The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-07-18

opinion: Ii mar loves QAnClnBI Nc VIII
soon find the music 10 dance 10, and echo
repeats the words that are spoken to her.
l had been for 80 many years Wretched
and miserable amongst strangers, 1t was
no wonder II once in q way dreamt q
pleasant dream"
"But still It was strange that you should
dream you were TO marry me"
~ never tlreamt that All l saw was
a young woman with two children, but
she was not halt as pretty ns you, or the
children either"
"Fiew cried the wife; do you mean 70
deny me or the trecP Didn't you tell me
the fint day We metz It was In the even
ing, out there In the arbor. Didn't you
tell me you had dreamt you were TO marry
me and become the landlord Of the Crown
Inn2" -r -s.....
Then the man remembered the joke he
had play his wife, and said:
al can't be helped, dear wife: l did
not really dream Of you, and II said so, 1t
was only q Joke. l remember ye were 30
very inquisitive, and wanted to tease
you" .
Upon this the wife burst into flood OF
tears and left the room. When he follow
ed her, she was standing in the court yard
still crying. lie did all helcould 10 CON-
tort her, but in vain.
"You have stolen my love, and cheated
me out Of my heart" she said;"l shall
never be happy again, never"
Then he asked her II she did not love
him more than anybody else in the world,
and II they had not been the hSppiest
couple In the whole village?
She could not deny this; but, neverthe-
less, she remained sad and miserable, not.
withstandipg all he could say. So he
thought, "Let her cry herself QUITO
morrow she will be herself again" But
she was not herself again; for the next
morning, though she had ceased weeping,
she was saddGr and graVer than ever,
and pointedly avoided her husband.
Every attempt at reconciliation failed;
nearly all day she sat gloomlly by her
self, starting whenever her husband came
near her.
This state Of things continuing some
time, he also began TO grow melancholy,
fearing he had altogether lost his wife's
love. Silently he moved about the house,
thinking how to cure the evil; but no idea
occurred to him;so at noon he went ont
into the village, and loitered carelessly
through the fields. The rich, ripe corn
waved like golden lake, and the birds
sang sweetly enough, but his heart was
full ofsorroW. In the distance stood the
old Dreaming Beech, queen Of the forest
Il lowered towards heaven. II seemed to
beckon him with its green waving branch |
"a to come nearer like good old friend.
He went and sat beneath its shade, think |
ing OF days gone by. Five years had
passed since he, poor miserable wretch |
had rested there Tor the first time, and
1reRmt that pleasant dream. How pleas |
ant for 1t had lasted five years, and now
all gone all gone for overland ever.
Then the beech began to rustic again,
as 1t had done five years ago, and to move |
Us mighty branches; and as they moved |
here fell, as than, the golden giitteriDg |
Iunlight across lis leaves, and through the |
ooughs pecped ever and anon the deep
blue sky. Then his heart grew calmer,
md he slept Soon he drcampt that
lream again OF five years ago. The
woman Of the table and the little children
It thur play; but now, the faces were the
aCes'ots his own dear wife and children,
md she looked at him with her large
Jrown eyes so kindly, ali, so kindly
And then he awoke, and found 1t was only
/ dream! More sorrowful than before, he
broke of a small green twig from the
rec, and went home and placed 1t in his
lynn book.
Tho next day was Sunday, and as they
went to church the leaves fell out at the
Wife's feet. He turned scarlet as he stopped
% pick them up and put them into his
pocket. But tho wife had seen 1t and
lsked what 1t was.
"Only leaves from the Dreaming
Beech, which is much kinder to me than
you are. Yesterday / was resting be-
Meath 1t and fell asleep. 1t wished to
console me, for l dreanlt that you were
kind to me again, and had forgiven
everything; but 1t Is not true. The good
old beech, though 1t Is noble tree,
knows nothing about the future"
The wife gazed at him, and It was as
If q ray Of sunshine had crossed her lace.
Husband, did you really dream that ?"
"Yes,n he answered positively.
And she knew It was the truth by the
twitching about his mouth, like one who
has a difficulty in restraining his tears.
"And was really your wife? 7"
"Really my own true wiiei" and she
fell on his neck, and half sutocated him
with kisses. ,-.. Il
THANK God" she said, NOV 1t is all
right again love you so dearly, how
dearly you can never know. And all these
long weary, days l have been in such
dread, lest l was wrong in loving you,
and that God meant me 10 have another
husband, and you another wifeP for you
did steal my heart, you bad
man and there was deception at first
yes, you stole my heart, but it did not do
you much good, for you know things
must have happened just as they did,
whether we would or no." Then, after
pause, she continued .....
"Promise me never TO speak slightingly
of the Dreaming Beech again ?"
II never will Tor believe in II, as much
IS you do, depend upon 1t, though in
different way, perhaps. And now let US
paste the leaves In the beginning'ot our
lymn.bOok 80 that they may not be lost"
Importance OF Healthy Blood.