Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-09-08

was only III ovs Of the way when Q
man with a satchel came along. He
was a persuasive man with a persua-
sive smile, and as he turned In at tn'
gate there was a sort of ba.m in his
voice as he announced:
Il am selling powder for the manu-
facture Of root beer for family use
They are strictly vegetable, recommend
ed by all doctors, and nc drink on earth
can compare with it. My regular price
is % cents a package, but in order to
introduce the powders into this neigh
borhood | will make you a reduction.
Here is a package for Is cents, and full
directions accompany it,
Mrs. Bowser expected Mr.. Bowser to
buy four packages and rush for the
basement 10 make a barrel of the elixir,
but she was way off. He simply re-
marked that he was trying iced milk for
the summer and did not care to mix 1t
with anything else, and, although the
man hung on for ten minutes longer,
| there wasn't the shadow of a row. He
was followed by a man who had what
he called a pocket burglar alarm. 1t
was warranted to sound an alarm be-
fore a burglar had got within ten rods
of the house and to raise such a racket
that the police. fire department and sew
eral ambulances would be called out
simultaneously, but Mr.. Bowser exhi-
lbfted no interest. On other occasions
he would have snapped up that s25 bur-
glar alarm as a hen reaches out for a
potato bug, but this was his quiet day.
He wished the man well, but he refused
to invest. AT this the cat gave the
thing up in disgust and retreated to the
cool, dark eayern under the family
lounge, and Mrs. Bowser called her
liege lord in and solicitously asked:
"Mr. Bowser, do you feel any aches
or pains anywhere"
Not a blessed one" he replied.
Does your heart beat regularity"
Like clock work"
ANY feeling as if you had a weigh.
on top your head?'
"Of course not. Why do you ask
these silly questions?"
Il didn't know but that the heat
might have affected you"
sNTAk -a,,lL - #aaAI a,,~,w.
Der on ice"
After luncheon Mr.. Bowser took a
stroll through the house, but be neither
suggested re~painting. repapering nor a
change of carpets. He might have said
that the cellar needed a neN coat %
wbitewash, but he di1n't. There was
one screen door which tagged a little,
but he didn't get out MS ,oois TO fix it.
One of the water fauc3 5 needed a new
washer. but he let it alone. AS lie
went back to the front steps a sewing
machine agent came along and buzzed
him, a patent stone man tried to talk
him into a new sidewalk, and a man
came along and offered him a $50 COW
or hold any protracted argument. The
gas bill came in and he paid it without
a word, and two tramps came along
and got a dime apiece out of him with
out going into particulars as to how a
cloudburst had wiped their families off
the face of the earth. Mrs. Bowser
simply walked around on her tiptoes
and carried a pale face, and a dozen
times during the day she almost decid-
ed to send for the doctor and have him
examine Mr.. Bowser's head. 1t was
after dinner, however, that the greatest
again occupied the steps as the sun
went down, and in quick succession
along came two extra icemen, a bana-
ma peddler, a boy with a pup pug, two
women canvassing for a hospital and d
farmer with II hens to sell. Mr..
Bowser turned them all down, but kind
ly, n they were folioWed by a lOne
man with a fiddle. The fiddler was
moving off after getting a nickle and
playing "Old Black joe as he went
when the inventor of a three wheeled
wagon, who had been looking for Mr..
Bowser all day. Arrived. He had been
told that his wagon was a good thing,
but that Mr.. Bowser was a better. He
had a model with him, and he sat down
and exhibited it and talked of mechan-
les and profits and wagon trusts for
hat an hour without taking a full
breath. There had been days when Mr..
Bowser would have Rugged that three
wheeled wagon to his breast, but on this
occasion he idly turned the third wheel
and said nothing. By and by the in
Yentor ceased to talk, and a minute lat