The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-02-13
BRILLIANT OF


: And ne died-o. how SAD the tale.
During a discount sale
Name-Davfd kraus.
Beneath this heavy shaft OF granite
Big gun.
! Who knew TO such = ward a. cannot
Was 80 adapt OF dtsposiuon;
knew well the art or acquisition.
Selling dry goods was his biz
None had a better store than HIS.
Born OF parents. who then took
J lie met this old world on the level
Feared his God. but braved the Devil.
Which one got him's hard TO trace.
But George has friends-in either place.
six feet below In solitude
I'VE hope In fair conditionD
Lies one. IL We have understood
Aright-a fine physician
He prescribed pills for ills.
By the gallon and gilis.
Insisting that every one take EN-
And LIQUIDS galore from the corner drug
And The bottles were all labeled
shake EN-"
One day ne took sick and could not
or any small kind OF description.
And he died. so they say. on the follow
From a dose OF his own prescription.
(in memoir OF DIR. Chss. q. wingerter.
Beneath this chill portal lies all that IS
mortal
or one who was there with the thick
lie died. SO they say. in the usual way.
Caused by his last spell OF sickness
lie sold the real diamond-no quick-sil-
vered sham
directly Imported from old Amster-
dam"
He acted as treasurer while on the
earth
OF The Rusines. Mems Association"
The Directors in checking him up found
In the cash that creation.
But Charley. in hopes that he'd heal
Explained that he used 20 pay his I,alI
bills.
II this explanation sufficed cross the
Very good-If not. he's in a hell or a nix
@ChaS. y. Hancher.
Davis Talks.
After a very entertaining solo BY
Mrs. Ida Nolte-Steber. Hon. John W
Davis. congressman from the FRS
district delivered his Lincoln address
which in part follows:
Abraham Lincoln.
II has been well said that principles
have no anniversaries. and that al
celebrations and commemoratons
must center around either a great
event or n great man. We may be
lieve in and be governed by the prin
ciple. II may furnish our rule both o'
faith and action. but We remember
and memorabilia the man or the
event Principles inspire men. mer
produce events and vents determine
IN" march and progress of the world
And so tonight, in celebrating the
birthday OF Abraham Lincoln. we com
memorate a man who inspired by the
vision OF an i~ndissoluble union
wrought ont the mighty series oi
events that found their fruitage in
the emancipation proclamation, Get
tysburS and AppomatoX.
When we look ar the contrast which
his life presented. nothing is stranger
in all the n Of human history.
In his childhood I'm Kentucky he
had a few weeks of schooling with
n teacher. and then n few weeks
with another. and later in Indiana a
few months moro in n scattered way.
The sun Of all the schooling he ever
had in his whole life was hardly a
year, and yet at Gettysburg in less
than three hundred words he summed
M all the hopes and aspirations OF a
waT-worn nation and gave TO a listen
Ing world n of its loftiest and most
immortal examples OF English prose.
lincoIn's B%oyhood.
While a hoy his time belonged 70
his father. who hired him ont 10 the
neiChbors a. a man Of all work" al
wages which. when he was sixteen
years Of age. were only six dollars a
month. After his freedom day he bar
gained TO split four hundred rails for
every yard Of brown jeans dyed with
white walnut bark that would be nee
essaTy 70 mako HIM "A pair OF trous.
ers. hired out as n stcambOatman a;
Fifty cents per day contemplated be
coming n blacksmith: ran a grocery
store and failed in business: became
a surveyor and suffered tho mortifca
tion % having his horse and survey
ing tools levied on for debt. and re-
deemed them with money borrowed