The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1917-06-29
his soul in the ejaculation, "Glorious'

his soul in the ejaculation, "GloriouS
Gloriousw =,
Her lips answered lightly enough
but her heart told her that a new day
of happiness had been rung, in 1o,l
her by the FAIRY Bells" The mel.
ody took possession of the young
mans senses. He could not sleeT
that night for the Swinging and the
ringing of the bells, bells, bells"
Numberless opportunities for nm
to declare his love were afforded or
various occasions when they met al
the pleasant social functions in army
quarters that followed the arrival OF
the Taylor family. There were not
wanting propitious moments in Whlcf
to press his suit during his ram6Ies
with Knox along the river side, and IN
their rides together over hill ano
plain, wherein the equestrianlsm OF
both was shown to superb advantage
Still, with all Davis natural command
of language, he could not frame a
sentence worthy to express his over
towering sentiments.
1t was months after their first
meeting when, in an evening stroll,
after the firing of the sunset gun and
the lowering of the garrison flag, they
had climbed to an eminence and we're
seated beneath great tree looking
down into the outspread valley below.
He and Sarah Knox were silently OBJ
serving a pantomine of domestic bliss
enacted in the movements of the ca
gerly fastening laborer returning
from his days work to his humble
home; the glad wife in the cabin
door holding up to him in her out
stretched arms their laughing child,
and the fond embrace that finally
united the three.
at is the same everywhere" soft
ly breathcd the girl at Davis side.
"a cabin or a palace-What does it
mattcr?" The words unsealed his
lips.
"Sincc you came, Miss Sarah, I've
been seeing life at new angle. The
world has blossomed for me anew.
Life has taken on new meaning. /
love you"
Pearl Rivers passion-frought lines:
"If you but touched my hand, my
foolish heart
Ran down into my palm and throbbed
and thrilled,
Grew hot and cold and trcmbled there
And when you spoke, though not to
me, My heart ran out. to listen
through my ears
And catch the music of your voice.
would have more fully confessed the
secret love which Sarah Knox had
long INDUCED for Lieut.. Davis than
the few direct, simple words in which
she admitted her affection for him,
But these sufficed.
1t was agreed that her fathers ap-
proval must be gained at once.
Agreed, likewise, that it would be an
easier task to face band of Co.
in war paint than to breach
the subject to the prejudiced, choleric,
fond parent.
Their worst fears were realized.
The peppery Colonel wanted to know
how dared any military man to pre-
fer such a request when he had said
openly, hundred times that no
daughter of his should ever, with his
consent, marry a soldier. None knew
better than himself, he continued, the
trials to which a soldiers wife was
In the privacy of his home
circle he pressed his point, but see
ing that his family, with whom Da-
Wis was a favorite, did not agree
with him and that the interested par
ties did not drop the matter at his
he resored to the eXpediency
of separating the lovers, at least tenn
porarily.
About this time, the Governor of
Illinois requested that officers of the
regular army be sent to muster in the
for the Black Hawk War
who had assembled at Dixon in that
state. Selling the opportunity with
readiness, Col. Taylor
forthwith dispatched Lieutenants JEFF
ferson Davis and Robert Anderson to
Dixon.
There, fate Gust to show her hand
in the wool of Davis career) brought
face to face the three men who were
destined to be most conspicuously in
termingled in the web of their coun-
try's history in the spring of 1861.
Anderson was to be woven in as the
commander of Fort Sumter. Davis at
the same date to be President of the
States against whose
claims Anderson was trying to hold
the fort. And the tall, rawboned
young recruit who probably for
the first time in his life) took the
oath of allegiance to the government
when sworn into service by Lieut.. Da~
Wis at Dixon, was to become an en-
during part of the history of fatefui
1861, as Abraham Lincoln, recently
president of the United
States and author of the unredeemcd
pledge-"faithfully kept as to Sum-
ter"
Upon Davis return to Fort Craw-
ford, Col. Taylor lit upon a new eX-
pedient for separating the lovers by
taking advantage of the circumstance
that the Lieutenant presumed to vote