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S E R AL STORY r ---------------------------- ---------------- 1 1 3ie Courtship sf cTViiles S ta n d is h With Illustrations by- Howard Chandler Christy L 7 l it« I t o lilii M e r r ill I * *Uil*H» f I The March of Miles Standisti "Welcome, English!" they said.— these words they had learned from the traders Touching at tlmm on the coeat, to barter and rhelTer fur peltries. Then In tin Ir native tongue they be gan to parley with Htiuidlah, Through hla guide and Interpreter. Iloboniok, friend of the white man, I'egglng for blankets and knlvea, hut mostly for muaki-ts and powder, Kept by the While l urn. they uald, concealed, will» the plague, In hla collars, Heady to be lei loos», and destroy hla brother, the red man! Hut when Hta'idlah refuxed, nnd said he would give tin-ill the lllble. Suddenly changing their tone, they begun to bonit and to bluster. Tbeti Wattawatimt advanced with u stride In front of the other. And, with a lofty demeanor, thus vnuntlngly spoke to Hie Captain "Now Wnltuw aniat cun see, by the tlery eyes of th» Captain. Angry Is he In tils heart: hut the h< art of the bruv» Wa'tawnmnt la not nfrnld at the light. He was not born of n woman. Hut on n mountain, at night, from nn ouk tree riven hy I ginning, Forth he sprung at a bound, with nil hla weapons al mil him, • Shouting. Who Is th- r» to r<- to fight with the brave Wa'tuwnmat ?' ” | Then he unsheathed his knife, nnd, whetting the blndo on his left I hand. Held It aloft nnd displayed u woman'a face on the handle. 1 Mrnnw till«« iti» stalwart Mil*» Stand I» li » u marching »t»adlly noriti ward. Wlndlntc through (ormi «nil swamp. uml ii I o ii k Ih» trend uf tli« »<ii shore, All day Iona, with tmntly n huit, th« Uro of lila Miner lin ru 1 1 k unit rrarklliiR wtthln, nn<l Ih» sulphurous odor of powder Brillili k more aw»»l In hi* nostrils t tin li all the «conta of the loto»' 1 Filent nod moody h» wi ut, n'i'l much he r< volve I hl» discomfort; lie who « n i u»o<l lo «uccella, and to euay victor!- « always. Tbtia to be flouted, rij-cted, und laiiKle d to acori» I y n maiden. Tino* to I » mock* d und I etruyod t y th» fr'end whom ino.it he bud trueted! Ah! 'twee too much to be borne, und 1 h» fretted und rhaied lit hla “ ■ bitfSà# fol] i writ fn the daya of the fathers Hut when he hoard their defiance, the boust, fhe taunt, and the Insult, All the hot blood of his race, of Sir Hugh and of Thurston de Stand- lah, Moiled and hint In hla heart, nnd awclled In the veins of hla tem ples. Headlong be b-nped on the boaster, and, snatching Ms knife from Its scabbard, Flung'd It Into his heart, and, reeling buck ward, the savage Fell with his face to the sky, and a flendllke florcene.is upon It. Straight there arose from the forest the awful sound of the war whoop. And, Ilk» a Murry nt snow on the whistling wind of Iierember, Swift and sudden nnd k< »n came a Might of feathery arrows. Then came % cloud of amok«- and out of the cloud came the lightning. Out of th» lightning thunder, and d< nth unseen ran before It Frightened the invi gi- M d for shelter In aw amp nnd In thicket, Hotly pursm-d end beaut; hut their sachem, the brave Wuttawumat, Fled not; he was dead. Unswerving and swift had a bullet Passed through his brain, and he fell with both bunds clutching the greensward Re« ming In death to h< Id back from bis fi<e the land of his fathers. Aw® i 'M l "I alun» am to b'nnie,'' he muttered, j "for mine * m the folly. What hua n rounti old *o!dl»r, grown Krim and gray In the harneaa, 1'ied to the camp nnd tts way.«, to do with the wooing of tnaldena? ‘Twna hut a dream, let It paaa. -let It vantati Ilk» ao many ottu ra' What I thoiiKht »«« a flower, la only a we»d, and la worthleaa; Plunged It Into Hit Heart. Out of my heart will 1 pluck It. and throw It away, and henceforward laying, with bltti r expression and i Smiling, at length he exclaimed to the lie hut a flnhter of hattloa, a lover ami stalwart Captain of Plymouth: look of slnlater meaning: wooer erf danger«!" I have another at home, with the "Peckauot bragged very loud, of hla Thua he revolved In hla mind hla courage, hla strength and hla fare of a man on the handle; aorry defeat and dlarnrnfort. stature,— ly and hy they shall marry; and While he waa niarchlna by day or ly there will be plenty of children!” Mix-ked the great Captain, and calk'd ing at night In the forçat. him a little man; but 1 ste now I.(Miking up nt the tnea. and the con- Then stood I’ecksuot forth. self- Hlg enough have you been to lay him atellatlona beyond thorn. speechless before you!" vaunting. Inaultlng Miles Stand- lah; After a three daya' ninrrh ho came Vhlle with his fingers ho patted the Thua the first battle waa fought to an Indian eticanipnu nt and won by the stalwart Miles knife that hung at hla bosom, I’ltched on the edge of a meadow, be (rawing It half from lu sheiA , and Blandish. tween tho ai-a nnd the foreat; were plunging It back, as he muttered: When the tidings thereof Women nt work by the tenta, and tho brought to the village of Ply Hy and by It shall see; It shall eat; ward ora. horrid with war paint. mouth, ah, ah! hut shad speak not! Rented about a lire, and auioklng and And as a trophy of war the head of fbta la the mighty Captalij the white talking together; the brave Wattawamat men have aent to destroy us! Who, when they aaw from afar fhe Scowled from the roof of the fort, ie la a little man; let him go and auddon upproarh of tho white which at once was a church and a work with the women!" fortress, nieu, All who beheld It rejoiced, and Meanwhile Stnndlah had noted the praised the lx>rd, and took cour faces and figures of Indiana age. ’eeptng and creeping about from Only ITiscllla averted her face from bush to troe In the forest. this specter of terror, i*elgn!ng to look for game, with ar Thanking God In her heart that she rows set on their bow-strings, had not married Miles Blandish; »rawing about him still closer and Shrinking, fearing almost, lest, com closer the net of their ambush, ing home from his battles. lut undaunted he stood, and tllHsem- He should lay claim to her hand, as bled and treated them smoothly; the prize and reward of hla valor. to the old chronicles say, that were (TO BE CONTINUED.) * ^ É BIGGEST CITIES Forth He Sprang at a Bound. Saw the flaah of the eun on breaat- plate and aaher and muaket, Straightway leaped to tholr feet, and two, from among them advancing. Came to parley with Stnndlah, and offer him fura na a present; Frlendahlp waa In their looka, but In their hearta there waa hatred. Braves of the tribe were theee, and brothera gigantic In etature, Huge aa Goliath of (lath, or the ter- rlblo Og. king of ItnahAn; One waa Peckeuot named, and tno other waa called Wnttawanmt. Hound their necka were suspended their knlvea In scnblmrds of wam pum, Two-edged, trenchant knlvea, with point« as sharp its n needle. Other firms had they none, for they Wore cunning and crafty. Jinks Oot hla Letter* Mixed and Em ploy *r Receives Scrawl He In tended for a Friend. Tho following amualng Incident showing the result of absence of mind when writing letters Is quoted hy a Hlrmlnghnni paper The culprit. Jinks, received one day two loiters hy Mrst post. Ono was from hla friend. Jack Smith, asking him to p'ay In a football match; the other was an Invitation from Ills em ployer, whose name was also Smith, to spend the day at hla home Now. Jinks had long admired from afar his employer's only daughter, and this Invitation was moat accept able to Mm. lie promptly sat down arid wrote a brief note of acceptance on nn elaborate sheet of note paper, while to hla other friend he sent a scrawl acroaa an odd half sheet. The next morning Jinks was sur prised to see Jack Smith hurst Into his room exclaiming. "Why, aren't you ready?” "Heady? I wrote you 1 couldn’t play ” "Nonsense! Ton wrote me a cour teous note accepting my Invitation. I took your exceaa polltenesa aa a Joke " "Then the guv'nor got the scrawl In tended for you!” Jink» gasped. "What did yon say, old man?" "Dear Smith: Hata! I've something There on the flowers of the meadow the warriors lay, nnd above them. Letter on!" Slb-nt, with folded arms, stood Hobo- Two of a Kind. niok, frb-nd of the white ymn. "! find that ray husband haa been having the office boy call me up every -.T*?» rm day and mumble terma of endearment That's a nice way to fool hla wile. ‘ v t < He'a tsen going to the hall game." "How Is It that you didn't catch on t - rfj to the voice?" "Well. I'm busy at bridge every day, snd I've l een having the cook answer the telephone."’ - armor! HE DECLINED AN INVITATION OF WORLD WILD SCRAMBLE OF WOMEN >ndon Still Far In Lead, but New York la Growing Faster Than Anv Other. London Paper Telle of Scene In Cloak room After the Racing at Ascot. London, the largest city In the world, hns a population, aa now off! dally announced, of 7,252,963, as ngnlnst 6,6X1.402 In 1901—an Increase In ten yenrs of 671,561, or only 10.2 per cent. The population of New York la 4.766.XX3, and with a gain In the ten years of 38.7 per cent., la growing faster than any other great city In the world. At the rate at which the two largest cities are growing It will Inke a long time for New York to catch up with London; but It would be n great misfortune If It ever (lid catch up—tlu-rj la loo much congestion In New York already. Tho third city In six» 1s Park, whose population Is prob ably 3,000,000. The fourth city la per haps Merlin, which had a little over 2,000,000 five yenrs ago. Tokyo and Chicago fall a little under the 2,500,' 000 mark, and at. Petersburg, Vienna, Canton, Peking, Moscow and Philadel phia are below 2.000.000.—Rochester Post-Express At the eftd 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 circuited that the thief who stole the gold cup four yenrs ago had been busy In the cloakroom and all the women rushed to find for them selves If the dreadful thing were true. There haa 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 clonkroom being stormed by the angry owners of the precious wraps that they sent for the police. When the constables came several ladles fled tgnomlnously without their things The police ultimately straightened out the tangle and the honor of Ascot was saved. Th* cause of the commotion Is said to have been the action of some women who left early and put everything In confusion In the search for their cloaks.—London Express. Clothes snd the Men. "The better a person Is dressed the less money he has as s rule." Thus Leaving a Plano Open, Judge Parry, whose experience In the ft la best to close the piano as soon county court certainly gives him a right to speak on the subject—Lon as you have finished playing, both on account of the dust and the variations don Telegraph. of the ntmosphere. The keyboard should be kept scrupulously clean. Women In Business World. Women nre now engaged In all but Alcohol or diluted ammonia may be two of the 303 gainful occupations of used for this purpose with advan tage. the men of (his country m Z/f A tL/óO /A f A PLATA, tranquil, dignified and | earliest prehistoric period. This re academic. Is one of the young construction of man’s history is artis est c-ltles of America, with a tically exhibited In the large paint- university that, like the city of 1 ingB In the lower portion of the ro liuenos Aires, has. from an in tunda. In which one sees archaic lands, ant, suddenly become a giant. Found i scenes frdm Terre del Fuego and Pata ed In lk82 hy Dr. Dardo Kocha. the gonia. as well as of other portions of ca; Ital of the province of Huenos the republic, and restorations of abo Aires has grown to he one of the most riginal and savage life. Important centers ol population of the As regards man. you have every op republic, not commercially. It la true, portunity to study him well and thor but scientifically. 1 say scientifically, oughly, from his skeleton to his modes lor that which makes La Plata what and habits of life. A section of the It Is to us foreigners, at least. Is not . science of man Is devoted to anatomi Its halls of government, but Its uni- j cal anthropology. The museum began verslty. There are many capitals In with a collection of 1,000 skulls and 80 \rgentlna; hut there is only one La skeletons, of which nine-tenths be Plata. Its population has Increased | longed to South America. They repre phenomenally, like that of Huenos sent man from the glacial period Aires; for It ts now not far from 100,- down to the most recent Indian. It is 000, In spite of financial reverses quite probable that man. at various which lfTthe past befell IL Its sumpt epochs, found himself driven by force uous buildings, wide streets, splendid of circumstances to the extreme south, avenues and beautiful promenades, and it thus happens that one finds in render this fairy city on the Rio de Argentina the remains of the gigantic la Plata one of the finest products of Patagonian, such as excited the admi modern renaissance architecture. ration of Magelhaens, as well as types The university ts younger than the j said to be similar to that of Neander city, for La Plata had existed 23 years, thal. For Patagonian anthropology the when the former was established on museum of La Plata cannot be sur August 12. 1905. Dr. Manuel Quintana passed. being then president of Argentina. Another branch of anthropology of It Is Increilble that within five years which the museum makes a specialty such a magnificent Institution, with Is that of the history of civilization. such a wonderful group of buildings You will find here implements of the should have arisen. stone age, from Uruguay, from the One of the finest ornaments and provinces of Cordoba and Buenos most useful auxiliaries of the univer Aires, and from Patagonia, that are sity is the museum. What It took the quite unique, besides a section devoted older nations of the world scores of to the prehistoric man of Europe for years to accomplish has arisen In La comparative study. you sorry you ate so much roast beef? Plata as If by magic. The museum be These remains of human industry Tommy—Yes'm; cause I ain't got longs to the faculty of Natural Sci appear to carry one back to a very any room left for another plate of Ice ences. to which are Joined the schools remote antiquity. For instance, at ex cream. of chemistry, pharmacy, geography, cavations made for the port of La and the Academy of Drawing. Plata bones of extinct animals were Rectifying an Error. The old muaeuni of Buenos Aires found that appeared to have been Uncle Joe Cannon, at a dinner fn had been founded in 1823 by Preaident carved by man. at an epoch when the Washington, said of speakers' errors: | Rlvadavla, reaching a point of great region must have been entirely differ “All speakers make queer errors Importance under the direction of Dr. ent from what It now Is, and at Rioja now and then. Usually, though, they I German Burmeister. As it was found fragments of pottery were discovered correct them with address. Impossible to transport to La Plata the "Once. In the Illinois legislature, paleontological collection of this mu at a depth of more than sixty meters. When It comes to determining the an there were two men. Montague Harri seum. the province ceded It to the tiquity of man. the scientific value of son and Harrison Montague. The first j nation, to serve as the basis of a fed- was very short, the second very tall; | eral museum. On the other band, the such discoveries may be left to ex but the speaker, during a debate, once archaeological and anthropological col perts who, as a rule, are by no means harmonious In their conclusions, but addressed the former as the latter. lections were brought over to the new “He recovered himself, however, capital, as the beginning of the muse further and more positive data must be awaited. quickly. He said, with a chuckle; um of the province. Neither has the moment arrived " ‘It Is strange that 1 should take In 1^84 Doctor Moreno was chosen when certain conclusions as to the Harrison Montague for Montague Har by the governor of the province. Dr. rison—that I should make such a mis Carlos d'Amico. to establish a provin prehistoric relations between the east take as that—for there ts as great dif cial museum and fo be its director. In ern and western hemispheres can be ference between you two gentlemen consequence of this, he at once do reached by a comparative study either as there Is between a bo/se chestnut nated his private library of 2,000 vol of skulls or monuments. Yet muse ums like that at La Plata are accumu and a chestnut horse.’ ” umes. mainly of American authors and lating material that may pave th* on natural sciences, to the new insti way for such conclusions by lta col He Understood. tution. It will thus be seen that the When the Ice man came out of No. museum antedates the university. The lection of American antiquities with 3? be found a small boy sitting on one building was at once begun, and wrlth- resemblance to those of peoples across the seas. of his blocks of Ice. tn five years It was possible to Install The museum is also rich in material " 'E ere!" he roared. "Whot are yer the first collections. for the study of the prehistoric civil a slttln' on that for? Olt oft of It!" The museum building, occuylng the The small boy raised a tear-stained center of a park, is approached ization of the Andes, which stretched countenance. "Was yer ever a boy?" through a stately avenue lined on both down along the eastern slopes of the great chain Into what is now the prov he queried, faintly. sides with shady trees, forming a moat "Of course 1 was!" fumed the man. agreeable promenade. The edifice, in ince of Mendoza and JuJuy, in the Ar gentine republic. "Hut—" classic style, terminates at both ex For the study of the pre-Inca civili "And did you never play truantT” tremities In a semi-circle, the whole zation of Peru, a very large collection cut In the youngster. having an elliptic figure. The central “Of course I did!" snarled the Ice I facade consists of a Corinthian portl- of pottery from the dead city of Gran Chlmu, near Tnijtllo, may serve to man. "New, then, you—" I co. w lu six Immense columns resting "An' •»«•hen you got home did yer on a platform, to which a flight of cast some uncertain rays upon the dark period that preceded the arrival father never take a stick an'—" steps leads. The decorations, without A lump rose slowly In the Ice man's departing from the Greek lines, pos of the Incas, the period to which such ruins as those of Chlmu. Pachacamac throat sess special features borrowed from and Cajamarqullla belong. "Sit where ye are. my little man!" archaic American architecture. The Bringing the study of civilisation he gulped. "I understand!" great votaries of science, Arts- down to the colonial epoch, we find totle. Lucretius, Descartes, Buffon. at La Plata a very Interesting collec Real Thing Wanted. Llnaeus. Cuvier, Humboldt and many "I want to talk to the office boy | more are represented by their busts. tion, gathered from those Argentine about that ball game yesterday,” de | w hile such American savants and ex- provinces, and from Paraguay, which were the scenes of the famous Jesuit clared the Junior partner. plorers as Axara. d'Orblgny. Bompland missions that lasted to the end of the “You read the accounts of the and others are not forgotten. eighteenth century. game." said the senior partner. There are two floors tn the building, The museum of La Plata is constant "Thnt was the way the umpire saw the first one being entirely devoted ly increasing In Importance, promising IL I want to bear about the game to the museum, while on the second. In course of time to become one of tho as It really happened.” In the center of the edifice, are the ad most important in the new world. ministration offices, with the library Buenos Aires is now in direct com Co-Operative Economy. on one side and the section of fine munication with the principal ports The Wife—After all, Adolphua, this arts on the other, besides other de visit Isn't going to be so expensive partments. I had the pleasure of vis of Europe and with New York, and as facilities of communication are aug With the half-dozen dresses I simply iting the museum some months ago. had to get, and your clothes cleaned and the Americanists spent a pleas mented. aa they are bound to be, the museum of La Plata, with Its scien and pressed, we ll manage speldldiy. ant day at l .a Plata, as the guests or tific treasures of South America, will —Pathfinder. the university. become more accessible to scholar* The great Intrinsic value of the mu from all parts of the globe, to their The Spirit That Wine seum of La Plats Is essentially South great advantage and to the glory of Griggs—I admire Parker Immense American, by the material It haa col Argentina. ly. He has a hard time making both lected for the study of the fauna and ends meet, but he’s game from the flora, fossil, as well as actual, of the word "Go.” Comforting Distraction. austral regions of the western hemls- Briggs—Game! Why, Parker looks "Why do you Insist on going about ' phe e, but especially for the oppor upon the struggle with the wolf as a tunities It offers to make a thorough looking for somebody to reform?” "It mere sporting event ■*udy of the American man, from the help« mu to forget my own vices.” L