V" 111.' JCMKvii
Receipts and Expenditures of Butler
County for the Year 1899.
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0 «•*»•*•* *' Vi: » »*•»• *• £ 5l
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P..,,,, "' SS* I 517 7« tol 14 »*» «»» 2 »>1 *5.
£",. r MM l*» * »«•« 74 3:. I 4'Jit :«
taZTrt »1 777 !««... V, '-4 •>» M «
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ifc.Sl i «•; 41 ti ") ' * ■
WmiMMMM «l- -II Im B 271 <« M 7.-. I*B W
W«uh. M -**"• *"4 1«» «• 45* 4! »« 1 •»
Worth .. !..! .. Stt f7« 1 43:! 35 •«* U -I "" I •*> :!> '
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- .t* want 4«t5« :t-*>l 3 113 I 343 S». 4.4 .»• .i «>•'
(««trrvtiw Iwn. 13* i 743 «IJ *4 454 31 2.. « (
(or»iK>.|«w»<'«*ti*tr 41 421 !•* M 1 •' * . J 1
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117 «M -*» 71 •*'* ®J N .' 1
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, 7(t «1*» 317 77 217:13 1«" 545 !» |
-7 151 1«7 1- 14Mt U tt 4» ** *
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Brorlv T V 14In.- « ■[ -Jli
t*}miii-rvtw'k .hwH pli I- < —5 . » ■
Aligns I ** 1
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II rtwor --J *J| w« iw iff
Umili'l Itiwnieti J«4in Jack l*W tt. 1<»»> «) St CI »J«
1 4"r»nk F«.r«wt*r ♦ '*• 41 • _
li.rm.mv I rr.l WrUtlr -* £ -\ <5
K«rnv< - Vl> I rank Hit.hii **l . „ ... « ...
KSSIa I . *4.l'lit* 4# 77 U«». 221 24"
Kin.Mii.iirf .1 1 Mnrt.r * ■ ~' m ... .
<Vmn'K|Urix-stmr ' «-l" ''• 11 £ d 71 ? 1 i" Vr.
* Tw|. Austin M< al» .'5 •- '' J •« * *
ArlaK» .Unir* Orr '">■ W* -®- '*> f| M
•'•"> • 1 > '* ?' "
Biiffal.) J..1M1 Harblw* I( '± t't £ iV ti 1* S
K-T- r lir ,.v i"i *> s; **:
PftiL n *z*l ;t:£ t£S Si: 1,1
isr I':. r;
Owrtk-Hl E.J. K.-nii«-dy g< JJ* **] **' '' 41 ' !|J
(Vrrj Until >|.r..ulf a?WJ" J H MM)
< Vmih.xjm>ti.*«lT.c U. - ll.'nry 4 .';j *' . [j) ■;• f.
Andrew Kfrchlrr ' 2« J" «
<v.T.r*.wHi IU4KH Adams.. '' JJJ .' J ... . -
Ihnx-Eal Tlx .mas WalUnan 1/?' 2 «T, }} ?!
rxr. VT s»l i» gs •,,«
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UnrXr San'ii.M Itartfvy ij:": «■ « 4Jj« » « «W
t.TSSU^ k ':.. ::: ' 2
MWJd»<H4X i;. <».''TftiomiMKin.... gj !?J -j J*' J2
Grant. .lon€M* rK " 'J .'it, ji S
}."^' r ;V.T, P E Hay I*' •-! W«S 4- »"»
fll|.|H-ry lt.H-k 11. Ilatvard' •" » ?'i «Hi 2^'"
hu niintt J oil IIIV'. Itaklaiif. «l; ;< ';* ;*! s '- 4 ' ...
Vcf.nLM \V I Slalk«T. I ■*' h
nfflon Aii«tin MeaN... ••• *?5? : S 4 ?| S £ 2 S K> iili 14
w HlMv.r* . lin . 8 .::: . 1 «1« 412irr ziu «» :: '."
Kutl.-r Horonicli John S. .lack 24 9J ljj>| «> U ll*»--
tvnt.'rvlllf I rank I orr< it.T .... «g ;JJ f* !*' H'
Oonm«|ii< n«,*ln|f.... < aspor Pell .... * }h " .'. "! di '
EvannUty t;«>. Klpp. r » «7 M I. ® .•••••
Falrvlew Wm. Gllwon 'f (r ~ ... ."95
Harmon* Kr.d WHule ... .... WW •** J*J •» 1 41 19
Harrtavilli' I.S. IVw *>■» ♦ » ' f'-
Karns City Ifatdprs 40 «» 4, n i n «l i
Mlllentown J. Donahuo *»}" r. - .""! ''\ ' T., j!
Mars (mn». B. Stuart.. .. .. !.».» 4'J HIH i|i tw
IVirolfta I' M. Frit/ JJ J-J • ... ;{ 4 J ■
ForU*rsvllli' A. Hi-naliaw .Ji ™ 4 ' - „7 ?2 "
Proswrt r. I . Newman I4< !./».►! B J ?
Baxonliuric 'J. E. Muder JJ 4 ", '. ; ' J"'
Sun>tiirv I 1 I'. Brown '•£» '• "" 10 94
V*l«ni'ia"J.'D. Stoop Mi"2 •j';; |J|- J' 1? J' 5! ■
InlliMli jWm. Allen Ziß M JO C» 1° -*- 1 - 1 ■'* i
Ttrli' ' 2508 M ,V> aofioi 4:1 UK! tt 1"«7 :»i 77 Sl4:i 41
I ~ inn. TAX OF I-l»* AND PBEVIoFS.
DISTRICT. COLLECTOR. ~ J? " ? _ ~
['• Mtvperr {K.H:k 'Joaeph L. Cooper Mwl »j j j H'T j"i«i
I.Hniast.T Ephrlam Krli •• ;• 1 1
Clearfield lIT 11. Duffy I*! 1' 444 4 2i- -I
Mario,. James fJllchrist " 3» ?;> « I
Win field Auitustl-reeliiK 'jJ j|J j-» W ■
Baxonliurg Horo Charles Raalje 1 ; > «• 12 M, 15 ::
Allechenv lames Jolly I™i •' ...
Butler Township. F. D. I'leri-e > -'•• "01'« -|
Clinton James Riddle 38 t-. -01 »71 ....
Clearfield E. J. Kennedy 1 » •■< • •■,..■• ;.• * " ■•■
Ch«»rrv !!• lCuss«*ll
Doiiefjal K- walt man ;l!'4 V IMWjUI. »»»
Marlon Joseph Vandyke II "■ ' •' ■ ... .
Oakland I'eter Wliltmlre ; • ■■ ■■ I
Venaniro II H Stalker ■ l * I" 47 <« »• *wi _
Hutler IM,roUKI. 1011.. S. Ja-k HI » 100 m .. a. 31 W 7,1
Ccntervllle boroueh F. Forrester 7-
Connoquenesslnßlior.l aap«;r l-ell 1«> "> ...
Falrvli.wlK.ro \. C.«i 11.son W »«
Karns city horo l-raak llahhlt # «•;
Mlllerstown born— J. J. J ••jniihue j- •» • •• • • I- -'
l'ctrolla boro. I• «- I r,y. Hl* 1.1 -I, ■£ - ■»•
HaxonburKhoro E. Muder •» £ •» J-, , - :••;•
Adams. fames Orr »w s »♦» •»«, 1 r-* i»»
Allegheny ... James Jolly .'I s !'* :i:l " ? ll JS
Butler township FD. Pierce ■£ oh a..1,2a Ik
Buffalo John Harbison »' '»•* •*>•»« J •' »•»
Bra<iy Frank M«? Curdy A'~J <» •»' ..
Clbiton James R Riddle -•» » » . ~ N i«.
Concord Robert Adams ' / \\ M ««» «w»
iVnter J.I). Smith ,r - t! 2 11 ,rj
Olay lio»H*rt Conn "»7 07 4."» Ou «-it 10 Zi
Cranberry Andrew Klrchler .1 15! }•.'
Clearfield .E.J.Kennedy "4 .< 3B 4. IJk h, k«
Cherry li™J r,, . I Sproul 1 ~ »'« •'». ina
Connoiiuenesslntc R. K Henry 4» • • 37 56 I»•l<
Doneiral F. Walt man •» 40 . ..... II 4"
Forward CJeorpe Marburger lw 111 it 52 IJ° 1« ♦»'.»
Fair view ... J. J. Camplkdl. iW 57 67 78! H ««) w '£*
Franklin Alonzo M. Candless 4k 3-1 37 50 I »K JM;
l.'ffi rsou .... >• M. Harr. 4«. 4. -i- i.. .....
la, k«m A. 11. Mick ley •« » 22 07 I l« II <W
l aiicaster ..!. Samuel Beatty SI l« 43 l» 233 7ok
Marlon Joseph Vandyke WW l.> on ,!• I» .4 3. It.
Mwe? .. J.J. McGarvey 3.114 2110111 »»
Middlesex E. O. Thompson J5 »f, . , r . ~ l' 1
Muddycreek , i-5 * ,C ' 2- i«i
Oakland. I'eter Whit mire , • ■*! ••->l ■
l»". <ieorK ( - F. Hay .C. .»'» 2T» SO
Parker Joseph Wa I ley >s la ltd od l> 10 2I» 1(1 114
HummU. ''if'iV Baldaur «J» »»•..« S
Kit..m i v Koek H. Itovard .»4 1*» 44 73 -l' .Of
Venan/o . .111. S. Htalk. r 20 78 I .Vi 10 SI
W'i.Mnilim Austin Meals » « 37 3T. tt. !. }:. 13 ...
Worth W. 11. I'lsor ll 152 I il..
Wintield J- M-Crulksliank 1 .Ik .11 2.i 90 I •>. 1103
Waihiiislon Austin Meals ... I*l7 Ik ■» II M 7'i 314
Hutl. rlK.ro John tf. Jack H'- •» « H#« *« »*• •
Ccntervllle horo I I orrester 14 I« _ • 13 41
J asper le'l •• *p - M
Evan l Ity iKiro ... Oeorue Ripper >l' K. J» ko I ir
Fair view M. (Jlbson .. I» '•»> 4 73 10 31
Harmony boro. Fred Wcl K le 43..! . ... !> 4.. .CI us
Harrlsvllle l«ro. J. H. I'ew jl 1 I" 4. ..
K -irtiH Cit V lioro K. D. liodgfiM *»- ■» '*> v Z♦ ;
Marn \*m> Geonrc 11. Stewart *! % lv 41 i!£ .V-
Mlllerstownlior*) J- J. »)onal»ue h -> l.»
PortersvllUi Ixiro... A. Ilenshaw 'i ~*k>
I'riMite.'t boro (. K Newman » - '*> i.» l
lVtrolla Imro. F. M. Frit/. Is no . 1H »»
Haxonbors boro J. E. Mwler 17 « 744 >:> 1 ;
Hniil.urrlK.ro P I'. Brown... 44« .4 ISO
Valencia horn '• D. Btoup ... <OO .. H! 1 ..
/.. li. uople bom IWllllauj Allen i:. :ei HI w •' - Ci :
I " Total 31-7 I.V.s n". -u - ISMMWI W 34317 X
((.'ontinuccl on 2nd page.)
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
• Bitter SiTtogn Bank
Hutler. 1 Vi.
CAL>L A! , « • •
Suftatral I'ruttU - - ♦ij -*'"*
J*l«4 I LI RVB PR^VWF
J 111 XRV TRI'L TM W V RLVMRT.'
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lov it -TK:s
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I* » % . w Ifw 1 -V. >• •- +
| TW ItetWt itviiai iMkk l»U* CMmi
tKwwJwSttiul v-ii pKtiucwr*. m++-
\ b43tiM-ct S4> a» «
V M K
Bailer Cdu&lj Sitim Baai,
HUIIxt IVnn.
Capital 'in - - S ; *-.o»<koi
Surplus an*l c**.k.ca
to*. Hiftnai, ;fnc»i«kiil; J. V. fcitts
vice Pro: icnt; C. A. Bailc C?» r i
I j»>hn a McMar ia, I Qtal rr.
"y'nn r~i' trm*ww"Kt
V%V litvlt* y*»u u> »{'*-nut * .%h lt« %
UlilF.t T l lt> H»m. H:ift!iidn H«>n.
iW. !*. Wal4roa, l*r >% V H<»m. «. Mo
i >4v«u* v K. K. C. P. ' «>ihn* I. G
.TH. L* N • P H /. 4-TT. VI H inetf IN.
VV II L irkift. Harry ll» to •v. IT. W. C.
\|< ( «R4] * SA. Heit TI VV .1 MURKX J
v mi) *»
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jHatj
Sale
'
$5.00 $4.00 and $3.00
HATS AT
isl.oo
Jno- S Wick.
Successor to El>. COLBERT,
242 S. Maiu St., Butler, Pa
Opposite I'. O.
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Qt
( &-¥&C% -K.
7¥w. 'f^K
J
*1 lie < utaway I '.ial has returned to popular
avi.r afU-r ;ir» absenc*' of several year-
Fashion has added many new efTe<*ls which
lake the cutaway suit strikingly handsome
or any man may lie be stooped or erect.
Vicuna, Lambs"NVool or Worsted in blaek
or pray mixed for the roat and vest, with
striped worsU'd of a lighter <*olor for the
trousers. This outfit from excellent quality
I of clot h, $».
ALAND,
MAKER OE
MEN'S CLOTHES.
People don't ljuy pianos for looks ah»ne.
If they did any one of the pretty piano erases
offered f«»r sale, with the tin-nan attachment
lnsidc,would do very well and not cost much.
A few month's use serves to show the dif
ferenre lwtween :i gocxl and ;t bad piano. b»*-
tw4 «*n a piano carefully made of excellent
material and a piano made of pine or any
clM'apst ufT, slapped together anyhow.
The Chase Brothers is as g»MKi a piano as
was ever made. You ma 3* see it any time
you will come in. "Seeing's Free." Th«*y are
firmly warranted in every respect. Vou
' run no risk. Should a piano prove
» you are welcome to come and select another
of the same styles and ire will exchange it
wit h you free of charge at any t irne.
Every thing in the music line cash or
credit.
Terms to suit you convenience.
We can save you SHW.OO and upwards in the
price of a first class piano.
W. R. NEWTON,
:t 317 South Main St- Butler Pa.
i
L. C. WICK,
Dp.ai.er in
LUHBER.
yUANTKD lion* t man or v.• .man t<» t ravel
" for large hous«-: • alary s*'*» mont lily ami
_ I « , xi»4 , iis4.«,. with lncr*-ase: ix»sition perman
-1 en t; inclose. He lf-addresse lenvelope
MANAOKU. JliO Caxton bldg M Culcago.
BUTLEW, PA., THE WSDAV, MARCH 13, lfcXX)
Tanight
H xi,-ur .■ r is out vf catGsin|r
I -« >.'k Hiaiad*. Heart
barn, .irl'nc.!;, take a dkv>e oi
Hood'st PiUs
|Mlm atptt will br mu'iVil wl
»..! I* hngfct. aetn*- azk! n i ix
i T 3U-. k.sd "•! «,vrk TY-us Ki#
rip* rsemcv i :t
v. . . :-. :'••!•- EI Ll - ~
TV. - i» tow on»'i«.">-
Oo Kwtft cf V K (♦: '». r-iA or
% pMNOM I IWJ~' ' * ill W ■wWol
y -t T "~i. *r t Ma? E*x>r x-w
El*'a il«*iii l a. «*■.-.«s *> taM
g- *BL ■ 4
LL\ BROTHERS.
• 5£ Vmru it . N-w foti
K«t John Kei»i -Ir at.
NC«B:B«BM Ely's « r««a» Koju » I
e«a as 2*»iz " It »»
Ui» exirv f.T catarrh if ** - i
K»t. EratM *. P< - t~. Pi»w:Csntri.Pwt
Church, H - a*.
Bt'i Creani Ba.>; •> th" *b»w
enr-' tot c-i'^r rh an . c*a :&«au *. rcaiy
iw.r auj iuj iriu.:a drug 54/
RAILROAD TIME TABLES.
j) UFFALO, KOCHESI i-.; sM
PH I SHI R'J KY T
new trunk inc between t ittsb -, r .
! Hutler. Bradford, R.>chester ana
; Buff.-Jo.
•>n aQ'l .tft«r Jtn I. li**'
train- will leave Butler. P i W St;i
tmn a.- foB-iws. Staadaid Tinie
jlO 13.1. ui V«tibuM Liiiiifeil. da nr.
fr>r Dayton. Piinxsut.iwney Da-
Boi- Ri'lsfwriy. Bradford, BuSalo
and Rrx-hester.
i p.ui. Accommodation, rveek lays [
only, Dnytoa. Pnnx«:i
tawnejr. [>nßi<«. Fall«i Creek.
t'nrwenKville. < lear Held and inter
mediate stations
K.l.'ia.tii Week .lays only: wi.xe.l train
for i.'r»ii<sville. Daxton. Pnnssa
tawney and intermediate point-
This train leaves Pnnx.sntawney at
1:00 p.m. arriving at Bntler at A~>
j p. rn . <>toppin«f at all intermediate
stations
Thousand mile tickets good for pas-
I satfe Iwtween all stations on the B. K.
.V I'R y and N*. Y. C. R. R Penn a.
division) at 3 cents per mile.
For tickets, time tables anil furthei
information call on or address,
W. R. TVRNF.R, Ai?t.
Bntler, Pa., or
EDWARD C. LAPEY.
(ienl Pass. Agent.
RiK'Lester, N. Y.
I*., Iti'ssi-miT «V I> K.
Trains depart No 14, at !l:15 A. M;
So. 2, at 4 •"><» P. M. Bntler time.
Trains arrive :No. 1. 9:50 A. M; No.
11. 2:~h~> P. M Bntler time.
No. 14 rnns throntch to Erie and con
nects with W. N. Y. & P. at Huston
Junction for Franklin and Oil City,
and with Erie Railroad at Shenan
i{o for all points east. No. 2 runs
through to i ireenville and connects with
W N. Y. <k P. for Franklin and Oil
City, and at Shenango with Erie R. li.
for poin f s i i-t and west.
W H. TURNER. Ticket A«ent.
I >ITTSB JRG & WESTERN
Railway. Schedule of Pas
fenger Trains in effect Nov 19,
ißcj9. Bi TLER TIME.
I)«»|4irt. ' Arrivi
. . .|' : ) \ -l.ltl-'ll 6SB LM •
Allefboi] Expi - j M Oft *• •
N u1 Mw v ... Ic, m 146 •• f"T
Ik: "M Mall I fll AS ■ v
Alleffcenj h..-i I Kpn - • M
\. Expr«M 300 rJi 14
Chicigs szsrwi 3 10 pa l - U SMI
\. \ Hafl '• *." 1 * • i '«•
Allefhcoi nd n«-'a I iitlt Awoa 5 " " TOB
Chi if Limited . 580 14 • ~ \ M
Kane HIH> Bradford Mail a m - "»o i*.M
darioß AAoamma&tikm 4 55 pji •4® AJI
< Sevdu I and i lacolifrai 625 tm
SI'NDAY TRAINS.
Allegheny Kxproas H (15 A.»I !» M> A.M
Allegheny A< • onaodati m . 5 •" PJ 608 M
RiwOhw liiniiiiiilMtlmi ... 106 i H T66
« in in EaprMi :» 60 rji
At t;oniiii«»«lati«#:i 7 (U pin
Train at "».o;j p.m. leaver B. A 0. tlejct
Pittßtmr| at 11.25 p.m and I*. A W., Allegheny at
p. rn.
Oaatisla,known m tin- theatre train,!
will tears Boiler at • Ml p. ■ . srrMac »' \!i'_ j ,
at t.jh; i • tin nlaa Its re iulegbeny el 11 Bp ■
Pullman glceping cars on (%icago Kxpriiw betw»'**n i
I'ittnburg an<i Chicago.
Fur through tii ki-LH t«» all iM>intf4 in the west, nurth
wesl er son lowest ead information regarding reotee,
time of traifiN, etc. apply t*•
W. 11. TI RNKK, Ticket Agent,
H. It. K*YNoLI»S, Sup't, N h , Butl-r. Pa.
Butler, JV C. W. BAKSKTT,
0. P. A.. Alleghery, Pa
11. O DFNKLK,
.Sup't. W AL. Dir.. Alhtglienj Pa.
PENNSYLVANIA
WFSfEkN PBNNSYLVAMA DIVISION.
S4iir.i>ui.r. IN Errncrr Nor. 20,1899.
SOUTH. . WEEK DAYS . '
A. M A. M. A. >1 P. M. P. .1. '
BI'TI.KK 1,,■!.%.■ .. j . s (>:. In M. j
Haiontmrg Arrlre 6 64! 6 3011 15j 3 0
Butler Junction.. " 7 27 A r » i 11 l«i 'li* . r » .'• > ;
Botlei .luii' Hon Leeisj 731 - •• 11 >2 12
Natrona Arrive 7 4'» 90112 o| :;l 602 \
Tarentum 7 41 907 12 Oh .1 IJ ♦'» 4»7 !
Spriugtbile 7 52 9 Jti 12 19 il f>- .. . .
(Haranont f6 30|12 86 106
Sharpsborg. -11 • •i• j- ii•
Allegheny.. . . S2l 9 4ft 1 <l2 4 s r > 6 4-t j
A. M A.M. P. M P. M P. 31.
SUNDAY TRAINS.—Leave Butler for Allegheny j
City aii'i princijial iutenne«liate Mtationa at 7:30 a ni
Hii'l 6:00 p. in.
NORTH. WEEK DAYS »
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(hitler Junction.... leave 74> 947 12
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ler ami piim ipal interuitHliate Htatioim at 7:15 a. ru. ami j
9*30 p. ni.
roil TIIE EAST.
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lieM Pittnhurg, Pa.
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A TALE OF LIFE IN THE
★ BOER REPUBLIC.
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CHAPTER L
ku:- «> isiu> trrx.
The full Alms KMua -V>*»
l:»M ftva L- Use >»J SKO the
w :e. pfatn. The dir. «>2y
ra.rrt with l"s *■ ~s f stsistsd ""isr
|\. ** &c<. • -•* JL f*- -L.* 2- ** .» gft. tUftf SOW
bills that skirted tS- fha. the milk
hashes with tktir bag; tettrifet
leaves, atll w>rrv t.>ort~>i by & *«nl
aad aa ala. >t opprv«sl*e beauty i«
taey fci* hthe white E*ht.
Is i >ii« >E •-v eeLy »x$ m*t
..«.;>*• ay of tfc« plain brufeea. Near
the nam a suklH solitary ""kijpjv"*
nwr. Aii-'Ot* ft fay there. a heap sf
(w! iroa*T<>nes [ irl one cp>n an
other. as o tar some giaat's icrate.
ii ai<! 1 a t> -w tuft- of c
K: .' plants tad sprung
aii>< :•-£ its ssoses. aad on rile very sum
mit a «*«"f of prickly pears lifted
i their thorny arms ami nli (Hit, as
from sirßm. tiii- oeealight on their
J >inai| fleshy haves. At the test of
the "k";>je" tay "be homestead. Srst
the stone walU-d so»-*p kraals 3C') Kaf
fl- huts. bt>(OD4| them the dwelling
hou»r. a square rvd brtc!c building
w * tl.tched roof E'.-u < :i its bare
red waiis auil the wcoudt-n ladder that
tr* - 4
h>f ~ a
sff |
mh -ri i %
- \ f ;
T/%h i: ryW
'm
OLIVE SC'IIKKINkIi ("ItALPH I HON").
led up to the loft the moonlight cast a
kind of dreamy beauty and unite ethe
realized the low brick wall that ran
In-fore the house anil which inclosed a
bare patch of .sand and two struggling
sunflowers. On the zinc ri>of of the
great open wagon hor.se. ou the roofs
of the outbuildings that Jutted from
its side, the moonlight glinted with u
(|itite |K'CUliar brightness till it seemed
that every rib in the metal was of
burnished silver
Sleep ruled everywhere. the
homestead was not less quiet than the
solitary plain
In the farm licit?:. < ' wood
en bedsu-ml. Boer
woman, rolled heat ep
She had gone to always
dlil, in her clothes. ■ night was
warm and the room ■ lose, and ?he
dreamed had dreams not of the gliosis
and devils that so haunted her waking
thoughts, not of her second husband,
the consumptive Englishman, whose
grave lay away beyond the ostrich
camps, nor of her first, the young
Boer, but only of the sheep's trotters
| she had eaten for supper that night.
! She dreamed that one stuck fast in her
throat, and she rolled her huge form
from side to side and snorted horribly.
In the next room, where the maid
had forgotten to close the shutter, the
white moonlight fell in In a flood and
made it light as day. There were two
small beds against the wall. In one
. lay a yellow haired child, with a low
| forehead and a face of freckles, but
I the loving moonlight hid defects here,
I us elsewhere, and showed only the iu
i nocent face of a child in its first sweet
| sleep.
The figure in the companion bed be-
I longed of right to the moonlight, for
I It was of quite clfiulike beauty. The
child had dropped her cover on the
floor, and the moonlight looked in at
; the naked little limbs. Presently she
j opened her eyes and looked at the
j moonlight that was bathing her.
j "Km!" siie called to the sleeper iu
! the other bed, but received no answer,
i Then she drew the cover from the
| floor, turned her pillow and, pulling
! the sheet over her head, went to sleep
I again.
! Only in one of the outbuildings that
Jutted from the wagon house there was
| someone who was not sleep. The room
was dark. Door and shutter were clos
| ed. Not a ray of light entered any
! where. The German overseer to whom
' the room belonged lay sleeping sound
ly ou his bed In the corner, his great
arms folded and his bushy gray and
I black beard rising and falling on his
lireast. But one in the room was not
j asleep. Two large eyes looked about
in the darkness, and two small hands
I were smoothing the patchwork quilt.
! The boy. who slept on a box under the
window, had just awakened from his
| first sleep. lie drew the quilt up to
j Ills chin, so that little peered nbove it
but a great head of silky black curls
! and the two black eyes. lie stared
1 about in the darkness. Nothing was
visible, not even the outline of one
I worm eaten rafter, nor of the deal ta
' ble, on which lay the Bible from which
| his father had read before they went
' to lied. No one could tell where the
, tool box was and where the fireplace.
There was something very impressive
to the child in the complete darkness.
At the head of his father's bed hung
a great silver hunting watch. It tleken
loudly. The boy listened to it and be
gan mechanically to count. Tick, tick,
tick- one, two, three, four! lie lost
count presently and only listened.
Tick, tick, tick, tick!
It never waited. It went on inexora
bly, and every time it ticked a mau
died! He raised himself a little on his
elbow and listened. He wished It
would leave <>fT.
How many times had it ticked since
he came to lie down? A thousand
times, a million limes, perhaps.
He tried to count again and sat up
to listen better.
"Dying, dying, dying," said the
watch, "dying, dying, dying!"
He heard it distinctly. Where were
they going to, all those people?
He lay down quickly and pulled the
cover up over his head, but presently
the silky curls rcapi<eared.
"Dying, dying, dying," said the
watch, "dying, dying, dying!"
He thought of the words his father
had read that evening, "For wide is
the gate and broad is the way that
leaileth to destruction, and many there
be which go in thereat."
"Many, many, many!" said the
watch.
"Because straight is the gate, and
tiarrow is the way that lyadetli uuto
iii*. ±~~i few t* thai ebJ it."
"|>*. few. fewr said ibf watch.
i The fcwy w :ii> Lj eyes w -Je epem.
f 11 s*w Nrf i* tim ab ag sireas of
; ir. a rrvat -iari :iat
_a ooe kwtiur The* thry
eaiase t» ;he <a:i pij* of the w jdi
aa»i w „t over ii. saw pwsirtf
' : re _i3_. i>i "iiiere was a~i -
i s_.it c i&•! si'.»p tisem. He- «rf
b w t. j.t is*- -J.H ki-i rwL.—i sa :
i.. " -• *" ~
•jfcl »;r-~ i 5 -Tl-* n ia-I p. Ott vT«.
Tl.- RNNRX- aiMl of v""-.aa an*l
|r«; a -tii *5 wefv ■ Tie** QOW
ie tui«i mji n j
llftl
An«i t!ie vaccft ""Htem-tj. ecer
' Bttj. eteraitjr*'
•*st-r tttem! thtznT crM the
, ehihL
AJJ»I aU the wtilie tbe watch kept
ti.-i.-jn.' on. j*4st like Go*Ts wilL that
never chasers or alters, run may do
what yoa please.
Great beads of perspiration stood on
the D>y"» forehead He ei.nibed oat of
bed ami la; with his face turned to
the Laud floor.
"O God. God. sa»e them."* he cried in
ip.Qv, -only some, only a few. only for
; ea.-h n.- .. ent lam praying her* —oner*
He folded his little hands upon his
hea>L "Go«i. God. save them."'
He groveled on the floor.
Oh. the long. loßg ages of tho po.-.t.
in which they had gone over! Oh. t ie
long, long future. In which they would
pa.- away! <> God. the lonn. long,
eternity, which has no end!
The child wept and crept closer to
the ground.
THE SACRIFICE.
The farm by daylight was not as the
farm by moonlight. The plain was a
weary flat of loose red sand, sparsely
covered by dry "karroo" bushes, that
cracked l>eneatb the tread like tinder
and showed the red earth everywhere.
Here and there a milk bush lifted its
pale colored roils, and In every direc
tion the ants and beetles ran about In
the blazing saud. The red walls of
the farmhouse, the zinc roofs of the
outbuildings, the stone walls of the
kraals, all reflected the fierce sunlight
till the eye ached and blenched. No
tree or shrub was to be seen far or
near. The two sunflowers that stood
before the door, outstared by the sun,
drooped their brazen faces to the sand,
and the little cicadalike insects cried
aloud among the stones of the "kopje."
The Boer woman, seen by daylight,
was even !e>» lovely than when In bed
she rolled and dreamed. She sat on a
chair in the great front room, with
her feet on a wooden stove, and wiped
her flat face with the corner of her
apron and drank coffee and In Cape
Dutch swore that the beloved weather
was damned. Less lovely, too, by day
light was the dead Englishman's child,
her little stepdaughter, upon whoso
freckles and low, wrinkled forehead
the sunlight hud no mercy.
"Lyudall," the child said to her little
orphan cousin, who sat with her on the
floor threading beads, "how Is It your
beads never fall off your needle?"
"I try," said the little one gravely,
moistening her tiny finger. "That is
why."
The overseer, seen by daylight, was
I huge German, wearing a shabby suit
find with a childish liablt of rubbing
lils hands and nodding his head pro
digiously when pleased at anything.
He stood out at the kraals in the blaz
ing sun, explaining to two Kaffir boys
the approaching end of the world. The
boys as they cut the cakes of dung
winked at each other and worked a»
slowly as they possibly could, but tha
German never saw It.
Away beyond the "kopje" Waldo, his
son, herded the ewes and lambs, a
small and dusty herd, powdered all
over from head to foot with red saud,
wearing a ragged coat and shoes of un
dressed leather, through whose holes
the toes looked out. His hat was too
large and had sunk down to his eyes,
concealing completely the silky black
curls. It was a curious small figure.
His flock gave him little trouble. It
was too hot for them to move far.
They gathered round oTcry little milk
bush as though they hoped to flud
shade and stood there motionless iu
clumps. He himself crept under a
shelving rock that lay at the foot of
the "kopje," stretched himself on his
stomach and waved his dilapidated lit
tle shoes In the air.
Soon, from the blue bag where he
kept his dinner, he produced a frag
ment of slate, an arithmetic and a peu
lil. Proceeding to put sum
with solemn and earnest demeanor, he
began to add It up aloud, "Six and ii
is 8, and 4 is 12, and 2 is 14, and 4 is
18." Here he paused. "And 4 Is 18,
and 4 is 18." The last was very much
drawled. Slowly the pencil slipped
from his fingers, and the slate follow
ed it into the sand. For awhile he lay
motionless, then began muttering to
himself, folded his little arms, laid his
head down upon them and might have
been asleep but for a muttering sound
that from time to time proceeded from
him. A curious old ewe came to sniff
at him, but it was long before he rais
ed liis head. When he did, Iks looked
at the faroff hills with his lieavjr eyes.
"Ye shall receive—ye shall receive—
shall, shall, shall," he muttered.
He sat up then. Slowly the dullness
and heaviness melted from his face.
It became radiant. Midday had come
now, and the sun's rays were poured
down vertically. i|!ie earth throbbed
before the eye.
The boy stood up quickly and cleared
a small space from the bushes which
covered it. Looking carefully, Le found
12 small stones of somewhat *ie same
size. Kneeling down, he arranged
them carefully on the cleared space
In a square pile. In shape like an altar.
Then he walked to the bag where his
dinner was kept. In It were a mutton
chop ami a large slice of brown bread.
The boy took them out and turned the
bread over iu his hand, deeply consid
ering It. Finally lie threw it away and
walked to the altar with the meat and
laid it down on the stones. Close by
iu the red sand he knelt down. Sure,
never since the beginning of the world
was there so ragged anil so small a
priest. He took off his great hat and
placed it solemnly on the ground, then
closed his eyes and folded his hands.
He prayed aloud:
"O God. my Father, 1 have made
thee a sacrifice, i have only twopence;
so 1 cannot buy a lamb If the lambs
were mine, 1 would give thee one. But
now I have only this meat. It Is my
dinner meat. I'lease, my Father, send
i lire down from heaven to burn it. Thou
I hast sa:A 'Vfeancftr shall say unto
| tiui iwniimlll. IV- thou _-a>t into the
J sk-a. !..tlliiu; doubting. It shall be done."
i 1 ask for the sake of Jesus Christ,
i Amen."
lie knelt down with his face up. a
the ground, and he folded his tan is
ujk-u his curls. The fierce sua poured
down its beat ui-.n his bead and ujv.u
his altar. When be looked up. be kxtew
w Lat be sin-ukl «v the f' <T >'f God!
For ftar his veTy teart si*v*l still; his
brvath came heavily; be was half suf
focated. lie darvd not k-ok cp. TL- a
at last be raisied biosett. Above hiia
was the qaiet Kae sky. aboat Lie the
red earth. Tbeqp were the (toaps of
siet ewes aad lus altar; (hat was aIL
He np V I' *st be*»ke tie
is.ie&se scziiaess of the bine
llr lociel itvoe-J !a miieKhaerf
Thea he bowcvl j az»i - > t -*■
kMger tiaa twfore.
Whes he raided hiasseK
tijf. aB was BEaitiend. 'jol; sea
had nested the fat of the feie je.sc
tc-B chofH. aad fx ra- dewv -p»>c ths
sfcaaes-
T_*ra the third httt he bwwed h£as
iicll Ifbett at £ass he footed qii se&ue
a..-.- ha-1 ft - the meat «• ■_«
Be stood sp aa*i drove them away.
T-rC. he pet hes ha» sc. his hut etuis
and sat ia the shade, lie ciasfed his
has.-Is aboct to knee*. He «: to watch
wliat would com* to fsisa. The gS.ry
•f the Lord God Alnlgixty—he k&ew
be should see it I
"Mi .!ear
aa«l he sat there through the here*
heat of tht afremo-jQ StiH he watched
and waited when the son began to
sb pe. and when tt neare»l the horixoa
and tiie be-jjan to cast shad
' ows a*rross the "karroo" he still sat
there. He hoped when the first rays
touched the hills till the STin dipped be
hind them and was gone. Then he
called his ewes together and broke
duwn the altar aad threw the meat
far. far away into the field.
He walked home behind his dock.
His heart was heavy. He reasoned so;
"God cannot lie. I had faith. Xo tire
came. I am like Cain —I am not his.
He wtll not hear my prayer. God
hates me."
The boy's heart was heavy. When
he reached the kraal gate, the two girls
met him.
"Come." said the yellow haired Em.
"Let us play coop. There is still time
before It gets ijuite dark. You. Waldo,
go and hide on the 'kopje.' Lyndall
and I will shut eyes here, and we will
not look."
The girls hid their faces In the stone
wall of the sheep kraal, and the boy
rlaii:l»ered half way up the "kopje." He
trouched down between two stones
and gave the calL Just then the milk
herd came walking out of the cow
kraal with two pails. He was an ill
looking KatHr.
"Ah." thought the boy, "perhaps he
will die tonight anil go to hell! I must
pray for liiin! I must pray!"
Then he thought "Where am 1 going
to?" and he prayed desperately.
"Ah, this is not right at all," little
Km said, peeping lietween the stones
and tiiiiling him in a very curious pos
ture. "What are you doing, Waldo?
It is not the play, you know. Vou
should run out when we come to the
white stone. Ah, you do not play
nicely."
"I —I will play nicely now," said the
boy, coming out auil standiug sheepish
ly before them. "I—l only forgot. I
will play now."
"He has been to sWt>," e«t«i frccklci
Km.
"No," said beautiful little Lyndall,
looking curiously at bin; "he has been
crying."
She never made a mistake.
THE CONFESSION.
C ne night two years after the boy
sat alone on the "kopje." He had
crept softly from his father's room and
come there. He often did, because
when he prayed or cried aloud his fa
ther might awake anil hear him, and
none knew his great sorrow and none
knew his grief but himself, and he
buried them deep iu his heart.
He turned up the brim of his great
hat and looked at the inooti, but most
at the leaves of the prickly pear that
grew just before him. They irlintcd
and glinted and glinted, Just "Tike his
own heart cold, so hard and very
wicked. His physical heart had pain
also. It seemed full of little bits of
glass that hurt. He had sat there for
half an hour, and he dared not go back
to the close house.
He felt horribly lonely. Th«e was
not one thing so wicked as he In all
the world, and he knew It. He folded
his arms and began to cry—not aloud.
He sobbed without making any sound,
and his tears left scorched marks
where they fell. He could not pray.
He hail prayed night and day for so
many months, and tonight lie could not
pray. When lie left off crying, he held
his aching head with his brown hands.
H one might have gone up to him and
touched him kindly, poor, ugly little
thing! Perhaps his heart was almost
broken.
With Ills swollen eyes he sat there ou
a flat stone at the very top of the
"kopje," and the tree, with every one
of its wicked leaves, blinked and blink
ed at him. Presently he began to cry
again and then stopped his crying to
look at It. He was quiet for a long
while. Then he knelt up slowly anil
bint forward. There was a secret he
had carried In his heart for a year.
He had not dared to look at It, he had
not whispered It to himself, but for a
year lie hail carried it. "I hate God!"
he saiil. The wind took the words and
ran away with them among the stones
and through the leaves of the prickly
pear. He thought it died away half
down the "kopje." He had told It
now!
"I love Jesus Christ, but I hate God!"
The wiuil carried away that sound
as it had done the first. Then he got
up and buttoned his old coat about
him. He knew he was certainly lost
now. lie did not care. If half the
world were to be lost, why not he too?
He would not pray for mercy any
more. Better so —better to know cer
tainly. It was ended now. Better so.
11c began scrambling down the sides
of the "kopje" to go home.
Better so! But, oh, the loneliness,
the agonized pain, for that night anil
for nights on nights to come, the an
guish that sleeps all day on the heart
like a heavy worm ami wakes up at
night to feed!
There are some of us who In after
years say to Fate, "Now ileal us your
hardest blow, give us what you will,
but let us never again suffer as we
suffered when we were children."
The barb In the arrow of childhood's
suffering is till* its Intense loneliness.
Its Intense Ignorance.
CHAPTER 11.
VLANS/AMi BUSUUAN PAINTINQ#.
At last came the year of the great
drought, the year IHO2. From end to
end of the land the earth cried for wa
ter. Man and beast turned their eyes
to the pitiless sky that, like the roof of
some brazen oven, arched overhead.
Ou the farm, day after day, mouth
after month, the water in the dams
fell.lower nml low ,l "
the fields: the cattle, scarcely abie to
crawl tottered as they moved from
spot to spot !b s-earch of food. Week
after week. nioatb after moath. the
-an i <»»ked iViicd frdie the cloudless
sky till the "Umx>" bashes were leaf
k>s sticks broken into the earth, aad
the earth itsrff was naked aad tare.
3S-1 only the inili. bodies, l.ke uU Ijjk.
1- cted their shrivel--J carers heaven
ward. prayiax f-r the ra_a that never
• ••••••
It wrs ua an of a Ion; day
ia tLat thirsty fmiaer that <m the «•*!*•
i f 'he *k«pje" farthest frou the hone
stead the two glrjs sat- They were
s» -.2sewhat rrowv stare the days wL-t
they i«4ay«d hide and seek dtm. tot
Uaey were neiw children ct3L
Their ci»» was of dark ocarce sspsX
«£.=*■« t<oe > oaf :«* racM
t- - r itij-s. a»l «a Uietr feel they
wore loeeemade "Tri-sci***."
They a; m*&er a sbeirtaf rock, am
the surface <*f which w«-« scM staaMe
«* «U B.i»iiaza their r*d
and Mack f«xE*«ts oa-ira# i«e*3 p*e
- f-ed thrw«c!s kef y*ars fuses wij>i
lii raia fcy the
egpmcesqar ««. ekpfeiia;t*. ihtßaeeraMS
asd a <a*e . -cae»i beast s.i>Ti as a»j -v-m
ee<=r &as seen sc eresr shall see
The gsris sat with their bocks co the
palnr 20. Ia their laj* were a few
fan and i«* jiaat leaves, whfrfi by
<:_t '.f raa»-h searching they tail ®ath
nwi oaiier the n*rkA
Km (»jfc ul tier biap browa kappje
a a-1 beian vtgnroussty to fan her red
fa. e with X bat her companion beat
fc>w ov-r the leaves ta her lap aad at
last took ap aa ice plant leaf and fas
tened tt oa to rhe front of her Wne piaa-
Idk with a pis.
'Diamoath mast took as these drop*
•io." she sai»l, carefully bending over
the leaf and crushing one crystal «Irop
with L»-r delicate little naiL -When L™
she s-a i. "am grown up. I shall wear
real diuwadi exactly like these la my
[ hair."
Her companion opened her eyes and
wrinkled her low fan-head.
"Where will yon find tliem. Lyndall?
The stones are only crystals that we
picked ap yesterday Old Otto says
so."
-And yea think that I am going to
stay here always?"
The lip trembled scornfully.
"Ah. nor* said her companion. "I
suppose some day we shall go some
where, but now we are only 12, and we j
cannot marry till we are IT. Four
years. live—that Is a long time to wait.
And we might not have diamonds if
we did marry."
"And you think that I am going to
Itay here till then?"
"Well, where are you going?" asked
her companion.
The girl crushed an ice plant leaf be
tween her fingers.
"Tant' Sannle Is a miserable old wo
man," she said. "Your father married
her when lie was dying because he
thought she would take better care of
the farm and of us than an English
woman. He said we should be taught
and sent to school. Now she saves ev
ery farthing for herself, buys us not
even one old !>ook. Slie does not 111 use
us. Why? Because she Is afraid of
your father's ghost. Only this morn
ing she told her Hottentot that she
would have beaten you for bfvaking
the plate but that throe nights ago she
heard a rustling and a grunting behind
the pantry door and knew it was your
father coming to 'spook' her. She Is a
miserable old woman." said the girl,
throwing the leaf from her. "But I in
tend tO HO to ot'lwul "
"And If she won't let you?'
"I shall make her."
"IIow?"
The child took not the slightest no
tice of the last question and folded her
small arms across her knees.
"But why do you want to go, Lyn
dall?"
"There Is nothing helps In this
world," said the child slowly, "but to
be very wise and to know everything—
to be clever."
"But I should not like to go to
schoolP' persisted the small freckled
face.
"And you do not need to. When you
are 17, this Boer woman will go. You
will have this farm and everything
that is upon it for your own. "But I,"
said Lyndall, "will have nothing. I
must learn."
"Oh, Lyndall! I will give you some
of my sheep," said Em, with a sudden
burst of pitying generosity.
"1 do not want your sheep," said the
girl slowly. 'T want things of my own.
When I am grown up," she added, the
flush on her delicate features deepen
ing at every word, "there will be noth
ing that I do not know. I shall be
rich, very rich, and 1 shall wear not
only for best, but every day, a pure
white silk and little rosebuds, like the
lady in Taut' Sannle's bedroom, and
my petticoats will be embroidered, not
only at the bottom, but all through."
The lady in Taut' Sannle's bedroom
was a gorgeous creature from a fash
ion sheet which the Boer woman, some
where obtaining, had pasted up at tho
foot of her bed to be profoundly ad
mired by the children.
"It would be very nice," said Em, but
It seemed a dream of quite too tran
scendent a glory ever to be realized.
At this Instant there appeared at the
foot of the "kopje" two figures—the
one, a dog, white and sleek, one yellow
ear hanging down over his left eye; the
other, his master, a lad of 14 and no
other than the boy Waldo, grown into
a heavy, slouching youth. The dog
mounted the "kopje" quickly. His
master followed slowly. He wore an
aged jacket, much too large for him
and rolled up at the wrists, and, as of
old, a pair of dilapidated "vel-schoens"
and a felt hat. He stood before the
two girls at last.
"What have you been doing today?"
asked Lyndall, lifting her eyes to his
face.
"Looking after ewes and lambs be
low the dam. Here!"- he said, holding
out his hand. "I brought them for
you."
There were a few green blades of
tender grass.
"Where did you find them?"
"On the dam wall."
She fastened them beside the leaf on
her blue pinafore.
"They look nice there," said the boy,
awkwardly rubbing his great hands
and watching her.
"Yes; but the pinafore spoils It all.
It is not pretty."
He looked at it closely.
"Yes; the squares are ugly, but It
looks nice upon you—beautiful."
lie now stood silent before them, his
great hands hanging loosely at either
side.
"Some one has come today," he mum
bled out suddenly when the Idea struck
him.
"Who?" asked both girls.
"An Englishman ou foot."
"What does he look like?" asked Em.
"I did not notice, but he has a very
large nose," said the boy slowly. "He
asked the way to the house."
"Didn't he tell you his name?"
"Yes- Bonaparte Blenklus."
"Bonaparte!" said Em. "Why, that
Is like the reel Hottentot Hans plays
j i>n the violin:
{ "Bona|>arte, llonapartf, my wife is sick 1
in the nii'Mlo «' "-'" v w -* "- * -
I - - i- tat f.r
"It Is a funny name."
"TL«-re -i- a >. viaj n«n call*-Boo*
apart e okfe." *a:d the of the rrexit
eyes. j
*~AI know." said Em -
poor pr. ; ■i wb-.ai ibe lions eat 1 sit/
i!~aj s so s««rry for him.™
~IL »£- - • rrrmn Who r'tf
I - r cji lis*- a.an I like Vest-" j
*\a ' - - dsd be iJo?" asked £a,
. eon- > thai si.- bad made a r.icita
a--! Jiat I*t was not the zaan.
*ll- was «ar man. oae." said
l * - evminmatm riuwlj. "yet all
tl-e i»- pie ta tfee world feared him.
H«- vs» -- « l-r-m He was «jq
a* nr. Yet bt was au»r
ft - * fti at h«- fat was rzljr
a L--: : ."ii. tl*s be was a ItruasaC
• wt« a rra**aL tie* be s» MM
When be- a tkbf to iiss
-li tmrz-< U. He waited asii
wa >d i>J wao#«L aati ft oau ft
- hK *
-He aisst lave tees. r«j iiffy."
sa>f Fr_
~l 4* *r>c tanw," «t>l LfaML -ft**
S»r had what he said he woiH SukT*.
asjfl that s N-rer thoa hetais happy.
ii-r was their rr.*tr<tc. and all the penpie
were white with fear <tC him He was
«£■ aad they were aiaay, and tUey jjr»t
i_.ii 'i. aat Ls-+r_ They w«* like the
w*fcats when their teeth are fast hi a
grvat dose. Ehe uwanfiy wlMttO."
aa..l the "they v. *iUl not let him
gs
ene. sent him t» an Island In the
sea. a Eoaeiy »tan*i. ami kept him there
fa.-: He was one man. and they were
many, .tad they were terrified at him.
It wa.t diliunr -»aid the chOti.
"Anil what then?" -aid Em.
"Then he was alone there in that is-
I:■ r 1. with men to watch him always,"*
said her companion slowly and quietly,
"and in the l«»ng lonely nights he used
to lie awake and think of the things be
had done in the old >lays and tb« things
he would do If they let him g» again.
In rhe day. when he walked near the
shore, it seemed to him that the sea all
around him was a cold chain about his
body pressing him to death."
"And then?" said Em, much inter
ested.
~He died there In that island. He
never got away."
"It Is rather a nice story," said Em,
"but the end is sad."
"It is a terrible, hatefal ending," said
the little teller of the story, leaning
forward on her folded arms, "and the
worst is It Is true. I have noticed,"
added the child very deliberately, "that
it is only the made up stories that end
nicely. The true ones all end so."
As she spoke the boy's dark, heavy
eyes rested on her face.
"You have read It, have you not?"
He nodded. "Yes; but the brown
history tells only what he did, not
what he thought."
"It was In the brown history that I
read of him," said the girl, "but I
know what he thought. Books do not
tell everything."
"No," said the boy, slowly drawing
nearer to her and sitting down at her
feet. "What you want to know they
never tell."
Then the children fell into silence
till Doss, the dog. growing uneasy at
its long continuance, sniffed at one
and the other, and his master broke
ilorth suddenly.
"If they could talk. If they could
tell us now," he said, moving his hand
out over the surrounding objects, "then
we would know something. This 'kop
je.' if It could tell us how It came here!
The Physical Geography says," he
went on, muf# MpUip and ennfusedlv.
"that what are dry lands now were
once lakes. And what I think Is this:
These low hills were once the shores
of a lake. This 'kopje' Is some of the
stones that were at the bottom, rolled
together by the water. But there Is
this: How did the water come to make
one heap here alone In the center of the
plain?" It was a ponderous question.
No one volunteered an answer. "When
I was little," said the boy, "I always
looked at it and wondered, and I
thought a great giant was buried un
der it. Now I know the wnter must
have done It, but how? It Is very won
derful. I)ld one little stone come first
and stop the others as they rolled?"
said the boy, with earnestness, In a
low voice, more ns if speaking to him
self than to them.
"Oh, Waldo, God put the little 'kopje'
here," said Em, with solemnity.
"But how did he put It lierefr"
"By wanting."
"But how did the wanting bring It
here?"
"Because It did."
The last words were uttered with the
air of one who produces a clinching
argument. What effect It had on th 6
questioner was not evident, for ho
made no reply and turned away from
her.
Drawing closer to Lyndall's feet, he
said after awhile In a low voice:
"Lyndall, has It ever seemed to you
that the stones were talking of youl
Sometimes," he added In a yet lower
tone, "I lie under there with my sheepT
and It seems that the stones are reaQij
speaking—speaking of the old things?
of the time when the strange fishes
and animals lived that aro turned into'
stone now and the lakes were here!
and then of the time when the llttlS
Bushmen lived here, so small and so
ugly, and used to sleep In the wild'
dog holes and In the 'sloots' and eat
snakes and shoot the bucks with their
poisoned arrows. It was one of them,
one of those old wild Bushmen, that
painted those," said the boy, nodding
toward the pictures, "one who was
different from the rest He did not
know why, but he wanted to make
something beautiful; he wanted to
make something, so he made these.
He worked hard, very hard, to find the
Juice to make the paint, and then he
found this place where the rocks hang
over, and he painted them. To us they
are only strange things that make us
laugh, but to him they were very beau
tiful."
The children had turned round and
looked at the pictures.
"He used to kneel here naked, paint
lug, painting, painting, nnd he wonder
ed at the things he made himself," said
the boy, rising and moving his hand in
deep excitement. "Now the Boers have
shot them all, so that we never see h
little yellow face peeping out among
the stones"—he paused, a dreamy look
roming over his face —"and the wild;
tucks have gone and those days, anaj
H e are here. But we will be gone soon?
and ouly the stones will He on here,"
looking at everything as they look'
now. I know that it Is I who am"
thinking." the fellow added slowly?
"but it seems as though It w«re theyj
who are talking. Has It never seemed'
so to you. Lyndall?" >
"No; It never seems so to me," she
answered.
The sun had dipped now below the
hills, and the boy, suddenly remember
ing the ewes and lambs, started to his
feet.
"Let us also go to the house and see
who has come," said Em as the boy
shuttled away to rejoin his flock, while
Doss ran at his heels, snapping at the
ends of the torn trousers as they flut
tered In the wind.
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