The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17


 is in A love he Is jealous of his secret. He is afraid to whisper 1t to the birds of the air, lest these feathered songsters should give it away" It was, there fore. fortunate that neither the blue jay. nor the crow were witnesses of the midnight interview between Guinea Sam, colored. very dark colored, and July Landing, white, brownish-white, as every woodsman is aware of the gossip character of both these disrep- utable birds. But had either of thcs feathered ;tale-bearersx been awake at the hour. of twelve at Guinea Sams hut in Big Cypress Swamp, they would have seen tthat sable individual put a large mouth close to the ear of a hand some white man and whisper.
 Shores yer born, chile, yer cain.t fool dis heah pusson'' v IS CT ,onean man, knows what's de mattah wid yer. Yer istsuttenly in Tub wid CT high bawn laidy, dar' now"
 As if in mute tribute to the occult powers of; the .'Obeah Man" the Cau- casian made no verbal response, but moved uneasily, nodded his head' groaned and vigorously kicked too familiar hound
 ,'tDarqnow, Bud, don't you grieve ober it,-don't you fret erbout 1t little bit but come back heah ter Glnny Sam' when de moon is full, and he'll fix yer
 
 mus be shore ter bring me some'fin' dat de laidy wears. CT fedder, CT rib bon CT a small scrap ob her dress, 1es sny ob dem scrupshus artikkles dat CT young 'ooman totes.
 Without a word the young white lis- tener gathered upya tall well-knit form. l shouldered Winchester rifle, and stepping through the open doorway l of the hut, was instantly swallowed up, by the shadows of the night.
 If witchcraft still exists anywhere in the world 1t is among the black race in the South. The Sable Sorcerers of that Sunny Land do things that can not he accounted for under any other hypothesis than that they are in some way, in league with unseen ana mys- terious powers. Guinea Nlgger sam was one of the Professors of the Black Art. Whenever one of their race has & about him anything that Is uncanny in comprehensible. or weird, he Is at once dubbed Guinea" man., as the blacks & aver that all the con1urers origlhha.iy tata; Fl came from Guiana in Africa, and they are wonderfully feared and obeyed oy E all Sam was always consulted oy peo- ple far and near in case of sickness to recover lost or stolen property, III the absence of relatives and in dif1cult & love affairs Authentic cases existed where he had minutely told the where abo1lts of persons and things leagues away, and days before their actual ap- pearance in his locality death had heen predicted long previous to US S octual happening Marvellous cures were effected by his spells. His fame was tas household words, and to doubt the supernatural powers or Gulneaa d Nigger Sam, in this section. woulu have been regarded as little snort or sacrilegr. S.o,-, far and near the hardy hunter the practical business man. the biusnlnS maiden, and people of all classes to know the success of things past, or W lo \ come, the outcome of ;helr ventures if they shall be sick, or die, or sue cessfui. or obtain their hearts desiresi each client bringing, a small gift and returning with tidings of veal, or woe.
 The witch-doctor's home was in the tangled depths of a cypress swamp, reached by tortuouS, narrow path through young cane. Around the open space where the hut was located a brush fence, overgrown with creepers thorn bushes and wild-honey-suckle struggled, leaving but one opening through which the stranger entered O. A horn hung suspended from small tree near the opening, and 1t was the invariable etiquette to sound plast on the horn as notice 10 the ooreelel of the coming of an inquirer.
 Guinea Nigger sam was not soclal , lie Tendencies, he rather shunned all forms of neighborly intercourse esteeming it rather beneath his profes- sional dignity to yield 10 the seouc tIons of civilization. in thls regard hut this is to be understod as haVinE one exception--and that one was m tha oarson of the stalwart young man 2 who had just left him-July Landing by name. ,s,. ,4e,o E,o, him the negro entertained an .,a, trous fondncss. as he stood III ioee parentfs" as his first appearance oi fine scene was as [. cast-away at boat landing on the Escambid hi'ei E where he was espied by Sam. ,,,..,.
 Taking nim to his cabin the Witch doctor tenderly cared for nidn' anu @1Ii, uf stowed upon him the name or Iuly Handling" from the circumstances Ol E his finding, the event haVlhS taHe M place in the month Of July oo .ne OVS {! ) grew day by day, brave ana strong, ,t no way hampered With the srotesdu' Fl name the friend and acqdaiH'ah|o " every wild thing in the forest
 r July Landing knew more of wood craft than the oldest hunter Ills III formation as to the whereabouts ol tI' deer, and the roost of the wlld- tur M he was accurate and comprehensive. m fish in the streams were on hls Nlslt ing list; no well-regulated squiEEe would scamper from the cheery whlstl of the checked lad, no Wild Dir' flee before his coming. Every cover 7 glen and dell of the woodland khe" m Tootstep. every untamed roamer O these wild. and free savannahs emn m
 loved a speaking acquaintance wltl their favorite His knowledge or m
 proper time to circle the pine trees 10 turpentine. and the week or the mont when if was proper to begin hunting 'possum was oracular
 Rut with all his W de forest-lore Jul M Landing was wholly uninformed as t
 who were his parents, nor did the laeI of such knowledge trouble him at al
 but sturdiIy he fought his way in th
 world. cheerful and plucky. picking u
 an education by a pine-knot fire, work