GAZETTE THE ThenT wailed aloud Though in "indeed as “Is it I so?” answered. “The through the world world, who moves utter grief. king’s will done! I be wearied of those And thus I and unheard. prayed unseen Black “Spare One!” I wailed. ears, my brawling women.” kill Chaka live to he I might that yet as “Tell not that she who bore thee is THURSDAY. JULY SLAYTON. 7 me “So, Mopo,” said the soldier; “but to killed who dear to had those were me. O Lion of the dead, Zulu. For the others, have other and get children while I thu| there vision And lay waves more came a is It it? is breath what of wind, it is a bom unto yourself must live, that sent in vision you, you to was JAMES RUANE, Editor. answer me, a drop of but this water; trouble is a as children for born to the dead, perchance it no to are my prayer, or was a gale the sea.” the or as I think and that Chaka has assegai For, of madness bora an my sorrows. my “Cease, servant, cease!” said the my which shall kiss.” I father, it seemed to that stood you me upon mocking Chaka; voice of “but know “Is it so?” I “The king’s answered. and the bank river great wide. It of a thou hast done well this, grieve aloud to will be done!” light lay the gloomy there, low was because the Mother Heavens of the is NAPA* Thus I spoke, desired no and indeed I to but the river, far the of face away upon and ill wouldst thou done have to die. Macropha more, and Nada glow side like were gone, the farther the was a on because the grieve fire from above has Umslopogaas dead dead, and dawn, and in the glow w*as w’ere glow of stormy a For kissed thy gates. hadst thou done and other wives children. JUST RECEIVED I mighty bed of reeds that my swayed saw a this last thing left first the undone, The or soldiers asked of those with if breath of the dawn, in the me about and by thou wouldst have indeed wept now that tale which I told the of true and the reeds out of was came men women Mopo.” of blood, —tears death Umslopogaas and of the going of hundreds and and children, by tens of I the Now that greatness of the pit Swaziland. saw of Macropha Nada and into and plunged into the hundreds, waters Chaka had dug for and blessed They true.” Then me, my said, “Yes, it and buffeted about of the river by was were had Ehlose, who put into heart these the would lead my soldiers they said that the waters. and pul [Copyright, & Son Tillotson 1892, by which I should words back answer. the king. So w’ent to father, all the people that me Now, we on, I special A LARGE STOCK OF my them.] with arrangement listed by thou, Mopo,” “Knowest said the king, I learned what had and piece by piece black people, the in water and -were saw mother iifyonder died “that flames as my happened the king's kraal. at of the who out reeds all those torn were thy kraal, she cried that thou out of On the day after I left, it to the of came black —there them were none were [continued.] TARBOX SCHLICK’S and thy sister Baleka, and thy Mopo, & people, father, white like for he spoke, though his words your my and Thus had conspired together give wives to cried Nada a brother?” “Where is Zulu vision of the this vision my gentle they shook with fear, for a race, was were who would child be childless. to me when back. the alone “torn out of reeds.” who came we when Chaka gently he spoke thus meant are Mopo, where children Tell those now, are me who Now, I that of those in death Unandi answered, swam Chaka, to But of by mouth of his spies, saw the ears many. ledest that thou from kraal, my passed quickly river the that the king over very that sick saying that it good some second wife—Anadi— was was my with the lion who is named boy the eyes it still in stood, the and had would were, and spoke since his medicine some as sickness. strange words in her come, Umslopogaas, and the girl whois named father, in life, die water Then, bring her who lay sick. —as my some taking and to three soldiers with him, he rest peace Nada?” FINE SHOES and live for And Itis “Yes,” he “it is good. some many years. kraal answered; soon went to the death of the day. at my “Umslopogaas is dead by the lion’s the countless faces of those in the I • « the he pleasant, mother and At gates of the kraal left the saw my moreover, my I mouth, O king!” answered, “and Nada them that water, I three child. were many soldiers, bidding sister, kissing yonder them to among suffer to see you the Swazi caves;” and I told him sits in father, I the knew. There, face blood in but he himself Surely, he of my saw out, to none you come or your own go were the death of Umslopogaas and of how of hjm Chaka, and of entered the large hut where lay could love him more.” near was my own Anadi not divorced Macropha, I had wife. my I face. There, too, the face of prayed sick, having his toy assegai, Now trembled again and saw with the they “The boy with the lion to the eyes Dingaan, his brother, the prince, and sick shaft of the royal redwood, in his in their hearts that Anadi, the hand. mouth!” Chaka. lion’s said “Enough of FOR LADIES AND GENTS. Umslopogaas, boy the face of the and wake Now, chanced, who lay asleep, might not it in the hut as woman, were Nada he is him; yet be gone. may the of Nada, daughter, face and Unandi, the foolish words in her wanderings. my mother of Chaka, Baleka, and utter and the assegai sought for with in the Swazi for the time that I knew then it first sister, Anadi woke, and hearing the was the wife of Chaka, But for my enough of her. Let speak of us caves; Umslopogaas dead, that not but 'was knowing flew to not that I had of the king, her sick mind taken voice away that mother this through my sang song lost. only believed be the king’s Umslopogaas, him whom she to the Baleka, according of son Tell it the flames. true tale?” me, was a vision looked I in and Now, turned Gents’ child. Hats their foolish my to two custom these king; surely Mother “Nay, O the of I bank of the river which at that “Ah!” she sitting said, the ground had and fondle the lad. on kiss to upon ones come maddened heavens by the the Heavens was I that behind the bank stood. Then her But when entered the hut and pointing to Moosa. they saw they own son that she song,” I when sang answered. mighty and black, and in the cliff, “Kiss him, Mother of the Heavens, kiss found other was it ■wives and children. a full of my “I know naught it, king.” of O through cliff ivory, and doors of him! Whom do they call him, the they all were These sent except young away, Mopo?” knowest naught of it, “Thou the sound of the doors light and brings ill cub who fortune doors? Moosa, of Anadi, who lay sick— to came the our son “Thou knowest king. said the naught of all styles laughter. Other doors there also, They call him Macropha!” of Mbpo and who born eight days before were that boy was son Surely thou art a-cold; Mopo? thy of it, black though fashioned of coal, and and she laughed wildly and Umslopogaas, the Chaka. sank as of Him son cold. Nay, shake with hands fear man, darkness through them and the back the bed. kept in the hut kissed came they and him, giving upon them, them, Mopo! not warm —warm I this also, sounds of that “They call him imphi [a variety cane] him of Mopo and Macropha,” groans. saw of son sugar See, plunge that hand of tliine into now, in front of the doors set and seat, and did said the king in low voice. was a eat, they this fearing lest it to a and he of flame!” the heart the pointed the the figure of seat “Whose was should is he, then, woman?” on a woman strange the to seem son women, my assegai, the with his little assegai handled She tall, and she glorious to Umslopogaas “Oh, her if, they ask not, O king?” cried his see. was wives, being gone, royal wood, with the to where the MEN’S AND BOYS’ clad of and in alone white, robes would take mother and his wife. “She is bewitched, was notice child. of other no he glowed pointed fire reddest and —aye, like which white, and her hair gold was Now, they and has dreams and fancies.” thus, presently the sat as laughed. in the fire, and her face molten doorway darkened, “Peace!” he “I and behold! the answered. would listen was was I cold Then, father, indeed. grew my like the midday Then I shone king himself sun. saw’ this through it and to woman's wanderings. Who crept saw the Chaka would put to trial by fire. me of the river those ■who out that up them fondling When then is he, came the Moosa. woman?” child For moment I sat silent, thinking. a the yet stood before the water “Who he?” woman, CLOTHING they knew who entered the is she answered. it that “Are you was spoke again in Then the king great a cried running from them, and aloud to flung then fool that asks who he He the themselves the ground is? is women a - upon Mopo, be backward; voice; “Nay, not so her: and he bade them of Chaka and Baleka, the sister of be seated. Then he son shall I and thee suffer sit cold! Lnkosazana-y-Zulu! Hail, “Hail, Queen see warm spoke, Mopo, Mother whom Unandi, saying: “You wonder why it is of the What, councilors, rise, take the the Heavens!” of my I Heavens, that here Mopo. palmed off this house into the hut of come upon hold hand Mopo and it . of in the flame, the glorious 6f Now, the figure woman I bring will tell it, and whom she would it is he because is a curse on you; away rejoice that his heart in the rod rod in either hand, and the held may a lead before the people when business, and I hear that out the land his upon my warmth.” right hand white and of her was in Therefore, is wife Anadi sick. the of the king, to take the place is weary Which I down offer for sale as at king,” little need that, O “There is for her left hand and the rod in way ivory, was first doctor of the king.” I in the land, to am come answered. “I thank the king for his I who and of ebony. And those black as “It is false, king!” her.” O cried the two cure and I will the graciousness at throne greeted her, before her warm me came up “The boy is her women. own son, “Lost!” I “Lost, prices. answered. to king, O while I never fire. Speak with wand of the she pointed warm on, now so Moosa, whom she does know in her not found again!” be and thou shalt hear the fire, at true hand w’ith right and her ivory in me now' sickness." Then the girl and bitter great I boldly. gave a words,” said hand. in her left wand of ebony the But Chaka and stood the hut in SLAYTON. up and “I fell the earth, saying, to ED. HOLMAN, cry, father, I stretched Then, out pointed ivory she with the wand of And my my laughed terribly. “So this is the trick would that I dead with were my into the fire left hand and plunged it which of ivory, through the gates to — thou hast played mother. upon me, my brother!” the hottest of the fire, but not into the and laughter, and with light came Thou wouldst kill give to me a son me. “Let be going,” said Macropha, us leaped from the flame. my where the smoke she pointed the gates wand ebony to of Good! Mother of the Heavens take thou wife. with Now flesh the sweat wet was my the blackness doom of the heavens! Die, Unandi! coal, through which of came “Have then for tears to little the you no weep of fear, and for moment a —die the hand thou didst bring forth!” And she pointed those at and so groans. as son?” asked of around it and did your a man our company. flames curled not And he lifted turned little assegai and and the who greeted her went, smote some “What is the of weeping the use over bum it. it through light her. of and through the gates some Does dead? it, then, bring them back?” Chaka watched For short while a For Unandi, Mother of the through of blackness. moment the gates a she answered. “Let be going!” Then he spoke slowly, smiling. us me, Heavens, wife of Senzangacona, stood Presently, I stood, there came up as The thought these words strange, to do its man that the fire might find time her bank of uttering Then people from the she put handful of no cry. up a but he did know that Umslopogaas not work: hand her and drew the assegai from them and knew I looked the river. on Macropha. of not born “Say, Mopo, thou knowest nothing was then, heart. Unandi, the mother There them. was And the time till went of the birth this of so on we of matter a son Anadi, wife, there Chaka; “So Chaka the shalt thou also die, was my reached the kraal I where and wife Baleka?” thy sister my to other and all Moosa, Evil!” md she and fell dead. cried, down son, my my should part. know only, king,” I “I this O answered, children, and those who had wives and Now when Baleka w’hat had been On the saw morning after the to “that born in we came past a son was w’ith them. perished done swiftly that she turned and fled kraal, having kissed so in though secret, VilloH RaloVo ihni T vporr the stood betore iney ttoire SLOp tne UULLICI lIUU or the mv another, (juuauu uu liiv on one child according thy and vuiwaruiy we ivoKeu suiieniy to word, her. But when she reached her the Princess thelleavens, to of own parted those who meet W’oman, part we as its before”thee.” laid body hut she fell senseless the ground. But whom the Umkulukulu has given it to on ESTABLISHED And I drew Nada and IN 1884. aside no more. Then the king spoke again. “Dost STEIFENHOFER, H. A. the boy Moosa, staid where he watch the people the and of Zulu, my son, spoke thus: “We daughter, her over to part, J. K. P. THOMPSON, my thou by head, Mopo, that President. C, F. WECK, Vice President, swear my no Chaka, his and believing him be to cried aloud, “Hail, Inkosazana-y-Zulu! was, I shall do know when meet suckled in nor we mine thy kraals?” of DINEHART, son was C. E. Cashier. murdered him also. Hail!” son, Dealer in for the times troubled, and it again, are “I it, O king! I it by thy swear swear Then he stalked and of the hut out Then she, the Inkosazana, pointed for that of mother is safety and your your head,” I answered. STATE BANK OF SLAYTON, Machinery, Osborne Harvesting commanded soldiers of to with rod of ivory the ivory; to of gates company a that I rob of the sight of a my eyes “Ah!” Chaka said length, “I at see surround the kraal and fire it. This but still they stood before her, not Nada, will be moving. you. you soon a woman, that thou Mopo. Withdraw growest warm, they did, and the people rushed out Now’ the spoke for the first wilMbe as and fairer than woman you thy hand from the flame. lam any woman they killed them, and those who did not time in low voice that sad and people, and it will a was KINDS. OF ALL among our come answered; thou hast passed the trial; rush burned in the fire. Thus, out awful hear: to were about that will seek great is clean.” many men thy heart SLAYTON, MINNESOTA then, all perished wives, children ETC RAKES, “Pass in, children of people, MOWERS, REAPERS, my my in marriage, and perhaps I, that my pass you calmly. “It well, O king!” I said is and in the servants. judgment. Why to tarry ye? my father, shall be there choose to not your “Fire has of hurt those no power on Then Chaka bidding sent Pass in through the of light!” gates -*fou messengers for shall Organized State Bank. whom wed, according whose heart is pure.” you as a MINN. SLAYTON, BLOCK, OPPOSITE BANK them kill Macropha Nada wife and But still they tarried, and in vision my the laud. But to of this 1 custom my I spoke I looked left our But at my as daughter, and him who named Unandi spoke: “We Queen tarry, of the my was charge So far maybe possible the Best Best Bargains and ®S“Call him for the black. Look you: hand. It at it as now, on was CAPITAL, $30,000, But they should slay not Heavens tarry to for justice my son. me, for do take only whom —we pray to you so, a man father; though Machines. bring but living before him. my can see, him -who murdered you my eyes I, who me love, on and be faithful him us. - on to you can white, blind. The hand is like Now it belief that I earth Mother are yours named of the Heavens, was my was alone, for shall find was happiness.” so a woman A BUSINESS, GENERAL BANKING —it is white and dead and shriveled. saved alive only that I might later die behalf of all this on company pray “It that Nobela, the doctress cruel and in fashion. Therefore to thee, Queen of the seems Heavens, for justice a more Here I for the girl hold stopped, took lied who is dead, when she prophesied I, why should who already doomed, him who murdered us.” was of hand looked into on and face. my my GO TO In All Its Branches. Transacted evil from thee, Mopo,” said Chaka doom? In I wait girdle to meet “How on me is he named?” asked the voice my my “Peace, she father,” said; “do not my again. “It that thou innocent art carried medicine; he who eats secret that seems low and awful. a speak was to of marriage, for I will wed me Farmers’ Headquarters The of this offense, and that Baleka, thy shadow of it, father, will the sun’s “Chaka, king of the Zulus,” answered see my that Umslopogaas is dead no man, now sister, that is innocent, and the and ■will look the voice of Unandi. song “Chaka, never move no more because of foolishness. I null live my my K’hich the Mother of the Heavens again. Surely the stars son.” tomMtte sang now was upon MdForelg* Bought Kxchaagt and Sold. and die alone, I and, oh, die quickly, WHEN YOU WANT may through the singing flames true the time to it. “Many was no have ask to for use tong and Short Ttana Money that I come Loaned seek him I vengeance to whom alone on may go It is well for thee, Mopo, for in So I thought, but I did I Firet-claaa Negotlatod Low Batea. Farm Loans at song. that head,” said the of even as so voice love!” on told. Bought and Town, County and School Orders Seeders, Drills, Harrows such matter oath had helped not who remembered daughter Nada, the Queen a my of the Heavens, “and my “Nay, Nada, Umslopogaas many was your thee. But is mother dead —dead in still left though she sojourned to shall my Fear Unandi, not, it was me, brother, more come. and it is fitting not that you the flames with thy wives and children, far wife Macropha in and country, Real shall fall. Fear Bought and Sold not, Anadi and Estate Commission, a my should speak of him thus, though ye on even Mopo, and in this there is witchcraft. lived and .sister Baleka, who wives and children of Mopo, it my shall fall, Wagons, Buggies, he is dead.” Pumps, Hoad Carts, We Mopo, will have thou mourning, said the soldiers, though how it yet, I With the a that pierced thy so say. “Of such matters I know spear nothing, my I, and such mourning has been not about that the king had killed not breast, Unandi, Insurance a as shall the breast of came father,” she said. “I speak what my McCORMICK in Zululand, all the for people her I did know then. Also not another Chaka seen on be also pierced, and, wives and heart tells and it tells that I ye me, me earth the shall it. And there at thought born in heart. While weep children of Mopo, the hand was that my pierces loved Umslopogaas only living, and shall this be ‘smelling out’ life I at in might be revenged shall a the mourning, be hand of Mopo. was me, As I guide though he shall is dead I love him only REAPERS MOWERS. and Plaoed Companies. In the Beat Mopo. But will him who had wrought this him, we summon no shall he upon Pass in, children me the end.” so to go. Tickets and from all Steamship to parts of Europe. witch doctors; thou and I will be witch Time die when the of to voice of people—pass in woe. to the judgment, Now, Made and Promptly Remitted Low rata I my Collections for upbraided the at girl no more, doctors, and shall smell ourselves out Chaka spoke doom. Not would yet for the doom Chaka of is my written!” because I knew that Umslopogaas AND ALL KINDS OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS: was have those who these I brought taste of that medicine of mine. Thus I woes upon dreamed, father. I woke her brother. not Only I my marveled that Wm. Larrabee, J, K. P. Thompson, F. Larrabee, O. Weck, P. Miller, C. F. What! shall mother die So I lived and the soldiers led when 2Fa,T?irL us. unavenged, the my sky IMlaclb-ixLeiTy. with on me the the voice of should speak truly was gray nature morning so Dr. John Dennison, C. E. Dlnkhart. she who bore and has back the kraal Now, of Chaka. when to light, me perished shaking the ashes from and her, in telling her that which lawful, me, was witchcraft, by and shall thy wives kraal the it night. to without went the kraal we came was waqk to myself when it seemed to be most even unlawful. Come and look goods and prices and be convinced that I and children die unavenged—thou being Still, w charge had been given him, the over my from the defilement. Then I as returned Go Mopo, innocent? forth, faithful those of who watched went in captain and my sat without the TERRY. A. me gates of the Emposeni, “Speak of Umslopogaas,” I sell thing no in line more cheap the cheapest. you any my as as whom I the servant, have honored with waiting till the king’s said, “for surely he is dead, and though women, fire, warmth of forth!” and whom he my go once named his sisters, should before the king and told him that I lay forget not him yet speak of come you may Peter Erickson, he stared through the again at reek to draw me water, according to their without king in bonds. And the said, him and I this of custom. no more, pray you, my TRACTS IMPROVED FARMS and WILD of the flame, and pointed with his assegai At last they and sitting “Let who him be brought in before daughter, that if do came, again not meet me we the hut. to door of the MINNESOTA. with kaross SLAYTON, thrown I face to physician, that tell him my should keep over yet in mind, my was my may - - you me your hide I looked TOR SALE. it, for the passing Baleka. how have of I doctored those of his house.” and the love I bear and the words you, CHAPTER IX. Office Depot. Broadway the ASaU' on near Presently I her; she sad So they led through the doorway saw that from time time I have was to said Low Long Tim# to me Prices. THE COUNSEL OF BALEKA. faced and walked slowly, her pitcher of the great hut. you.” on her head. I whispered her Then kissed hut and At the door of the and parted. certain of the General Insurance. name we she drew aside behind aloe councilors bush, and seized and dragged an me me making CHAPTER VHI. pretense that her foot toward the fire. But Chaka said, “Let was pierced with thorn she lingered till him the would be, I talk with servant.” a THE TRIAL OF MOPO. my Real Estate. Loans money on other by. Then she Then I the floor down the hut sat of women were gone Now I four sat days in the huts of the on to and greeted king, against the and talked came up me we whither one tribe I had been another, and did sent over we MDO» BLAYTQNr gazing heavily into each other’s through the fire. the king’s business. And the fifth on “Tell of the cattle that I thee eyes. morning I sent together with those me rose up, ill “In day did I hearken to forth Mopo, to number, of Makedama,” an with you, and turned faces toward son me, we our NELSON, HERMAN Baleka,” I said, “to and the Mother to said Chaka. “Have servants you the king's kraal. my of the Heavens and child alive. with dealt honestly cattle?” save But your when had journeyed little my we a Dead all house, dead is the SLAYTON COAL YARD. “They have dealt honestly, king,” I O are my met party of soldiers, who we a way Mother of the Heavens—all dead— DEALER IN answered. stand. commanded to are us and I myself have been the put to torment “Tell then, of number of the king's the “What is it, men?” I asked me, by fire,” and I held withered out cattle and of their markings, Mopo, forgetting I whispered her boldly. my MERCHANDISE, name. GENERAL hand her. toward I praised king none.” the with loud voice “This, of Makedama,” answered JJOAK. son a K. J. Mopo, “Ay, brother,” she answered, So I and told him. and I from the Intunkulu, sat went their spokesman; “give the my to over us your “but flesh is flesh and I should nearest to well. of the king. “So,” said the king, “it I walked slowly, wife Macropha, and children Umslopogaas goes your think little of it not but when I There honest left in the land. without yet the and Nada, that gates the were my son do are men was we may DEALER<IN BROADWAY, SOUTH Umslopogaas also dead, I have heard that Knowest thou, Mopo, that has anguish because of as with the king them commands.” came sorrow upon me as but now.” hand thy house w’hile thou burned wast I than I could “For Umslopogaas,” answered, “he my come upon was more Brick, Stone, Cement, Lime, Coal, “You speak Baleka. Is I bear. and business?” to fro groaning about I has till as a woman, where the king’s cannot ran my gone arm MINN. SLAYTON, it, then, nothing to that I, heard it, O king!” I answered. to the hut of whom “I have I knew. - - stretch, for you he is dead; and for your wife came one my brother, —all I love?” have lost There I found fat, and having Mopo, has “Yes, plunged Macropha and daughter Nada, they sorrow come upon my “Fresh seed yet be raised to hand in the fat I heaven has fallen wrapped it thy house, the of round by in the can up of the Wood Salt. Swazis, my and curse are now caves brother, but for there is with skin and passed kraal. They tell Mopo, out again, me thy for I you thither the king my no and must seek them a me, upon hope, for the king looks I might not still. above briskly stay went to and the fire from on me with if he that fro, no more. jvlojs, will find w. o. them. To ran an army I I had grieve for but. this till length I to the huts.” at through thy spot where you, Macropha he is welcome, for I one hate her, came of Depot. Slayton, Minnesota. East Yard alone, and flesh is nearest flesh. to huts had been. I w’alked in “I have heard it, O king!”. have divorced her; and and for the my among as shall Think that I escape? I but ashes; feet struck Mopo, those within the tell that things girl, well, “They you am there girls and it is my upon me, are many IN DEAL R then I spared for little, "where the The sharp. mad the sight that bright go at of the if she lives thy gates a great matter dies, yet were moon was grew no or others Chaka has have marked They and I looked. the blackened T fire, and dreaming there gone. him to her.” were escape was no nray spare for I I the not; MERCHANDISE, bones of wives and children. I stabbed themselves with assegais flung me grave; care am Von do well ask the girl’s life,” they weary, to said my GENERAL but I grieve for the boy; there I myself down; covered myself into flames.” ’dier, laughing, all leaped the was no “for those bom over or land. Would such boy in the that I the ashes of kraal with king! and with “I have heard it, O What it? the dead the king.” of by order of my -e might and seek die swiftly to him!” wives bones of and children. go river is deep enough drown deed I Any to so?” answered calmly, my a is dead, “And boy not Baleka, if the Ah! father, there I lay fool!” knees shook. “The will of my as among DELIVERED FREE- ORDERS VILLAGE what then?” the ashes I prayed to the Amatongo, 'one. “Thou hast heard it, Mopo, thou to A cut stick puts out but the ghosts of ancestors. have hast I children.” not yet heard all. Knowest thou, prayed my can more Minn: Ehlose, to to the spirit Mopo, that those in thy that watches but who died Slayton, first get must my Block, Opposite Bank you among continued.] [to and I dared kraal she to be dead she who bore who to the also, all me—aye, even pray ours are was me, Umkulukulu, the great soul named Mother Heavens?’ of the of the was defectivepage