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

4 story, fOEthS Iso Boy ana Girls to Resad
this EIeninE--Yhat Is Said TO have
HapPeneti ON. = HaIlow.Eve md
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Ihad just one year ofpure, bright
happiness given to me, blythe Lord
when was q young fellow. of twenty
one. He took it away again when He
saw fit-maybe didn't deserve it; but
I'm sure9itY made me. none tho worse
while 1t lasted, for It has made me bet
ter, just thinking of it! ever since. q u
Somehow the angels put in my way
Rtheldearestand brightest girl you ever
howl ever Ibroush her TO likeiT6e and
yet who did love me about as L loved
her, She lived to. wear the wedding
ring I put upon her finger, Ito sleep n
rev nights in my bosom, and then God
took her. They said she wasn't meant
70 i've long life. any more than spring
yiolets are-the Siolets she loved 50. I
believe they were right. 1t came TO me
atter she was dead, that I icouldn't ever
fancy her woman, looking as other
!ntddle=aged women do, Or anything but
just the girl she was-with fair hair
curling IN her neck, and hands with
ulmples IN them like n babyls-ohl lit
tie hands, that turned cold in my own
as held themI iT
Twas not a rich man, 'twns either beg
| or work. Even grief couldn't take me
down to the begging point; and I
G 9Iace '{skg% 20 on either i ct my old
night t., my empty House, or pass
Ding 1t to sleep at mothers, as size
wanted me to. / snid to her, as 1 said
to myself, that I'd lose my senses TINT.
way, and diefa maniac SOIL, found
something to doslthatztoolzn me away
travelling over the Suites, North and
South, and often as far back ms the Mis-
sissippi. Always Wing always busy,
never forgetting her, but never giving
DRY.
Once year, or so-mnybe at Christ
mus, or thanksgiving, or on my BIRTH
day used to find, anyway back to the
olR folks and then my room was always
read and mother Waiting for me. I
couldh't stay though. Iioften tried to.
for motherls sake, hut it was no use!
10 go to the graveyard and find the
AttIe stone, with roses and dew-plnntall
ABOUT ~, ana know she was there,
ndyet1 couldn't gel ikout of my head
that If could but go into our little
house should find her, alive and bright
ind beautiful And in the walks Tby
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 were
q chance of coming across. her.
SO In week or two / had to go again.
1t was always so, didn't talk much
about it, twasn' my way-but mother
knew. One year i had not been home
atall until october came, and Iknew the
trees on the old place were tlll tnrninpto
red and gold, and that the graveyard
was carpeted with leaves, and in the
sweet, misty October afternoons mother
sat knitting ON the porch, thinking of
Jem, ,-and i feltshome-sicle, and as if
there were no rest any where; and with,
out writing awOrd 1 took the cars and
went home.
was glad 1 went, for she'd been i'll.
mother had, and was fretting herself
about me. - lr 40 ssIf35 ssft
Couldn't you stay for good, Jim?n
she said. "Your father is old, and here
is the place on his hands, and you, his
2 Gt1Iy Z son; OF and ;9Way the year round:
Well knew 1t wasn't, but couldn't
go crazy of my free=will, i told herI'd
stay as long as Idared-and did /
stayed until she was well again, and
helped with the late autumn farm-work;
and every night went to my pets
grave and sat there sometimes for
hours. : 1 was five-and- twenty by that
time, and If she had lived she would
have been twenty-she who had been.
in her grave already four. long wears /
u seemed Strange to me how people
felt about 1t. Tsuppose men don't care
as much about their wives asr,I- did
about mine, as general thing. After
the 4rst year they took It MS aimatter of
course that should marry again-tak-
ing the old love out of my heart as 1
took the band of Grape of of my hat.
And now my friends picked out this
VIE 1or me- now that one-a girl with
afta n6. 49, So, r.
keeping, or one who was "sufe to suit
me shewas so anniable, 'tfk "a 4Fffff
MOST OF all my cousin Nelly torment-
ed me on the subject; why, I can't tell,
toE Enough Pm not vain, / hope) 1
think the girl .would have had me her
self II II had had any liking for her.
She was a merry creature, full of fun.
and fond of practical jokes! Who was
hurt she never cared, so that she had
her laugh; and If tsha made YOU tblush
and wtnce under her smart speeches.
all. the better for Nell. 1 could have
been content never to See her ut the
house, but mother said she Frightened
the whole place with her laugh and her
merry ways, and she wasfthere half the
time while was home. / fancy moth
er hoped / might some day take q no.
ton to Nell and marry her, and settle
down again on the farm instead of
rowing. It wns farther from my
thoughts than any thing in tho world
could nave been. ID. 4
"a HaIow Eve came around while I was
nome This time; and While we three sat
about the fire listening to the BOYS rum
ming along the street, with rnps atavery
door and Yells of, HHolly eve Holly
evel"-( I'd helped them OMEN hen Twas
q youngster( there came rappfngs at
ours. andrwho should stand there but
cousin Nell, with train of young
folks with baskets and fiddles behind
her-aregular tssurp parfy :, MS they
called such affairs down our way.
There. was nothing for it but to ask
them in and welcome them. and the ftln
began INST and furions. They danced
and sung, and ate and drank, and at
last Tell to playing Hallow-eve tricks:
dropping melted lead in water, burning
nuts, and 7 don't know what besides!7
At last Nelly dared one and all to try a.
trick an. old Scotch womfn told her OF.
Go to the nearest church-yard, pluck
three spears of grass, and hold them
until the clock struck twelve, with a
h9rrible sort OF rhyme about .'the dead
telling What the living could not know"
which / have quite forgotten now, when
aghost wonld take the likeness of the
one you sought to see. This talking of
wooing and winning, mixed up with,
graves and SpectreS, made Ia deal of
'metrtment for others but was q terrible
sort of thing to me. % 4 = .8isli5 n
felt sick and angry. I wondered at
t "a nl=-=i4ItoSt Of all at Nell and when,
seeing me grave, the girl began to Jest
and jokeiabout one Kelsey Olyer-who,
i9rs1p19tel was not athere, though it
would hardly have made much differ
encetos Mel, in her, reclS less mood, If
she had been-and to cry that Il was q
pity HheWaa not able In Cs0nAa and cheer