Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-07-28

fog-oels and roghorns OF the coast with the blars
and nare OF their rival entertainments. And one
that our domain Is vast and that after all. these
fester-spots OF unreal and untrue American lie
are 50 infnitesimslly Insignificant and little.
OLD cAsrINk
But where could there be sweeter, quaipter place
than old Castine, which you come upon In your
lazy half-days cat-boat sail up the Penooscot
from the soiled splendors OF Bar Harbor and Nj.
Desert? The trip up the bay Is a continuous pic
Pond. Colts Head. Mark, Thumpcap, spectacle,
Beech, Great aud Lite Spruce Head. islands with
their pretty settlements, their dainty villages
WOO 10 revery and rest. But Castine ITSELF not yet
much dehled by the brazen hand OF summer-resort
gain. rests behind It's shores homely and demurely
In It's own winsome beauty and boundless back
ground OF romance and history. Here the famous
Plymouth colony had trading house as early as
1925 Here the redoubtable dAulnay located him.
self in 1640, defying the combined powers or the
English colonies From this point for q CEN
tury, inspired at Quebec, were set In mo
ton the great movements against the English by
the swarthy hordes OF Tarantines and their French
allies And ruins OF most ancient forts are here,
within and without whose ramparts are my rads
OF Infinitely greater tragedies than the death OF
that shining martyr TO wiIely loyalty, the grandy
brave and beautiful Madame La uour, nave sn oeen
with shipped" roofs and great gaoled windows. It's
antiquated streets and queer Old shops It's We attn
fashioned porches and brass door-knockers, las
ruined wharveS and prim od churches, It's lanes
thyme-laden and tremulous with songs OF oirds
its SAVIOR OF all things winsome ashore and flavor
OF all the magic OF the sea, woul1 make the en-
chanting spell complete. But here lived the most
remarkable man OF the day and lime.
THE BARON DE ST. CAsTISK.
Born under the shadow OF the Pyrenees. a man OF
sensitive and knghtly spirit. hero In the wars OF
Louis XIV. he unaccountably chose the life OF a
recluse among the Abenakis, powerful tribe OF
the Tarantines, whose villages and counsel
grounds lay along the Penobscot, and 50 won their
"they looked upon him as their tutelar God" He
married among them, after their fashion. beau
thu Indian princess, daughter OF chief Maddox
wando In time he became their king and leader,
and his power and sway were eQualled b. no
other living man In America during the six
teenth century. He worked himself into
such fortune" says the old chronicler,
(which any man but he would have made use OF TO
draw out OF the country two or three hundred
in good dry gold" And SO In many wondrous
ways one finds how this good baron lived, loved
and ruled. The encouragement OF Canada must
England "was AFRAID OF him. His constancy TO his
Indian Wife in those days OF brutal Purtanic con-
tempt for sacredness OF lives or persons OF Indian
Though every hutter OF the wind-whipped trees was
shuddertng, "Castine!-and his Indiansi" 10 the
Englsn settlers, no captive returned TO his people
The little surely recorded and the numberless
legends lingering here shame history In Its lack
OF tribute TO The one grand rgure that ever
trod our soil whose life among, or dealings with,
tine American Indian, was luminous with gran
deur OF upright lie and character. The English
were his foes He fought them with savage
leroclty. But his life among these simple children
OF nature was poem or purity and NOBILITY.
Go where you Will about the dreamrul spot
which bears his name, the memory OF that spot
less LIE in the dim old savage days, seems TO
muir from brook, pipe In song OF bird, call Ier-
vently IN soughing OF spruce and pine, shine in
sun sun ana air and flower and beat trumpet-cals 10
OF Tie ~ thnlc sea. EDGAR L. WAKENAN.