The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-05-18
THAT VOICE.

Jay IN y unei lSuo, anu Que Oh tue
loyliest early summer days the world
ever beheld-s cloudless sky, golden
brightsunshins, soft fragrant air, joyous.
ly sweet songs'of birds, faint musical muir
murs Of brooks and plashings Of foun-
tains, ~delicately green grass, lingering
~yioleta, and budding roaes. AS
On the lawn In front Of the elegant
mansion OF Leon Fshback, Esq, q party
Of young people are playing Follow
Observation-Disclosures anne somewhatre e
sembling leo their mothers and grand
mothers tell them) an old game called
apuss in the corner" played a quarter Of
q century or more ago, only in Follow
follow the players, instead. Of beckon-
ing TO each other, beckon to a group Of
metallic balls, around which they stand in
n circle, and he or she who proves to have
the most magnetic force the balls follow
with a rush, while the remainder Of the
players rush rs wildly in their efforts to
secure the place left vacant by the flying
one. .
At this moment the balls are rolling
pell-mell, heltsr-skelter knocking against
each other with q pleasant ringing sound,
after a pretty fair-haired maiden, whose
little feet, clad In slippers all cleaning
with silver and gold, flash in the sunshine,
beneath the blue satin Turkish trouser-
lets as she springs lightly over the
g%reensward amid the exquisitely modu-
lated laughter-no one shouts loudly In
this refined twentieth century-ot her
merry companions.
In the back garden, on a green clover.
sweet grass.plat, stands a broad, deep
basket Of newly washed, snowy white
linen, and n hangipg.out machine, PLAN
ted firmly In the middle Of the plat, lie
industriously raising and lowering its
wooden arms, grasping the various pieces
in its wonderfully constructed hands, and
hanging them upon the stout no. clothes.
pin line, which Is slowly revolving around
II, and to which they adhere without far.
Their trouble.
In the dairy the ~rosy.cheeked dairy
maid is reading a love poem while the
automatic mixer ia milking the beauti-
full white COW that stands just outside the
door: In the kitchen the cook Is indolent-
" rocking 10 and fro in q low rocking
chair, watching the Z" magic %rolling.pin
roll out the paste for her pies, ready to
stop its pendulum like movement the mo.
mentthe crust Is smooth and thin enough,
and a small servant boy, with his hands
in his pockets, lounges 10 one corner near
4 tall stool, whis,lipg to himself as he
waits until the pair Of shoes the electric
blacking brushis polishing thereon at
tain The proper degree Of brilliancy and
mirror likeness.
This is q prosperous place, this dom
ain Of Leon Fishback, Esq, and Leon
Fishback himself Is q tall, handsome, en-
ergetic, positive man Of one-and-thirty
"a bachelor, who gives a home to his
widowed sister and her four half-orph-
sned-children, and In return Is taken
care Of by her, with the assistance Of the
old housekeeper--to tell the truth, Win
a great deal Of assistance from the old
housekeeper--as we'll as any brother was
ever taken care Of by any sister.
Still, people, as people will-especially
people WIN growI'uP sing.s 7,
wondered that ne naa neset - nd
was not ior Oh opPo5'uni 80
not done SON, no inoeea I-ior W. ~.
lovely. girls, hasAA a9Len tnoTs al !,
charming widows' anu eteiai 80
neither class, mao, Since ms c9n Nv.
the properly Of DIS uncte Aaa Bou ~ y
Leon Fishpaek, sen. twnoSe asnes .
solid god esket $1,000 .,a
sort Of shrine, made Of = nunareS i s.;s
woods, IN ne south otaWing,ioVIab ~
mated 70 MN, 10 every WAY Ina
hhrinkipg sensinVenees Oh mEnan
would ALLOW, theit Petie.s ia,
nay, anLietggt9 assume tne roe u m
ress Of the fisheaek ma9Sioh.
But Leon had walked caimiy anohs
them, dispensing hospiIaiI1y, kina wo,as
and gracious emlles VIZ ns sh 4
impartiaiity, dnungulsnins none Y ~
slightest preference, u1ul Jew wseEs u,
fore tins peauulnl SIne as HIr.,isn III.
young guest mertiiy caieI, ns,;,tSd
low.ioilow'me' 70 men higaiy po
admirers on the closely snaysp AVN. =,
Then came 70 visi1 nus sis.et an oau
school friend, Laura beatosley Dy haane,
who had been realizing IN = lst ais.an,
State, but with whom tne slster kep' w
warm Correspondents ever ~ s,ne T., .n sy