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MARSE JAKE AND RUNAWAY CAGE. (Continued from Page One.) weetheart to a seat on- the wash neh. There they talked earnestly d long. What they said to each ther will perhaps never be known. He told her the melanholv news of 1is departure on tomorrow and ,urged her to be true to him. Some sav it was here their troth was plighted. Others said not, for the overse4r's daughter of4n d4ellared she would never marry into a family -that thought her inferior to them. To the loving couple time flew so fast and imperceptibly that they did not realize the time they had been -talking but they were brought to that knowledge by the voice of Mrs. 'Pardee: "You Caroline. w,hat are yon do ing so long?'I "Coming, mother," came back from the girl. Ja,ke took her hand to bid her good bye and printed, for the fir.t time, a kiss upon her blushing face. That night Cage went up to Marse .Jake's room to have a last conver sation and to map out the future. He received many instructions about the care of his traps, his dogs, his canoe, etc. Unfortunately, that unerring edikt of fate decreed otherwise. Ear ly next morning Jake started away in the old family barouche driven by Wagoner Mingo, for that far' away seat of learning the "Mount Zion Institute," at Winnsboro. As they started away; Jake looked out of the window of the earriage, and he spied his faithful slave peep ing from behind the house, waving his raggged cap, but Jake saw the .great tears coursing down his black ace, his whole frame shaking from e emotions he felt at parting with his young master. As they traveled along, Jake could think of nothing but his home leaving and the bitter moaming of the -wind -which, at imes, seem-4d inexprelsibly wierd and di1mal, sounded like the death Imell of all his hopes and happiness. To say that young Baldwin was a success at the Institute would be a mitatement of the facts, for a student he never was. He delighted kis companions by his negro danc ing, 'his good nature and 'happy d.is position, and was a favorite with the student& He managed to keep up i with his elass, aetwithstanding his idleness. But Jake was greatly dis I retssed at the news comning from home. The first jar to his nerves came 'with the intelligence that Caroline's father had sent her away to a neighboring State to a hoarding! school, sand he recognized at one the danger to her young heart, that! some other, more in accord with her ideas of proprieties and equality,' mright carry off the the prize he 3o much coveted. Then came the al hamost unbelievable inteligencee that Caewas a "runaway," that 'he had! et soon after Jake 's departure, and ad not been heard of .sinee, that! thiey had hunted everywhere, with egodogs, for him, but no trace or ail could be found. All, too, it med, on account of 4&1e overseer's hreat to take him in hands, and ex change his life of vagabondage for that of work in the cotton fields. Jake understood wel.1 the meaning of the word "runaway." He wais an out-I cast, a pariah, even among his own Srace, shunned and despised by the' old and a terror to the young. Chil dren were whipped into good beha vior by saying, "Mind, a runa.way nigger wili cateh you." Wheni Jake realized the import of these disas ters, that 'his companion had befeome the mu*nh despiLsed and hunted "run away," and his loved one had gone sfar off, his heart welled up with sorrowing emotions. At times he thought "swas life worth the strug gle,'' for, try as he would, his dear est hopes were ever doomed to an guksh and disappointment. 'On the first night of Jake 's re turn from school he had restless sleep and troubled dreams, for ever and anon, Cage would appear to him in his dreams, standing in the ragged garb an~d sunken cheeki of the odious~ "runaway." N ear day he thought he h eard a voice saying, "Marse Jake, Marse Jake," and he sprang from' his trombled sleep and could faintly see the outlines of the "runaway," bytedim .ray of lig'ht, comng through a broken window pane. At the first moment a thrill of horror and repuglnance came to him and shook the slender form of Jake Bald ~win at the consciousness of stand ing alone, in the presence of a "run away" a class of people he had* been taught from childhood to fear' and dread. Cage seemed to understand the feelings of his young master and said soothingly, "Marse Jake, I in't no runaway no more, I'se come; *. n. hie their bodies stood aloof, their hearts went together, like steel to the magnet. Where Cage had been and what he had been doing during his months in the woods the world will never know, but before many hours Jake knew it all. Now, if he was a great pot-bellied, flat headed negro, Cage was still a phi losopher and a Stoic. "Marse Jake, I knows dat dey gwine to whip me, dey i' bleged to do dat, case I'se a runaway, but I wai!,t you to get old Master to do -de whippen, case you see, he don't know how to whip a nigger. He brings de strap straight down and dat don 't hurt much, but de over seer, take care, he brings de strap down wid a jerk and a twist and dat fairly brings de marrow outen de bones. Go get old marster to do de whippen. When the word got abroad next moring that ".runaway Cage' had come in, the news spread like prairie fire. The young negroes in the yard watched Cage from a distance, with awe and won derment to see-that good natured individual, auetamorphied inth all the hideous monsters their imagina tion could picture. The oveiieer felt satisfied with himself at the idea of soon having .the satisfaction! of paying off old scores with ' that lazy, trifling runaway. The neigh ,bors came in to lay complaints, for, ic those day, all the ichickens or sheep stolen were generally laid at the doors of run"ways. When any thieving was done in the neighbor hood, 'every negro in the land was seeing signs of rund2ways. Many charge& were made against Cagb, but the goods were not found on him and Major Baldwin would not stand for the barbarous custom of "whipping a negro to make him confess." He told the overseer and neighbors that he would attend to 1, Cage's punishment- himself for he did not believe in his gu.It and he let it be understood no restraint! would be put upon the old life of Jake and Cage during the va-cation' days. So Cage went unwhipped of jus tice as he understood it, for he said, a "runaway is bleged to be whipped." During their hunts and rambles, Cage unfolded his life ais a "rna way'' to Marse Jake. 'It was like a story written upon a seroll of parch ent, and the more he told the.more was young Baldwin's 'heart fired at he wild, exciting life Cage had led. e told of a den he had do,wn on one f the islands near where his grand other lived, she being a cook in the hme of a collateral branch of the Baldwin, family; how 'he dug pota-t toes from the fields, plunidered the abbit boxes and had them banbe- b ued every night; how he would a atch chickens on the roost and 4~ augh at people shooting when the I hihen squawked; how he fished: ad robbed old free Joe's set hooks. f e told of the monster fish hep aught in the Four acre pond, how! hey hbit in the barnado hole during 3 the night, and that flush jumped up in he Broad-.Axe and deep Eddy, as 3 ig as gars and. sturgeons; that he ad found old Hog Isaac's fish bas ket and robbed it every morning, ust before he would come down to the river; that old Isaac would cunse G he fish for not going into his bas- b ket, while Cage laughed in the 2 ~ushes; that he took old Joe's boat a own the river and hid it and there 'i Lt is yet; that whenever he heard the t elping of dogs he made for the y iver and his den in t'he island. All I hese tales fired the heart of easy- p ~oig, .pleasu.re loving Jake Bald- 6 wdn and eaused him to pine secretlyb Eor the wild life of a runaway. Cage , a elared his intention to run away t] gain whenever Marse Jake went to 'ta shool again, "whip or no whip.'' t] (To Be Continued.) a (EAR'S COTTON CROP IC ABOUT TEN MILLION 3 ensus Report Gives Total for 1909 a At 10,363,240 Bales, Against 13,132,131 for 1908. Washirigton, March 21.-The een- b us cotton report shows the crop of ~ 1[909 to be 10,363,240 bales counting ound bales as 'half bales and includ- a 'ng linters, compared with 13,432,131 Cor 1908. iCotton 'estimated by gin1Aers and j ncluding the statistics. The bales by States, eounting round bales and including linGfl3qs round -bales as half bales and includ- si ng linters is as follows: 't] Alabama 1,071,985; Arkansas 715,-; a 370; Florida 627,111: Georgia 1,- e 897,761; Louisiana 268,800; Missis- h ippi 1.106.170; North Carolina 647, 47: Oklaihoma 571.370: South Car- h lina 1,160.167; Tennessee 248,778; Texas 2,549,417; all other States M2.- o 364. tl Round bales included for 1909 are (d ma,0 sea. island bales 94,566; ]in- .J SOME REASONS W HAVE IN '701 1RTH MMM?L The price you pay to da a small part of the price yot the refrigerator for ice. It is therefore, economy to buy frigerator, which, becau e of its si rior irsulation, will use the east u-age for the greatest number of Assuming that the lifetime of a is fiifteen years. and that the year] the price vou pay for ice in the $150.00, or more than five times i1 If you buy a NORTH STJ reduce your Ice expenses Newberry llardb ebales 314,597. In he average gross weight of ti.e E als for crop, counting rond bales S a alf bales and including linters, is 0 950 pounds comipared with 505.3 u c'1908.E he nu.mber of ginneries operated 0: rthe 1909 crop was 26,000 corn- i ard with 27,598 for 1908. * IS. HATTIE S. HEEBEET DEAD - n a Mother of Three Methodist E Ministers. u o mbia, Ma.rch 21.-Mrs. Esttic th Hebert, widow of 'the Rev. T. ' E[ erbert, for forty years a memn nof the Methodist confkerence ofg th Carolina, died suddenly this p ining at 11.30 o'clock at her home m.Lesville. She was ill only abant A ehours. Mrs. Herbert was 79 s old at her birtlhda.y last mouth. t em'aiden name was Brice, a very! minent n,ame in Columbia in the '. Mrs. Herbert was a remirka ewoman, being the mother of thiree1 iisters in the Methodist church. eRev. W. I. Herbert, of Charles ,presiding eider of that dist&et, Rev. T. G3. Herbert, of Bamberg, 'i 4the Rev. C. C. Herbert, of Clio. [d hese names stand high in Methodist l nles. She was the mother also of s r. L. B. Haynes, and of Mrs. Mary 'f, yec' Herbert, of Leesville, activeg dprominent in, religious circles. B al Mourning Customs. The widow's mourning cap dates s ck to the days of ancient Egypt, aHarper's Weekly. Egyptian B nshaved the beard and the head atoken of mourning. The wo e,instead of cutting off the hair, er ealed it with a close cap. The ians, who were as a race clean iaen, shaved the head in mourn gan.d wore a wig.m The black band on the sleeve, as a.a nof mourning, comes to us from 1 edays of chiva.lry. The lady tied *ai carf or napkin, as the hand'ker- o: if was called, about the arm of S. rknight. If he was killed in bat- te pshe wore the band in memocy of imr lak has so long been the ecolor is rief in A.glo-Saxon countries tit seems a part of the upside- di n civilization of the east that HY YOU SHOULD JR HOME A STAR RATOR HOW MANY of your hard earned dollars melt up each year? A great many more than you would like to have, un doubtedly. The "main question" with most of us is how we can best reduce this number of dollars to a minimum. The solution of the prob lem lies with the refrige ator. y for a refrigerator is but t will pay in a lifetime of the best refrigerator-the re :ientific construction and supe : ice and will stand the hardest vears. refrigerator which costs $25.00 y cost of maintensnce is $io.oo, ! lifetime of the refrigerator is :s original cost. AR REFRIERATOR you to an absolute minimum. ware Campany ;NT o longer 'ago than the 'time of lizabeth the unfo.rtuna.te Mary of cotland wore white on ,the death f Da.ndey. Even now thce hearse sed: for children is white, and in ngland the mourners at funerals E young unmarried persons wear atbands and sashes of whitee. A queer English eustom is that of ecoratirig the black hearse horses ith long black tails. They ittraet a more attention on a street of an 'nglish city than do the blaek nets sed in this country to cover the arses. I will make a final settlement, as iardian, of the estate of Elmer G. iester, in the Probate Court for ~ewberry County on Wednesday, pril 6, at 11 o'clock in the fore-1 on and immediately thereafter ak ibe discharged as said guardian. D. E. Halfaere, 3-8-4t-ltaw. It Saved His Leg. ''All thought I'd lose my leg,'' rites J. A. Swensen, of Watertown, is. ''Tem years of eczema, that 15 ctors could not cure, had at last .id me up. Then Bucklen 's Arnica alve cured it, sound and well.'' In lible for Skin Eruptions, Eczema, alt Rheum, Boils, Fever Sores, urns, Seaids,' Cuts and Piles. 25c. W. E. Pelham & Son's. TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. y Frank M. Schumpert, Esquire, Probate Judge. Whereas, R. 0. Perry bath made it to me, to grant him Letters of. !dministr.ation of the Estate of and feets of Orlando M. 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