The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, March 26, 1890, Image 1

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I fe WATCHMAN. Established April. 1850. "Bc Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's THE Ti?CE SOUTHRON, E*tab?ished June, t*t? Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881.1 SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 26, 1890. New Series^-Tol. li. ito. S3\ Published troy Wednesday, BY N. Gk OSTEEN, SUMTER, S. C. g| TBBM8 : Twr Dollars per ?unan-?a advance. ?DTBBTTSI1IKT8. 0*? Square, first insertion.........$1 00 Irtry subsequent insertion. 50 Contracts for three moa th?, or longer will ba made at reduced rates. ?ll communications which subserve private interests will be charged tor ss advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be CATARRH IN mmm H EA D. I 'yfM Ely's Cream Balm Cteoses?te Kasai Passages. Al? fens Inflammation. Heals the Sores. Bestoes tba Senses of Taste, Smell M martirio ia awIW ls*a***pteeatrii ami b*frw?Ur. rrtce ?Or. au Dr?cxi*t? mr hy a??ffl? BBXyTH?ZS?6 Warren S?^ew York. rm SIMONBS NATIONAL BANK, OF SUMTER. 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This story is supposed to be founded upon a manuscript found in the papers of Allan Quater maia, which were given to the author as literary executor In it Quatermain tells the ?tory of his marriage. CHAPTER L-Describes Allan's first meeting, when a child, with Stella Carson, at a Christmas gathering. Stella's dress caught fire and Allan exttoguished the flames. Stella's mother was Spanish, and she eloped with a cousin. leaving Stella with her father. Squire Carson. He de? termined to leave England %n account of tho dis? grace, and at about the same time Allan's mother died and Allan's father took him to South Africa, where Mr. Quatcrmain became a missionary among the Kaffirs. When Allan was 20 his father CRAFTER IL-Allan sold the effects and decided to go on a journey of trade and ad venture. Among his men was a Kaffir named Inda ba-zi m bi. a witch doctor. Between him and another witch doctor there had two years before been a lightning con? test, which resulted in the death of his contestant CHAPTER UL-Details the start of the expedi? tion. Quatermain describes his first elephant 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 of Dutch Boers, con? sisting of seventeen or eighteen men, their women and children, and a large number of cattle, with which they were removing to the north. For safety's sake the cattle and some of the women and children were sent away, while Quatermain. the witch doctor and some of the Boers ivmained. The next morning, by a ruse, Quatermain and Indaba-ximbi were captured by the Zulus. CHAPTER V.-Quatermain discovered that I ada? na-zimbi had betrayed him into the hands of the Zulus, who ot first offered him no harm. Hie camp of the Boers was attacked and destroyed. 0;;? uttle child only was saved alive and Quater? main preserved her by fighting a duel with and kilting a Zulu warrior. Tho witch doctor had said that Quatermain was a spirit. The Zunis deter mined to kill him? but were prevented by Indaba, who pretended himself to kill Quatermain and then bring bim to Ufe again. This frightened the Zulus, and Indalm and QuaXermam, with the child. made their escape. CHATTER VL-Describes the 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 judgment. They crossed a broad desert, where there was no wa? ter, and at Its end they became unconscious. When they recovered, they were being cared for by Stella Carson, whose life Quatermain saved when a child, and who was DOW a beautiful young woman. Since carly childhood she had lived in the wilds of Africa with her father, never having seen but oue other Englishman. CHAPTER VIL-Stella was accompanied by a woman called 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 home 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. YTU is devoted to a description of Mr. Carson's place. He had a thousand natives with him, plantel coffee, oranges, etc., and had edu? cated his daughter, though she had never left the vicinity. Old mines were near, and Stella showed them to Quatermairt, when a rather alarming encounter with baboons, who swarmed round about, occurred. Hendrika quelled the disturb ance, and Indaba warned (boatermain of her, saying. "She is jealous of Stella, the Star,' and may do her harm if she becomes too much attached to you." CHAPTER CL-Describes the lovemaking of Quatermain and Stel a Hendrika became wildly jealous of Quatermain, and threatened him with evil if ho took Strlla away. Carson sanctioned the marriage and declared lt Ls end to be near. CHAPTER X.-Hendrika attempted to murder Quatermain in hin sleep, but was foiled by Indaba The marriage took place in full view of the na? tives, Mr. Carson officiating. Hemlrika s deeds were told, and she vrrs sent into the mountains, though Indaba and tila ni'ives urged that she be killed. She promised Quatermain that she had not yet done with him. CHAPTER XL-Stella and Tota were stotoj by the baboons, under Hendrika's direction, and hid? den in the mountains. CHAPTER XII.-Aided by the magic of Indaba a ra bi. Stella was found. There was a battle with the baboons, who were routed. (^^^^?1 had escaped ^reglaEa^yy without some ^aSralj?^' misbt remera ?^j&r?&^y > boon's teeth and ^SIN^. C claws are like. How many of tho * I never knew, because we did not count, but it was a vast number. I should think that the stock must have been low about Banyan's peak for many /ears afterwards. From that day to thia, however. I have always avoided baboons, feeling more afraid of them than any beast that lives. The path was clear, and we rushed for? ward up the water-course. But first we picked up little Toto. The child was not in a swoon, as I had thought,.but par? alyzed by terror, so that she could scarce? ly speak. Otherwise she was unhurt, though it took her many a week to re? cover her nerve. Had she been older, and had ?be not rememl^ered Hendrika. I doubt if she would have recovered it. She knew me again, and flung her little arms about my neck, clinging to me so closely that I did not dare to give her to any one else to carry lest I should add to her terrors. So I went on with her in my arms. The fears that pierced my heart may well be imagined. Should 1 find Stella alive or dead? Should i find her at all? Well, we should soon know now. We stumbled on up the stony wa? ter-course; notwithstanding the weight of Tota, I led the way. for suspense lent me wings. Now we were through, and an extraordinary meerie lay before us. We were in a great natural amphithea? tre, only it was three times the size of any amphitheatre ever shaped by man, and the walls were formed of precipitous cliffs, ranging from one to two hundred feet in height. For the rest, the space thus inclosed was level, studded with parlc-like trees, brilliant with flowers, and having a stream running through the center of it that, as I afterwards dis? covered, welled up from the ground at the head of thc oj>en space. We spread oursei ves out in a line, searching everywhere, for Tota was too overcome to be able to tell us whero Stella ?ras hidden away. For nearly half an hour we searched and searched, scanning the walls of rock for any pos? sible opening to a cave. In vain-we could find none. I applied to old Indaba zimbi, but his foresight was at fault here. All he could say was that this was the place, and that the "Star" was hidden somewhere in a ca ve, but where the cave was he could not tell. At last we came to the top of the amphitheatre. There before us was a wall of rock, of which the lower parts were here and there CHAPTER XIII clothed in grasses, lichens and creepers I walked along it, calling at the top o my voice. >> Presently my heart stood still, for '. thought I heard a faint answer. I drev hearer to the place from which thesounc seemed to come, and again called. Yes there was an answer in my wife's voice It seemed to come from the rock, went up to it and searched among th< creepers, but still could find no opening "Move the stone," cried Stella's voice "the cave is shut with a 6tone." I took a spear and prodded at the clifi whence the sound came. Suddenly th< spear sank in through a mass of lichen I swept the lichen aside, revealing a bowlder that had been rolled into th< mouth of an opening in the rock, whicl: it fitted so accurately that, covered as il was by the overhanging lichen, it might well have escaped the keenest eye. Wt dragged the bowlder out; it was twc men's work to do it Beyond was 8 narrow, water worn passage, which J followed with a beating heart. Pres? ently the passage opened into a small cave, shaped like a pickle bottle, and coming to a neck at the top end. We passed through and found ourselves in a second, much larger cave, that I at once recognized as the one of which Indaba zimbi had shown me a vision in the water. Light reached it from alx>ve how I know not-and by it I could see a form half sitting, half lying on some skins at the top end of the cave. I rushed to it. lt was Stella! Stella bound with strips of hide, bruised, torn, but still Stella, and alive. She saw me, she gave one cry, then as I caught her in my arms 6he fainted. It was happy indeed that she did not faint before, for had it not been for the sound of her voice I do not believe we should ever have found that cunningly hidden cave, unless, indeed, Indaba-zimbi'smag? ic (on which be blessings) had come to our assistance. We bore her to the open air, laid her beneath the shade of a tree, and cut the bonds loose from her ankles. As we went ? glanced at the cave. It was ex? actly as I had seen it in <he vision. There burnt the fire.-.there were the rude wooden vessels, one ot them still half full of the water whi. .? 1 had seen the baboon bring. I felt awed as I looked, and marveled at the power wielded by a savage who could not even read and write. Now I could see Stella clearly. Her face was scratched, and haggard with fear and weeping. Her clothes were al? most torn off her, and her beautiful hair was loose and tangled. I sent for water, and we sprinkled her face. Then I forced a little of the brandy which we distilled from peaches at the kraals between her lips, and she opened lier eyes, and throw? ing her arms about me clung to me as little Tota had done, sobing, "Thank God! thank God!" After a while she grew quieter, and I made her and Tota eat a little food from the store that we had brought with us. 1 too ate and was thankful, for with the exception of the moalie cobs I had tasted nothing for nearly four-and-twcntyhours. Then she washed her face and hands, and tithed her rags cf dress as well as she was able. As she did so, by degrees I drew her story from her. It seemed that on the previous after? noon, being wearied with packing, she went out to visit her father's grave, tak? ing Tota with her, and was followed there by the two dogs. She wished to lay some flowers on the grave and take farewell of the dust it covered, for as we had expected to trek early on the morrow she did not know if she would find a later opportunity. They passed up the garden, and. gathering some flowers from the orange trees and else? where, went on to the little graveyard. Here she laid them on the grave as we had found them, and then sitting down, fell into a deep and sad reverie, such as the occasion would naturally induce. While she sat thus. Tota, who was a lively child and active as a kitten, .strayed away without Stella observing it. With her wt** the dogs, who had also grown tired :>f inaction; a while passed, and suddenly she heard the dogs barking furiously about 150 yards away. Then 6he heard Tota scream, and the dogs also yelling with fear and pain. She rose and ran as swiftly as she could towards the spot whence the sound came. Presently she was there. Before her in the glade, holding the screaming Tota in her arms, was a figure in which, notwithstanding the rough disguise of baboon skins and coloring matter, she had no difficulty in recogniz? ing Hendrika, and all about her were numbers of baboons, rolling over and over in two hideous heaps, of which the centers were tho two unfortunate dogs now in process of being rent to frag? ments. "Hendrika," Stella cried, "what does this mean? What are you doing with Tota and those brutes?" The woman heard her and looked up. Then she saw that she was mad; mad? ness stared from her eyes. She dropj>ed the child, which instantly flew to Stella for protection. Stella clasped it, only to be herself elasj>ed by Hendrika She struggled fiercely, but it was of no use the babyan-frau had the strength of ten She lifted her and Tota as though they were nothing, and ran off with them following the bed of the stream in order to avoid leaving a spoor. Only the ba? boons who came with her, minus the one the dogs had killed, would not take to the water, but kept pace with them on the bank. Stella said that the night which fol? lowed was more like a hideous night? mare than a reality. She was never able to tell me all that occurred in it. She had a vague recollection of l>eing borne over rocks and along kloofs, while around her echoed the horrible grunts and clicks of tlie baboons. She sj>oke to Hendrika in English anti Kaffir, imploring her to let them go; but the woman, if I may call lier so, seemed in her madness to have entirely forgotten these tongues. When Stella sj>oke she would kiss her and stroke her hair, hut she did not seem to understand what it was she said. On the other hand, she could and did talk to the baboons, that seemed to obey her implicitly. Moreover, she would not al? low them to touch either Stalin, or the child in her arms. Once one of them tried to do S'>, and she seized a dead j stick and struck it so heavily on the le ad ! that it fell senseless. Thrice Stella made j an attempt toescape, for so met i mes even j Hendrika's giant strength waned and she had to 6et them down. But on each oc? casion she caught them, and it was in these struggles that Stella's clothes were so torn. At length before daylight they reached the cliff, and with the first break of light the ascent began. Hendrika dragged them up tho first stages, but when they came to tho precipitous place she tied the strips of hide, of which she had a supply wound round her waist, beneath Stella's arms. Steep as the place was the baboons ascended it easilv enough, springing from a knob of rock to the trunk of tlte tree that grew on-thc edge of the crevasse. Hendrika followed them, holding the end of the hide rein in her teeth, one of the baboons hanging down from the tree to assist lier ascent. It was while she was ascending that Stella bethought her of letting fall her handkerchief in the faint hope that some searcher might see it. By this time Hendrika was on a tree, and grunting out orders to the baboons which clustered about Stella below. Sud? denly these seized her and little Tota, who was in her arms, and lifted her from the ground. Then Hendrika above, aid? ed by other baboons, putout all her great strength and pulled the two of them up the rock. Twice Stella swung heavily against the cliff. After the second blow she felt her senses going, and was con? sumed with terror lest she should drop Tota. But she managed to cling to her, and together they reached the cliff. "From that time," Stella went on, "I remember no more till I woke to find myself in a gloomy cave renting on a bed of skins. My legs were bound, and Hen? drika sat near me watching me, while round the edge of the cave peered the heads of those horrible baboons. Toto was still in my arms, and half dead from terror; her moans were pitiful to hear. I spoke to Hendrika, imploring lier to re? lease us; but either she had lost all under? standing of human speech, or she pre? tended to have done so. All she would do was to caress me, and even kiss my hands and dress with extravagant signs of affection. As she did so, Tota shrunk away closer to me. This Hendrika saw and glared so savagely at the child that I feared lest she was going to kill her. I diverted her attention by making signs that I wanted water, and this she gave me in a wooden bowl. As you saw, the cave was evidently Hendrika's dwelling place. There are stores of fruit in it and some strips of dried flesh. She gave me some of the fruit and Tota a little, and I made Tota eat some. You can never know what I went through, Allan. I saw now that Hendrika was quite mad, and but little removed from the brutes to which she is akin, and over which she has such unholy power. The only trace of humanity left about her was her affection for me. Evidently her idea was to keep me here with her, to keep me away from you, and to carry out this idea she was capable of the ex? ercise of every artifice and cunning. In that way she was sane enough, but in every other way she was mad. More? over, she had not forgotten her horrible jealousy. Already I saw her glaring at Tota, and I knew that the child's mur? der was only a matter of time. Proba? bly within a few hours she would be killed before my eyes. Of escape, even if I had the strength, there was abso? lutely no chance, and little enough of our ever being found. No, we should bo kept there guarded by a mad thing, half ape, half woman, till we perished miserably. Then I thought of you, dear, and of all that you must be suffering, and my heart nearly broke. I could only pray to God that I might either be rescued or die swiftly. "As I prayed, I dropped into a kind of doze from utter weariness, and then I had the strimgest dream. I dreamed that Indaba-zimbi stood over me nod? ding his white lock, and spoke to me in Kaffir, telling me not to be frightened, for you would soon be with me, and that meanwhile I must humor Hendrika, pre? tending to be pleased to have her near me. The dream was so vivid that I actually seemed to soe and hear him. as I see and hear him now.'" Here 1 looked up and glanced at old Indaba-zimbi, who was sitting near But it was not till afterwards that I told Stella of how her vision was brought alxnit. "At any rate," she went on, "when 1 awoke 1 determined to act on my dream I took Hendrika's hand and pressed it. She actually laughed in a wild kin 1 of way with happiness, and laid* her h;ad upon my knee. Then I made signs tnat I wanted food, and she threw wood on the fire, which I forgot to tell you was burning tn the cave, and began to make some of the broth that she used to cook very well, and sh? did not seem to have forgotten all about it. At any rate the broth was not bad, though neither Tota nor I could drink much of it Fright and weariness had taken away our appetites. "After the meal was done-and I pro? longed it as milch as possible-I saw that Hendrika was beginning to get jealous of Tota again. She glared at her and then at the big knife which was tied round her own body. I knew the knife again; it was the one with which she had tried to murder you, dear. At last she went so far as to draw the knife. I was paralyzed with fear, then suddenly I remembered that when she was our servant, and used to get out of temper and sulk, I could always calm her by singing to her. So I began to sing hymns. Instantly she forgot her jeal? ousy and put the knife back into its sheath. She knew the sound of the singing, and sat listening to it with a rapt face: the bal>oons, too, crowded in at the entrance of tho cave to listen. I must have sung for an hour or more, ail the hymns that I could remember. It was so very strange and dreadful sitting there singing to mad Hendrika and those hideous man-like a]>es that shut their eyes and nodded their great heads as I sang. It was like a horrible nightmare; but I believe that the baboons are almost as human as the Bushmen. "Well, this wont on for a long time till my voice was getting exhausted. Then suddenly I heard the baboons out? side raise a loud noise, as they do when angry. Then, dear, I heard thc boom of your elephant gun, and I think it was the sweetest sound that overcame to my ears. Hendrika heard it, too. She sprang up, stood for a moment, then, to my horror, swept Tota into her arms and rushed down the cave. Of course, I could not stir to follow her, for tay feet were tied. Next instant I heard the sound of a rock being moved, ami pres? ently tho lessening of thc light in the cave told me that 1 was shut in. Now the sound even of the elephant gun only reached mc very faintly, and presently 1 could hear nothing more, straining my ears as I would. "At last I heard a faint shouting that reached rm* through tis?' wall <>( rock. I answered as loud as I could. Von know t!:?> rest: nml. oh, ni) < 1 ?.;ir husband, thank G<?d! thank Cod!" and she fell weeping into my arms. C1TAPTKK MY. Ml 1 '''' 'li : S? silo V.UuL place ' WWra lW terned her? .Ol; jragmnnnm m made ner up J THIMK / KIML OF A 1XH1 UN WijjiW der a thorn tree Hin/ As thia rock TP* ' bound valley wa one of the hottest places I ever was in, thought that this would not matter; bu when at sunrise on the following morn ing 1 saw a veil of miasmatic mist hang ing over the surface of the ground, changed my opinion. However, neithe Stella nor Tota seemed the worse, so a soon as was practicable we started home wards. I had already on the previou day sent some of the men back to tnt kraals to fetch a ladder, and when w? reached the cliff we found them waiting for us beneath. With the help of th? ladder the descent was easy. Stella sim ply got out of her rough litter at the to] of the cliff, for we found it necessary t< carry her, climbed down the ladder, an( got into it again at the bottom. Well, we reached the kraals safely enough, seeing nothing more of Hen drika, and, were this a story, doubtless 1 should end it here with-"and li vee happy ever after." But alas! it is nol so. How am I to write it? My dearest wife's vital energy seemec completely to fail her now that the dan ger was past, and within twelve houri of our return I saw that her state wai such as to necessitate the abandonment of any ioea of leaving Babyan Kraals al present. The bodily exertion, the an? guish of mind, and the terror that sh? had endured during that dreadful night, combined with her delicate state ol health, had completely broken her down. To make matters worse also, she was taken with an attack of fever, contracted no doubi. in the unhealthy atmosphere ol that accursed valley. In time she shook the fe^er off, but it left her dreadfully weak, and quite unfit to f*ace the trial before her. I think she knew she was going to die; she always spoke of my future, never of our future. It is impossible for me to tell how sweet she was; how gentle, how patient and resigned. Nor, indeed, do I wish to tell it, it is too sad. But this I will say: I l>elieve that, if ever a woman drew near to perfection while yet living on the earth, Stella Quatermain did so. The fatal hour drew on. Hy boy Harry was bom, and his mother limned to kiss and bless him. Then she sank. We did what we :ould, but we had little skill, and might not hold her back from death. All through one weary night I watched her with a breaking heart. The dawn came, the sun rose in the east His rays falling on the peak be? hind were reflected in glory upon the bosom ?f the western sky. Stella awoke from her swoon and saw the light. She whispered to me to open the door of the hut I did so, and she fixed her dying eyes on the splendor of the morning sky. She looked on me and smiled as an angel might smile. Then with a last effort she lifted her hand, and, pointing to the radiant heavens, whispered: "There, Allan, there!" It was done, ajid I was broken hearted, and broken hearted I must wander till the end. Those who have endured my loss vcill know my sorrow; it cannot be written. In such peace and at such an hour may I also die! Yes, it is a sad story, but wander where we will about the world we can never go beyond the sound of the pass? ing bell. For me, as for my father be? fore me, and for the millions who have been and who shall be, there is but one word of comfort "The Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken away." Let us, then, bow our heads in hope, and add with a humble heart, "Blessed be the name of the Lord." I buried her by her father's side, and the weeping of the people who had loved her went up to heaven. Even Indaba zimbi wept. On the second night from her burial I could not sleep. I rose, dressed myself, and went out into the night The moon was shining brightly, and by its rays I shaped my course towards the graveyard. I drew near silently, and as I came I thought that I heard a sound of moan? ing on the further side of the wall. I looked over it. Crouched by Stella's grave, and tearing at its sods with her bands, as though she would unearth that which lay within, was Hendrika. Her face was wild and haggard; her form was so emaciated that, when the pelts she wore slipped aside, the shoul? der blades seemed to project almost through her skin. Suddenly she looked up and saw me. Laughing a dreadful maniac laugh, she put her hand to her girdle and drew her great knife from it I thought that she was about to attack me, ami prepared to defend myself as 1 best could, for I was unarmed. But she made no elfort to do so. Lifting the knife on high, for a moment she held it glittering in the moonlight, then plunged it into her own breast, and fell headlong to the ground. I sprang over the wall and ran to her. She was not yet dead. Presently she ojtfuied her eyes, and I saw that the mad? ness had gone out of them. "Macumazahn," she said, speaking in English and in a thick difficult voice like one who half forgot and half remem? bered - "Macumazahn, I rememl>er now. I have been mad. Is she really dead, Macumazahn?" "Yes," 1 said, "she is dead, and you killed her." "I killed her!" the dying woman fal? tered, "and 1 loved her. Yes, yes-1 know now. I l>ccame a brute again and dragged her to the brutes, ami now once more I am a woman, and she is dead, and 1 killed her-because I loved her sa. 1 killed her who saved me from the brutes. I am not dead yet, Macu? mazahn. Take tue and torture me to death, slowly, very slowly. It was jeal? ousy of you that drove me mad, and I have killed her, and now she never can forgive nie." "Ask forgiveness from above," I said, for Hendrika had been a Christian, and the torment of her remorse touched me. "I ask no forgiveness," she said. "May God torture me for ever, because I killed her: may I become a brute forever till sin? comes to find me and forgives me! 1 only want her forgiveness." And wail? ing in an anguish of the heart so strong that her bodily KiillVring seemed to IK? forgotten. Hendrika,'thc balloon woman, di. d. 1 went back to the kraals, and, waking Indaba /.imbi, told him what had hat* J pened, asking him to send some otu: to i watch i he IKMI .. as 1 proposed togivr.it burial. Hut next morning it was gone, j and 1 found that tho natives, hearing of j the event, bad taken the corpse and thrown it to thc vultures with every mark I of hate. Such, then, was the end of Hei>d ri ka. A week after Hendrika's death I left Babyan Kraals. The place was hateful to me now; it was a haunted place. I sent for old-vlndaba-zimbi and told him that 1 was going. Ile answered that it was well. "Thc place has served your turn." he said; "here you have won that ; joy which it was fated you should win, i and have suffered those things that it j was fated you should, suffer. Yes, and though you know it not now, the jo and the suffering* like the sunshine an the storm, are the same tiling, and wi rest at last in the same heaven, th heaven from which they came. No^ go, Macumazahn." I asked him if he was conting with m< "No," he answered, "our paths Ii apart henceforth, Macumazahn. \V met together for certain ends. Tho: ends are fulfilled. Now each one gc* his own way. You have still many yeai before you, Macumzahn. my years ai few. \Vhen we shake hands here it wi be for the last time. Perhaps we ma meet again, but it will not be in thi world. Henceforth we have each of u a friend the less.** "Heavy words," I said. "True words," he answered. Well, I have little heart to write of th rest of it. I went, leaving Indaba-zirat in charge of the place, and making hir a present of such cattle and goods as did not want. Tota, I of course took with me. For tunately by this time she had almost re covered the shock to her nerves. Th baby Harry, as he was af terwards named was a fine healthy child, and I was luck; in getting a respectable native woman ??.ho:;e husband had been killed in th fight with the baboons, to accompany m as his nurse. Slowly, and followed for a distance b; all the people, I trekked away fron Banyan Kraals. My route towards Nata was along the edge of tho bad lands, &n< my first night's outspan was beneati that very tree where Stella, my lost wife had found us as we lay dying of thirst. I did not sleep much that night. An< yet I was glad that I had not died in tb desert about eleven months before, felt then, as from year to year I hav continued to feel while I wander throng] the lonely wilderness of life, that I hav been preserved to an end. I had w< >: my darling's love, and for a little whil we had been happy together. Our hap piness was too perfect to endure. She i lost to me now, but she is lost tob found again. Here on the following morning I bad? farewell to Indaba-zimbi. "Good-by, Macumazahn," he said, nod ding his white lock at me. "Good-ty for a while. I am not a Christian; you: father could not make me that. But he was a wise man, and when he said tba those who love each other shall mee again, he did not lie. And I too am ? wise man in my way, Macumazahn; anc I say it is true that we shall meet again All my prophecies to you have com< true, Macumazahn, and this one shal come true also. I tell you that you shal return to Babyan Kraals and shall noi find me. I tell you that you shall journev to a further land than Babyan Kraal: and shall find me. Farewell!" and hi took a pinch of snuff, turned and went. Of my journey down to Natal there ii little to tell. I met with many adven? tures, but they were of an every dav kind, and in the end arrived safely al Port Durban, which I now visited foi the first time. Both Tota and my baby l?y bore the journey well. And here 1 may as well chronicle the destiny ol Tota. For a year she remained under my charge. Then she was adopted by a lady, thc wife of an English colonel, whe was stationed at the Cape. She was taken by her adopted parents to Eng? land, where she grew up a very charming and pretty girl, and ultimately married a clergyman in Norfolk. But I never saw her again, though we often wrote to each other. Before I returned to the country of my birth, she too had been gathered to the land of shadows, leaving three children behind her. Ah me! all this took place so long ago, when I was young who now am old. Perhaps it may interest the reader to know the fate of Mr. Carson's property, which should of course have gone to his grandson Harry. I wrote to England to claim the estate on his behalf, but the lawyer to whom the matter was sub? mitted said that my marriage to Stella, not liaving been celebrated by an or? dained priest, was not legal according to English law, and therefore Harry could not inherit. Foolishly enough I acqui? esced in thia, and the property passed to a cousin of my father-in-law's; but since I have come to live in England I have been informed that this opinion is open to great suspicion, and that there is every probability that the courts would have declared the marriage perfectly binding as having been solemnly entered into in accordance with thc custom of thc place where it was contracted. But I am now so rich that it is not worth while to move in the matter. The cou? sin is dead, his son is in j>ossession, so let him keep it. Once, and once only, did I revisit Ba byan Kraals. Some fifteen years after my darling's death, when I was a man in middle life, 1 undertook an expedi? tion to the Zauibesi, and one night out spanned at the mouth of thc well known valley beneath the shadow of the great peak. I mounted my horse, and quite alone rode up'the valley, noticing with a strange prescience of evil that the road was overgrown, and, save for the music of the waterfalls, the place silent as death. The kraals that used to be to the left of the road by the river had van? ished. I rode towards their site; the mealie fields were choked with weeds, the paths were dumb with grass. Pres? ently I reached the place. There, over? grown with grass, were the burnt ashe* of the kraals, and there among the ashes, gleaming in the moonlight, lay the white bones of men. Now it was clear to me. The settlement had Ix^on fallen on by some powerful foe, and its inhabitants put to the asseguL The forebodings of the natives had come true; Babyan Kraals were peopled by memories alone. 1 pissed on up the terraces. There shone thu roofs pf tho marble huts. They would not burn, and were too strong to be easily pulled down. I entered one of them-it had l>een our sleeping hut-and lit a candle which I had with me. The huts had been sacked; leaves of l>ooks and broken fragments of the familiar furniture lay about. Then I remembered that there was a secret place hollowed in the floor and concealed by ai atone, where Stella used to hule lier little treasures. I went to the stone and dragged it up. There was something within wrapped in moldering native cloth. I undid it. Tt was the dress my wife had been married in. In the center of the dross were the withered wreath and flowers she had worn, and with them a little paper packet. I opened it; it contained a lock of my own hair. I remembered that 1 had searched for this dress when I came away and could not lind ii. for 1 had for? gotten the secret recess in the floor. Taking the dress with me, I left the hut for tho last time. Leaving my horse tied to a tree, I walked to the graveyard through the ruined garden. There it was a mass of weeds, but over my darling's grave grew a self sown orauge tree, of which" the scented petals fell in showers i on to the mound beneath. As I drew i ? near there was a crash and a rush. A [ : grca^ babool* leapt from the center of tue graveyard and vanished into the trees. I could almost believe that it was the wraith of Hendrika doomed to keep an eternal watch over the bones of the woman her jealous rage had done to death. I tarried there' awhile, filled with such thoughts as may not be written. Then, leaving my dead wife to her long sleep where the waters fell in melancholy music beneath the shadow of the ever? lasting mountain, I turned and sought that spot where first we had told our love. Now the orange grove was noth? ing but a tangled thicket; many of the trees were dead, c hoked with creepers, but some still flourished. There stood the one beneath which we had lingered, there was the rock that had been our seat, and there on the rock sat Stella, the Stella whom I had wed. Aye! there she sat, and on her up? turned face was that same spiritual look which I saw upon it in the hour when we first had kissed. The moonlight shone in her dark eye?, the breeze wav? ered in her curling hair, her breast rose and fell, a gentle smile played about her parted lips. I stood transfixed, gazing on that lost loveliness which once was mine. I could not speak, and she spoke no word; she did not even seem to see me, I drew near. Now her eyes fell. For a moment they met mine, and their message entered into me. Then she was gone; nothing was left but the tremulous moonlight falling where she had been, the melancholy music of the waters, the shadow of the everlasting mountain, and, in my heart, the sorrow and the hope. THE END. "THE DESERTER," A Thrilling Story of Army Life, By Capt. Charles King, U. S. A., Will be our Next Attraction in the Serial Line. Capt. King ranks with the leading story-writers of the time. He has never written an uninteresting story, and THE DESERTER is among the best of his productions. - ? ? Profit in a First-class HoteL The difficulty that those of our peo? ple who bave appreciated the need of another first-class hotel io Aiken have had to contend with, his been the fear that the investment would Dot io itself be directly profitable to the stockholders. The result of the first year's experience of the Bon Air Hotel on the Sand Hills will give us some information on this subject. At the annual meeting of the stock? holders held last week Piesident Alfred Baker read the annual report, showing that the grounds, building, furniture, etc., cost the sum total of $198,000. The showing the hotel makes is a good one for its first season-a remark? able one, wheo the lateness and remar? kable warmth of the season are consid? ered. Manager Liosley says he could easily fill fifty or seventy-five more de? sirable rooms, and be has been obliged to decline several large parties because he bad no more of the elegant suites of rooms that were desired The hotel is now receiving nearly $700 a day, and is making good money, a remarkable first year's showing. It has beeo found that the present accommodations arc in? adequate to supply the demand for rooms, guests being turned away every day. It is believed from the experience np to date that the hotel will pay at kast 10 per cent, a year on the $200, 000 invested. It was decided to issue $125,000 of 6 per cent, twenty years first mortgage bonds on the property for the purpose of paying off the indebted cess of the company aod for providing additions to the hotel. The owners of the $125,000 of bonds will own the $200,000 property, as this issue of bonds will take up all outstanding in? debtedness and be the first mortgage bond*. The stockholders will of coarse see it to their interest to take these bonds and will, of course, do so. Nearly half of the issue were subscribed for at the meetiog. It will be seen by the proceedings at this meeting .that the people of Augusta have full confidence in the stock aod bonds of a first-class hotel as profitable investments. And what they have done over oo the Sand Hills we can do more profitably in Aiken. Oar own people are quite able to raise enough money to give the enterprise of a new hotel a start, so that outsiders would be induced to come to our assistance What we need is the enterprising spirit that will look beyond the immediate present to future results. If anything is to be done the people of Aiken must put their own shoulders to the wheel.-Aiken Recor? der. - i - - It is estimated that the oext census will show $65.000,000 people Tn fhe United States. It is proposed by the Republicans that the coming appor? tionment be one Congressman for every 195.000 population instead of in 15r, 000 as now. This would secure a House of 333 members instead of 325 as at present. Each census since 1790' has shown an increase in our popula tioo of 20 per cent every ten years The number of members of the House in the first Congress was 65 or one for each 30.000 people. Adding the States recently admitted, there are now 330 Coogreasmeo. If the next House mould coo?i>t of 333 members, as thc Republican? propose, several of the older State would lose each a member >f Congress, viz : Georgia, Indiana, Main?, Massachusetts, Obie. Peno ??ylvaoia. South Carolina and Virginia, while New York would two. On the 3!her hand, a few of the new States ir auld gain, viz: Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Texas, ind Wisconsin, ooe each ; while Min? nesota and Nebraska would gain two. Instead of placing restrictions on cotton seed oil it would be better for Congress to prohibit the sale of im? pure animal grease ano encourage the production of pure vegetable oils. Ruc kl en > Arnica 8*1 re. The Bern Salve in the world for Cuts, Braise? Sores. Ulcer*. Salt Rheum, Fewer Sores, Titter, Chapped Hands Chilblains". Corns and all Skin Irruptions, and positively caves Piles, io pay required. It is guaranteed to give p< reet enti8facti0??, or money refunded. Pii< 25 cents per box? For sal? bj J. F.- W. D*. Uorane? o Important Modifications i? tko Far??ers' Movement Program. Ben Tillman Declared to l? oui ?f th? Race for Qovtrnor.. In view of the present State o? affair* in State politics, the presence in tbtf city yesterday, says the Greenville' News of March Wt of Capt. ?. Waefc. Shell, of Laurens, chairman' of thtf State Farmers' Association and signer' of the now famous **Bfanniest?/' and* call for the $?rch contention, ?c-rit! not fail to attract some attefttfon ?ndf set speculation to work io Iocs! p^fit?cs? circles. Captain Shell came op in the" morning and retnroed on the afternoon4 train. While in the city he was Iff conference, at the office of the State* Ak iiance Exchange, with Manager Don? aldson, of the Exchange, Chairman' Leonard Williams, of (he Cormty Farm ers' Association and members of the* delegation to the March Conventions That during Captain Shell's visit there* was a talk ID regard to the March Cot?? veotion was ascertained from convert?*? dons wiih gentlemen who met fi?t?r, fcSf further than that the gentlemen bai nothing to say. Referring to a statement whieu nar been repeatedly made* in regard to the* original call for the March Convention, Ca praia Shell stated in the presence of several gentlemen that Ben Tilksw positively bad nothing to do with tbs* preparation of that call and that be* knew nothing beforehand of what it contained. Captain Shell also express? ed the opinion that a majority of the1 uninstructed delegates ter tb? Marat? Convention will vote for nominations. Apropos of the Farmers' Convention^ a reporter for the Daily News learned yesterday that a letter has bee* feceiv ed from Capt. Ben T?tfoa? by ff g?ff tle oan in the city who had written to? bim egardiog bis candidacy fof fbi governorship, in which Captain* Tr*ffnVfff earnestly nrged opon his corresponden tf not to allow his oame to be presented tc* the convention as a candidate for Gov? ernor and declaring that be was nos a candidate. Captain Tillman went on to state that he was conscious that there were other men in the State wn'oStftiftf-* 8ervatism itself made them much better' qualified for the place than himself, fte* declared that the actioo of the ?dgefielc* convention in nominating him Barr beep directly against his wishes and that tbsf mentioo of his name by the Laarefftf mass meeting had been brongbt about by Captain Shell eotit?:y without hie* knowledge. There have been trumerotft predict ti on s as to what' the March convention* will do. There is one plan of action* which has been talked of in* a ?oiefr way among the men most preta foe nt iff the March convention movement and* which bas been received with thc great? est favor by those who have considered* it, so mach so that it is not altogether' guess work tr? say that the convention* will, in all probability, adopt it. There' are the best of reasons for believing that the plan has received the sanction' of the active workers in the convention* movement in different sections of the State. Information of tir? ictfctitft-ttf which nothing bas been' said pt&lftr? heretofore, comes indirectly bat tro?r a source which stamps'? with atftbvjrity. According to this progra?r, the conven? tion called in Colombia cir fhe 27thv inst., will meet, sod, first of ?8*,* a*dop? a strong and outspoken platform1, rf will then nominate candidates for Gov? ernor. No other nominations will be' made, the rest of the ticket being left blank. A committee will then be ap? pointed to plan a campaign, arranging^ for mass meetings in all parts of the' State at Which the convention's choice" for Governor and Lieutenant Governor and candidates fdr other State offices* who may preseot' tfte???v?a* wrffspcak. Tbie csmpaigo will be hr advance of the August convention', of coarse, and* will be wi i h a view to securing the en-' dorsemeot of the nominees of the* March convention by the August con? vention. lt is argued io behalf of this plat? that it would overcome the strongest objection urged against the nomination* of a Complete ticket by the March* meeting in that instead of arraying in' opposition the strength of the numer?os* candidates for positions on" toe State* ticket, it wouid bring to'the support of the Farmer's Movement platform and5 nominees the full strength of all the' candidates for the places left blank on* the ticket. After the departure of C?ptalo Sheff* from the city yesterday, one of the"* Greenville delegation' to the March4 convention said: ''You ca*n rest as sored that Ben Tillman will' not be the' nominee Of the ^^a^c?f convention-, if anybody is nominated.? The Charleston World1 of the 2lstV 9ays : The following telegraphic cbrresjtond snce of yesterday in reference to the" alleged positive Withdrawal of Capt. B\ R. Tillman as a candidate for the' ?ubero^orM nomination will explain/ itself: ..CHARLESTON*. March' 2<), $01 ..Capt G. W. Shell. Laurens, S. C : "See J>?ews and Courier's morning*, ls dispatch from treesville reference* Lo Tillman's positive withdrawal Cor? rect? Please answer immediately af? e?me length at our expense*. ..0'c?.vvr)s COHEN, "Managing editor World.'*' ..LAURKSS, S. C., March 20. '.O'. Cohen, World: ..The dispatch referred to re a* mis? representation of facts. Mr. Tillman bas given no expression of bis inten? tions to any one only so far as to say:' "The cause is of greater importance than the cadidacy of any man," "G. W. SHELL." IX* NOT S?FFKI: ANY LONG KR. Knowing that a cough can ba cheeked in ah lay. an?! the first stage? of containpth>n broken1 in a week, we hereby guarantee Dr. Acker's English Cough Remedy, an'-i trill refund the' money to all who buy, hike it as per directions,* ind db not find our statement correct. I THAT TER RT BK I** COU??H fn the morning, hurried or difficult breathing, raising phlegm, tightness in the ebert,* quickened puL<e, Chilliness in the ercning or' ?w??*ts at night, nil or any of the?e tti?n?r? ara' gSb first stages nf cor. su tar ti un Dr Acker's* BsV.i>fi C'.ugh Keu>e<ty w*/t care these fearful' "ymptnms. and is sold arider a ix**itice guar?* inte* by J. F. W. DeLorrae.