The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-02-16

clothes on our back. j haven't another
piece of jewelry or even an old dress"
THE tax and the costs may amount TO
a hundred and seventy-five dollars
There isn't a man in this county who
has that much money or I'd borrow it
if / had to mortgage my body and soul
to do it,
/ I'm tell you what you might do his
wife suddenly exclaimed: Telegraph
your old college mate in Boston that you
will accept his invitation to supply his
pulpit those last two Sundays in August
They will pay you seventy-fve dollars
Yes, but it will cost half that for a
ticket. There will be nothing left"
You may meet some, generous man
who will loan you the money. I'd die
! before I'd ask a Yankee for it for
myself but ! could beg for Mrs Gas
| ton"
| 1T may be possible. but where am to
get the money for a telegram and a
ticket?"
Surely you can borrow some here!"
II don't know man In the county
who has T."
Then go to the young commandant
of the post here. Tell him the facts,
| Tell him that widow of brave Con-
! federate soldier is about TO be turned
out of her home because she can't pay
the taxes levied by this infamous negro
| government. He knows its corruption as
well as you do. Ask him to loan you
the money for the telegram and the
ticket"
'I'l1 do it,
The preacher seized his nat and made
his way as fast as possible TO the camp.
i The young captain heard his story with
grave courtesy.
Certainly, doctor" he said. I'm loan
you the forty dollars with pleasure. L
wish ! could do more to relieve the dis
tress of the people. Believe me. sir, the
people of the North do not dream of the
awful conditions of the South They
are being fooled by the politicians. III
thank God when / am relieved of this
| job and get home. What has amazed mo
is that you hot-headed Southern people
have stood it thus far. 1 dom know a
! Northern community that would have
endured t."
"Ah. Captain, the people are heartsick
of bloodshed. They surrendered in good
faith and believed that life under the old
!, flag would be best. They couldn't fore
see this. If they had
/ The preacher paused his eyes grew
misty with tears, and he looked thought
fully out on the blue mountain peaks
4 that doomed range after range III the
/ distance until the last bald tops were lost
| in the clouds.
| But if Gen. Lee had dreamed of such
, an infamy being forced on the South two
/ years after his surrender, as this at
| tempt to make the old slaves the rulers
i of their masters, and to destroy the
Anglo Saxon civilization of the South
he would have withdrawn his armies into
! that Appalachian mountain wild and
fought till every white man in the South
was exterminated."
The preacher pressed the captains
hand and fastened TO tell Mrs. CASTOR
of his plans
That night the preacher hurried on his
way 10 Boston.
The days dragged slowly one after an
other, and still no word came to the
anxious waiting woman 1t was only
two days now until the day fixed for the
l sale.
| In vain she waited for u letter or a
telegram from Boston. Charlie went
| faithfully asking Dave Haley, the post
master, two or three times on the ar
rival of each mail.
Il tell We there's nothin' fur VET" he
yelled as he giared at the boy. EFF We
don't go away from that window, I'll
pitch We out the door,"
The scoundrel had recognized the
letter addressed to the widow in Dr.
Durhams handwriting aud had hidden
il. suspecting it's contents.
| When the day came for the sale Mrs.
| CASTOR tried to face the trial bravely
But it was too much for her When she
saw a great herd of negroes tramping
down her flowers, laughing, cracking
vulgar jokes, and swarning over the
porches, she sank feebly into her chair,
buried her face in her hands and gave
way TO a passionate flood of tears She
was reused by the humping of heavy
feet in her hall, and the unmistakable
odor of perspiring negroes They had
begun to ransack the house on tours of
Inspection. The poor woman's head
dropped and she fell to the floor in a
i ubdu SWOOn.
There was a sudden charge as of an
| armed host, the sound of blows, a Wild
scramble, and the house was cleared
Aunt Eve With fire shovel, Charlie
with broken hoe handle. and Dick with
a big black snake whip had cleared the
air.
Aunt Eve stood on the front door step
shaking the shovel at the crowd.
les put yo big fiat hoofs in ris house
ergin. I'll split yo heads wide open!
You black cattle!"
Dat we WIFI rallied Dick as he
cracked the whip at little negro pass
ing.
Charlie ran into his mothers room to
see what she was doing, and found her
lying across the floor on her face. "a