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What wilt thou, stranger" Came
voice, faint and far as the note of an
1Holian harp. So strong was the sense
of remoteness and of desolation pro-
duced by this sound that involuntarily
the young wife clasped her husbands
arm in shuddering.
"Oh !! it is too sad, " she whispered in
his ear. s. think I will go back to the
carriage and leave Madame Blanchet
with you-may not ?''
6 Nonsense, darling. Who is it who
has contrived and carried out this little
expedition, I should like to know =?
Come, cheer up, and bestow your
bounties upon the good sisters within.
Depend upon it they will relish them. :"
Their presents were given, and in ex-
change our visitors had received a series
of CdrtoIini, or tiny slips of printed pa
per folded like homeopathic powder pa
pers, and intended to be swallowed whole
by the believer, who might thereafter
hope for cure of any mortal ailment
possessing him. AS their colloquy with
the unseen sister came to a close, the
young man signed to Madame Blanchet
to draw near. The mother had kept a
veil over her face while standing by in
silence, but now she sprang forward,
and putting her lips to the opening,
uttered with feyerish anxiety a few
sentences of wild pleading unheard by
her companions.
Fainter and farther were the pitying
accents that smote her ear in return.
{" "'Sepolte vive, daughter. The grave
gives back no answer .
3" Let us wait beneath the garden wall,
dear FRIEND" Cora said, as between
them her husband and she supported
the steps Of the trembling mother from
the spot. 1t should be at about this
time that the flower is thrown, and oh!
how it will comfort you to have it from
her hand ~
Underneath the ancient wall of the
convent garden the little group waited
in silence. 1t was moment of feeling
too profound for words. AS the hour
drew near the mother left her friends
and went to kneel alone upon grassy |
mound where her cheek might Craze the
wall, as if caressing it. For time all
was silent. Then a bell sounded the
hour with slow and solemn strokes. A
bird burst into joyous carolling in the
rec above where Cora stood. cit is
good omen, " she said, glancing up into
Ter husbands face. As the last stroke
If the bell died upon the air something
white and fragrant fell at the feet of
he kneeling figure. cit is Leonie's
White lilac p Cora cried, starting joy
'usly forward.
But the mother did not stir. The
oxen had come too late to awaken joy
L sorrow.-Harper'S Weekly. n
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BABIES.

Sloutherby has been considering ba-
bies from grammatical stand point,
and thinks he has discovered how they
should be parsed, declined and conjuga-
ted. Although in the first person, sing
ular number, the baby is equal to any
number of personsp plural. He is in the
nominative case until you can find
name for him he is in the posessive
case when he gets hold of the sugar
bowl he is in the objective case when
you want to give him a bath or put him
to bed. His lenses vary, but the i'm
perfect predominates. He is in the ac-
tive voice at all times of day and night.
He is in the indicative mood when he
wants anything, in the potential when
he gets it, in the imperative always, and
in the subjunctive never. He is a com
mon noun, but highly irregular verb
He is subject of the sentence invariably,
and governs absolutely without being
limited by anybody or anything. He
doesn't confine himself to nine parts of
speech, but has fragmentary discourse
of his own, impossible to number or cat
alogue. He follows implicitly only one
rule, which is to be an exception when
ever he chooses, and that is pretty often.
If you want to know how often, stay at
home and try to study his requirements
some day while his mother is out shop
ping.-EleUated RaiItcay Journal.
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DOLOROUS LITERATURE.

Most of the poetry manufactured in
the present day is written by women.
A marked feature Of almost all of it is
gloom and low-spirited woe There is
nothing cheerful about it. Women
never pen a joyous carol ora merry lay.
They confne themselves to raking up
the cold ashes of dismal past, and
narrowing our feelings with dolorous
prophecies regarding joyless and in
solvent future. This would lead one
to believe that the average poeteSs is
bilious, but such is not the case. We
have known some women who were the
light of their respective households, the
life of the social circle women who
would darn socks with lilaTity. and
construct rag carpet with exultant
glee ; women whose ouoyanV spirits was
as sunshine in their homeS-and vet
these same women, when they sat down
with pen in hand, and when the poetry
began to boil up inside them, would be-
come unhappy and filled with gnawing
sorrow, bitter grief, and brand of
misery that would register away up
above proof.
The first thing poetess, who thinks
she understands her business, does, is
to go back into the Storeroom of her
memory, and resurrect some corroding
care or effete heartache that should
have been thrown out into the alley
long ago. She ponders over this until
a gloomy anguish takes possession of
her. Her whole being becomes per-
meated with mournful sadness, and
an army-sized wall begins struggling to
get out of her. Then she is ready for
business, and the poetry begins to flow
in short metre lamentations about how
cold and drear everything is and how
much she pines for solitude and death;
and as she warns to her work she will
probably have something to say about
" faded fowers,'' y "leafess boughs,''
:" blasted hopes' and ga hollow
world"
There is too much of this unshed-
tear style of poetry going around. We
know that the world is hollow and that
it is fleeting show, and that women
are tickle, and that all men are liars,
and that life is but a weary interlude,
and that death will be relief (espec-
tally from this class of poetry, but Job
and David and Solomon told us all that
long ago, and we protest against these
time-worn and dismal truisms being re-
peated every hour and thrust on us
with all their defective rhyme, haIting
rhythm, and no reason at all.
Let there be revolution in this
matter, and the world will be all the
better for it. Let us have something :.
cheerful, some poetry with hope, and
Joy, and gladness in it. Although the
rose has thorns, don't grieve over that,
but rather remember that it has beauty
and sweet odor. Danish the clouds,
sweep out the dead autumn leaves, and
give us sunshine and budding flowers.
Teas SjJtings.
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BACHELORS ABUNDANT.

The announcement that another i'm
mense apartment house is to be planned
exclusively for the convenience of bach
elors, must provoke a great deal of
wonder and indignation among young
women that men should find celibacy
so satisfactory as to be willing to make
themselves permanently comfortable in
it. A bachelors " fiat" is little, if any,
cheaper than one for small family.
and bachelors meals, taken at hotels
and restaurants, cost more money than
would supply family table for two OF
three so why, some reasoning girls
ask, should these fellows who seem so
fond of the society of ladies defer mar
riage ? If the bachelors were to an
swer, they would probably explain that
marriage in New York means some
thing different from what it did very
few years ago, when with as much
money as bachelor now spends for
necessities a family could live comfort
ably, dress well and be in society. It
should be needless to remind women
that marriage is no such cheap luxury
nowadays. To hire house in a good
neighborhood now costs what used to
be called comfortable living salary
dress, if the family is in select society,
costs as much more, and so do the sew
eral entertainments that any family of
proper spirit expects to give in the
course of year. Besides these ex-
penses must be considered the cost of
church pew, opera seats, summer
jaunt, and perhaps a carriage; then
there are the commonplace necessities
known as food and servants. Every
marrying man should, according to
mammas, be able to meet
all these expenses ; every bachelor with
conjugal tendencies would like to, but
not one in fifty is in condition to try.
Some few are so reckless as to wed
girls rash enough to marry for love, but
they must live either on the brides
parents or in retirement. So the bach
elor lives in solitude, works hard and
by the time he is rather old to marry,
finds himself rich enough to take a
wife. The bachelor who wants to
marry young must either inherit money,
find rich bride, or wed a country girl
md avoid coming to the city. Hence
he abundance of bachelors.-N. Y.
Herald
Middletown transcript., 1883-04-13

GREELEY AS A PRINTER Boy
Here in Poultney the New York Iri-
bome was founded. Here it's founder
washed the forms, and carried water,
and built the fires, and didn t sweep the
newsroom, and didn't carry out the
ashes, and forgot what he was sent
after, and let the paste sour, and lost
the letters he was sent to mail, and up
set the lye, and tried the usual expert
ments with the fancy job type and finest
colored inks in the way of fearful and
wonderful visiting cards, and in all
ways conducted himself even as the
devil always does about the print shop.
Here Horace Greeley passed some years
of his boyhood. l wandered about the
village thinking about the good old
man, and trying to think about the
young printer, dusting out his cases
with a pair ofleaky bellows, or +" solder
ing" for big pickup that was next to
the last fat thing on the hook, just un-
der long take of solid nonpariel.-
Blrdette.
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STORY OF A FRONT GATE.
n old ana crippled gate am I,

An old and crippled gate am l,
And twenty years have passed
Since was swung up high and dry
BetwiXt these posts so fast.
And now I've grown so powerful weak
Despised by man and beast
I'm scarcely strong enough to squeak,
Although I'm never creased.
Twas twenty years ago, say,
When Mr.. Enos White
Came kind of hanging round my way
Most every other night.
He hung upon my starbOard side,
And she upon the other
Till Susan Smith became his bride,
And in due time mother.
l groaned intensely when heard
Despite l am no churl-
My doom breathed in single word
The baby was girl!
And as she grew and grew and grew
| loud bemOaned my fate
For she was very fair to view,
And II was the gate!
Than. in due time, q lover came,
Betokening my ruin
A dapper fellow, Brown by name,
The grown-up baby wooln
They swung upon me in the gloam,
And talked of moon and star
They're married now, and live at home,
Along with ma and pa.
My lot was happy for year
No counting, night or day
] had no thoughts, | had no fear
BAD luck would come my way.
But oh! this morning-save the mark
There came wild surprise;
A shadow fiitted-grim and dark
Across my sunny skies.
A doctor with knowing smile
A nurse with face serene
A hustle in the house the while;
Great Scott what can it mean
My hinges alchemy lock is weak,
NV piclzets are whirl-
hear that awful doctor speak
1t is another girl
-DenUer Tribune.
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HISTORY REPEATED.

Penn's advent in this country two
hundred years ago may be regarded as
that Of a Clothier. We continue in
the same line upon similar principles
of equity and prudence, but with en-
larged facilities and superior advanta-
ges to the customer, who has not only
large stock from which to select, but
the privilege Of returning goods and
getting back the money on all pur-
chases that cannot otherwise be made
satisfactory.
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The ARIZONA papers are bewailing
the death of Wagner because, they say,
he was the only man who ever had the
nerve to start an opposition tothe Pull
man car company.-DenUer Tribune.
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A TENNESSEE artist has just finished
portrait of Mrs. President Polk, as
she appeared in her younger days The
picture is to be hung in the White
House at Washington.
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As illustrating the lazy climate of
Florida, a correspondent tells how on
two occasions he has witnessed brakes
whistled down and a train-load of pas
sengers stopped in the pine woods while
the conductor slowly ambled off to a
neat cottage in little orange-grove
and kissed his wife and a large family
of children ranged along on top of the
fence.
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" RoUGH On RATS. CLEARS out
rats, mice, reaches, flies, ants, bed-bugs,
skunks, chipmunks, gophers. 15e.
Druggists.
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You may make an impression on
genius with advice, but it takes kick
to influence a fool Whitehall Times.
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cytlisteltaneous 9duert' S.
STRONG
ECTS/

A great many people are asking
what particular troubles Browns
IRON BITTERs is good for.
1t will cure Heart Disease, Paral-
ysis, Dropsy, Kidney Disease, Con
sumption, Dyspepsia, Rheumatism,
Neuralgia, and all similar diseases.
Its wonderful curative power is
simply because it purifes and en-
riches the blood, thus beginning at
The foundation, and by building up
the system, drives out all disease.
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Kidney Disease Cured.

Christiansburg, Va, 1851.
Suffering from kidney disease,
from which could get no relief, /
tried Browns Iron Bitters, which
cured me completely. A child Of
mine, recovering from scarlet fever,
had no appetite and did not seem 10
be able to eat at all. ! gave him Iron
Bitters with the happiest results.
]. KYLE MONTAGUE.
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A Lady Cured Of Rheumatism.

Baltimore, Md, May 2, 1880.
My health was much shattered by
Rheumatism when commenced
taking Browns Iron Bitters, and |
scarcely had strength enough to at
tend to my daily household duties.
lam now using the third bottle and /
am regaining strength daily, and |
cheerfully recommend it to all.
| cannot say too much in praise
Of it. Mrs. MARY E. BRAsHEAK,
I73 Prestmanst.
Middletown transcript., 1883-04-13

If You WANT TO SAVE YOURSELF GREAT
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IF You WANT TO SAVE Your HEALTH. CURE
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Heart Disease.

Vine ST., Harrisburg, Pa.
Dec. 2, 1881.
After trying different physicians
and many remedies for palpitatiUn
Of the heart without receiving any
benefit, was advised to try Browns
Iron Bitters. have used two bot
ties and never found anything that
gave me SO much relief.
Mrs. JENNIE Hess.
For the peculiar troubles to which
ladies are subject, Browns IRON
BGTTERs is invaluable. Try it.
Be sure and get the Genuine.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-16
THE BRIDES N
A SUMNER MORNING.

A SUNNER MORNING.
~ length the following East grew barred
The easement flushed and chartered to a
The rocks outside were stirring In the trees,
The suns rim rose above a golden brink:
Across The farm the cattle on the iess
Regan to low. watched her; by degrees
sleeps rosy letters melted, link by link,
What dream vas hens? Her eyelids shook
And when me bright eyes opened, scared
She sObSsd i know not what OF passionate
"YoGn not torsake me Low; there is but
Then told me what Gods Angel OF the Years
Had whispered OF wild love! n WAS 1t
As u to lend the Morning f%ragrancy,
She rose and oped the easement; round the
Like dfops OF sunshine firing each fair curl,
The dsws fell slittering from the jasmine
She turned and smiled and kissed her hand
All, what wfldrose whose petals half uufurl,
or creamy rosebud yeined with mother-ot-
Might match that hand' All. what so fair as
Not Morn hsrsIf-not Morn with all her
Though rich scents rose ofhaysn meadow
And ead the Night lay and the brishtimOsd
Hour
Seemed clustered r~ound-seemed staving
their golden feet
Seemed drawing apart, with tremulous hands
but certain.
Fold after fold OF Mornings ruddy curtain!
THREE YEAPS AFrER.
Beneath the loyeliest dream there coils q
Lastnishteams she whose eyes are mem
Her faSs on ss4e seemed all.torsstful how
Love dImmtd them once, 50 calm they shone
n clear. =
Sorrow" 1 said. hath made me old, my
dear;
It's /, indeed. but grief 10th change the
A Iovei ike mine q seraphsneck might bow,
Nlgils like mine would olaneh an angels
hair"
Oh, then 1 saw,f saw the sweep lips novel
1 saw the love-mists thicksping In her
I heard = wordleks melody Of loye
Like murmur Of dreaming brooks OF Para
And, when upon mynsek she ran my dove,
Ikuey he eurls thooshheavy ofsmAranth
sESeodo-s watts. IN ,ae Aataensum.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-16
DRIFT.

Some Saratoga hotels insure the trees
Oh their lawns.
1t is now said that one-hslf the visi-
tors To Stratford -on-AvOn are from the
United States.
The man who traded the present site
of Denver, Col, for a mule, is curiosity
al Saratoga
A hornet stung a little South Carolina
girl Just under the eye, and she died in
twenty-fOur hours.
Colarodo is not particular about the
names of her towns. y new settlement
there is called Wagon Wheel.
The fair held by the white people at
Mount Sterling, Ky, did not pay ex-
penses. Then the colored brothers tried
it, and made $500 clear.
A wonderful mineral is found only in
Missouri. 1t is called Adams cObite,
and it is so hard that it will cut steel
without losing its edge.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-16
MEpTcAL.
DIR. C. EacLANE.S
Celebrated Liver Pills

In offering to the pnblic Dr.. O. KeLaass Cslo-
bratedLirerP is, As q remedy for LtCer and Bnioss
Complafats, we presume no npoiogy viii be
needed. The great prevalence of Lfeer Compk1fst
and Baioas Diseases Of al Kinds throughout the
United States, and particnlaTiYin the West and
South where, In the majority OF cases, the patient
b not within the reach of q regular physician,re-
quires that some remedy should be provides that
would not in the least impair the constitution, and
yet be safe and t~fectual. Thai chi the charae.
ter Of Qr. Q. ReLaHs's Liver Pin, there can be
no doubt. The great snccess which has invariably
attended their use, will, we think, be Sufficient to
convince the most incredulous. Il has beenonf
sincere wish that these Pills should be fairly
tested, and stand or fall by the effects produced.
That they have been 50 tested and that the Iesat
has been IN every respect favorable, we calftens
Of thousands to witness who have experienced
heir beneficial effects
90 DIR. C. McLANE'S LIVER PILLS
are not held forth or recommended, like most OF
The popular medicines Of the day., as universal
but simply rs a specific for Lfrer Cong-
plaints, and those symptoms connected with . de-
tanged state Of that organ.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-16

II will help me on the road To- !
reckon this game you're playin' is all
right. I have got even with many oil
your kind while I've lived, and l don't
know why i ought to squeal when
you've nipped me-"
Tie nonchalance with which he
look, d upon death nearly captured the
crowd. But they finally concluded to
send him aloft. They gave him an
other drink, and when he had finished
II he Strengthened himself up and said:
"Now, boys, I'm ready for the devil to
get his own"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-16
COMMISSIONERS SALE
OF
City Property and Quarry Lots.


In the Municipal Court Of Wheeling, S.: Y
+. Whitaker vs.. Henry Gunther, OF. a., in
Chancery.
in the above entitled cause on the 18th day
OF July, 1883, the undersigned special commIs-
sioI or will, on
Saturday, September 90, 1888,
proceed 10 sell, nj public auction, nj the front
door Of the courthouse OF ohio county, West
Virginia. commencing Al 10 o'clock a. m. the
following described property. viz:
The north half Of lot numbered forty.seven
90 on Chapiine street, IN Centre Wheeling,
which was laid out by Moses Chapline and
others as an addition TO South Wheeling Also,
three rods and 81 poles, situated In the city OF
Wheeling, and being In the addition tn the
said city as laid out by Francis X. Armstrong,
trustee for Emily \. Zane, known M "out
so much OF quarry lot No. 5 AZ lies within
the following bounds: Beginning at tue south
side OF Fulton street at q corner bet ween
quarry lots Nos s and and cunning with the
line OF Fulton street \. Sho T. 5 i2.lOJ poles
and - 20. 4. ] 6i.lO0 poles TO the line Of said
pole, thence =. Oh' W. 10 IG.lO6 poles TO the
20 nwe,'eriy line Of said lot No /: and W IN
tie FRme N. 52Ho, w. ii 5o-lOO poles 10 the
and 4. and with the division line between the
said quarry lots n. iOH K. Is 2S'iU poles 10
he beginning. containing one ~ acre, more
Quarry lot numbered four % contai ling
three 81 roods and eight ~ roles, being the
same property conveyed 10 the said Henry
Guntber by John Gilchrist's heirs by deed
dR'ed February eth, 1875, and June sth, 1858,
and recorded among said land records I'm
Deed book No. &c, pages 80 and 462. The coal
underlying sand tracts and coal privileges IA
reECrvcd.
JHRNs OF SALE-Ou e-ihird, and as much
more ~ the purchaser may elect 10 pay. In
cash, and the residue in two equal install
menis payable rec pectively In SIX and twelve
months from the day 81 sale. the credit In.
stallments carrying interest from the day of
sale, the purchaser 10 execute bonds therefor
with good personal security, payable 70 the
undtrS igned special com missiOner. Title 10
be retained until the whole purcha>e money
Is paid and a conveyance dIreriei by the
Court. LOUIS y. STEEL.
Special Com missioner.
". HAILTR, Au%c.ioEcer.
CLERK = office. Mu1i'ipaI Court OF Wheeling.
I hCIeby certify that Louis y. Sufel, said
Special Commissioner, has given bond with
security required by law.
J. r. COWDEN,
Clerk pro tempore.
August ~. 1893. auD w&s-l
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