The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-03-15
and the chill stars shining in the

ously, as she came up, "I've beor
waiting for you this halfhourl Anc
| thought you never were comingl'
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Mrs. Wynhart was cutting out lit
tie cloth waist-coats for the twins, BY
the light of smoky kerosene lamp
when the door opened, and Winifred
came in, leaning on-Jack's arml
She glared at them over her spec
tacle.rims with most ungracious eyes
"Mother," said Winifred, in low
voice, eve have something to tel
you. Jack has sold the Beach Farml
"Humph" said Mrs. Wynhart
"And you're expecting to come here
to live, are you? But you can'tl"
ITO theeity of sandport, went or
Winifred, as if her mother had moi
spoken-"for a seaside park. And
they have paid him twenty thousand
dollars for it,"
Twenty = thousand - dollarsl''
gasped Mrs. Wynhart, "For hun.
dred acres of barren sea.sandl 1t amt
true-I don't believe i'll"
"And," added valiant Jack, "we
have bought Doctor Bailey's farm,
with the stone house, and can give
Winitred a home at least as good as
the one I take her from"
AS good as you take her froml l
should think sol" calculated Mrs.
Wynhart, remembering with regret
that all this golden prize might have
been Luella's. Squire Bailey's stone
house! With a bay-window and
double parlors, and blinds to every
window! Well Only, Winifred, l
hope you'll not be too setup to speak
to your mother and sister when
you've moved there?'
"There is no danger of it," said
Winifred, laughingly almost hyster-
ically-for, brave as she had been in
the face of trouble, good fortune al,
most took her by surprise. "But, oh,
mother, if you'll only kiss me, and
say you are glad | am going to be SO
happy-if you'll only do thatw
And Mrs. Wynhart did SO, from the
very bottom Of her heart. Neither
was it an act of hypocrisy. For Win
fired engaged to a man worth twenty
thousand dollars was a different sort
Of person'from Winifred who had re-
solved to marry pauper. And this
was the sort of logic by which Mrs
Wynhart argued her way through
life.
Squire Sandiman's will was so diff.
ferent from the way in which people
generally had interpreted it. Simeon,
with his FIVE thousand dollars in cash,
was all very well-but the Beach
Farm had sold for four times that
amount, and the disinheritcd nephew
had become the hero of the day. How
was Squire Sandman to have fore.
seen all this?
But Winifred cared little for all
that. She had loved Jack before, and
she loved him now. 1t was nice to
be married at home, in a new white
dress, with Luella to arrange her
hair, and she was glad that they all
liked Jack SO much. But she loved
him-nothing else mattered much
she lored him, and that was enough.
A bear undertook TO break into the
house Of a Wisconsin man one night,
while the man was out. The mans
wife heard The bear, and, in the dark
ness, thought it was her husband
coming home late. When the bear
got away he didn't stop running un-
til he got nine miles, and you couldn't
coax him to go within thousand
miles of that woman again. And if
she'd known it was q bear, and not
her husband, she would probably
have tainted and been devoured, and
the old man is awful sorry it didn't
happen that way.-Boston Post.
The shares Of the New York Chem
ical bank, capital 100000, are quoted
at $4,000. This is probably the
highest quotation of bank stock in
the country. The bank has always
been well managed and has enjoyed
the deposits Of James Gordon Ben.
nett, A, 7, Stewart and some of the
Astors.
An inventor named Cools, who died