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AMERICUS, GEORGIA; WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1882.
“IIE’LLSEE IT WHEN IIE WAKES.”
At the battle of the Wilderness a gallant
Mississippian had fallen, and at night, just
before burying him, there came a letter from
her he loved best. One of the group around
his body—a minister with womanly tender
ness-broke the silence as he laid the letter
on the breast of the heroic soldier, by say
ing, “Bury It with him. He will see it when
he wakes.”
Amid the clouds of battle smoke
The sun had died away,
And where the storm of battle broke
A thousand warriors lay.
A band of friends upon the field
Stood round a youthful form,
Who, when the war-clouds thunder pealed
Had perished in the storm—
Upon his forehead, on his hair,
The coming moonlight breaks,
And each dear brother standing there
A tender farewell takes.
But ere they lap him in ids home,
There came a comrade near,
And gave a token that had come
From her the dead held dear.
A moment’s doubt upon them pressed,
When one the letter takes,
•And lays it low upon his breast—
“ He’ll see it when he wakes.”
Oil, thou who dost in sorrow wait,
Whose heart in anguish breaks,
Though thy dear message came too late,
“He’ll see it when he wakes.”
Ne’er more amid the fiery storm
Shall his strong arm be seen;
No more his young and manly form
Treads Mississippi’s green.
And e’en thy tender words of love—
The words affection speaks—
Came all too late; but oh! thy love
“Will see them when he wakes!”
No jars disturb his gentle rest,
No noise his slumber breaks,
But thy words sleep upon his breast,
“He’ll see it when he wakes.”
•\\ \ S CY/i/UVft YaOY S
THE WRONG PICTURE.
“A pretty face—a very pretty face
indeed!”
I turned the little photograph upside
down, held it off at arm’s length to get
a prospective view, and scrutinized it
closely with my eye glasses.
Darwin Wallis looked pleased; a man
naturally likes to have \\'w finance duly
admired and appreciated.
“So this is the Bessie Armitage I
have heard so much of; really, Wallis,
she does credit to your taste. A blonde,
I suppose?”
“Fair a3 a lily leaf, with blue eyes
and the sunniest golden hair!”
“Ah! well, I must say I prefer the
brunette style, so far as rny individual
taste goes; but then, fancies differ, you
know.”
It was all very well for Darwin Wal
lis to go into ecstacies'about his pallid,
fair-haired little Bessie Armitage; he
had never met, the glance of Cecilia
Vernon’s magnificent dark eyes. What
did he know about the true type of
feminine beauty?
“As you say, fancies differ,” Wallis
returned lightly. “But I wish you
would select a handsome frame for it
when you go to R next—blue vel
vet, with a gold rim on the margin, or
some such tasteful arrangement.”
“I’ll see to it,” I said, depositing the
picture in its envelope, and returning
it to my inside breast pocket.
“Y ou’ll he very careful of it?”
“Careful? Of course I shall!”
I smiled a little loftily at Wallis’
solicitude, and we parted.
After all, Darwin Wallis was better
off than I was, for he was securely en
gaged to the dimpled, yellow-tressed
little object ol his affections; while I
was yet as it were in outer darkness,
whether my peerless Cecilia returned
my ardent devotion, or whether she
secretly inclined toward that unprinci
pled scoundrel Fitzhugh Trefoil. A
score of times I had resolved to settle
the question; a score of times I had
gone to the old Vernon house with the
very formula of declaration on my lips,
and as often had the words died away
unvoiced and unspoken.
If fate had oniv gifted me with one
thousandeth part of Fitzhugh Trefoil’s
off-hand audacity! I don’t think any
thing short of the Deluge could check
that fellow’s cool self-possession; an
earthquake wouldn’t, and I don’t think
that the millennium could.
However, love inspires the feeble
heart with a sort of fictitious courage,
and I was anew man since Miss Ver
non had smiled upon me. What was
the use of doubting, hesitating and
trembling? Why not decide my fate at
once? Darwin Wallis’ serene content
exercised a stimulating influence upon
me. I would fain have been even as
he was.
“There is no sense in procrastinating
matters any further,” I said, half
aloud, as l walked up and down the
rather limited domains of my little law
office. “I have been a doubting fool
quite long enough.”
I’m afraid I wasn’t a very amiable
member of the domestic circle that
afternoon.
“I think Paul is growing crosser
every day,” said my sister, shrugging
her little plump shoulders. “Mother,
I wish you’d speak to him!”
But my mother, bless her wise old
soul, knew better than that. She ouly
looked at me over the rims of her spec
tacles and went on darning stockings.
“Paul is worried about business mat
ters, I suppose,” she sa : d apologeti
cally. “Paul will do well enough, if
you only let him alone.”
I went up to my room after supper
and made an elaborate toilet, hut all
the pains I bestowed upon it, served
only to heighten the general effect of
awkwardness!
“I’ve two minds to wait, until to
morrow night,” quoth I to myself, ab
ruptly stopping, my cravat half tied.
“No—l might he a coward, but I w|B
not such an unmitigated poltroon as
that. 1 had begun the enterprise, and
I would carry it through, if it cost me
the last drop of my heart’s blood!”
Moreover I had had an inspiration!
An entirely new and original method
of putting the momentous querry—
“popping the question” is a vulgarism
that I, for one, could never tolerate—
had occurred to me.
“Hang Fitzhugh Trefoil!” I ex
claimed gleefully, half aloud, though
there was no ear to hear my ejacula
tion. “I’ll win the dark eyed treasure
yet in spite of all he can do!”
I opened my writing case and care
fully took out a little carte de visite
wrapped in tissue paper and carefully
laid away with a pink silk perfume
Bachel that Minnie had made for me
once. It was Cecilia’s picture, she
had allowed me to steal it away from
her, with scarcely a remonstrance, a
week before. Then was the time I
ought- to have proposed, but like a
timorous, doubting moon-calf as I was,
I had left the golden tide of opportuni
ty slip unimproved away from me!
I drew Bessie Hermitage’s vacant,
doll-like face from its envelope and
compared the two with a thrill of tri
umph in my heart.
‘Colorless water beside crimson
sparkling champagne! a pale violet in
the shadow of a royal rose! pearls
eclipsed by the fiery flash of diamonds!’
I exclaimed. “Darwin Wallis’ taste
may be very correct and classical, but
give tne my radiant brunette! These
hleached-out -beauties do not corres
pond with my ideal of perfection.”
It was a lovely spring night as I en
tered the wide gravelled path that led
up to the wide porch of the old fash
ioned Vernon mansion.
Squire Vernon sat there smoking his
meerschaum.
“.Won’t you set down and have a
smoke?” he demanded hospitably.
“It's a real luxury to take a whif out
o’doors, after bein’ shut up in the house
all winter. Or may be you’d prefer
goin’ in to see Cecilia.”
Sensible old gentleman! he had for
gotten his own young days. I inti
mated, not without considerable awk
wardness, that the special object of my
visit had been to “see Cecilia.”
“VVal, she is in the parlor, all by
herself,” said the squire good humor
edly, motioning mo in. “Walk in;
she’ll be glad to see ye.”
Cecilia Vernon was sittin in the par
lor alone, as her father had said, the
bright centre of a cheerful circle of
lamplight. A bit of crochet work was
lying in her lap, and an open volume
of poems—poems I had sent her—
was on the table-
Cecilia Vernon was always fair to
look upon, in my sight; to-night, how
ever, she seemed more than ordinary
beautiful.
I sat down, and began hesitatingly
upon the never-failing topic of the
weather. A proposal had seemed the
easiest thing in the world as I walked
along the dewy edges of the peaceful
starlighted road, contemplating it from
afar off; but now that I was face to face
with it, Alps upon Alps of difficulty
and perplexity seemed to surround its
accomplishment. I would have given
all that I was worth to postpone the
evil day but twenty-four hours—all
but my self-respect, and that was im
periled now.
Cecilia tried her best to keep the
ball of conversation in motion; she in
introduced new subjects, asked leading
questions, and feigned deep interest in
the most abstruse or politics. But
even Cecilia couldn’t talk on forever,
and presently, with a little sign of des
pair, she subsided into silence. Now
was the eventful moment of my destiny.
“Cecilia!” I said softly.
She raised the liquid brown eyes to
mine.
“I want to confide in you to-night—
have I your permission to speak?”
“Certainly, Mr. Markham!”
“I am very much in love, Cecilia; in
fact my heart has long gone out of my
own possession into that of—”
I stopped, with the fatal husky feel
ing in my throat. Cecilia was blush
ing divinely! I drew my chair closer
up to hers, with the sensation of a man
who has just pulled the string of a cold
shower-bath.
“Who is the lady?” faltered Cecilia
—as if she didn’t know perfectly well
already.
“Shall I show you her picture, Ce
cilia?”
Miss Vernon inclined her head al
most to the level of my shoulder, to
look at the little carle de visite I drew
from my pocket. I skilfully stole
one atm around her waist.
“See, dearest!”
But, to my horror and dismay, she
snatched her hand from my clasp,
sprang up, and started away, like some
fair avenging goddess!
“How dare you insult me thus, Mr.
Markham?”
“Cecilia how—what—”
“Don’t presume to call me Cecilia,
sir!” sobbed the indignant girl, burst
ing into tears and sweeping from the
room.
I sat like one palsied. What had I
done? Why was the gracious mood of
my enchantress thus suddenly trans
formed to gall and bitterness? Surely
she would presently return and apolo
gize for her capricious exit!
But she did not return; and after
waiting long in vain, I sneaked out of
a side door and crept dejectedly home,
my heart burning with wonder and re
sentment.
I had no mind to meet the assembled
family group, so I admitted myself with
the night key and stole noiselessly up
stairs, whore my lamp still burned—
the lamp I had lighted with such high
and bounding hopes !
I threw off my coat viciously; as I
did so the forgotten carte de vistie drop
ped from my pocket. I stooped to pick
it up. It was the portrait of Bessie
Armitage!
And there on the mantel, where in
my heedless haste I had left it, was the
divine countenance of my queen Cecilia!
I had shown her the wrong photo
graph.
All was clear now! Her indiguation
and resentment —the whole tangled web
of mystery was unraveled now! I caught
up my hat to rush back to her, but at
that moment the clock sttuck eleven!
It was too late now. All apology
and explanation must be deferred until
the morrow. ,And with a discontented
spirit I sought gay couch.
Early the next morning I walked
over to the old Vernon mansion; but,
expeditious as I was, Trefoil had been
there before me. I met him coming
w-histliug down the walk as self-pos
sessed as ever.
“Good morning,” I said briefly, en
deavoring to pass him, but he detained
me.
“Congratulate me, my dear fellow.
I am the happiest man in the world.
Cecilia Vernon has just promised to be
my wife!”
I stared blankly at him, and’with
one or two unintelligible mutmurs,turn
ed short round and walked home again.
My rival had improved the propituous
opportunity and caught Cecilia’s heart
in the rebound.
Well—so goes the wot Id, and lam
a bachelor yet. There is but one Ce
cilia, and she, alas! is married to Fitz
hugh Trefoil!
Moral. —When you go courting, he
certain, be certain whose picture it is
you are carrying next to your heart.
The Minister Ceased to Wonder.
New York Dispatch.
Apropos of the Egyptian trouble, we
wish to relate a little story, the circum
stances of which occurred during our
trip to the Holy Land several years or
more ago.
He was a devout Christian, and had
made the study of the Bible and a prop
er understanding of the Big Book the
highest aim in life.
When he arrived at the Sea of Gali
lee his heart was filled with awe, and
he felt enervated and cleansed by the
thought that he was gazing on the very
spot where his Savior once stood.
Approaching the boatman, he ad
dressed him in his choicest Arabic, and
with Bible and commentary in hand
awaited an answer.
“Ah! what ’smatter ’th yer? Why
don’t jer talk United States?” asked
the man contemptuously. He was a
real live Yankee who was picking up a
living by ferrying tourists across the
sea.
“So this is the Sea of Galilee,” de
voutly murmured the searcher after
knowledge.
“ Ya-a-s.”
“And this is where our Savior walk
ed upon the waters?”
“Ya-a-s.”
“How much will you charge to take
me to the exact spot?”
“Wa-al, you look like a clergyman,
an’ I won’t charge you nothin’.”
The devout one boarded the boat, and
at last was pointed out where the mira
cle is said to have occurred. After
gazing at the waters, and dividing his
time between the glances at his books
and devout ejaculations of satisfaction,
the searcher signified his willingness to
return.
“Charge you .S2O to take you back,”
said the speculative Yankee.
“But you said you would charge
nothing.”
“Naw, didn’t. Nothin’ to bring you
out. Twenty to get back.”
“And do you charge everybody S2O
to take them back?” asked the aston
ished searcher.
“Y r a-a-s. That’s abeout the figger.”
“Well, then,” said the devout one, as
he went down into his clothes, “no
wonder our Savior got out and walked.”
Ben Hill’s Visit to the Portrait
of His Mother.
“In all his life, Ben Hill never did a
more graceful thing,” said General
Evans in his funeral oration over the
late Senator, “than when he made his
last visit to the portrait of his mother,
“which hung in ane of his rooms.
When President Garfield placed his
manly arm around his venerable mother
in the presence of the vast multitudes
that witnessed his inauguration, and
kissed her lips fresh from pronouncing
the obligation to the Presidential office,
he drew into himself the warm heart
of American motherhood forever. So
when the great Senator went as a child
to gaze upon his mother’s pictured face,
and murmured, ‘I will soon see her,’
he left the sons of this State and the
Union a lesson of filial love they should
never forget. The portrait shows a
dear old, good face, well traced with
marks of intelligence. The wrinkles
are there, the stoop of age, and other
signs of failing life. Long since she
went away. But the wasted statesman
became a boy again in feeling, gazed
with a true, adoring love upon the por
trait, and then above the faded picture
looked with eyes that saw Home and
Heaven and Mother, all in one vision of
transcendent glory.”
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SAD OLD ISSUES.
.I?he Sins or Some of our Early Poli-
Arp Decides to Elect
Anyhow, Notwith
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—Morals Drawn From Some of the
Dead Schemes of the Fathers—
Educated Hog.
Atlanta Constitution.
I think Mr. Stephens will make a
good Governor, and I am for him for
the sake of peace at home ami his con
servative influence in the nation, I don’t
care anything about his peculiar views
on the sin of secession and the know
nothings and reconstruction and who
saved the State, for these things are all
barred by the statute of limitations and
won’t come up before him. The speech
with which he opened the campaign
was a very good speech for vote mak
ing and will suit most all the people I
reckon for I believe all the original se
cessionists are dead or have left the
country, and it is just as hard to find
an original know-nothing now-a-days
as a Greely man or a member of a kn
klux klan. A man of such foresight
as to know in 1843 that the junction of
two railroads in a passel of chinkapin
bushes would make the great citv of
Atlanta and to know that secession
would bring on a terrible war and we
would get terribly whipt is the kind of
man wo want to govern us and to keep
us out of impending trouble. I never
read those kind of speeches but what I
feel my insignificance— sorter like I was
ou trial for a great crime and there was
the bill of indictment, and the prosecu
tor had me arraigned at the bar and
made me to stand up, when he said:
“Juror, look upon the prisoner; prison
er, look upon the juror,” and sometimes
I am about to plead guilty and throw
myself upon the mercy of the court.
For you see, I was about everything
that Mr. Stephens wasent, and now I
stand almost alone in mv glory, for I
was a secessionist, and I was a know
nothing, and I was a Greeley man, and
worst of all I belonged to the infamous
ku-klux klan. Lord help me, and I
reckon if the great fight between states’
rights and consolidation comes on as
Mr. Stephens predicts, I will make an
other blunder and get on the wrong
side of that. But sometimes when 1
get to ruminating over the past I can’t
help wondering how long the war would
have been put off if we hadent seceded,
for when one people hate another people
for half a century it has always ended
in a war, according to history, and al
ways will I reckon, and it looks like
we had to give up the niggers or fight
sooner or later. Jesso!
And then, again, I get to ruminating
over the possibility that if all our peo
ple had stood up to tho war like some
of our people did how easy we could
have conquered an honorable place.
But this is
ALL A DEAD ISSUE,
and nobody but the Lord and two
or three men can tell anything about
it. Then, again, I was a know noth
ing and thought it a right good insti
tution at the time, and I’m fool enough
to think so yet, for its principles were
handed down to ns by general Washing
ton in his farewell adifress, hut I reck
on the old gentleman was in his dotage
when he wrote it. He said beware of
foreign influence, and I recon it is that
same influence Mr. Stephens is fearing
will bring on an empire now, for Gen
eral Grant is at the head of that party
and they say he traveled all over the
foreign empires to prepare himself for
the kingdom. There was only one thing
against the know nothings that I never
liked, and that is because they didn’t
succeed and this country is now over
run with the scurf and offcasts of all
nations till we have hardly got a na
tionality of our own and are fast los
ing our identity as a people, and if
that consolidation comes at all, it will
be because we can’t manage these
mobs by any other kind of govern
ment. I was a Greely man because
I thought he was a good man and a
safe man for the South and never
wanted to fight ns, but said: “Erring
sisters go in peace;” and thought we
could elect him, but' you see I was
mistaken, as usual, and they elected
General Grant, Mr. Stephens’ man, I
recon, for I know he wasent mine and
never will be, and I can’t help rumi
nating how smoothly our reconstruc
tion would have gone along if Mr.
Greeley had have been elected instead
of Grant. But after we lost our liber
ties it was very necessary to find em
again, and so there was a number of
patriots and statesmen who came to
the front to tell us exactly what to do
in order to save the state. Mr. Steph
ens told us one thing and Ben Hill
anothsr and .Toe Brown another and
they all had conservative views, and
somehow or somehow else the state
wa3 saved and I don’t know who saved
it, only I have an opinion, and that is
that it was the conservative views
of the ku-klux that saved the state;
leastways I will say that
the kuklux kept down
lawless niggers and plundering carpet
baggers, and there was no other power
at the time that could save our wives
and children from their outrages. But
it was all wrong I reckon—all wrong,
and I’m a poor sinner because I can’t
help it. The great trouble is we can’t
all see alike and feel alike at the same
time. When one man is ready to fight
another ain’t. Judge Wright was op
posed to fighting in 1861, but in 1870
he came ont in a ferocious and bellyco
cious letter and wanted to fight all by
himself, and had like to have tore his
shirt. So it seems there is a time in
every man’s life when he wants to
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shoulder his musket and blaze away,
and the mistake we secesh made was
that our time didn’t suit some othej
folks’ time. Maybe Mr. Stephens
would fight rather than consolidate,that
is if he justifies fighting at all, and if
he don’t then the revolution of *76 was
wrong, and we would have been living
under a monarchy now,and maybe that
is not so badafterall for there are some
good monarchies and some very bad re
publics, and vice versa and so on, but
I reckon we will all do the very best
we can.
Mr. Stephens has given a good many
reasons why the people, and especially
the niggers, should vote for him, and
I’m going to do it but not exactly for
his reasons. The laith that is in me
is that onr good people who have got
estranged can bury their animosities
and harmonize on him as a go between,
a peace maker, a balance wheel, a tog
gle join and I know he is a safe man
and a patriot. I don’t appreciate his
zeal for the poor darkey and he may
have ’em all tor his pets so far as I am
concerned but to my opinion the more
ho stains ’em on books the more he
weakens ’em on muscle and takes away
their inclination for work and increases
the number of candidates for the chain
gang. There are but few of ’em any
aecount now except the old time dar
keys and they don’t get in the chain
gang. The new set get some schooling
and then lie around town and go to
stealing and doing devilment for a liv
ing. Of course there are a few of ’em
who will make a good use of an educa
tion and so I knew an educated hog that
was mighty smart and could tell the
time of day on a watch and add up the
spots ou
A DECK OF CARDS,
And so on, and its a wonder to mo
that some of these northern philan
thropists did’nt find anew field for
their sentiment, and go regularly in
to the business of educating all the
hogs in the country. Jesso! I know
I have some peculiar views, which you
do not indorse, but I can’t help think
ing that races of people differ just like
races of animals, and you can’t make a
good literary citizen out of a negro,
any more than you can wean an Indian
from the woods. So let ’em alone, I
say, let ’em learn to read and write and
figure a little if they want to, but don’t
spoil ’em with book learning. The
plow and the plane and the trowel
anvil suits ’em better and makes ’em
happier. There are enough poor
white children in the land who need
attention, and they are not getting as
much of it to-day as the negro, and it
is all because politicians are playing
for the colored vote, or else are trying
to please the Yankees with zeal tor the
nations pet. There is another thing
that I don't believe. I don’t believe
that Dr. Felton is trying to break
down the democratic party any more
to-day than he was two years ago when
Mr. Stephens was patting him on the
back and saying, “go it my friend, I’m
betting on you.” I think that Dr.
Felton’s mission as a party purifier has
ended and his time is ont and he ought
to retire, but he and Emory Speer have
been following some illustrious exam
ples in toting their own skillets and
taking more thought for themselves
than for party or consistency, and no
body needent rise to explain on this
matter. It is not harmonizing our peo
ple in the seventh to denounce Dr. Fel
ton for he made a good representative
and has got a host of friends in these
parts, and the only mistake he made
was in not coming back to the fold at
the right time when he was invited.
But he raised a powerful rumpus, I tell
you he did. And now we have got a
nice kettle of fish in this county, for the
independents have played the same
game on the organized that the organ
ized played on them when they stole
Mr. Stephens from ’em. They got Dr.
Baker nominated for the senate by the
democratic convention and he has been
a Felton man all the time and wont say
now that he is for Clements and so
there is another rumpus going on, and
there are _
SIX CANDIDATES
for the house and one of ’em is a dar
key and they say that all the darkeys
are going to single shot him and so
here she goes and there she goes and the
devil is turned loose again and its all
because there ain’t many offices as peo
ple who want ’em. But the hair ot the
dog is good for the bite and I reckon
onr people will learn some sense after a
while. When a man’s candidacy em
barrasses the people and puts the party
in peril, if he is a patriot he will with
draw and he is the truest patriot who
does it first. We have had no county
nomination for the house but we ought
to have and the organized and the in
dependents ought to join in it rather
than have old Bartow represented by
a darkey. And as to tho senator for
this district it seems to me that if Dr.
Baker would come out and declare for
Clements for congress we ought to in
dorse him and elect him for he is a
capable and a fearless man and wants
the office mighty had. Bill Anp.
Scull Shoals, Ga., Greene Cos., 1
August 3, 1876. J
Mu. W. PI. Barrett, Augusta,Ga.:
Dear Sir—l have sold Dr. GILDER’S
PILLS for the past two years, and
find that all in this neighborhood ap
prove them. The physicians have
recommended them, and the people
will have none other. They are better
LIVER PILLS than any I have any
knowledge of. Very respty,
__ Henry Moore.
Teethina (Teething Powders) is
fast taking the place of all other rem
| edies for the irritations of Teething
I Children.
NO. 5.