Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-11
CYCLONIC PROVIDENCE.

''Tbe Lord loves the lover, remarked
a cbeerfnl Young man in the smoker,
as the drummer sat down IN corner
and began TO unlimOer corkscreW.
al should say the Lord loved you'
then" responded the drummer; Tor
Won look more like lover, and happy
one. than anyone I've seen In long
time"
pm married man." blushed the
young fellow.
',No, YOU don't mean It," said the
drummer with cynical smile. Hhal
makes you so happy?"
Just got married yesterday AFTER
noon az three o'clock" and the grooms
face was fairly radiant.
What's that got 10 do with the Loru
loving a lover?" inquired the drummer
laying tho corkscrew alongside OF the
or K.
"Well, was lover yesterday, on
nv way 70 town where my wife, when
now is, lives, and the train that put me
there Is due at noon, and there's only
one train a day. IL was 10 be a Dig
wedding, and everybody ana his VIE
were invited aud great time was eX-
Dected, Ny home is about 10 mics
away on q branch road, and our tram
connects with the main line train
about sixty miles from where the
girl lived. l made that train all right,
and after going, say, ten miles, we ran
into a big WashOut. Inc locomotive
went into the hole, and there we were'
no telegraph wire, no houses near no
track, and a girl waiting FOR man De-
yopd. and no tidings OF him. II was
cloudy aud mad been raining Ittle'
and I saw no chance but walking back
10 the junction ia the mud, and tele-
graphing the cause OF the delay, When
I noticed one those peculiar funnel-
SHAPED clouds common TO the nat
west gyrating through the SKY at
a terrific rate. or course l knew
what 10 was, and so did the other
passengers, and we made break Tor
shelter, but 10 was on US before we
could get anywhere, and such scatter
ing you never saw. II whirled tAat
train end over end, pulled the track up
by the roots aud raised samhill gener-
ally. As for myself, all l knew was
that in a second I did not know any
thing except vague sense or snuoca-
ton, flying through the air, and duii
thud OF landing somewhere. How long
I was about il or where l was had no
idea when [ recovered consciousness,
but had evidently Ceen carried up
high. for there were no signs OF cy-
clone where l liz, though the wind had
blown the grass down, and a few small
trees 10 exposed places. The
first thing I thought Of was, Of course,
nv wedding, and 1 was worried
sick, for there | was, goodness only
knew where, and nothing TO identity
myself by. There was a town about
mile TO the south, and / made for that,
and by the time l had got in little
closer, things looked familiar, and the
closer 1 came the more familiar things
looked, and before l realized II was
within a hundred yards Of my girls
house, fine one in the suburbs. l
could see the town clock, and 1t showed
me I had an hour 70 spare before the
wedding, aud bolted right in without
thinking. They thought l was tramp
al first, and then the old man swore
had been on terrific drunk, and was
for firing me, but I explained the cir
cumstances, aud the windStorm which
had passed by only short time before
nv arrival corroborated my story, and
the preacher rose up then and there and
asked a blessing.
The drummer had dropped the cork
screw two minutes before and was now
holding on TO the bottle as II he expect
ed 70 90 fying through the air the next
minute.
"Well," continued the groom, "the
wedding came of on time, though had
TO wear suit Of the old mans clothes,
and the manner OF my arrival made
the affair more interesting than ever. d"
What became Of the other passen-
gers?" the drummer managed to ask,
AS IL has only been since yesterday,
and we left that same evening a. IL
o'clock, I haven't had chance TO hear
vet; but another strange thing was that
/ my trunk was picked up mile or two
/ the other side OF the town and brought
to me about two hours after the wed
ding. Now that's the reason" and the
young man looked sure OF It, why
saw the Lord loves lover; for II that
cycle hadn't been sent along just as 1t
was, there's no telling what would have
/ happened
The drummer put the corkscrew In
his pocket and the bottle back In his
/ SatChel.
1.-THE Lord loveth a cheerful liar,
Also" he whispered softly and looked
out Of the window steadily.