6 OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, SEPT. 15, 1911 1 Hidden Treasure! of Red Rock How Wealth Came to a Moki Kinj'i Descendant t By ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER Copyright by American Press Asscv elation, 1911. J "Look here, Laura; If that medicine man fuklr fellow Isn't Carlos Noran of our senior clusa I'm a liar; Hint's all." "The Idea!" after the manner of women, exclaimed pretty golden blond Laura Degart. "Why, Buddie, Mr. Noran is the most dignified member of our class." Miss Degart looked nervous. She poked the ground with her parasol. "So he Is. But I'll bet you a dollar that's Noran and nobody else. Ho conies "TOO" 8BH TOD VERB DEAD WRONO," SAID LACfiA, from somewhere In Now Mexico. And from the looks of him he might be Spanish, Mexican, Navajo, greaser or anything elBe." "Oh, Buddlo (warmly), I'm sure Mr. Noran Is as well born and bred as any man In the college.'' "No doulit. Hut all tho same it's not impossible he might be doing these Moki stunts for money at tho summer resorts. If llils fellow is not Noran it's his twin irother." "Come along, Laura; the fellow's fin ished. I'm going out right after him. I'll call him and see If lie doesn't Jump. Hello, Noran, old chap! I say, how are you?" Not a sign of recognition, not a sturt or a stare. Naouoro gave his assistant some directions la an Indian language. Then he opened a quulntly woven basket and offered the brother and Slater some nuiglc medicine beans warranted to keep off miliaria, rheu matlem and fevers. They bought some and passed on. "You see you were dead wrong," said Laura. "I'm not altogether sure of that, sis, but he's a good looking humbug any way and clean and got up to 1:111, with that red and blue und yellow blanket around him, and tho red paint on his cheeks." Curios Noran, senior class, slate unl veiuity, Southington, who bore such n queer resemblance Jo a Moki medicine show fuklr, was the moat respectable of students. He never cut chapel, never missed a lesson or u co-ed recep tion, never dodged a lecture on the development of social ethics, lie was one of the best scholars in the Insti tution, lie was a crack baseball play er and n noted long dint mice swimmer. In tlguro lie wns erect und nobly form ed; though athletic, not lean and bony, but with rounded muscles. lie had thick, straight bnlr that was purple in Its blackness. Ills face never changed its color, a pnro ivory white, hardly ever changed Its expression. Norau dressed with absolute correct ness. Tho matron of tho co-eds de clared he had the best manners among the collego youths. He bad not only maimers, but manner, aud it wus su perb enough for a king or a Hindu awiimi at tho very least. Ho was gen erous with money und seemed to have plenty of it. Socially he wna welcomed among tho best Citizens' families nt SouthluMton. The Degarts were his friends, though they wondered what his family was. When iJiuru and Harold Iiegart left tho medicine mnn ho entered tho tent in which ha lived, threw off the bright figured blanket and sat down to write. Now Nuonoro wrote; "Thoughts nnd purposes are always fixed In my mind better when I write them down. I will find tho lost treas ure of tho Mokls und win ft girl for my wife. That Is tho purpose of me, Na ouoro, Moki medicine man. I know the girl Is for me. 1 knew It when 1 first touched her liiuid throe years ago. Bho Is tho lily of the while people. "I am going to write dow n all 1 know of tho story of my life. That will make my memory clearer and help to conceutrnte my thought. "Tho llrst jiiace 1 remember was an Indian reservation school. 1 don't know how I got into it. They told me my mother brought mo to the agency when I was about two years old. They found us lying, my mother and my self, nt the floor of the agent's house one morning. Mot her was dead If she KILLTHE COUCH an o CU R E the LU f JGS IIEVD1SCMY uri 5oai.oo r imi ROUuTFRff MDMITNMMTANDIUNS TROUBLES really was my mother. I was asleep. I could say only oue word 'Naouoro' so they called me that for my uunie. That is all I know about myself. "I stayed in the reservation school und was a good boy till I was twelve. Then the bureau of educution sent me east to nn Indian school. It in tended to make a civilized Indian of me. .1 attended that school two years. I was a good boy again and learned my lessons. But ull this time I was thinking, thinking. The white teach ers looked down on us Indian boys. They felt themselves far abovo us. The people of the village where the school was looked down on us too. I looked at myself in the still water of the river. I shook my fist and im agined -I was shaking it in the face of the teacher I disliked moat. 'I'm whiter than you are,' 1 said to him In my imagination. 'I'll run away from tills school.' "A Moki boy and 1 ran away togeth er. We went to his people, and I lived among his tribe. An old Moki woman with a face like the wrinkled bark of a brown tree adopted mo for her grandson. I learned to do dances and reel off incantations with the best of them. It was not a bad life. I would have been happy, but I had learned white men's ways. I felt bulf white, half Moki. Sometimes the white man was uppermost, sometimes the Moki. In one of my white fits I said: 'I won't bo an Indian. I'll turn while. The white man's learning, the white man's money and power they shall be mine.' "I was seventeen then reservation waif, Moki blanket Indian boy. I am twenty-four now college senior, mem ber of the most extravagant Greek letter society and yes, maybe the fairest girl but never mind. What 1 have done I have done all myse. IIow? Would these proud white peo ple accept me as one of them if they know 1 "When I was seventeen and hud nindo up my mind to turn white a showman came among our tribe look ing for presentable Indians to go In a circus and perform the tribal dances and the Juggling feats of our medlciue men. I went. I made a circus of my self. I became a professional snnko charmer and Moki medicine man. I got money enough that season to go to a white boys' school as a white boy. I have been doing tho same thing sum mer vacations ever since, and nobody ever appeared to recognize me till to day. I wonder if I deceived the De garts. "The summer I turned white the old woman who hnd adopted me made me give her my solemn promise that I would come bnck to her after I left school. She told me it was of the ut most importance; that sho knew how to give mo power and the hidden treas ure of the Snake Mokls. I am going next summer. Old Teresa never told mo a He. "Now I have written my story down. It is fixed in my mlud. My purpose Is fixed in my mind. Naonoro, the Mold medlcino man, will get riches. He will marry the lily of tho white people, and she will not be ashamed of him." "I suppose our clnss will never all seo one another again after this com mencement night, Mr. Noran," said Laura Degart a year later. Noran looked at her, "Miss Degart, you will see me again If you wish to. I am going away to make my fortune. Before I go I would like to hear you say, 'Carl Noran, come back to me.' " "Carl Noran, when you think you have made your fortune come back." "Say come bnck to me!" "Well, then come back to me." In the sands, among the cactus and sagebrush, In the shadow of a cliff, stand two, nn aged blanket squaw with a face like the wrinkled bark of a brown tree and a man In white peo pie's dress, a black haired young mail proud with tho splendid pride of youth and power. "Naonoro not red Indian," said the old squaw. "Naonoro half white, hnlf browu Mold. Naonoro sure old Teresa's grandson. Mother while man's girl Sho run a way from father with Hn mono, Teresa's son. She took him away from Teresa. Teresa very sor rowful, but she love Naonoro, Bn- menu's llttlo child. By m by white wife tired of Moki ways. She hate Itamouo, Bun away, take baby with her. Iiamono want son. Ho look every place for him, little Noro with the big black eyes, ltamono never liud son, nnmono die. Teresa have no child, But Teresa know white woman would run away by 'in by. She put mark ou Noro h arm one day; marl; never come off. 7t Is mark of Teresa's own peo pie, the Snake Mokls. Has Teresa's adopted grandson a serpent, a very little serpent, on right arm?" Naonoro Jumped. "It's there, sure enough," said he. "Ive often won dered" "It Is the totem of Teresa's own fam ily. Her fathers were kings before white men cunie. They much rich, Teresa's people. They bad gold. They had mines of blue stones, ninny, like pebbles on river shore. White man calls them turquoise" "Oh, mother, do you know where these mines are?" Tho young should be silent while Jim old speak. Teresa know, but Te resa will never tell. If Teresa tell white man And out. White man shall never Und mines of Teresa's fathers. Pretty soon Teresa die; then nobody know." "Rut, mother" "Let the young be silent while the old speak. When white man come Milh the guns he kill Molds like sheep. Ho take away their blankets and their gold and all the blue stones h can Bud. Teresa's people hide treasures. 3 Children Cry for Fletcher's The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has leeu in use for over SO years, has borne the signature of All Counterfeits, Imitations and ' Just-as-good " are but lSxperlincnts that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment What is CASTORIA Castorla is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Props and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. 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"Dear sir," wrote the mnn who owed his tailor and had received a tetter ask ing for payment of the hill, "your let ter was extremely Impertinent, and I return it to yon unopened " Common Colds Must Be Taken Serl ousy For unless u-ired they sap the vitality an I lower tne vital r-sistance to men srrions infection, I'roteot your ehil dren ami yi.urself b iIih pouipt me of Foley's Hiiy uu l Tar Compound mi l i 010 iis ()i ioli miii nee ibivo re aps J'or eougio-, coins, croup, win opiiig onuuli, l ronei ills mid atfee lions of The ilnout, olnst. nnd liuigf it s an evi r ready and vohiul lo rem edy. Join s Drug On. FOOD OF THE MEXICANS. Hi How oao the baby grow strong if the nursing mother m pale and delicate Scott's Emulsion make the mother strong and well; increases and en- lei the baby rood. iwu White man whip old king, the last of Teresa's long ago fathers', to make him tell wbere treasure is. Tbey whip till king die, but he not tell. Ills daughter know; old king tell her. She tell her daughter; that daughter tell her daughter. Snake Moki squaws have secrets Snake Moki man not know. Old king's daughter tell her daughter when of Snake Moki family come son who is strong and wise, not run uway before face of white man, not let white man make drunk, cheat him and find out where Snake treas ure Is. Then mother of Snake Moki wise young man tell her son. Sou will be rich and know school learning and be powerful like white man. White mnn cannot tramp ou him. lie will help Mokls. "Nnouoro strong. lie not drink whisky; white man not cheat him. Naonoro much wise. Teresa tell her own grandson where Snake Moki treasure is. Here ut this rock starts trail, where mark is cut in rock." As if repeating an incantation she chanted: .. "Twelve steps toward north star, mark last step. Go back to rock. Sixteen steps toward rising sun. Where rising sun trail ends turn face toward where -north star trail ends. Ten steps in straight line. Mark place. Qo to end of north star trail, turn face to end of rising sun trail. Ten steps to meet end of other ten steps. Drive stake down. Dig fur down to big red rock. Under red rock big water Jur full of gold, blue stones, red stones, many like stars in sky. Make Naonoro much rich." Nuonoro leaped forward. A leathery hand phot out aud held him back. "Not so, not in day. Come night, tben dig. Teresa come too." In the moonlight, with no sound to break the brooding stillness, the deed was done. A power that was strange and new to him was in the arms of Na onoro. He felt it in the air, in a mil lion little waves, when, step by step, carefully, with eyes upon the ground, he measured twelve steps toward the north star, sixteen stops toward the rising sun, ten steps from each stop ping point till the trails met in the center. Then a light dawned In his mind. v "Why, of course, the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle. The old Snake Moki king, my ancestor, must have un derstood geometry." Treasure, treasure burning rubles, enough to pay a railroad debt; gor geous turquoises whose exquisite bluo Kleniued even In the moonlight; thou sands of Spanish doubloons, their Klilne scarcely tarnished In the dry air, though more than three centuries had changed the face of earth and Its na tions; rings nnd necklaces of beaten gold; bracelets that had adorned pule brown arms, round and royal. "turned (o dust who knows how many cen turies HgoneV At Southington. Carlos Noran. Immaculate, impi'es slve, royal as ever, stood beside Laura Iiegart nt the window looking out on her garden where the roses hlomiod. "You told me I might come back to you when I had made my fortune. It Is made. Am I welcome V" "None could be more welcome," eMe answered gently. "I love you, Ijuirn. You know It. No man will ever love yon again as nnuh as I, do, I have always loved you. But flrst I must tell you. I havo my fortune, but It is none of my mnk- PACIFIC PIIONKS Office, 71 Residence lot) Gilbert L. Ijedges Lawyer Weinhard Bldg. Oregon City, Ore, 0, B. DIMICK . W. A. DIMICK DIMICK (Sb DIMICK Attorneys at Law Notary Public. Mortgages Foreclosed. Abstracts Furnished. Money Loaned on Real and Chattel Security. Andresen Building, Oregon City H. E. Cross Wm. Hammond Trncc & H n tn m ntiA VUO V UUilllllVMlU Attorneys at Law Probate Practice, Abstracts, Real Es tate Loans and Insurance We have now moved into our permanent quart ers in the new Beaver Building next to the Andresen Building J. E. HEDGES Attorney-aL-Law Weinhard Building, Oregon City "LOT IHB IOCNO ha BIl.ENl " ing. My grandmother, a very old Mot squaw, showed me where it had been hidden centuries ago by her ancestor Snake Moki. . It is rightfully mine, my inheritance. Laura, your white people would call me n half breed in dinn. My mother wus n white woman I am the Moki medicine man you and your brother saw at that show two years ago. I earned money that way She laid her hand in his, the white hand in the brown one. She looked up nt him ns a woman looks at the man she loves. "1 know It, dear. I have known It all the time." Tl'" world wonders why Mr. nnd '! ,'ornn live in the southwest when v are so well fitted to adorn clviliza in and civilization is so well fitted i a dur:i them. There are those, too, i 'io wonder why they take such tender cure of nn aged Moki woman with face like tho wrinkled bark of a brown tree. She Is said to be .Mr. Nornn's old nurse. But when this aged Moki squaw dies there will not be left among the living one soul who knows the mystery of the greut lost Smfkc tur quoise mine. Drawing the Diseasa Out. The Chinese have a curious custom of trying to cure a sick man. A friend of the patient obtains a straight branch with a fow leaves and twigs at the end. On this he hangs a mirror of polished steel, and under that one of the sick mnu's coats. Then he goes for a short walk, a priest in the mean time performing a ceremony. The coat, being carried in this way, Is sup posed to draw the disease from the sufferer. Just So. "He doesn't really love you. He's after your money." "But If his love were not genuine how could he put so much fervor into his wooing?" "Oh, a man can dig up considerable fervor when he has to marry money or go to work." Exchange. Silence! The instinct ol modesty oaturat to every woman is olten i trett hindrance to the cure ot womanly diseases. Womeo shrink from the personal questions of the locsl physician which seem indelicate. The thought of examination is h. horrent to them, end so they endure in silence a condilion f disease which surely progresses from bad to worse. It hat beea Dr. Pierce' a privilege to care a treat many women mbo tare toaad a refute tor modesty la bit otter ot FREE consults roo by letter. All correspondence It held at t acred ly coatldemtial. Addrett Dr. R. v Pierce, Buffalo, . I. 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Every limine bus a metnte, a sort of stone trough, which rests on the ground, and on this tho corn Is crushed lo a pa.e and then patted into thin round cuke and tossed on n clay griddle lo cook. Don't think ns you ri.'.e down ilie street that In every liom-e a clilld Is being spanked It la only the ;itll:i;r sound made by the- women n.4 they deftly shape the tortillas in their hands. The lime In which the corn Is sof tened is said to account for the very strong white teeth of the , natives. Frijoles are, of course, bonus and after being boiled a long time with onions, chill and other savory bits are put Into boiling lard for their final flavor. Knives and. forks are not need ed where a tortilla can.be folded In the middle and used as a scoop for the beans. These two articles of food form almost the entire diet of the poor. 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