Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-11-06
E1TIV BR0THERIOFI.
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- along until he came to a
IsrcS So, crossed by pathway. A
mte go, tree had made the glade
rsii en'' lesser plants were easily
p 9s hack By It's stout oVess .so ,o-dl,
isfas,s 80 snd its brethren OF the forest ,'.
tranc al,S,s,gIy given place TO see what
lsi NI''I. ~ would do with its chance
the.f oio.-sss 10 had done noblY. IL
q gTel.-,,~Dle 20 trees and the world,
pis % eA -,.iom OF standing by ones
o p, .,rsndiog 10 ones sunshine ana ma
r'o'S ' 15e's self grow like a me old
1sgsia3e...s been Jierck's trystlng tree
tbs . s-e when the pastoral poem OF
% ile '- -.. writing Itself, canto day.
i lr' his chestnut ole summers. INNER. eve, eve
Inls' me whole tree was a great oo9-
Shaa 'F Sowery tassels, Jierck had sud
lls. y --y,rred 10 pop his shy question.
isn.y ,,..--o-sd robins up in those very
Fol t .n' 5o5 shouted his Sweethearts
hlan,..g5' o. IN the birds and breezeS to
'yes, l0I '''
repeat s55ep in the thicket, looked
J.sI'e,, tbs old tree. He smiled to re-
Indy y lettings there when he was a
call tle .,~,osv lover. For moment rec
t.n.l, baIf comic and all pleasant
o.s,,.5s5 this agony Of q man betrayed
ss-s5is,oya, woman - A..
Bl. ligbt clash OF falling leaf with
were 10 Footsteps and voices were
ii..ile Jierck withdrew little and
el.I-i Two women appeared up the
VIZ VIZ following their long shadows.
~ Enc out into the glade. 1t was
lnsl -, go and sister, furlOuyhed for the
i' 20 and op their way hOmeward.
''y 5....,. babeld the wOman's story writ
',., her face-the tablet where all
bl -of lives are written for decipher-
ST. -ssd he saw no wish there to
'i' I, 7r revise the later chapters.
sAg- 10 was still an inSolent, brazen
ns 49,, tbs counterpart Of her mistress
ana lover plane.
% nv, ~ Tfs-ck, be had been drawn 20
~. .1,. So be felt, 20 see his murderess
pa ~ stabbed over again. The eX-
----.frv weight of his agony came
$50 5rwn upon him. He shivered.
..-.-.-.3 t1 him that snow must sud
~, have fallen with sunset A mo-
--.s-. 10 was not spring nor summer,
1000 r9'era6'e autumn; now winter
~ ,5re. chilly and dreary. A friend
- -,.s t8 him this traitor world,
~. Del. smitten with degradation.
r.r-.r-rar.y miserable, and the old
....-.r Tree .usuIted him with memoir
.,,Is dead hopes % happiness.
= mus. have comfort, thought
Jark. -
a. ---f0-t must be- had 40 once men
-rtba au0dynes and stimulents. Kos
-. rrv.Ies these in great variety.
~ rgr o.! most universal application
rs
T-ncc7. alcohol, marriage, death.
p75r Ierck Dewitt wanted comfort az
,-,s. A Whit of smoke from his pipe
ws DO, concentrated enough, and he
m.i not wait TO try what virtue there
vas To- 5.gamy.
oR1n or this! he said wildly. The
t,sra,.ve this" seemed TO attract him
h,sB instant. he drew his knife from
is bel, and felt along the cold edge.
Was be about to taste that mighty mar
8tc Death?
Death. He touched his knife blade.
Coon aIighted upon the landscape. The
u6s1 woods grew lurid. Silence,
asgsr than he had ever known, deep
,lei and deepened, until be fancled that
nature was hushed and listening for his
death moan.
An imagined picture grew before his
eyes: Tine. morning. Scene, this glade
q, The biz chestnut. A man lies under
he tree. The first Sunbeams melt the
frost that dabbles his hair. He must be
iNlli sleeper, for chipmunk has
.caei bis pockets OF their crumbs, and
DOW stands on his forehead, chuckling
over bis breakfast. Mrs. Jlerck Dewitt
enters the glade. She sees the sleeper.
S-s starts and approaches cautiously.
Sac s,ares, and then looks up with q
Ugl, bold smile Of relief and scorn.
il, The sleeper is her husband. He lies
dead, With a knife in his breast.
"NJ" Kissed Jierck, dashinR away
tbs picture from his eyes. "Ill not
ll myself 20 please her."
"Rgm. I must have rum, or l shall
Duai. The old mans jug will be in
DE old place in the kitchen cupboard"
be continued.
DE Sauked along rapidly through the
v2ods, Ike a beast OF prey. The great
Col. agony 10 his heart paused a mo-
1sct He could keep it down from
l-llel.ng him while he thought Of his
NIy consolation 70 come.
hwas growing dusk now, and he was
Hiess. He stopped by the kitchen
widow Of his fathers house and peered
To-
The family were at supper. These
we're ide early years Of the Revolution,
a-l war had not yet utterly desOlated
'1s region. Squire Dewltt's was still a
F'SPeroaS household, and be, fire old
aIarcb, presided at a liberal board.
ViiOS;e him sat the mild mother Of the
l1lse.
The harmony Of a lifetime Of love and
~apan.on thinking on companion cares
--l made her expression almost identi-
"a With her husbands. Pretty Kate, a
S--sd,er Of her parents old age,
l-'led the meal along and hoped her
Tr-1fscus was not getting hungry.
..''ea only sister, a widow, was max
- ''o smiles grow in the place Of one
y lsT BOY IOmmy's round face by cut
~ --s a.s gingerbread fatter than usual.
- cat from a dresser watched every
49, -.,'s. aud every sip with a feline look,
'.c1 is thief look.
AUS home.y scene, instead OF sooth-
-, POOR J.erck, was double bitterness
=. C-'Se The woman I made my wife!"
~ .-olslt. "She has spoiled my chance
-l4e and Preside 0f a hannv aga and