The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-05-06

eHArrER WV CONTINUED.

ahxH ever see il again with its it'll
zxTrsE farms. Bui here We have on
Gar rails and our own lands. and lie
B hope that Monsieur Jean shall
Nrsssper in his belated farming. AM
zDg. for the rest of us. We must lool
nExs@atIy 20 the building of on
RuEsss
Thus began. slowly and in primitive
1nkhsOn, the building of one of the frs
eIg5<s of the vast valley OF the Mes
<asebe: the seeds of civilization taking
AuE6 upon the ground of barbarism
ssae one supplanting the other. yet
sEzihng itself of that other. AS the
waite men took over the crude fields
- tho departed savages, so also they
nxprupriated the imperfect edifce
szird the conquerors of those savages
had left for them. Ii was in little the
szuy Of old England herself. builded
gpsnx the races and the ruins of Briton,
and Roman, and Saxon, of Dane and
MEman
Bndsr the direction of Law, the walls
n the old war house were strengthened
wiIh an inner row of palisades, sup
snrting an embankment of earth and
zlSne- The overlap of the gate was ex-
eRzsded into a re-entrant angle, and
rzie battlements were erected at the
Esar corners of the Enclosure. The
6ttIe stream OF unfainng water was
isnd through corner of the fortress.
En the center of the Enclosure they
Aafit the houses; a cabin for Law, one
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as store room and as trading place,
zEzoEId there be opportunity for trade.
II was in these rude quarters that
Eaw and his companion established
Eka& which was the nearest approach
Co n home that either for the time
might claim; and it was thus that
both undertook once more that old and
lsootiess human experiment of seeking
aO escape from ones own self. Silent
NOW, and dutifully obedient enough
WIS this erstwhile English beauty
Mary Connynge; yet often and often
Eszw caught the question of her gaze,
And often enough, too, he found his
ukD questioning running back up the
water trails, and down the lakes and
across, the wide ocean, in a demand
whlch.. 1ercer and fiercer as it grew,
ne Yet remained too bitter and too
MrCad to put to the proof by any meaus
NOW within his power. Strange |
ssfaOugEf, savage enough, hopeless |
enough, was this wild home of his in |
eae wilderness of the Messasebe.
The smoke of the new settlement
Ussss steadily day by day, but it gave
Gz.g--@aaA for no watching enemy. All I
zt0lt stretched the pale green ocean
ut the grasses, dotted by many wild
A0wers, nodding and bowling like bits
mt fragile fotsam on the surface of a
aaRl tinrInlly rolling sea. The little
ssrxsgss of timber, scattered here and
sssarS, sheltered from the summer sun
Axle gilIf cattle of the plains. The
Smarter grasses hid the coveys of the
EsEa1xfe hens, and on the marshgrown
sayuta banks the wild duck led her
AnUon. A great land, rich, fruitful
szse- was this that lay about these ad-
sertsnrers
A xfberness had come over the habit
A TIE master mind of this little col
mES.. His hand took up the ak, and
eUgEagt the sword and gun. Day after
fx@ he stood looking about him, exam
Rnsng and studying in little all the
strsnge things which he saw; seeking
!D aearn as much as might be of the
RfHnwoils savages. who in time began !,
lSs struggle back to their ruined viii .
Tag sS, talking as best he might.
gArrmgh. such interpreting as was pos
siliEe- with savages who came from
LMs- west of the Messasebe, and from
Exse sUuth and from the far southwest; :
aear1ng, and learning and wondering
ut n land which seemed as large as :
lii the earth, and various as all the +
aMGs that lay beneath the sun-that :
Ffssy. so glorious, SO new, SO bound .
Eszs which was yet TO be the home of q
Duutfess hearth-fres and the sites of !,
RylIad fields of corn. Let others hunt ;,
la1 fish. and rob the Indians of their
MrE.. after the accepted fashion of the !,
ims- rs for John Law, he must look {,
hort him, and think, and watch this -
wwing Of the corn. n
aANN @t& ~ ~ lioih iIo | II
his growth of the maize. this plant Il
rnfcfH never yet had grown on Scotch b
r English soil; this tall, beautiful, m
sDad-bIaded, tender tree, the very en- Il
Aen. of all fruitfulness. He saw here Of
nd there, dropped by the careless
and of some departed Indian woman, So
w little terminating seeds, jus, OF
trusting their pale-green heads up bt
zraragh the soil, half broken by the of
xuahawk He saw the clustering ri
Iman sfioots-numerous, in the sign 70
plenty-all crowding together and ia
for light, and life, and air m
I'd room. He saw the prevailing OF OF
le tall and strong upthrusting stalks, 10
TER the way of life; saw the others yo
sarf and whiten, and yet cling on al til
'e base of the holder stem, parasites.
yet existing, after the way re
Iifa ly
He saw che great central stalks
ring boldly up. so swiftly that 1t al be
ssh seemed possible to count the me-