Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-12
A THANKSGIVING STORY;
Or, What's the Use of Spending Money -?
by Allinnac.
written for the Register.

Written for the Register.
1t all began by David Davis, Jr., get
ing upsy and going home and getting
into a quarrel with Old David Davis, ST.
and Mrs. Davis. wife Of senior and mother
of junior becoming frightened and dying
on the spot Then Sally Davis was afraid
TO live alone with the senior and junior
so she coaxed her married sister to come
and live with her And the sister coaxed
her husband and worried and cried until
he was fain to let her have her will, and
so the O'Neills moved TO the paternal
mansion of the Davis family. Amy school
boy might have known" that if the Davis
men could not live in peace when Mrs.
Davis was alive they would not live peace
ably with the husband of a daughter OF
the house. Now O'Neill was inclined TO
do the right thing, and so he ard his wife
rented a small shanty near by and O'Nenl
sought work, and found st. too; and, by
the way, work is about the only thing you
can find in this world when you seek for
it; but when pay day came O'Neill was
put off with promises. Promises, as every
one can testify, are very good as far as
they go, but they win not buy bread. and
what will you have? The next best thing
for o Neil to do was to seek employment
at another place and as usual, his luck
followed him: he found Il. This time with
a soft hearted old gentleman who not only
gave him work but paid him regularly
every week when Saturday night came
around. IT'S true the work was hard and
tedious. No more nor less than digging up
old stumps and blasting rocks TO reclaim
a piece Of land never before under culti-
vat.on. What is the old man up to now?'
asked the villagers. one OF another. This
''oid man had moved into the village OF
Clackmequick a number Of years previous,
and had improved his house and grounds
at a slow but sure pace. First, veranda
and chimney We're added to the house:
then a laundry. and 50 on. Then a swamp
was drained and reclaimed until It BIOS
somed like rose. Then STRAIN was
damned and brought into subjecticn and
made to turn divers wheels, until water
filled pond and ran In plenty on lawn
and In barn and house. Then a bridge
was built here and a tree set out there,
and stone wall laid up on this spot and
another on that until quite side hill was
terraced. and the Clackmequicks had ali
they could do TO keep track Of the work
that was being done; and they wagged
their heads knowingly and said one TO an
other, He will never get his money back"
And when the old gentleman heard Of
these chunks of wisdom he said. And
they never vii get their breakfasts back,
yet they enjoyed them; so am / getting
enjoyment out of my Improvements.
But TO return TO O'Neiil. He did finally
finish the digging and grubbing and blast
ing and stone wall building, and then he
discovered a leak in the wall of the res
ervoir formed by damming UP the stream,
and the old gentleman said. We must find
that leak" 50 o'Neili set 10 work to dig
and found that the containing wall was
in bad state. Then stone mason was
called in and he said. Seven barrels Of
cement ard stone enough to lay an inside
wall. and grouting between the old and
the new wall will make IL safe and SO
secure II viii never again leak, unless an
earthquake comes along" go the water
was drawn of from the reservoir and the
work commenced. First one villager would
come and look then another would view
the proceedings. ard all laughed, but the
man who had the cement to sell and the
man who drew the stone, and the mason,
and his helper. and the man who had the