The Conshohocken Recorder, February 2, 1894

              THE RECORDER.
VOL. xxi v, NO. 48 CONSHOHOCKEN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1894. $1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Why I. »t?
Bome find work when MOM find rest.
Ami -i the «'-JI) iven III |OM mi.
I BOOMtflBea u'olnler u tin li Is D6SIU
The answer BOOM » hen lifo i» irone.
Soino eyes sleep whea WDM eyes wake,
And M the druar] night hours go.
Borne hearts beat a here Mime n« lai-in urea*.
I often Broader whf'HIi BO.
Bome wiiu fainl ■* ere tome win.- MWj
Some love Die trul. and Bome the Held.
I often wonder whe-aae riant—
The on. - who atr*sa or those who yield.
Bome hands (old BBbere oilier hands
Aru lifted bra»viy.:ii the strife.
And so through aceaand through lands
Move on the (woexirenies of life.
Some (Ml hall ■ here some feel tread.
In tireless march, a thorny way;
Bome si roggle on a here .sumo have fled;
Bome seek whan others shun the fray.
Some swords rus' whore others clash;
Si.me full baek Where some movoan;
Bome Ian tOfl where others flash
I'ntil the tiat-tk. has been won.
Some sleep oa while others keep
The vhrlla .if the true and bravo.
They will mil rest till s creep
Around their name a-ove a grave.
—Father RJNUL
By HAEET STILLWELL EDWAEDS.
[Copyright. 190a.br the rentury Company. JU1
rights re-ei veil.]
CHAPTER I.
I have little-doubt bnt many people
in middle (rmrgiia yet remember Craw-ford
Worthlngton, who in antebellum
days kept uin-a ihouso in Baldwin coun-ty.
Major VY«wthin«ton, as he was call-ed
because of ttiun fancied nid ho had
extended to 1m country during the diffi-culty
with Mexico, was not a type—
unless to be one of many singular char-acters
in a region .whose peculiar insti-tutions
admitted -of the wildest eccen-tricities
can constitute a type. He
lived in tin- midsb©f peace and plenty
upon his plunitiitUm mot many miles
from MilledgetSleV surrounded by sev-eral
hundred slaves'with whom he was
upon singular font easy terras. His
broad, rolling fiolils,. his almost boiind-less
pastures, his -stilemn fronted and
tall columned konse, his comfortable
"quarters,*' whene dwelt the negroes,
all bespoke pr/jspctity and iudepend-right
away."
Thero had been genuine grief in the
negro's voice as he replied:
" 'Fo' Onwd, Mass' Craffud, yon dun
got de wrong nigger dis time. Isain is
nigh outer 50 year ole, en he ain' nev'r
lef do place on er run yet. No, sah!'
Isam, liowever. spurred on by the
suggestion, had really run off, and the
overseer hud scoured the country for
him in vain. The black was enjoying
freedom beyond recall, but one morn-ing
while the major was breakfasting
alone, and his two servants who attend-ed
the table were busy with flybrush
and waffles, Isam suddenly stood in the
doorway. His clothes were torn and
soiled, and his face wore a -hangdog
look that was in truth comical. Since
that day old Isam had run away an-nually
ubout the samo time of the year,
and this without any apparent cause.
Evidently this was what the major
was thinking of, for smiles came and
went upon his face like shadows un-der
the swaying mimosa. And when at
last his eyes fell again upon the old ne-gro:
"Isam!" ho said, just as'he had spo-ken
yours ago.
"Yes, sir," and the jerky'little tones
were the same.
"Yon are fixing to run away, Isam!"
"Me!" and again that reproachful,
protesting voice.
"Yes, you; just as you have for
years. You are getting ready to start.
I have had my eye on you for a week.
But," said tho major, fixing his lips
after tho Worthington fashion. "I am
going to know this time where you go
and why you go."
There was silence a full mdnute; then
the negro spoke:
"Mass' Ciaffud, 'deed en I dunno
I 'zactly how at is. Hit jes' sorter strikes
| me, en I'm gone 'fo' I know't. En
idat's eraollom fac', sho."
"Well." said the major, "then go
when it strikes you. It is a relief to
get rid of you occasionally. But if you
get off this time without letting mo
know whenyottstart I'll cutyour earsoff
when yon come back—if I.don't"
And Isam believed him.
promise fn the interest of peace,"w'en er
sperrit gits out'n de flesh, de only way
hit can bo boun en sot es ter plug er
tree." He stepped in front of a broken
pine near the path and examined it crit-ically.
"Dere's er plug roun hyah fur
mi'ty nigh ev'y wun dem graves, ef
yer knows where ter look."
'' What do you mean by this nonsense,
Isam? Do you expect me to swallow
such stuff?"
"Hit'ser fac'. Mass' Craffud. Dere,
now, dere's er plug, sho' nuff."
Years before—Major Worthington re-membered
it then—he had come across
a split pine from which a half dozen of
these plugs had fallen and was surpris-
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MAY CONVENE and
And while the members of the present session of congress
are agitating their minds over the present Tariff Bill
"Voti arc firing to rnr.-a.way, 1mm!"
ence. Independent he was. No prince
ever ruled with sway more potent than
this bachelor planter, anrronnded by
his blacks and acknowledging none
other than his own wilJ.
This marked ehttraiturraasn man be-low
medium height Hi- figure inclined
very decidedly to portliness,.and be-yond
a long, narrow mustache and thin
imperial of black and gray his face
was clean shaven. Iron gray hair in
abundance crept out from under the
white t. It i'iat be generally wore, and
his mixed auit of gray was illumined
by a ruffled shirt and broad spreading
cuffs of the finest linen.
Self willed and eccentric are weak
words with wi'ich to stamp this gentle-man's
actions. In tho long days-of his
idleness, whwihe legislature was not
in session, the negro was an unfailing
source of aiimsevi'-lit and study to lii.ui
and bis sole diversion, for he despised
books fr»m the d»y he left college, ;and
beyond a sporting journal and a paper
from a oeighlwring city he bad .no
periodical. Of coarse ho was a Whig.
Upon the day which I have selected
to open a pnge in .the experience of
Major Crawford Worthington he was
sitting upon bis broad veranda, which
swept back from the front around .to
the shady eastern exposure and over-looked
tho spacious back yard. Two-score
pickanninies in abort shirts bad
scrambled in front of him £jr small sil-ver
coins as he .scattered them upon
the ground beneath. The tears wrung
from him by their contortions and fun-ny
postures had dried .upon his cheeks,
antl weary of the sport he bad turned
away tho black athletes by menus of a
few gourds of cold water skillfully ap-plied
to their half clad forms, had set-tled
back to enjoy the afternoon and
fell a-dti'timing.
He remembered, in that easy method
conim<>ii to dreams, how years before
he hud sat upon that samo perch watch-ing
a favorite old negro catching chick-ens
in the yard. "Isam!" he had said,
and moving with jerky little motions
that teemed always to attune themselves
to his master's moods as expressed in his
tones Isam had minced up the steps.
"Isam," he had continued, "yon are
fixing to run awayl"
He remembered the startled look that
swept over the funny little man's coun-tenance
and his answer:
"Lord mussv, Mass' Craffud, who-tT'r
hyah do like er dat?"
"Yes. sir, und you are filing to start
CHAPTER IX
Isam's annual runaway froak had
worried Major Worthington more than
anything of like importance ho had
ever confronted. He cared not an iota
tfor his lost time, nor for his bad ex-ample,
but it gulled him to think that
there wus anything in connection with
a negro that ho could not fathom. In
this old negro he had at last found a
'• cunning and a mystery that evaded his
penetration. Study as he might, no
satisfactory explanation could ever be
secured. Year after year about the 1st
of July his factotum failed to appear,
and the place that had known him so
; long knew him no more for a fortnight.
It was seldom that the major over
| threatened a servant. Never.before in
his lifo had a threat been levuled at
Isaru, who was a privileged character
about tho house. It was not surpris-ing
therefore that just before daybreak
I next morning a knock was heard at the
major's window. That individual un-derstood
it, and quietly donning his
; clothes went outside, assured that he
1 would find Isam on hand. He was not
mistaken.
"It's dun struck me, Mass'Craffud,
en I's 'hliged ter go," said Isam.
"Ah!" said the major, "then we'll
talk it over first."
Isam sat upon the steps, the major,in
his old rocker, and talk it over they
. did, until a pale glimmer trembled in
; tho east. What passed between tin in
no one ever learned, but finally the ma-jor
rose, and preceded by Isam, .who
boro a pack that gave him the appear-ance
of a sable Kris Kringle, struck
[ out straight .across the fence and .the
, fields, disappearing in the woods be-yond.
Only the hounds knew when .they
! left, and these tugged at their chains
with noisy pleadings, bnt in vain.
i When day finally rolled in with stream-ing
banners, Wuodhaven was without
i its master, and the overseer, too nroch
: accustomed to the icccentricities of that
absent power to worry over his sodden
departure, reigned in his stead.
The path of the runaways led first di-i-'
ct ly pav a growth«f plnm bushes, an
aoie in extent, that stood out in the
.open field, a small forest in itself.
This was the burial ground, where with-out
regard to order or system the graves
of departed .negroes, colored with bits
of glass, broften cups, abandoned cans
' and other treasures of the trash heap,
I dotted tho 6kadowy depths. These
! glimmered faintly in the gray half
light, and Isam shivered slightly as he
passed. The mcxrement did not escape
the notice of the major, who smiled
grimly as be said:
"You don't come this way, Isam,
when you run off by yourself."
The sound of a human voico was reas-suiing.
aml the negro answered cheerily;
"Yi -.!'. \ :u' iiuthin go'n ter tech
olo Isam. All dem 'n dere is dun boun
en sot."
"And what tho deuce is. 'bound and
sot?' "
The major's inquiry betrayed impa-tience
rather then curiosity. He knew
well hows, -live is tho negro of any
cl.i n 1 in connection
i team shook Ins
1.
"I. Mass' Craffud, don'you
■ dat?"
"Ni ,"« - ' major testily: "if I
did I wouldn't I ewasting breath asking
a fool nigg
_ "Well" said Isam, willing.to com-
"Don'., Mats' Crc.ffud, don' do it!"
ed by the scare it had caused on the
plantation. They were made up of old
nails, bits of glass, red pepper and tar
and sprinkled wth the blood of a
chicken. Each plug contained a few
hairs from the head of the deceased and
a piece of a garment that had been worn
next the skin. Each ingredient had an
important significance, but exactly
what it was no one know or knows to
this day, unless some aged voodoo lin-gers
in the land and holds the secret.
The major-examined the signs point-ed
out. Only a practiced eye in broad
daylight would have been apt to disoovei
them. He deliberately took out his
knife and began to pick at a plug. Tho
change that came over Isam was lu-dicrous.
He clutched tho major's arm
and chattered out:
••Don', Mass' Craffud, don' do it,
honey 1 You mout let de meanea' nigg'r
on de place git loose, on dere ain' no
tellin w'at 'd happ'n. You git de
chill 'n for' 'n cat'piller 'n bad craps,
sho's yer born. Oh, Lordy, Lordy,
Lordyl Dere, now, t'ank do Lord!"
The major had calmly persisted in his
efforts to extract a plug until his knifo
blade snapped. With a great pretense
of rago ho persisted with the broken
blado until finally, sure enough, out
fell tho plug. In an instant tho negro
had seized it and thrust it in place
again, aud with his back to the tree was
begging so piteously the major could not
resist.
"All right, idiot," ho said laughing-ly.
"Lead the way. I- won't trouble
it."
Isam moved off without much ado,
and tho major, who was not built for
running races and climbing fences, had
as much as he could do to keep up.
The negro wagged his head ominously
as he hurried along.
"Dereaiii' notellin but w'at dat nig-g'r
dun got loos' en 'gun his curvortin
roun 'fo' uow. Ono time lightnin bust
ed er tree ov'r dere. en selien ardent
plugs diap out. En dat summer de ty
phoid fov'r struck sshen nigg'rs. en de
las' one uv 'm died spang dead. Ain'
nev'r had dat fev'r 'fo' er sence on de
,place. lint dev do say." contiuued
Isam, now anxious go communicate bis
extensive knowledge of the subject,
"ef dem folks had n' burn de light
fum dat tree nuilnn'd happ'n. Bet
you can't git er nigg'r 'n Baldwin
county ter burn any mo' uv de light-nin's
light 'ud, en mi'ty few go'n ti i
rake pine straw 'bout dere."
CHAPTER ilM.
The human race has -certainly been
■evolved from a barburic into a partly
.civilized state. At odd seasons tho
old instinct crops out and regains con-trol
of us. Major Worthington had
entered upon his brief lapse into sav-agery,
though he did not realize it. Ill
adapted as he was for foot journeys of
considerable length, the flush of new
freedom sustained him.
But tho unwonted exercise told at
last. A halt must perforce soon havo
been ordered, when Isam plunged over
a sharp decline and indicating a long
line of paler green and a denser growth
in front exclaimed:
" 'Mos' dere now!"
The major knew the place. It was
the line of the Oconee river mapped in
verdure. Reaching tho welcome shade,
he dropped down whero Isam had al
ready pitched his bundle.
Mumbling after the fashion of old
darkies, a meaning smile UP01 his lips,
which, after all, is merely thinking
aloud, bam brought from the well
lilinl depths of his kit a small stone
jug. Soon, after certain rites and cere-monies
appropriate to tlie occasion, no
approached the major, and with n tri-umphant
flourish extend) J n. largo tum-bler
of red liquid from which gracefully
aroso o fimall forest of mint.
"Dun foun er noo spring," ho said,
bnt tho man propped against the cy-press
was motionless, and his hands
wcro folded peacefully in Ids lap.
St vn, Isam peered cautious-ly
under the I.mad hat brim, with the
Whispered ejaculation: "Lor
my 8i>uL if h.' ;ij' •' ■< gone tor s!
"Lor bless my soul, ef he ain' dun gone
Mr uleev!"
I reckeri dat las' 10 railer was powtui
wurrin ter 'r man 'r his fat. Mass'
Craffud, Muss' Craffud!" No answer
came.
Getting down on his knees, he care
fully inserted with a spoon a few drops
of the beverage between the lips of the
sleeper and allowed them to percolate
downward. As the "apple" of the
tightened throat darted up and glided
down again into place he whispered:
".Mass' Craffud, es yer dun fainted?''
(7"o be continued next week.)
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housekeeping, that on all bills of
FURNITURE,
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WALL JPA.I7ER and
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-lira Theresa llartxon
" For fonrteetryears I have su flered with kid-ney
troubles; riff back so lame that sometimes
I Could Not Raise Myself
up out of my chair, nor turn myself In bed. I
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not
WHO IS HE?
and what are bis anticcdents ? are queationa
heard on the Street, in the ear and hotel daily.
Itin reported that he comes FROM THE
CHEEN TREE KINCDOrVI. He has
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superinduced and directly traceable
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HYHHKI'SIA, of which HEGUINtn eminent
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(.'HAS. 8. si rims, Letter Carrier. PoM
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