Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-05-21

n MAN AT II WINDOW.
I do not know whether he will do so
or not. Some think he will and some
think he will not. Ionce lived In 3 town
for some time and held two lots with
the hope that Mr.. Gould would build
there and erect large shops employing
over q Thousand men, but MIR. Gould
died without having done so. Finally
! exchanged the lots for an agents
prospectus Of THE Family and Horse
Doctor Book" and began to canvas Tor
the same at 20 per cent OF the receipts.
Fairhaven and New Whstcom with q
;ranscontlnental road would be a great
success All they lack Is people. That
is true OF this whole region.
More honest sweat and less scanning
OF the horizon for railroads would work
well. The growth OF all the cities OF this
new northwest even in the three years
since | visited II is astonishing even "a
one who has made q solemn promise
that he will never be Astonished.
There was never a better time for the
dissatisfied man OF the States TO come.
He should not expect 20 make q compe.
tency while playing high FIVE" and
waiting for his lots TO go up. but como
here with his working clothes and go I'm
to win. II you buy q lot, buy II for q 90.
rear investment and not for the purpose
Of selling 1t tomorrow for a bank TO
build on.
But everything is new and up TO date
wherever one goes. You will find no
bellcerds with tassels on them In these
cities. but the very latest thing made.
Ii is so In everything. Even the AlU
tlon Army looks more prosperous thu
IL does In older States. Its band 10 more
attractive aud sometimes plays a tune.
II has done great good by working
among the coachmen who gather, with
their carriages, about the entrance 70
the opera house where we play.
Colonel William Llghfoot Visscher OF
Kentucky lived for some years at Fair.
haven az an editor. He liked the town
very much, but his wife thought II very
crude, and she missed her old friends a
good deal, while the genial colonel knew
everybody In the United States, and 10
was not lonesome. This is often the case
with popular men. They frequently pre-
fer the tribute OF laughter and bon
homie down town TO the quiet evening
at home by the Preside, reading from
"Plutarch's Lives" and giving children
their bath.
So she tried to get him to remain al
home and help her wear cut the dull
evening, but he had all sorts OF business
engagements and meetings OF the cham
Der OF commerce TO meet down town.
He belonged TO several societies also,
including the United Red Men. the Lit
tie Defenders and the Fair Haven Oom-
pah band.
Mrs. Vlsscher got him a billiard table
and the game Of lotto, from which keno
was derived, but IL was not all these be
needed. 1t was the little band Of CON-
genial souls who still remained down
town. She lost heart and gave IL up./
The place was new, and there w9rs
rough characters abroad at night, gnd
late one evening Colonel VIsscber Game
home to ind that q big stene had /bess
thrown through the window, barely
missing the piano.
His wife was in tears and begged him
10 move from Fairhayen.
mo" be said. getting down bis gun
and Grand Army uniform. 81 know
who did IL. II was one OF those brutes
/ have assalled In the paper. / will go
out and kill him. / must do II. j can
not be driven out OF this town by these
assasslns. BE calm while / go out and
Kill him, dear. You can look the other
way while / do IL, and / will wash my,
hands sfterward 30 that you will not b
frightened.
H. 49,, o,t .rd ... coro h.If -
| hour without success. but when he cane
In he found his wife white and speech
less. For a time be could not bring her
70, but finally she told him that afstone
or something had crashed through the
window Of her husbands room while he
was away.
Cautiously he went in there. he
found broken glass on his carpet and a
short piece OF OF metal like . BIT Of gas
| pipe closed at both ends and q cunning
little fuse az the end.
Colonel Vlsscher's face grew pale.
They sat hand Ia hand during the long.
dark night, and 10 the morning he took
the bomb TO the police and sold his
house.
They went to Portland 10 live, aud
, when they we're settled one evening
Mrs. Visscher cane up TO him, and run
ming her fingers through bis clustering
hair-his hair t5st was once so flowing,
bat now so ned-she told bin with q
tear how she VS. the assassin, 49,
abe got the pIern Der 70 make 4
for her and fiit up with baki1N
der. so she osuld throw It through
viaaov wife be was down the road az
the other side Of the house.
And/t IL is often said that women
baveA influence and that they are
merIE lay In tie hands Of those they
Eomsni woman!. wOmanl.l I fear
kre q sad dog!
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