The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1889-08-07

and children. She is the guest, SO
to speak, of Alexander Walthour,
a gray~haired negro man who rents
the homestead place from its pres
ent owner. She was found there
in one Of her trance moods this af>
tcrnoon, lying upon her back, sur,
rounded by eight or ten crazy ne
groes.
THE QUEENS HEAD AND BODY
Were covered with a soiled sheet.
She wore a new pair of mems socks,
white, reaching about three inches
above the ankles. Six inches
more of her bare legs were shown
between the socks and the sheet.
The women about the bed were fan.
ming her majesty with palmetto
fans,a a death like silence pre-.
vailed in the room.
Flows the queenf' the attend
acts were asked.
She be in heaben," was the sol>
emn reply.
Chow long has she been there?N
"Ten minutes
"When do you expect her back?"
"When she git through wild God"
"Did you hear Christ preach
when he was here"
"Bote of 'em."
who told you that woman was
queen?"
"She say, an God say to her"
eyes" put in another womln;
"an' she be God, too"
Eyes, gloryl" in a chorus from
the others.
Cant you take that sheet off
her facet" .
There was some opposition to
this, but finally the sheet was
thrown down, exposing the woman's
face. She is dark ginger-cake
colored, fat nose, thick Tipped,
and veritable type OF ignorance
The black face was as stolid and
immovable as if carved in stone.
Not muscle quivered. For tlir-
ty minutes OF more q conversation
was kept up with the attendants as
an excuse for
WATcnING TIE QUEENS FACE.
"Whcre ere the Chrlsts that
preached to you awhile?N
"Oae he in jaiIan' one be in Mil
ledgcville."
ain Jail at Hinosville," explains
ed another.
"Why don't they come back?'
Glow do you think we know
dat?"
care you going to have any laore
prcaching?'
go"
Then what are you all staying
here for?'
I'VE go whenshe says CO."
"Day have us'rested like Christ,
an send us away"
Several were asked where they
came from. Ore or two came
from South Carolina. forty miles
away, but most of them from with
in three miles of the camp. The
entire number belong to the Con-
gregational church and few to the
Baptist and Methodist. For thirty
minutes at least
THE QUEENS FACE HADN'T MOVED
so much as the width of hair =
Her attendants were by no means
impatient, but watched with awe~
stricken faces for the return of rea-
son.
"Shc up in heaven now" wills,
pered one woman to another.
"Dar she be" was the reply.
"Dat woman shooly be queer"
Outside the sharty in which the
queen was lying was the main
group of apostles. 1t was sup.
per time and ten or twelve pots
were boiling and little picaninnies
were gath ering green roasting ears
to cook in the are. Some hominy
al d some soup with little corn
bread made up the general supper.
Old Alex Walthour has given his
last piece of meat to the disciples,
and the negroes have nothing 10 eat
except what they can gather from
the fields around them. Undoub.S
edly the main body of followers is
smaller than it has been since Bell
left and it is steadily failing away.
They are out of provisions and not
half of them are sheltered. The
queens position is comparatively
neutral one, and the craze may
gradually subside and disappear
without further outbreak.
Dut again Jney may not.
All they want is leader, and
that leader may.
SUDDENLY ARRIsE IN THEIR MIDST.
There is no fear that the white
settlers will be attacked. The
cheif anxiety is for the future of
the negroes themselves. The ter
pentine season is about half over
and the rice field are needing atten.
ton. This is the workman's sea-
son, and time lost can not be re.
placed. Winter is coming, and
five hundred negroes in Liberty
county have made absolutely 70
provision for it.
The queens name is Ella Rob
erts,