SERIAL
STORY
3
We Courtship
Standish
With Illustration
Chandler Christy
CopynsM, TUa wtta-lwrrUi luip.nr
The March of
Miles Standish
Meanwhile the stalwart Miles Stand
ish was marching steadily north
ward, Winding through forest and swamp,
and along the trend of the sea
shore. All day long, with hardly a halt, the
fire of his anger
Burning and crackling within, and the
sulphurous odor of powder
6eemi"g more sweet to his nostrils
than all the scents of the forest.
Ellent and moody he went, and much
be revolved his discomfort;
lie who was used to success, and to
easy victories always.
Thus to be flouted, rejpcted. and
laughed to scorn by a maiden,
Thus to be mocked and betrayed by
the friend w horn most he had
trusted!
Ah! 'twas too much to be borne, and
he fretted and chafed In bis
armor!
"I alone am to blame." he muttered.
"for mine was the fo!!y.
TVhat ha3 a rough old soldier, grown
grim and gray in the harness,
1'sed to the camp and Its ways, to do
with the wooing of maidens?
Twas but a dream, let it pass, let
It vanish like so many others!
What I thought was a flower, Is only
a weed, and is worthless;
Out of my heart will I pluck it, and
throw It away, and henceforward
Be but a fighter of battles, a lover and
wooer of dangers!"
Thus be revolved in his mind his
sorry defeat and discomfort.
While he was marching by day or ly
ing at night In the forest.
Looking up at the trees, and the con
stellations beyond them.
' After three days' march he came
to an Indian encampment
Pitched on the edge of a meadow, be
tween the sea and the forest;
Women at work by the tents, and the
warriors, horrid with war-paint.
Seated about a fire, and smoking and
talking together;
Who, when they saw from afar the
sudden approach of ths whit
men,
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Forth He Sprang at a Bound.
Saw the flash of the sun on breast
plats and saber and musket.
Straightway leaped to their feet, and
two, from among them advancing.
Came to parley with Standish, and
offer him furs as a present;
Friendship was In their looks, but in
their hearts there was hatred.
Braves of the tribe were these, and
brothers gigantic In stature.
Huge as Oollath of Oath, or the ter
rible Og, king of Dashan;
One was Pecksuot named, and the
other was called Wattawamat.
Round their necks were suspended
their knives la scabbards of wam
pum. Two-edged, trenchant knives, with
points as sharp as a needle.
Other arms had they none, for they
were cunning and crafty.
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"Welcome, English!" they eald.
these words they had learn
from the traders
Touching at times on the coast, to
barter and chaffer for peltries.
Then in thilr native tongue they be
gan to parley with Standish,
Through his guide and interpreter.
Hobomok. friend of the white
man.
Pegging for blankets and knives, but
mostly for muskets and powder.
Kept by tho white man. they said,
concealed, with the plague, in his
cellars.
Heady to be let loose, nnd destroy his
brother, the red mau!
Hut when Standish refused, and said
he would give them the Tdble.
Suddenly changing their tone, they
began to boast and to blut-ter.
Then Wattawamat advanced with a
stride In front of the other,
And, with a lofty demeanor, thus
vauntiiig'y sp;ike to the Captain:
"Now Wattawamat can see. by the
fiery eyes of the Captain,
Angry Is he In his henrt; but the
heart of the brave Wattawamat
i Is not afraid at the sight, lie was
not born of a woman,
Hut on a mountain, at night, from an
oak-tree riven by lightning.
Forth he sprang at a bound, with all
his weapons about him,
' ?hniil tnjr 'Vhi I therp h rp tn flirht
with the brave Wattawamat?'"
Then he unsheathed his knife, and,
whetting the blade on his left
hand,
Held it aloft and displayed a woman's
face on the handle.
Plunged It Into
Saying, with bitter expression and
look of sinister meaning:
"I have another at home, with the
face of a man on the handle;
By and by they shall marry; and
there will be plenty of children!"
Then stood Pecksuot forth, self
vaunting, Insulting Miles Stand
ish; While with his fingers he patted the
knife that hung at his bosom.
Drawing it half from Its sheath, and
plunging it back, as be muttered:
"By and by It shall see; It shall eat;
ah, ah! but shall speak not!
This U the mighty Captain the white
men have sent to destroy us!
He Is a little man; let him go and
work with the women!"
Meanwhile Standish had noted the
faces and figures of Indians
Peeping and creeping about from
bush to tree In the forest,
Feigning to look for game, with ar
rows set on their bow-strings.
Drawing about him still closer and
closer the net of their ambush.
But undaunted he stood, and dissem
bled and treated tbem smoothly;
So the old chronicles say, that were
BIGGEST CITIES OF WORLD I
London 8tlll Far In Lead, but New
York Is Growing Faster Than
Any Other.
London, the largest city In the
world, has a population, as now offi
cially announced, of 7,252,963, as
against 6,581,402 In 1901 an Increase
In ten years of 671,501, or only 10 2
per cent. The population of New York
Is 4,766,883. and with a gain In the
ten years of 38.7 per cent., Is growing
faster than any other great city In
the world. At the rate at which the
two largest cities are growing It will
take a long time for New York to
catch up with Iondon; but It would be
a great misfortune If it ever did catch
up there Is too much congestion In
New York already. The third city In
size Is Paris, whose population Is prob
ably 3,000.000. The fourth city Is per
haps Perlln, which bsd a little over
2,000,000 five years ago. Tokyo and
Chicago fall a little under the 2,500,
000 mark, and St. Petersburg, Vienna,
Canton, Peking, Moscow and Philadel
phia are below 1,000,000. Rochester
Post-Express.
Clothes and the Man.
The better a person Is dressed the
less money be has as a rule." Thus
Judge Parry, whose experience tn the
county court certainly gives him a
right to speak on the subject. Lon
don Telegraph.
Women In Business World,
Women are now engaged In all but
two of the 303 gnlnrul occupations of
the men of this country
writ fn the days of the fathers
Rut when he heard their defiance, the
boast, the taunt, and the Insult,
All the hot blood of his race, of Sir
Hugh aud of Thurston de Stand'
ish,
Dolled and beat In his heart, and
swelled In the veins of his tern
pies.
Headlong he leaped on the boaster,
and, snatching his knife from Its
scabbard,
Plunged It into his heart, and, reeling
backward, the savage
Fell with his face to the sky, and a
fiendiike fierceness upon if.
Straight there nrose from the forest
the awful sound of the war-whoop.
And, like a flurry of snow on the
whistling wind of Poeember,
dwlft nnd sudden and keen came a
flight of feathery arrows.
Then came a cloud of smoke, and out
of the cloud came the lightning.
Out of the lightning, thunder, and
death unseen ran before it.
Frightened the savage ft d for shelter
In swamp and In thlcket
Hotly pursued and beset; but their
sachem, the brave Wattawamat,
Fled not; he was dead, I'nswervlng
and swift had a bullet
Passed through his brain, and ho fell
with both hands clutching the
greensward
Soeming in death to hold back from
his foe the land of his fathers.
There on the flowers of the meadow
the warriors lay, and above them.
Silent, with folded arms, stood Hobo
mok, friend of the white man.
His Heart.
Smiling, at length he exclaimed to the
stalwart Captain of Plymouth:
"Pecksuot bragged very loud, of his
courage, his strength and bis
stature.
Mocked the great Captain, and called
him a little man; but I see now
Big enough have you been to lay him
speechless before you!'
Thus the first battle was fought
and won by the stalwart Miles
Standish.
When the tidings thereof were
brought to the village of Ply
mouth, And as a trophy of war the head of
the brave Wattawamat
Scowled from tbe roof of the fort,
which at once was a church and f.
fortress.
All who beheld It rejoiced, and
praised the Lord, and took cour
age. Only Prlscilla averted ber face from
this specter of terror.
Thanking God In her heart that she
bad' not married Miles Standish;
Shrinking, fearing almoet, lest, com
ing home from his battles.
He Bhould lay claim to her band, as
the prize and reward of his valor,
(TO BET CONTINUED.)
WILD SCRAMBLE OF WOMEN
London Paper Tells of Scene In Cloak
room After the Racing at
Ascot.
At the end of the racing at Ascot
yesterday It seems that the cloakroom
arrangements miscarried, and when
the women went to get their wraps
they were not ready to hand. A wild
report circulated that tbe thief who
stole the gold cup four years ago had
ben busy In tbe cloakroom and all
the women rushed to find for them
selves If the dreadful thing were true.
There has not been such an out
burst of feminine excitement since
the last suffragist raid on the house
of commons, and the attendants grew
so alarmed and were so afraid of the
cloakroom being stormed by the angry
owners of the precious wraps that
they sent for tbe police. When the
constables came several ladles fled
Ignomlnously without their things.
Tbe police ultimately straightened out
the tangle and the honor of Ascot was
saved. The cause of the commotion
Is said to have been the action of
some women who left early and put
everything In confusion tn the search
for their cloaks. London Express.
Leaving a Plane Open.
It Is best to close the piano as soon
as you have finished playing, both on
account of tbe dust and the variations
of tbe atmosphere. The keyboard
should be kept scrupulously clean.
Alcohol or diluted ammonia may be
used for this purpose with advantage.
Alice, trie I raveier.
A successful Chicago man of the
self-made variety having- purchased a
fine library by the foot w showing li
with some pride to a friend of literary
attainments.
The self made man ran his business
on the cart index system and his li
brarv with the same degree of meth
od. Cases were marked plainly,
"Travel." "Art." "Poetry." "Sci
ence." etc.
Occupying a prominent place in the
"Travel" case the friend noticed a
very handsome volume with the title
in gold letters on the back, "Alice in
Wonderland. "Youth's Companion.
WHAT
I WENT
THROUGH
Dcforc taking Lydia CPinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Natlek. Mass. "I Cannot express
what 1 went through during the changn
of life before I triel
I.ydin K. I'lnkliain's
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pound. I was in such
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I rouul not keep
still. M v limbs
wero cold, 1 Im.I
creepy sensations,
::nl 1 could not sleep
nl:;!it.i. 1 was Dually
tuld by two phy.
icians that I nhm
tail a tumor. I read
one day of tn wonderful cures nwlo
by I.ydiii :. I'ii kliain's VrgftaMu
Compound and decided to try it,
tnl it has ma in nm a well woman.
My neighbors and friends declare it
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K. I'tnkliam's Vegetable Compound ii
worth its weight in "old for women
iurinir this iH-riod ol lll'o. If it will
help others joii ma? publish my
letter." MM. .ATHAV :i. (iUKATtl.N,
51 . Ma;u Street, .,iti k, Mass.
Tlie Chance of Life is the most criti
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Women everywhere should remetiilier
that there is no other remedy known
to medicine that will so successfully
carry women through this trvimf
ieriid as I .villa Y.. 1'inkhaiu's Vege
table Compound.
t you would like oitcclal advice
phout your 'ase write a ,mlll,ri
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and always licljtf uL
Queer Sacrifice.
The story of a tragedy of charltj
comes from Paris. The other day
septuagenarian widow named HertU
was so distressed on hearing the storj
of a starving family that she shot her
self and left them the whole of bel
money $250.
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Chest Pains
and Sprains
Sloan's Liniment is an ex
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throat affections. It quickly
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flammation. A few drops
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I FIRST LESSOXS
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CONSERVATION OF PLANT FOOD
By lr. Jm. W llhyi-unil-. IHnwUir f thtKiwf
nt SutkHi, Onumi Asrirullural t'..ll.
That there are (treat wastes con
stantly occurring on Oregcn farms
cannot be denied. Among the .great
est of all wastes, however, is the un
necessary loss of plant food. For ex
ample, more straw has been burned
this fall than usual. This is one of
the great wastes of the Oregon farms.
Not only will straw make a fairly
good substitute for hay. but its value
as a direct fertiliser for the soil should
be considered. It is estimuted that
each ton of Btraw represents a value
in actual plunt food of 12.50, and in
every ton of straw which is burned
this is practically all lost. There are
thousands of tons of straw destroyed
annually in Oregon, in some counties
probably representing a loss i vuhw
as great as the cost of the adminis
tration of the counties. A few days
since the writer saw a farmer burning
a crop of vetch in the Held. This
vetch was evidently intended for seed,
but the rains having Kxiil.-d it fur this
purpose it was burned. When we con
sider that a ton of vetch represents a
value of about $S in plant food it is
apparent what this loss meant to that
farmer Instead of being burned this
vetch should have been hauled to a
yard, tramped with stock and when
decomposed hauled back to the fields.
In this way valuable plant food would
have been conserved, whereas by burn
ing practically all of its value was
lost. It is true the mineral elements,
such as Kitssh, phosphorus and lime,
are not lost, but they are defiosited in
such a way that they areof little value.
Another great loss of valuable plant
food is in barn-yard comMit. Millions
of dollars annually are wasted in this
way. The direct loss of plant food
from barn yards represents a greater
value than the cost of the state's ad
ministration, j
Complaints are often heard that
crops are not as good as they were in
years tiiat are past and gone This is
not as it should lie; crops should real
ly be better rather than oorcr. Take
for example the older countries which
have been farmed for centuries their
crops are much larger than those pro
duced in this country under much more
favorable natural conditions, both in
soil and climate. Belgium, for exam
ple, in the last few decades has in
creased her average wheat yield over
fourteen bushels xr acre, her barley
nineteen bushels; oats twenty bush
els, or from 41) to 71 bushels; the
average yield of isitatoes has increas
ed from 225 to 300 bushels er acre.
This is done, of course, through better
methods of tillage, but mainly through
the conservation of all available forms
of plant food.
Much of the soil in Western Oregon
is heavy clay and its greatest need
outside of underdrainagu is organic
matter. Nothing will supply this more
rapidly than straw or barnyard corn
post. The practice of threshing in
the middle of the field is not to be
commended. While it may be economy
during the operation of harvesting,
yet in the end it cannot be considered
a gixid practice. Nut only is it un
sightly to have great piles of straw in
the center of fields but there is an ap
preciable loss of ground that should
annually produce crops. The far bet
ter way would be to do the threshing
near the homestead, if practicable,
and the straw can be used in bedding
for the buildings or hauled into yards
and tramped by stock until it is de
comiosed, and then hauled cut on the
ground, particularly on the heavy cloy
ixirtions. The white land could be
greatly improved by covering with
partially decomsised straw and plow
ing this under. This not only supplies
organic matter, but improves the
physical condition of the soil, afford
ing better drainage and aerification,
and larger crops are produced.
Many devices have been tried for
the rapid decomposition of straw. For
example, lime has been frequently
suggested, but at the Oregon Kxeri
ment station this has proved to be of
little value. A given bulk of straw
treated with lime did not dccomse
as rapidly as an eoual bulk of straw
without lime. About the only prac
tical way of decomposing straw is by
means of live stock, either using It as
bedding for the stock or having it
tramptsl in the yards. Nearly all
yards in Western Oregon are muddy
in the winter, to the inconvenience of
stock. If straw were used in these
yards not only would the stock be kept
more rornioriuiiic, mil the straw coiil,
be utilized later as a valuable fer
tilizer. In this section of the state where
wood is the common fuel, ashes repre
sent considerable value as a fertilizer.
This form of plant food usually is en
tirely lost, farmers oftentimes using
it to (ill the holes in the roads, when
as a matter of fact it is worth from
$7 to 10 per ton as a fertilizer. All
ashes should be carefully saved and
applied to the soil. This form of fer
tilizer Is particularly valuable for
hops, clover, vetch, etc.
Greater attention should be paid to
all these by-products so as to increase
the fertility of the soil.
"At last I have discover! a.!,.. ..
didn't sell more of those bathing
uits." remarked the head of the de
partment. Why i. itr asked the proprietor.
I overheard nna l at.- ,
. ...., luieuiames
emphasizing the fact that they would
n t shrink." was the reply.-philadel-phia
Record.
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anything in this mnniiscript of yours
Young Author - Still, why not print
t7 Your readers may have more in
telligence Hoston Transcript.
Had Time to Watte,
Thai liatat Kvlaami. Mill
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glneer, who was engaged ln rsj
enterprises In Central America, .
seeking local support fur mlj
attrmpirsl to give the matter
He asked a native: "llow0fr
it take you to carry your
market by mule pack?" tl
days," was the reply. "There's
point." laid Miller. "With our V
In operation you could take your a?
to market and be back home I.
day." "Very good. nor. gajj
the native. "H t what would . 7t
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The question I soiusttnis tikaj.
What will relieve fatigue nmrt qukt
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women shoppers becoinn t da
very tired. Fortunately ths BrMs.
army has thrashed the qimtloi at,
and tried every kind of dsewt
that could be thought of, tod Bu
profit by their experience.
award the palm to rofree, an4 4el
It ha neither superior nor equtl tt
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Ancestral Pride ef the Purgra.
"One of my forefathers tu tilptl
of the I declaration of Inili-pendagct.'
"That Is something.- rill4 git
Vote-by (luinm. "Hut think of U
proud satisfaction with which aj
great great granddaughters will fxvu
to the fact that one of their fcral
mothers was a rH'lMnt :i!frajiit,-
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