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i ! p 'S*- BK 'Hi SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 18 50. Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881.1 "Bc Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's SUMTER, S. G., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 5, 1890. THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established ??ftfo, f??# ---.-.--- ~ g New Series-Yoi. IX. No. 30. ?^^|l^i|?naii d? Southron. Published every Wednesday, BY N. GK OSTEEN, * SUMTER, S. C. 1 & TERMS I Twe Do?ars per aoBum-io advance. ?AD TIKTIBIKINTS. One Square, first insertion.$1 00 S very subsequent insertion. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. 1 AU conoMia?eatioas *-.!>"ch subserve private ^ ^interests will beoharge? for as advertisements. .Obituaries and tributes of respect will be POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varie?. A marvel of purity, strength and wboiesooeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and can? not be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. 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I ott rest calculated at the. rate of 4 per cent, per annum, payable quarterly. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, A. Wfirrx, JR., President. Cashier. Aug 21._ TALBOT!1& SONS, RICHMOND, VA-, MANUFACTURERS, "Will famish lowest estimates oo all kinds of machinery : ENGINES AND BOILERS, SAW MILLS AND GRIST MILLS, COTTON GINS, PRESSES AND ELEVATORS, BRICK AND TILING MACHINERY PLANERS AND WO OD-WORK? ING MACHINERY. Write to cse for prices before buying. V. C. BADHAM, General Ageoi, Feb 19-0 Colombia. S. C FOR SALE. " A LOT OF GENUINE German Kaimt 23 to 25 per cent. Potash. D. J. WINN. Feb. 19-2 By H, RIDES HAGGAED. Author of "Colonel Quanten, V.C.,'' "Mr itees?a?s mil," "A Tale of Three Lions," "Allan Quatermain^ "She," "Jess," etc. SYNOPSIS OF THE STORY. This story is supposed to be founded upon a manuscript found in the papers of Allan Quater malu, which wore given to the author as hieran* executor. In it Quatermain tells the story of his marriage. CHAPTER L--Describes Allan's first meeting. I when a child, with Stv?a Carson, at a Christmas i gadhering. Stella's dress caught fire and Allan extinguished the Maines Stella's mother was I Spanish, and she eloped with a cousin, leaving Stella with her father. Squire Carson. He de? termined to leave England account of the dis? grace,-and at about the same time Aiian's mother died and Allan's fattier took him to South Africa, where Mr. Quatermain became a missionary among the Kafirs. When Allan was 30 his father GaAPTEa IL-Allan sold the effects and decided cogoon a journey of trade ami adventure. Among b/s men was a Kafilr uamed Indaba-zimoi. a witch doctor Between bim and another witch doctor there had two years before been a lightning con? test, which resulted in thedeath of his contestant CHAPTER III.-Details the start of the expedi? tion. Quatermain describes his first .-lephant hunt. CHAPTER IV.-Quatermain discovered a large body of Zulus, and was surprised by two of their scouts. Acting upon the impulse of the moment, he shot both of them and retreated. The Zulus had been following a party f Dutch Boers, con? sisting of seventeen or eighteen men, their women and children. au<l a lar^e number of cattle, with which they were removing to the norla. For safety's sake the cattle and some-of the-somen and children were sent away, while .Quatermain, the witch doctor and .some of the Boers remained. The next .morning, by a rose, Quatermain and Indaha-zimbi were captured by the Zulus. CHAPTER V.-Quatermain discovered that luda ba-zimbi had betraj'ed him into the hands of the Zulus, who at first offered him no harm. The camp of the Boers iras attacked and destroyed. One little child only was saved alive and Quater maia preserved .hftr by fighting a duel with and J killing a Zulu warrior. Thc witch -doctor had said -, that Quatermain was a spirit. The Zulus <leter mined to kill bim, but were prevented by Induna, who pretended himself to kiil Quatermain and then bring him to life acrain. This frightened the Zulus, and Indaba and Quatermain, with the child, made their escape CHAPTER VI.-Describes ?he manner of escape of Quatermain with the witch doctor and Tota, the child. Indaba said "Go north," prophesying that friends would be found there. Quatermain obeyed, though against his jw" nenL They crossed a broad desert, where i_e was no wa? ter, and at its end they became unconscious. When they recovered, they were beiDg cared for by Stella Carson, whose ?ife Quatermain saved when a child, and who was now a. beautiful young woman. Since early childhood she had lived in the wilds vf Africa with her father, never having seen but one other Englishman. CHAPTER VII.-Stella was accompanied by a woman s ailed Hendrika, who was captured by baboons when a child and rescued by Stella's father. Hendrika and Indaba quarreled, and Hendrika objected to Quatermain *s being taken to Stella's home, but was overruled- The hom? of Mr. Carson, who was sick at this time, was a marvel of white marble buildings, built like Zulu huts, only much larger. No one knew who built them; Carson found them ready to his hand when he settled there. CHAPTER rm. 7^pT T LENGTH tho ? last platform, or Jf terrace, was Jo&k ^8^, reached, and we JF<-*5? ^BT~piilled up outside /?? tne wall sur *? w??&k&?^ rounding thecen P 1 ?rOU ' ' ': 'r' mUr' ? ^^m^'/^^^^. i nits-for so I M^^^^^p^? must call them, for want of a bet leTn?imo- Our ap j)Jf??3&\ \ j proacb had been N ? observed by a yt^?"' '~r?y crowd of natives, \ whose race I have : ji x ne-ver been able to detfrmine accurately: they belonged to the l?asutu and peaceful section of the Bantu peoples rather than to the Zulu and warlike. Several of these ran up to take the horses, gazing on us with aston? ishment, not unmixed with awe. We dismounted-speaking for myself, not without difficulty-indeed, had it not been for Stella's support I should have fallen. "Now you must come and see my father," she said. "I wonder what he will think of it, it is all so strange. Hendrika, take the child to my hut and give her milk, then put her into my bed; I will come presently." Hendrika went off with a somewhat ugly grin to do her mistress' bidding, and Stella led the way through the nar? row gateway ia the marble wall, which may have inclosed nearly half an "erf," or three-quarters of an acre of ground in all. It was beautifully planted as a gar? den, many European vegetables aud flow? ers were growing in it, besides others with which 1 was uot acquainted. Pres? ently we came to the center hut, and it was then that I noticed the extraordinary beauty and finish of the marble masonry. In the hut and facing the gateway was a modern door, rather rudely fashioned of Bucken pont, a beautiful reddish wood that has the appearance of having been j sedulously pricked with a pin. Stella i opened it, and we entered. The interior j of the hut was the size of a large and lofty room, the walls being formed of plain polished marble. It was lighted somewhat dimly, but quite effectively, by peculiar openings in the roof, from which the rain was excluded by over? hanging eaves. The marble floor was strewn with native mats and skins of animals. Bookcases filled with books were placed against the walls, there was a table in the center, chairs seated with rimpior strips of hide stix*! about, and beyond the table was a couch on which a man was lying reading. "Is that vou. Stella?" said a voice, that even after so many years seemed famil? iar to me. "Where have you b^en. my dear? I l>egan to think that you liad lost yourself again." "No, father, d< ar, I have not lost my? self, but I have found somebody else." At that moment I stepped forward so that the light, fell oa me. Tho old gen? tleman on the couel? roye with some difficulty and bowed with much court? esy. He was a fine-looking old EL:UI, with deep-set dark eyes, a pale face, that bore many traces of physical and mental suffering, and a long white beard. "Be welcome, sir," he said. "It is long since we have seen a white face in these wilds, and yours, if I am not mis? taken, is that of an Englishman. There has been no Englishman here for ten years, and he, I grieve to say, was an outcast flying from justice," and he bowed again and stretched out his hand. I looked at him, and then of a sudden his name flashed back into my mind. I took his hand. "How do you do, Mr. Carson?" I said. He started back as though he had been stung. "Who told you that name?" he cried. "It is a dead name. Stella, is it you? I forbade you to let it pass your lips." "I did not speak it, father. I have never spoken it," she answered. "Sir," I broke in, "if you will allow me, I will show you how I came to know your name. Do you remember many years ago coming into the study of a clergyman in Oxfordshire and telling him that you were going to leave Er land for ever?*' Ile bowed his head. ""And do you remember a little b who sat upon the hearthrug writi: with a pencil?'' ""I ito," he said. "Sir, I was that boy, and my name Allan Quatermain. Those children wi lay sick are all dead, their mother dead, and my father, your old fr?en is dead also. Like you he emigrate and last year he died in the Cape. B this is not all the story. After many a ventures I, one Kainr, and a little gi: lay senseless and dying in the bad lane where we had wandered for days wit out water, and there we should ha perished, but your daughter Miss" "Call her Stella," ho broke in, hastil "I cannot bear to hear that name, have forsworn it." "-Miss Stella found us by chance ai saved our lives." "By eliance, did you say, Allan Quatc main?" he answered. "There is litt chance in this; such chances spring fro another will than ours. Welcome. Alla son of my old friend. Here we live as .-.ere tu a he) nitage, with Nature f< our only friend, but such as we have yours, and for as long as you will tal it. Iutt you must be starving, talk i more. Stella, ii is time for food. T morrow we will talk." To tell the truth I can recall very lilt moni of the events of that evening, kind of dizzy weariness overmasten me. i remember sitting at a table ne: to Stella, and eating heartily, and then remember nothing more. I awoke to find myself lying on a con fortable bed in a hut built and fashionc on t'ne same model as the center C4* While ? was wondering what time it wa a native came bringing son 1 clea ?clothes on his arm. and, luxury of luxt ries, produced a bath hollowed froi wood. I rose feeling a very differer man; my strength had come back agai to me I dressed and, following a co^ ?red passage, found myself tn the cent? hut. Here the table was set for breal fast withal] manner of good things, sue as 1 had not seen for many a monti which I contemplated with healthy sa isfaction. Presently I looked up, an there before me was a more delightfi sight, for standing in one of the dooi ways which led to the sleeping huts wa Stella, leading little Tota by the hand. She was very simply dressed ina loos blue dress, with wide collar, and girdle in at t!ie waist hy a little leather bell In the bosom of her robe was a bunch c. orange blooms, and lier rippling hai was tied in a single knot behind he shapely head. She greeted me with sBsile- asking me how I had slept, an then held Tota up for me to kiss, ?nde her loving care the child had been quit transformed. She was neatly dressed i; a garment ?-f the same stulf that Stell wore, her fair hair was brushed; indeed had it not been forthesun blisters on he face and hands, one would scarcely hav believed that this was the same chili that Lndaba-zimbi and ? had dragged fo hour after hour through the burning waterless desert. "We must breakfast alone. Mr. Allan,1 she said; *4my father is so upset by you: arrival that he will not get up yet. Oh you cannot tell how thankful I am tba you have come. I have been so anxious about him of late. He grows weake: and weaker; it seems to me as thougl the strength were ebbing away fron him. Now he scarcely leaves the kraal I have to manage everything about tin farm, and he does nothing but read ant think." Just then Hendrika entered, bearing f jug of coffee in one hand and of milk ir the other, which she sat down upon thc table, casting a ieok of little love at mt as sile did so. "Be careful. Hendrika; you are spill ing the coffee," said Stella. "Don't yoi; wonder how we come to have coffee here, Mr. Allan? I will tell you-wi grow it. That was my idea. Oh, J have lots of things to show you. You don't know what we have managed tc do in the time that we have been here. You see. we have plenty of labor, for the people about look upon my father as thoir chief." . "Yes," I said, "but how do you get all of these luxuries of civilization?" and I pointed to the books, the crockery, and the knives and forks. "Very simply. Most of the books my father brought with him when he first trekked into the wilds; there was nearly a wagon load of them. But every three years wc have sent an expedition of these wagons right down to Port Natal The wagons are loaded with ivory and other goods, and come hack with ali kinds of things that have been sent out from England for us. You ree, although we live in this wild place, we are not al? together cut off. We can 6end runners to Natal and hack in three months, and tl?e wagons get there and back in a year.v "Have you ever been wich the wag? ons?" I asked. "Since I was a child I have never been more than thirty miles from Ra-byan'a Peak," she answered. "Do you know. Mr. Allan, that you are, witl: one ex? ception, the first Englishman tlv.it I have known out of a book. I suppose that I must seem very wild and savage to you, but I have had one advantage a good education. My father has taught me everything, and perhaps 1 know some tilings that you don't. lean read French and German for instance I t??ink that my father's first idea was to let me rim wild altogether, but he gave it up." "And don't you wish to go into the world?' I asked. "Sometimes," she said, "when I g?*t lonely. But perhaps my t'jther is right -perhaps it would frighten and bewil? der me. At any rate, he would never return to civilization. It is his idea, you know, though I am sure I do not know where he got it from, nor why he cannot boar that our name should be spoken. In short, Mr. Quatermain, we do not make our lives: we must take them as we find them. Have you done your breakfast? Let us go out and I will show you our domain." I rose and went to my sleeping place to fetch my hat. When I returned. Mr. ( 'arson - for, after all, that was his name, though lie would never allow it to he spoken-had come into the hut. He fell better now, hf said, and would accora pany us on our walk if Stella would give liim ar arm. So we started, and after us came Hendrika with Tota and old lndaba zimbi, whom I found sitting outside as fresh as paint. Nothing could tire that old man. The view from the platform was al? most as beautiful as that from the lower ground looking up to th?' peak. The marble kraals, as I have said, faced west, I consequently all the upper terrace lay in j ;he shadow of the great peak till nearly ll j relock in the morning, w hich was a great ; advantage in that, warm latitude. First j we walked through the garden, which [ was beautifully cultivated, and one of j thc most productive that lever saw. j There were three or four natives work ins in ic, and they all saluted my host a "Baba," or father. Then we visited tb other two groups of marble huts. Om of these was used for stables and out buildings, the other as storehouses, thi center hut having leen, however, turnet into a chapel. Mr. Carson was not or dained, but he earnestly tried to con ver the natives, most of whom were refugee: who had come to him for shelter, and h< had practiced the more elementary rite: of the church for so long that I think ht began to believe that he really was ; clergyman. For instance, he alway married those of his people who wouh consent to a monogamous existence, an< baptized their children. When we had examined these wonder ful remains of antiquity, the marble huts and admired the orange trees, the vine and fruits which thrive like weeds in thi marvelous soil and climate, we descende< to the next platform and saw the farming operations in full swing. I think that i was the best farm I have ever seen h Africa. There was ample water for pur poses of irrigation, the grass lands belov gave pasturage for hundreds of head o cattle and horses, and, for natives, til? people were most industrious. More over, the whole place was managed Iv Mr. Carson on the co-operative system he only took a tithe of the produce-in deed, in this land of teeming plenty what was he to do with more? Conse quently the tribemen, who, by the way called themselves the "Children o: Thomas," were able to accumulate con siderable wealth. All their disputes wen referred to their "'father," and he als? was judge of offenses and crimes. Somi were punished by imprisonment, whip ping and loss of goods, oilier and grave: transgressions by expulsion from th< community, a fiat which to one of thea favored natives must have seemed a: heavy as the decree that drove Adan from the Garden of Eden. Old Mr. Carson leaned upon hisdaugh tor's arm and contemplated the seen? with pride. "I have done all this, Allan Quater main," he said. "When renouncing civ ilization first, I wandered here by chance seeking a home in the remotest places ir the world, I found this lonely spot ? wilderness. Nothing was to be seen ex? cept the site, tl ie domes of the marbi? huts and the waterfalls. I took posses? sion of the huts. I cleared thc patch ol garden land and planted the orange grove. I had only six natives then, bul by degrees others joined me; nov tay tribe is a thousand strong. Here w* live in profound peace and plenty. ] have all I need, and I ask no more. Heaven has prospered me so far-may it be so to tho end, which for me draws nigh. And now I am tired and will gc back. If you wish to see the old quarry and the mouth of the ancient mines. Stella will show them to you. No, my love, you need not trouble to come. 1 can manage alone. Look, some of thc head men are waiting to see me." So he went, but still followed by Hen? drika and Indaba-zimbi wo turned, and, walking along the bank of one of thc rivers, passed up behind the marble kraals, and came to the quarry, whence the material had been cut in some re? mote age. The pit opened up a very thick scam of the whitest and most beau? tiful marble. I know another like it in Natal. But by whom it had been worked I cannot say. Not by natives, that is certain, though the builders of th?? kraals had condescended to burrow the shape nf native huts for their model. The only relic of those builders that I ever saw was a highly finished bronze pick axe which Stella found one day in thc quar? ry. After we had examined the quarry we climbed the slope of the hill till we came to the mouth of the ancient mines situated in a kind of gorge. I believe them to have been silver mines. The gorge was long and narrow, and the mo? ment we entered it there rose from every side a sound of groaning and barking that was almost enough to deafen one. I knew what it was at once; the whole place was tilled with baboons, which clambered down the rocks towards us from every direction, in a manner that struck me as being unnaturally fearless. Stella clung to my arm. "It is very silly of me," she whispered. "I am not at all nervous, but I cannot bear the sight of tiiose animals ever" since they killed Hendrik. I alwayfc think that there is something human about them." Meanwhile the baboons came nearer, talking to each other as they came. Tota began to cry, and clung to Stella. Stella clung to me, while 1 and Indaba-zimbi put as bold a front on the matter as we could. Only Hendrika stood looking at the brutes with an unconcerned smile on her monkey face. When the great apes were quite near, she suddenly called out aloud. Instantly they stopped their hideous clamor as though at a word of command. Then Hendrika addressed them. From tue mouth of Hendrika came a succession of grunts, groans, squeaks, click and every other abominable noise that can be conceived To my mind the whole conveyed an idea of expostula? tion. At any rate the baboons listened. One of them grunted back some answer, and then the whole mob drew off to the rocks. I stood astonished,and without a word we t urned back to the kraal, for Hen? drika was too close for me to speak. When we reached the dining hut Stella went in. followed by Hendrika. But j Indaba-zimbi plucked me by the sleeve, i and 1 stopped outside. "Macuniazahu," he said. "Baboon : woman - devil woman. Be careful, \ Macumazahn. She loves that Star (the natives aptly enough called Stella the ! Star), and is jealous. Be careful, Macu niazahn, or the Star will set!" CHAPTER IX. ?{T IS very difficult for me to describe i theperiod of time ? which elapsed be tween my arrival j and my marriage | with'stella. i When ! look back | on lt it s e e ni s ? ^Vy \)<t7%' sweet as with 1 li?; I \y(\-'y and ?lim as with ' .' thc happy dusk of summer ev??.*, while through thesweet- i noss co ues the sound of Stella's voice, j and through the gloom shines thc star-j light of her eyes. 1 think that we loved j each other from th" lust, though for a while we said no w ord of love. Day by ! dav I we it about the place with lier, ?ie- ] companied by little'lota and Hendrika ? only, while she atOudcd lo the thousand j and on" nt Itters which her father's evei j growing weakness had luid upon her; | OT, rat lier. a.> time drew on. 1 attended to ? tlie business and she accompanied me. i Ail dav through we wore together. Then after slipper, when the night had fallen, we would walk together in the garden : and ernie in at length to hear 1e r father 1 read aloud, sometimes from the works < a poet, sometimes from history, or, if 1: did not feel well, Stella would read, an when tliis was done Mr. Carson woul celebrate a short form of prayer, and w would separate till the morning one more brought our happy hour nf meetinj So the weeks went by, and with ever week I grew to know my darling bette: Often I wonder now if my fond fane deceives me, or if indeed there are wornc as sweet and dear as she. Was itsolituc that had given such-depth and gen tiene; to her? Was it the long years of cou muning with nature that had eudowc her with such peculiar grace, the grac we lind in opening flowers and huddin trees? Had she caught that murmurio voice from the sound of the streams th? fall continually about lier rocky horn? was it the tenderness of the evening sk beneath which she loved to walk, th; lay like a shadow on her face, and tl: light of the evening stars that shone i her quiet eyes? At the least, to me si: was the realization of the dream whic haunts the sleep of sin stained men; ? my memory paints her, so I hope to fin her when at last the sleep has rolle away and the fevered dreams are done. Atlast there came a day-the mos blessed of ruy life-when we told ot love. We had been together all th morning, but after dinner Mr. Carso was so unwell that Stella stopped i with him. At supper we met agair and after supper, when she had pt little Tota, to whom she had grow much attached, to bed, we went oui leaving Mr. Carson dozing on the coucl The night was warm and lovely, an without speaking we walked up the gai den to the orange grove and sat dow there upon a rock. There was a littl breeze which shook the petals of th orange bloom over us in showers, an bore their delicate fragrance far an wide. Silence reigned around, broke only by the sound of the falling watei falls that now died to a faint muranu and now, as the wavering breeze turnee boomed loudly in our ears. The moo: was not yet visible, but already the dar clouds that floated through the sk, above us-for there had been rain showed a glow of ?silver, telling us tba she shone brightly behind the peak. Stella began to talk in her low. gentl voice, telling me of her life in the wil derness, how she had grown to love it how her mind had gone on from idea t idea, and how she pictured the grea rushing world that she had never seei as it was reflected to her from the book which she had read. It was a curiou vision of life that she had; things wer out of proportion in it; it was more lik a dream than a reality-a mirage thai the actual face of things. The idea o great cities, and especially of London had a kind of fascination for her; sb could scarcely realize the rush, the roa and hurry, the hard crowds of men am women, strangers each to each, fever ishly seeking for wealth and pleasuri beneath a murky sky. and treading om another down in the fury of competition "What is it all for?" she asked, earn estly. "What do they seek? Having s< few years to live, why do they wast them thus?" I told her that in the majority of in stances it was actual hard necessity tba drove them on, but she could scarcely realize it. Living as she had done, ii the midst of the teeming plenty of th? fruitful earth, she did not seem tb under stand that there are millions who front day to day know not how to sta\* theft hunger. "I never want to go there." she wen on. **I should be bewildered and fright cued to death. It is not natural to liv< like that. God put Adam and Eve in z garden, and that is how he meant theil children to live-in peace, and looking always on beautiful things. This is m j idea of perfect life. 1 want ro other." "I thought that you once told me that you found it lonely," I said. "So I did," she answered innocently, "but that was before you came. Now ] am not lonely any more, and it is per? fect-perfect as the night." Just then the full moon rose above th? elbow of the peak, and her rays stole far and wide down the misty valley, gleam? ing on the water, brooding on the plain, searching out the hidden places of the rocks, wrapping the fair form of nature as in a silver bridal veil through which her beauty shone mysteriously. Stella looked down the terraced valley: she turned and looked up at the scarred face of the golden moon, and then she looked at me. The beauty of the night was about lier face, the scent of the night was on her hair, the mystery of the night shone in her shadowed eyes. She looked at me, I looked at her, and all our hearts' love blossomed within us. We spoke no word-we had no words to speak, but slowly we drew near, till lips were pressed to lips as we kissed our eternal troth. It was she who broke that holy silence, speaking in a changed voice, in soft deep notes that thrilled me like the lowest chords of a smitten harp. "Ah, now I understand," she said, "now I know why we are lonely, and how we can lose our loneliness. Now I know what it is that stirs us in the beauty of the sky, in the sound of water and in the scent of flowers. It is love that speaks in everything, but till we hear his voice we widerstand nothing. But when we hear then the riddle is answered and the gates of our heart are opened, ami, Allan, we sei' the way that wends through death to heaven, and is lost in the glory of which our love is but a shadow. "Li *, us go in. Allan. Let us go before the spell bl eaks, so that whatever comes to us, sorrow, death or separation, we may always have this perfect memory to save us." I rose like a man tu a dream, si ll hold? ing her hy the hand. But as 1 rose my eyes fell upon something that gleamed white among the foliage of the orange bush at my side. I said nothing, but looked. Tile breeze stirred the orange leaves, (lie moonlight struck for a mo? ment full upon the white object. lt was the face of Hendrika, the banyan woman, a^ lndaba-zimbi had called her, and on it was a glare of hate that made me shudder. I said nothing: the lace vanished, and just then I heard a baboon bark in thc rocks behind. Then we went dow n thc garden, and Stella passed into tho center hut. I saw I lendrika standing in the shadow neat i he <!? ?or and \\ ent up to her. ..Hendrika," 1 said, "why were von watching Miss Stella and myself in tht garden?" She drew her lips up lill her teeth gleamed in the moonlight. "Have 1 not watched her these manj Vears, Macumnzaka? Shall 1 cease tc watch her because a wandering whit? man conies to steal her? Why \v? io yo; kissing her in the garden, Maciimazahni How dare you kiss her who isa star?"' '.J kissed her because I love her, and bee;.use she loves me." I answered. "What has that to ?lo with you. Hen? drik;!?" "?.V eau: e you Jove her." she hissed il, answer, "and do I not love her also, wi saved me from the babyans? I am woman as she is, and you area man, an they say in the kraals that men lo\ women better than women love womel But it is a lie, though thi3 is true, that a woman loves a man she forgets a other love. Have I not seen it? I gath? her flowers-beautiful flowers: I clim the rocks where you would never darel go to find them; you pluck a piece ( orange bloom in the garden and give her. What does she do? She takes ? orange bloom, she puts it in lier breas and lets my flowers die. I call to her she does not hear me-she ?3 thinkin? j You whisper to some one far away, an she hears and smiles. She used to kl ma sometimes; now she kisses that whit brat you brought, because you brougl i it. Oh, 1 see it all-all; I have seen from the first; you are stealing her froi j us, stealing her to yourself, and tho? j who loved her before you came are fo: ; gotten. Be careful, Macumazahn, t I careful, lest I am revenged upon yoi j You, you l?ate me; you think me half monkey; that servant of yours calls ni baboon woman. Well, I have lived wit j baboons, and they are clever-yes, the I can play tricks and know things yo don't, and I am cleverer than they, for have learnt the wisdom of white peop] ! also, and I say to you. 'Walk softh ! Macumazahn, or you will fall into I pit,' " and with one more look of malic ; she was gone. I stood for a moment reflecting, was afraid of this strange creature wh j seemed to combine the cunning of th great apes that had reared her with th i passion and skill of human kind. ? foreboded evil at her hands. And ye ; there was something almost touching i I the fierceness of her jealousy. It is ger j erally supposed that this passion on! exists in strength when the object hive is of another sex from the lover, k.t confess that, both in this instance a?: 1 i some others that I have met with, thi has not been my experience. I hav i known men, and especially uncivilize i men, who were as jealous of the affec j tion of their friend or master as an; I lover could bo of that of his mistress j and who has not seen cases of the sam thing where parents and their children were concerned? But the lower one geti in the scale of humanity the more read i ily this passion thrives; indeed, it ma] be said to come to its intensest perfectioi in brutes. Women are more jealous thai men, small hearted men are more jeal ous than those of larger mind and wide: sympathy, and animals are the mos : jealous of all. Now Hendrika was ii some ways not far removed from animal which may perhaps account for the fe rocky of her jealousy of her mistress ! affection. Shaking off my presentiments of evil I entered the center hut. MU Carsor was resting on the sofa, and by hin knelt Stella holding his hand, and hei head resting on his breast. I saw ai once that she had been telling him ol what had come about between us; noi was I sorry, for it is a task that a would be son-in-law is generally glad to do by deputy. ..Come here, Allan Quatermaiu," hi said, almost sternly, and my heart gave a jump, for I feared lest he might be about to require me to go about my business. But I came. "Stella tells me," he went on, "that you two have entered into a marriage engagement. She tells me also that she loves you, and that you say that you love her." "I do indeed, sir," I broke in: "I love her truly; if ever a woman was loved in j this world Hove lier." "I thank heaven for it," said the old I man. "Listen, my children. Many i years ago a great shame and sorrow fell upon me, so great a sorrow that, as 1 sometimes think, it affected my brain. At any rate, I determined to do what most men would have considered the act of a madman, to go far away into the wilderness with my only child, there tc live remote from civilization and its evils. I did so; I found this place, and here we have lived for many years, hap? pily enough, and perhaps not without doing good in our generation, but still in a way unnatural to our race and status. At first I thought that I would let my daughter grow up in a state of complete ignorance, that she should be nature's child. But as time went on, I saw the folly and the wickedness of my plan. I had no right to degrade lier to the level of the savages around me, for if the fruit of the tree of knowledge is a bitter fruit, still it teaches good from evil. So I educated her as well as 1 was able, till in the end I knew that in mind, as in body, she was in no way infeiior to her sisters, the children of the civil? ized world. She grew up and entered into woman Flood, and then it came into my mind ihat I was doin? her a bitter wrong, that ? was separating her trom her kind and keeping her in a wilderness where she j could lind neither mate nor companion. I But though I knew this. I could not yet I make up my mind to return to active fife: i had grown to love this place. I dreaded to return into tile world 1 had abjured. Again and again I put my resolutions aside. Then at the com? mencement of this year 1 fell ill. for a while I waited, hoping that I might get better, but at last 1 realized that 1 should : m-ver get better, that the hand of death was upon me." "Ali, no. father, not that?* Stella said with a cry. "Yes, love, that, and it is true Now j you will be able to forget our separation j in the happiness of a new meeting." and he glanced at me ami smiled. "Well when this know ledge came home to me, 1 determined to abandon this place and trek for the coast, though i well know that the journey would kill me. 1 should never live to reach it. But Stella would, and it would be better than leaving her here alone with savages in the wilder? ness. On the very day that 1 had made up my mind to take this step Stella found you dying in the bad lands, Allan j Quatermain, and brought you here. She j brought you, of ali men in tho world, you, v"tose father had been my dearest i fn'end. and who once with your baby hands hail saved her life from tire, that she might live to save yours from thirst. At the time 1 said little, but 1 saw the ? hand of Providence i ri thh?, and I deter- 1 mined to wait and see \\ hat came about between you. At the worst, if nothing ! caine about, I soon learned that 1 could trust you to see her safely to the coast after I was gone. But many days ago 1 I knew how it stood between you, and j now things have come about as I prayed | they might. God bless you both, my j children ; may you be happy in your j love; may it endure till death and be youd il. God bless you both," and he i stretched out his hand toward me. 1 took it, and Stella kissed him. Presently he speke again: "It is my intention," he said, "if you two consent, to marry you next Sunday. ? I wish lo do so soon, for I do not know j j how much longer will bc allowed to me. J I belie e that bitch a ceremony, solemnly celebrated and entered into before wit? nesses, will, under the circumstances, be perfectly legal; but of course you will repeat it with every formality the first moment it lies in your power to do so. And now. there ?s one more thing: when I left England my fortunes were in a shattered condition; in the course of years they have recovered themselves, the ac? cumulated rents, as I heard but recently, when the wagons last returned from Port Natal, have sufficed to pay off all charges, and there is a considerable bal? ance over. Consequently you will not marry on nothing, foi* of course you, Stella, aro my heiress, and I wish tc make a stipulation. It is this. Thar, sc soon as my death occurs you shah leave this place and take the first opportunitv of returning to England. I do not ask you to live there always: it might prove too miich for people reared in the wilds, as both of you have been: hut I do ask you to make it your permanent home. Do you consent and promise this?" "I do," I answered. "And so do I," said Stella. "Very well," he answered; "and now lam tired out. Again God bless you both, and good night." [TO BB CONTINtTED J Then and Now. It makes a great deal of difference whose bull has been gored. The New York Herald, in a recent editorial says : "In the years immediately following the war, when the negro, under carpet bag management, misruled in the Southero States, the North had nothing at stake-Northern capital and North? ern enterprise bad not then gone down there. Matters have very greatly changed since then. The South is now the promised land of Northern enterprise and capital. A great many millions have been invested down theie in m lils, mines, railroads, factories and works of all kinds. A great many thousand Northern men are either there or pecuniarily interested there. No great calamity can nowadays overtake the South without being very seriously felt all over the North.'7 The Herald undertakes ''to warn the Northern owners of capital invested in the South that if the Republicans carry out their announced Southern policy they will create such general disorders in the South as will make life and pro? perty insecure and interrupt and pros? trate all industrial enterprises and ventures in that region, and thus cause very great and ruinous losses " We are not quite sure that the Herald means what it says, or whether it takes this means to create a public sentiment against the Republican party. Fear of the Republican party has not extended to these parts. South Carolina has one of the largest negro populations of any Southern State, and the party in power here is liable to re? main so until the conditions are mar? velously changed. He who looks to Federal aid to put the negro and carpet? bagger again in power in South Caro? lina is a very big fool. That is all we have to say of bim. The bloody shirt may be waved and ignorance may be made to expect domination, but that day will never come. Insurrections may be caused, but it is written who will be the suf? ferers in the end, and the statute can* not be revoked. Here is one perfect gem of wisdom the Herald found : "Congress ought to leave the negroes alone. It bas nothing to do with them as negroes. When the Federal power turns its back on them, and not till then, will they become citizens in the true sense, and begin for the first time sioce freedom and citizenship were bestowed upon them, to vote as other men do-with regard to the general welfare, and not as a self-seeking .combio?.' " Reed may rule, and Sherman, ?ogalls and Chandler put on their war paint, \ but the South cannot be stopped in her march of progress. The impetus Grover Clevelaod gave her from 1884 to 1888 is too great to be lessened by such a crew, and io 1892. when Chicago is reveling io the World's Fair and Mrs. C'e.veland is asked to grace the White House again in the following March, as we sincerely trust she may be, new force will be added to our advancement. Theo the South will approximate the grandeur of its develop? ment. Bot, whether Mr. Cleveland ever exercises the veto power again or not, the progress and prosperity of the South cannot be marred by Federal legislation. -Columbia Record. Cuban Drought and American Weather* A despatch from Havana yesterday stated that the drought which prevails greatly interferes with sugar making operations. This drought, extending over the Greater Aotii?cs, is interesting from a meteorological as well as from a com? mercial point of view. It is coincident with thc mild winter on the eastern half of America. The same stationary area of high atmospheric pressure ou the North Atlantic Ocean which for three months bas deflected our our con? tinental storms to the northward of the lakes ('hus drawing tropical air over the Atlantic seaboard) bas given Cuba a superfluity of dry, anti-cyclonic weather. It is highly important that the con? nection between Cuban droughts and American mild winters should be care? fully and systematically observed. When Cuba gets her quota of rain the mild seeson in the United States will break up, temporarily rt least, and we shall have some cold storms.-N. Y. Herald. Feb. 27th. -m - -*~ - mm - The Game Law. The law was amended at the session of 1 SSS. and is as follows : Soc. 11)04. lt shall not be lawful for any person in this State, between the 1st day of April and the 1st day of November in any year hereafter, to catch, kill, or injure, or to pursue with such intent, or to sell or expose for sale, aoy wild turkey, partridge, quail, wood? cock, or pheasaut ; or between the 1st day of March and the 1st day of August, any dove, or at any time dur? ing the year to catch, kill, or injure or to pursue with such intent, by firelight any of the birds named in this section." The fine imposed for violation of above section is "not more than twenty dollars," or be imprisoned more than 30 dayt,." Is Colonel J, C. Haskell Sub? sidized ? Oar Slate is about to divide on the question of paying subsidies to mer thant vessels. J C. Ha>kell, repre? senting other parties as be says, which may rucan that he ts a paid attorney, iff the ieadiog advocate of subsidies in this State. That being in barraooy with the high protective tariff idea, xfr is a surprise to many of the straightout Democrats that Haskell, who is the' South Carolina member of the Nation*! Democratic Committee, should Crave! from port to port advocating this scheme, which seems to militate agaii t-i the true Democratic doctrine. The bili before Congress proposes to sub^id.itf American vessels in order to fe ul id ip a trade with Central and South Amerit? and the West Indies. That is the gen? eral government proposes to pay tie* owners of vessels a certaiu amount ac? cording to tonnage, for each trip thijf make, in order that our vessels m$f compete with the vessels of other coun? tries. This is a favorite scheme of James G Blaine and the Republican* party, lt ts in harmony with a protec? tive tariff. On this question people have different opinions. A man has ? right to an opinion on any subject. While the Democratic party of tl ? State has on its banner "Tariff fer Revenue Only," its leader and repre* seniative should not march boldly into the camp of the enemy and do his best fighting, even, if as he says, he does* represent other parties. Let bini resign.-Carolina Spartan. --?-??--?? . Regulate the Railroads. The railroads pat sp poor mooth? last winter when the legislature Wai considering the bili to require them tr provide separate accommodations for tha races. The lawmakers accepted their plea and killed the bill accordingly. Ia their reports of receipts for tn?* first month of the new year tn os t of them admit great gains over last year, and during this month all have had more freight than they could well han? dle. They must be making money and the plea of poverty loses its pathos. Besides they do not seem to have mach love or respect for the State. Th? Richmond and Danville system pays its proportion of the salaries of the Kail road Commissioners under protest and starts suit to get back all it has paid in. The South Carolins offers cheap cou? pons in payment of State taxes, provok? ing costly litigation and crippling th? schools and County governments ia the territory through which it rans, and from which it draws its best patronage, by withholding the taxes with which it is charged for their support. We are inclined tc think thai o'uY legislators will treasure ap these wrongs5 and regulate the railroads accordingly next winter. So mote ?t be?-Barn* ictll People. "Personne" and His Wife'. Mrs. De Fontaine, the wife of F. Gf. De Fontaine, "Personne'' of the f?t? war, is now in Edge? id, on a visit te* her school friend of early days. Mr*. Gen Evans. There are thousands and thousands, especially of Sooth Caro? linians, who still remember, with s-ourn ful love and deep gratitude,- the letters of "Personne" from "the front;" for wherever "the front" was, there w*as "Personne," with his glowing fett and his faithful soul. To hundreds of UH those beautiful letters Were the cloud by day and pillar of ?re by night, that helped us ou through a long and drear/ pilgrimage. Mr. De Fontaine has lived in New York now for eighteen years. For many years, if we mistake not, fee* was a leading and highly paid membef of the editorial staff of the Herald. At present he writes for the Associated Press. Mrs. De Fontaine, equally gifted with ber husband, and having made for herself a proud name in Amer? ican literafare? ts a younger sister of that strong and noble woman, of whom South Carolina should be so endlessly proud, Mrs. Sallie Chap?n, of the Wo? man's Christian Temperance Unt??. Mr. and Mrs. De Fontaine have three children: Mrs. Edward Schuyler, of New York; Wade Hampton, a yoong man of twenty-three, ia the employ? ment of the Corbin Banking Cd , of New ?'ork ; and Edith, a bright and attractive girl of fourteen, now with her mother in Edgefield.-Edgefield Chron* ide. In Italy thc influenza has thrown* people into a long, deep sleep and they" caa not be aroused. They are kept alive with liquid food. The South Carolina Railway instead of issuing passes to editors as formerly, now makes a regular contract as ether advertisers and pays for it in mileage* tickets. This is business. When it comes to voting for fairs oar big cities are not slow. The willing? ness with which New York pat ap $15, 000,000 to secure the World's Fair is a striking contrast to the play out m the effort to raise $100.000 to pat a monu? ment over General Grant, whose body they were so anxious to have entombed in Gotham. Mr. Martin Garrick, of Birmingham, Alabama, who is an importation from Elmira, New York, is not happy, ta an idle hour he wrote, "not fot publi? cation " a most slanderous letter on the* people of that section, which was pub? lished in the Elmira Star, and now th? people of Birmingham have gently in? timated td him that there is danger of bis being contaminated by remaining among such people and the best thing he can do will be to seek more conge? nial associations elsewhere. Is Consumption Incurable? Rend the following: Mr. C. H. Mot ria, New? ark, Ark., says : 'Wit? ?own ?rifh Abscess of Lung?, jin i friends an?! physicians pronounced me nn incurable consumptive. Brgan taking Dr. King's New Disc very f->r consumption, sui now on mv tb:r.l bottle, and able to oversee the' woik on mv farm. It i? the finest medicine' ever made." Jesse Midd?cwarf. Decatur. Ohio. *ays : "Had it not Heen f<?r IT Kin jr'? New Discovery fur Consumption I would hare died of lung (roubles. Was given op by doctors. Am n??w in the best of health." Try it Sample bottles free at J. F. W. DeLorme'8 drug store. ? IS LIFE WORTH LIVING *! Not if you go through the world a ?lyspnp**C. Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets *re a posi ive evi? for thc worst fi'rw^ Dyspepsia. Indigestion* Flatulency an-l Constipation. (?u.:rai..'.vd aft?! .dd by J. F. W. DtLorm*. ?