The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-31
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ALL-HALLoW EVE.

AstSEy .foEthSR Roys ana 6iris 70 Read n:
this Eyening--+EYhat is said TO have
Happened ON, = HaIIOw.EYe md
night. -aiir uistg ,sAelI.lf ,I.,sEl7i
Ihaa Just one year of.pure, bright
happiness given TO me by the Lord
when I was a young fellow. OF, twenty
one. He took it away again when He
saw fit-maybe l didn't deserve it; but
I'm suresitI made me none the worse
while it lasted, for 1t has made mo bet
ter, just thinking of it; ever since. 2 ID
Somehow the angels put in my way
the eidearestand brightest girl you ever
saw! So good and pretty, 1 wonder
now ever bronEh int her TO likeInie I; and
yet who did love me about as i loved
her, She lived to, wear the wedding
few nights in my bosom, and then God
took her. They said She wasn't meant
to live a long life any more than sprinp
ytolets arctic Violets she loved 50. i
DelteVe they were right. 1T came to me
after she was dead, that I Couldn't ever
,t.iiS IanSy her woman; lo9lSing as other
!nludle-aSed women do, or anything hut
Just the! girl she was-with fair hair
curling IN her neck, and hands with
ulmples IN them like a baby's-ohI lit
tie hands, that turned cold I'm nv own
as held theml -
was not rich man, twas eithor beg
or work. Even grief. couldn't take mo
down to the begging point. and 4
couldn't go on either at my old
p!nee, taking my way homie every
night to my empty houseg or pass
1ng' 1t to sleep at mothers, as tsle
wanted me to. 1 said to her, as said
!S9sly g myself, that I'd lose my senses that
tWay,, and diela mani0Gg SOL found
something to do thnt' took me away
travelling over the States, North and
south, and often as far back as the Mis-
sissippi. Always moving always busy.
never forgetting her, but never giving
ory. -
Once year, or -so-mnybea Mt Christ
mas, or thanksgiving, or on my birth
day. used to find anyway back to the
ola tolk KS, and. then my room was always
ready And }m0ther Waiting for! me. | /
couldh't stay, though. g Iiofteni tried to.
for mother's sake, hut it was no use!
"a 80 to the graveyard and find the
Attle stone, with roses and dew-plnntall
about II, and know She was- there,
ndyet1 couldn't get 1t out of my head
mat II could but go into our little
mouse should find her, alive and bright
gnd beautiful And in the walks by
the river and through the woods I've
felt my heart beat as if it would burst
just at seeing some girl in around hat
and white dress-as though there wore
q chance of coming across. her.
So In a week or two 1 had to go again.
" was always so. 1 didn't talk much
about itL' twasn' my way-b1t mother
knew. One year Ihad not been home
atall until October came, and Iknew the
trees on the old place were nlli tufningto
red and gold, and that the graveyard
was carpeted with leaves, aid In the
sweet, misty October afternoons mother
sat knitting on the porch, thinking OF
Jems and IL felt shome-sicls, and as ii
there We're no rest any where; and with
/ out writing a'word took the cars and
went home. .,..,.,,.
was glad1 went, for she'd been i'll,
mother had, and was fretting herself
abont me. = sieeei sttCtH3 Z. tlf1sfs
"Couldn't you stay for good, Jim2,,
she said. eYour father iS old, and here
is the place on his hands, and You, his
only son. off and away the. year round.
It's not right, child I, -
Well I knew 1t wasn't, but I couldn't
so crazy of my ffeeHwill, ri told herIid
stay as long as dared-and I did, /
stayed until she wns well again, and
netl PED With the late autumn farm-Wo Work;
and every night went 70 my pets
grave and sat there sometimes for
hours. i was and4twehty Iy that
time, and If she had lived she would
nave been twenty-she who had been
IN her grave alread four long years !
it seemed strange to me how people
as much about their wives asT;I did
about mine, as q general thing. After
the 1irst year they took It MS aimatter Of
course that L should marry again-tak-
ing the old loHeiout of my heart as /
t2oka the band d Of Grape of of my hat.
Affe h sSp ag ME- @ noN sE sISS 8lSk9S out out fts shis
pretty face or q ,faculty4sfor house.
keeping, or one who was "sute to suit
me Ishefwasi 50, auiab able.'1 4lsl lfflrsii
Most OF all my, busln Nelly torment
ed me on the stibje why, 4 can't tell,
oE,lltnougha1' m NOT vain, u hppe) j
think the girl lwonld have had me her
selt ,tlS had, liking for her,
She was a merry creature, full OF fun.
and fond OF pfae tical joIS Se! Who yyaa
hurt sine never cared so that SHE had
her laugh;s and If she bma1e YOU blush
and Vince nder her smart speeches.
al an: the better for Nell. i eouidohhve
oeen content 4eVer to See her at the
mouse, but other said she brightened
the whole place with her laugh and her
merry ways, and she WIS there hHlf the
time while was ho inc. Il Il i fancy Inoth-
ier hoped. . might some dIys take q no
Etton To 4NellRaud marry her and settle
down again ON the ihfm instead of
Tr4Yine It was farther from my
thoughts than any thing nithe world
con19, nave been.
% ~ llloWi Eye ca me md while was
nome TINS time; and W Yllile we three sat
Z tl!lQpt tlle tirei us tenlng TO the boys rum
siting along the street, thraps at every
door and Iells OF, siHolly eve Z iI1olly,
evet I'd help ped ithem0ttenyf flienIsyyas
: 9 tefe ~ me iit
-oIlfs. and % who should stand the but