The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-01

,.tdstIc crinkled swlrls against the darl;
sky where the very end ofseaeh tress
melted into star. Her costume-well,
the fact is she hadn't any, but ifrlcnd-
ny cloud had blown around her and
clothed her, ina dusky mist through
which she shonc spinkiy. She was a
signed poster and was worth-but you
wouldn't believe It II the figures were
given.
n There were a dozen other;girls paint
led on shells. These shells had oddly In
dented surfaces and the lpearly curves
hid been ,deftly tinted by the artist SO
that they seemed like part OF wo-
mans form. They were in a velvet
backed case and an electric light was
set on the top somehow. so that It
showed them up beautifully, those wo-
men Of the sea. Then there was h re.
Gliding Magdalene done In marble, cold
and beautiful, an exquisite thing. but
looking quite colorless beside; the Ores
den sliepherdess on the Chlppendale
escrttolre. She was dainty, and sweet
ns.a peach with her coquetish high
heeled slippers and her jaunty hat.
There We're other Statues and pictures,
but,these were the stars.
The fellows called them yHalstcad's
girls FOR the fact is they were the only
girls that Halstead seemed to care for.
It was one OF the rooms OF q dormitory
suite lin, o college town. but no one
would take It for a college mans room
for there was none OF the usual truck
,in the little drawing room. You see
Halstead,; Sd, was a sharp on art and
he kept all the flags and boxing gloves
and .foils ia the dining ROOM. When the
Fellows called they eschewed the parlor.
THAT was ever since Ballar tried to
show a new. tackle and turned over q
table full of derby cups. Halstead al
lnostscrled when he saw them smash.
but.he said afterward that At had serv-
ed him right. He had bought the set
to send as wedding present to q
friend, but when they were unpaoked
he! fell in love with them and decided to
keep; them himself So he. Sent q silver
soup. ladle; and let 1t go at that.
:Halstead had Just two fads. One was
art and the other was charity He
wasn't an old woman by any means,
Z but he didn't 20 In for athletics except
In q quiet way with bells and clubs. and
he4loved to- go prowling about in odd
i parts OF the town hunting up the lame.
; the sick and the blind and spending
! good money on them while the other
chaps were plunglng like maniacs on
the field or whoopins things up over
victories ior defeats, for college boys
viii whoop anyhow. He also taught a
. class In Sunday school. This sounds
impossible, but 1t was alot OF boys. lit
tie muckers picked up IN the streets,
:! and he didn't give them any angel talk.
He Just argued with them In the en-
deavor to prove that II they were hon
: est and clean and truthful and good to
their mothers they might be president
some day. a theory that took with them
much better than the promise OF wings
and q harp. Even Billy the Bum. who
refused to come to Sunday: school I'M
less he could bring his dog, had begun
TO shine his shoes and brush his teeth
under, the stimulus Of presidential pos
sIbilities.
Only for Billy this story would never
have been written, not that the story
counts. but the things would never
have happened, and when YOU have I'm
tshed you viii agree that that would
never have done. Billy was sick and
Halstead went down to the place Billy
lived and climbed two flights to the
room. Billy lay there breathing hard.
and the dog looking very harrassed and
wretched, satsat the foot of the bed.
And tanning Billy. there was a girl
with q somewhat serious face and love-
lE:,eyes like a Madonna that Hnlstead
remembered having seen somewhere.
She looked up. and said in a whisper:
Are you the, doctor?''. Il,
NO" said Halstead: 81 Just dropped
IN to- see the boy. How is hep
He is very bad" she said, land 1
sent his mother for the doctor. I thIni;
it's fever"
Halstead sat on the bed and felt
Billy's pulse and looked closely In the
boys flushed face and said, billy"
but Billy never noticed. And the dog
looked awfuliy worried.
do yon know said Halstead. 81
think. perhaps you had better not re-
main here: It may be something catch
ing2s
I'm not bit afraid. !" she said. TITS
my week; in the dlstricti and have
nnrssd lots of contagious cases."
,5.'Yes?" said Hulstead. She didn't
Iook:like a nurse. She read. the inquiry
In his tone. .e
T II thought II best to learn when !
(, took up the WORK. "shc said. She SEEM
led TO recognize him at once as a fellow
labprer. and they sat ana talked In
/ whispera, aboutethe various mlss!ons
until Biliy's mother came In with the
doctor. who sent both. home.
Next day Halstead was III, fretful ana
had 'atburning head, md the day after
Z 'he was worse and finally it was PR.
:riounctd typhoid. Just then he began
ITO babble,and tell all he knew. about the
blue china but in such a chatty'in,er-
easing way that even the doctors smiled.
Then he insisted on having tho door
opened between his bedroom and the
parlor. md they funored him. H