Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-01-02
The TamIeg ef TarIas.
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Is one Of unusual interest.
lnthe forties burly strong, good look
ing Kentuckian went to the MissOul
frontier, and stopping one afternoon q
the house Of French Canadian name
Beauvais met by chance the handsom
daughter of French and Indian parents
Accepting the free hospitality of tn
border, he went with her TO cOuntr
dance that evening, and Tarias, VIII
had scorned all the frontiersmen VIII
sued her before and had persistentiy re
fused to dance with them, surprised tn
party by going into the festivities will
her new friend, Dave Pope, the Ken
tuckian. Seeing their opportunity 70
avenging themselves of her previou
hauteur the disgruntled suitors mad
use Of an intoxicated squire to perpe
trate cruel practical joke.
Suddenly the new friends, beinI
jostled through the crowd, found them
selves In front of the squire, who de
manded of them whether they likeC
each other.
Flushed with surprise and embarrass
ment, but too proud to dissemble, they
did not deny a liking for each other
Without further parley the idiOtiC
squire pronounced them man and wife
Dave earnestly offered to make it real
but the girl, who was overcome will
the thought ofbeing won without being
wooed, though not at heart unwilling
fell fainting in her brothers. arms, and
on reviving fled home in fit of des.
peration. The rest of the story is as fol.
lows: -8H Eae
In vain Dave alternately prayed and
stormed without; in vain the Beauvais,
father and son, coaxed and threatened;
in vain Jincy wept and entreated. She
would come forth for none of them, and
as her friend despairiDgly said: "They's
no way ter git at Ter, Dave, unless we
smoke Ter out. O'course that old Mig
ger o. hern feeds Ter at night.
why warn't the house built all in q
piece" growled Dave, '' stead of a
cabins a-tettin together like q wasps'
nest? Ell she'd see US we could talk
some sense inter her head. You can
argify man through a chink in the
wall, but you're boun'ter look q woman
in the eyeW ts fe,.s.t z4e.s.-
"Vraiment! yes, yesv' assented the
parent. "Uue what you call woman
not at all like man! Eff she wish, she
10; ef she wish not, she do not! AS
'dders, as Tarias, yes, yes!"
In truth, the Beauvajs were sorelv
1exed at their Tarias. Every woman,
hey argued, should marry. Here was
[arias almosttwenty--an advanced age
or maiden in land where women
we're scarce and gay young bachelors
sold maid" was on
he frontier aterm of deepest oppro-
'rium. Here wa 50 man, frank, friend
and handsome, and, as Ole Man
King assured them, well off in this
worlds goods. He was willing to turn
he joke on the jokers and take her
so much as hint about dow
y. Truly, he was noble parti; why !
ouldn't she listen to reason, come forth |
rom her self-sought prison aud stop
be chatting that sooner or later was |
Kelly to be answered by a thrust from
'ave's or Louis's bowieknife.
AS for Tarias, she ragged and wept |
nd prayed, unheeding the world out
de her citadel. .all her strength given
fighting desperately a foe within
nat .
Something wild within her breast
'hich ever since that day in Paradise
hen Eve first looked into Adams
yes and called him "Lord,n has at
'me time in her life taught every wo-
ian, gentle or simple, weak or strong,
lat though she may be hailed queen,
Glow her crown beats the heart of
ave waiting to be thrown at the feet
her king. Won and never wooed!l
oor Tarais Even her harp, always
efore her consolation, stood, voiceIess
I'd unstrung. "Oh, Mother Mary
erge celeste, help, heip!n she en-
eated, by the passion, the thorns, the
oss, the nails, intercede for me, most
oly mother! for me, most miserable of
)Ir childrenm
Her prayer had partial answer, she
fought, when her father and brother
ent oft with the Indians across the
ver on grand hunt. That he left her
ee to roam the fields and woods near
Dme. One day she came suddenly
pom Dave.
"Not gone ?n she faltered.
mo-" he answered, gloomily. "pH
ot be laughed out of a settlemint an,
ave the story foller me wheresumever
go. That thar is my cabin, yander. /
har stay a-waitin' fur my wife. WHY
on't you act sensible, Tarias.n he
leried anxiOusly, 'an' stop the fools
ON laughin'?" I
Poor Dave! With the proverbial OBJ
lseness of his sex, he failed to make
le right appeal. As he stood there,
lger-eyed, blushing, anxious as much
/ love as a less impetuous man would I
ave been after twelve months ac-
why could he not say from
le depths of his heart, II love you,"
lstead of, in effect, "Help me, in this
reat crisis of your w0man's life, to get /
ne better of a rabble bent on holding
le UP to ridicule." |
"Let them laugh W she cried, passion
tely. "If you will not be laughed out
the settlement, why should be
Iughed into the cabin of a man who
'ould not know my face If he met me
l the big road? Begone from me.
Dave had taken a step toward her,
18th his arms outstretched. She
truck at him with her clenched hand,
,rgetting in her terror of his embrace,
nat in 1t was strong little knife, with |
vhich she had been digging calamus
oots. AS he had bent his head to look |
nto her beautiful eyes, hoping to see |
ONE womanly relenting there, the
low descended the knife cutting an
gly cash in his cheek.
"Efyou air a woman you air q new
ind" he exclaimed, pressing his hand |
o his cheek for second, then fiinging
he blood from his finger tips. mo,
10! don't you stoach 1t Maybe that
lan'ker0hiefis pizOned. Anyhow gum