Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-02

and a flea In his ear. Slice off twenty
or thirty thousand acres from your
manor, marry these young people and
set them up. You are too rich for our
latitude and our era"
Mr.. Adolphus Phillipse was a slow
coach. The others banter leased him.
"Mr. Livingston" he began, swelling
and growing red.
"Come, gentlemen" cries Van Cort-
landt, pacificator, 81 have capital
plan for young Brothertoft.
"What?" omnes inquire.
''He must marry Jane Blllop."
Gay, he must marry Jane Billop,"
omnes rejoin.
ga glass to it!' cried the proposer.
"Glasses roundw the seconders echo,
with subdued enthusiasm.
"a beauty" says Van Cortlandt,
clinking with Phillipse.
IAN heiress" says Philiipse, clinking
on.
San orphan and only child" says
Robinson, touching glasses with his
neighbor.
''Sweet sixteenI" says Livingston.
blowing a kiss, and completing the cir
Gle OF clink.
These jolly boys. old and young, were
of tribe on it's way to extinction, with
the painted sagamoreS OF tribes before
them. First came the red nomad strid-
ing over the continent. In time followed
the great PATRON, sprawling over all
the acres of county. Finally arrives
the unem barrassed gentleman of our
time, nomad in youth, settler at ma
turity, but bound to no spot and cribbed
in no habitation; and always packed to
move, with a brain full OF wits and
pocket full Of coupons.
The four proprietors finished their
libations and sent for Edwin to say
goodby. His deep grief made any sug-
gestion of their marriage scheme an
impertinence.
Jolly Van Cortlandt longed to lay his
hand kindly on the young mans shout
der and say: Don't grieve, my boy!
'Omnes morlar,' as we used to say at
school. Come, let me tell you about
happy marriage we've planned for you"
Indeed, he did arrange this little speech
in his mind, and consulted Livingston
on its delivery.
"Let him alonew said that magister
morum. "Yon know as much OF love as
OF Latin. The match is clearly made In
heaven. 1t will take care Of itself. He
shall have my good word with the lady
and wherever else he wants 1t. l love a
gentleman.
$50 do l, naturally" Van says. and
be gave the youth honored with this
fair title cordial invitation to his
manor.
The others also offered their houses,
hearths and hearts sincerely, and then
mounted and rode off on their several
prosperous and cheerful ways.
The lonely house grew drearier and
drearier.
Colonel Billop," wrote Mr.. Skaats,
his agent and executor, "has been re-
moved by an all wise Providence. IN
der the present circumstances, Mr..
Brothertoft, 1 do not wish to disturb
Won. But l should be glad to take pos
session at the manor at your earliest
convenience. Respectfully, etc., Skier
vey Skaats."
Everything, even the priceless por-
trait of the Puritan colonel, was COW
cred by the mortgages. Avarice had
licked them all over with its slime and
gained TO bolt the whole a. meal.
Edwin did not wish to see Skervey
Skaats at work swallowing the family
heirlooms. He invited Squire Dewitt
to act for him with the new proprietor's
representative.
New York by that time had become a
thriving little town. The silt OF the
stream of corn that flowed down the
Hudson was enriching it. Edwin had
brave hopes of making at least his daily
bread there with his brains or his hands,
While he was preparing to 90 old
Sam ellsworth appeared with bag OF
puineas and fine white mare OF the
famous Lincolnshire stock--such a
mare as Col. Brothertoft used to ride,
and Prince Rupert's men to run from.
Squire Dewitt told me you were
going to trudge to New York." said
Sam.
II was" replied the orphan; my
legs will take me there finely"
1T was in my lease" said Sam, ''to
nav a mare colt every year over and
above ICY rent, besides a six-year-old
mare for harriet whenever the new
heir came in.
"Heriot, / suppose you mean, Sam"
eve call 'em heriots when they're
horses, and harriets when they're mares.
Well. your father wouldn't take the
colts since twelve year. He said he
was agin tribute, and struck the colts
and the harriets all out of my lease. So
| nut the price Of a colt aside for him
every wear in case hard times come.
There's twelve colts in this buckskin
hap. and this mare is the token that
count you the rightful owner OF my
farm and the whole manor. I've changed
her name TO Harriet, bein one. She's a
stepper, as any man can see with half a
blinker. The dollars AID the beast Is
yourn, Mister Edwin.
Edwin shook his head. "You are
very kind. Sam; but l am my fathers
son and against tribute in any FORM"
~ haven't loved your father forty
wears TO see his son go afoot. Ride the
mare down, anyhow. She don't get
motion enough, now that I'm too heavy
for her. being seventeen stone three
Mound and quarter with my coat
Off"
Edwin's pride melted under this 10y
atty.
you. And give me luck penny out OF
the bag" !,
you'll not take the whole?" pleaded
GalswOrthY.
No. And when the root doctor heard
this he stood Hendrecus Crnady junior
in a receptive position aud dosed him
with a bolus Of wisdom, as follows:
s.Nan IL divided into three factions.