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MAY, 1809. you that you are well. I am so late here that your letter had been sent away. I think that was the letter that had the pictures in” (a letter which she did not receive). “Dear Teacher, these are not my writings. I ordered Augustin to answer for me. lam so sick that I can hardly hold the pen in my fingers. I couldn’t read your letter either, but Au gustin he did read it too. All the rest of the family are well, but I feel so bad. When I was sick at the school after I recovered I was always weak. I did not For Woman’s Work. M Beair Exipernemieeo TT AST summer I spent my vacation 1 on a homestead of my Father in the Cascade Mountains. Three of us— A- m y broth ~~-V L er.afriend, and myself \ went up a week in advance of theothers. 4 We were supp o s e d to sta y at home and take care of the farm, but the ‘‘call of the wild” was too much for us, and so a day after we arrived found us on a camping trip for the purpose of hunting and fishing. We went to the very head of a little valley through which a trout stream flowed, and there made camp. On the way up the valley we had met a settler who told us that several bears had been killed in the vicinity. The boys began to cook supper, but, as I was not considered much of a cook, I took my shot-gun and went out to look around. For Woman’s Work. AUNT EMILI’S BEREAVEMENT. BY MRS. J. C. ROBERTS. (Concluded From Last Mouth.) UNT EMILY was dressed in deep IB black, with a long veil, and so •was Sookey Blueskin. They took their places as chief mourners, of course, but just as deeply arrayed in wid ow’s weeds was another woman, with two half-grown children, who got into the same carriage and di vided the honors with them. At the grave the two stood side by side, mingling their tears and lamenta tions, and after darkness had put a stop to the proceedings, they all ■came home together to Aunt Em ily’s cabin. Father, of course, knew all of Aunt Emily’s immediate relatives, but he could not place this woman, and her identity re mained a mystery until Aunt Emily solved the problem. The next morning she was at her old place in the kitchen, wearing her usual manner and clothes —her widow’s weeds being laid aside for dress occasions. Before breakfast, Father, like a true gentleman, ex pressed his regret for the hasty words he had uttered, and told her how glad he was that she had dis regarded them. “You wuzn’t so mighty fur wrong, Marse William,” she said humbly, then adding, “white fokes is got sense, but er nigger aint got nuthin’ hut deir feelin’s ter go by,” she closed the conversation by going back to the kitchen. “Did Cephas know you when you got there?” I asked as I followed Aunt Emily into the kitchen, after breakfast was over. “Yes, honey, he knowed me,” she answered dryly, then, flourishing her dish-cloth as she talked, she plunged into her dish-washing and her story at the same time. “Yer see, honey, hit wuz jes’ dis way: Me and de baby rid on dem cyars to erbout two er clock in de ■ebenlng, en den we got off at dat place, New Hope. Hit’s er little bit er place, not nigh ez big ez dis, wid trains runnin’ backards en forards all de time. I axed er little boy down at de depot es he knowed Ce phas Bankston, en he sed "Yes’m.’ get strong; at last I came home, and when I got in here in a few days I felt worse. So this is about all. Good by from your pupil, ConsTancia.” The man who wrote this letter added a .note: “Constancia is very sick, just at die, she may die this week. No Doctor can cure her. I think that is why they send her home.” Ten days later I received another let ter announcing her death and adding: “It was rain here and the rain stop when Constancia’s funeral start out!” Rose L. Ellerbe. I loaded my gun with buckshot, and .started up a trail to look for game. I had not gone a hundred yards when— what was my horror to behold in the biush, not fifty feet away, a monstrous black bear! My hair stood on end, my knees knocked together, and I trembled from head to foot. I would have fled, but I had vowed to shoot at the first bear I saw. With my “heart in my mouth,” I raised my gun, shut my eyes, and fired. When I recovered the use of my legs and my lungs I ran with all my might, tearing into camp, yelling: “A bear! a bear!” at the top of my voice. Os course this caused great commo tion. My brother would have taken first prize in a sprinting match, and the other boy lay flat behind a stump. At last we recovered from our shock, loaded our guns, and proceeded toward the brush to find the dead bear! Ap proaching cautiously we beheld—a large black stump with a hole torn in the bark! We surveyed it sadly for some time, and then went back to dine off a chunk of fat bacon. Ray Lapham. Portland, Oregon. “Den I axed him how he wuz—en he look kind er cu’us, en he say, ‘He well.’ “Den I say: ‘Boy, you don’t know whut you er talkin’ erbout, kase he sick in bed.’ Den de boy kinder scratch his haid en say, den he guess he tuck sick mighty sudden, kase he see him er goin’ fishin’ dis mornin’. Well, I knowed dat Ce phas wuz a mighty favorite of fishin’ so I never said nuthin’ else, but I axed him es he know war he live at, en he sez, ‘Yes’m, he live right up yander whar his wife wuz er hangin’ out close.’ Den I say dat I thought all de time dat he didn’t know whut he wuz talkin’ erbout, en now I knowed hit, kase I wuz his wife. Wid dat de boy look fun ny en didn’t say nuthin’ else, en hit wuz dat ve’y bigges’ boy whut come home wid us here yestiddy ebenin’ “Well, I lowed I’d go ax questions er sumbody whut knowed sump’n, en so I went up ter de house whar de ’oman wuz hangin’ out close, en dey sho looked mighty pretty en white. She uz rinchin’ em out uv er tub by the do’ en had her back ter me so she didn’t see me. De house wuz right by er railroad track whut sprangled off sum de big track, en dar wuz er train cornin’ up on de yuther side, so I had ter go right up ter de do’ en holler loud so she could hear me. “ ’Good ebenin’, ma’am’, I sez, sez I, ’kin you tell me whar a collured man lives by de forgiven name er Cephas Bankston?’ Wid dat de ’oman she looked up right quick, but ’fo she could say er word, er man whut wuz settin’ inside, kinder lean for’ard so he could see my face. “Well, sir! I’d come ter de right place, but Mars e William neber say er truer word in his life dan he did whenst he told me ter stay at home en let Cephas erflone. Dat man settin’ in de cheer wuz Cephas, en de minit he ketched er glimpse er me, he jump up like de paterrol lers wuz atter him, en run outen de do en ketched hold er one er Woman’s Work. dem little step ladders out dar, be twixt dem cyars, but somehow er nuther his hand slipped en he drap ped down en dey kilt him plum daid. Yes, sir! he wuz in sech er hurry ter git er way dat he didn’t git er good holt, en hit wuz all over ’fo you could say, ‘Jack Robison.’ ” Aunt Emily washed the dishes) in tragic silence, confronted by a catastrophe too terrible for words. I was stricken dumb by the horror, of the situation, and could think of no possible consolation to offer. After a while she continued: “Well, fokes dey come er runnin’ from ever which way, en dey fetch ed de doctor, but, Lor’, twant no use. We all knowed dat sum de word go. Atter while, night come on, en de fokes dar commence ter drap out en go home, twell finally dey left me en dat udder ’oman er settin’ dar by our two selves. Den we commenced ter splanify matters, en I don’t doubt but dat we might er bofe got mad any other time, but look like dat man er lyin’ dar on de bed sorter taken all de devil ment outen us, en bimeby we got ter de rights uv hit. She never had heeard tell enny more erbout me den I had erbout her, en she’d been mar ried fair en square to Cephas en had her marriage-paper done framed en hangin’ up on de wall wider glass over hit jes’ like white fokes. “Well, uv cose I didn't have mine wid me, but I had dat las’ letter whut he writ me, en whut I uz fak in’ erlong kase I uz afraid dat I ud dismember de names, er de place er sump’n. She’s er smart ’oman en can read writin’, so whenst she read dat letter en seen his po’ little gran’ chile er lyin’ down darer sleep on de pallet, why, she seen dat she never had no reason fer hard feel ins todes me, en we got ter be mos’ like sisters. “She had des erbout as hard er time wid Cephas es I had, en had two chillen, dat ve’y boy whut I uz talkin’ to down at de depot, en er nuther one erbout er year younger. “She taken hit mighty hard er tout him writen’ ter me fer money, kase she lowed dat she had er washin’ fer nearly evey day in de week, en dar wuz his livin’ right dar, en sue say ez fur ez terbaccer wuz concerned, he des dipped snuff wid her des like er ’oman, en I reckon he did, kase he uster wid me. Cephas had sum mighty com fortin’ ways, en he wuzn’t ter say er bad nigger, des kinder triflin’ en easy goin’.” Aunt Emily let her hands fall in the dish water and lie there a long time, while she gazed straight for ward with the vacant stare of one dwelling on scenes of the past. Then resuming the thread of her dis course, she went briskly forward with her dish washing as well. “Well, sir! atter we talked hit all over, I showed her my little wad er money, en bless God, she had er little, too; so we settled on whut we gwine do erbout de funeral. Den we whirl in, bofe tergether dar in the middle er de night, en we i’on up dat white lady’s close whut she’d been washin’ dat day, en we got thoo jes’ ’fo sun-up. Atter breakfas’ I went en hunted up dat man whut Marse William give me er letter fur, en sho nuff, he uz one er de ole time white fokes des like yo’ Pa, en he tell us whut ter do like yer Pa said he would, so we didn’t have no trouble ’tall. “Well, we settled hit betwixt us dat I uz de firs wife dat I wuz ter git in de ca’age fust, but ez she wuz de las’ wife, dat she wuz ter stan* er leetle de clostest to de grave. En de same way, his body ud be burled here whar I live, but his fun ’al samint is ter be preched up dar at New Hope. She gwine ter stay here er while wid me twell she kin git res’ed up, en I gwine ter pay de visit back whenever dey preaches his fun’al.” Aunt Emily rinsed out her dish pan, hung it up, and put the hot, dry dishes in the safe. Her face and form showed the effects of the distressing ordeal which she had gone through, although she could relate it so calmly. As she took down her bonnet, preparatory to starting to her cabin, she said Im pressively: “Don’t never let no body tell me dat dey aint nuthln’ in signs en tokens, kase I dremp erbout wadin’ in muddy water, en 1 sho has been er wadin’ in trouble. En Cephas settin’ up fat en well, writ ter me dat he cungered en gwine ter die, en in lessen er week he’s ei lyin’ out yonder in de grave.” nn COLORED POST CARDS,crisp,new |n A ZU and beautiful views, flowers, birthday, lUu etc. (no comics). Printed in rich colors. Never before offered at this price. Draper Ptg. Co., Des Moines, lowa. WRINKLED LADIES! Five written valuable receipts, including wrinkles. 25 cents, stamps. Box 43, Alpharetta, Georgia. iO POSTALS 25c. SILK floral I VF with greetings and Your Name beautifully frosted, perfumed Satin, frosted Holiday, Love, Valentine, etc. American Art Co., Clintonville, Conn. Married Women more during your spare moments, selling our Remedies and Toilet Arti cles to your friends. 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