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Obituaries and tributes of respect will be
charged for.
IL W. BRADHAM,
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SUMTER, s. c.
IAM PREPARED TO REPAIR A KO
Rebuild, as well as to build outright ail
kinds of Vehicles.
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Jan- 30.
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Aug 21.
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FOR 1S80-9O.
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I>ETURNS of Personal Property, Polls
\j and Real Estate will be received at the
following t:taes and places:
On Tuesday, January 7th, -< Tin?
dalls Store.
OD Wedoeeday, Jauuary 8th, at
il. ?. Manning's. ?
OQ Thursday, January 9th, Wedge?
field.
On Friday, Jauuary 10th, at Gor?
don's Mill.
On Mouday, January loth, at John?
ston's St-ore.
On Tuesday, January 14th, at Shi?
loh. I
On Wednesday, January 15th, at
Lynchburg.
On Thursday. January 16:!), at Mag?
nolia.
Ou Friday, January 17th, at Mayes
vilie.
On Monday, January 20th, at (Cor?
bett's Store.
On Tuesday and Wednesday Jauu?
ary 21st and 22ad, ar Bi.-bopville.
On Thur.-^ay, January l!3rd, at Man?
ville.
On Friday. January 24th, at Spriug
Hill
On Saturday, January 25th at Mc
chanirsville.
OJ Monday, January *27;h. at State?
barg.
On Tuesday. Jwiuary 2?Sth, at
Hagood.
On Wednesday, January 20th, at
Ketnbert's.
On Thursday, Jauuary 30th, at
Scarborough's Stor?> And
At the Auditor'.* OiTure in Sumter on ::!!
oflier dav3 from Jauuary 1-r tu Feb 20th.
inclusive. As Mrs is th<- y<':?r f.?r returning
Etea! Ks;*'*, Tax-pa y ers are recuested to make
full return*of atl Real Estate owned on Nt
January, and notices ot ?ny transfers
W. R. DELGA R,
Dec. 4-Fei ' ' Auditor Sumter CM.
EXTRA FINE SWAMP TIM?
BERED LAND FOR SALE, i
2,000 Acresof Cboke TIMBERED I,AN*i>
?ituated ufar Claremont Depot, Camden
Branch Soii*!? Carolina Railway. Well wood
id with Ortk. Rickory, Hotly, Sweet Gum,
[?iack (rum. Poplar, Maple, Ash and Cypress.
Tins is a splendid ' ody of Laud, lying
(DOSI Convenient!v ?or tr?npnrtation.
The tract is known as the Samuel Brad
ey Land-?s hounde-i by th?* Warree River
>0 the west ?nd on the other sides by lands
>f House, Bradley, Pinckney (f h wftss^e)
Jaldwell and Brayton. Titles clear and per?
ec?. Plat on record at Surater Court H'jut-e.
for terms and price apply to
E. W. SrO?SE,
Dec. 18" Sumter ?. ?. !
By H. RIDES HAGGARD.
Author of '' Colonel QwfcnfrA, V. C.," "Jlr.
Meeson's Will," "A Tale of Three
-L?o;?*," "Allan Qitatermaintn
"She," "Jzss" eic.
CHAPTER I.
T MAY be re?
membered tlx at
in the last pages
of his diary, writ?
ten just before
Iiis death, Allan
Quatermain
makes allusion to
his loni; dead
wife, stating that
he has written of
her fully else?
where.
When his death
?was known, Iiis
p a p e rs were
handed to myself
as his literary ex?
ecutor. Among
them ? found two manuscripts, of which
the following is one. The-other is simply
j a record of events in which Mr. Quater
i main was not personally concerned-a
i Zulu novel, the story of which was told
; tobin? by the hero many years -after the
j tragedy liad occurred. But with this
j we have nothing to do at present,
j I havo often thought (Mr. Quater
! main's manuscript begins) that I would
; set down on paper the events connected
I with my marriage, and the loss of ruy
j most ?lear wife. Many years have now
! passed since that event, and to some ex
! tent time has softened the old grief,
i though heaven knows it is still keen
! enough. On two or three occasions 1
have oven begun the record. Once 1 \
gave it up because the writing of it de- I
pressed me beyond bearing, once because ?
i I suddenly was called away upon a ?
i journey, and the third time because a j
; Kaffir, boy found my manuscript con
j venient for lighting the kitchen lire.
I But now that I am at leisure here in j
j England. I will make a fourth attempt.
! Ii I succeed, the story may serve to in- j
j teres? s< >me one in after rears when 1 ?
I am dead and gone. It is a wild tale
enough, and suggests some curious re?
flections.
? am the son of a missionary. My
! father was originally curate in charge of
I a small parish in Oxfordshire, lie had j
', already been some years married to my '
; dear mother when lie went there, and
' lie had four children, of whom I was
j the youngest. I remember faintly the
: place where we lived. It was an ancient, :
long, gray house, facing the road. There
was r: very large tree of some sort in the .
gardes, lt was hollow, and we children
used to play about inside of it, and
krnx-k knots of wood from the rough
bark. Wc all slept in a kind of attic,
and my mother always came up and
kissed us when we were in bed. I used !
j to wake up and see her bending over mo. '
a candle in lier hand. There was a j
curious kind of pyle projecting from thc !
: wail over my bed. Once I was dread- ?
j fully frightened because my eldest
: brother made me hang to it by my
I hands. That is ali I remember alx/ir
I our old home. It has been pulled down j
. long ago, or I would journey there to
see it.
A little further down the road was a
j large house with big iron gates to it. and ]
j on the top of the gate pillars sat two j
! stone lions, which were so hideous that I |
! was afraid of them. One could see the [
? house by peeping through the bars of the ?
gates. It was th gloomy looking place, !
with a tall vow hedge round it: but in
the summer time some flowers grew
round the sun dial in the grass plat, j
This houso was called tho Hall, and j
Squire Carson lived there. Ono Christ- !
mas-it must have been the Christmas
before my father emigrated, or I should
not remember it-we children went to a j
Christmas tree at the Hall. There was a !
great party there, and footmen wearing !
red waistcoats stood at the door. In tho j
dining room, which was paneled with
black oak, was the Christmas tree, j
Squire Carson stood in front of it. He
was a tall, dark man, very quiet in his
manners, and he wore a bunch of seals
on his waistcoat. We used to think him
old, but as a matter of fact he was then
not more than forty. Ile had been, as I
afterwards learned, a great traveler in
his youth, but somo six or seven years :
before this date had married a lady who j
was half a Spaniard-a papist, my fattier
called her.
I can remember her well. She was 1
small and very pretty, with a rounde l
figure, large black eyes and glittering';
teeth. Siie spoke English with a curious
accent. I cupjx>se that I must lia ve been
a funny child to look at, and I know j
that my hair stood up on my head then
as it does now, fvr I still have a sketch
<-f myself that my mother made of me,
in which lins peculiarity is strongly
marked. On this occasion of the Christ?
mas tree I remember that Mrs. Carson i
turned to a tall, foreign looking gentle- '.
mau who stood beside her. and tapping
him affectionately on the shoulder with
her gold oyeghisses said:
"Look, cousin-look at that droll little :
boy with the big brown ^yes; his hair ls
like a-what you call him?-scrubbing
brush. ()!). what'a droll little boy!"
Thc tall'.gentleman-pulled at his mus?
tache, and, taking Mrs. Carson's hand in
Iiis, tag: m to smooth my hair down with
it till 1 heard her whisper:
"Ivave g?J my liand, cousin. Thomas
is Kooking iik.. --like- the thunderstorm."
Thomas was tho name of Mr. Carson,
lu i husband.
After lliat 1 hid myself as well ;? 5 I
coul i tahind a chair, T>r I was shy, and
watched little Stella Carson, wh<> w as
th? squire's only childe giving the chil?
dren pr*s*-nts oil the tree. She was
dressed as Father Christmas, with some
soft, 'vbit? str.?? round her lovely little
fae?., aod had ?arge, dark eyes, whi<-h I
thought DV?re beautiful than anything I
had ever seen. At last it came to my
turt. to* b'o-c a present-oddly onocj?h, !
<?.<.;.- M.-;-. ?I in tho light of future < vents,
it was i large monkey. She rea? it
down from one of tho lower hon hs of
*t!<- tree an I hand? i it to me. sa} mg:
"Iritis.my Christmas present t> you.
litll . Allan -aiat. i nain."
As ^h?- ??i i her sleeve, which wa
covered with cotton waxd. spangled over
with something that shorn., touched one
of the tapers how I do not know-and
caught Iii?;, and the fia,me ran up her
arm towards her throat. She t-ood quite
still, i suppose t hat she was paralyzed
with fear: and the ladies who we re- near
screamed very loud, hut did nothing, j
Then some i tr? puls?: s< i/., d me perhaps ;
instinct'-would be & tatter word ?o os?-, j
considering ?:ty nc--. } threw myself j
opon the child, and, tauting nt the lire I
with my hands, mer? Wully succeeded in j
extioKuishitig ir before it really got hold, j
My wrists were so badly humed that
they had to he scrapped 'ap in wool for
tong time afterward.*, but with the es
ceptioii of a single burn upon her throat
little Stella Carson was not much hurt
This is all that 1 remember about th
Christmas'.tree at the hall. What hap
poned afterwards is lost to me, but t
this day in my sleep I often sec littl
Stella's sweet face and the stare of terro
in her dark eyes ns the fire ran up he
arm. This, however, is not wonderful
for I had, humanly speaking, saved th
life of her who was destined to bc nr
wife.
The next event which I can reca?
clearly is that my mother and thre
brothers all fell ill of fever, owing, as
afterwards learned, to the poisoning o
our w<e?l by some evil mingled person
who threw a dead sheep into it.
It must have been while they were il
that Squire Carson came one day to th
vicarage. The weather, was still cold
for there was a fire in the study, and '.
sat before the fire writing letters on i
piece of paper with a pencil, while ni]
father walked up and down the room
talking to himself. Afterwards I knew
that he was praying for the lives of hi:
wife and children. Presently a servan
came to the door and said that some OIK
wanted to see him.
"It is the sqtiire, sir," said the maid
"and he says he particularly wishes t<
see you."
"Very well," answered my father
wearily, and presently Squire Carsoi
came in. His face was white and hag?
gard, and his eyes shone so fiercely thal
I was afraid of him.
"Forgive me for intruding on you al
such a time, Quatermain," he said, in ti
hoarse voice, "but to-morrow I leav<
this place forever, and I wish to speak
to you before I go-indeed, I must speak
to you."
"Shall I send Allan away?" said my
father, pointing to me.
"No, let him bide. He will not under?
stand." Xor, indeed, did I at the time,
but I remembered every word, and in
after years their meaning grew on me.
"First teil me," he went on, "how aro
they?" and he pointed upwards with his
thumb.
"My wife and two of the boys are be?
yond hope," my father answered, with a
groan. "I do not know how it will gc
with the third. The Lord's will be done."1
"The Lord's wilt he <lone," the squire
echoed, solemnly. "And now, Quater?
main, listen-my wife's gone."
"Gone!" my father answered. "Who
with?"
"With that foreign cousin of hers. It
seems from a letter she left that she al?
ways cared for him, not for me. She
married me because she thought mea
rich English milord. Now she has run
through my property, or most of it, and
gone. I don't know where. Luckily,
she did not care to encumber her new
career with the child; Stella is left to
nie."
"That is what comos of marrying a
papist, Carson," said my father. That
was his fault; ho was as good and
charitable a man ns ever lived, but he
was bigoted. "What aro you going to
do-follow her?"
He laughed bitterly in answer.
"Follow her!" he said; "why should I
follow her? If I met her I might kill her
or Iiim, or both of them, because ot the
shame they have brought upon my child's
name. No. I never want t) look upon
her face again. I trusted her, I tell you,
and she has betrayed me. Let her go
and lind her fate, lint I am going too.
I am weary of i y life."
'.Surely, Carson, surely," said my
father, "you do not mean"
"No, no: not that. Death comes soon
enough. But I will leave this civilized
world that is a living lie. Wc will go
right away into the wilds, my child and
I. and hide our tharne. Where? I don't
know where. Anywhere so long as there
are no white faces, no smooth, educated
tongues."
"You are mad, Carson," my father an?
swered. "How will you live? How will
you educate Stella? Be a man and live
it down."
"I will be a man, and I will live it
down, but not here, Quatermain. Edu?
cation! Was not she-that woman who
was my wife-was not she highly educa?
te?!?-the cleverest woman in the coun?
try forsooth. Too clever for me, Quater?
main-too clever by half. No, no. Stella
shall be brought up in a different school;
if it Ix) possible, she shall forget her very
name. Good-by, old friend, good-by for
ever. Do not try to lind me out, hence?
forth I shall be like on?; dead to you, tu
you and all I knew," and he was gone.
"Mad," said my father, with a heavy
sigh. "His trouble lias turned Iiis brain.
But he will think better of it."
At that moment thc nurse came hur?
rying in and whispere 1 something in his
( ::r. My father's ince turned deadly pale.
ii?' clutched at the table to support him?
self, then staggered from the room. My
mother was dying.
It was some days afterwards, I do not
know exactly bow long, that my father
look me by the hand and led nu? upstairs
into lin- i ii: room that had been my mo?
ther's bedroom. There she lay, dead in
her corin, with Howers in her hand.
Along th:* wall of thc room wen? ar?
ranged three little white beds,and on
Cac!i of I he I >e. ls lay one of my brolla rs.
They :;?1 looked as though they were j
?ide? p. and they all had flowers in their j
hands. My father told me to kiss them ?
a!!, because j should not, s<e them nnv
ai >re. I t\'u\ so. though I was very !
frightened. 1 did not know why. Then ?
lie took me hi his arms aa l ki -e.! mc. '
"'?'in.- I*ml hath given," he said, "'and 1
the Lori hath taken awav; blessed be
the aaa:.- of the Lord."
I erad very much, mid lie too'; mc
downstairs, and after that 1 a rve only a j
confused memory of tuen dressed ia
blaek carrying heavy burdens towards
tlie gray church} ard.
Next comes a vision of a great ship
and wi.h- tossing Waters. My fainer
could m. longer bear to live in England
alter the loss that had fallen on hine
and made up his mind to emigrate to
South Afriea. U'emn-t have I wen poet ?
at the time; i?dee.1, I !.. ii. ve thai a Large !
portion of our income went from my
I i* lier on my mother's death. At any
rate w?-traveled with the steerage pas?
sengers, and the intense discomfort "of 1
the jos;rn y with the rough way-- of our
fell o\ ena. ?an?s .-.iii] regain upon niv
mind. A: last i" carne t ? au end. and
we rea-died A fri- a. which I v. as t. t to
leave -again for many, many '.ear-? In
?l?. . dav . ? i \ ii i/a: io ?i ha, j m i made any
great progress m soutb'-ni Africa.. My
tailer went up th*\countrv and became
a missionary anion ; the Kathi's, near tn
w her?' tit.- i >\v;rof Cradock now stands,
ant] l? ie I grew to manhood. There
were a few Boer lai na rs in ?he m. ighbor
II?>MJ. and gradually a lillie settlement
of whites gathered round our mission
station a drunken Scotch blacksmith
and wheelwright wa.-; al-ont the most in- I
ten-sting character? who, w hen he was
sober, could quote the Scottish ??>oet
Bums and the "Ingoldsby Legends" lit* j
orally by the page, lt was from him j
that I contracted a fondness for the lat- !
ter amusing writings which has never
.'.?lt, nie.
; Burns I never carol for so nvdeh,
i probably because of the Scottish dialect,
.which repelled rn?. What little educa
'. tieri I got was from my father, but I
never hud much leaning toward books,
not he much time to teach them to me.
On the other hand, I was always a keon
observer of the ways of men and na?
ture. By the time that I was 20 I could
speak Dutch and three or four Kaffir
: dialects perfectly, and ? doubt if there
I was anybody in South Africa who un
! derstood native ways of thought and
action more completely than I did. Also
I was really a gotxl shot and horseman,
! and I think-as, indeed, my subsequent
career proves to have been the case-a
I great deal tougher than thc majority of
men.
It may he wondered that I did not run
: absolutely wild in such surroundings,
but I was held hack from this hy my
father's society. Ile was one of the gen?
tlest and most relined men that I ever
met; even the most savage Kariir loved
him, and his iniluence was a very good
one for me. Ile used to call himself one
of the world's failures. Would that there
Were more such failures. Every evening
when ids work was done he would take
his prayer book, and, sitting on tho little
stoop of our station) would read the even?
ing psalms to himself. Sometimes there
was not light enough for this, hut it made
no difference, he knew them oil by heart.
When he had finished lie would look out
across tho cultivated lands where the
mission Kaiiirs had their huts.
But I knew it was not these he saw, but
rather the gray English church, and thc
graves ranged side by side before the yew
near the wicket gate.
It was there on tho stoop that ho died.
Ile had not been well, an.1 ono evening
I was talking to him, and his mind went
back to Oxfords Iii re and my motlier.
Ile spoke of her a good deal, saying that
she had never been out -of his mind for
a single day during all these years, and
that he rejoiced to think ho was draw?
ing near that land whither she had gone.
Then he asked me if I remembered that
night when Squire Carson came into
the study at the vicarage, and told him
that his wife had run away, and that
he was going to change his name ami
bury himself in some remoto land.
I said that I remembered it perfectly.
"I wonder where he went to," said
my father, "and if he and his daughter
Stella arc still alive. Well, well! I shall
never meet them again. But lifo is a
strange thing, Allan, and you may. If
you ever do, give them my kind love."
After that ? left him. We had been
suffering more than usual from thc dep?
redations of the Kailir thieves, who stole
our sheep at night, and, as I had done
before, and not without success, I had
determined to watch the kraal and see if
I could catch them. Indeed, it was from
this habit of mine of watching at night
that I first got my nat''ve name of Ma-j
cumazahn, which may be roughly trans- ?
lated as "he who sleeps with one eye !
open." So I took my rifle and rose to ?
go. But he called me to him and kissed :
me on the forehead, saying. ''God bless ;
you, Allan. I hope that you will think j
of your old father sometimes, and that j
you will lead a good and happy life.'' j
I remember that I did not much like '<
his tone at the time, but set it down to j
an attack of low spirits, to which he j
grew very subject as the years went on. j
I went down to the kraal and watched |
till within an hour of sunrise, then, as j
uo thieves appeared, returned to the sta- ?
tion. As I came near I was astonished
toseeafigure sitting in my father's chair, j
At first I thought it must be a drunken ;
Kailii, then that my father had fallen j
asleep lhere. And so lie had, indeed, for
he was dead!
CHAPTER H.
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V forthesta
r't-V"~1 SCt to XVOrk
to carry Out ?
^sy$S ?r* ph.n which I had
'<.<.-- - long cherished,
but been unable
to execute, hecauso it involved separa?
tion from my father. Put shortly, it
was to undertake a trading journey of
exploration right through the countries
now known as the Free State and the
Transvaal, and as much further north
as I could go. It was an adventurous j
scheme, for, though the emigrant Boers j
had begun to occupy positions in these I
territories, they were s;:ll to all pracii
cal purposes unexplored. But I was
now alone in the world, and rt mattered :
ii;ile what became of me*; so, driven on
by the overmastering love of adventure, j
which, ohl as I am, will perhaps still be .
my cause of death, 1 determined to un- j
dertake it.
Accordingly I sold : nc h stock an?]'
goods as we had upon thestatton. reserv- !
ing onlv tlie two best wagons and t\v.> !
pairs of own. The nmcoeds I invested !
tn such goods as were then in fashion, i
for trading purposes, and ia guns and'
ammunition. The guns won!,j havel
moved any modern explorer i<> na rri !
nient; but such as they were 1 man
aged to t?o a good deal of execution;
willi them. One of them was a single j
barreled, smooth bore, fitted ?.?ereus- :
sion caps-a r<??-r we called it- whicl
threw a three-ounce ball, and was j
charged with a handful of coarse !.!.;..!;
powder. Many is the elephant that I'
killed with that roer, ahh-cigh i: g. uer- :
ally knocked me bark ward.-, when I tired j
it. which I.only did under c?-mpal>iori j
The best of the lot., perhaps. \\ ns a dou?
ble barreled No. iii shot ; un, I nu it had
II int locks. Also, there we o sort;?? old
tower muskets, which might or ndght j
not throw straight at seventy yards. 1 j
took six Kaiiirs with me. i three good I
horses, which were supp?t d to be sailed j
- that is. j ?roof aga inst sie!: ness. Arnon* j
tin Kaiiirs w.:- an old fellow named In
daba zirnbi, which, being trans?ate?! !
means -t ?ague ? ?I ir? >u."
1 >upj??>se he gol this nana- fron?, ?ii.
strid.-nt voice and ex haust less .^>:.ue!}e.
This tuan was great character in ids
way, lie had been a t., ?ted nit ', !
dot ror among :i neighboring tri! -. :i: d ;
i*;: ? . to the station un 1er the f ?li ?wi;v.;
ci re a m st a ti ces. which. ;i- he pla;, a e.?.;- ;
sideral ?le part in t!m history, are pei !
haps worth recording'.
Two years before ny father's ?. ath I
had occasion to search the eotmlrv
round for some lo^?. Ox?-?n. Aft- r a long ' ?
ami useless fjuest ii ? cc urn <! t<? me that ?
I had better g?i to the place where th< j i
ox> !t W.T.. bro I by a KatHr chi?**, Whosi | i
mime I forgot, ?HU W'KWO lcr:ial w.-^s j 1
about fifty iiu'i'? lio;,} our station. I .'
There I-went, ?nd found the oxen safe :
at home. The chief entertained me' .
handsomely, and on t he f? Alow ing morn- ! ?'
in ;' went, to pay my respects >.;> liim'j .'
before leaving, mid was somewhat sur-ii'
prised to find a coiiection of some him-.
dreds of mon and women sitting round
him anxiously watching the sky, in
which the thunder-clouds were banking
up in a very ominous way.
"You had better wait, white man," j
said the chief, "and see thc rain doctors ;
fight tlie lightning." !
I inquired what hr? meant, and learned
that this man, Indaba-zimbi, had fur
some y?\ars occupied the position of .
wizard-in-chief to the tribe, although he
was not a member of it, having been
born in the country now known as
Zululand. But a son of the chiefs, a
man of about SO, had lately set up as a
rival in supernatural powers. This irri?
tated Indaba-zimbi beyond measure, and
a quarrel ensued between the two witch
doctors that resulted in a challenge to
trial by lightning being given and ac?
cepted. These were the conditions.
Thc rivals must await tho coming of a
serious thunderstorm, no ordinary tem?
pest would servo their turn. Then,
carrying assegais in their hands, they
must take their stand within fifty paces
of each oilier upon a certain patch of
ground where tho big thunderbolts were
observed to strike continually, and by
the exercise of their occult powers and
invocations to the lightning, must strive
to avert death from themselves and
bring it on their rival. The terms of
this singular match had boen arranged
a month previously, but no storm worthy
of the occasion had arisen. >7nw the '
local weather prophets believed it to be
brewing.
I inquired what would happen if
neither of the men were struck, and
was told that they must then wait for
another storm. If they escaped the
second time, however, they would be
held to be equal in power, and be jointly
Consulted bj' the tribe on occasions of
importance.
The prospect of being a spectator of
so unusual^', sight overcame my desire
to.be gone, and I accepted tho chiefs
vitation to see it out. Before midday 2
regretted it, for though thc western
heavens grew darker and darker, and ;
the still air heralded tao coming of the
storm, yet it did not come. Dy 4 o'clock
it became obvious that it must burst
soon-at sunset, the old chief said, and
in the company of the whole assembly I
moved down to the place of combat.
The kraal was built on the top of a hill,
and below- it tho land sloped gently to
the banks of a river about half a mile
away. On thc hither side of the bank
was the piece of land that was, the na?
tives said, "loved of the lightning."
Here the magicians took up their stand,
while the spectators grouped themselves
on the hillside about two hundred yards
away, which was, I thought, rather too
near to be pleasant.
When'we had sat there for awhile my
curiosity overcame me, and I asked
leave of tiie chief to go down and inspect
the arena. He said I might do so at my
own ri.->k. I told him that the 'ire from
above would not hurt whit? men, and
went and found that it was a bed of iron
ore, thinly covered with grass, which of
course accounted for irs attracting the
lightning from the storms as they trav?
eled along the line of the river. At each j
end of thU ironstone area were placed i
thc combatants, Iadaba-zim'ba facing the
east, and his rival the west, and before
each there burned a little fire made of
some scented root. Moreover, they were
dressed in all the paraphernalia of their
craft, snake skins, fish bladders, and I j
know nd what besides, while round their
necks hung circlets of baboons' teeth
V.-.1 bor.es from human hands. First I
went to the western end where the
shiers son stood. Ile was pointing with
Iiis assegai towards the advancing storm
md invoking it m a voice of great ex?
citement.
"Come, f:r>\ and lick up Indaba-zimbi!
"Hear me. Storm Devil, and iiek In- |
iaba-zimbi w th your red tongue!
"Spit on hi ai with your rain!
"Whirl him away in your breath!
"Make him as nothing-melt thc mar?
row in his bones!
"Run into his heart and burn away the
lies! '
"Show all tho people who is the true j
Witch Finder!
"Ix-t me not be put to shame in the
eyes of this white niau!"
Tims he spoke, or rather chanted, and
nil the while rubbed Ivis broad chest-for j
he was a very fine man-with some filthy
compound of medicine ai monti'.
After a while, getting tired of his
song, Lwalked across the ironstone, to
where Indaba-zimbi sat by .his fire. Ile
was not chanting at adi. but ids per?
formance was much more impressive.
It consisted in staring at the eastern j
sky, which was perfectly clear of cloud,
and every no wand again beckoning; at j
it with his [lager, then turning round to
point with the assegai towards his rival
Fora wiiia? 1 I '.?ked at him in silence
lie was a curious wizened man. appa
rently over fifty years of agc. with thin
hands that looked as tough as -wire. His
nose was much sharp; r than is usual
among these races, and he had a queer
habit of "holding his head sideways like
a bini when he spoke, which, in addi?
tion to the humor that lurked in ins < ye.
gave him a most comical appearance
Another strange thing abe::; him was
that he had a >:ng!c white lock of hail
among his black wool. At hist I spoke
to him:
"Indaba-zim! i, my friend." I said,
'.you may he a good ?vitei? doctor out
you are certainly a f< .. I. It is ho good
beckoning at the blue sky while your
enemy is getting a start with th- storm."
" You may be clever; but don't think
von kn. AV ev erv thin; . white man." the
voiceband with.: something Uk? a grin.
"Tliev call you Inmiotigae." I went
nm "you had better use it, or thc Storm
1 ! .-. il won't hear you."
"The lire from above ninsdOwn iron."
heanswi red. "so 1 keep my tongue qui? t.
dh, ves. l t him curse away. ! ii put bia;
.ut presently, hook now. vide man."
1 lo??ked. and in thc ? :-i.:a sky there
grew a cloud. At first ii was .-mab. but ;
ve- v !?!.'. !:. l-i '- il gatin red with extraor.
ii : try rapidity".
This u.i> ?-dd enow; It, but as' 1 ha ;
-...-:> the . am ? thing i appen befon; il did
.iot [?ari?euhaly astonish ira\ 1: Ls io
. > means unusual in V frica for two
;h::ud- rslo:'ms to ?rom . up al the same
ame from dhfeiei.t pomis ; >? ti o com
"You ! ad better goon, rndabn-zimh;."
I tid, alie big st??rm i- com mg along
'ast. and "AY iii-00:1 eat up that bab? o?
pours." and ? pointed I.? tit. west.
" i Jam,*-; s. .u.e?iuv.--* grow t ? ? giants,
A nih! man," sai ? Imbiba ; im! i. heek<m
n ; aw av vigorously. "Look now at ia}
-lou'l-ehiM.""
1 look? ', : the eastern storm liad spread
tseU"-from earth t?? sky, and in shape
?esenililed au (mormons man. There j
AT.s its head, its shoulders, and its I?
>es, it was lik'1 a huge giant traveling .
icross tiie heavens. Tia' light Of the ?
;etlmg sun escaping from beneath the
oweretlge of iii" western storm shot'.']
icross the intervening.space in a sheet j
>f splendor, an i, lighting up the ad- 1
rauchig ligure, wrapped its middle in
hues ?f glory, too wonderful to be. de?
scribe-!; bur; beneath and above this
glowing heit his feet and head w<-re
black as jet. Presently, as I watched,
an awful flash of light shot from the
head of the cloud and circled it about as
though with a crown of living fire .md
vanished.
"Aha,"' chuckled old Indaba-zimbi,
"my little boy is putting on his man's
ring," and he tapped the green ring on
his own head, which natives assume
when tliey reach a ce rtain age ami dig?
nity. "Now, white man. unless you are
a bigger wizard than ei:her of us you
had better clear oif, for the tire fight is
about to begin."
I thought this sound advice.
."Good luck go with you, my black
uncle," I said. "I hype you don't feel
the iniquities of a misspent life weighing
on you at the last."
"You look after yourself, and think of
your own sins, young man," he an?
swered, with a grim smile, and taking a
pinch of snuif, and at that very moment
a Hash of lightning. I don't know from
which storm, struck tile ground within
thirty paces of mc. That was enough
for me. I fairly took to my heels, and
as I went ? heard old Imiaba-zimbi's dry
chuckie of amusement.
I climbed the hill till I came t< where
the chief was sitting v.-ith las In.lunas,
and sat down near to him. I looked at
the man's face a:ai saw that he was in?
tensely anxious for his son's safety, and
hy no means confident of his powers to
resist the magic of Indaba-zimbi. Ile
was talking in a lou- voice to thc Induna
next to him.
"Hearken!" the chief was saying, "if
the magic of Indaba-zimbi prevails
against my son. I will endure hhu r.o
m ire. Of this I am sure, that when ho
has slain my son he will slay me, me
also, and make himself chief in my place.
I fear Indaba-zimbi. On:''
'.Black one,'' answered thc Induna,
"wizards die as dogs die, and, once dead,
dogs bark no more."
"And once dead." said thc chief, "wiz?
ards work no more spells,*' and lie bent
and whispered in the Induna's ear, look?
ing at the assegai in his hand as he whis?
per^ d.
"Good, my father, good!" said thc In?
duna, presently. "Ic shall be done to?
night, if tho lightning does not do it
first."
"Abad lookout Toroid Indaba-zimbi."
I said to myself. "They mean to kill
him."' Then I thought no more cf the
n : tier for a while-the scene before me
was too tremendous.
T.ie two storms were rapidly rushing
together.
Tiie silence deepened and deepened,
the shadows grew blacker and blacker,
then suddenly all nature began to moan
beneath the breath of an icy wind. On
came the wind; the ?mooth surface of
the liver was ruined by it into little
waves, thc tail grass bowed low before it.
and in its wake came the hissing sound
of furious rain. ?
Ali! the storms had met. From each
there burst an awful dazzling blaze of
light, and now the hil! on which we sat
rocked in the noise of the following
thunder. The light went out cf the sky.
darkness fell suddenly on the land, but
not for long. Presently the'whole land?
scape grew vivid in the Hashes: it ap?
peared and disappeared; now every?
thing was visible for miles, now even
the men at my pi-Ic vanished in' the
blackness.
Suddenlv the thunder and lightning
ceased for a minute, and everything
grew black, and. except for tho rain, si
lent.
"It isover, ono way or the other, chief."
I called out into the darkness.
"Wait, white man. wait," answered the
chief in a voice thick with anxiety and
fear.
Hardly were thc words out of his mouth
when the heavens were lit up again til!
they literally seemed to llame. There
were the men. not four paces apart. A
great flash fell between them: I saw them
stagger beneath the shock. Indaba-zimbi
recovered"?!*niseif first-at any rate,when
the next Hash came he was standing bolt
upright, pointing with his assegai to?
wards his enemy. The chiefs son was
still on his legs, but he was staggering
like a drunken mau, and the assegai had
fallen from his hand.
Darkness, then again a Hush, more
fearful, if possible, than any that had
gone before. To me it seemed to come
from tho east, right over the head of
i r? a ba-/.im hi. Next instant 1 saw the
chiefs son wrapped, as it were, in the
heart of it. Then the thunder pealed,
[he rai:: burst over as -ike a torrent, and
I saw no more.
The'v^orst of the storm was done, but
for a while the darknr.s:-:* '.vas se dense
that we could not move, nor; indeed,
was I inclined to Lave the safety of thc ?
hillside where the lightning was never
IcTTown to strike and -:<? nt ure down to j
the ironstone. Occasionally lhere still \
came ;1 ishos, but, search as we would, 1
\\ e e<ni i si e no trace of either of the
wizards. For my part. I believed that
ii.-; .vere both doa*L No w th-1 clouds :
slowlv rolled away down the course ci 1
the river, and with it w? nt the rain; and ;
now the <:-v - -hone out in their wake.
""Let as .go. and svo.'saidthe old chief, ?
rising an.*! shaking tho water from his j
hair. "The fl re'light has ended. let us
go and se? who has conquered."
I rose and followed him. dripping as j
though I had sv\.;;a a mm.'red >atds ?
willi my clothes on. and aft r mo came j
all rh< ? ;>> <.{' tho kraal.
We reached the spot: even in tba:
light I could see where the ironstone j
had ive:? split and fi: vd by the thunder- j
bolts. Wiche 1 was Uddng about me. I 1
suddenly bearii rhe chief, who was on j
rrYv right, give a low moan, and saw the
people chaster round bin:. I .vent up :
and lo >ke I. There, on the groan.!, lay ;
thc body of frisson, ile was a dreadful :
sight. His hair was burned oil his hoad, j
tfr.- copper rings upon Li; arms were
ia* d. the a hannie which lay-war j
was I?terai b shivered into threads, and. ;
wh: n i took hold oi' h;> arm, it seemed
to mothal ev, rv U?:io ft' ii was broken.
I ho men \\ un ti io muet stood gazing
sil<-ntiv. while the women wailed.
.nova: is tho magie ol Indaba-zimbi."
.- ii.l a nain at length. The eloet turned j
ami struck him a heavy blow with th?? !
lonn ie in his hand.
. ? ire.;: or not. thou do ,. he shall die/' !
ii. cried,-""a'nd so ?halt thou if?-Un ?it sing- j
est his pi n's-.'s so I- . diy."' ,
? said nothing. 1 . .: : bink Tug ii probable i
that tim.ia ; mili had shared the fate of !
his enemy, wont to iook. But 1 could ;
s.-e nothing of him, and at length, l"-mg !
thoroughly chilled with the wet, started j
back to my wagon to get a change of
clothes, tm reaching it, 1 was rather sur- I
prised to seo a strange Kailir seated on
tin- ?r'w ing box wrapped up in a blanket.
..] ?ull.>! come out of that," I saul.
The figure on the box slow ly unrolled
the blanket, and with great deliberation :
took a pindi of snuiT.
..lt was a good rire light, white man,
was it notr' said ludaba-zimbi, in his ?
high, cracked voice. "Bat he never had
a chance against nie, poor bov. Ile
kn^w nothing nbout it. See,' whi??*man,
what comos of presumption in the young.
It is sad, '.'erv sad, but I made the flashes*
iiy, didn't I?*'
"Yon old humbug,"" I said, "unless*
you are careful you will soon learn what
comes of presumption in the old, for'
you>* chief is after you with an assegai/
and it will take all your magic to dodge
that."
"Now you don't say so," said Indaba-*
zimbi, clambering elf the wagon with1
rapidity; "and ail because of this wretch?
ed upstart. There's gratitude for you/
white man. I expose him, and they
want to kill me. Well, thank rou for"
the hint. We shall meet again" before*
long," and he was gone like a shot,; anx?r
not too soon, for just then some men*
came up to the wagon.
On the following morning I startCtT.
homewards. The first face I saw on ar?
riving at the station w?.s that of Ifridaba-'
zimbi.
"How dc you do, Macumazahn?" he.'
said, holding bas head on one side r.nd;
nodding his white lock. "I hear you4
are Christians la-re, and I want to trya;
new religion. Mine must be a bad one/
seeing that my people wanted to kill me*
for exposing an impostor."
f*TO F.?: CONTINUED j
The Cigarette Law?
The Legislature at irs recent session'
enacted a law prohibiting any oue from
selling or furnishing tobacco cigarettes*
cr cigarette paper to miters uude?
eighteen years of a'gs. Tbs ftllotfiog^
is a draft cf the law :
Section 1. Be it enacted, etc , that
from and after the passage of thia Act
it shall not be lawfrj? for any person or*",
persons, either himself or themselves, to*
sell, furnish, give or provide any minor
under the age of 18 years with' tobacco/
cigarettes cr corette nacer, or' ao/
substitute therefor.
Sec. 2. Tb at any person or person^
violating the {previsions of the preced-*
ing Section, either in person, hy agent
or in soy other way, shall be held and'
deemed guilty of a misd?d'etf?bf. and*'
upon indictment and conviction there-*
after shad be punished by a fine not ex-"
eeed?Dg ?100 nor less than g-O, or by'
imprisonment for a term of not more'
than one year nor less than two months,
or both, in the discretion of the court ;*.
one-half of the fine imposed to be paid
to the informer of the offense, and the.
other half to be paid to the treasurer of
the county which such conviction
shall be bad.
Two Monuments to Grady.
The fund for the erection of a moon-',
meut io Atlanta, Ga., to the memory of
the late Henry W. Grady aggregates'
316,000. and the subscription" lists wilf
not be closed until the 23d of January
-thirty days from the date of his death.
The amount already received insures a"
beautiful shaft. Bat Atlanta" wilf pro-.
vide another monument in toe shVpe of
a city hospital, to be called the "Henry7
W. Grady Hospital,"' to cost about $75,
000. The city council has determined'
to appropriate $30,000, and the Beoev-"
clent Horne will contribute ?15,000.
A ieading capitalist has offered ?5,060/
and a cumber of citizens' have come for-'
ward with ?1,000 and $500 subscrip?
tions, and it is expected the corner-stone*,
of the h?pital will be laid by the 1st of
April. The ii;? cctfaft? r*?ke an
annual appropriation for its mainte*
nance.
A Greenviliian fer Go7erfifor>
The Atlanta Evening Journal of last
Monday contains a long article on the
South Carolina Stare Alliance, giving
sketches of President Srackhouse, State
A^en? Docabcn, Secretary Reid and
Captain Drake, of Marlboro, the cham?
pion corn raiser of the world. The
article is likewise embellished with al?
leged portraits cf those dignitaries,
which to say the leas! bear a distant and
strained resemblance ter the y?r*Onages*
thev ;a~e suppos?e1 te represesl.
The Alliance ?rdele i? accompanied
by a i evie .? of the political outlook io"
!)L> State fre n an A;liane? standpoint,
in which Col. James A. Hoyt, cf this"
city, is named as one of the probable
candidates for Governor in the corning
eampibin -Greenhills iWics*
Tiie Columbia Register says that
Judge Coihran has- accepted the poai?*
tien of general c">un?el fer South Caro
baa for the Ricbocnd and danville
Railroad system, but that he will serve
out hi? term in Congress before devoting
his at:rr.?ion Jo the position. Col. B'.*
L Abney, of Columbia, ha? been ap-"
pointed assistant counsel, and will have
charge of tho iegai business of the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta "aail
road. Gol. J. L Orr of ?rceavilTe and
Major D. lt. Duncan cf Spartanburg
?..ave also bren encased as assistant
counsel, with the Columbia and Green?
vale and S partan bui ir. Union aud Co-'
Ii: ni bia Railroads as i'uir special charge"
roped ; vc ly.
? wm -
How to Save Your Meat
This is what the famous young
Pesas fanner. Jeff. Davis Welborn,
sS\, in t!ic Now Boston Herald :
As a gr? a? n-. -.nv cf ."-ar people killed
hogs Mond ST a.ni Tuesday last they
will saturallv be looking for some plan
to save it daring the dim^i weather
which has opi ned tiie pores of the meat..
Thc salt will extract every T>art""trls of
thc impurities inside of ?oor days, but?*
the sait keens tbess i?purh'&f hom
evacuating by holding Ire? 1 in a liquid
state around the meat. This blood,
etc., wiM attract tfies rad will sour thc'
meat ; but if at tho end of four days'
the meat is taken up and old brine
poured otT and the salt brushed off,
then re-salted with clean salt, covering
the meat entirely, allowing nc two'
pieces rc tra !.. : nd cram salt nest to
the hos. so each piece will be wrapped
in salt, it wi:" keep: I have re-salted
this way 3 the moat was taiated
and ali thc taiut would disappeir and
thc meat cure uti sweet and pa-e. The
refuse salt can be made to pay for itself
by sowing it en loose sarady soil or
trashy laud ot any kind so as to show
about like a heavy frost-not thicker ;
but do not put un clayey, stiff soils"
without trash.
_ . m im
The Supreme Court of Alabama has'
refused s new trial in the case of Dicjc
Hawes, the famous Birmingham mur-"
Vererer, and fixed Febiuary *2$:h a* th?r
ia$ of his execution * f