The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-08

had brought with her. We frst dr..
him into TIE shade % make et,.-,'.-
comfortable. but we did not c,i,a.,t :, .''-t
his life. Yet we did. The BLACK 49,
played the musical instrument .r4 az
strains from her fingers were eyor , ~
potent than the poison OF the taranr,,i.e
which / applied 10 him. What So
most encouraging was the song. Wins
the woman sang IN Spanish.
ST despues de esta vida hay OR, ,i4,
Algo en- que quedes el corazan amor.
In el alma mulcr te lecveria
Mas ALA della tumba mas ALA
These airs are well known on tho
island. And then she kept ON nls,-i- 10
until bathed the leg. Soon his ewes b577
gan to twitch. Finally he blinked m
his eyes opened, and he looked aroma
Just as though he had been asleep natur.
ally. Then she played more, and =.
seemed to get alive. After while he sas
up, but she kept on playing. Then be
looked as though he knew exactly VIII
was going on. But she gave out and
could not play any more, and Just as soon
as she put down the guitar he acted iTs+
like one getting sleepy. | couldn't usa
the instrument, but just about the tim
he was falling back on the ground a coI,
ored man came along who could pick, and
he took up the guitar and began to thumn
wide awake again, and tbis
man and woman played by turns until
they had him wide awake and on his feef
Then the man took the guitar and PLAYED
just as hard as he could and finally Alec1
went to dancing. Soon he was so he cOnId
walk well, and we all started alone nm
the road toward the woman's house. VINO
had followed me with her guitar. She
and the man played and sang all the time
as we walked alOO0 Tho sooro ,r1..fI
have been funny, if we had not been ex.
pecting Aleck to die. So we did not tbinl,
anything about the music and the run
but just about saving this boys life.
"When he reached the house he kent
on singing and dancing. The tenderness
of music had caught him. He did NOT
know what he was doing, but finally
grew tired and sat down half exhausted
but they kept on playing just the same
rubbing the leg all the time with the
medicine. Lots of folks came in during
the night and the house was half full of
natives, for tarantula bite lis soon
known all around. Everyone who could
play or sing helped to keep the boy awake.
and he would come to, but was not in it.
IAN night long that guitar and those
songs never stopped, and the play was
kept up until the next day, when Aleck
and me started home Every house
came to along the road 1 would stop at
and get some one to play for him, if apv
one could. We found home after a time,
and the folks around would come in and
play for Aleck until he recovered and
there was no danger of his going to sleep
again, | have heard of other cases being
cured just as this one was, but this was
the only one ever saw.
Music and the poison of the ground
spider are the only things that will cure
the bite of the tarantula They are hardly
ever seen away from their holes in the
ground, but sometimes they crawl in the
banana punches, and become dangerous
when the fruit is cut. My chum never
hunted them again after he was stung,
but did until / went to sea as a cabin
boy. don't want any more of the water.
l would rather go back to the West In
dies, and work at odd jobs, and hunt
tarantulas than to sail before the mast"
This bright negro boy thus went on
with phases of his races life in the trop-
les, with an intelligence thst was re-
markable for one of his age. As he lay
prone upon the ground and talked
fluently, alternately in Spanish and En-
glish, it was easy to discover that the
tarantula hunter and cabin boy on a yes
sci was a remarkable lad for one of his
age. In telling his story it is not neces-
sary to use the negro dialect, for you
could hardly discover a trace of it in his
conversation. He described with great
minuteness the Bay of St. Thomas, and
talked about the different vessels Of the
British navy with fiuency that would
have done credit to a man
1t was a charming bit of talk with this
humble black boy to see with what fer
vor his mind would turn back to his early
home, the scenes which are every day
going on there, and those of his child
hood before he went to be a captains SER
want to travel four years around the
world. In closing his conversation he
said:
Il am here to stay"