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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-28

Their one stopped fur mile!'
And that ended it?" | said.
eyes, that was the end, except that
both Of 'em stopped when about fif-
teen miles away to say as how they
had left me dead in front of my cabin,
and to ak folks to attend my funeral
and take warning by my fate. Can
tankerousness used to be mighty
plenty around yere, but it's scarce
these days. When a crittcr begins to
jump on his hat and tell about bitin'
off tree-tops somebody splits terbacker
juice on his hat and leads him off by
the ear"
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1 chance. They kept It up for half an
hour, all the time cussin and DARN
each other to strike the fust blow.
and then they took q holt and begun to
wrestle around. They tore up goot
bit o. grass, but not blow was struck.
AFTER a bit they let go, and began to
BLOWN again, and it was quarter OF
an hour befo thar was any mo- wrest-
lin
There was no fight in them," OBJ
served.
"Not a lit, sah," answered Zeb.
"They was jest blowhardy, and if I'd
been able to walk out on 'em they
would hev run at the fust YELL When
they had kept it up fur an hour, and
hadn't even pulled h'ar, / began to git
tired of it. So did the old woman.
They was tearin' up all the grass and
breakin' down the sunflowers, but
wasn't dom any fightin Bimeby the
old woman knocks the ashes out O
her pipe and says:
Zeb White, them critters hev got
lots @ wind but no grit. They'll
keep this fussin' up all night if sun
thin amt done
"'But what kin you do?' says l.
Lick EN- off with the broomstick.
81 reckon you kim
''She waited ten minits mo" and
then she got the hickory broom and
softly opened the doah. The critters
had quit wrasslin and gone to blowin'
agin. One was on the stump and one
on that rock, and they was teilin' how
thny had tImhIed down mnunfiu orc
and drunk up the waters Of the Cum
berla1d river, when the ole woman
o0t righ ruff to use the broomstick.
She fetched each one of 'em a whack
as hard as she could draw, and with
a yell both started On run. She
didn't foller 'em fur, but Ill bet nei-
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en- riches, and everybody was so mad
that it took six months to patch
things up. To this day there is still
feelin. AT the last town election,
when Joel Shoemaker ran for village
president, he was knitted by seven
teen of his own party to get even for
the way he had swelled around. and
a few weeks ago, when Deacon Spoon
er tried to buy a new church bell by
popular subscription, 1t was Steven
BOLSTER who killed the project in the
bud by sayin':
I'm agin it. When the Deacon
thought he was goin to be a millyon-
aire he tried to git a law passed to
make me move my hog-pen, and |
amt one O the kind as furgets or
furgives."
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erary and News Service \
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-28
THE CRESCENT.

Just over the gates of the gold and glow
Where the sunset spirits are
She floats in the nebulous amber. low.
Luminous. languorous. moving slow,
Away from the evening star
4 golden cloud drifts back from her face
Like the tress of her yellow hair:
And the stars come out of their hiding
place
To bask In her beauty and feel her grace
To WOO her. she is so fair.
Her answers are soft as adagios,
Yet maynard and coy Is she:
When the petals close OF the western rose
Evading them all she silently goes
Over the edge OF the sea!
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-28

The trouble with me as farmer in
the West" said the man who was to
get off at Buffalo. was that / couldn't
catch on to their ways of business.
Every section has i,S.yay, you know.
and l suppose ~ q is a right
when ySA come .I - = ~! !!a -
Being invited to further explain him
self he continued:
II had claim Of 100 acres all paid
for, and a sod house and farm. That
was a pretty good start, but my crops
failed me the first year, and | found
that | must raise q loan on my farm.
| got into the saddle and rode thirty
miles to see a lawyer who had money
to lend for Eastern parties. He was
willing to lend me a thousand dollars.
but first he wanted an abstract of title,
of course He was to get that himself,
and he said 1t would cost me fifty dol
lars"
There were ordinations of surprise
from the three or four listeners. and
The pioneer smiled and continued.
Then he had to make out the mort
gage, you know He said the price OK
mortgage blanks had gone up tremen-
dousiy, TO say nothing OF ink and
pens. and his price would be $40. The
young man in his office was a Notary
Public. and he would charge $40 for his
seal and signature. That was hum
bred dollars OF the thousand to start
with
and how about the INTEREST,"" was
asked
"Oh. that was to be thirty per cent
per year, and he was to take out for
tHe three years in advance. The interest
alone would be 800. That took $3.50
out Of the thousand before we had even
got started I was wondering how II
could pull through on the balance when
the lawyer said he'd have to ride over
and see my improvements That would
take two days, and he'd have to charge
me s25 for his services"
What cheek.' was whispered.
at seemed to me so, but every body
said II was all straight business. I
took a walk around to think things
over. and when / got back he said I'd
have TO give a note with the mort
gage. He'd make out the note. and be-
ing ID was me he wouldn't charge but
$40 / asked for time to take another
walk, and when | got back money had,
gore up and he wanted s. for turning
me over s77O."
"And then you wound up the BUSH
ness?"
Eyes. didn't care to put mortgage
Of a thousand dollars on M farm in
order to get $40 out Of Il. and 50
told him guessed we wouldn't dicker.
He was quite surprised az first, but he
soon rallied and surprised me. That
Is. he presented bin for legal services.
I kicked about paying II. and the first
thing knew be had started lawsuit
and / had 81 costs 10 pay besides bis
bill"
why didn't you make him pres
ent OF the FARM" asked one OK tbs
group.
ooh. he 20, Il without" replied the
pioueer. There was a flaw In the IT,
tle. and the first thing ! knew the sher-
In came along and bounced me on and
turned things over 70 friend Of ths
lawyers. OF course. / gave EN- light,
but I lost the case. They said II was
All straight business and their way OK
doing things. end IS ! was feeling
homeslck FOR the Fest walked nifty
miles 10 a railroad and left the count
trv. I don't think I'm cut out for
Western farmer.
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ATAyISM.

She's a graduate of Vassar
And her knowledge Is immense,
Ard. though beautiful and stylish.
She is full of common sense.
She can talk in French and German.
She reads Homer in the Greek.
And It's worth your while to listen
When IL pleases her 10 speak,
She can read the hieroglyl7hics
On the tombs along the Nile:
She can hold discourse on fhysics
In an interesting style.
But In spite of all her leaking
She steps backward from&a car.
And she always stops and Washes
When she sees = shooti ketar.
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MS DFFTvITIoS.

..xx-s., q. a efrs,'. asked the small boy.
* nv. replied the old bachelor. 10 .
pretty woman. 80.
persisted the small boy
TAuy kind Of a pretty woman ahs"eF
"a the old bachelor
(Well, bow pretty must sne oef 'ns
ngster Insisted.
~ the old bachelor. srrftabIy.
xsflI the boy was not satisfied. but
grows older he win understand -
CHICAGO Post
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nerves.
chills eyerj
ing under
two hundred
will break inV
when the expl
you must add a
to these. Time
war there were /
shell from a field
killing dozen mel
fired into a stone min
ed nine and wouded
who were holding 1t.
color-bearer and sixtes
killed by one Of these
Charlottesville, one whiS
Rockers headquarters.
horses, wounded four d
stretched out three orderlies.
For two hours before
charge at Gettsburg.Lee cann
the Federal center with nsarl
hundred guns. Shells were ID
used There We're time-shelis
percussion shells, aud shells OF
shapes and sizes. But for the st0l
walls and natural depressions thef
must have been a terrible loss OF life,y
The men were ordered to lie down,
and though the racket was hard on
the nerves. the loss OF life was not
great. In front of the first stone wall
the earth on mile front was torn up
as if thousand men had been Dig
ging holes in which to bury horses
A shell used by mountain battery
can almost be put into the vest pock-
ct, but it is good to wound or kill.
three or four men if landing right.
When you pass from this toy to q
shell as large and considerably longer
than the ordinary nail-keg. loaded
with a peck OF bullets, you may won-
der how any one escapes when they.
fall. OF the monster shells thrown in
to the city of Charleston by Gilmore's
swamp Angel" during the latter part
Of the war, only small number ex-
ploded. Had each one been perfect
the destruction would have been
something terrible. There Is to-day
one of these unexploded shells on ex-
hibition which fell on public walk
in the afternoon. There were five
hundred people within a radius of two
hundred feet of the spot. There were
seven hundred bullets in the shell. and
had it exploded it is safe to estimate
that at least one hundred of the crowd
would have been killed or wounded.
At Fort Sumter, during a bombard-
ment by the ironclads, one shell tore
out what was estimated at sixty tons
Of masonry and killed five men. In
the same fight another Federal she'll
struck barbette gun fair on the muz-I
zle. 1t was monster Columbiad, but
it was dismounted and turned twice
over, and the fragments of the she'll
killed or wounded seventeen men. tt
does not appear as If there was any
demand for new agency Of destluc-
ton in war The soldier who makes
a campaign will be subject to bullet,
grape, canister, solid shot and shell.
Add to these the chances OF the hos
pital and accident. and IL he pulls
through all even AN enemy should not
begrudge him his luck.
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rot fire as at target practice. and thus
it comes about that pounds III lead are
wasted for every man killed. OF a
force Of 10000 Men it can be said that
19.O00 really do all the wounding and
killing. Sixteen years after the war a
junk dealer at Petersburg had eight
cen barrels of bullets standing in his
warehouse, as representing the pur-
chase Of a month from the negroes.
He had purchased from first to last
over 200 barrels. OF the several nil
lion bullets not one in fifty had struck
a human target. 1t looks like q big
item when We read that the Secretary
of War has contracted for 5000. 900
cartridges. but che should remember
that fifty will Be wasted where eTen
one cuts close enough to make q fol-
der duck his head
GRAPE MISTER
In the artn man hasl his
post and musu i'd he can th4e-
fore be look re closely hn
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COULDN'T MAKE HIMSELF AT
HOME.

"The trouble with me as farmer in
the West" said the man who was to
get off at Buffalo. was that / couldn't
catch on to their ways of business.
Every section has i,S.yay, you know.
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again on the couch and playing with
the serpent ring on his finger.
"Ah, now" cried his sister, her, quick
eyes dancing everywhere at once you
are not attending to single word I
say. l know by your voice that you are
not. That is a pretty ring. Did a lady
give II to you? Was it our Maud's? 1
think it must have been our Maud. She
has many beautiful things. but mostly
it is the young men who come here who
wish to give her such things. She never
gives any of them away, but keeps
them in a box, and says that it is good
to spoil the Egyptians. And when l am
tired she Will tell me the history of
each and whether it was dark or fair.
Or make it all up just as good if she
forgets But O. William, if l were a
lady, 1 should fall in love with nobody
but you. For you are so handsome
self-(she passed her hands lightly
you know I shall marry no one but
Douglas-only you must not ask me
to marry my cousin William of Avon
dale, for he is so stern and solemn, be-
sides he has always a book in his peck
ct and wishes me to learn somewhat,
as if 1 We're a monk: he should be a
soldier"
So she lay and prattled on to her
brother who buried in his thoughts and
occupied with his ring let the hours slip
on till at the open door of the earl's |
chamber there appeared the most be |
face in the world, as many in |
that castle were ready to prove at the |
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upon the fallen object, and with an alb
rupt wave of his hand toward the door,
and the single word, -Goi" he dis
missed his body servant from the room.
Then, rising hastily from his bed, he
took the trinket in his hand and car
ried it TO the well trimmed lamp which
stood in the niche that held a golden
crucitix
The Lord Douglas saw in his palm
ring of singular design. The main
portion was formed of the twisting
bodies of a pair of snakes, the jewel
work very cunningly interlaced and
perfectly finished Their eyes were set
mouths they held an opal. shaped like
heart. The stone was translucent
and family luminous like a moonstone,
but held in its heart one heck of ruby
red in shape like a drop of blood. By
some curious trick of light in what
ever position the ring was held this
drop still appeared to be on the point
of detaching itself and falling to the
ground.
Earl William examined it in the
flicker of the lamp. He turned it every
way, narrowly searching inside the
golden band for posy, but not a, word
of any language could he find engraved
upon it.
Il saw a ring upon her hand-I am
certain saw it on her handi' he said
these words over and over to himself.
1T is then no dream that I have
dreamed"
There came a low knocking at the
door, a rustling and a whispering with
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of you-yOu, uncle William, ere I for
get your holy Office and your kinship-
you, Malise, that 1 may settle with to-
morrow ere the sun sets. l swear it by
my word as a Douglas. 1 Will never
forgive either of you for this nights
work."
The fair white hand was laid upon his
wrist
Nay" said the lady, "do not quarrel
with those you love for my poor sake.
I am little worth the trouble. Go back
with them in peace and forget her who
sat by your side an hour"
Nay" he cried, that 1 will not. 1
viii show them that l am old enough
to choose my company for myself. VINO
is my uncle that he should dictate to
me that am an earl of Douglas and a
peer of France-or my servant, that he
should come forth to spy upon his mas
ter"
Then" she whispered, smiling, you
viii indeed abide with me?"
He gave her his hand.
Il will abide with you till death. Body
and soul / am yours alOnei"
by the holy cross Of our Lord, that
shall you not!" cried Malise, not
though you hang me high as Haman
for this ere the morrow's mOrnl"
And with these words he sprang for
ward and caught his master by the
wrist. With one strong pull of his
mighty arm he dragged him within the
circle which the abbot had made with
the swords point.
The lady seemed to change color. At
that moment q gust of wind caused the
lamps to flicker, and the outlines of her
White-robed figure seemed to WAIVER like
an image in water.
y adjuTe and command you in the
name of God, the one and OmniDOtent.
TO depart to your own place, spirit or
devil, or whatever you may be-
The voice OF the abbot rose high above
the roaring Of the bursting storm with
out. The lady seerd to reach an arm
across the circle, as if even yet to take
hold Cf the young man. The abbot
thrust forward his crucifix.
And then the bolt of God fell The
whole pavilion was Illuminated with a
flash of light so intense and white that
it seemed to blind and burn up all
about. The lady was seen 10 more. The
siiken covering blaZed uD. Malise
the storm. carrying his young master
lightly as a child IN his arms, while the
abbot kept his feet behind him like
boat in 4 ships wake. The thu der
reared overhead like the sea belle &ing
III a caves mouth, and the great pines
bent their heads away from the mighty
wind. straining and creaking and LASH
ing each other in fury.
Malise and the abbot seemed to hear
about them the plunging of rideTless
horses, as they stumbled downward
through the night, their path lit by
lightning flashes, green and lilac and
blue, and bearing between them the
senseless form of William, Earl of
DOUGLAS
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CHAPTER VII.
THE DOUGLAS MUSTER.

The day of the great feapon showing
broke fair and clear, after the storm
of the night. The windows of heaven
had had all their panes cleaned and
even after broad daylight the brighter
stars appeared, only, however, to wink
out again when the SUN arose and
shone on the wet fields, rejoicing like a
bridegroom from his chamber.
And equally bright and strong came
forth the young earl, every trace of
the anger and disappointment of the
night having been removed from his
face, if not from his mind by the re-
creative and potent sleep of youth and
health.
In the hall he called for Sir John Of
Abernethy, called LandIess Jock.
Conduct my uncle, the abbot, from
the chapel, where he has been all night
at his devotions, to his chamber, and
furnish him with all he may require,
and bring I'D Malise, the smith, from
the dungeon. Let him come into my
presence in the upper hail.
William Douglas went up into a large
oak-ceiled chamber, wide and high,
running right across the castle from
side to side, and with windows looking
every way over the broad and fertile
strath of Dee.
Presently, with a trampiing of mailed
feet and the double rattle which de
noted the grounding of G. pair of steel
hilted partisans, Malise was brought to
the door by two men of the earl's
outer guard.
The huge bulk of brawny Kim filled
up the doorway almost completely, and
he stood watching the Douglas with an
unmoved gravity which. in the dry
wrinkles about his eyes, almost
amounted to humor
Yet it was Maiise who spoke first
For, at his appearing, the earl had
turned his back upon his retainer, and
now stood at the window which looks
toward the north, from which he could
almost see, over the broad and placid
stretches of the river, the men putting
up the pavilions and striking spears
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NoTICE OF ASSESSMENT.

rAGIE MINING COMPANY, PRIN-
cinsI place of business, Salt Lake City.
Iffah. Location of works. Gable Cove
SfiTins- district. Baker county. Oregon.
Tofice is hereby given that at a meeting or
the directors held on September IS 1S9S.
assessment No. of one and one-half
49, cenfs per share was levied on the
oo1a.55itsI Stock of the corporation, payable
- II. Goliath. treasurer. upstairs
81 No. 1874 South West Temple street.
salt Lake City, Utah. on or before
October 90 1895 Any stock upon which
rs assessment remains unpaid on
October %. 1898, viii be delinquent On
October 81, 1888. and advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless payment IS
male before will be sold on November
10 1Sgs to pay the delinquent assessment
Together with costs OF advertising and
expenses of sale .,.-
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What concern, spiritual or temporal,
NAV that be of yours, my Lord Abbot?
who made you my lord earl's KEEPER
woman or demon from the pit, said
the abbot, sternly, think not to de-
ceive William Douglas, the aged, as you
have cast the glamor- over William
Douglas. the boy The lust of the flesh
abidetil no more forever in this frail
Tabernacle. / bid thee, let the lad go,
for ne is dear to me as mine own soul.
let him go. say, ere curse thee with
the curse of God Almighty.
The lady continued to smile, standing
meantime, slender and falr, before
them. her bosom heaying a little with
emotion, and her fair hair ripping IN
rod and gold confusion down her back
certainly my lord earl came not
mon conapulsion. He is free to return
TTifL Won. if he be yet Under tutors ana
eavernors. or afraid of the master
st~ines. co, Earl William; l mace
mistake. I thought you had been man nan
But ] bid you go back to the nlod la,s
chan+er house TO clerkly copies ana
childish toys. - ,lorad
Then black and sullen anger siareu
from fhe eyes OF the Douglas -,
sect hence." he cried, hence po'n
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swords point The little girl caught
sight of it with a shrill cry of pleasure,
instantly checked and hushed, however,
as the thought of her mother.
80, Maudie," she cried, come hither
into Williams room. He has such q
beautiful ring that a lady gave him.
am sure lady gave it him. Was it
you, Maud Lindsay? You are a sly
pUss not to tell me if it was. William,
it is wicked of you not to tell me who
gave you that ring. If it had been
some enc you were not ashamed of you
would be proud Of it. and tell. Whis-
per to me who it was. l will not tell
anyone, not even Maudie."
Her brother had risen to his feet,
with quick movement girding his red
gown about him as he rose.
Mistress Maud" he said, respect
fully, Il fear 1 have given you anxiety
by OBTAINING your charge so late. But
she is wilful madam, and ill to adj
wise"
''She is q Douglas" smiled the fair
maid who stood at the chamber door,
refusing his invitation to enter with a
flash o. the eye and a quick shake of
the head. which hetokened no small
share Of the family qualities. rs not
that enough to excuse her for being
hayward and headstrong?"
Earl William wasted no more words
her in his arms, and, pulling the cover
let in which she had huddled herself up,
with her pert chin on her knees. more
closely about her, he strobe along the
passage with her in his arms, till he
stopped at an open door leading into a
large chamber which looked to the
south.
There" he said, smiling at the girl
who had followed behind him. 81 will
lock her in with you and take the key,
that may safe-bind such uncertain
charges
But the girl had deity extracted the
key, even as she passed in after him,
and as the bolts shot from within, she
cried: st thank you right courteously,
Lord William. but mine aDothecary.
fearing that the air of this isle of
Thrieve might not agree with me, babe
me ever 70 sleep with the key of my
door under my pillow. Against fever
and quinsies, cold iron is a sovereign
specific"
And, spite of his wounded heart, Earl
William smiled at the girls sauciness
as he went slowly back to his chamber,
in spite of his earldom taking pains to
pass his mothers door on tiptoe.