Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-14

attractive girls closes chapter this
morning. The pages are a little blot
ted in places and there have been some
! foolish passages that might better have
been never written. but there are few
life histories, If any. that have not such
! passages in them. These. like dia-
monds dropped into the earth. have
ment has much to do with life events.
: and limited horizons make those who
live within them yearn for larger view
' of life. wider experience of its attrae-
tons, its pleasures, its opportunities.
/ Though one may not know what is
beyond the village horizon, still they
hear much of the wonders and beauties
J and opportunities that are just over be-
yond the hill But. like children who
search for the tabled pot of gold where
the foot of the rainbow touches the
earth, those who start too early in life
on the quest for tabled happiness. fame
and opportunity that are said to exist
] in the land a broader horizon" often
return, il so fortunate as to be able to
do so. disappointed and sick at heart
sometimes sorely wounded-for the
world was too large, too strenuous too
pitiless for their immature strength,
! but they are wiser and content to walt.
Sarah Murphy, the girl for whom her
mother has been searching, whom she
has found and who has returned with
! her to her home. has had such an ex-
perience in part, and illustrates the
truth of the foregoing. Tall beyond
\ her age, ambitious, energetic, she was
far ahead of other pupils of her age in
! her studies, being in the second year
class at the high school. and holding a
preliminary certificate from the Board
of Regents of the State of New York,
with 20 points to her credit for the high
grade Regents certificate.
Sickness of her mother kept her from
! schooI-and she worked hard to regain
her class. She, herself, became i'll. and
= this set her back so that she was I'M
a able to pass the strict examination for
the third year high school grade. and
the years work must be gone over
again It was her first defeat and she
felt 1t disgrace, in her experience OF
life which is full of them. She re-
scented the idea of falling back into the
second class. Even in little towns like
Ellieottville-her home-there are those
= who chaff the one who fails. no matter
how good the reason for failure.
!, The cousin, Kitty Flynn. came on a
visit from her home in city where
. there are four times as many people,
twenty times as much hustle. as in FL
licottville. There was also much more
temptation possibly. in the oil city
: where money was more abundant than
. in the eastern village.
!. Kitty had lost her mother and a
K housekeeper had been necessity. she
: was a good woman but only mothers
know just how to rear their girls.
= Now there is stepmother who is kind
to Kitty. but there's been long gap
. between the dead mothers going and
{ the new mothers coming. Kitty Is a
beautiful girl, high spirited, proud.
!, Her life's horizon had been wider than
Sarah's, and she told her about 1t, and
Sarah. fretting over that first defeat in
the school examination, concluded to go
4 with Kitty to where there was a
D broader view to see what was beyond
/ the hills" of her horizon.
The reception at Warrington was
unique. There was mo brass band at
n the station" to greet the young ladies'
i There was relative who had
never read t:3at 1t was not
good form to speak i'll, in public at
least of ones own people. There are
not many people entitled to throw
stones at others, anyway, on the let
!. him that-is- without-sin" standard. But
there were some in the oil town who
: had overlooked the necessity of this
qualification and threw stones" at
Kitty.
Sarah Murphy did not like the larger
horizon and told Joe Kuhn SO. Who
was Joe Kuhn? A young man who had
been properly introduced to Sarah,
been impressed with her fine qualities
: of mind, and did not forget that he had
sister. He was walking with Sarah
and she told him of her desire to return
home Joe knew she had no money
and he told her he would get some for
her next day. He told his employer,
Mr.. Charles A. Towne, of the situation,
and Mr.. Towne being also a gentleman
who believes in treating other mems
sisters as ne would. wish his own to be
treated-with tenderness and respect
advised furnishing the funds for her
return to her home.
Then Sarah Murphy, who had learned
the value of her home village, thought
Kittie, her cousin, would be happier
there, and Kittie thought so. too, but
there were obstacles. Kittie had beau,