Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1859-02-22
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IHE NEWsPAPER.


1 RANT grape vines were carefully trained
II the open door sat the farmer. with /:
little morocco covered book in his hand
lon which bis attention had been Fixed fol
THE hast hoursx He was a man OF method
and order-old Richard Heath--ant
aside from bis regular account books
which he always Kept Swith scrupuloas
care, he always set down~in this little
/ book ,inithe simplest manner possible, ali
bis expenses. no very complicated &C.
count. BY the way, aad all he had re.
ceived during the year, ID The metal, al
ne said. not by the way oftrade.
The last account be- had just reckoned
up, andFthe result highly satisfactory, Il
one might Judge from the pleasant ex.
preston Of his face as lie turned to his
wife and addressed her by heltpretty, old
fashioned name. M
Millicent,, said he. + this has been a
lucky year. How little we thought,
when We moved to this place, twenty five
years ago, that we should ever get FIVE
hundred dollars yearfont ofEthe rocky,
barren farm
Il does pay for a coed deal Of hard
work, said she, see, too, how different
things look from what they did then
Now, am going 10 figure up how
much WE have spent. said Mr.. Heath
sdon't make 4 noise with your knitting
needles cause it puts me out.
The wife laid by her knitting in perfect
good humor aud gased over thelbroad
rich fields of waving grain,l which grew
SO tall around the laden apple trees, that
fhey looked like massive piles of foliage.
Hearing her own name Kindly spoken.
led her own. thoughts far back. 10 the past;
for after tile lapse Of twenty Five years,
the simple sound of the name she bore III
her youth means more to a wife, than III
the dearest epithets Of dearest love, and
darling, so HlaVishingly offered in long
past courtship.
Very pleasant was the retrospect to Mil
licent Heath. The picture Of the past had
on il some rough places, ndIsone hard
trials, but 40 domestic stlife or discon-
tent marred it's sunny aspect. There
were smiling faces Oh it-happy chill
dren's faces, without which no life picture
is beautiful. Soft blue eyes shone with
Igiadness, and WayY hair float
led carelesslY over unwritten foreheads. s.
She forgot, Tor moment, how they wete
changed, and almost fancied hi rself again
the young mother, and tiny hah ds nestled
there as of old. ~
The illusion vanished quietly, and she
sighed, as she I.thought Of her youngest
born, The reckless boy who had left her
three years before, for al home on the sea-
Once only had tidings reached her Of the
wanderers The letter spoke Of hardships
and home sickness in thatlight and reach
ed the mothers heart more surely than
repining and complaint. To know thai
he suffered with strong heart, with no
bic and unyielding resolutions, gave her
q feeling. Of pleasure, not unmingled with
pride.
He Will surely come back. mprmured
the affedtionate mother to herself and
| / read the paper 50 carefully every week.
tina. if It says anything about the ship Al
fred sailed ID, ] shall be sure to see IT,
Mrs. Heath, said her husband, inter-
Frppting her meditations somewhat rudely,
i We have spent thirty dollars more than
usual this year 4 where can i have gone
top AS
The new harness. suggested Mrs
Heath !; that don't come eyefy year you
know RAJ iii f
/ Well, there's twenty dollars account
ed for IS
We had The carriage fixed up when
you bought the harness. continued his
wife.
Well. that was eight dollars, that's
twenty-eight We don tspeni every year
but the the other two. where can they
have gone p
CHANGING his eye over the pages Of the
memorandum book. he continued re-
! iii tell sou what tits, the newspaper
costs just two dollars, and We can do with
out Il It isa'I anything to eat, drink Or
wear, don't do anything with it, and
yon only lsyit away UP in your chamber
II may as we'll b left out as not, and I'll
stop my subscription right away
oh said his wife. you don't know
much set BIZ tile newspaper. always
have a sort bf glad feeling when see
yoa take il out Of your coat and lay it OH
the kitchen mantlepiecc, just as / do
when some ofg the children come home |;
and when j an tired A Sit down with my
knitting york and reed, can knit just