VOLUME H WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., MAY 14, 1871. NUMBER 10
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VOLUME h WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., MAY 14, 1871. NUMBER 10. For THE CAPITAL. only, that I was a disinterested friend of that your congressman proposes—what ? To devastate For THE CAPITAL. demanded notliing, he knew nothing, and his that the boat should be prepared, and said Into such a town ais this, and during court seen the page and serpent roll over together. your fair fields with weevil," (cheers.) THE FLOWERS. that she would go that day to Jersey. week, I once rode on horseback at the end of FAITH. farming interest which had once elected me, and Then he had drawn near to them. astonishment would have been very sad if- he But I cannot dwell on this phase of the cam- There's beauty in the flowers: She gave as a reason the tomb of her hus- a weary day, passed in a continuous mud-hole, In the crimson blush of twilight * whose continued suffrage and crops were dear to The dragon no longer stirred. had learned that the lady of Hambye, know- paign. I had to meet my competitor. How The morning's Mush, the tranquil skies studded with stumps and ornamented with That tells us the sun is low, my heart. Bah ! What in the name of Jackson, He called the husband of la Fargette, who ing that he was dying for her husband, de- band ; but hardly had she landed at la Roque- Comes a fairy with dew-drops laden. and so forth, was our candidate about when he I met him I need not say. When I was car- Of evening, with their thousand dyes; logs, that a benighted country called a road. The iris-arch the ocean crownB was near by, and they two carried the page a tested him. plate when she told her servants to go on be- From the mountain's crown of snow; broke the postal laws to send his infernal wheat ried off the stand by an enthusiastic and partial fore her, that she would rejoin them, and when Night had already closed in, and I was guided Tripping among Earth's flowers, Beneath the storm-king's dripping powers; short distance to a water source, without his She did not even need to remember that lie over the district ? If it were good wheat even— crowd, the last I heard him say, in his closing they were at a distance she turned all alone to the hotel by the thousand and one boys of She seeks out each faithfnl one if it were weevil proof—how could the fact be quarter of an hour, were the words, "WEEVIL, Or that deep blue stretching away giving any signs of life. Afterwards they had was only a page, a serviteur of little birtli and That trustingly held lip its blossoms towards the house of the leech. the place, and the noise issuing from the bar- proved until after the election, next year ? Heav- weevil, weevil;" while hurtling through the air, at Where silent stars in secret play diseijgaged the seigneur, who was still breath- less means ; the richest man and the most To the gaze of the parent sun. room, no less beastly and disagreeable. I ens ! That had not occurred to me. the heads of speaker, moderator, and committees, Behind the silvery sheen of day, ing, and they carried him to w^here the page noble would have been as repugnant to her. She wished to make him repeat the words Are not more beautiful than they. - On each patiently .waiting floweret from the hands of indignant Democrats, were So near to the death of her husband the idea of her seigneur, hoping that he had wrongly found the landlord shut up in a corner pen, All over the district, where my weevil had gone, There's beauty in the flowers. was lying. This fairy is bade to place my sacks were emptied, and .bitter, vindictive innumerable sacks of weevil. I learned after- reported them the first time, that she had dealing out liquid insanity to his customers. Dewy eyes to behold liis coming La Fargette's husband started to bring up of remarrying was frightful to her. Every- partisan opponents had filled the empty sacks wards that a census of that weevil shower was There's language in the flowers: misunderstood, that he had not spoken at all, To my request for supper and a bed he re- When to nature he shows his face; all the islanders that he could find, with lit- thing reminded her of her seigneur ; the step with the scrapings of their barns, their barrels, taken, and some fifty more sacks were miracu-' Bend o'er them when the sunbeams warm that she had imagined this discourse |in the sponded that I could eat my fill, but there was Then let us learn Christ's lesson ters, and meanwhile he, the leech, had washed from which lie mounted his horse, the dog their boxes, and their bags. Affidavits were pro- lously taken up that day than I had ever sent Their bosoms pulsing to the charm disorder of her first despair. not a bed unengaged or not occupied in the From the loved ones of the sod: That wakes to life their budding youth: the wounds of the injured men. that he loved, his chair at table, and their "Blessed are'the pure in heart, cured by my friends, which stated that on a dark forth. house. I persisted, until the wretch informed They speak of love, and hope, and truth; The pure water of the stream had revived bed. At night she sobbed bitterly upon her When she came near the house she was as- For they shall see their God." o. Y. : and rainy night two Radicals were seen going to This discussion had changed the tide. I gave me that there was a "fellar" in number six And on the air their breath-tones quiver for a moment the Seigneur de Hambye, who ; pillow, and, speaking to the departed as if he tonished by a loud tumult within ; and ad- a barn with a lantern, where they emptied my an honest account to the people of that wheat. Like star-rays on the placid river, vancing she soon recognized the voices of the occupying a dotible bed, and I could "roll in For THB CAPITAL. invaluable seed-wlieat upon the floor, and filled I begged to allow the genuine article one year to Reflecting Heaven's own poesy had even regained the force to speak, but had been alive before her eyes, she vowed to leech and of Harold. there " if so minded. the sacks with the awfullest offal. My wheat, grow. I ventured to predict the future fields, so Amid the dripping minstrelsy. feeling that lie had buta few moments to live, him eternal fidelity, which, alas ! he had not MY ANTI-WEEVIL CAMPAIGN. ' ' Wilt thou speak then ?" Harold was saying. which was proof strong as holy writ, was dishon- often devastated by this insect enemy of agricul- There's language in the flowers. he had demanded if the page had killed the asked. It was dismal, but my only hope ; so after ored by trifles light as air. It was shown up to BY THE HON. S. S. COX, M. 0. ture. I explained learnedly that It was a larva of dragon. Being assured of this, he had Madame Hélène never inquired about Har- "Mercy !" supplicated the leecli. the evening indigestion I climbed the rough prejudiced and gaping voters as "cheat." Itwas There's sadness in the flowers: " Speak, or thou diest !" the pentamerous beetles of the tribe trichop- For we do strew them on the bier breathed a sigh of satisfaction and had called old ; but the servants of the chateau, not stairs to number six. I was told by the land- I had been elected to Congress in 1856, on the worse than chaff. I will not say what these bitter Madame Hélène quickened her steps ; she tera. This was satisfactory. I described tlie Where sleep our dead so cold, yet dear; the page, who had not replied, being without knowing what she had against him, pursued lord to walk in without knocking, and did Buchanan ticket. But, somehow, I was a "Dou- partisans mixed with my unadulterated seed. I snout of the animal—how it digs into the inno- was on the threshold of the house when she recall especially one orator. His name absorbed And plant them on'the grave—rthe germ consciousness.. Then the seigneur had spoken lier with news of him. He was not dead; he so. glns man," though lmrdly a man at that time, in cent grain, and how the grubs burrow, when Of sorrow in the heart's deep urn. a quarter of the alphabet, and he made the weevil was slowly improving; his wounds were heal- caught the words of the leech. It was a cheerless room, Without carpet upon political experience. Kansas, bleeding and what hatched, and consume the seed. Placing my hand Th(jy graced the bridal once, and fell to him, the leech, had charged him with a question paramount. Was there any spot from "He said that his lady should take you for not, was rantipoled after us on our advent into upon my vest, I told how my heart yearned to And rose with the young bosom's swell; message for his lady, and had expired. ing; he was glorious in the island. She would the floor, or curtains to shut out the blank Fallsburg to New Holland, running over two hun- her husband.