Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-07-23


night with yeomAn who lives plainly,
surrounded ty his II children. The
girls are some Of them feet high and
sleep II their sunbonnets.
A young foreigner tried TO kiss q
mountain girl some I9 or 20 years old
and OF tho above height She did net
know what the custom was among the
nobility, but she reckoned IL wasn't q
common thing among strangers In that
settlements so she broke down and drove
into the ground large, beautiful lilac
bush with him.
Some OF these merry little mountain
maids chew tobacco and chop wood In
the forest, totlng IL home on their
shoulders as they gayly carol some noe
turne from Vognor.
The tourist will notice that his pink
nightdress will attract attention In the
family, and neighbors from distance
will come to see how he is resting.
The meals are plain. You ride up q
little canyon, we would call II west
Here II is a coulie or cove. In Caifor-
mia aud the Spanish countries OF Amer
lea they would call IL little arroyo, or
some such thing.
You reach the head OF the gulch to-
ward nightfal. You have heard that
there Is cabin there. You can stay
there over night. But there is no sign
Of 1t after all.
Suddenly you hear the bsying OF IL
unclasslfed and pedigreeless dogs
They burst on you as though they
would eat you alive, but look 81 them a
moment and their tails are between
their legs at once.
A copperas colored man now comes
forth with a faded plum dun hat on
his head aud hair and whiskers that
look like the inside Of buggy cushion.
He shuts up the hounds noise and
asks you 10 light and tie" You DO so.
You have read that these mountaineers
are profuse ia their welcome, and you
get all ready to be taken in his great
warm arms and borne In and put 10
sleep in the spare bed, but hesdoes not
do so. He looks you over Ia manner
that reminds you OF the way you felt
when your wife's father first examined
your lack Of good points as a son-in-
law.
BY anu Dy supper Comcss
Around a big pine table free from
nspery gather the family, with 40 out
side fringe Of dogs. One OF these is a
mother. She has o little baseball nine
of big headed twins. You 90 there any
time In the year and you will ind new
set like this OF fresh young dogs.
All stand up.
In the middle OF the table Is q dish
pan full OF curdled milk and large,
thick corn pone. Every one is given a
wedge Of this corn pone and gouFd.
With the gourd you eat the upright
milk and then wipe your whIskers on
oour coat sleeve. As you take bite Of
pone the dog back OF you samples your
Rourd, and when you try to save your
milk he eats the most OF your pone.
LISA sort OF Saxon method Of life and
seems to 90 back TO the days OF Cedric,
only these people own no serfs. The AZ
fections are feeble, yet they cling for
generations TO the same cOulle, and the
seasons come and go and find them ever
poor, ever sad Of eye and voice, too lazy
TO love or TO talk or TO eDjoy-just hui
man germs, mammals that show the
early rehearsals Of nature In trying 10
create man; the discarded caricstures
OF humanity who forgot to die with the
cave bear and the pterodactyl.
Yet they differ little mentally. They
are free from ambition. and their only
gesture which shows vitality Is grave
movement OF tho hand toward the ankle
In token OF anxiety, but they are most
generally too late-the flea has flown.
But hope is dAWnInR. Mr.. George
Vanderbilt has boughtanother big tract
OF land near Pisgah. Thus he owns
both north and south of me. II Is pos
sible that he intends 10 surround me and
thus comLel me 70 sell.
POSSIBLY
But | will not yield. am like q col
ored man whose little farm still stands
in the center OF Mr.. Vanderbilts first
purchase and who refuses 70 sell Tor
900 times the value OF his little place.
This has always suited me" he goes
on 70 say, land hit alters will. All my
neigh bors hez sold out and went on, but
Ize knoU'd all kinds Of people and
never ouarreIed with 'em, and unless
Mr.. Vanderbilt is a mighty qua'lsoms
man / kin git along wild him. Amt
pertickler."