Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-04-10

A season OF gaiety now set in I'M
| known TO that quiet neighborhOod since
/ the last visit OF these enterpriSing young
| ladies. Elias declaration that she had
come 10 the country to rest and to be
/ quit of the disturbing element of mascu-
line society appeared like the breath of
| ones uostrlS-a thing that passes, leav-
ing no trace that 10 ever has been. She
neither rested herself nor allowed much
rest 10 others, and she had not been in
the country a week before every unmar-
ried man within a radius Of miles had
found his way TO the house.
Ia Dan Stewart she had an able aux
iliary, for all his instincts were social,
and between them they organized and
carried through successfully quite a
number OF picnics, fishing parties and
impromptu dances. Mary, drawn into
the vortex by her impetuOuS cousin, en-
loved il as much as any Of them, and
/ felt somehow rs though the springs of
youth and Joy were being renewed with
/ in her. She rode and walked and tished
with the rest, enjoying their pleasure
and their own, and one evening she ac-
I tually danced again-a thing she had
/ had not done for years.
Dan had a very nice tenor voice, and
/ both the HenderSons were musical; so a
/ part of the evenings was usually devoted
| TO music, singing and practicing duets
and having strange and inharmonious
concerts, wherein Dan initiated a
French horn with his mouth land
/ thought he did it very well, too, al
though be sometimes had difficulty in
making the rest agree with HIM and
Ella whistled like a hooking bird,
while Mary and Nan performed the in
strumental part, and Anthony picked
bravely on banjo.
For Anthony had suddenly become a
candidate for musical distinction. he
hal a good, although unframed, voice,
and the natural taste for music which
Is so noticeable in his class in the south.
One evening he surprised them all by
appearing with an old banjo under his
srm, which he said be had bought from
a white man living back in the woods
for five dollars.
The man was under conviction OF sin
and mindful 10 be rid OF satan and all
! his works; so he had sold his banjo TO
/ Ned i'm preference 10 destroying il, for
/ in all the Scriptures there is no verse
/ which teaches that for his souls saliva
/ ton a man shall turn his back on profit,
/ il so be he is poor already. This Ned
/ told them while he strung his banjo up,
and afterward, sitting down before
/ them so that he might beat time prop
erly with heel and toe, he trolled out
mining camp ditties and old plantation
\ melodies that he had picked up from
! the negroes when he was a boy, TO a
rafting accompaniment that made the
/ sheepskin sound again. Once he droned
for them a really excellent imitation OF
an Indian funeral dirge, interSperSed
with walls and curious long-drawn
bowls, which performance transported
the little boys with admiration and
caused them for days to till the house
with such hideous sounds Of mourning
that Mary was forced to interfere and
make il a punishable Cffense.
Anthony, through his intercourse
with Mrs. Beverley, had overcome his
shyness with ladies. aid enjoyed the in
| Innate association with well-bred
women more even than he realized him.
| self until he came to look back upon Is