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1 3ie Courtship
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With Illustrations
by-
Howard Chandler Christy
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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
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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.)
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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
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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.”
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