Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-04-04
LENA'S LOVERS,

nausea, Wig tne pail OF AOaiii'"S $3.50
poised upon her graceful head, to look out
with grave wistiul eyes upon the landscape,
How Lovely were those curling wreaths, all
Golden in the sunset! how softly rounded,
,bs Green and wooded hills how clear and
sDarSlin, the beautiful winding river
What was there in all this 10 bring that
look of longing sadness into the girls beau
utul eyes. Ernest Dauyers, as ne CLIMBED
the stone steps leading from the road TO
the garden, asked himself this question iof
,hs buudredth time, in vain. 1t was Jast
% he remembered, that he had seen her
first when he, an utter stranger IN the 1T
,ls town had lost Dis way, while skstchiDg
among the hills. AID his hssrt, 10 the quaint
white cottage where he vas received es 50
1854 tH5 way u tua'
cottage again.
Now, as he came in sigh, she welcomed
him with her usual bright sweet smile, at
smile which it was so impossible to inter
pret. Surely, she must knew that he loved
her vet nothing could have been more de-
void Of consciousness than her manner.
He should long ago have found way to
make her understand him, he thought, had
the German customs imported into Amer
lea, admitted of tete-a-tetes, and had no
that great hulking, ne er-do Seel OF a cousin
been perpetuslly in the way.
Others beside Ernest DlnYers, called
Fritz Ritter q ne eI-1o-weel; and yet there
WAS but little actual harm IN the young
man. He was, simply, afflicted with per
ennisl boyhood. 1t was impossible tor him
20 realize that anything IN the world va
Of more Importance than the business OIL
,Isssure. which filed his head for the time
bsing: and his i&Vorite pleasure was bis
Jane OF cards upon Sunday afternoon
when. if ne lost, the loss was rather apt to
be washed down Oy glass or so too much
of beer. With it all, however, be was N
some RESPECTS o loVsable fellow enough
and as every one conceded, remarkably
handsome. u ksd seemed likely at one
lime. that be would marry his cousin Lena
a match which appeared 70 MS parents ex
ceedingly desirable; Tor though lena was
iogerless, she was beautiful, healthy, sweet
tempered. possessed Of the true German
bousewiselinsss, and would prevent him
from throwing himself away upon one Of
gbs daughters of He;h, a., before her ar
-;val from Germany, ne had been upon the
ooipt of doing. Lens, however, was piousi
and looked upon her cousin as a reprooste
since her most eloquent lecture had failed
10 convince him OF the undesira9leness o!
eard-plAyiDg on Sunday, or that the few
glasses of beer consumed By hin could
ever make the sighte5; spprecisbls dlEer-
anes 70 anyone, least Of ali to Fritz Hitter
Hence had arisen G slight GOODNESS between
tbe two. though Fritz had loved his cousin
since ever she came 10 his home, living
message from the FathsIland he had never
sen. As ardsntly also he hated the young
American Who had lately come TO the cot
tyye and whose steady habits snd correct
ness of walk and conversation Lena was
forever exalting at Fritz's expense What
aid sbe know about his habits, contounc
him 1t was easy enough TO deceive 6 girl
but 10 throw dust IN man s eyes was
very difsrert matter, as the fellow shoulc
find 10 his cost.
INQUIRE az be would, however, he could
near only good OF the young artist whom
still Lena continued TO praise as a mode
nj all the virtues, until between love and
issIeusy the poor fellow was half distraught
II would be q charitable action, he thought
to overturn her idol, 70 let her see him, Il
only once, as drunk % q iord; or # be
could bs persuaded into soLethiGg-no.
really wrong. ch no! ont lomthing at which
her isst,dious piety might take offence
then. Fritz believed, abe would be at once
add forever. completely Disseminated.
But how wGs It to be managed The
winter passed by without shedding q single
raw Of light upoG the subject; then came
the annual Masksn Ball, given Oy the Sing,
ing Society TO which both COEaIns belonged
II sss with a slight shock that Ernest Dan,
vars heard Of Lena intention to 90 in eos.
tune; it reyolted him to think Of his Ideal
his perfect woman, nobly planned, in the
ybiriaud excitement Of such Comos' crew.
If il must be however land alas his Ideal
,as q true German and sdored 8 waltz
at least he would De present, TO watch over
and guard her.
Every man has an ideal, no: only cf his
lazy love but Of himself, aud this last ideal
Is rather apt to come to the surface when
such occasions as nasquersdes and private
theatricals, 10 the amusement and edidca
tor of discerning friends. 10 accordance
with this general law, and also influenced
bv the skillfully obtaiusd information that
the cousins were to wear the dresses Of
Briar Rose and Kiss Prince, Ernest pro
yided unto himself full suit Of chain ar
NOR and q mask, which to On ardent i'm.
sviuatiop might be supposed to represent
the features Of Siegiried The Dragon-slayer
in truth, however, any we'll educated dragon
would have had decidedly the better OF q
conflict with Ernest, who was, ike Hamlet
ia. and scant Of breath; and also some
what uuheroic Of yissge.'
When Fritz Ritter heard Of his rivals
ball going intention, then, in the emphatic
words of Scripture, immediately the devil
entered into him Ii was night, and the
drug store where he was employed hsd
been cleared OF its usual loungers and
Closed for the evening; but before going
nome. Fritz had balanced himself upon q
ioffv stool 20 consider the situation. What
vas 70 be done? His rival was by no means
opposed 70 social glass OF beer: but wss.
ca Fritz wGs compelled to acknowledge to
himself, about the mos. milky man in the
World to take glass too much. Suddenly,
three legs Of the stool, which had previously
been poised in air, came to the ground with
a crash; and Fritz snote his palms to-
yether in boyish glee. URhesitsingly he
coached down a huge bottle from a shelf,
and fillei with steady hand, small vial,
,vb;cb he carefully buttoned into an inner
,ocket. Nov he muttered, "a little of
his ia each glass of beer will soon lay him
opt Little Otto viii DO It for me, and ]
,sn tin him 8 wink when the fellow has
,a5 enough; for don't want to kill him,
Z he Is q fool. After which he departed /
= bis humble but virtuous home, and slept
he sleep of the Just.
There were no pIettier costumes st the
III than those Of Briar Rose and Eiss .
S.;1ce: the first, with the garland Of wild