Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-03-19

delirious rawlings.
Mary said Eva, send Patrick to me.
I'll find pencil and paper
Mary left the room and Eva turned to the
table to find pencil and paper. She wrote
hasty notes. One was to her house-keeper
for pillows and sheets. The other was to
DR.. Stanley, who did not guess the friend
who sent him so much practice among poor
patients, and saw that the young physician
was well paid.
Having dispatched Patrick with the notes,
Eva tried to make the desolate room more
home like. Lifting from the table wais-
coat, something dropped from the pocket to
the floor. She picked it up. 1t was small
mainiature case, open and painted on the
ivory was Eva Marston' face.
A smile. gentle and plying, came to her
lips.
He did love me, then Really love me,
and would not seek me with the herd Of for
tune-hunters who follow me, and that is the
reason I have missed him SO long:
'Arrah, miss here's the doctorD
Stop him, Mary, will go in here. Re
member. Mary, you don't know my name?
and Eva went into another little room, va
can't and adjoining that of the invalid's. The
door stood jar, and DR.. SANKEY'S first ex-
clamation reached her.
Harold have found you at last, and in
such place 2
Eva's eyes ranged over the capabilities of
the room in which she stood, and she nod
ded, saying, 1t will do; larger and better
than the other, but poor place at best.
The next day when DR.. Stanley called to
see his patient, Mary with pardonable
pride, ushered him into the room that had
been vacant before A soft carpet was on
the floor. and small fire in the CRATE, the
latter screened from the bed by a neat shade.
Soft muslin curtains, snowy white, draped
the window. The bed could scarcely be re-
congized, with its pure white pillows, coun-
terpane, and sheets. A little table stood
beside the bed, with the medicines the doctor
had ordered, and an exquisite goblet of cool
ing drink.
THE lady ye mind told you Of, that sint
ye to Terry said Mary. we fixed the
room yesterday, and my good man and
moved him in to-day, SO she'll find him here
when she comes. It's asleep he's been fol
better'n three hours, sir
Two hours later Harold was still asleep,
but then he opened his eyes. The cold
cherries room was changed as if ty enchant
ment, and (Harold thought he was dream
ing, } an angel bent over him, with plying
eyes and smile tender as mothers over
her child.
'Evav he whispered, oh! that I coulc
die in such dream. Never awake to the
bitter, hopeless love, let me die now
Was it dream, that sweet love voice an
swering?
Harold, you will not die, you will live
for me. Your genius shall be recognized
your pictures sought. No more struggling
for life, but only for fame And the tear
fell as she spoke.
DR.. Stanley, standing in the door way
recognized the ballroom belle, and the OBJ
ject Of his friends long silent, hopeless love
Softly he glided down the stairs, for hi
knew that better medicine than he coult
prescribe was within the patients grasp.
And the world said
Just to think of Eva Marston, rich ane
such belle, marrying Harold Graham, th'
artist, poor as church mousse
WHICH WAS IT 1.-Two friends, one ant
Englishman and the other Frenchman
CHANGED to meet at the Paris Exposition.
"What, you are in France, my dear VIII
liam % said the latter. II am delighted
to see you. How do you do 2"
''Not very we'll 1 have been married
since saw you last" M
"'Thats good
''No it isn't, for my wife was a shrew.
4 am sorry !; that's bad.
''Not altogether, for she brought me
dowry of ten thousand pounds sterling"
''Ten thousand pounds That's good. I
consoles you"
'No it dosen't, for invested the none,
in herds Of cattle. and they all died of tn
disease that has just been raging in Eng
land"
'That's bad" ......
"Not at all, for the skins brought M
more than paid for the cattle"
''Then you are indemnifed.".
"No, not altogether; for I boughta flint
house with the money, and it has just beef
burned" ar. a...t .s ~.
ooh, what a misfortune. t.y
"Not so great one either, for my wifi
was in it, and she was burned in the house.
Cn1pp1Nes.- every good act is howe
which will beautify cur final home"
eff any one has stumbled and fallen, hell
him up gently, and pass on, before Grove
gathers D .......
"God bless the solitary one whoever sh
may be-"
'sThe river that looked SO beautiful al
hour since, is still to be seen; but it is nov
the river of death p ....
'Some men, by one action, can sweep gu
a life of honor and happiness.
cit is not your province to harness int
quarrels not your own, lest in time you hav
SO many on hand, there will be no time
attend to them"
''They who are rich, are they who min
their own business"
"Don't make fool of yourself by layin
out work you can't do"
elf a man is in trouble, help him out. u
not help him inn 45
People seldom blunder on success, as
blind pig falls into we'll"
Let reason go before enterprise and cour
sci before action.
WORDS FOR BOYS TO REMEMBER
ty is the right to do whatever you wis
without interfering with the rights OF other
Save your money, and you will ind
one of the most useful friends
Never give trouble to your mother
father.
Take care of your pennies and they wi
grow to be dollars.
Intemperance is the cause Of nearly all til
trouble in this world; beware Of stron