The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-30

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he South Carolina coast stands
those imposing colonial edifices
hich that state is famous. 1t
uilt during the times when the
I'm settlers, requiring laborers to
bn their tobacco plantations, were
ling large cargoes Of African ne
who were held as slaves. 1t is
ck, with large pillars in front,
considering it's age, is in a re-
BILE state Of preservation. This
ause a recent owner has put it
nir.
| other houses Of its kind dating
to the seventeenth century, it
built out of the proceeds Of ne
captured in Africa and sold as
in America. But the slave trade
bts twin brother, piracy, were
that day deprecated as they are,
ther, would be, today. He who
the house referred to became one
most prominent men of his time.
rd Granville was not his name,
bringing out the antecedents of
pscendants it Is far safer name
than his own. He began life as
or, visiting every country where
was trading to be done. and a
Of his older slaves, who were
servants and thus enabled the
readily to become conversant
his secrets, handed down a tradi-
that their master started his for
In piracy.
this as 1t may, up to the middle
last century his descendants did
eny that much Of his money had
made in the slave trade. In his
ge his conscience troubled him.
hose who were nearest him said
he desired to make some repara-
Tor his misdeeds. He had statue
mself made Of bronze and set it
B pedestal in a bay window of
brary. The left hand rests on an
br. and the right holds a sextant-
mock sextant; real one, though
u brass, but Of the same material
e statue. He left orders that no
stone should mark his grave, and
Is supposed that he intended the
e as a substitute for one. At any
no one now knows where he is
ID.
ferent generations Of his descend
discussed the statue and wonder
the whim which led their progen-
10 erect 1t. One thing about it ex-
special attention. Every morn
he sun, shining in upon it, strikes
eyepiece Of the sextant and, pass;
through the tube, casts solar
e on the opposite wall. The track
bis round spot of light changes
the season, traversing slightly
rent path each day. There is an.
thing that puzzled the owners OF
Granville estate. The only in
ltiOn on the statue, or, rather, its
stal, Is the date Of Richard Gran
5 birth. And not only is the date
b, but the hour and minute.
all topics connected with the
be probably the giving of this mi
Information was most discussed
pne who saw it could remember
hg seen any memorial giving either
hour and minute of birth or the
and minute of death. But one
ration after another passed away
no plausible reason for either the
be or its singular inscription was
(ested.
fring the civil war ElwOOd Gran
the owner of the estate at that
fought for the maintenance OF
system in the introduction of which
frogenitor took so important part
lnel Granville was a religious mar
one of those who traced authority
Slavery from the Bible. After the
he returned to his plantation ant
IN to run 1t anew under the system
had been born during the struggle
few papers that had belonged t.
original Granville were HANDED
q through bis descendants. The,
been preserved time and again b.
rent persons, but appeared to con
nothing to throw any light on tn
lies connected with the writer o
Aver. One day Colonel Granville
amusing himself with these doc
Fnts, read a letter from the founde
Is house to q clergyman, in whicl
former said that he would like t
at his death a fund for the bene
the negro race in America, bu
1me would not come for perhap
Or two centuries when such be
could be utilized.
o6ably the statement had bee
a hundred times by Richard Gran
S descendants without making an
Sed impression. But Colonel Gran
read 1t at a time when the negr
had been just emancipated an,
a. In all the ignorance induced b.
condition, to citizenship. Th
aing of the statement, The tim
10 not come for perhaps one or tw