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CHAPTER XVIII, (Contlnned.)
"But, Miss Bella! Mies Bella!
Where will yon go, and what will you
do? What will become of you? Oh
dear!" cried Robert, In hopeless dis
tress, as he too clearly bqw her will
was rising, as a western cloud, flash
ing with the electric power of her
spirit and her pride.
"My destiny concerns myself," an
swerd her spirit and her pride. Then,
as if suddenly remembering she had
no longer any right to possess either,
all signs of them vanished from her
manner, leaving only sadness and hu
mility, as she said, "Robert, good
Robert, I thank you for all you have
done for me carry also my thanks to
the others. Of what I have just been
saying, remember only the reasons I
gave for having left them in the way
I did. Be sure to tell them those rea
sons; tmd tell them, also, that I have
a well considered purpose and a firjn
resolution. Please remember my
words." And she repeated them to
Robert, who heard, but could make
no reply for his tears.
"And say," she continued, "I at
last know nil I owe to them, however
ignorant of it I may formerly have
been. I knov, too, I can never re
pay it in any measure. Say I beg of
them not to be anxious foi my wel
fare ; that I am sure I shall be able to
provide for and take care of myself;
and that no honest labor, however
humble it may be, or however low it
may be called, could demean Bella
Johnston so much as to have remain
ed a day longer under their roof. You
will tell them all this : be sure to tell
them."
"Miss Bella, I will not tell them
any sucn tnlug. You do very wrong
to go away. You know very well
they all love jou as they do each
other, and would do any tiling In the
world rather than lose you. It Is
cruel in you to act toward them as if
they were enemies instead of friends.
You talk as if they had no feeling,
and j'ourself had none either, and had
lost your senses besides, and acted on
ly from that bitter, black pride which
besets poor sinners, and drags thetn
down to perdition. Oh, Miss Bella,
do as you ought to do, and go straight
back with me. Think how they are
feeling at this very moment; and just
for a moment look at this business as
you know they do. Oh, go back; do
go right back witii me won't 3'ou,
now?"
"Do not distress me, ray good friend.
What you say is well said, but words
cannot change my purpose. Let us
say no more, except to bid each other
good by,a9old and true friends should.
Yes, there is one thing more" (glanc
ing toward the bundle): "can you
carry back, on your horse, something
Hector has brought away?"
"No," he interrupted. "I am not
going baok. If your resolution is tak
en, so is mine. I shall not return to
Stone House unless you do. I will
attend you on the journey you have
undertaken, wherever you may lead.
When it comes to an end, you may
dismiss me if you will, and I muse
submit. But you shall never travel
on foot over these hills while I own a
horse. You can ride on Major, and
Hector and I will walk. Am I not
right, Hector?"
"Yes, Mieser Bobert ; die zackly
right," said Hector, whose practical
mind saw at once how easily Major
could carry Bella, and the bundle of
provisions too.
"But, Robert, you do not know
what a long journey mine will be"'
expostulated Bella.
"If you are going to your home in
the south, it will be a long journey, I
know. But that would make it all
the more necessory you should not at
tempt It on foot, and that I should go
to help protect you."
Bella's entrpatles as well as her
commands all failed to shake Robert's
puspose. He insisted, despite her
threatened auger even, that if not al
lowed to accompany, he would follow
her. And Hector seconding him in
the argument, she Anally gave way.
The heavy bundle was unpacked then
and its contents, after the saddle-bags
had been stuffed with all they would
hold, were bestowed in two sacks,
which were tied together by their
necks, and swung upon Major's back
close in front of the saddle. This last
the horse strongly objected to ; but he
was a reasonable animal, and when
the contents of the sacks had been
made known and explained to him
through Bight and smell, be consent
ed. This arrangement supplied in
some measure the want of a pommel,
so that Bella, when mounted found
her seata. very comfortable. And
when, finally, all was ready for the
start, and the party turned their faces
southward, Robert walking at the
horse's head and prudently holding
by the rein, while Hector, grasping
his quarterntafF, trudged along on the
opposite side, relieved of all his bur
den and half his load of care, they all
felt cheered, at least invigorated and
encouraged by the sensations which
ever attend on and bless enterprise,
endeavor, progress. They were en
compassed besides by the exhilarat
ing morning air, and the sheen of the
hoar-froBt that everywhere around re
flected the early Bunlight, and gave
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promise more than the promise of a
rainbow that the day would be fair
and the weather kindly. Arrived at
Clarksburg, they made no halt, except
that, while Robert and Bella kept on
their way through the town, Hector
stopped long enough to purchase, at
one of the shops, a large tin cup and
three small ones, a knife and fork, a
spoon, and a light frying-pan. Pro
vided with these, when a few miles
further, Bella was persuaded to stop
and rest, and the old negio cooked as
good a traveler's dinner as the hun
griest could need, or the most fastid
Ioub wish. At the end of the meal
the question of resources naturally
came up for consideration. All pock
ets being emptied, the sum total of
available funds was found to be about
twenty-five dollars. On the way Bel
la had disclosed, what Robert had al
ready surmised, that the end of her
journey would be Waccamaw Neck,
near the sea-coast, in South Carolina,
and Hector had explained, so far as
he could explain and his hearer com
prehend, the route and the distances.
Considering all this, the means at
command seemed small enough, and
Hector's forethought in respect to
provisions appeared prudent and
wise.
When Bella, after being informed
by Hector on his return late in the
evening of the day before concerning
the dreadful termination of the expe
dition to recover the stolen horse,
took the desperate resolution of aban
doning the shelter of Stone House,
the question of where we should go,
and how, was a secondary considera
tion. And whenshedeterminedtogoto
her Southern home, it was in desper
ation she did so, and not in the mood
which measures distance or counts
cost. Had she been sure of perishing
in the mountains, still she would
have gone forth. Robert, however,
after having obtained permission to
be ef the party, without the right to
ask "whither or how," now felt it his
duty to conduct the expedition on
more modern principles than those
obtaining in times when Don Quixote
and Gil Bias m'ade their celebrated
journeys tiirough Spain, which. both
Bella and he had been so fond of read
ing about. "With money enough this
wouldMiavo been easy enough, but to
go by steamer and rail all the way
from where they were to Waccamaw
would be to make an exceedingly
roundabout and expensive journey,
for which the means at command
would be quite inadequate. Might he
communicate with Mr. Damarin, he
could easily obtain all the money need
ed : but thi9, of course, Bella would
not allow. He could therefore, see
no way but for them to go on in the
primitive style they had begun with,
until the mountains were crossed and
a country of railroads reached, and
then trust to contrivance and endeav
or for the rest.
CHAPTER XIX.
The place where the travelers stop
ped was a little way within a ravine
that opened to tiie road, and boside a
small "run.1 While Robert remain
ed Beated on the broad, flat stone that
had served them for dinner table and
chairs, occupied in counting the green
paper money and calculating its pur
chasing power, and Hector at a pool
further up the run, was washing the
frying-pan, oups, fork, and spoon,
the horse being still further up, graz
ing on what he could find, Bella, too
impatient to remain long .at rest,
walked back and forth between the
dining-place and the road. As she
approached the road at the end of her
course, she caught sight of a horse
man coming rapidly from the direc
tion of Clarkbburg. She stopped
where she was beneath the closely
knit and drooping branches of a great
beech, and waited there until he got
near enough to bo recognized by his
form ; but the moment her quick eye
did recognize that form herself yet
unseen she shrunk behind the trunk
of the tree while William Damarin
rode past, pressing his steed to its ut
most. Had she Riven a second look
from her hiding place, had she seen
the expression that distorted his noble
features, possibly her journey had
ended on the day it began.
Neither of her companions surmis
ed who the horsemau was that gal
loped so swiftly ovur the road, though
both of them uoticed that she remain
ed a long while crouched at the foot
of the beech-tree. At length they
went toward her; but when she saw
them coming she rose and walked to
meet them.
"Heotor," she said, as they drew
near, --am you not ten me you were
better acquainted with the route up
the Big Sandy than with this one,
but that you thought it too rough for
me to travel on foot ?"
"Yes. Miss Bella."
"But now that, thanks to Robert, I
have a good horse to ride, would it
not after all. be better we should go
by the way of Sandy ? There must
be eome path by which we can cross
over and get into the road that we
turned out of this morning without
losing very much time. I have just
been thinking we Bhould try to do
so."
Hector thought the new plan a good
one, and Robert said It would be easy
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enough to go over the hills into the
valley of the Kinniconick ; where, by
following the course of that stream,
they would come into the Greenups-
burg road, which was the best and
shortest route to the Sandy.
"Then let us Bet out at once," she
exclaimed, with agitation her com
panions could not understand, and
with her own hands aided in prepar
ing for the start. Robert, leading
Major unmounted, clambered rapidly
to the top of the nearest hill, whioh
was a spur of the main ridee : but
when they had achieved the steep as
cent she was already there, having
outstripped both. Hardly would she
wait for the horse to breathe before
siie mounted and was urgent to press
on. And yet, while her outward pur
pose was apparently so fixed, all was
doubt and confusion within. She
knew not what she really wished, nor
what she ought to do. One thing,
however, was certain : the pursuit
she was by so well-devised and bold a
movement escaping from had actual
ly given her a thrill of joy, felt thro'
all h.-r sadness and shame. She wish
ed, or thought she wished, to escape.
yet felt it was delightful to be follow
ed. After going some ten miles the
travelers descended into the romantic
valley of the river Kinnicc.nick.
Among the settlers whom its cheap
yet fertile soil, healthy air, and beau
tiful scenery have tempted there are
some persons of more intelligence and
refinement than one would look io"
in so inaccessible a place. The house
of one of these, who was agent for the
owners of a tract of forty thousand
acres of land, was the first dwelling
the travelers came to. Though the
sun was yet two hours high, Robert
insisted on stopping and asking for
hospitality which he did in a pecul
iar way that left the host at liberty to
receive from the guests, when the
time for parting should come, either
money or thanks, and entitled the
guests while they staid to make them
selves as much at home as if they ex
pected to pay money.
In the room where they were re
ceived Robert was glad to find a large
map hanging up, from which and
from information the host gave he
learned that by going by the route
they had chosen about two hundred
miles, they would strike a railroad at
Abingdon, in Virginia. Two hun
dred miles on Major's springy back
was not too much for Bella to endure r
and for-himself. Robert, twohundred
thousand walked by her side would
have been too. little.
Mr. Mariner, the host, was making
sundry improvements upon the prop
erty in his charge, one of which was
the planting of an orchard, in a large
field of newly cleared ground. Rob
ert and Hector, strolling about, stop
ped to observe the progress of the
work on this field, which, being too
full of roots for deep plowing, the
ground had to be prepared for setting
out the trees by digging a deep hole
for each one, and then filling it again
with the same soil which came out,
reversed and looselj- flung in. The
backwoodsmen employed to do this
were making but sorry progress, and
Mr. Mariner was complaining that
not half the orchard would be ready
for planting before cold weather. An
idea 6truck Robert. "Hector and I
understand something of this kind of
work," he said to Mr. Mariner. "If
you think you can afford to pay us
fiften cents for every hole we dig, we
might stop here a week and finish
the job for you."
The bargain was gladly agreed toon
the other side. But Bella objected to
anything like delay, until, with the
aid of the map, Robert explained to
her that by remaining where she was
while they could earn money enough
to pay the railroad fares, she would
be able to reach her destination some
ten days earlier than if the whole
journey were made in their present
style of traveling.
To the great surprise of their em
ployer, the two new hands dug, each,
three times as many holes as any of
the backwoodsmen did, and by the
end of the week the job was fiuibhed
and cheerfully paid for, and the trav
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elers went on their way with resourc
es more than doubled.
"I really think you ought to have
paid that girl two dollars," said Mrs.
Mariner to her husband. "I certain
ly never saw a woman do as much
work by half as she did, nor with
half bo little clatter or fuss."
The travelers went on their way,
and one of them went rejoicing. He
well euough knew his portion of that
way must come to an end at Abing
don, for he was sure Bella would not
consent to his accompanying her be
beyond there, aud the thought of the
parting that must come recurred now
and then as a lancinating pang; but
to say that paug alloyed the delight
he felt iu being with her would be
wrong. For the joy of love is too
pure to mix with any thing that can
alloy. Pain or sorrow, past or future,
only heighten it by their contrast.
Happy in the fulluess of the days that
were his own, he rejoiced in them as
he journeyed, and in ail their hours
and minutes.
From the beginning to the end of
that journey, it should here be men
tioned, not a word was spoken con
cerning Stone House, or its people, or
anything that ever happened there.
There were stories told of Smoky
Creek and Waccamaw Neck ; but the
history of the years spent in that
mansion by the Ohio remained a clos
ed and sealed volume. Sometimes
Bella would sing a hyma the only
THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1876.
music she knew in a voice that filled
, the valley A sweet voice, too, it wa9
although quite untaught since the
tl ne Inn she was captured and aid-
ed by a charming elocution that was
the gift of early breedlngand her own
good taste. Sometimes not her sung,
but her laugh, made music for the
valley, when the old negro's oddities
or humor provoked her mirth. Some
times she would keep silence for
hours, her busy thoughts devising
plans for the future. Then, rousing
herself from reverie, she would apply
herself to entaining Robert with long
stories of what happened iu her child
hood, with ghost stories too, such as
Khr black nurses used to frighten her
with, ana even told all the fables she
learned from thosamesourco concern
ing the wise "Bro Rabbit," the fero
cious but simple "Bro' Wolf," and all
the other brethren of the fields and
the woods whom the African imagin
ation had taught how to discourse in
gibberish to excellent moral purpose.
One day, after she had been telling
him about her parents' household and
the neighbors who used to enjoy the
hospitalities of "Multiflora," Robert
remarked,
" It Beems to me that those planters
must have been very great and rich
folks, just like the lords and ladies the
old novels tell about."
"They were all of them rich peo
ple," she replied; "how many of
them were great depends upou how
they now bear the loss of their riches.
ThoBe who succumb to poverty can
not be said to have ever been great. I
have faith, however, that most of the
members of our old families will meet
adversity with courage and endur
ance, and through it work their way
to prosperity again, as the founders of
them worked theirs. The spirit of a
gentleman is Dot easily orushed no,
nor of a gentlewoman either. For one,
while I live I will fltrive. and I think
I shall live to plant arid reap the fields
of my Inheritance as prosperously as
any of my forefathers did."
"If you only had two or three thou
sand dollars to begin with," suggest
ed Robert, with a slight quiver in his
voice, and with a glance toward Ma
jor. "That being out of the question, I
shall begin the earliest moment thatl
can begin, by doing the thing that is
nearest td my hand ; aud that finish
ed, reach out for the next, trusting in
God and my own energies for what
roan, come of if." - 'frrr rtUl,'J
, Hard.wae the parting onthelpiaj
'fofnfrbfthe station at JVbiugdon and,
It needed aH'Bell&'s tact to avoid an
aypwslfandia scene thatlt was best
should not occur.
"Good-by, my good, dear friend,"
she said, from the window of the car,
as it began slowly to move, "We
shall never meet again ; but we shall
never forget each other, shall we?
And, Robert, should any thought,
any recollection of the past, remain to
give you pain or disturb your peaoei
pray, for my sake, do as I have done
bury the past; turn your back on it,
and look only to the future, where
there is always hope for the young,
the honest, and thestroug. Good-by,
dear Robert!"
When Robert removpd his gaze
from the direction in which the train
had disappeared, dancing from earth
to heaven In a nea of water that filled
his eyes, only one person lingered
about the station. Of him he enquir
ed what road he should take to reach
Cumberland Gap, and having got the
information, mounted his horse, aud
was soon beyond the limits of the lit
tle town.
CHAPTER XX.
Our story is drifting toward the un
equaled rice district of the Wacca
maw. Though our country has the
honor of producing the best rice in
the world, our cooks except those of
the region where it is grown are too
ignorant, too inexact, too careless and
unfaithful, to follow the few and easy
yet indispensable rules for properly
boiling it. Pearl of grains it is, and
it is said one-half the inhabitants of
tho dobe make It their daily food
Lhr;r manna and ambrosia; but thev
. - . . . .
cook it as it should be, those Chinese
and Hindoos, and ocher advanced
peoples; they could not live on the
tasteless, trashy mess we make of it.
From motives of economy Bella
and Hector left the railroad at Che
raw, on the Great Pedee, and took
passage in a oorn-boat bound for
Georgetown. The second day of the
voyage brought their sluggish craft to
where the river flowed through
swamps famous for being the refuge
of Marion's men in the revolution,
and of runaway negroes in later
times.
It was, indeed, a strange and dis
mal region, that of the swamps of the
Great Pedee. On both sides the river
seemed to widen indefinitely far into
a dense forest, whose borderings of
heavy timber formed the only bound
aries of the turbid stream that flowed
sluggishly between. When, for the
first time after many years, Bella's
eye penetrated the dim vistas and
chambers of the swamp, though she
remembered them well, their gloom
appalled her, and well it might,
though seen for the hundredth time.
As the day drew to a close that gloom
deepened into darknessaimost Impen
etrable, and from out the darkness
came all the sounds of the night,
though early twilight still prevailed
elsewhere. The evil-omened whip-poor-will
wailed ; the night hawk
stooped with whir of wing; mon
strous frogs, named "blood-an'-
rounds," from the sounds they utter,
called in loud, deep bass for "blood
and wounds;" while the alligator,
from his floating log, with a human
voice groaned for the wounded and
the bleeding. Besides the mournful
cypress, tree of the grave, a drapery
of orape-like gray moss hung from
whatever would hold it. and drooped
and trailed In the dark water below.
It was as if nature herself had fur
nished the funeral, the mourning,
and the walling for desoiate and dy
ing Carolina, once proudest of the
proud, hottest of the hot, leader of
States, and Lucifer of rebellion.
During all of that night Bella re
mained on the boat's deck, without
any thought of sleep. It would have
been difficult fur tho hardiest mind to
resist the spells that environed her, as
she drifted through that realm of
Night and Darkness, on her way to
ward a olouded destiny. She did not
attempt to resist. She submitted.
She gave herself up to grief, and
grieved passionately. A sense of her
bereavement oppressed her as it never
had before. Father, mother, and
brothers, all had died and been hur
ried, without her being permitted to
attend either of them dying, or fol
low either to the grave. They seemed
now to come and demand their dues
of mourning ; and to the accomplish
ment of that mourning'she consecra
ted her long vigil, during all the hours
of which her tears sparkled up to the
stars, then fell to mingle and be lost
In the ever-flowing river.
Mile followed ,mile of the dismal
progress, hour followed hour of the
dismal night, and still the course was
down a shoreless stream, and still
from the boaderlng chnos came the
voices of discord speaking oracles of
dispair, sole greeting for the young
orphan's return to her home. The
night hawk stooped upon his prey;
the whip-poor-will called for scourgeB
and stripes; the frog demanded more
blood and more wounds; and the al
ligator continually groaned. But the
ordeal came to an end, and bo did the
night and the Great Pedee river,
when Winyaw Bay was reached. And
the first glories of sunrise came with
a more fitting welcome to embodied
youth, health, beauty, Innocence,
courage, andhope.
After crossing the hay the boat was
made fast at one end of the wharves
of the ancient port of Georgetown,
once the second city of the State, but
now the most decayed, orphaned,
wldpwecT, and altogether bereaved
village to be found In America. There
Hector was -fortunate enough tose
oure places in a six-oared inoe be-1
longing to a plantation high up on
Waccamaw, and about to start on Its
return. As it had been impossible
for Bella to resist the gloomy Influen
ces of the night voyage through the
swamp, so wa3 it impossible to resist
the enlivening ones which prevailed
on her daylight trip iu that six-oared
canoe, with its crew of merry black
men, Negro congressmen we have,
and senators too : and if we will, we
can crown the edifice of freedom with
a President of bronze we will, if we
choose but nowhere, not in congress
hall or senate chamber, cabinet coun
cil or executive throne, will the Afri
can race nppsar to so good advantage
as where a negro boat's crew, lustily
pulling, keep stroke to songs of their
own originating, or laugh at their
own jokes and humor. The music
and jokes that beguiled Bella of her
sadness were In themselves quite un
fit to bear criticism : the power they
exerted lay in the feeling that was in
the tones, and the pure glee that was
in the laughter. Then the songs were
the same she had loved to hear when
she was a child and at home, which
was enough to make her love to hear
them now. Well did she recognize
the plaintive air beginning,
"I wish I ben yeddy w'a ma-a-my say
Wa'ma-a-rny say w'a' ma-a-ray say;"
and this rousing one, adapted to quick
stroke:
"O wake Jaw bone! 'e walk an talk;
O wake Jaw bone! e tell no He."
Here Is one, however, which she
did not remember to have heard :
"Two dogs was flghtln' one annudder;
Dey fight to kill, for dey wasbrudder.
Chorus.
Steer nm straight.
Pull urn strong.
Row de boat and slngde
By the Creto:
By the Steersman
By All:
bong.
"On de ground de 'possum lay.
And he was playln' 'possum play. Chorus.
" 'E lledat still 'e nebber stir;
Eknowed lt'shlm dey's flghtln' fur. Cho.
'Fa nebber bark ; 'e nebber bits;
'E letdem dog do all de fight. Chorus.
"Dey fight all night; deyflghtall day;
But like the dead dat 'possum lay. Chorus.
"Dey bite an scratch, an' do dat same,
Till one go dead an' t'oder lame. Chorus.
"Den 'possum, dat dy tought to frj
Jump up an' open bote him eye. Chorus.
"Now 'possum safe an Ilbe an free.
'E sing de song ob Jubilee. Chorus.
'"Edance and play de tambourine;
'E lick de Masses an de cream. Chorus.
"Swing de sword an beat de drum ;
Glory, Lord, for kingdom come I" Chorus.
It was after noon when the boat
stopped at the mouth of the canal
which traversed the rice fields of the
Johnston estate in the direction of
the neck of rising ground that lay be
tween the fields and the sea-shore be
yond, on the crown of which rising
ground the mansion had been built.
There was a mile to be walked on the
bank of the canal before the avenue
of live-oaks would be reached which
led up to the house, and was itself
half a mile long. On the way an op-f
portunlty was afforded to examine the"
condition of the estate. Evidently It
VOL. 20 NO. 29.
had not been cultivated- at all during
the last few years; and Heotor pro
nounced the ditches, banks, and
"trunks" to be decayed and Injured
to such an extent that to repair them
would cost a "heap o' money." -'An'
we no got no money, missis," he ad
ded. 4Now we's yer, de Lord know
wot we's gwine fordo."
"You are right, Hector," said Bel
la, to whom the want of money was
not a new idea. "And He It is will
tell us what to do. We have come
all the way here, my friend, on pur
pose to ask Him."
As they approached the further end
of the bank the rank wild growths of
various kinas closed In and interlaced
across the path, rendering progrena bo
difficult that Hector had to go In ad
vances and break the way. At length
the entrance to the avenue was reach
ed, and, standing under its high
roofed evergreen arch, Bella looked
toward the opposite end. She saw
two chimneys standing, and that was
all! Without word or cry she pressed
forward to the gate of the garden,
forced it open, and entered. Thegar
den had been a paradise once: it had
become a thicket and a field of thorns,
Arrived at the site of the house, she
found aheap of a9hes, at either end
of which a brick column stood like
head-stone and foot-stone marking
the grave of a once living home.
She knelt upon that grave, and
with clasped hands and writhing
brow, there uttered her question and
her prayer :
"O my God, what shall I do?"
Hector groaned, then stood silently
apart.
When Bella rose up from the a9hes
and looked about, she found herself
surrounded, 'at a respectful distance,
by the negroeB, who had gathered
there from their quarters on hearing
theswiftly flying news that the young
missis they had thought to be dead
was alive, and had returned to them.
As Boon as they felt permitted to
speak they overwhelmed her with
greeting and blessing, manifold and
vociferous, hearty and loving. Those
of them, especially, who had been
bouse servants, and known, and
handled, and loved In her Infancy the
Idol of the house, seemed ready to
worship her now as a full-grown di
vinity. The feeling of such for such
an object Is but little understood. It
can hardly be explained. But it is
beautiful, though, and is, or rather it
was, of redeeming power over many
things needing redemption.
They put their all at her disposal ;
Htbey offered to work for her, to obey
her; they pressed near aud kissed her
hands; they kissed her mantle. Some
of them knelt and embraced her
knees ; some on their knees prayed
for her; some laughed for joy thatshe
had come back to them at last; Rome
wept that Bhe had come to a desola
tion.
In greeting them all and making
Inquiries concerning their welfare, in
receiving accounts of the dead and
absent, in being presented with the
numerous children, half of them
wholly naked, that had come into
life since she was last there, and in
going through the quarters to visit the
bedridden and crippled, Bella, for the
time, forgot both herself and her cir
cumstances. She was recalled, how
ever, when one of the women, Psy
che, her mother's seamstress, sudden
ly remarked,
"Why, missis, dey was a gentleman
yer t'oder day 'qulrin' for you a
young mossa, and handsome, and a
true and true gentleman."
"Him wasn't no gentleman, nud
der. Interrupted one of them. "Him
was a Yankee."
"No Yankee 'tall," added a third.
" 'E come from Kentucky, way all de
hogs grows. Dey's asgood gentlemen
grows in Kentucky as dey does In dis
yer country."
By much questioning Bella was
able to learn that a pereon, whom
from the description given Bhe knew
must be William Damarin, had come
to Multiflora in search of her, and re
mained several days in the neighbor
hood, during which time he had visit
ed all the plantations near, and that
he had taken his departure on fhe
steamboat for Charleston only three,
days before her arrival. To this In
formation a good deal more was ad
ded by numerous, conflicting, and
disputatious informants, which, how
ever, she did not heed, as she walked
back and forth absorbed in thought.
Presently, turning toward Psyche,
she aked :
"Is the house at the sea-shore etand
Ing?" "Yes, missis," was the reply.
"Is any body there?"
"Yes. mipsis Westa; she stay dere
eber since mossa him go 'way. She
no will come 'way. Last year de sta
ble him wash away in a big gale, an'
deyearbefo' deserbant's hall him go
too. I spec de house him go next, an'
Westa wid it."
"Hector! Hector!" Bella called.
Hector came
"We will go to the sea Bore," she
said.
"Better go right 'way did minute,
den; it fo mile to walk, an' de sun
no berry high."
But before Bella could get away
from her crowd of votaries she had to
accept theirnumerousofferlngs. They
brought her chickens, ducks, eggs,
persimmons, strings of dried herbs,
Bweet potatoes, ground nuts (pea nuts)
rice, corn meal in short, each of the
poor, generous creatures gave some
thing, and, after the manner all had
been strictly taught from their infan
cy, thanked' her for accepting it.
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The gifts would have loaded a pack
mule, but as there was no mule at
hand they were distributed In pan
niers, piggins, and calabashes, and
"toted" on tho heads of the young9r
members of the community, who vol
unteered in mass for the expedition-,
and were so numerous that the bur
dens allotted to most of them were
redioulously small. The procession
then followed Bella, when finally stiff
set out, was headed by Apollo, the son
ef DIanna, a youth of twenty, who
steadied his powerful frame beneath
a calabash holding a dozen of eggff,
and was closed with a blg-bellled lit
tle Atlas, who balanced on his head,
without once putting his hand to it;
a live "oooter" (terrapin), resting bot
tom upward, and ineffectually sprawl
ing and pawing the air.
to be continukd.
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A Third Term Movement:-
We heartily endorse the following;
very sensible article from the Kansas
Chief:
Thejthlrd term received a boost, a
few days since, In an unexpected
quarter, and has caused a good deal of
flutter, comment and criticism. At
a meeting of Methodist preachers and
the Methodist Sunday School Union,
in Boston, Bishop Gilbert Haven, by
invitation, delivered an address. In
which, after speaking of Papal
schemes and encroachments, and the
condition of the South, gave utterance
to the prayer that President Grant
may be re-elected. On motion of an
other minister, the sentiments of
Bishop Haven were endorsed, with
out a dissenting vote.
This endorsement by an Influential
portion of an organization bo numer
ous and powerful as the Methodist
church, means sometlng. It means,
firstly, that those of us who insisted
that the third term issue was a reali
ty, were not so crazy, after all ; and It
shows that the movement is formida
ble. But this action on tho part of the
Methodists is natural, If 'not Justifia
ble. The Catholic church has already
arrayed Itself on the sldo of the Dem
ocracy. To be sure, many Individual
Catholics are Republicans, but as a
church, the Catholics are the nllies of
the Democracy. Tho New York 06
scrvcr, a leading Presbyterian journal,
confesses that the Methodist ohuroh
is the only church able to cope with
the Catholics. To do this, they mu9t
meet them in the field of politics, asr
well as religion. Grani, having taken
a bold stand upon the school question,
the entering wedge in this issue; the
Methodists see in him the man for the
occasion.
The country owes much to the
Methodist church. It took a decisive
stand on the slavery qnestlon many
years ago ; and It was the advance
guard of the Republican party, upon
the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska
act. Again, at the breaking out of the
rebellion, this church was always
zealous and outspoken, while other
were neutral or temporizing. If there
fore, churches will mix in politics, we
know of no one that has a' better
claim to be heard than the Methodists.
It will be a sad day when religiouB
questions are made the issue Id elec
tions ; but when it is done on nue side
it must be met on the other.
How to Extinguish Lamps witii:
Chimneys. A correspondent of the
English Mechanlo says: ''Turn the
flame up to full power, then blow a'
sharp puff horizon tally across the top
of the tunnel, when thelightwill not
only be extinguished, but there will
be no after h moke the formerly ig
nited wick will be extinguished by its
own carbonic acid gas. On leaving
my office at night I thus turn np the
flaming wick, and with a grateful
gladness .that the desk labors of the
day (and night) are over, give a Ride
wave of the hat past the chimney--which
draws Up the flame from con
tact with tho wick, and the light is
gone, and with no after smell. Thfs
cannot be too widely circulated, as I
read in the Times the other day that
a lady lost her life by blowing down
the chimney, and thus causing an ex
plosion." tfiiE Last Slave Dead. The last'
9lave in the State of New Jersey I
dead. His name was John Jackson,
and he resided on the estate of Mr.
Able I. Smith, at Secaucii". Jack was
87 years old. He refused to accept his
freedom. His former master, Mr. A.
I. Smith, since deceased, manumitted
his slaves nearly fifty years ago. Jack
would not be emancipated. From
boyhood he was the companion of his
late master, who directed that he
should be burled beside him in his'
own graveyard. Jack survived hla
master nine years, but continued to
receive the sajne kindness and care
from hl.s master's children that he'
had received from childhood.
General Sherman defines his" reli-'
gious position. "I believe," he says,
"If people will act only half as well as
the know how In this world they will
be all right In the next."
A man whose appearance Indicated'
that he had bad a glass too much, be
ing aske'd if he was a Son of Temper-'
ance, replied "No no relation (hicV
not even an acquaintance!"
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feathers a kind of down which' jell,
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