Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-04-14

Tub an sympaty as no count ole nig- gah has got to glib yo's gwine to git, \ sho' an' sartin. Yo' jis' bar dat in min,
 now; an don't yo' neber go an forgit it. No mattah wher yo' is, honey, ner
 how fer in de future de time is, if de
 day eber comes when yo' feels de need ob me yo' jis' let me know. an' I'll come to yo' if has to take my foot in my
 han an walk a thousan' miles to git
 dar. Oats iis' 'zaclxly what I'll do,
 chile, if Is got der breff ob life in my
 pol ole body. Yo' jis' member dat now,
 an don yo' fergit to let me know if yo'
 needs me-"
 'I'n never forget you, Aunt Mary" I
 replied, ''and I'll never forget how
 good and kind you've been to me; and if
 ever need friend I'll remember that
 I've got one in you"
 "I warrant you'n do all dat, honey"
 she observed, "but yo' ain't done said
 dat yo'n send for me if yo' needs me-"
 "I will say it, then" said I. ''If
 should get sick, and likely to not get
 we'll, I'll send for you, Aunt Mary, be-
 cause then I'd want some one near who
 loved me, and there is no one else
 could call for.''
 Aunt Mary made no answer, but I
 heard her murnur the words: "Po' chile, po' chiler'
 , There was a long pause, after which , ] continued:
 "I don't know where shall go, Amt l Mary. nor where l shall find stopping place. know nobody and know noth- , ing of the world, and have no idea where I shall find a home or friends. , But l suppose I shall find them some , l vx,bn ot I I manage in some way to live" "Yes, honey, reckon so," Aunt , Mary replied, "but Is 'feerd you'll fin
 de worl' mouty col an unfeclin'. Dem
 as goes out frien'lcss gincr'ly habs a
 hard row to hoe. Marse Daniel ain't
 got de feelin' for yo' what a ladder
 ought to hab, l specks, yit I dunno if
 he won't be sorry fore tomorrow for
 what he done said dis mornin', an mcb-
 by if yo' wuz to stop somewhere nigh
 bout he'd let yo' come back home fore
 many days"
 No, Aunt Mary" said I, ''he told me
 to go and never return, and l never
 shall. regret to go, and if he had not
 driven me away would have remained
 and borne patiently with the cruelties
 of my life, but now I shall never re-
 turn"
 ''But de worl', chile, am mouty cold
 to de frien'less," the old servant urged.
 "I know that" replied; ''but at the
 most it can do no more than allow me
 to die, an had as well bo dead as to
 live as have"
 0 "'Specks dats nigh de trufe," Aunt l Mary admitted.
 D Tt is the truth" said l. Death
 would be preferable to such an exist I ence, and am not sorry to get away d from it. Fregret to go, because have c a liking for the old home, and it iS 6 hard, Aunt Mary, to leave my father B like this. If could only go away witt n some tender rcmen brance of him-if
 had but one word of love from his lips l, one expression of sympathy, even,
 could go thousand times more cheer d fully, and remembering thGt 1 ccuiC c bearuP under the crosses that "til! "o,z( t to me and feel contentcd to strUG},l, e and suffer But as it is I 50 w;thou @ one fond ,-. nory of him without ;
 word or {. look to cheer me" 7, Yes, yes. honey. l un'crstans al l. dat No' ain got much what is pleas
 ant to member, sho', an l 'apccl; d when Yo' looks back obcr yo life yc y won't fin much what's chcerin'. But d honey, dar is fricn' who'll be true t 'e 70 an who's done said a monty lot Ol o t'inGs what's chccrin' to dem as l. a -.:.i = rovvin Dat fricn', honey, is Mars,
 Jesus, au' dc t'ings what He's docic aei,
 fer de joy ob de DO sinners on dis yoaCl
 am wrote down in de good book. Yo
 member, chile, dat Marsc Jesus am yo it fricn', an when yo' feel lonesome an I down-hcarted yo' jis' read de lubin ,<, words what He's Gone put down in d. l1 Bible. Oars joy fer de sad ill den -- words, an readiI ob 'em takes all sd pain away f'om de achin' heart" ~. confess that at the time the old col ~ ored woman's words regarding tho Bi . ble did not have the effect on me tha 7u they ought to have had. l knew yer little about that book and about Christ ls but knew that my stepmother req -s the Bible a great deal and mad 5" great pretentions to religion, and ,d felt that neither had done he WL W any particular good, and unless they ha no a very different effect on me I did no Ss see that I would find much good i oJ them. Long years after, however, S came to understand that many pro s' fessed followers of Christ were so fla - behind that they had lost the way an ~ were not following Him at all, and IT ,"' sure my stepmother was one of tn; ,.t number. The time came, too, in whic H @ I recalled Aunt Mary's words, fndin y consolation in them and in the su, ; gestions they contained.
 i ''Now, honey,'' continued the ol ,s! servant, after a long pause, Eff yo's s' l ,. on goin' away, an will go right off, 1s, 'specks de bes' ting yo' kin do is to tI CT, s