Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-27

thou shalt be their lord and their head.
His speech was full of thy glory, and great
was the rejoicing when he declared that
thou wouldst follow the departing tribes.
And I am he whom my lord vouchsafed to
command that, if thou shouldst return be-
fore his messenger could reach thee, was
to say that n un, thy father, awaited his SON.
By sunrise, or at latest by midday, thy
people shall stay to rest by Succoth. He
would hide q writing in the hollow syca-
more before the house. of Aminadab, which
should tell thee whittier next they take their
way. His blessing and the blessing of our
God be with thee in the wayr'
AS the old man pronounced the last words
Joshua bent his head, as though an invisible
hand were inviting him to kneel. Then he
thanked the old man and asked in subdued
voice whether all had been willing to obey
the call to quit house and home.
The old woman clssped her hands, ex-
claiming: "No, no, my lord; by no means.
What wailing and weeping there was be-
fore they went awayi Many rebelled. others
escaped or sought some hole or corner where
in to hide. But in vain. In the house Of
our neighbor Deuel-you know him-his
young wife had been lately brought to bed
with boy, her frst-born. How could the
poor creature set forth to wander? At first
she wept bitterly and her husband
blasphemed, but there was no help for it.
She and her infant were laid in q cart and
as things went forward they got over it, he
and she both, like all the rest; even Phineas,
who crept into pigeon house with his wife
and Eve children, and even old crippled
Graveyard Keziah-you remember her,
Adonai?-she had seen her father and
mother die, her husband and then five we'll
grown sons; everything the Lord had given
her to love, and had laid them one after an
other in our graveyard; and every morning
and evening she would go to their resting
which she had rolled close to the tombstone
her lips would always be moving; but what
she muttered was not prayer; mol have
listened to her many time when she did
not heed memo; she talked with the dead
as ii they could hear her in the tomb, and
could understand her speech like those who
live in the light of the sun. She is nigh
upon three score years old, and for three
times seven years she has been known to the
folk about as Graveyard Keziah. 1t was q
seDseless way she had, but for that very rea-
son perhaps it was doubly hard to her to
give it up; and she would not go, but hid
away behind the shrubs. When Ahiezer.
the.head OF her house, dragged her forth
ucE Wh1iuS Wdo SnOuSu W AAAonC yOuI uclfb
ache. But when it came to the last she
plucked up courage and conld not bear to
stay behind any more than the rest
"What had come over the poor wretches?
What possessed them?" Joshua here broke
in, interrupting the old woman's flow of
words; for his fancy again pictured the
people that he ought to, nay, that he must
leac, as surely as he held his fathers bles-
sing OF price above all else; and he saw
them in all their misery. The old woman
started, and, fearing lest she might have
angered the frst-born son OF her master, this
proud and lordly warrior, she stammered
put:
what possessed them, my lord? Aye,
well-I am but poor, simple slave woman;
but indeed, my lord, if you had but seen
them also"
"Well, what then?" cried the soldier
roughly and impatiently; for now, for the
irst time in his lie, he found himself COM