Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-20

clalIy IS " ktc" oaAA eAe so
iresIened. "A steady run OF three quar-
ters of an hour brought the boat to its
landing, and then the plucky Georgia
miss delivered her wounded charge into
the hands Of his friends. The young
man has recovered from the blow, and
the young woman is the admired oil the
Nays Head company.
Swope and Mrs. Swope are barely out
of their teens, and yet they have 'ouno
time 10 meet, to court, to love, to mar
nv. 10 Quarrel and to part. The sWoPes
I've at Mendoza, Ill. When they parted
the wife carried off the baby. Inc oiher
day the baby was taken by us motnef
to the court house, and the iatneI'
snatcbing 1t from the maternal arms
tried TO get to his carriage, near oy.
Mother. mother-in. law and quite num-
her of women performed a wild war
dance around the paternal kidnapEer,
but the kid was mapped and placed IN
the hands OF a nurse in a neighoorlng
town. Before the child had been IN the
custody OF the nurse twenty-four hours
the mother made her appearance and
before the nurse could offer objections,
she caught up the child, skipped out OF
the house, drove furiously over into her
county and arrived safely at her fathers
house with the little charge. Inc
spunky heroine is now master OF the
situation. Inasmuch as both husband
and wife are of wealthy and respectable
families the affair is causing consider
able interest for miles around Mendoza.
Miss Jennie Henrie is the name OF
Young woman who has won the admirs-
ton OF the people OF Kansas. Some
time ago she secured tract OF land on
Ash creek. "To show what an enter
prising girl can do" says the LOGAN En-
terprise, 1--WE will state that she came to
that place several years ago with barely
enough means to sustain herself after
entering the land. She went to work
by the week, and the money she earned
was invested in improvements on the
land until now, at which time she has
about thirty acres under cultivation,
comfortable house, we'll furnished, and
other valuable improvements. BY ner
industry and perseverance she mas gain
ed the admiration OF all who know her.
She will soon have deed to one of the
best tracts of land in that country. We
take pride in mentioning such instances
az this. and thus they will prove
worthy example to some young men we
might mention to initiate"
4 clever California girl is mentioned
by the Visalia Delta, which says: A
Young man in the neighborhood. had
faken ND 100 acres of land, built house
upon it, barn, bored wells, dug bitches,
sown it in wheat and in all spent hun,
dreds Of dollars upon it. 1t happened
to be a dry season and the crop failed.
He became discouraged and offered his
claim and improvements at sacrlhce.
The Young lady gave him 500 for his
right, title and interest in the land and
everything on it. She let 1t lle. she
need do nothing more. She sold the
insufficient crop for hog feed. The hogs
rooted and scattered it. The winter
rains came and with them came the vol
unteer crop, which matured and has
lust been cut, yielding twelve bushels
Der acre on 100 acres. She will clear at
least 81, 500, besides having the land and
improvements.
A few days ago young woman who
is visiting at the Bonsall mansion in
Arkansas City heard an unusual fiutter-
ing in the room where a cage OF canarles
were. Upon going to seek the cause
she discovered a rattlesnake coiled
around the cage. The reptile was IN the
act of fascinating one OF the birds, as
much by the peculiar undulating mo-
ton of its head as by its basiiisk eyes.
The fair rescuer at once made an on
slaught with pair OF tongs and the
snake was knocked from the cage.
Shortly afterwards the young woman
found it coiled around the leg OF table,
and she bruised its head so positively
that it gave up the ghost. The charm
ed canary, though it had not been touch
ed by the snake, died few hours alter
wards.
A young woman, who is visiting in
Elkton, Md, was out with pleasure
party in Captain Jolliffe's boat last
week, when the question OF marksman-
ship with pistol was discussed. Cap
tain Joliffe had on board large calibre
Smith & NELSON'S pistol. He pointed
out to her a crane feeding along the
shore, at distance of about seventy.
five yards, and asked her to fire at it.
AS she was about to take aim the crane
flew, but she fired, striking it and bring
ing it down.