The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-05-06
BALLAD oF LIE GO MorAER.


In tho dead of tho night The children were
Tho mother heard that where sle lay sleeping
And scratched Mt tho coffin lid
Tho shriI of the lark. the scream of the owl.
Tho dogs that bark and tho storms that now,
She never had heard them whero hhe laS nIu' i'
But she heard her poor little children wsepihs
In the lone of the night the sexton lay dream
He turned him about. "who is signing and
scrcumingt'
HOh, let he out, sexton, for pity pity q sakel'
"Hushi hushi hushi
The dead must sleep sound and never wake
A Skinner of wings won't over tho sky.
A murmur of strings-"oh, pasSne not byl
Tho poor mother wants to get gel out
ooh, como and help mo soonl
But tho angels harped on 'twiXt tho earth and
tho moon.
In tho dark underground the mother lay weep
ing,
Through tho deep underground a devil was
"Iiushl hush hush!
What are you crying about?
Your gravcstono IS carvcn with cherubim
Your pail is enwoycn with silver laces."
My cli;dren have wcpt till their hearts are
"rho angels are fled. and the sexton is sleep.
Ana tlia faia a devii-a desil' from ibeiii'' 81
"Then help me out, doSil-oh, help me. good
"a price must paid ton spirit Of evil, i.
am thinking whit price" said tho spirit
from hell
"Tho prico shnll bo paid, the bargain is made"
Sho has sworn him an oath; the coffin is bro
The S poor mother runs up the stair.
"You have sworn me oath, but whore are
tho pledgesf ,,.,.,..,,o.
The ring from my finger, tho rose from my
hairT"
''No, no. mol
But n lock of your beautiful hair"
s.AIy penknifo of pearl, for Inst love token,
/ gave my sweet Willinm-then how can shear
"No need, said the devil, "no need; L can
In tho dead of the night, tho moon shining
From her tomb by the church tho mothorrose
whitley.
BY the bridge o'or the stream up the path
through the meadow,
Like a bird. like n CLEAN, through the wind,
through the shadow,
She ran, while tho devil looked out from her
tomb
He smiles 'twixt tho clcrubim faces and wings
And winds hor long hair round his finger for
BoomI booml booml
From tho tower in the silence there sounds the
great bell.
AZ am thinking what price" said the devil
from lICll
Margaret l.. Woods in Fortnightly Review.
Travelling Engineer Walter Lay
man, of the O. r. r. left at noon
today over the b. u O. S. w. for
Pullman, ILL.,, where he will take
charge of the three new combina-
ton mail and express cars which
have been purchased by the O. II.
r.. He expects to be homo with
them by next Sunday and will
come by the way of tho q. q o.,
and it is the intention to put the
cars in the service next Monday.
Parkcrsburg Sentinel, 30.
There always has been and al
ways will be room at the top. A
man who can do something an do
it we'll, will always be sought for.
The expensive men arc always the
first to get favors. The cheap men
are the first to get discharged when
a slack time comes. The paront
who trains his boy or his girl to do
something which will be of great
service to him in the world is Civ
ing tho child something i'll the way
of a fortune that will not fail it.
And now at this time of the year,
when early spring has gradually
turned warm and dry and become
more settled and the spring house
cleaning is just getting fairly start
ed, comes the assessor to inquire
into your affairs and find out how
poor you really are and how the
hard times have affected you.
When he gets through the flies
will get in their work.
People who will have their own
way, are people who generally
suffer the pangs of hell for having
had their own way. All such need
guardians for they are reckless
people that always end themselves
and everyone connected with them
in smash and ruin.
While it may be true that all
Democrats are not free silver men,
yet it is equally true that all Re
publicans are not for the gold
standard, which our own State Ga
zette so zealously advocates. 1t
appears, it too, has heard some
thing "drop."
A greater truth was never utter
tered than the following by Senn-
tor Hill tho other day, when he