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ELLIJAY, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1882.
“Good-bye.”
There is a rythm in the word,
Mournful, yet strangely sweet,
Even if those from whom it’s heard
No more on earth may meet.
So earnest, simple, fond and true,
We treasure it above
All other words that mean “adieu”,
And sunder those who love.
And sweeter st.ll in by-gone days
The form of words it wore ;
“May God be witli you iu your ways”—
What ioye could ask for more !
The heart so lilessu! afar might rove,
Yet keep its inmost shrine,
Forever hallowed by a love
Both human and divine—
But now we walk such crowded ways.
Beset with anxious care ;
Yet hearts remain in wiser days
The same at once they were. •
And still o’er partings “worse than death”
This prayer shall float on high—
Upborne on wings of loving faitli—
God bless you, dear—“ Good-bye.”
And none can tell its right,
Until he comes to part
From one whose love lias made a light
Like sunshine in his heart;
When from the future’s dread expanse
We can hut turn and sigh,
And linger o’er the utterance—
God bless you, dear—“ Good-bye.”
Ah ! for the gladness time destroys,
And hopes that rise in vain 1
But so it is : life’s brightest joys
Reflect its keenest pain.
Much hearts as danger could not qu 11,
Or suffering force to sigh,
Have broken ’neath a last farewell,
And wept the word, “Good-bye.”
Oh lips ! thy deepest griefs remain
Untasted and unknown
By those who never loved in vain
A heart too like their own !
They tread their paths with lingering feet,
Their dear ones walking nigh :
They part in certain hopes to meet
And lightly say, “Good-bye.”
Well, be it so a little while ;
The dawning bringeth light ;
So shall we iu our Father’s smile
Forget the stormy night.
And when we meet some happy* day
Our loved ones passed on high,
A thousand “Welcomes” we may say.
But never more, “Good-bye.”
A STRANGE FACULTY;
OR,
Some of Life’s Mysteries-
BY FRANK CARROLL.
CHAPTER V.
TIIE SECRET OUT.
From Oriental Casket.
It was a warm trail. The rea
der may imagine that I fumed
and fretted while waiting for the
next train to the city. I had an
hour and a—half to wait. In that
time what might not be done.
If my message should fail to find
Mr. Sharp, all was over. The
villian would be sure to destroy
every scrape of evidence.
The train, when it came, seem
ed to me to creep, instead of to
fly. Arrived in (he city I hasten
ed to the police station.
“Is Mr. Sharp in ?”
“No.”
“Where is lie ? Did he receive
a telagrun from Sumter?”
“Yes. It was that took him
out.”
‘•Good 1”
In the street again I flung my
self into a cab, and bade the
driver lose no time in reaching
the direction which I gave him.
Within fifteen minutes I was
at Cunningham’s residence, the
door of "which yielded to my
hand. I paused for a moment
and listened. Voices were audi
ble. They seemingly came from
the second floor. 1 hastened uu
stairs, and into the room to
which they led me.
It was a room fitted as an office
with desk, book shelves, and the
like. Several men were present,
Mr. Sharp, and two or three com
panions were looking considera
bly out of temper. William Cun
ningham had a sneer of trium
phant malice upon his face.
“Go on, gentlemen !” he re
marked, with sarcastic polite
ness “As to what you are look
ing Tor I have no idea. But go
on! My lurti will come after you
are thiough. Ila!” he continued
his eyes falling upon me; “so
you are at the bottom of this
outrage? 1 thought as much!
But go on! Finish your work!
I fancy the law will redress me.”
Mr. Sharp looked at me inquir
ingly.
“Nothing?” I asked, in a low
tone.
“Nothing. And we have made
a thorough search.”
“Try again! i will be respon
sib'e.”
I seated myself, and fixed my
eyes upon the sneering face of
Cunningham. I fancied that I
had seen a show of uneasiness at
my demand for a renewel of the
search. That he was the murder
er ol John Haniy I felt as sure as
if 1 had seen him slrike lhe
blow.
Mr. Sharp set himself to a re
examination of the papers
in the desk. The other
men looked closely about the
room. Cunningham followed
them with a gaze of triumphant
scorn.
Ido not know what it was—
whether the excitement of that
moment, or the steady and in
tent observation wilh which I
viewed the villian’s face—but at
that critical instant my faculty ol
insight suddenly came back to
me.
I saw again his inner self. 1
could dimly read the very
thoughts that were passing in his
mind. There was more there
than appeared in that impassive
lace. Dread—uneasiness—re
pressed rage—revealed the in
selves to me ; and in his thoughts
I fancied that I read again the
story of the murder.
One of the officers opened a
corner closet, which he began to
search. I saw a sudden increase
in tiie mental uneasiness of tiie
man who sal there with such an
expressionless face. Whethei
the thought which came to me
shot through his mind and was
reflected to mine, or whether it
came in some yet more mys
terious way, I could never de
vine ; but I cried out, with sud
den energy.
“Search the bottom oflhe clos
et ! There is a. false floor!
There is a trap door ! What you
seek is hidden there !”
The villian's impassive expres
sion changed to a firv rage*
Willi a curse of fury he sprang
from his chair, and flung him
self upon me, his hands clutch
ing my throat. I fell before the
unlooked-for assault.
“ilound !’’ he hissed ; “you are
doing all this ! I will have vour
life!’
And he might have done so
had not Sharp and one of his
companions flung themselves up
on the raging madman and torn
him from me. My throat was
deeply creased with the marks
of his powerful hands.
At the same moment a cry
came from the man at the closet.
‘•You are right! There is a
loose piece in the floor! 1 will
have it out in a minute.”
In less than a minute it was j
removed, and revealed an open
ing of some ten inches square.
Iu the aperture rested a niahogo
ny box, with a brass handle, ll
just filled the space.
“It is nothing! It is my title
deeds!” ye lie l the villian.
“Touch it at your peril!”
“That is just what we intend
to do!' Sham cooly answered.
“Hold, Joel Help hold this fel
low! I wish to see those title
deeds ! They may prove a title
to the gallows!”
Cunningham struggled fiercely,
but he could not escape from the
strong hands that held him. Pay
ing no further attention to him,
Mr. Sharp quickly removed the
box from its hiding place. It was
unlocked, and he threw back the
lid and gazed within. •
A minute only. Then he rose
to his feet, and fixed his eyes
sternly upon tlie prisoner.
‘You are at the end of your
rope, William Cunningham!” he
said. “That box contains the sto
len bonds of John Haniy. I ar
rest you as his murderer!”
No words can discribe lhe ut
ter discomfiture of the unmasked
wretch, or the tigerish hate whicli
he cast upon me as he was led
away. He made no resistance.
The sudden discovery of his
crime had completely overwhelm
ed him.
The story which I have under
taken to tell contains little more
than will be of interest to the
reader-
I may here relate that Cun
ningham’s confidence sprung
from haying arranged with Lister
lor the latter to go to parts un
known; and ours from llie ar
rest ot Lis.er, and the confession
of the latter that he had received
the bond Irom Cunningham. He
knew it was stolen, but had no
idea of lne dreadful crime con
nected with it. Legal investiga
tion brought out m an y more
facts, which we will not dwell
upon here. It will suflice to say
that Cunningham was convicted
of the murder, and only escaped
the full punishment of (he law
by dying in prison.
It was long before I again spoke
of love to Lena Rivers. She was
strangely subdued by what she
had gone through with. The dis
covery ot Cunningham's guilt
seemed io me to have shocked
her more deeply than even the
murder ol her beloved step-fath
er.
It was indeed a terrible fate
from which she has escaped—
that of marriage with a murderer!
It was no wonder that she was
deeply shocked.
“Did you really love him Lena?”
I asked, at an interview long af
ter these events. “Was it love
or ”
“I thought it was love,’’ she in
terrupted, raising her hand to
check the words she feared 1
would speak. I let no mercenary
thoughts move me. And yet I
dearly craved luxury. One can
not tell always their whqle mo
tives.”
“Do you think lie loved you ?”
“I believe he did.”
“He did not know at first who
you were,” I rejoined. “I remem
ber well his horror on learning
your relation to his victim, and
his indecision afterwards, as it he
were halting between love and
horror of a deeper crime than the
murder! I suspected him from
that moment.”
“Aud why did lie seek me
again ?” Why Oil! it wis ter
rible !”
She could say no more. Emo
tion choked her utterance.
“Who knows ? Perhaps inter
esi.”
“Interest ?”
“Yes ! Marriage with you would
have helped to prevent suspicion
attaching to him. And who cau
say out there may have been a
strange desire to give you again
the money he had robbed vou
of P
“Horrible 1” she cried, crushing
the engagmon riug which she
had still kept. “A serpent
around my throat would have
been less terrible than this fatal
citclet around my finger I”
“Lena,” 1 replied, looking hei
st raight in the eyes, “you told me
once that it was too late. Were
you not mistakened ? Was I not
too soon, instead of too late ?
Bhall I not put a ring upon that
finger, which so happily escaped
YOL. VII. NO. 11.
a murderer's betrothal ring?”
There was a strange look in
Lena’s eyes as I made this bold
request; it seemed as if she
could not reply; but tears trick
led down her cheeks, and she
leaned her sobbing face upon the
chair arm.
She gave no answer in wordfj
aud jet my ring is upon my fing
er, and shelias long since been
my wife.
She had loved me through it
all. Her feeling for Cuuning
ham was an infatuation, rather
than a Jove. And her heart
turned tome wilh deeper warmth
that I had saved her from a
dreadful fate.
1 have had little of that power
of insight since; but neither Lena
nor I have ever had reason to re
gret that I was possessed of that
strange faculty once.
the end.
' Sorghum.
The recent experiments made
with the grain of the various de
scriptions of sorghum show how
far we have fallen short of ap
preciating this product. When
first introduced to the United
States, and for many years suc
ceeding this period, it was prized
almost solely tor i*s saccharine
| qualities. Therefore, it was
| planted and cultivated only as a
plant from which the people in
the colder regions might make
syrup and sugar, and thus be
come independent of the trop
ical or semi tropical regions
where the real old-fashioned cane
is produced. It nas served a
; good purpose to millions bv way
, of supplying syrup, and it is val
j uahle even if it could exhibit no
| other quality. Bul.it has be'en
| proven by experiment that the
| blades make the very best fod
der for stock ; that the stalks, in
j the form of ensilage, are also
; valuable for this purpose; and
. that the grain, when ground and
\ mixed with other tilings, consti
tutes excellent food tor milch
cows, while in a whole state it is
good for poultry. But we now
learn that the grain ground and
bolted, or sifted, makes better
baiter cakes than buckwheat,and
that other bread, palatable and
nutritious, ian be made from it.
W hen we consider with what fac
ulty it can he raised, anil its very
large yield, per acre, there is lit
tle room for the apprenension of
suffering a failure of the crops of
corn or wheat. If each family
has a tew acres of sorghum they
will be proof against starvation,
and need not even be hungry.
As it will grow io perfection
when ordinary corn perishes tor
refreshing showers, every farmer
should devote a small era of his
land to iis production, those
who have made experiments with
sorghum represent that,with sea
sons ordinarily favorable, one
hundred bushels of grain mar be
averaged per acre. Three acres
may certainly be expected to
yield two hundred bushels of
the seed, or grain, and this quan
tity would be sueiflient for the
purposes of any family. Then
it graciously yields syrup and su
gar to render the cakes, or bread,
palatable, and likewise affords
fodder to give stock a relish for
its seed, ground or unground.
On the whole, this is a most
wonderful product, deserving to
be held in high esteem, and lib
erally cultivated for both man
and beast.— Southern Cultiva
tor.
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Evil or injurious reports con
cerning us may sometimes de
serve consideration, when they
are not worth contradicting.
They mav point out some spot in
our character where the enemy
thinks we are most weak and his
thinking may possibly have some
truth in it, even though the evil
he charges us with has not in
(act been wrought. Or, In any
case, the false report may show
at least what mischief he would
be glad to have us fall into; and
it would be well to take good
care to have him thoroughly dis
appointed therein.