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V lIAT THEN.
Att.er the Christian's tears, v
After his ILIitB and fears,
Aftor his tv. ary cross,
"All things b: low but loss”—
\V,.at then ?
1
O t. then, a holy calm,
Resting on lesus arm;
Ob, then, a deepi love
For the pure huuii above.
After this hoi. cahi,
Tnis rest ou Jei-ui' arm.
After thUdeepentS love
For the pure hointtibove—
Whij then ?
Oh, then, hard wi% >-
iiiimortal souls to 'win; j
Then Jesus’ preseuce near,
Death’s darkest hour to cheer.
And vvhcu the work Is done,
When the last soul is won.
When Jesus’ love er
Have cheered rf)ej* fig hour—
W Baisic n ?
Oh. then, the crow a is giver/-!
Ob. then, the rest in lfcaven !
The endless life in eud'ess day.
While sin and death have passed away.
After the joys of *irtb,
After*its songs olmirth,
Aueri'btoars of light,
After Tts dreams ti bright—
Wit* then ?
Only an empty *
. Ctoyst- weSf v'Vrant,
" Only a conscious Anari, m
Only au aching heart. ” .
After this empty name,
After this weary frame.
After tta.s conscious smart.
After this aching heart—
What then ?
Only a sad farewell
To a world loved too well,
Onlv a silent bed
With the forgotten dead.
After this sad farewell
To a world loved too well.
After this silent bed
W ith the forgotten dead—
W hat then f
On, then, the judgment threne !
Oh, then, the last hope gone 1
Then, all the woes that dwell
In an eternal Hell.
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ggi, A npgro man in Atlanta, who
was asleep on the Air-Lineßailroa<3
ii mi v 1 jJlnf m.
SCARED OUT OF A WIFE
A LAUGHABLE STORY.
Tbe narative which I an? about to
wu-ite was told to me one bleak, cold
night, in a country parlor. It was
one of those nights in midwinter,
when the wind swept over the land,
making everything tingle with its
trusty breath, that I was se ted be
fore a blazing fiie, hj noun del by a
jolly half dozen boys and tin old bach
elor. A. Peter Green, about folly and
eight years old.
It was just the night without t..,
make Those wntiin oiijny a good story,
so each of us had to tell his favorite
story, to save Mr. Green, and as he
was*a jolly story teller, we were some
what surprised to hear him say, “I
have no story that would interest
you,’’ so we had to find other enter
tainments for a while, when one of the
boys told m to ask him how it hap
pened that he never got married. So
I did.
‘•Well, gentlemen,” he began, “it
does not seem right for me-to tel) how
that happened, but as it is about my
self, I don’t care much. You see wl.en
1 was young ue had to walk as high
as five miles to church and singing
school which was our chief ei j<>ymeiit.
But this don't have anything to do
with my not getting a wife, but 1 just
wanted to show yon that we had some
trouble them clays in getting our
sport.
John Smith and I were like broth
ers, or like Mary and her lam.’
Whore one went the other was sure
to go. So w'e went, io see two sisters,
and as we were not the best boys im
aginable, the old gen'letiieu took filu-
brage and would not allow us to come
ltoil.se, so wo would take the
tilt t 'lane, and there
we would liJve to take the tiual
kiss.
We soon pot tired of this sort of
fun, and I told John, on our way to
singing school one night, that I was
going to take Sadie home, and that 1
! wa going into the house, too.
lie said the old man would min me
| if 1 did.
1t dd him I '.vipt dt: ? to risk if
that would.
elitl of the lane I
tol i the gir.s avu'l nn };oeed going ali
I tue Way.
Tln-y looked at each other in a way
I 1 didn’t like too well, said tiny
J (tile old tolks) vtoiild be m bed, so
\ they didn't care ii’ we did.
Tney were a little more surprised
when I told them we thought of going
in a little while, but till was quiet
when we got to itie bouse, us We had
no trouble in getting inio the
; kitchen.
Then and there we Lad our first
I court anti I tin de up my mind to ask
| Sadie to bo my wife tlio next time 1
i came!
It. was now past the turn of the
night and as we hi 1 four miles to j
Walk, I told Joint we bad bet tc r be’
going. So we stepped out on the j
porch, but just as we did so the sky !
was lit up by lightning, and one tre
mendous tnmiller peal rolled along
the mountain sides. Its echo had
not died out in the far off vales tuU : f> ]
the rain began to pmr from gar
nered fullness of the clputds. We j
waited for it to step 'Until we were]
sleepy, when girls said we could j
go to bed/ti be little room at tiie j
slurs which led out ol j
get up early ie could be borne before
the old foikij were astir. So after
bidding the gjrls a sweet good night,
and hugging there a little, and wisb
■uh them pJeasam-tlreams, and prom
ising tlieiu to coma back on the next
Sunday night, we It dried to bed.
\V r e didn’t, have fir to go, as tin
hed stood hear the litud of the stairs.
John was Boon ii lied, but I always
wss a Title slow and full of curiosity,
I was looking arcund the little
room. S "x. '
AT VAfif*]f Uioughtfl would sit down
on a chest whiekhvas spread over
with a nice white fioth, while I drew
off my boots. So do>vn I sat, when
stars of the east! I yeut plump into
a big custard pie |
I thought John twonld die laugh
ing, lor he sui ! I Smashed that ens
tard all to thunder tud the plate righ*
in two.
Yon seel we had to be awful quiet,
so the old tnan would not hear.
I wns nfw ready to get in bed, so I
put the light out and p eked up my
boots -Shaking to put them in a more
c j lace, when clown one of
my legs went thiough a pipe-hole,
which ted .been covered by paper, to
my Lip. •
' , Now one part of ine was up stairs
while tisLlPQ£feSt P af ) me was
DARIEN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1874.
As my leg was very long, it reached
a shelf which was occupied by dishes,
pans, coffee pots, etc., and turning it
over with a tremendous crash. The
girls had not retired, and we could
hear them laugh fit to split their
sides,
.1 felt awful ashamed and was
scared until my heart was in my
throat, for I expected the old man
every moment.
I extricated my leg from the con
founded hole just in time, for the old
lady looked into the kitchen from the
room door and asked what all that
noise was about.
The gills put her off-ms best they
could and I went to bed, while John
was strangling himself under ihe cov
er to keep fiom laughing aloud.
Wo soon went off into the land of
dreams with the hope of waking ear
ly. I wish I could tell you my dreams,
but it would take me 100 long. One
moment I would fancy myself bv tin
sills of my Sadie, sipping nectar from
her heaven-bedewed lips, amt the next
I would be flyng from the old man,
w hile he would be flourishing his cane
above niv head.
This cam • (a an end ,by Jon giving
me a kick.
On waking up and looking around
I saw John’s eyes as big a* niv fist,
while the sun was beaming in at the
window.
Wnat to do we couldn't t< 11, fm.
we he rd the old man having family
prayer in the kitchen.
John looked out of the window and
| said we could get down over ®t 1 1 1-
porch.
‘Get out and dress as s<in as pos
sible,’ said ho.
So in my hurry tny foot got fast
ened in the bed clot-es, and out I
tumbled, head foremost, turned over,
and down the steps until I struck the
dour, w hich was fastened by a wooden
button, and ii gave way, out I rolico
in front of ihe old man.
He threw up his hands and cried :
“Lord suVe us !’ for lie thought it was
the devil.
The old holy screamed until von
could hu e heard her a mile.
I* was s6/ scared and bewildered
dial I could no.t get up'at oi.ee. J i
was v—- Wrd/
on, cifiy tiling hut a -well, one {.m
’meiit.
When I heard the girls mickerin
it made me mad, and I jumped up
i imd rusliod out of the door, leaving
] du- greater part of my only gaiment
on the oitt door latch. jA
Off I started foi and when
half way through the yfrd the dogs
set up <1 howl and went for me.
When I got into the Imrn yard I
had to run through a flock cf sheep,
and among them was mi old mm who
bucked oil a 1 tt.e and starred for me.
With one bound I escaped the blow,
sprang into the bam, an 1 began to
climb up the log inta the mow, when
an tld mother here pounced upon my
legs, pecking them until they bled.
I threw myself upon the hay, and
after John had slid town the porch
into a hogshead of uin wa cr. In
came to me with one of my Loots,
my coat and one of t e kegs of my
pan if..
He found me cpitfpl'eb y prostrated.
Tart of my sbrt't, my h it, one L g of
my panjv,, my vest, stockings, neik.it
and one boot. Were lift Inland.
I vowed t en and tlisie that I
would never go to se another giT,
and 111 dm before I will.
CHILDREN.
There are many kinds of children
in this beautiful land of ours.
Some think of nothing else but
dress and show and others chief de
light is to see h ! ’ seen.
They are unhappy wandi-Vers^seek
ing pleasures from home, forgetting
almost that they have kind .patents
and little brothers and sisters who
possibly need their presence and al
ien'ion. There is however, another
olass of children differing from these
unhappy roving ones, and they are
iho.-e wLo love and honor their pa
rents and love to stay at home ..ml
be useful and pleasant, and try to be
a blessing to the dear ones. Someiof
them is a moth consuming everything
aaound them, and while others are
sunbeams inspiring light and glad
ness around the fireside. Little read
er, which of this class do you belong
to? Honor bright, are you
obedient to jour parents'and kind t<>
your brothers and sisters and try to
do your duty at home, and make it
indeed a “home sweet home”? We
hope you are.
“Gracious me!’ exclaimed a
lady in the witness-box, “how should
I know anything about anything 1
don’t know anything übout?”
®a?* are t nownem f,
T TVTTTYTTTTTT
|LiW Days of J. Wilkes Booth
BY ONE WHO WAS WITH HIM.
Tn the hp°',vrflul country near the
'■% the Rappahannock, about 3
milafJo the south of that- grand old
river is situated the house and farm
wberej Willey Booth met his unhap
py eu . Once a thriving and pros
per land, where on every hand one
saw , ie green fields teeming with
phn
uud card the happy song of
the) r(1) as when, tl.eir day’s work
V, they wo nded tbeir way to
,K 'Wppy homes; but Where now
lie t down fences and the vvurn-
'ell too plainly that the
ron X and of war iias swept over that
mice *,,!ui iful Und, and left too many
BQ, d t>r es of his presence.
As a Inantiful evening in April,
when *. lj?e Lorßemeu wa re seen com
ma 'LjA the road that leads to Ed-
(Mr. Garrett's house)
1 l;^ Willie Jett, Lieutenant
-and Wilkes Booth, or as he
was til -bdneed, Mr. Boyd. Mr. Jett
asked. j, r y father to let Mr. Boyd re
mnin Aj, j. few days, as he was
wo T l, 'jri and could not travel. My
tathe se 11l ei 1, and Messrs. Jett and
R n h|v : rods off iu the diredtiou of
Gaia tltd Court Husi.
Mi'loyd then said lie was very
,u,lc H-|ligne i, aud would lie down
on the ?raHS j n t j ic yard. He seemed
very and when asked ii iiis wound
p:,ineHJ Juif snicl yes, tiiat riding jarr
e*l If, (Jle ate very little suppt r and
"o°u ijdred. We slept in the same
room t tu |,i,n that night and not iced
tl.at hjjjjnd a pair of Colt’s revolvers
■“V 1 ’bftry bniulsome dirk, which he
8 "* ' "f, llui L'if of a friend.
’lose quite early t e. next mom*
mg uni seemed to be in very good
spirits.! a* it was quits warm he
staged , u t | H) p t)l -eh or in the yard
'lie tin t( IU t ßiy wi;h tbe children
.da' lUi irulllJ d him.He seemed to be
vmy hulj c) f children, aud took some
pams •t'/.howiug them a pocket com
pass a ■ Ull o j Jf .ra glass that lie had
w '' h'm. Jest before dinner he and
my pro[iosed to prac-
tu e '‘djtng with a pistol. We were;
ids spleudi 1 I
■*.i To a miKHT ,1.. L^~Jm
size of f hiie a' ev. ry sf.o'T The
marks of the balls are there now in an
ld cedalmost in front of the house.
In the siteruoou Hairol I came and
Limy proposed to go a.vav the next
morning! All !he did not think that
ibe imxi sun would rise
upon hi-j lift less body.
Tiny ipent tiie evening in talking
and seeded to be quire merry. H.tr
rolrl to'd a great many jokes, and
kept all Aa g iod humor. That ■'iglit
they propo e l lo sleep in the barn,
and my ilrotlmrs who had just return
ed from tiie army, shot in an adjourn
ing one, n r fear of losing the r horses,
as them) had been several stolen in
the neiglH.'ovhoo I.
The ofliei part lots been of.en (old,
md is f.imiluir to all. How the sol l
iers can|Pi and how he was shot, and
.he barrjfcuiTied; hmv in desperation
iv beggjrd |l.e oflicer to withdraw his
men tidy yards, and ho would come
out aiulilight them all; how lie refuse-.
;o snrn ipler, and b .Idly stood with
the llauitjs creeping closer and closer i
until at List a sharp report and he lay ,
quivering in the agonies of death on 1
'he floor. One of the last remarks
was: Captaih, it is very hard that
this man’s property should bodes- j
troyed wjieii lie knows nothing of me.
He w,J cm ried lo the house and
laid upi.q tiie floor of the porch. A
man wan sdnt for the do tor who soon
came, lm* <|o\tld do nothing, as the]
fatal bulfjn had done tiie work. While
the dnfltejr was kneeling beside him 1
he iiskeduiein to show him his bauds,
i When lie sa,wi!i3 nails tarn dark he
'hupped 11 einlaiid said, nsfj/.ws, use
-113s-i. D° w sinkingA rapi dy.
I Uiice afsLj he called to the captain
| ah 1 wbis| fred faiutly, tell my mother
j I died tir yiy conwtiy. I did what 1
I ; bought v-'.'*B t-es;. A gasp, a quiver,
laid aj was over. A dark stain on
| the fioorjaml a solitary charred post
which stuuds where he fell, are all
that rtuiiu to tell the tale.
It h- been said by some that Booth
was bgiijiyed by false friends, but
when ve remember that there was uo
te egrajif. within a humired miles of
the end that lie was killed with
in fortj-t-lgfit hours after crossing the
Hiippalunock, any one can perceive
the folly of such an assertion.
'®S3u ‘'four money or your books!”
remarks i highwayman at the Custom
Ho Ise.
j , at Texas papers state a fact
wpich may no: be ■ enerally known
1 10 owners o! land held or owned by
; uD\ person, that is not surveyed and
pvtentiril by ihe first of January. 1875,
reverts back to t.lie State of Texas.
There* is no relief to be had by thi|
or courts, as it is a cons®
WHY TWEED IS IN PRISON
AND RICHARDSON OUT ?
WbetuWilliani M. Tweed was tried
and convicted of neglect of official du
ty, it was held that the of
duties devolving upon iyO|JPI officer
could afford no excuse 'Br Ins neglect
of nny of them. i
If th s was good law for Tweed, I
why is it uot good law for Richard-J
son ? Yet Richarclsou sweats that
he knows very little, and indeed
nothing of most of the papers which
he signed, and that he knew scarcely,j
anything w hatever of the,
contracts which put hundreds of!
thousands of dollars into the pockets j
of the contractors. lie goes on very
innocently to assure the commit ee
before whom lie is testifying that he
knows oi no better way to conduct the
busine s of the Treasury Department,
We c?ui tell higj of one improvement
that might he niade : turn out uu in
compe ent man like him and put in a
man of intelligence, sense, aud hon
esty.
It is very pi.tin that if Mr. Richard
son were on trial iu New York for
neglect of duty, and if the same law
were to be applied to him which was
administered m the Tweed case, noth
ing more than his own confession
would be required to consign him to
th j penitentiary. Y. Y. Sun.
The Romance of a Restaurant.
A Chicago correspondent of tUe;
Troy Times says :
A bit of romance recently caino to!
my notice which has not before ap- j
pealed in print. Some time in De
cember last, a girl about seventeen;
years of age, w-i^>_at t hat time was j
serving as table wall r in a large di-j
uiug restaui.int, was uriested for ;
stealing a package of money from a ]
gentleman's overcoat, which was bang
ing in the room while lie was eating
his dinner. At tue preliminary ex
amination a i>hi ty *w re to bAviug
seen her talo- tlm.e.., t down and hang
it up quickly rgatu; that she soou
lef
(wits 1./Id for t
i tested that she < merely ,J,ved the
' coat to avoid its geiting /oiled; in
Avam, with tearful eyes, H.* offered to
be searched. Tiie eircumstaiiccs
suspicious, ami the oflLcis iuexor-j
able.
In the meantime t.ho gentleman
who had lost the money became in
i terested in her history, found sLe was
jau orphan girl, aud though compara
j lively friendless, bearing nn excellent
j character. Further than tins, he as
] ceitained she was of Jtnglish pareut
' age, that her name was the same as
his own, and to make the story short,
j from evidence wuieh he could notdis
: believe, that she was the daughter of
| hie u u brother, w hom he supposed
' to have died childless in Australia
several years ago. Of course he de
j dined prosecuting her, aud, as lie is
•wealthy and without mai kin, he at
once arranged to her home with j
him on his return from the West, 1
whituer lie was tlion en route. The
other day lie, with his uewlv adouted
child, so strangely brought fo him,
started for New York, whence they
will soon sail for .England.
The Washing to J correspon
dent of the Baltimore Sun says the
personal influence of the President
aud the efforts of Gen. Gordon car
ried (Jen. McLaws through, and he
was confirmed with ery little delay.
I Gen. McLaws is not the first Confed
erate General whose appointment lo
office bus been continued by the Sen
ate, but he is the first me who has
been wo fortnnafe without {raving pre
viously sealed his aileplanee to the
dominant party. The world moves.
The will of the late Muir. Le
uoir Joussei m a.ssijris a sum of ten
milli ms of francs $2.000,000)*for the
creation of a vast Hospital forlthe
poor in the su nirbs of Puns. The
only condition appended to the gift
jis that the establishment shall bear
the name of her husband. Her mag
nificent art collection which is valued
at nearly a Million of franes ($200,-
000,) she leaves to the State.
Au exchange says that a Mich
igan man dreamed reeent'y that his
aunt was dead. The dream proved
true. He tried the same dream on
j his mother-in-law, but it didn't work.
It is computed that 11.364 old
hoop skirts are annually thrown mb- j
the lake at Cleveland.
) havi g special re t,r v
liA>to
$2.50 AIYEAR.
Truth in Parentheses.
I really take It vary kl*4,
1 hit visit, Mrs. Bklutftar I
7 have not seen you each as if* —
Tbe wretch has anse to a Inner 1)
‘Your daughters, too, what lovea of girls—
What hoaria for painters' easel* I
[tome hare and klaa the Infant, deer*—
Aud give It p'rk&pi the meaalaa 1)
Your charming boys I aea are home
from Reverend Mr. Raise!*;
Teas vary kiud to bring them both-.
jWhat boots for my new Brntesia L>
• W bat I little Clam luft at boats 1
f-’eil uow, I call that Shabby:
1 should_baw loved to klaa her <•—
(A flabby, dabby, tabby U
‘Und Mr. A, I hop* ha'a well,
ib I though be livi-s so handy
|e never now 4ropa l to
fl be better lor our bloody l)
JComc, take asi at—l )on( to hear
bout Matilda'a marriage;
You're come, of coarsa. to bead the day 1—
(Thank Heaven. I hear the carriages
■ What I moat yon go f next tint* I hop.
Y< u'U give me longer KMnri;
Nay—l shall eeu yoa down the stairs—
(With most uncommon pleasure It
'•Good-bys! Osod byet reKjtnaber si).
Next time yoa take your dimers !
(Now, David, miud I'm not at homo
In futare to Skimmers 1“
\ .
{$T The Wilmington papers an
nounce the death of ex-Oorernur *
Henry T. Clark, al his residence in
Tiuboro, on the 15th instant. A*
Senator from the county of Edge
combe, as speukur of the Seuate ut
North Carolina, when it r wti a place
of tLe highest honor, and m Gover
nor of North Carolina in the beigtn
ning of t-httae days that trieij men's
soul's he ever catne up to tkm full
measure of his duty. Higher wulogj
than this can uo man have. Nw? fc
Carolina had cause to b proud of her 1
son.
Way The observaucejof the 27th al '
April will be very general throughout j
the State this year.
Itay The number of chartered Ma
sonic Lodges in Georgia, is two
died and eighty, with a in eat berth jMj
War Philadelphia has
another million 'dollar* to the Inter- *
national Centennial Celebratiou. She
is evidently in earnest.
Day I> isn't economical to kill a
i dog by ehmikiug him on. bntter, bnl
■ the right kind of article thesmlrll will
’ beenougK and you 4 can save tbs but
j ter for the boarders.
j ISrTwo deacons were onoe diapu-
! ting about a proposed new grave yard
I when one said: “I’ll never be bur
ied in that ground as long aa if re."
“What an obstinate man !'* said the
other. “If iny life is spared, I will.”
Danbury man, who received
a telegram from Buffalo, requesting
him to come thither to attend his
mother-in-law’s funeral, sternly, de
clined, saying that be never attended
celebrations during Lent.
SayOu a woman with red hair who
wrote poetry —Unfortunate woman f
how sad is your lot 1 Your ringlets
are red, but your poems are not.
B&>Here is a bit of conversation
lately overheard in a street in Provi
dence between a young lady and gen
tlemen : “Charley, did you ever bear'
it s lid tbat if a person fouud a fourtt
leavijd clover and put it in their
thb Srst gentlemen or lady the
walked with would be their
or wife?” “No—never heard*it b
Hon* ’ “Well I found one aud pjMM
in inv shoe this morning, and jyff **
tb#first one I have walked with. ?-
wonder if it is true. ? ’
gST A New Orleans, La. merchant,
moved by the pitiful tale of a woman
who said her husband lay dead at
home, that, she hadn’t the means of
burying him, charitably gave her $1
to get the poor man under ground.
Before giving the money, howevar, ha
went to take a look at the dead mau.
Sure enough, it was a swollen, dia
clored corpse, that should have been
hurried days ago, and in his hurry to
leave the noisome tenement, be forgot -
bis umbrella. So he reluctantly
turned to claim it. He hurried quick
ly but softly up stairs tiptoed to the
door, lifted the latch, and saw the •
corpse sitting up in the coffin
ing his sl4 over very deliberately.
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