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<?> $><? <& ?><$> <i> <$> < <s> /' $ ATTHE THEATKE. <e> <S> <$> x?- s> <s> ? ' -t> ?> <$> '$ ti?*? Triiii ?f tiip l.olii'soiiK* Pine. Note?In June nature seemed to have blended all her moods. Nature was her mother and had endowed her with all the gifts at her command. In her were the fierceness of the tempest . "when it rages around the mountain peaks, the pity of the breeze when it sighs- through the hollow, the joy of the sun when it kisses the rippling water, the brooding of the still night * * 1 -* ~"U i- T71 ~ V* and tne peace 01 twiugm. rw uci there were fairies and to her the trees and flowers and rocks and waterfalls spoke as a sapling and she was as & fi-eet on foot as the deer. Her abundant hair was of lustrous gold and wind and sun gave incomparable color wf and complection to features which H were more than beautiful because they K formed the mirror in which her heart shown Tn this mirror by turns there appeared sweetness, courage, I prid-e, love, hate, music, poetry, calm,! passion' peace and desire. June loved her father and hated the Falins. By Chas. Phillips. I Jack?Here is a bouquet for you. .June?Huh, I know them flowers and just where they grow. Jack?Do you? ( June?Yep, hyeh, an' thar through J them mountains yo' find '-em in leetle patches growin' all together like and I then yo* don't find 'em at all. Jack?What do you call them up; thpre? June?Jes' flowers. Jack?Th-e name for them is j anemones. June?My, but that's a big name for j ^ sUch a leetie flower. ?Some call them wind flowers,! because"th-e wind is supposed to blow! \ them open. , J une?My! Jack?Yes, and where a tear is drop-i i ped a wind flower blows. I June?Aint that pretty? And now I know? Jack?What do you know? June?jes' why they are all rouin' hyeh near this pine. Yo' see my sister, she came hyeh befo' I did an' talked to this pine, cry the least leethe bit 11 thro them mountains the wo t men folks an' girls go by th'rselves -when one of their men folks gets kilt, an' jes' whar they drap their tears this leetle flower comes up jes' like vo' sed?jes' to tell them that them that's gone is answerin'. Why, it's Jes' like whar them tears has gon' the wind flowers come up to smile at vo' c*as' they want yo' to know hc^ they! drapped into the rouin' aint it? Jack?Why, you're a little poet, j * aren't you? June?No, I haint nothin' but jes'! a Tolliver. But when I come hyeh at j n'ght and I hyeh the pine moan and the brush ciack, seems to me I'm j listenin' to the rifles goin' oft" between the Falins and the Tollivers for so many years?that's the man?and when the pine sighs that's the women | ?an' now that yo've tole me about ?he tear drops ami flowers I know it's; the fairies jes' tellin* the wimmen .goin' to happen that a way no mo'. Jack?And June, do -you hate the Falins? June?Hate 'em, I could gut 'em. i IIuciIn TnriA rlrvii't VAn 11"! 1 T11c 1 JCHJIV 1JL HOil <JIIU^ uun >. j \y u. ?,.?????? . their own women cry when their men j die, and don't you think the wind i flowers come out for them too? June?Xo, I don't. They haint got; no fairies on thar side. Jack?June, but I know some of the fairies?some of the ones you know j about. See what I have found. June?It's a fairy stone Jack?Why, who told you? June?Sister Sall-ey tole me about! whar in Virginny, and all her life she j saw "em. Sh-e 'sed folks found 'em some I was wish in' for one an' never could . git it. Listen, she called me then.? Did yo' hyeh? Seems like everything she wanted is a connn 10 me. Jack?Did she tell you the story of; it? June?Sh-e sed it was a luck piece; and nothin' could happen to yo' when _yo' was carryin' this, bin it was awful bad luck if yo' lose it. Jack?Well then, you must not lose it, little girl. June?Air yr" givin' it to me? Jack?Yes, you sre they are* found only in a certain place in Virginia?j -each one a perfect little cross and all j we know about rocks and mines and gold and the study of the mountains seeking to find what God put there iiave never been able to know just; iosh* where these stones come from. June?That's cas* they heint talked to the fairies. I'll bet as how yo' know r.Jack jes' whar they come from? Jack?I know the fairy story about t ?(. 11V 111. June?An' if yo' tole me do yo' recken they'll be mad? .Ja< k?Xo, now that you've' made upj your mind to 2:0 out into the world and ' zei a lot of 1 arniiTe: they'll be skid. ! I .June?Tell me about it, .lack. i 1 1 Jack?Well, .June, they said this 'it- i tie valley over in Virginia, 110 out- liv- | <-d there at one time, except fairies | and everybody was happy and nobody j ever fought each oilier and there | t i weren't any leads and th-tre weren't i any Falins, and there w?ren't any Tol! livers, or any policemen. They wvre i just full of love an i smiles like ycu I and your sister Sally. And one day a ; stranger came into ihs valley an 1 he ! biought a message of bow our L.-rd was crucified; uai-od to the cross <>y those who thought him evil when ne was so good. And they cried- al1 | those fairies cried?ami ti e :ears, instead of coming up like little flowers to bring a message to you, when they! fell to the ground, they formed little j crosses of stone and that's to make! you remember, June, that when you i : wear one of these little crosses you j must never think evil of any one. Jack?No, not even the Falains. JackJNo, not even the Falin-s. June?My, but tnai win ue puw mi i j hard. But I'll try, Jack and when IJ aint tryin' I'll be liuntin' one fo' yo'! and then I'll know when yo' have one j yo' kayn't never thing bad o' me; but j ; you kayn't be blamin' me much kass j i didn't know about the crucifixion, j i Jack?Didn't the minister teljl you?j June?Oh, the circuit preacher is j nlwavs ramnin' and roarin' about heli- j nre and folks not drinkin' moonshine, J :m!t Me ne never said nothin' about! our Lord bein' nailed to the cross, so lnayufc he don't know. Maybe yo' get it out thar with the larnin', Jack ef I r ? stick to the fairy stone an' don't drink f no nit onshine, will yo' try and g-et my j dad to let me go out yonder whar I; kill git learnin', the way my sister Sal- i' iy wants me' to and is always cryin' to ine to do. Jack?I will. Just as soon as I get; well acquainted with your father. I ' am going to have him s-end you to j school down there in the Gap. Then | I won't have to sit around telling y^u, * June, because you can tell me. June?Must yo' go now, Jack? Jack?Yes. June?Air yo' comin' back some " time? Jack?Sure I am. June?Sho'ly comin'? Jack?Surely comin' June?I'll be waiting for yo\ Jack, hyeh beneath the pine. Uncle Billy?Judd, Jack's plum crazy over June, an' has bin jes aimin' to marry her fo' nigh onto a yeah. ^ But he has been what they call up no'th broke. Judd?Broke? What's that. What's broke? Billy?I mean he's plum pore. He ain't got a n'ckel. An' thar aint any of June's money left. (An' he's jes' , figured that he was plum failure an' he didn't want to take no one no time. T,,rM?TJuVif V?oin' nnrp ic nn reason U UUU IJLUU . UVili | for not marryin'. If he was rich he wouldn't ne-ed to marry; he could have J hired help. | Uncle Billy?June. I've got the pa pels hyeh 111 my coat?all ready for yo' ail' him to git married. An* have ><jv c ueie un.y uo it. i\ase Jack's plum crazy to marry yo'. June?I aint havin' men ask'n to marry me, tnrougn yo' Uncle .billy, ( vi uii ji.0u i ne mail mat muii'ics come io me ii:si, an' JacK uiun'i do 11. I'm mucn ouieeg^u to ( it: v. ttiiuiii lo unii iy me ail i m ( xuL'Cii o^ieegrd io \o lor fixing it uu, uui i. v-vct^c tv> i.e.1 jO oii-3 tiling, i ami ~ n?"Mia I'u a m 'J fi 1-. I ^ LU man; aiij1 jl ?^ u>uv>v Up lliy llillxu and Luat 3 all. Judd?Yo' ken do jes' what you're , 1 aimin* 10 do, tiy God you're papa's with yo'. 1 JacK.?June, you didn't even say gooaoye to .ne when you left. June?i reckon tnat night when yo' . left nie out In the front yard yo' had | ( sed goodbye to me, Jack. jacK?Jtiut Lncie Billy lias told >->u.! ( June?I'm much ooieegeu to ' } 'j' j. lor senain' tne messages yo' aid | iniougii I ncle x^iliy; 1x1*1 10 iuy ijci ij I ^ and then parsed 10 me, but 1 uon i , teel like taikin' thes-d messages bein'jt us how yo' got uie in niv home aio..e < surrounded by perlic^.men. Jfck?Alone? June?Yo' heard what I said?alone, j .June?June, I'd sooner iiav^. n.j ' right arm cut eft' tnan io qo what I'm going to do now. 1 know what! kinship means to you ; nd your father! and what friendship means to me?it*! ' 1 , lilacs ail \uu \tr gut iui mc?uul i , June, I've got a duty. 1 want" Dave.; He's here. Hand him over. j. June?I'm askin' yo' Jack Hale to', call oft' vo'r perlicemen and go. He j aint hyeh. j. Jack?He was seen to enter, and . has had 110 chance to escape. I'm ask- ' . ing you for once to lay aside all these;, blood feuds and turn this man over;, to 4ne, June, he is guilty and the law! say he ought to be punished. June?He aint hyeh, an' if yo' dont; believe it/what are vo' goin' to do? Jack?I'll have to search the house, j ( June?Against my word? Jack?Agai si your word. June?Yoiuve turned your p-rllcei men then to helpiif the Falins. Jack?I'm not for the Falins and I'm net for the Tollivers; I'm for the law and the peace of the valley. June?Jack Hale. I'm askin' yo' again ro leave me and take your perliceinen with yo'. Jack?June, I love you. I love you better than anything on earth. I want to marry you, and the reason I didn't ask you is because I have been sucn a failuiv. Now, if 1 don't take Dave I've made another failure. I've got to, and if you don't hand him over peacefully I'll have to go and get him. It is a duty?a sacred duty; that's all. June?I don't understand what you mean by duty. Seems to me that duty aint what other men write down in law books that yo' should do. It ain't my duty to be nursin' a perlicemen who has come to take some of my kin away. It wern't my pap's duty to take Mr. Bab up in his arms and bring him hyeh and lay him in the house yo' ordered surrounded and that yo' now want to break up and tear down be-! cas' yo' won't take my word. There aint no law that says I must nurse Mr. Bob, or that I must not, or any j law that made my pap iai\e mm m except that law you tole me' about? the law above everything else in the j world?the law of the fairy stone. The | law of lcve?it seemed to me that was ^ the law yo' and I was to go by?the, 1 - ^ 1 ~ ~ ~*r ~/-vf v\>T\r?i i cr^rl if I 1UW OL 1U\ e. IU dUl C U1 jjiuuwwvvi iv. | to me once when you gave me this j little stone and then later when you j had it fixed onto this little chain. The ] law of love?now Jack, thar aint no 1 love at the end of a gun that's pointed j at a poor boy that don't know no bet-1 ter, you can't bring larnin' and love j and sweetness into these hyeh moun- J tains by burnin' gunpowder. Duty! j You've got a queer idea of duty. Jack j Hale, when one minute yo' tell a girl j you love her, and the next break into! her fiouse and take away her kin. Jack?June, the law of the fairy, stone should be the law of the land, j but those that believe it must protect, themselves from those who don't even care for it. I told you JUd sooner cut; off my right arm than do this. I stand ! for the law' of the land and the law of the men- that wrote it. June?Then Jack Hale, I stand fori the law of winnnen folks and the law of the fairy stone?the law that makes people forgive, and help and guide, and if you search this house, If yo' pass me to go into another room look *" T\""? T?'Vi r\cn Anlv fault hflS 111/g' iUI LJA v C, nuuot * j been thai he loved me, jes' as yo' say1 yo' love me and who has only tri-edj to show that love in his own way, because he don't know 110 better?then; turn, yo' back on :ne, Jack, an.d never j speak to me again. ] SIXTH AN>TAL CONTENTION >e?rro Race Conference to be Held i? Vafuin>i] Ill lyUlU 111 'flU I/UIU15 .1 Ul-U UU? Corn Show. The Negro Race Conference of which Rev. Richard Carroll is president, will meet tiiis year In Columbia January 28th., and continue in session four j Says. The m-eeting is to' be held at this. time 011 account of the very low rates j Dn the railroads, because of the corn ii show. i Among the prominent persons who' will speak at the meeting this year, are j the Hon. D. R. Coker, of Hartsville,! who will speak 011 "How to select ^ood se&ds for planting," Prof. J. D.' Eggleston, superintendent of -educa- j tion in the State of Virginia, and Dr. | 11 Francis H. Rowley, of Boston, editor i of "Our dumb animals." There are i twenty-six speakers, both white and colored, on*the programe. A whole day will be spent in dis- j cussing, '/Crime among the colored j people." Th-e labor problem will also, be discussed. The speakers mean to j discourage the people from moving in-j :o cities, and urge them to remain on j Lhe farms. THE PARCEL POST. Newberry Ahead of Some Cities ir This Progressive Business. i i Washington, .Ian. 22.?During j :he t'irst week of the operation of the parcels post law Charleston k-d the! j cities of South Carolina, handling 3.-! 333 parcels, 1,900 of which were outgoing. Columbia came next, with t'tr;I of! 2,r?94, of which 1,1 ~>9 were outgoing, j The first week really consisted of but: five full days, as one day was Sunday! and another was a holiday. 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