the cock
and ceased his Song, and then he stood
and glared at Mrs. Bowser long min
ute before exclaiming:
I'll never forget nor forgive this if
live to be 10000 years old!"
But didn't / warn your" she pro-
tested.
Warn Inc. Do you mean to say l
can't sing in my own house-that my
singing is not as good as yours or any
body else's? Didn't used to sing in
church choir? Haven't they asked me
to sing at the club? You simply put
up job on me. You have insulted
your own husband. Your presence in
this room for the rest of the evening
can be dispensed with
Mrs. Bowser went up stairs without
a WoNd The cat started to go down
stairs and out of doors, but changed
her mlne and stopped to see the thing
out. The Bowser cat is like Mr.. Bow
ser himselt-7-full of perversity. After
the helgnDors seemed to have settled
down from their scare Mr.. Bowser
looked out of the, front windows to see
that the coast was clear of policemen.
and, returning to the photograph, he
said to himself.
II they don't want to hear my voice
after | am dead and gone they can go
TO grass. I'll leave 1t behind me at any
rate instead of singing, I'lf make a
speech into the blamed thing. &c.
out, you Internal cat! WHAT do you
stand there glazing at me for? Let me
see, used to hit off Patrick Henry
mighty well. How does it go? All.
yes.
Gentlemen may cry 'fPeace, peace,"
But there is no peace. The next gale
that sweeps from the north will bring
to our ears the clash of resounding
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-10-28
FEB WHITE.
He Tells How He Went For whisky
md Found a Bear.


md Found a Bear.
Copyright, 1900, C. b. rLewis.)
"Jest befo' the revenue fellers cap
tured the last moonshine still around
yere," said the old possum hunter of
Tennessee, I'VE had fo-teen kegs of
whisky in the shaft of an old iron
mine on the side of the mounting
That shaft was 20 feet deep and grown
about by bushes. After the whisky
had staid thar over two years it was
planned fur me to take it out and sell
it and divide up the money. The old
woman knew of the plant, but I wasn't
goin to say nuthin' bout me getin the
kegs out. She was reckonin' all along
that some one else would do that One
afternoon | driv the mule and cart as
nigh the place as / could and long
bout two hours arter nightfall | says
to the old woman:
"Tf 20 don't consider to object.
reckon I'll go over and see Dan Skin
ner this evenin'. Dan is feelin' peekish
and lonesome. He likely will want a
game OF checkers to brighten him up
But | do object she says. I was
reckonin to sing some hymns tonight
while 20 played the fiddle | also want
to talk to yo' bout Noer and his ark
I've got a sore thumb and can't
fdle. and. as fur Noer, he will keep
till some other time. Nothin rushin
bout Noer.
with that she turns on me and
looks me squar in the face, and arter
mint she says:
"Zeb White, don't yo' go to foolin
with Noer and his ark or suthin power
full bad will come out Of it. Dan Skin
ner may feel peekisih, or he may be
dyin, but what we wants to know Is
how all them critters found their way
into the ark. How did 1t happen that
the hens didn't eat up the tater bugs
while they was walkin together
Dunno
Why didn't the foxes eat ali the
hens?"
Dunno
Why didn't the bar eat the pigs?'
Dunno.
"tOf co'se you don't, and that's why
! want yo' to squat right down yere
with me and try to fgger 1t out
shan't never be satisfied to die till find
out how the elephants and hosses and
cattle managed to git into that ark
without trsadin q tAe sarpiuts and
bask
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MR.. BoWsER's TRIBULATIcZs.
He Gets Photograph at = Bargain
and Does Some Talking.


Copyright 1900 by C. B. LewIs.)
simultaneously with Mr.. Bcwsers ar
rival home the other evening there came
delivery wagon with monograph,
and before Mrs. Bowser could observe
that she had been expecting him to
develop new fad for week past, he
began to explain:
Its a phonograph | bought second
hand and at the biggest bargain you
ever heard of. In fact, it was almost
given to me. There can be no fad about
a monograph. You just wait till after
dinner, and If it don't prove the most
interesting thing in this house I'll throw
it over the fence"
Mrs. Bowser knew all about phono-
graphs, OF course, and she did not OBJ
ject to it as monograph. If Mr.. Bow
ser could raise row over a harp, a
fiddle, a fire escape, a recipe for root
beer and a lost dog, she felt that q
phonograph might bring trouble. Little
more was said until after dinner Then
the instrument was placed in the sitting
room and set going, and for half an
hour all went well. 1t brought forth
song and speech and conversation and
seemed perfectly harmless to raise a
family row. ar. Bowser hadn't been SO
tickled since he paid SIS for a buzzard
under the patriotic idea that he was
buying an American eagle.
BY George" he exclaimed as he and
Mrs. Bowser and the cat sat in a half
circle about the photograph, 'but we've
struck it at last! We've got a better
thing here than all the pianos, fiddles,
checkerboards, concerts, camp meet
ings and cake walks on the face of this
earth combined"
Eyes, it's interesting and amusing"
reluctantly admitted Mrs. Bowser, ''blt
let's not have too much of it all at
once. You can put it in the closet
there, and tomorrow night I'll ask the
Browns over"
but didn't bring it home altogether
to hear other folks talk and sing he
protested. I'm going to put in fresh
cylinder and do a little of it myself
and ] also want you to. When either
OF US is dead and gone, the survivor
will be tickled to death to hear the
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others tones again. This, you see, is
a cylinder. 1t is composed of waxy
substance. Now it's in, and you've
only to begin talking Whatever you
say this evening may be listened to by
people 10000 years hence"
But I'm not going to talk"
why not?"
Because I've nothing to say to in
terest people 10000 years hence
That's you all overt" he exclaimed.
1 might have known you'd play the
mule Very well; if you don't want
me to hear the tones of your voice aft
er you have been laid away In your
narrow home. | shall not be overanx-
sous about It, If l did hear them il
would probably be something about
lads and intended to hurt my feelings.
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why the Engagement Wa. Brokea.

Why the engagement Was Broken.
Parsons Weekly.
so your engagement is broken?"
said the girl in gray.
Yes, IL is" replied the girl in brown,
frowning at the recollection.
What was the matter2"
lie basely deceived me-" answered
the girl in brown, You see, It was this
way. | asked him one day to promise
me that he never again would smoke
cigarettes, and he promised. Then
asked him to refrain from the use or
tobacco. in any form, and he promised
to do that Later l told him had a
horror OF any one who touched liquor,
and he agreed never 10 touch II. After
that / suggested that l thought clubs
had a bad influence on young men, and
| should expect him to give them up.
and he said he would. / also took up
the subject of gambling and made him
promise that he would stop playing
cards and betting on he races.
We'll, you didn't demand a great deal
Of him. did your" said the girl in gray.
Il suppose he deceived you in the mat
ter?"
"He did"
Broke his promises, did he?"
"Oh, no, could have forgiven that.
But just when | was congratulating
myself that ! at least had reformed one
young man found that he didn't re-
quire any reforming. He wasn't adj
dicted to single one OF the habits !
made him promise to break. II was a
terrible shock and broke the engage
ment at once. There was no longer any
thing in 1t to make II interesting"
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I'm do some talking myself, however,
and some day after I'm gone you may
be glad to hear 1t. Let me see. / think
I'll sing verse of THE Sweet BY and
By as a starter"
Then sing it in whisper" she
cautioned.
Why should | sing it in whisper?
What do you mean by such words?"
"The-the neighbors, you know
The neighbors be hanged. What
has my singing got to do with the
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drawed the rope up beyand my reach
and then called down:
is anybody down thar visitin Dan
Skinner who feels peekish and wants
TO play checkers?
eff yo'll femme up. III ak yo'r par.
don, says l.
'Mebbe that voice belongs to zeh
white?'
e'She do
IAN mehbe his sore thumb has got
well so that he kin fiddler
"'She has
'And with that she lowers the fiddle
by string. and as as l got tuned up she
began singin and kept it up fur an
hour. Then she calls down:
"Zeb. what about Noer and his
ark?"
I'm willin to talk says L.
How long will 20 talk?'
"All the rest of the fall and winter.
Feared to me when 70 spoke of 1t last.
evenin that l didn't keer much bout
Noer and his ark, but I'm findin out
that take heap of interest in EN-.
I'm willin to sit up all night and try to
figger out bout the hens and the
later bugs
"'Then mebbe yo'd better come up
says she, and she draps the rope fur
me to climb by. never felt so glad in
my life as when got out and seen
dead bar thar wanted to gin the
old woman kiss, but SHE waves me or
and says:
Don't yo' be in SIGH hurry, Mr..
White AFTER yo' hey ate and drank
and slept, and arter we've put in bout
70 weeks figgerin on Noer. Wen see
bout the kissin bizness. Chuck them
kegs back into the hole. load up the
bar, and we'll go home.
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arms. We have stood this thing long
enough. We are going to fight. We
are going-we are going"
He was trying to recall what the pa
triot was going to do when the cook
came UP from the kitchen. She looked
wild eyed, but determined.
What do you want?" demanded Mr..
Bowser.
Il want the mistress and my wages, :"
she replied. i've worked for thirteen
of the best families In this city, and
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-10-28

Taken from the visitors book Of ho-
tel In Scotland. kept by man named
James Chester.
Charge. Chester. charged" your poet
wrote;
And. though the lines you do not quote.
His precept you have made your own
The charge" in your account Is shown.
But then Scott wrote "On. Stanley. orr
Twas sage advice Goodbyl I'm gone.
ARTHUR STANLEY.
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THE ELEVATOR BOY,

Some Personal Experiences ms Re-
lated by Himself.
Copyright. 1900 by C. B. Lewis.)
When Mr.. MosswelI came to our sky
scraper as tenant, I thought that he
Was one of the most fatherly men l ever
met. in my adventurous elevator life.
His desk had hardly been put into
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-08

Israel ZanewilI

@## "tl sNp ? B. n m,
know it, and sometimes they do not
themselves know that they do not know
1t. ".t~.. ..-. .
If Herbert Spencer had succeeded in
p~igeon-holing the universe. 1t would re-
main as mysterious as before. Herbert
Spencer explained everything-except as
Herbert Spencer. The scientist too often
forgets himself, with his wonderful gifts
of reason. Of conscience, and thirst for
knowledge. and love of truth When the
scientists have done their worst, and the
astronomers have taken the size and
weight of every planet, and every spec
trum line is known, We might still say:
Twinkle, twinkle little star,
How l wonder what you are!"
Mathematics are Indispensable to nay
~igation, but on th4 sea of life we steer
well without them; some Of the most
charming womensIt know count on their
fingers. We are~attoubled with the life
history of invisible insects. 1t is this
dissection Of life that causes the thick
fog of pessimism to hover over the age.
OF course, I have nothing to say against
scientific men, who, having done their
business in the Kitchen know how to
make way for the poet and the philcso-
pher in the drawing room; I know many
who regard the universe from a higher
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invented by Shakespeare, but appeals to
us more and more every year as true TO
life. There was a shorthand Of incident.
One day fully told would fill a library
but, Of course, the artist must select, and
his work would be true if he selected
the incidents that We're true to life. Such
selection should be done, not with a pair
of scissors, but as with a diminishing
lens, reducing everything in true pro-
portion. Life condensed into a few chos-
en- scenes lis not untrue, for our own lives
look like that when we stand back a lit
tie. Distance lends perspective to the
VIEW Art is not nature, but it is nat
ural. The novelist is a student of the
fullest form of fact, and his summaries
of humanity are as S -ientific as the for
mulae of the scientist.
The essence lies in the Importance of
emotion. In some forms of spiritual and
moral truth, emotion makes nearly the
whole truth: there are truths about our
selves which are motor-truths, driving
us along. A truth may be formulated.
but it is not true unless it Is felt. A
photograph receives words but feels
nothing. The world is a signing, sing
ing, suffering thing. A man who gives
the fullness of life, with his own emo
tion. is not only giving US truth, but the
highest truth.
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among it's professors. "Hark! Hank!
the lark at heav'n's gate sings The
scientists rush Upon that lark, and tear
it to pieces. Blu is the truth in tine
lark, or in poets conception of the lark?
Why should the scientists view be re-
garded as true, and the poets as moon
shine? Both are true, and the poet
would be as wrong as the scientist if
he forgot all views depend on the point
at which one places ones self.
Dickens little GradgrInds had cabinets
in various departments of science; but
it is only in the Justification of the muse
UNI of science that things exist in little
cabinets, or butterflies are on pins. In
art, as in nature, but butterflies hutter-
ed along among the flowers. Truth is in
the fluttering butterfy-which does not
know that he has been classified, not
in dead formulate, but in air and aliven-
ed.
To a Hottentot, a baby, or an idiot,
words I might speak would only be vi
brations of the air impinging on the ear.
producing strange sounds; but would
that account of them be a very high form
of truth? Scientific people may know
a thing in such a way that they do not
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Max O'ReiI

so tempting that many correspondents of
London papers dared not speak their own
minds. One of the most famous of them.
now dead, had to confess that. from the
beginning of the Rennes trial he felt that
If DreyfuS' guilt could not be proved, he
would certainly be unable to convince
his judges of his Innocence. Under the
circumstances an English tribunal would
nave acquitted . him, though perhaps
without adding "hohorably." The Scotch
would " said% t.Not proven" hat is
to say Not guilty, but don't do it again.
Now French verdicts, rightly or q think
wrongly, are given i'm the following man
ner: We cannotlptove that the accused
is elilty; but, in our. soul and conscience.
we eiieve him guilty, and therefore we
cannot acquit hint
1t should be added that suspicion is the
national defect of the French, as jeal-
ousy is their national vice. SO strong and
deeprooted is this characteristic, that a
F~renchman, acquitted by a court of JUS
tice, is looked askance at, and summed
by his acquaintanc4s. if not, of course, by
his intimate friends. There is never
smoke without fire. they say.
Now, all this is ignored by the masses
of the English people, who, also. have
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point Of view, but they do so, not as
men of science, but as poets and philos-
oohers.
A wise man has said, "In fiction
everything is true except names and
Gates; in history nothing is true except
names and dates" A novel that merely
tells a story is art in it's anecdote. The
greatest creations are the shorthand of
humanity. Many persons who have had
all the experience cannot pass it on to
others; if they could, they would be
novelists.
In my critical capacity I have some-
times said of a novel, that it was not
true to life, and the author had replied.
at is taken from life But in what
sense? In the sense that the author had
made it dead. There had been a failure.
not to copy the model, but to copy the
general appearance and the movements
of life. That life-likeness was all that
art renuired.
M~ephistopheles, Caliban and Kipling's
jungle beasts are not false: they are on
the lines of life. and are as true to the
laws of their own nature as Hamlet and
Macbeth. Puck and Ariel may have ex-
SEED.
The true artist. the true poet cannot
tell a lie. Was Shakespeare a liar when
he dealt with Prime Hal? Hamlet was
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that unhappy knack of always advising
the people of the earth how they should
act and wen how they should think that
is, as the English do act and do think.
This is John Bulls characteristic foible,
and he knows it.
If the French are utterly ignorant of
the modes of thought, the manners and
customs of the English. The English are
just as ignorant on the subject of France.
The two nations have absolutely nothing
to %reproach each other for. And it may
be said that France and Egland, like
all the other nations of the earth, are
neither better nor worse the one than the
other, but simply different. different in
their manners, tastes, virtues and vices,
that is all.
Since the Dreyfus affair the French pa
pers have had their revenge.
They seized a grand opportunity when
the English went to war, ito annihilate
a brave a little nation of peasants in Or
der to rob them of their freedom and in
dependence"
Even in America, with the exception of
the Fifth avenue aristOcracy, I found
practically everybody pro-Boer and shout
ing at the top of their voices that all the
Americans should be in favor of the
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Possibility of An AnSloFrencf War~-1oW to Avoid It

ed if it had been left in the hands of the
diplomatists.
But the drawback, the danger of all
democracies is the unrestrained liberty
of the press, and the Fashoda incident
gave the newspapers of France and Fig
LAND a grand opportunity. of which they
eagerly awaited themselves to hurl sneers
and insults at each other. Alas! worse
han that, how can the French forget
that inciden t, when a minister Of the
English crown, perhaps the foreign min
lister, nay, the prime minister of tomor-
row, does not hesitate to refer to a pos
sible English humiliation as a French
Fashoda?'
All this, however. is nothing compared
to the manner in which the English press
behaved towards France during the
Dreyfus trial. Because justice is not adj
ministered in France as it is in England,
that trial caused nearly the whole of the
English press to drag France in the mud
for months and months.
Nothing is more resented by nations
than strangers mixing in their home af-
fairs. Nations( like private individuals.
wish to do their own family washing at
home. The opportunity to "erase France
from the list Of civilized nations was
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S. Holden, Astronomer of Smithsonian Institution

stars have been fixed with exactness.
TIL heavens are assiduously watched.
by professionals and by amateurs, in all
the lengths and breadths of the globe.
and no change of Importance can take
place without being detected-perhaps
by photography-and reported by the
electric telegrapher to every interested
watcher in all the continents.
The advent of Photography as the
handmade of astronomy marks a dis
tinct advance in the process of obser-
walton. The sensitive plate partially
records all rays of light that fall Upon
it's surface. Such a plate directed at
the heavens shows thousands upon
thousands of stars, each registered hts
proper position and of its proper bright
ness. A second plate taken upon a sue
ceeding night record all changes either
of position or of brilliancy. 1t is in this
way that new minor planets are dis
covered (by their change OF pOsitiOn),
new variable stars detected (bv their
change of b~rilliancy). Maps of the
whole sky are now made by protog-
Apply, and they record millions upon
millions of stars. The inventory of the
stellar universe will soon be completed,
a magnificent gift of this century to the
next. Photography has proved to be Of
immense Importance in the study Of
the moon. A satisfactory picture Of
the full NOM can be made in less than
a second of time which will show more
than is contained in the best lunar
maps that require a lifetime to CON
struct by the old methods.
The mysterious world Of the nebulae,
too. is depicted by means Of photog-
raphy with extraordinary fa%ithfulness.
the work of years of observation being
compressed into hours. Up to this time
little success has been attained, how
ever. in the study of planetary features
by photography and the old methods Of
telescope examination and pictorial
representation by drawings are still
employed. 1t is partly for this reason