to God. 'Tis but a moment—there! one foot swings off !he is reeling-trembling-toppling over into eternity! Harka shout falls on his ears from above ! The man who is lying with half his length over the bridge, has caught a glimpse of the boy's head and shoulders. Quick as thought, the noosed rope is within reach of the sinking youth. No one breathes! With a faint convulsive effort, the swooning boy drops his arms into the noose. Darkness comes over him and with the words “God!" and "Mother!" whispered on his lips just loud enough to be heard in heaven—the tightened rope lifts him out of his last shallow niche. Not a lip moves while he is dangling over that fearful abyss; but when a sturdy Virginian reaches down and draws up the lad, and holds him in his arms before the tearful, breathless multitude—such shouting, and such leaping and weeping for joy, never greeted a human being, so recovered from the yawning gulf of eternity! ON THE RAPPAHANNOCK ANONYMOUS The sun had set, and in the distant west Over a land united, free and brave !" But-richest gem of song—tis "Home, Sweet Home!" Sweet music's power! One chord doth make us wild, GENERAL INDEX Abraham Lincoln.... Martin B. Madden..... Sherman Hoar,. François Coppée.. Minnie L. Sellers. E. W. Carmack..... George Croly.... Arthur J. Craven.. C. H. Tavenner.. Gen. Lew Wallace. Jas. F. Dwyer.. William J. Bryan. James G. Blaine.. Henry W. Grady. J. Proctor Knott... Benj. H. Hill.... Robert Emmet.. Robert G. Ingersoll.. Benj. H. Hill.. H. S. Edwards. G. D. Patterson. 28 82 88 43 48 53 |