Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-04-06

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art of glazing pottery, the making Of
candles; he had improved the looms and
added modern devices, perfected their
stills. taught them how to preserve
fruits, smoke their meats, and in hun
dred other WAYS effected great changes
and found the people eager to adopt
labor saving methods.
But he wished to make still greater
changes. He had found in some Of the
strata of the canyon walls iron In great
plenty, and he was 80 constantly ham
pered by the need Of this indispensable
metal that he had begun the erection OF
q furnace and ordered the extraction OF
large amount Of ore. The supervising
Of these operations completely filed his
days with arduous labor. BE had com
menced his furnace with modest ideas,
! intending to smelt his iron In the crude
manner which Livingstone found the
natives using in Central Africa-in sim-
ple conical clay furnaces with rude bel
lows, but producing iron Of such supe-
rior quality that the savages refused to
use the English metal, alleging that it
was rotten. But his ideas had expanded,
and he had erected stone structure
with complicated blasting apparatus
that filed him with great hopes as he
watched it nearing completion and made
him eager as q boy to see it in full and
perfect operation.
Leila would come to him and find him
80 occupied and intent upon his duties
that sometimes he feared she would
think him cold and neglectful, and she
80 tenderly fearful Of disturbing or an
moving him that the feeling showed in
her face as she hovered about him. At
these times he would look into her eyes
with such deep, earnest devotion that
ahs would creep up to him, wind her
arms about his neck, with ardently wor-
shipping eyes and clinging kisses, for
few moments and then say demurely:
"Oh, ] must not bother my darling. He
is 80 busy, my great minded hero" and
make motion as It to leave. Then
they would waste half hour more In
loving dalliance, when she would sud-
denly assume an air of stern displeasure
and bid him to go to work while she at
tended to her duties.
These moments came often, too, dur
ing the summer days, when only his as
sistants in ell Atzlan were busy and at
work, and they made the hours of self
imposed toll shorter and pleasanter.
Sts took the fondest interest In every
thing he did, and she had, too; many
plans Of her own for the education and
advancement Of her sex In Atzlan.
which were the outcome of her love and
the knowledge obtained from Eric. her
aptitude for learning amazed him at
times; it seemed 80 phenomenal in one
whose life had been passed in such an
environment. But in truth the Atzlan
mind was in some such state as was the
pagan world at the time of Christ. Like
children the Atzlans listened, believing
all that they heard, and desirous to en-
ulate the people who had learned SO
much they watched all of Gilbert's en-
terprises with vague wonder and huge
expectancy.
Upon the day that Gilbert was to start
the machinery of the mill the entire
populace gathered at the riverside. In
all the vast crowd standing there wait
ing there was not one incredulous OBJ
server, not one skeptical doubter of the
success of the project, as there would
have been In any other city on earth
perhaps, but every man felt confident
that Its success was assured. They were
there not to test nor criticise, but to see
the triumphant beginning Of q new era.
Gilbert did not feel the usual tremors
of the inventor thrill his frame before
this audience, for he knew that II the
machinery failed to respond u the wa
Jer's power the people would not be dis
appointed or doubtful; their ignorance
Of mechanics assured that, and any ex-
PLANTATION would have sufaced them.
But to make 1t certain he had tested 1t
the evening before and knew that every
thing would work to his satisfaction,
and he mounted the stone steps leading
to the sluiceway with a confident smile.
accompanied by Leila, Rlapel, Kulcan
and several of the principal citizens.
Standing there beside the water gate,
with his hand upon the long wooden
bar which raised 1t, he turned to the
multitude Of upturned faces and said:
"My brothers, when lift this gate
you will begin to live in new age.
The past Will be no longer with You. It
will do in one day more than all your
women, and they will rest and teach
your children. We will make the river
weave our cloth and water our fields
and do other things for us In times to
come. In the land from whence I come
the elements are bound to our service
and they toll for us night and day.
And 80 they shall toll for you, for we
shall go on and on until we have here in
our city all that other lands have to
make Life pleasant and toll less ardu-
ous."
Then klapel stepped forward. and
after waiting for the noisy outcry to
subside spoke to them. he said:
"Our brother Is right. BE has told me
many things Of the fair land he lived in
before he came to u.s.. In that land there
Is no night, for they turn 1t into day
with many suns and moons which they
have made for themselves. They have
made great monsters that work for
them increasingly; they can speak to
each other afsr of, even when they car
not see one another; they make wood
and gold and silver talk; they walk upon
the water and under it, and they fly
through the air like birds; they kill
their enemies with their eyes and with
thunder. We are glad that our brother
has come to us. he is Quetzal, the long
awaited, the restorer Of Atzlan."
This speech of the aged high priest
was greeted with tumultuous applause,
but Kulcan's sharp eyes detected around
Chalpa group whose silence and Pc
culiar looks denoted that there was
some feeling among few inimical to