The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-08-27
NUMBER 26.

had left him PROSTATE in the road
to honors aud fame. AT last he
lald his hand upon the door, intend
Ing to awaken his Aunt and let her
see that he alone of all the humber
had remained faithful to her, had
stood the test of self denial, and
how much greater would he not
stand He thought bitterly of the
Aistasteful study be was laboring
over. Pebbles turn the course of
iivers. Cinders in the eyes of IA
locomotive engineer have wrecked
the train.
He leaned on his hated erutches
aud longed Tor money money TO
take sea voyage that might give
him strength or heal him. He
needed money more than the 9th
ers, let them toll, they were not
crippled. He opened the door bur
riedly and met his Aunt all brist-
ling in curl papers; and he knew
in moment that she had heard all
that he was saved from betraying
the others. Her hateful French
temper was up and he felt almost
stunned at the fury Of the storm
that burst about the room. Her
voice, loud and shrill, proclaimed
the depth, height and broad ex-
panse of their ingratitude. He
heard his own virtues enlarged and
his cousins condemned until he
feared that the offended goddess
prepared special bolt to blight
their separate lives. The enormity
of their sin, here on the very camp
ground under the shadow of the
Tabernacle and not stones throw
from the minister's tent. What
would next happenR She would
ship them all by the early train
the ungratcful gang. "I'll take no
girls or boys who will leave an
afflicted Aunt on Christmas night,
when they should have been singing
the great hOel. No |! never neverl
Aud Phil, bring lawyer here, Pll
make Il will and leave the last one
of them out. The servant that is
faithful over few hlngs shall be
ruler over many"
Shadows we're gathering in the
room, Phil reached his hand me
chanically aud thrust a large knot
of pine beneath the yule~ log. The
flames leaped up-Fathers With
loud report and a tearing asunder
OF log aud fire brands, the air filed
with cinders, smoke aud flames and
then two burned aud blackened
creatures gasplng amid the wreck
when old Job rushed in.
The people rushed from all the
cottages along the beach; and the
phantoms came flying, tearing off
their wraps as they came. A ply
Sician was brought and it was
fonud that Aunt Del could only
last for a few hours; but that Phil,
perhaps might liuger couple of
days. Cal went down in the dust
to implore Aunt Del's pardon for
burning the yule log, but Jack cried
out, "lt's no such thing. | busted
mp Aunt Del though | didn't mean
TO, and never will do it again"
The poor old lady forgot her
wrongs and gave them her blessing.
But the crippled One-poor boy
went on a longer voyage, where
the silent boatman rOwed him to an
unseen shore. 1t then came out
that Uncle Job, the faithful, had
been the traitor. Why do sensible
white people say Uncle, Aunt etc,
continuing to claim relationship
with negroes ?
While the northern papers boast
loudly of few cases where among
the Southern blacks where faithful
houor bright they have proven
themselves. In the meantime the
South keeps a golden silence, but
remembers the Aunts and Uncles
who deserted homes, children and
all for chance of giving a good
master and his goods into the van
dal's hands. Such cases were in
number more than legion.