The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-07-18
The old Virginia Homessead.
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Within the house a broad hall reaches from end to end its floors shining and slippery with polish its walls wainscIated half way to the ce,ling. their upper hall simply whilewaShed and covered with eml llems of rural hte Antlers of deer killed 50 years age In the dense forests on the eastern boSdSE of the county, or trophies of more recent expeditions across the Blue Ridge to the ~ild hunting grounds ot the AlleghAnies Suspended sTosss sAese han. old shot -naSks aad pow der-horns thA, have served the general and ais generation in days gone by, be- tore trouble fell on the land, ln the cor ner stands the Joe MAnton aud the long Kentucky rlhe, that i've. and-tweaty years ago were the weapons ct the southern squire in s,ubble aud forest respectfully
 Here, on another wall, younger geAer, at,on of nephevs from Richmond or Baltimore, who look on the hone ot their fathers as happy hunting ground tot autamn holidays. have hung their Y" Gceeners ant their cartridge belts The remainder of the walt IS relieved by map ot the county picture ot the University of Virginia, the Capitol at Richmond, and several illustrated and framed certificates Of puz.S tAken by the general at agricultural shows. t is in the drawing room. however, that the treasures of the family are collected
 Here gam oak wainscotinH and white wash, with carved chimney pieces clam bering up toward he ceiling, silently protest against yVur conventional ideas of America; and here too the door-toE the winter carpets have not yet been lad down shines with polish, and IS ,reaeh- erous to walk upon. Brass dog-,ronS of ponder ous build, and as old as the house, shine against the warm br,ck hearth, waiting for the logs that the cool D ctober nights will soon heap upon them. Old. gI Andmotherly sklll ID silk aud worsted cluster in the corners oi the room. Upon tbe walls hang the celebrities that the old VIrginian delights to honor. Here Washington, suuoun led by the notAbles of hlS tune, both men and women, is holding his first reception. Here ME. Jefferson locks down up1o an old cAbnet containing bundles of his priV ate letters to the generals grandfather, full ot the price ot wheat, and the improvement of the county roads. dashed nos and then with allusions 10 the adva itage which the young republic would gain from sympa a,hy with France rAtner than Slth her unnatural parent, Great Britain. Here too, Patrick Henry, the gre Il popular orator America ever produ ed i, with hts long face and eagle eye. hangs Above an arm chair which a family ie
 gend treasures as having rested the old man groaning under the ingrautade ot his cou ltrymen upon hIs last pohtcal campaign There are engrtv,nEs of the Tlenna congress, of Ql.ea Victoria. and ofthe famous roy alist Colonel raIle,on, after Joshua Reynolds, remhd you that blood alter all |, thteker tn ln water
 Two or three ladies in the costume oi the first George, and as mtny gentlemen in wigs and swords. could tell you, it they could speak, of the pig square man. sion of English bucks upon the Chesa
 oeake shote which they sull looked upon as the home of their race, ani there in the post oi honor above the high chim- ney piece IS the generals lncle, the sen- ator, as every one in Ameuca knows, was minister to France in I83 -.