, 1890-09-07

ess got into the personal columns c
the papers every little while. lie had
daughter named Utsayantha, Thi9t
means "a messenger sent hastily fJ
treasure, - so | am told. or possibly. ole
Polka Dot meant 10 imply ON sent of
This idea IS ms own and possibly of lit
tie value.
Anyhow Utsayantha grew 10 be quite
comedy, as Indian wemen go. l never
saw one yet that couldn't stop an ordi
nary planet by looking at it steadily fol
two minutes. She dressed simply, wear
ing the same clothes while tooling cross
country before breakfast that she wore
at the scalp dance the evening before. In
summer time she shellAcked herself and
visited the poor. Taking a little box Of
water colors in a shawl strap, so that she
could change her clothes whenever she
felt like il, she would 20 away and be
gone for a fortnight at 4 time. Wis
iung the ultra fashionable people of her
tribe.
Finally a white man penetrated this
region. He did 1t by asking the brake
man on the West Shore road how TO get
here and then doing differently. In that
way he had no trouble at all. He saw
Utsayantha aud loved her almost instant
ly. She was shocking n muskrat at the
tune. and he could not but admire her
deftness and skill. From that moment
he could not drive her image from his
heart He sought her again and again
TO tell her of his passion but she would
jump the fence and flee like a frightened
fawn with a split stick on its tail, il such
a comparison may be permitted. AT last
he won her, aud married her quietly in
his working clothes. The nearest justice
OF the peace was then ia England. and so
rather than wait he was married
informally to Utsayantha BY repeating to
her with great solemnity the following
stanZa:
Ena mena NINA mo,
Catch a Niger by the toe,
when he holers let him go.
OUT spells out
While this had no special bearing on
the case Il aWed U~tsayantha, and she
went home very much impressed, indeed.
That fall a little russell baby came TO bless
their union. The blessing was all he had
with him when he was discovered.
Then the old chief Polka Dot arose 10
his wrath, TO which he added a pair OF
moose hide moccasins, and he upbralded
his daughter tor her course. He up5raided
her with a piazza pole from his wigwam.
He was very much agitated. So was the
pole.
Then he cursed her for being the
mother of a breed child, and stalking
ith he slew the white man by cutting open
his trunk aud disarranging his reins. He
then wiped the stab knife in his tossing
name, and grabbing his grandson by his
~swaddling clothes he hurled the surprised
LITTLE stranger into Lake Utsayantha. BY
pouring another pailful of water into the
lake the child was drowned successfully.
Then the widowed and childless Utsay-
antha came forth MS night settled down
upon the beautiful valley and the day
died peacefully on the mountain tops.
Her eyes we're rcd with weeping, and her
breath was punctuated with sobs. Put
ting on a pair Of high rubber boots she
waded out into the middle of the lake.
wnere there is quite a deep place, and
drowned herself.
This should teach us never to kill a
son -in-law without getting his wife's CON
sent.
When the old man found the body of
his daughter be was considerably mOrti-
fed. He took her to the top of the moun
tain and buried her there, and ever after
ward, il is said, whenever any spoke of
the death of his daughter and her fami-
", he would color up and change the sub
ject.
Stamford. at the base of this noun
tain. is a five hours ride from Weehaw-
ken, aud according to my notion Is the
ideal mountain resort. God has done
much for Stamford, aud DIR. Churchill
has encouraged nature in a good many
ways. II is a neat, handsome village
with just enough civilization to soothe
existence and teach us to pay for what
we get. We often find spots where
nature has broken the record in getting
together the elements OF health and
beauty, but man, poor, weak, measly
man. gets in there. and robs and holds
up and knocks down and drags out his
fellow till the angels turn away and weep
on each others shoulders. Just as the
meanest and most pestiferous flea bitten
aud soul SCARED man of the community
generally marries the most angelic girl la
the school. and uses her mostly to start a
row OF graves with, in each of which he
deposits a new and choice wife every two
or three years, so unprincipled men with
greedy ewes often flock TO the beautiful
sites for thriving towns, and there cling
upon the corporation like big red cater
pillars till one by one the fountains dry up
and the dead leaves in the parks fal
upon the moss grown and sodden path
beneath. At last. old and habby, with
nothing to feed upon but the Shiny
"reminiscences of successful obstruction.
ism and swift decay. they cling about the
cracker barrel and sour cider of the last
mercantile relic Of the place, and bras
over the grave of their persisted possible
ties, and cackle with devilish mirth ovel
the money they have saved the town
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