The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-07


trembling with excitement.
"seck further
"You are right, my bow, you are
right. Come home with me at once.
We viii lay our plans, and level ibis
mound aud bring to light its hidden
treasures. Your views coincide with
mine exactly. Think OF the renown
We shall win, will build the museum,
EU. y5G sba!! write the monograph ag-
srribing the works aud Interpreting
their symbols. / wouldn't objec. If you
even wanted to illustrate it, and then
your art would be OF some use after all.
! Don't think OF that Hummery. how
ever; I'll furnish you with an occupa-
ton. IN"
"But your daughter?'
ION, Rachel, you shall have her. II
/ had lily daughters you should have
them all. Come home, come home. \
Toltec amulet whichIsays see, further
us plain as phonograph at q fair. Only
to mink oil it."
And Tor days thereafter the twain did
seek further and found IN abundance
exceeding old Oscars dream, shards and
cups that quite resemblei some Etrus-
! can curios which Albert had brought
| back with him from Europe, and silver
! ornaments not unlike the bangles which
had jinglcd OH Rachels pretty wrists q
| few seasons before. And tue fame OF
the discovery spread from Aberdeen
throughout many lands. bringing re-
nown TO the centre And old Oscar now
found the days too short and Time once
| more Il taskmaster, agreeable, but alert.
| Already he had laid the foundations Of
J the "Blodgett Museum" already Albert
had published the monograph, with 4
| fuIl.siZe Gu. OF the amulet on the fronts
I page.
All, the amulet. No matter what
wonders we're excayated that readily re-
tanned its pre-eminence. 1t was the
Rosetta stone OF the New World, the
key to all western antiquity. Old Oscar
cherished it jealousy. It's photographs
truly were scattered to the four corners
of the earth, but the original he kept
hid, now and then vouchsating aglimpse
"a proof OF his highest favor.
Why should he not, indeed, since it
was the source OF his happiness?
Never did the course OF love run
more smoothly than Tor Rachel and
Albert. Had Oscar been the groom he
| could not have been more impatient for
the nuptias. sgThe wedding day was
| fixed, the guests were invited; the
rcn, the aristoCratic, and especially the
wise Of Aberdeen, end the great house
was set in order As surprising
honor old Oscar placed the amulet un-
| der glass case on a stand in the parlor
bay window. The wedding dawned
and Aurora and all the sylvan nymphs
smiled approval. The guests were as
sembled, and Albert, in the third-story
front room, was nervously awaiting the
signal to descend to the tate so vastly
surpassing his merits. There came
hurried rap, the door flew open and
slammed, and Rachel, in the disheveled
! condition which is normal to all brides
few moments before the hour set for
the ceremony, stood before him with
streaming eyes and agitated hands.
"Oh, Albert" she cried, ave are lost,
we are undone." She was decidedly so.
Something dreadful has happened to
the Toltec amulet. And Tommy is
rushing around the rooms shouting that
it is doughrut from Wiggins's, and all
the people are laughing, and oh, dear,
what will pa dow Whereupon poor
Rachel, having told all she knew.
tainted, and Albert swore and descended
to the scene OF the catastrophe.
This then is what had TRANSFERRED: 1t
was hot summer day. The blazing
sun since earliest morn had shone full
on the amulet, its rays being concen-
trated by the glass. The substance had
| softened and split apart, revealing to
Tommy's curious eyes familiar attrib-
utes in the shape OF white dough sur
rounding a glass marble. With inner
tied iervor he had proclaimed his dis
covery, and hence the tears OF the bride.
Albert forced his way through the
throng, unheeding furtive nudges and
one cornered smiles. Bending over the
amulet ne found the one he sough t, and
one glance ut his face restored cou rage
and confidence. 1t was aglow with de.
light.
"NIore. work for we arkologists." cried
old Oscar, clapping his hands gleefully.
| you'll have to write another mono
graph, my boy. How true it is that
there's nothing new under the sun. To
think that Wiggins's pet novelty was
practiced by the Toltecs two thousand
years ago"
The old mans sublime simplicity af.
fected Albert far more than would have
announcement and election. He re.
solved that that fatal cake should re-
main Toltec cake to the glory OF his
| iaiher-in-law thenCetorward.
Why. yes, OF course" he said com.
posedly. 81 remember now The learn
| ed Diaz relates that at royal banquets
uncut gems were euaRiRgIy concealed
in CONNECTIONS. We possess, sir, the
oldest, the most precions joke in the
world"
Those who had nudged now respect
| fully folded their arms and those who
had smiled grew serious. The twain
between them possessed the twoiold
armor OF antiquarians, composed OF
faith and etirontery, and it is impene-
trable.
The wedding ceremony proceeded;
the lovers were sealed unto unduring
bliss. The Toltec cake now occupies
| the position OF honor in the Blodgegt
museum, and is reverenced by all Aber-
deenians like another palladium. True,
a worldwide controversy has been
waged regarding it; but then did not
Virgins settle the matter long ago by
declaring that be meyer baked such nm
notwithstanding mass2 Old Oscar
continues happy and Contented in the
possession Of so priceless a relic, and
the ancient Toletcs, who after all alone
have the right TO impugn its genuine
n SIS, sleep peacefully in their dust.
STATE OF Ono, Cry OF TOLEDO, o.
I.rrAs EnrNTN ~.