The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-06-27
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sennd elass nlatteI:I
TnE WHISPERING GALLERY.
Recently i vas present at the union OF
two very esdmable young people. an
obse,ysns person who had seen them grow
mn and had noted their smooth-running
course Of true love, said, "well, that's q
love match II ever there was one.
bay, no doubt Of it, and that thought
pleased me more than me peaueI n tH
ssic and tho sweetscented mowers q. o o,,t
becomes very sour and AUS yety iat .S w.
with the world before be beheyes .nas
love matches are the exception. bu. tsn
n fact that many marriages nave thsif
motive In other considerations.
For example, upon one occasion ! was
travelling through ru,al district Of an.
other ~ staie. remote from railroads. ! had
an honr 70 spend and accepted an invita-
t;on N attend wedding in the neigabor,,
hood me persons who were to be Joined
II tha hoiy bonds OF wedlock sat on horse
hack. ME officiating clergyman stood On
the tiooT.ssep Of g log calin-hts, not tne
MIDAS. residence. The bride was stal.
wsSt woman apparently Of forty years o.
age. The groom was q slight, pa!e-Y y ~
man who could not have passeai n ~
tgenty.iiilh year. Iasked 2 by-st:andse:i 70
explain theincopgrnity OF the sitnaaoh'
"Weli, This is the way II Is: DON'T s9P
pose Sallie ever would q married. g ~
hadn't been for what happened one night
on the mountain. She never cared
no.hin' for men, nohow. Well, sallie had
been about ten miles across tne
mountain and was ridin' home
iate. 4 great big painter tpan-
thcrl sprang at her and got her down:
AZ The Good lord would have 1t little Bill
Williams came tru5gipg along, heard
screams and yells, an in less time n u
tales 10 tell It he had ripped that painter
nncn with his knife. Then an there
saiiie saws, SPILL Williams, III marry you,
dunn me ef l don't There wasn't q
gifl arounl here that 'ud ever a. thought
q marrying Bill Williams. Mebbe lie
hadn't no notion q marryin'. But him
and Sallie fixed it up right there; lhey
ain't waited no longer than BIZ could
build d cabin They amt got doliar IN
the world, butI reckon they, i git along.
for Bill Kin do a pretty good thing IN fur
skins and Sallie Thompson. kin hold her
own as a worker" Here was marriage
for gratitude, with perhaps Q little hero
wotship thrown 10. Just what induced
Bill 10 90 into the covenant ! don't know,
but Il may have been that notwithstand-
inc his unconventional training and sur.
roaudings lie was too polite to turn his
back on 30 marked an evidence OF lady's
favor.
"a gentleman said to me yesserday, u
see your paper has been doing up the
Johrson connection in its relation 10 the
new Third Party. You missed big fig.
ura In the connection, in the Convention
and In the new party. That's Thomas K.
Carska1on, OF Mineral. He's Cousin Tom
OF tho Jotnsons good man, but cousin
to the Johnson'a all the same, and III tell
YOU something else. l understand 1t is
the intention TO run Mr.. Carskadon as the
Third Party candidate for Governor. He'll
make lively canvass, II he goes in, ana
he'll make m impression in the State, for
in my judgment he has more oil tho nat
ural gifts Of the orator than any man IN
West Virginia. He has courage and clio.
quence, bat Of course his party can't elect
anybody to anything.
" x
"Why didn't the fSTRI11oEScEg tell rs
more about Capt. Burt,of Marion? con-
tinued the same gentleman. "He's free
trader, but ifhecould hayesecured the kind
Of recognition he wanted Think he would
have been in the Republican party now.
The Legislaturer Yea, he wanted that.
Bnt that wasn't the worst Of 1t. He &C.
tually aspired to Congress. Truc as you
live. And when lightning didn't strike
him his conscience got to work on him
and goaded him 30 hard that Boon 1t
goaded him clean out Of the Republican
party. Oh, yes, these moral reforms cut
deep some times"
am very sorry that everybody can't
always be happy in this beautiful world.
l want to give some useful bints to my
distinguished iellow-townsman Birch, who
is presently to dawn in full West Virginia
cfulgence on tho heather Of Nagasaki.
Hayhap he will have the good fortune to
be invited to dine with a native gentle
man. II sosomething like this will occur:
"Most excellent sir, am about to insult
you by aRking you to have, the condescen-
sion to dine withme. You will find the
house very dirty, the yiands scarce
and ill.cooked, but I shall esteem 1t
great honor Il you will accept an invita-
ton from one so unworthy Consul
Birch, understanding the customs Of the
country, as all Consals do, will accept In
his best tea.box Japanese, and he will not
be surprised TO find things in about this
shape: a house literally furnished and
scrupnlously neat; q table generously
loaded with every good thing; the
service excellent; the ladies in grand
toilette; tie host aaability itself-in short
q very high.strung affair. II it be q state
occasion he will 20 in full dress. His coun.
try having no Civil Service uniform, as
other countries have, he will appearin his
full black, low.cut yegt and Bpade-tail coat
and the japanese girls will wonder
%hetber We put up more than one Of that
kind ina box.
has AM body Told YOU
That Prof. Birch has won the hearts Of
oil classes Of people2
That he hiss done It by keiDg gentle
manly and fair TO everybody
That IL Is in hthingsthat We find our
carthly ACCOUNT
That the postoflice Eight is Just "siss.
lingFH
That several good men wont feel good
when they faii to get theref
That we ought to have a dozen post
offices for town Of this size and a party
Which has zone hungry for 80 long2