Volume XI,—Number 33. HARRISONJBURG, VA, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1876
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Volume XI,—Number 33. HARRISONJBURG, VA, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1876. ; $2.00 a Year .in Advance For the Commonwealth. I felt myself stagger as nnder a blow. , The New Secretary of >far. THE WANDERING LOVERS. Lord Mncaulay. A Horror of the Springtide. "I demand to know it 1" I cried, seiz- * A Splendid Description. (From the Cohomr Eingle, M»y IS.} BT AN1CA B. LOEWKEB. ing bis arm; "and mote—the name of Ho was one of the Scotchmen who A Hrhlogrmim's Deeeption. the accuser." Although one of the best lawyers inl The annual ceremony of taking up, On a certain occasion, one Paul Den- ■Tho^un VTM bright, the day won clear, the country, Judge Taft don't knowr have conferred great lustre upon Eng- whipping and putting down carpets is The Spring graea fresh and green, "You remember the evening before I land, for that name includes all the isl- ton, a Methopist preacher in Texas,, He Pretends to m Deur and Dumb, and yon left home," he began. anything about war. He never fired upon us. It is one of the ills which advertised a barbecue, with better li- I saw them wander far and near, oft a two horse lumber-wagon. But he) anders. Burns, Scott, Carlyle and Ma- Proves to be Married and in the Pos- While the air was fresh and keen. "Perfectly." flesh is heir to and cannot bo avoided. quor than usually furnished. When) SESSION OP ALL His FACULTIES. "You visited Wyley Carroll's room is determined to learn. The other day' ar? an[long the great names in You go homo some pleasant spring day Where rapid Rteams forever rnn, Grant dropped in at the war office andI Euglish literature during the century, the people bad assembled a desperado Ijeaping the cllfTh in strength and pride, that evening ?" at pence with all the world, and find in the crowd cried out: "Mr. Paul1 Van Ranken's corners, Watervloit, found bis new Secretary deep amongf and they were Scotchmen—Macaulay the baby with a clean face, and get your Like enow'white ribbons in wind and sun. "Yes." at least on tho father's side. But it Denlon, your reverence has lied. Youi comes to the front with a sensatioD. Flattering down the mountain aide. "And unlocked his cabinet, of which official documents. favorite pudding for dinner. Then "Posting yourself up, Alphonso?" would not be easy to find a more char- promised not only a good barbecue,t Some years ago a well-dressed, pre- Whef© etnoko-llko cloudings of tender blue, ho had given you the key?" your wife tolls you how much younger but better liquor. Where's the liq-- possossing young man, who introduced "I did." J said the President, with an encourag- acteristic Englishman in literature,and you are looking, and says she really Dapple the fields in tender epota. ing smile. in temperament and character. But uor ?" himself as a Mr. Avery, went to tlmt And sweetly change on a nearer view "And locked it again I" hopes she can turn that walking dress "There I' answered the missionary,, village and registered at the hotel. Ho To drifts of ihirost forget-me-nots. "Yes," said the Judge, eagerly. "I yet he had none of the cbaracteriatic she wore last fall and save the expense "Yes, after taking out the letters manly tastes of the English, as they are in tones of thunder, and pointing his) was a handsome appearing young man, Often at even'g. When the •tin was low, which Carroll had sent me for." want to know everything pertaining to| of a new suit, and then she asks you tho business. I have been running called. Ho never played games at long, bony finger at (ho matchless dou-. and never was known to utter an oath .And the shadows grew dark and vast, "In that cabinet," Charley resnmed, if you can't just help to take up the ble spring guisbing up two strong col-. or a profane word. In short, bo was t sat at my window and saw them walk slow. "was a diamond ring, the property of over the disbursements of the depart- school, nor shot nor swam, nor rode, carpet. Then she gets a saucer for the For «ach evening our cottage thoy past. umns, witb a sound like a shout of joyr deaf and dumb, a fact that did not pre- Miss Worth, who had, it seems, given ment for tho last year, to see what was1 nor drove, nor fished. He liked books tncks and stands and holds it, und yon from the bosom of the earth. "There I"• vent him from playing the agreeable Two walked lovingly side by side, it to Carroll to have the setting re- expended for catapults." and men and wanted nothing more.— get the claw and get down on your Speaking softly as lovers speak, Ihe first clear glimpse we have of him he repeated with a look terrible as, or making love in the most orthodox paired, It has never been seen since, "For cata what ?" said the Pres- knees and begin to help her. You feel lightniug, while hie enemy fairly trem- fashion to the reigning belles of that Ho with an air of manly pride, ident, pausing as he was about to is lying flat upon his stomach upon quite economical about the first three flho With a blmsb on her dimpled check. and yon—" the floor before the fire, reading, and bled at bis feet, "here is the liquor- region. Ho fsoon established quite a "And I am accused of stealing it 1" I strike a match on bis boot to light a tacks, and take them out carefully and Hand in hand through the evening red fresh cigar. holding a piece of bread and butter in which God, the Eternal, brews for bisi reputation ns a lady-killer among the interrupted with fierce passion. "May put them in the saucer, your wife in children." fair demoiselles, and what soft things They walked in the clover damp and sweet, "Catapults. You have them in tho his hand. And this practice, which Choosing a narrow path that led I ask by whom ?" the raantime beguiling you with an in- "Not in the simmering still, over he was unable to say with his tongue army, hav'nl you ?" said the Judge, in became a habit, ludicrously recalls Em- teresting story about the neighbor's lit- On through the growing wheat. "Why, you see, Carroll says it is rather an uncertain tone of voice. erson's description of him in the Eng- smoky fires choked with poiebnous he uttered but too eloquently with his impossible that the cabinet, of which tle boy. When you come to the tack gases, and surrounded with the stench expressive eyes. Cupid smiled upon Sunset touched them with rosy light, The President smiled a little, and lish Traits. "The brilliant Mncaulay, with a crooked bead, and you get the And brightened her "raven" bin Hi hair; the lock is peculiar, could have been who expresses tho tone of tho English of sickening odors and corruption, doth his endeavors, and his love-making at I can but say they were fair to my sight. opened and locked again without the said they had a few left over from the claw under it, and the bead and leather war, but he believed they had all been governing classes of the day, explicitly your Father in Heaven prepare the length culminated in his leading to For youth and lovo >8 forever fair. key, which was only out of his own comes off, ns it won't do to leave the precious essence of life—pure, cold wa- the altar one of the loveliest of the used up. Then the Secretary said he teaches that good means good to eat, tack in tho floor, because it will tear Now often as snnsot charms the air, possession while it was in yours." good to wear, material commodity.— ter. But in the glade and glassy dell, Corner's daughters, and—what was For tho time and scone has vanished now, "It is he, then," I managed to arti- should certainly order some more made, tho carpet when it is again pat down,' whore the red deer wanders and the more to the point and to our story— I think of that simple loving pair, for he considered the catapult one of * * * * * It was a curious result you go to work and skin your knuckle, culate through my clenched teeth, "who in which the civility and religion of child loves to play; there God brews it; an heiress in her own right to a con- And wonder whether they kept tholr vow. accuses me of being a thief. And the most effective weapons in modern and then you tell your wife to stop warfare. ^ "They did great execution England for a thousand years end in and down, low down in tho deepest siderable amount of money. Not a re- I wonder if under some mossy roof, Nora—Miss Worth—does she credit talking about the neighbor's boy, and valleys where the fountain murmurs sponse did he respond while the cere- Tholr wedded life is seronly spent; the base slander?" at the seige of Jerusalum, as I remem- denying morals and reducing the intel- make up your mind that it does not I wondar if they could give us proof. ber reading," mused the Secretary, lect to a saucepan. and the rills sing, and high up in the mony was being performed, nor did be "I can only say," Charley answered, make any difference about that tack.— mountain tops, where the naked gran- even intimate that he could talk until Of a happy life in calm content.