Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-03
A FUTURE DREAM.
A Local Romance Of the TWsntl-
eth Century.
Bijda!ia Briano. q Maiden Of the Times
Catches Onto Her Psychic
Affinity.

In the year 1890 the Hempfeld Electric
Division, part of the Latitudinal System
of Cable Roads, running through the most
thickly settled part of
NEW BABYLON,
formerly known as Wheeling, had occasion
to revive its galloway between Elm Grove
Avenue Station and Coaldsle, which Is
still remembered by old Inhabitants as
Pittsburgh or Fort Pit, and for this pur'
pose purchased for a couple OF million
dollars the premises now used as the New
Babylon Freight Elevator, which had been
known for ages as Roettegers. Though
blessed with riches al d living right in the
heart OF the city, the owners OF this pro-
perts, the Brianos, still adhered to that
old style, plain, easy life which had dis
,inpuished the founder of the family be-
lore he took the o from the front OF his
name and added it to the end. They were
remarkable for the old style nature OF their
IDEAS rather than the greatness Of their
possessions. They were blessed witt an
only daughter, whom We will call Bid
iais.
To say that she was beautiful would but
FAMILY EXPRESS HER CHARMS.
Beautiful as the daughters OF the gods, clear
0lCoded, supple limbed and straight as an
arrow, and face that makes men rave, re-
minding ohe Of the pictures of the women
i an age now passed away, when beauty
reigned supreme in the hearts OF men, and
TO enjoy the reputation of being profes'
.ionsl beauty the fair daughters OF Albion
came TO our shores leaving husbands, home
and reputation behind them, to drink in the
ylory Of our ancestors plaudits, together
with the check-out, as matter OF course.
She had never known society in its broad
est sense; in its Germans, its afternoon
,ess, its hesrtburnings and its quarrels.
she had wanted to in
THE WORST KIND OF AWAY,
There had crept over her a desire for some.
bipg different than she had known. There
=, US an aching void in her existence, a
ItschinG after The hitherto unfeltintluences
which sway msiders life. She had never
ielt this feeling of utter goneness so strong
y until now, when her father, with this
new addition TO bis fortunes, had moved
sway from the society of the toilers and
he moi ers and the spoilers which had
hitherto surrounded him and built mag
niiicent palace in the aristoCratic suburb
Of Cremslorviile, known SIS Little Washing
toll hitherto.
Surrounded by luxury that was foreign
10 her free anu b2uudIess nature aud by an
elegance that palled upon her from its
Yely richness, she bad in her Curround
jnpS caught slimrScs OF higher society
titan she had seen before. sac saw at {;
garden party in the Dex' residence E. n
Ter touGoir window,
TIE DUKE or MINCO
whispering soft nothings into the shell
pink ear Ct the Countess OF WegCo. Sc
Dad seen the Ear of ChaDhns Street ana
b. auburn haired Lord Harrison, the Ia,
,cions of brillian. line of peers These
beings seemed to her longing gaze to be too
-thereal, too elegant, too too, to be merely
Iunan, judging from the men she
net st her fathers house, The mana
GER of the Kelly motor, for instance,
or the inspector OF electrical pneumaticS
ior New Babylon whose emaciated limbs,
o. heavy heads and psssionleSs lives spoke
rOiun!es against that new scientific race OF
ren who were supplsnting in every day
nfe the GoGlike creatures who were slowly,
hu: surely, dying out.
Biddalia had an idea. She would escape
rom the gilded solitude which hemmed in
ae' young life like drag net. She would
ADVERTISE FOR SOCIETY.
The half hourly edition of the New
Babylon REGISTER contained the following
A WARNING dEART BURNS FOR
~ sympathy.
Private Wire,
Anxious"
Switchboard. II,
CrematoIville, Pa.
Tbis, coming from such an aristocratic
quarter, attracted many replies.
liddalia and her operator were kept busy
Nil day at the instrument answering tele
grams 10y the old postal system this would
have taken months. Verify, we are living
"a rapid sge offering sympathy from
,Dopg the highest in the city, the Duke
Ghspline, Lord Phelix, Count Gssofis, and
whole slew OF 'em. But one, the very
last, describing similar condition, went
on to say how at the other end OF the wire
vas another heart yearning for it's
psychic stfinity, like blank sheet of paper
waiting for the magic pencil of love to in
scribe ON it what it would, and begging for
an oral interview. The lightning messages
OF love flew thick and fast. until Biddalia,
poor child, surrendered the fortress of her
immaculate affections to the abstract form
1t the other end of the wire whose concrete
personifcation she was yet to see.
TEARS or JOY
chr sed each Others pearly course from her
lovely eyes ct the very thought OF the
truition Of hopes Of her new life.
A day lster was appointed for an inter
view, bot elias (the best laid plans OF men
gang aft agleel the applicant for the place
III Piddslia's affections was like herself-s
girl, young, beautiful and enthusiastic,
who Dot knowing the sex Of the advertiser
nrtumed lthe with being father to the
J Cughi) hat he was male.
Imsgine. lair reader, the CONSERVATION
of the unhsppy pair on mutual discovery
and explanation when they met But tn
burning words of love that had been ex-
changed and had taken deep root in their
respective souls and in this advanced stage
of scientific achievement this discovery
though it non.plussed them for the time
could be no effective bar to their eventual
marriage. Biddslia, equal to the emery
ency, summoned the celebrated specialist
Or. Longstreet, from Martinsburg, VINO
discovered she was a man.
A happy marriage followed and they have
lived happy up TO this date.
Lot truth prevail even though the
Heavens fall. WIGHT TICHE.