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GLORY.
WOBD3 BY JUDGE LONGSTKEET.
Sweet bards may chant melodious lays,
And fame may tell the story;
I envy not tbeir fading praise,
I hope to sing in glory.
Chorus
Oh! glory, oh glory, there’s room enough
in Paradise
For all a home in glory.
2 .
Let bannered hosts in mortal strife,
And broidered vestments gory,
Seared laurels buy, with ebbing lite,
I seek a crown in glory.
Chorus.
3.
For heaps of gold, let others toil,
From blooming years, to hoary,
Nor rust corrupt, nor thieves can spoil,
My treasured home in glory.
Chorus.
4.
When near the cross, the Saviour stood,
He said I go before ye,
A mansion to prepare, that you
May dwell with me, in glory.
Chorus.
5.
The conflict of Gettisenmne
In bloody Fweat why bore He,
He drank that bitter cup, that we
Might drink with Him in glory.
Chorus.
6 .
The empurpled l-obe of mockery scorn’s,
Aud crown of (horns, why wore He.
Sin wove the robe, sin grew the thorns,
Yet we may share His glory.
- Chorus.
7.
When on the cross, His gushing blood,
IVhy did on Calvary pour lie,
That Grace might wash me in the flood,
And make me meet for glory.
Chorus.
8 .
May love refine my heart from dros3,
By Grace to shout the story,
Then in tlmtrobe, that crown, that cross,
1 will forever glory.
Chorus.
• -«■
TWO LIVES
It was a slow and languid thrill*
ing of his senses. So Vaughn
Dare would have worded his sen¬
sations, had he suddenly been
balled upon to do so, ns, sitling on
the bread piazza to the Ocean
House at Newport, he found his
attention i-iveted upon a woman’s
face of such rare, such wonderful
beauty, that his gaze seemed fari¬
na ted.
She sat quite near him, re cl in
ing in a low chaii-, her hands hold¬
ing some soft, fleecy work, which,
however, had made no progress
Since he had first seen her.
Her head, small and daintily poi¬
sed otl the exquisite, sloping shoul
ders, was covered with a
mass of dark red hair, which
wind blew in iiiumerable little
Waves floating above the low,
brow. Her eyes, when the
lashes lifted themselves from the
carmine tinted cheek to betray their
coloi", appeared to hold in their
brown depths the same shade
red which was in her hail-,
a Soft of smouldering light, as
though oiily needing some
ful impulse to have it burst forth
in flame. Her lips richly fed, and
not too full, pafted over the strong,
gleaiftifig teeth. Fvery motion
replete with grace.
A little group of men
her, whose presence she seemed to
suffer rather than to court
rarely laughed. Now and
she smiled—a faint, languid
—when her features woxxld i-elapse
back into the old indifference.
‘Too absoi-bed even to wish
good morning, Mr. Dare ?’
Voice.
There Was ho outward visible
sign of the man’s inward anathe¬
mas, as Vaughn, instantly l-ising,
courteously doffed his hat to Mrs.
Tftorne—a young and ipretty wid¬
ow of but twenty-four.
•B-oW glad I am to see you,’ she
continued, holding out a white,
plump little hand. ‘When did you
arrive ? I thought you still abroad.’
‘laves there a man with soul so
dead? Ete‘ answered, laughingly.
‘You see, it was that sort of thing,
tugging at my heart-strings, that
brought rafe, a- penitent, to my
fatherland. I reached New York
some time last week. Really it
was too lrot to keep any account of
time, except as ltoeasurcd by the
thermometer. As Soon aS possible,
I came down horo for a breath of
frosb air, Reached hero lato het
night, and already,’ with a low bow,
‘have met my reward.’
'Ah, I see you have not yet for¬
gotten your habit of making pretty
speeches ! Fortunately, long ago I
learned to estimate them at their
proper value. But, tell me, did
you find anything in the galleries
abroad lovelier than Laura,Sterne’s
face ? Have you met her f
‘I certainly have met with no
greater miriele than the fact of one
woman according to another her
due meed of praise. Dare I re¬
spond? or is it merely a trap for
the unwary ? She is pretty—rath¬
er. You see, I am timid. I do
not know her. Will you present
me?’
‘With pleasure. Laura,’ having
taken his arm and led him over to
where the girl sat, ‘this is my old
friend Mr. Dare. Mr. Dare—Miss
Sterne.
The red-brown eyes lifted them¬
selves for a moment to his face;
the carmine burned an instant to a
deeper stain on the beautiful
cheek.
With a little musical laugh, Mrs.
Thorne glided away; the other
men, oiie by one, followed suit, and
the new intrude! held undisputed
possession of the prize.
The morning was a precursor to
the days that followed. It grew
to be a recognized thing that
Vaughn Dare had stepped into the
foremost place, and that, when he
approached, others must fall back.
Thex-e wei-e many who had made
desperate struggles to gain that
which seemed to be his by a sort of
unconscious right. He had drifted
to Newport without purpose or in¬
tent. He found himself held
there, as a vessel to its moorings ;
bxxt he knew his anchorage lay' in
Laura Sterne’s smile.
Ilow it lit up the lovely face!
Was it only his fancy that it al¬
ways waited his coming to first
dawn in the wonderful eyes, and
then to grow and deepen until tbe
red lips caught it ?
‘Vaughn Dare is a flirt,’ said
Dame Gossip.
‘It is diamond cut diamond,’ said
Dame On Dit.
‘Thei-e is a fiance awaiting in
Gotham,’ asserted Dame Bumox-.
Bat, spite of the thx-ec ancient
and worthy (?) dames, the lovers
wended their way content.
Were they lovers ? Had they
paused to put the question to them
selves? Sometimes they would
spend hours almost without words,
when Vaughn, throwing himself on
the sands at Miss Sterne’s feet,
would let his eyes rest dreamily on
the perfect face, on which neither
stffi nor wind seemed ever to rest
but with loving impress.
‘Have you a picture of yourself ?’
he asked her, one day.
‘No,’ she answered. ‘I have
UeVer had a photograph taken.—
Strange, is it not ? I have always
hated the idea of having a card
board repi’esentation of myself in
the possession of one’s five hun¬
dred friends. If one’s picture
could be held by one—the one for
whom yoii have had it drawn or
painted, one whom you know would
value it as a counterfeit of the real
—it might be different.’
Did she expect that he would
axfswer, ‘I want it! I woxxld be that
one f
Silence fell for a moment be¬
tween them ; then Vatxghn sprang
to his feet, and offering her his
arm, they walked silently back to
the house.
That night as they had finished
a waltz together, he whispered in
ear:
‘I am tired of all these people.—
I want to be alone. May we not
go up for awhile into your par¬
lor?’
‘Certainly,’ she replied, her
mood always failing in with lids,
and led the way, he following,
It was a pretty little room,
which sho had brought tho stamp
of her' own individuality, Tho
music from- below reached
but faintly; the salt air from the
window.
Without, tho atuiosphcro
weary, oppressive, as though
FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 23* 1880*
were brooding. It seemei
to weigh on Vaughn Dare’s spirit.
He leaned out to look into the
night—to try, if possible, to shake
it off. A faint scream roused him.
Miss Sterne had crossed the
room to her escritoire ; a breath of
wind had blown the lace shawl
liad thrown about her shoulders,
aud fastened on her hair,
across the flame of the lamp.
had instantly taken fire.
As instautantly, Dare compre
bended the danger. A table stood
at his side, covered with some
pretty, dainty cloth. He dragged
it off, and threw it about her.
Scarce sixty seconds, and the
peril was over ! She was xinscorch¬
ed, unmarrecl, but ho still held her
as he had caught her—close-wrap¬
ped in his arras—close-pressed to
his heart!
One of his hands was severely
burned. lie did not even know it,
until she caught and pressed it to
her lips.
‘For me f she whispered.--"
‘Vaughn, Vaughn ! I iove yon —I
love you ! The life you have saved
is yours.’
At her words, ho slowly opened
his arms and released her from his
hold, an ashen pallor creeping on
his face.
She looked up at him in dim.
bewildered wonderment.
‘What is -it ?’ she questioned.
‘Only that you have opened
heaven to me, and I must turn
away from its gates. Mad, blind
fool that I have been, not to see
whither wo were drifting. Laura,
I love you—rye, as you love me—
and I am bound in honor to anoth¬
er woman.'
‘You mean that you have been
engaged to—be—max-idea all this
time, and I-Oh, what have I
done V covering her face with
her hands and sinking- back in her
cliaii-.
‘Nothing,’ ho replied, ‘but what
the lovliest, purest of women might
have done. Knowing- no evil, you
thought none. I—’
‘Leave me!’ she cried, springing
to her feet. ‘Go to the woman
who has the right to claim you.—
I make to heaven but one prayer
—that I may never see your face
again !’
But when ho had obeyed her,
she crouched down upon tho floor
in her struggle to keep-) back the
moans—aye, and kissed the
where his feet had rested.
Calm, silent, impassive, all
life, he had opened the pent-up
flood-gates of her soul, for
for this.
- * *
‘We have made a mistake. For¬
give me that my eyes have just
opened to it. and that I ask you to
release me from nay bonds. I
thought I loved you ; but women
do not always know their own
hearts. I send you back your ring,
your letters. Send me back my
broken pledge, and your foi-give
ncss.’
This was the lettei-, from his af¬
fianced, Yauglm Dare found wait-,
ing him on liis return to the city.
This, which Fate hail sent him iu
the moment of his need—this,
which raised the weight from his
chest, and load from his brain—
which made him a free man—free
to woo and win tha only woman, lie
now knew, that he had ever truly
loved.
It would bo a little difficult., per¬
haps, to gain lier fox-giveiiess—to
win anew her trust ; but with such
an end, and the knowledge that
she loved him, he could not fail.
Wiry was it, then that on the
boat, returning, sleep forsook lain’ 4
In tbe morning, he would find hex
sitting, perhaps where he had first
seen her. Ho could fancy the
haughty look of inci-edxdity oil the
beautiful faco as ho approached,
only to see it soften and die out un
der tho eloquent passion of his
words,
Ah, how he loved her ! Now, in
tho new sense of his freedom, ho
dared avow to his own soul liow
well.
But, spite of it all, tho night wore
heavily away. Toward morning ho
sought his berth, but only to lie and
:oss restlessly about, until the stea¬
mer touched her pier.
It was still early when lie reached
the hotel. A sudden chill seized
him as he entered the office. The
few standing about wore a safl, pi ty¬
ing look, he could not understand.
‘You have heard the terrible news,
Mr. Dare ?’ the clerk questioned.,
‘I have heard nothing,’he abrupt
ly answered.
‘What 1 you do not know ?
Steme was drowned yesterday, while
bathing. At first, she seemed averse
to going in, but they finally prevail
ed upon her. The tide was very
strong, but they say, when it swept
her beyond hex* reach, she seemed
to smile as though she had no fear
She uttered no moan or cry, and
must-have lost consciousness almost
immediate’y, for when the-life-rope
was thrown her—they hoped in
time to save her life—she riiade no
effort to grasp it. Her body was
recovered last night.’
‘Take me to her ?’ Dare whisper¬
ed, in a licsxrse, changed voice.
It seemed as though ho had
known it all long ago, as though ho
had lived in another life. Walking
as in a dream, with all trace of col¬
or fled from cheek and lips, he foL
lowed to the closed door, where the
loan left him. Then he opened it
quietly and went in. The few watch
era, taking one glance at his awfitl
face, rose; and left him with his dead
—ah, his own. for time and eterni¬
ty! Did she xxot still wear the
smile upon her lips for him ?
For her the struggle was over.—
What wonder that she had smiled
as she felt the waters, more itierei
ful than man, wrapping her in their
embrace? What wonder that-she
care d no? to grasp the lMpe' whioh
should snatch her back into the old
agony of living ?
On liis knees before tlio exquisite
form, Vaughn D ire wrestled with
his angiiish. Ah, they both had
drifted with the tide—she into the
still ocean of eternity , ho into tho
bitter turmoil o! the might-have
Drifted—drifted .with the
tide men cal! living, and on its wa¬
ters have boon wrecked ‘Two Lives.’
Encounter with Cats. —A boy
entering a barn-loft, saw two cats
lying asleep. Bent upon having
sonic fun, he took up a bundle
of fodder and sprang upon them.
There was something of a disap
pointment in the result. The cats,
instead of running away, sprang at
tho boy with a fury that started
him. Having nothing with which
to defend himself, the boy tumbled
around, while the cats squalled,
clawed and bit unmercifully. The
boy's cries did not bring assistance
and of course, realizing tlio fact
that it might pi-ove fatal to delay
desperate efforts, the boy sprang to¬
ward the ladder leaning against the
rafters and ascended to the roof of
tho house. The cats followed him,
and, despite his efforts to keep them
away, bit and ehxwed him frigbtful-
Realizing his ladder folly, he
jumped down on tho liay. The cats
followed him. By this time lie was
bleeding very freely, and his coat
was almost tom in threads. Seiz¬
ing one of the cats by tbe hind legs
he attempted to beat it to death
against the wall, nut tho animal
doubled around and began tearing
his arm. Shaking tire feline off, he
ran to the ladder leading down.
Tho animals followed him. Just as
he reached the ladder, he discover¬
ed a monkey-wrench lying on the
floor. Seizing it, he turned, dealt
the foremost cat a blow between
the eyes, aud before it could recov¬
er mashed its head. The other
animal was not rendered less fero
cions by the death of its companion,
but fought with fury. With a
heavy blow the boy stretched out
the remaining foliuo, and boat out
its brains.
“How far is it to Cub Creek?”
asked a ti-avolcr of a Dutch woman.
“Only shoost a little vays.” “Is it
four, six eight or ten miles?” impa¬
tiently asked tho stranger.
I dinks it is,” serenely replied
unmoved gate-keeper.
The Successful Plea of a Negro cn
Trial for Murder
The Dallas (Tex) Times recites
the details of a case that certainly
presents some of the most remarks'
ble features known irt the history of
farisprudence in this country. This
occurred at Waxahaebie, during
the iast term of the Ellis county
district court A colored man was
indicted for entering into conspira¬
cy to murder. He was brought to
trial, the evidence was strong, and
in spite of the good fight made in
his defense by his attorney, ho was
convicted. A motion for a new tri¬
al was made, and the judge, seeing
that no error of law was made, and
believing that the evidence was
sufficient, promptly overruled the
motion. AVhen the prisoner's were
brought to be sentenced, this negro
was among them. ‘When asked if
be had anything to say why sentence
should not bo patssed upon him, he
said he knew anything he might
say would have no weight upon
tha court, as all the forms of law
had been complied with, and he
knew he must go to the penitenti¬
ary, but that he had some thiugs to
say for the beuefit of his colored
friends, and, with the permission of
the court, he would make a few re¬
marks. The court told him that
he would listen. The negro start¬
ed oft slowly and deliberately, res
viewing the testimony, showing the
inconsistencies of witnesses’ state
ments and theu carried away with
the idea of wrong done him, he burst
forth in a strain of eloquence seldom
heard. When he sat down the
judge said: “Sam, I thought yon
guilty; I don’t believe so now, and
will set aside the judgiucftt overrul¬
ing your motion fora now trial and
se you nnlljpr c lu.ncc,' So elo
quently had the negro presented
his case, that the court attorney
then dismissed the case, and the
prisoner walked out of the court
room a free matff. This is the ifrst
case in Texas, at least, where a man
brought up to be sentenced was ov¬
er turned loose. Every person pres¬
ent says that the effort was the fins
cst one ever heard. The negro is
uneducated aud a common field
baa’d.
A Bad Giio, to Marry —A bad
daughetr, fftvs’ an exchange, selciom
inakes'a good wife. If a girl is ill
tempered at home, snarls at her pa
ren s, snaps at brothers' and sisters,
and shirks her ordinary duties, (lie
chances are tcu to one that when
she gets a home of her own sho will
make it wretched. There are girls
who fancy themselves so far superior
to their parents that the mere privi¬
lege of enjoying their society in the
house ought to be tilt tbe old peeple
should have the assurance to ask.
While their mothers are busy with
domestic duties they sit in the easiest
chair or lieon the softestsofas, feed¬
ing on cheap and trashy novels, and
chex-isli the notion that they arc very
literary individuals. The house.
hold drudgery is to x coarse for such
ladies as they. Girls of this sort
are generally very airxio'us to bo
married that tlry may escape the
disagreeablcncss of a homo where
they arc held more or ldss tinder sub¬
jection. A caller, who doesn’t have
a chance to see how they behave as
daughters may be excused for fancy*
ing them lovely and loveable beings;
but one who does see it is foolish if
he commits* himself by offering
mavrii-go to a girl of this sort.
she will not assist tfer mother in
the domestic labors, is she net likely
to be equally slothful £nd illtempcr
ed when she marries? If she now
thinks herself too fine to
is it safe to expect that her views as
to that matter would xadicaily
change if she became a wife?
q-[ 10 origination of tho proposition
(0 abolish tlio rule that requires
th irds of the National ConvCuti-n
vo tg f or a - candidate before ho
comes a nominee, iagenernlly
ted to Mr. Tildcti’s supporters.
charge is that if a majority
suffices fo' nominate, Mr. Tildeu
may seGuro the nomination through
th6 votes of tho delegates from
States as Vermont and Iowa,
| arc immovably Republican;
HOW THE WITNESS FARES ON
THE STAND
The manner in which attorneys
question witnesses is exasperating
to the intelligent listener beyond
expression. The great purpose of
the average lawyer, for instance, is
to draw from the witness til the
facts in his possession, except the
facts that touch the case under
consideration.
•A countryman chopping down a
tree, stops his work, and buries his
axe up to the eye in the brains of
his brother-in-law. The witness
who saw the whole bloody transac
tiou is brought into court, and his
examination runs about thus:
“You say that the prisoner was
chopping a tree down. Now, will
you please tell the court and jury
where he bought the axe?”
“You don’t know; very well, sir;
well see about that.”
“Now sir, look at the jury—don't
stare in that helpless manner at me
—now, sir, do you say, upon your
oath, that the defendant stole that
axe before he left Paducha?”
“You dont say so, eh? Well now
mark me sir. How many feet was
it from the tree the defendant was
chopping to the nearest grist mill?
You can’t say?”
“Was it ten feet?”
“Certainly, a good deal more. ”
“Well, then, was it a tliovfsaml
miles?”
“Oh, certainly not.”
“The court and the jury will
please observe the stubbornness of
the witness. It is manifestly his
to keep from the jury the
they ought to know.”
“Now sir, who owned the mill?”
The witness innocently inquires
“What mill ?” but soon repents it.
“The court and jury will please
observe tbe exasperating contuma
ciousness of this witness; his evas¬
ion and his manifest pnipose to.
confuse your minds to the facts
involved in this terrible murder.”
“Now sir, look in my face, You
have solemnly sworn that the man
was chopping near a mill, Well
now you dare say—look at the ju¬
ry six-—that there was no mill with¬
in a thousand miles of the tree the
defendant was felling!”
“I don’t say anything of the
kind.”
‘‘The jury will please note that
answer.”
“Now r , see here my friend—we
have had about enough of this.
Yon first deelai-ed that there was
no mill, and now you brazenly avow
there was a mill near the wood
chopper—” saicf
“I there was no mill within
forty feet—”
“Never do you mind What you
said—I know what you said, and
the jury knows; and now, sir, listen
to me.”
“Who made your hoots?’’
“You don’t know? Is there any¬
thing, under God’s heavens that
do know? There, there! Look
the jury— not at mo. And now
perhaps, yon can toll tho jury
what your name is.”
The witness tells his nanfo.
“Now", sir, look—how long did
yon live there?”
The witness timidly asked “lived
wheire?” When the attorney
springs to his feet.
' “May it please the court and jn
l-y, I find this witness utterly incor¬
rigible, stubborn, mulish and bent
on keeping buck the very facts the
jury must have; lie has clearly
been tampered with and comes hei-o
with the manifest intention qf brow
beating and worrying both the ju¬
ry and the bar, I have temporized
with him, I have led liinx gently
from point to point in the hope of
beguiling him into a true recital of
the fact connected with this dread
ful nxurdev, aud what is my reward
of this considerate kindness and
forbearance?’ Speaking under the
sanctity of au oath, he tolls tho
court and jury that ho doesn’t
know wliare ho lives, and has' asked
me to' tell him! Great God! Can
such things be, and not overcome
us like tv—Hke—and not ovoi-como
us? I ash. your Honor, that this
witness be sent to jail for contama
cy. to remain thero until ho expros-
V0I.-9 No. 4t
ea a -willingness to tell what lie
knows about this dreadful miu-->
der.
The court then admonishes the
witness that futher tx-ifling will not
be permitted: that he must answer
the gentleman’s questions, or he’d
certainly feel called upon to commit
him to prison.
It comes kind o’ sudden like jn t
as the congregation have finished
singing ‘Salvation’s free,’ to havtf
the preacher announce that ‘tbo
collection will now be taken up.’
A pretty good first of April joko
was that of a Toronto alderman
who wandered about the streets
bearing the placard on his broiftl
back inscribed: ‘Widened at the
expense of the corporation.’
A Connecticut farmer recently
jnmped into a well because his wife
ran him into debt. He found, how
ever, that ho couldn’t keep his head
above water any better after he got
t iei-e.
‘Ah 1’ said Adolphus, ‘In our
courting days, when I took leave!
and went down the steps, she said
‘by-by’ so sweetly, and now it’s
‘buy, buy/' ‘I see,’ said his friend,
‘she’s cast a different spell over
you.’
A shoemaker was arrested for
bigamy and brought before tho
magistrate. ‘Which wife,’ asked a
by stander, ‘will he be obliged to'
take?’ Smith, always ready at a
joke, replied, ‘He’s a cobbler, and
of com-se must stick to his last.’
An old miser, who was notorious
for self denial, was one day asked
why he was so thin. ‘I don’t know,’
said the miser; ‘I have tried va¬
rious means for getting fattei", but
without success.’ ‘Have you tried
victuals ?’ inquired a friend.
When a certain ignorant justice
of the peace had his attention call¬
ed to the particular section of tho
law flatly conti-adicting his decis¬
ion. he replied that lie always dis=>
agreed with the revised statutes in
that particular.
The advantage of having a tele¬
phone connection with youx- ehiireh
b that yon can listen to the sermon
in bed Sunday morning and fall
asleep at just the right place.
The Cincinnati Gazette says tiiat
it is que'-r that so many biblcs live
to a good old age. while not ono
pack of playing cards out of a doz¬
en sees the second Christmas.
Jano Gray SwissLolm declares
that “this world will be grossly mis¬
managed until there are as many
boys born as girls.” Mrs. Swisshehn
is right. That is tbo only way to
prevent miss^managemeut.
~ ■ i •— 10 » -
All old oyster dealer, who had
cangfit billions, and eaten millions
oftlie delicious brivalve, was delight¬
ed with a dish given him at a church
fair called “oyster stew. ’ Ho. said
it was so new to him. He was so!
sick of oysters.
Miss Emma Abbot, having been
told of some criticism upon tho
warmth of her afitiflgin love scenes;
responded: “I detest tbe conven tion- *
al, stagey, stupid, love-making
scenes so often depicted by women
who never Were in love and know
nothing of the pis-ion. 1 havo
been in love, aud know what I atu
acting.”
Ono Christmas tho church of a
village near one of bur manufactur¬
ing towns was so beautifully deco¬
rated that many outsiders came to’
view it, ono of whom, as sho gazed
on its beauties and inhaled the per
fumo of spruce and pine and bal¬
sam, feoiingly remarked: ‘How
solemn it smells !’ Homo ono else
observed that sho had hoard of tho
‘odor of sanctity",’ but never know
exactly xnxtil now what it was.’
It. is asserted that in the event of
a war bet wet ft Russia and China,
wLioh now seems certain, tho Unit¬
ed States would s ipply both coun¬
tries with nearly all their provis¬
ions and materials of war. The
Russian GoverAirVobt, it is Said, ha's
already made arrangements to puts'
chase anus and ammunition in tilin'
country, and also to secure coal lof
thu use of its navy iu tlio Pacific.
“it’s au ill wind,” etc.