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Show A JieBro'i Key to Heaven. The Herald is in possession of a cane with quite a history. Tom Goodyear, an old negro, aged about 86 years, died. In his deathbed was a common walking stick, on the handle of which were two leather straps, to which were attached two keys one large and the other small. The old negro carried the cane during the last twenty-five years of his life. He never went without it, and always proclaimed that the small key would open his way into the better world, and that the large key, should he not go to that desired land, would allow him to escape from the doors of that land which is hotter than this. But when Goodyear died he left the keys and stick by his side while his spirit departed to that undiscovered un-discovered land. It matters not to which place the good old colored man went, ha will find the doors open for his reception. Palatka (Fla.) Herald. |