Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1881-05-17
II. 1881. ~ 80 new SERIES, VOL XVI NO. 90.
tomae to Us? We wOuldu't have given ithr,

like q maniac blue. with cold mad on general
principles-"jes SO, as We Yirginianss say
and raving distracted at this partieular
time. l felt sorry for the grey purple blooms
OF the aspen tres near my window at the
Entler House that had coma cut too soon and
couldn't get back any moro. Msj. john Ha,
gan. lmmortaliEsd in Cookies .'Surry Of Ea.
g/'s Nest.", keeps the botel-a m an, of most
amiable parts aud valuable beard. His din.
ing-room man was small, shsrt, solemn ,blsza,
faced, aud exceedingly polite Told me his
name, but 1 have forgotten ii. Mr. Zittle,
OF the Register, being out of town, Professor
McAurran and DR.. Manning did their best
for me. In vain! The weather was too vile.
Few shekels'were gathered. But then I had
night and part of day with Eon. Ajax.
R.. Boteisr, and that psid ms Handsomely.
The scene from Macbeth, peneiled BY him
on the walls of his room in Princeton Cjolts
lege, which | had admired when a schools
boy, and which the Faculty had framed. was
destroyed by FIRE. He drew for mo rsush
sketch of his room. mate, Philip psndletoni
Gooks. His intimate friends. were r"J mi
Chestnut aud John Manning, of South Caro>
lima Florence Yane" was written ia his
room. WhsneSershe wanted to write Cooke
dashed everything OF the table, and one day
he dashed on the floor a new suit of Botess
ler's clothes: In return, Boteler threw cut
OF the window book which s.Florsnee
Vsne" Mrs; r. N. T. Hunterl had given to
the young poet. Instantly there was n ight
that but seryed to make them better friends
than before. iWe talked of eyerythingZrail,
roads, the war, Stonewall Jackson, the good
old days, of political warfare with, Chas. Jas.
Faulkner in Page oounty-thon "the right
wing of the Tenth Legion of Democracy ~
art, literature, the resources of the cauntry.s
the oentenniSl year ut Philadelphia, o great
deal about Rumscy, the Firginian whose
steamboat ploughed the Potomac and the
Thames in England long before Bulton's day,
but above all about his friend Henry Bsdias
ger, the: eagle Of HarpOr's Ferry, the Miu>
lsterte Denmark. AneodOte followed auoo>
dote. We talked till midnight aud, rssums
ing nfter breakfast the next msrnisg, tulked
till had to hurry off to tho train. --' ~
$50 you think Fulton got his ideas frem
Rumsey?"
beyond question, as. tAhope to prove."s2
"lVhsn wilyour book be oatl"
"Next fall" 81.
do not neglect It, want Virginia to
get all the glory she is entitled to-"
Trust me, she shall have it."
From steamboats,, to coal was natural
transition. 'Aud you ssy that anthracite
equal to Lehigh has been found in large
Quantities near here!"
No doubt of it. I have seen it, had i.
prospected and surveyed. But for the panic
capitalists would long age have taken hold
of it."
While he was talking my eyes wandered
eff to a likeness of Angelica Kaufman that
hung on his mantsl. 'How about thpt pie
ture?'
alt is aoontemporaucous print which came
to me from my great grandfather, Charles
Wilson Peale, whe was in love with her"
$50! I've wondered whore your talent as
draughtsman and painter came fren He
levsd her, did he?"
"Uh, 5es; Eho disc rled him, Of osurso,
bat from his day to mine there. has ALWAYS
been an Angelica in the family. Ny dauyh>
ter Angelica you are acquainted with, aud L
have granddaughter OF tho same uams."
Miss JelIie, now Nrs. Didierl' exoIaiza-
ed. '"Twas bat the other day that I aaw
her ia Baltimore. But never dreamed
that 'Jc!lie' stood for Angelica still less that
there was romance connected with it,"
In an instant my. mind skipped the long
yssrs-I was in Mrs. Tcrry's parlor in Lyneh-
burg, with other young men who had come
With me to call on Miss Lizzie aud Miss Jel-
lie Botslsr. They helped to make us vory
happy. Lizzie Terry, talI and fair, as Vera
Ieurof I've just laid down Moths" which
John Estsn Cooke persuaded me to bay) was
then but q ckld-Mary Dsvis was across the
street; life was worth living then, Mr. NAL
loeE., -
.Aad thatia where 'Jellis' came frasa,o
| muscd, as the train left the station. "I
like that. It.is pretty iscide MT to tell and
to think about. Ali love and beauty, you
do last; ysu are not in vain. SeptJnent is
not'all gonc out of this hard world. d sweet
hsares pame carried dows the ages, and by
the discarded lover. It ia really beautiful"
Friendship, toe, is beautiful The love OF
man.for man is rare ,aHd IL is divine. Would
there were on the wide earth friend to talk
about mo when am gone as BoteIer talked
about Henry Bsdinger. seHs loved poetry
with his whole heart, !" said Botelsf.. she was
himself poet. We we're 5neighbsrs, aud
one day when our wives were away Isaw a
servant coming across the meadow from Bed
lnger's.. He handed me note-an invita-
ton to dinner. BediDger had been reading
Bsrns, aHd taking color from tbs author in
hand, as was his wont, Ee sent ne these
rhymes" =
With much feeling he rcsitsa them. His
heart was warm With the memory Of his dead
trlead Give me copy" said I. The
most obligiug Of men, he wrote tbsn eat on
the instant. Here they ara -.
Az rsvIrXTIoK TO ARG.
Ny wife ava. nay wife's away, -
ma mair she can nae tease;
She's game til her father aa' nfther ana a.
And1 can do as please.
So ifyou'Zs for a night o'fe1, :, .,1--sz
and Civ graf I'm ye- Esd sss.-
Jnst don yonr plsddie, ny merry beS,
And Ger the meadow TO nae.
ASee BIT in tho easterS wig; Fas2t
The ceiling so low an 'snuE, II EE~
cheeTfQ' bIeeZA in the lchimneY neuk,
And, ablains, = bit of a jug.
bit OF a jug. VII tie barley kres,
"a jest and merry sang, ..,--s =.
a md twa, thrs frieEs Yha helpin' nj -
TO tha ola