The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1893-02-10

eyes That now danced and sparlsled
and then grew soft and tender MS a
little child. Two rose.red lips shut in
her pearly teeth and when she smiled
\ tiny dtmple danced for moment on
her peachy cheek. Her hair chung in
carcssing curls around her low white
forehead and fell in riprles of golden
sunshine far below her slender waist.
But very few knew of Marie's beau
W For when she went with her moth
~ on one of her rare visits TO the ham
let below she brushed her wavy hair
straight and smooth back from her
Forehead and braided 1t in long stiff
plaits which fell down her back.
70 " happened that only her mother
niislsone other person knew how good
and sweet and how fair Marie was.
The other was d stranger who came
from f;ir5away country and spent his
summers IN a little house on the noun
iain's very top.
The simple villagers called him .'the
wizard, and told strange tales of how
he spent whole nights gazing at the
heavens through a long tube; that he
could foretelI to IN hour when the sun
would cover itself with darkness.
But, strangcst OF all, lie had n little
z wire stretched for mites over hills and
valleys to the great cityl This wire
talked to him in n queer language
which no one else could understand.
Marie did not know how wise the
wizard was when he came to her home
one morning and asked for drink OF
water.
After this tho wizard came often to
the widows chalet for stand refresh.
ment on his long ramblcs. and long be.
fore the first summer was ended the
stranger knew that no girl in all the
canton could be compared with Marie.
On the other side of the mountain
from the Widow Scurs home lived an
other widow She. too, had but one
child, a son, who was the pride and de.
light of her life. This was the brave
young hunter and guide, Gustavus Friel.
Gustayus cared little for tile Obgadin
maidens. He would far rather chase
the chamots up the mountain side or
guide travellers through its dangerous
passes than spend his time with the
finest of the maids OF the hamlet.
His mother often said: "Ny son,
when wilt thou bring me homo daugh.
ter and myself wifc?"
And Gustavus, smiling and pressing
alsiss on her forehead, would answer
when find maid rs good us thee,
mother; but want no idle, shrill
voiced wife to disturb our quiet home. y
(; But one day his mother SAID more
sadly and seriously than ever before:
"Gustavus, am growing old ant
feeble. I can no longer make ant
mend thy clothes and keep our home
Thou must have wife. Promise me
at the fete next week thou wilt choose
one from among the maidens there"
Gustayus reluctantly gave her the
desired promise, but it weighed heavily
upon him.
AT last he seized his gun and wen,
* out on the mountain, but the perplex
ing question followed him, until III
despair he threw himself on the grounc
groaning:
soh, that some wise man would
make this choice for mel"
A moment after he looked up anC
saw, as II to answer his wish, the wiz
ard approaching him.
Why" he exclaimed to himself, '.d!t
not think Of him before? Surely he i
anyone can help me-"
The wizard greeted Gustavus warm
". for he fell strong friendship To-
the young guide who had taken hir
safely through many dangerou
mountain excursion.
And now his sympathetic question
why, what's troubling you, my boy9
opened the way for Gustavus to pou
out all his perplexity, ending his recita
with the question:
"canst thou not help me choose
good wife, who win make my life har
pya For now have given my mothe
my promise to find wife at the fet
next week"
The wizard smiled sympatheticall
and then thought in silence little be
fore he answered.:
.If pure, true heart is united to
pure, true heart both lives must b
s:4lasi,' answered Gustavus. but