The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-06-19
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PLAYING MARBLEs.-When going
home last evening, we passed q couple
Of boys playing marbles. We always
take great interest in boys; so. also, in
marbles. We can hardly ever discon'
meet our ideas of perfect boy happiness
from marbles and "goin' in swim
ming" We felt at peace with all the
world. We had put in a lively but
Improbable day in making feet and
fingers move lively in the effort to make
the REeIsrER's local columns accept.
able to its great and fsst-increasing list
of readers. We had been brought in
contact with the specimens OF Gods
creatures, WHO, although made in His
image, had, by their own acts, lowered
themselves into such depths OF degra-
dation and beastiality, that the mere
sight of them was repulsive; and hal
also met and talked to some oil The
leading men Of the city and State, IN
whose moral and intellectual superiority
we take just pride.
AS we remark above, we felt happy.
Laughlin Bros. & Co. had presented us
with a couple Of bottles-no, boxes-of
Todd's pills, we had on a clean shirt, a
fresh paper collar and a decayed
Greeley hat and happiness was spread
over our features as plainly as the butter
on a poor boys chunk OF bread. In our
rocket were four dollars and thirty:tiye
cents for to-day's market, and we felt as
quiet and placid as a duck pond on a
summer morning. While in this pleas
ant frame of mind, we saw this game OF
marbles and stopped for a moment.
The boys were playing keeps" and as
we watched the progress of the game,
we were carried back in imagination to
the days when we used to play the same
game, also "taw" and "purgatory,
We used to play the latter game OF
Sundays, sometimes, on the sly, but we
could never succeed, on such occasions,
in shaking of the feeling that there
might be something suggestive in the
name. As these old scenes came
before our mental vision clear and dis
tinct, we again felt the shrinking with
which we had many times and oft
knuckled down." while our play
mates, more fortunate in not being the
last to reach purgatory," would shoot
their "taws," with deadly aim, at q
marble held between the knuckles Of
our first and second fingers. Then, too
the memories of some of the dreams
of the olden days passed through
our mind. We remember how
we always read, with eagerness
everything connected with newspapers;
how we used to envy every individual
connected with a printing office-from
the "deviT up (or do,0a, as the case may
be), to the editor. We remember thai
that those dreams were always con-
nected With the press. We see again
the bright visions, and feel again the
ardent hopes for that future in which
we were going to do such brave deeds
We remember how we used to count
our coming birthdays impatiently, TAX
ing comfort only in the thought that
each one wac bringing us nearer the
goal Of our wishes; We thought then
that all men were honest, and eagerly
longed for the time when we should 60
out into the wide, wide world and
make our own living.
But the game of marbles is over sc
are our dreams; we are no longer am
bilious. The wide, wide world" we
find to be altogether too wide for US
and we don't care cent about making
our own living. Making ones own liv
ing has net the attractiveness for us il
once had. We are content to take one
ready made. If there be any one o
our bankers who wishes to get rid o
his cash he might add thousand OIL
two to our bank account on the sly
We wouldn't take it az an offense. Oh
if there be among our thousands o
readers any rich old bachelor who would
like to adopt healthy orphan with the
view Of making that adopted son hi:
heir, we are on the adopt. We'dr rather
be adopted by an old bach with an in
come Of ten thousand year than to ot
fined five dollars in the police court fol
being drunk in gutter. 1t would be
pleasanter you see.
Ask your Grocer for White Wine
Vinegar.