Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-06-26

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| BY the bye, have you heard the last?
How can you make one good American
out of two bad Spaiards? In this way,
Of course:
DE LONE.
WEY Ter.
"Is that a chestnut? If it is, fine me
| for any poor box you are running now.
suppose you girls are getting up
things to send 70 us fellows, but / beg
of you to spend your money on sensible
things. Billy Montmorenci got box
from home the other day. and in it were
large silver mounted desk pad, with
everything belonging to desk mount
ed in silver; three pounds of candy that
had melted to about the thickness of
ink, box of cream for his complexion
and two bottles of the finest perfume.
My dear, it is a dreadful thing, but I
assure you that William of the Mont
morencis INDUCED in strong language
and fired things around in way tnat
was decidedly childlike, but not q bit
bland. What we really want are those
common, CHEAP writing pads some kind
Of fountain pen and one of those tiny
little medicine cases that hold a few
bottles of arnica. witch hazel etc. an
instalment of uuinine pills ard some
thing to read. Billy go. one e the
last new novels among his gifts. but
it was bound in gloss OF satin and for
that reason entirely useless We want
a lot Of paper books aud magazines
that can be handed around. among our
friends and if necessary left behind for
the enemy without there being single
regret at the loss.
i. II have. taken rather fancy to one
fell6w here. He Is an elderly chap
that u.s. he seems elderly to me-but
as he was only II years old when he
fought in the Confederate army he can
not, be what we call aged. He told US
good story the other night while we
were all chattering like lot of wo-
men or birds or anything that is
sweet. He said that while the men
of his family were all away and it
was announced that the women must
leave their home and come into the
city they tried to hide their family
silver. OF this they had a great guam
tity. Some of 1t had been given to
the brides in the Carey family CHS
name is Charley Carey) before the
Revolution by some of the Lees and
'Careys on the other side of the water
while many came from friends in the
colonies. The women had nobody but
little moke to help them, and he
could not dig a very deep hole. They
were in hurry to get away and did
the best they could in the way of hid
ing their treasures. When peace was
declared, they came back and looked
for the silver; but, alas and alack, it
had disappeared! A few years after
Nine. Carey was sitting on the veran-
da one afternoon when up drove an
express wagon in which was big box.
The expressman asked. DO you belong
to the Carey family that lived in this
house on the Jackson road during the
WARP. She said she did; that she was
Mrs. Carey. He handed her not only
his book to sign, but receipt that de-
manded her signature SO that a well
known feweler might know it had
reached it's destination. 1t took three
men to carry that box into the house,
and when it was opened there stood
magnificent chest In which was every
piece Of the lost silver FURNISHED and
made to look as if it were perfectly
new. With it was letter which said
that this silver had been taken by a
young man In the Union army who at
the time regarded it as the spoiIs of
war. 1t never entered his head that
somebody Of finer feeling would think
that this taking was something a little |
stronger until he met a maiden fair,
lald\his heart at her feet and she con-
descended to pick it up. Her great fad |
was old silver. So he said to her when |
the wedding day was very near: Now. |
my dearest, [ have present for you
that | am sure you will love--beautiful |
bits of colonial silver, fine pieces of
modern silver, indeed, such silver as
you never saw. | must tell YOU how
| got 1T, and tomorrow you can go to
the store with me, look at it and decide |
whether the initials shall be taken off
and the new ones put on
after she heard the story her LADY,
snip displayed temper that her sweet
ueart mad never dreamed she possessed, |
ana there and then she called him
thlef, and then and there she announced
that until that silver was returned to
the people to whom it belonged She
"ouiu ASFeI marry llm. lbs COME
quence was that he begged the lady
would write her a note, announcing the
arrival OF the silver, saying that every
piece was there, and, funnily enough.
ne had the honesty to tell her that ii
would not have been fixed I'D SO finely
II heshad not expected to give it to
sweetheart.
We all laughed over the story and
now, Molly, you mayl't believe this
part, but it's true. A tall. thin son of
Vermont drawled out, DO you belong
to the Careys?' and my friend nodded
his head, and the Vermonter said 4
know the fellow that took that silver
and he married one of the incest girls
mat ever were born in Virginia. II is
funny how war brings out romance.
The gentlemen from Vermont went
on to say that when he started ont II
night the gentlemen from the south
years ago his mother gave him Bible
IN which was written ON the first page
MS name IN full. At Bull Run. where
some little accident happened to the
Union army, it was left in hurry. for
as well as | can remember, he must
nave been so eager to leave that nm
healthy neighborhood that he left ey-