Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-10-02

-t.a1 |If1 ISL Town on lAai
5sNf - extension of
&Wssttgs = - Ninth avenue
ES$Sas - which scorns its
81 49, humble begin
3t2SS nings as il gets
rs 1l1 ,,T%soN more prosperous.
81 y .U'0 W ~ and with thetrue
Thilist.ne spirit changes its name 70
that of the disc0yerer of America
There were two great apartment houses
opposite each other. with the constant
roar and ierk of the elevated road
living between. Norkmen had been
coming and going upon a third
r white building on an opposite
corner, with an empty lot lying adj
emit. and bows of his own age had
been playing 10 there, playing all sorts
at tantalzing games, ever since VIII
bur Clint had moved into the fifth
fat.
He used TO stand GO the window I'm
his uichtgown and look at them. He
wore his nightgown haif the day some
times. because DO seemed SO senseless
20 5res, himself when he could not so
at His mama gave him his bath and
tucked him into bed at night. and
then go the morning, long before he
WAS Mp. ,de took the elevated and
u.rt away down town 90 q magazine
office where She read stories which
other people wrote. and patiently
,...i them up again and sent them
...s totle writers.
Sometimes her heart used 20 ache
-.a.o'l fashioned, provincial views
-n. which SD many of the stories
When Wilbur mamma, sit
.s-a 10 her desk, in her neat
blk. ..u. besitGted over page OF
Whiting and smiled a little at
tl. corner, of her mouth, it was a GER
that she had found another
I, story. told in the good old way.
ul.. cruel fate had at last allowed
OIL. lovers to fy into each others
s and they made their exit amid %
-..nero rice Oh the tune of wedding
bells. their sorrow- ended forever.
DO wonder she said 20 herself
H.. s6. mas nr+,,rc
--,, one of tba-e man1scrinrs
-,e 1,r chow a Mrs ever came
t9 write such story as that. Well
veIl May Dee her husband died on
.L..- borsvraor moor thiprr
ON. isv the editor of the MAGAZINE.
SSH. MAS very busy man indeed.
came .-ta tLe tiny little room where
|---..- .-. l-. and flr.bled over some
9th. t.i.. package which were piled
s.I sh..t
.Jr-- Clint. " DE said. care an the
story writer's gettiue cvnicll2 What
the matters It seem, b. me we
haven't haIa really cheerful tale for
ST.. months.
Mrs Chntused Co think great deal
about her little boy as she went mp
and down on the elevated. and as sine
-a- bv the lamp anI larned his little
STOCKINGS at uirht. or Law with his
.---. little head rpon her arm. She
r..t.l e+ him apyiousIv 10 see If he
r.-. ....i,g male with the con6De-
... -l.l.,.,,. ,tot - WAS an vroro
-. 1;++is
$1,000. 1''. M II ,-,. -,
..r.-f.....if
-....-,..., .b. ,,o so,r tbs bovs
.-...-..' ... +b. -,.,.,,+ 1,+ ,rbaro t1a
l.7 ,.,r.4 ths,r vssts Tbev rssd
-...t..- ,ii +,r nail and briIj 81 fire
.,r -,-ins IT. I'm "a blazing circle
,-.~ e~ftbeD Mrs clint would
r- .u .vsr and make Wilbur
.ls+ be- would never go ont
t.- was little more expensive
t 49,. Clint cou1d RIGHTLY afford.
I SILL boI taken IL because the
..-.-. .g.is. ,vassn odd acounintsnce.
servant iu the boarding house
a.- SIR. Clint had lived when she
frs. come to New York. a fresh
--v cir. with am ambition to write
tho MAGAZINES. She had had q
ler of stories accepted. had done
sorts off work for syndicates and
wspaDers. and had gone to the
..atre with nice. ambitious young
asuaper men. who threw work ln
vsy. and told her stories of
mnent people and their humble
-uuuCs And then finally she had
r-.si one of the most ambitious of
@ and had gone Co Paris with hiw
avaar. and had been delightfully."-
..r.
Il-r had gone 10 an the places
artists and writers had dis
the unusual and the pictur-
They had had "a little apart