Show TRUTH why lles mies biess blesa your heart jeas jeaa glad tose eyou lyse ilse come here for a messenger an I 1 guess ilse pee de oldest messenger in in de tie i world ise ilse lse been here a good while it seems when I 1 tink vink on it like as if pd id been in de do world ever since de do world begun such were the words of nr ner truth is the sibyl as she grasped the haud baud of a cherald reporter who wh 0 had called to see eee her and she fixed upon him her great luminous black eyes in which there seemed to the gloomy mysticism of all the ages ageal of the dusky east when the visitor en she was surrounded by three or four quaker ladle ladies with whom she was chatting about her long experience of life bhe rose with a sprightly moy movement ement like a maid of sixteen her presence impressed one with the true gentility of her bar character in spite of bf her ebon complexion lexion and her servile origin were kere there thore are authentic records which prove that thal her hen age ia Is at least le astone one hundred and two years yet far from being haggard in japp gp t pear auca herskin ia Is as boft soft and smooth as that of the merest child the doctors declare that her pulse ig Is that of ia a young woman while her fade face is distinctively of thewl the nubian u cast her features arendt are gross and her eyes are capable of the most intense expression from path pathos osand and love to wrath and abhorrence her dialect differs assenti essentially senti ally from that of the southern he negroes groes it ia Is founded upon her eary earty knowledge of the low dutch which was her only language until she was twelve or thirteen years old af after ter ten telling sojourner journer Bo that bel bei had heard of her ever over since his hia boyhood and had come coma to satisfy himself that the was not altogether a myth the tha it porter reporter asked if she ahe could tell teli her exact age 1 1 I spec bouis heard beard dis many an many abear a year bat Id anttell I 1 cant tell teli ho how w old I 1 kas LAS cobi cosi dont reck on as I 1 lived at bli all afore de dhar was I 1 born honey asa as aba A slave forty year ZE J growald uri among hmong de do baw dutch along ae 0 0 hudson yael jac is I 1 dunno as ever I 1 was born bonn borant at all I 1 foun fonn myself in demorad de world au buch such ch a time ago why honey V icem embers bera the fust steamboat dem jem xem days imas I 1 was ies iea every bit as big mg as I 1 am now 1 was waa alivin livin a 1 on de do hore de den n yea yes bless blesa your heart chile I 1 saw baw it why it made noise enough I 1 fell I 1 ye yo an it threw throw the water up ug almost aa as high althis as this thib here horn horo house if did you ever see sojourner esno no I 1 never did see washington but I 1 lived when he did 21 and this she said with a great brightening in g ot her f face ace and an accent of reve rave reverential p pride r ide when be he died I 1 reelect recie ct de do paper was in moarnin mour nin and dere dare was a great time aimee sorrow years erward art urt I 1 muan juan to fan ass nn da steamboat a comin up de river wf WV de cadets cabets he took dinner across de river on de dutchess county side dip d dere dare i dey day roasted a whole ox f tc mr kil him L baw aaa w lieux anhder time when he went up de do north river but L never was very near him he was on do deck an I 1 was on de land I 1 recollect hearin 1 tell a great deal bout Xa napoleon bonaparte too what was your name in those dayss daysh daycl 1 41 I had different names first one name and den anhder name I 1 changed dem wid every change ot of my mcmasters masters Firsti first it was bellar beliar bell beil ar denburg 2 den bell nealy den I 1 it was bell den it was bell dumont and den it was bell yan van wagener but bless biess do lord chile chiles he has redeemed me ma out of all dose dosia names name my chalern ibeal iseal is called led arter de do names ob on de do masters ilat daft dey day were born under but ree pee got a new name bless de do lord ise lse good times now an de do lord he have raised up dis here young man here to write it all down what I 1 say bayt want de do an de do reporters to know dat I 1 I 1 preci ate de do work dat dey day does in me in de papers I 1 know its hard bard caus I 1 never has any stops when I 1 talks talks and it dere dare was greeley bless himles bieland him bim land and the ladys emphasis was affectionate and fervid tahe he always sent his reporters to my an it did a sight eight ob good ses yes deed it did de do lord bless im lim 11 how came you to be called eio 80 journer truth were you called in the of slavery chojno chile bless your oui oal do you spose do dose cloae so slaveholder a could speak ol 01 0 de truth truthe replied sojourner journer yo with immense energy and a voice that sounded like a t of wrath weil weli well welli ilse lise golato to tell you doubout bout dat and dis dig ia is more dan ise ever tole to any reporter ye see I 1 was boun a slave in the state ofner york an ulster county I 1 was sole five times limes ana 1 used to pray to god to make maka my carster an mistress good but they get good an when malater raten rater sel sec me free when he promised be would L left him and went to long island dere dare want no city den only a few houses on the brooklyn righta when on the oder side I 1 haa had startled ed out two miles I 1 stopped to geet get so to eat ea ana an a quaker lady she dat give it to me asked naked me my name it had come to me wag was wag was a walkin waikin an a chinkin dat I 1 was to have a fiew new name it had come cone t totne toane 0 im e d at it would be I journer mourner 1 bo so I 1 tole her an imald I 1 said bald de do lord give it to me she slated dat I 1 must have some other name an arl den dei as ass I 1 wel wei walked aked k s cleng de do sana sand toy fol two miles burder I 1 keps kep hep a sayin shyin to myself ah lord lor dagi digi give veme nie a name wid wilt a handle t to 0 it saying baying it as I 1 went blo alo nguan all at once dere dare came to dese words oja T gertruth ner truth 1 batsa idaisa ID atsa Da tsa good nam name e lord nordt lordt s I 1 said dats k a rood name nama and I 1 tank you yon lord s I 1 sojourner journer Bo touched her upon udon hor her experience with the second ad ak ventis tsin in connecticut this was a time of great religious excitement in the year 1846 she had a last interview with her old master masten mr dumont and ha be gladdened her heart by confessing that he had lived to realize the evil of slavery in the same year she joined the tee northampton association she had previously been a moderate disciple of Matthias the fhe false prophet and had also list listened a ned t to 0 the preaching of miller millers who prophesied the end of the word her papu peculiar tyr jjr and remark abl abi laike talents ts becoming widely 8 natu Patu naturally rillY became an apostle og 0 th the anu anh slavery cause and her hen eloquence 0 wels WEIS suite sull suil le as potent aa as that af pf more learned and more profound adv advocates her weird and grotesque tesque while hermand ml d la ii clear anil anji strong and her sympathetic iq flu fiu ernce erice is aa as wonderful a as it is intense she bhe has sat before the multitude the company pt most ino at of thi thedis dl reformers oto of this country coun try when de lec terin on blai slavery Y burst up I 1 went down to take stake care of de freedmen in Waa hnton durin durins de war then she repeated the that she had had with lincoln when she visited him she told him that the fira first time aime she had heard of him bim wa was s after he I 1 bad had become president and he replied that he had heard of her many times before wat that she baid said thought you was waa like daniel an one time it feared most like de do lion lione would eat you un mr lincoln was atan tand idan ln up tan can anJo anpo 0 okin olin down at me an amilla a an he e aj ward avid 21 yoi you eee dey done dont sojourner journer Bo then a most poetic mannen manner a bible which was v as shown herby her by lincoln and which had been presented to him by the colored people of baltimore 0 the reporter when he was about to take his leave he uttered the thie wish that journer sojourner Bo might liv ligeia ja hundred years longer and she quickly rejoined 0 lise lile coln to god has ceover me over anew an he has put new flesh on to my ole olo bones 4 j then she took oss off her cap and showed a head that is a cove covered red with curly and silken haie hale almost entire ly black there is a narrow streak across the middle and over bereft temple which is as white as driven snow twenty reven gevon years ag ago 0 said gaid she my hayr har was white aa as dat paper but arter I 1 was sick it began black again wonderful bebby I 1 shall have new now teeth to de do lord has haa madame made me all ail over again to be ate ates a testimony 9 to de do nation 11 N Y herald i |