Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-06-27

! think that. We all ken We dldna DO IT,.
An aw'm just hopin' an prayin that
the true yin will turn up, the base
scoundrel. whaever he is!
The younger man shook his head
| hopelessly. The time was past when
sympathy had any power TO lni1ehce
! him. Tell me all about her, ne SAID
! quietly.
| "Weel Weeliam. we were aware that
YOUR mother was never vera strong,
though aye goin' about. She just broke
down like when we were taken ava I,
! but she still kept it on her feet, and ala
/ her bits O. turns, till twa or three days
syne. | had been gettin' up wee thlhg
early to kindle the fire for her, and THIS
morning | waed up with cup of tea
/ had maskit, and found her lying there
with her lips quite blue like, and her
senses clean AVA When | saw the
| state she in | ran ben the house for
wee drap O. French brandy | was keep
| in for any emergencies, an poured a
wee sup down her throat, and by-and-
/ bye she came to and said there was
, naething particular wrong
Poor mother; she was always given
to making light of her illnesses.
"Weel, Weeliam, | sent to the hid
dlins for the doctor, and when he came
he said her heart was terrible weak,
and that the anxiety she had come
through had been too much for her"
Thank you, Sandy, for attendln to
her. I'll never be able to repay
"Hoots ava, wi We, laddie! Wha
! talks o. pavment anon friends? Weel,
as | was telin' we, when | saw she was
| no mendin' like. had word with Sir
Wilfred. who was stoppin' over at Miss
Herons. and pleaded for a sort of vaca>
! ton. that | might be at hand gin she
needed onything, an he beln agree
! able to it. | shifted her bed down to
| the kitchen. and me and Mrs. Mossop
we nursed her. But it wasna for long,
| puir body
Tell me how she died" said Dob
I son in dull, lifeless tone.
1T would just be near chappln
twelve this forenoon. She had been
speakin' about you, Weeliam, an act
I ing under her instructions | had made
up this parcel" indicating one he had
placed on the floor on his arrival, 20
! clean clothes for you, and promised
her I'd bring it here this afternoon.
Well. | was readin' to her at her re-
| quest out % the Book o Deuteronomy,
and she was lying quiet like. | thought
she would be drapping OFF 10 sleep,
when the door opened and wee thing
and Miss Heron came in. Seeing the
state of affairs, she just gied me a
look as much as to say: Just you
read AVA and never fash your thumb
about me- I'll be as quiet as pussy.
( SO on | gaed. an your mother, VIVA
was doverin, never kent she was there.
In a minute. or maybe twa, she start
ed up in her bed, and cried out, and
there. standing in the doorway right
forenenst her. was a lady. 1t seemed
your mither took her for ghost. she
was all in gray, and her face that
white, your mither got a FRIGHT, an
syne. my lad. she just drapplt back on
her pillow dead"
Dobson covered his face with his
/ hands and grOaned.
The Teddy was real upset when she
saw the i'll her untimely action had
wrought. and Miss Heron attended to
/ her. | telt them where to get the
] + IbUcH DIdlluN. anu an ava W NNNNAA
| Mrs. Mossop TO lay out your mither's
| body, and when | got back the leddy
was ava. The doctor had CHANGED tae
| come in his gig an took her hame; but
Miss Heron waited till | came back,
and spoke real sympathetic like, and
sent a very kind message to yourself,
saying that she would come to see we
hersel the morn.
"She always had a good word for
everybody in trouble, had Miss Heron,
Sandy"
ave. Iaddie. But she is a wee thing
over masculine like for my taste.
Moo. the ither one-Miss Heron teut
me afterwards it was Mrs. MOngorton,
that Sir Wilfred's goin' to marry
she's a dainty bit thing, just for all
the wurruld like a chiny figure.
That styles mair tae my mind"
I've heered that. Mrs. Mongorton is
very good to poor folks, but Miss Her
on's been a true friend to them all her
life" said Dobson.
"Umph. be that as it may, Weel-
lam. there's a wee thing O what falk
ca the New Woman about her that
spoils her, TO my taste. Yell never
hear tell of the New Woman settin
her foot in Aud Scotland, Weeliam,
and what for no? Because the men
there-mark by word, laddie-would
not tolerate her for meenute. NOT
wan meenute. laddie,' cried Maqms-
tan, forgetting in the heat of his ar
gument that his was visit OF condo
lence. It's Just because the English
are degenerating into a lot of puir
fushionless craters. no fit to manage
aught, or to have the courage OF theT
own opinions, that the womenfolKs
who. since the days when Rebekah put
Jacob up to gettin' the better o Esau,
keep ave watchin' their chance to slip
in the thin edge of the wedge, are
coming so much to the front. An
| English woman, Weeliam. with this in
her mind, I'll no put it past her. brings
up her son to be that polite that now.
when a woman comes shown herself
into places where she shouldna be per-
mitted to gang, he feels it would be
unceevil to gang against her. and Just
stands like a muckle tawpie and never
says her nay"
"But. Sandy. it's queer to hear you
talking like that about women, and
you nursing my mother so kindly. You
did not think so badly of her.
ave. but laddie, made an exception
| Ct yer mither. And now / come 10
think of it," said he old man. his
! sense of humor. the heritage of his
! Northern birth. asserting itself l
| must confess that the dourest o us
-, -. olu.o,,s ono woman he makes