The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09

for the fires were drenched and tram
pied by the men Of the camp and nc
longer shone as candles SO that the
Indians might see by them to shoot
The sorcerer danced and shouted, the
deer hoofs ratified, and on this side and
that men fought knee to knee and
breast to breast saw through the
wet dawn, and they who had crept
around the camp as a cloud arose as
grasshoppers and fed to the swamp"
The speaker sat down. and one Of the
men remarked:
$50 that's the way the battle Of Tip.
pecanoe looked to Johnny Appleseed."
Soldiers began moving their single
cannon, a pcunder. from one block.
house to another. All the men jumped
up to help, as at tho raising Of home,
and put themselves IN the way so ar
dently that they had to be ordered
back.
When everybody but ourselves had
left the sterlit open place Johnny Ap-
pleseed lay down and stretched his
heels to the blaze. \ soldier added an
other log and kicked into the oame
those fallen away. Though 1t was tho
end Of July, Lake Erie cooled the in
land forests.
Sendnels were posted in the block
houses. Quiet settled on the camp, and
I sat turning many things IN my mind
besides the impending battle. Napo-
leon Bonaparte had made disastrous
campaign in Russia. If I We're yet in
France; If the Marquis du Plessy had
lived; If bad not gone to Aittau; If
ehe self might have beenr that always
haunts us, stood ready to take adyan-
tage Of the turn
The wilderness mystic WAS sitting
up looking at me.
II see two people in you,' he said.
"Only two?"
"Two separate men,"
"What are their names%
"Their names I cannot see."
"Well, suppose we call them Louis
and Lazarre."
His eyes sparkied.
"You are a white man." he pro
nounced ''By that mean you are not
stained with many vile sins"
II hadn't an equal chance With other
men. lost nine years.
'Mebby," hazarded Johnny Apple
seed cautiously, "you ars the one ap'
pointed to open and read what Is
sealed"
IF you mean to interpret what you
read, I'm afraid I am not the one
Where did you get those leaves?"
"From a book that divided up to
distribute among the people"
Doesn't that destroy the sense"
"No. I carry the pages in their order
from cabin to cabin"
He came around the fire with the
lightness Of On Indian and gave me his
own fragment to examine. It proved
to be from the writings Of one Eman'
uel Swedenborg:
With a smile which seemed to lessen
the size Of his face and concentrate its
expression to q shining point Johnny
Appleseed slid bis leather bags along
the rope girdle and searched them, one
after the other. / thought be wanted
me to notice his apple seeds, and ID
quired how many kinds be carried Sc
he showed them in handfuls, brown
and glistening or gummed with The
sweet blood Of cider. These produced
p!ppins; these produced russets; these
produced luscious harvest apples that
fell In August bursting with juicy ripe
ness. Then he showed me another
bagful which were not apple seeds at
all, but neutral colored specks moving
with fluid swiftness as he poured them
from palm to palm
"Do you know what this is?'
I told him I didn't
"It's dog fennel Seed"
I laughed and asked him what kind
Of apples it bore.
Johnny Appleseed smiled at me
again.
"It's flower. I'm spreading it over
the whole Of Ohio and Indiana. It'll
come up like the stars for abundance
and fill the land with rankness, and
fever and ague will fee away"
"But how about the ranknessw
"Ferer and ague will flee away"
be repeated. continuing his search
through the bags.
he next brought out parcel wrap
ped up carefully in doeskin to protect
it from the apple seeds, and turned
foolish In the face as bits Of ribbon
and calico fell out upon his knees.
This isn't the one" he said, bun
ding it up and thrusting It back
again. ''The little girls, they Ike to
dress their doll babies, so I carry
patches TOR the little girls. Here's
what was looking for"
It was another doeskin parcel.
bound lengthwise and crosswise by
thongs. These Johnny Appleseed rev,
erently loosened, bringing forth
small book with wooden covers fasten,
ed by paddock.
fro BE CONTINUED.