The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-05-17
AN UNEXPECTED MEETING.
How an Indian Brave Completely Nc
plused Yale Professor.

; How an Indian Brave Completely Nom
plused Yale Professor.
Professor Marsh's Investigations of
Sxtinot animals were conducted year aft
er year in sectians of the far west which
had not been explored by white men.
He had many adventures while he was
discovering his 900 species of fossil ver-
tebrates, but perhaps the most interest
ing was an encounter with an Indian
warrior in the Bad Lands.
The professor, while searching one
day for his gigantic six horned man.
mails, oretaceous birds and precious pier
odactyls, was separated from the other
members of the expedition. He was so
busily intent upon his scientific occupa-
ton that he did not hear the stealthy
approach of solitary horseman. It was
an Indian buck on the warpath in full
paint and feather.
The professor is man of high cour-
age, but he inyoluntarily found himself
yearning for the quiet and security Of
his college classroom at Yale when he
was suddenly confronted by this star
Ting apparition His companions were
not within call. He WIS completely ct
the mercy Of the savage.
The Indian ccolly dismounted from
his pony, and stood mot;onless before
hiIn, resplsldent liz paint and with
pluues waving. Erect, sinewy and Dig
1ifed, he Mas a splendid specimen of a
fighting buci. 1t was the most uncom-
Portable moment which the professor
had ever known
'Eow?" said the professor timorous-
y Mhenlthe silence had become intol-
cradle.
"Is this Professor, Eiarsh?" asked the
Indian in clear cut English.
Yes, = answered the professor, COM
pletely taken aback by the unexpected
identification.
"'Of Yale collego?'' Continued the In
dian briskly.
'sFhe same, confessed the professor.
How is Professor Hatlley?" asked
the Indian without q ,nomenr's delay.
The naturalist was almost speech
less. TO be suddenly interrupted in his
scientific labors by buck in warpaint
and feathers was sufficiently startling
TO hare the warrior. in place Of scalp
ing him. caA him by name and then
ask sytnp.tIotically for college asso-
eiate scored nothing less than mir
acle. To professor was fairly petrified
with astonishnaent
But il was a miracle that was easily
explained. The Indien had been sent
east during boyhood to be educated and
>had been befriended and instructed by
Professor Hadley's father. When his
education was completed, he had parted
pleasantly from the Hadley household
and had returned to his tribe in the res
ervation.
Instead of profting by his lessons and
experiences of civilization, he had grad
TALLY been overpowered by tribal pride,
aboriginal instincts and the irresistible
destinations of wild life and warpaint.
He had disappointed the expectations of
the missionaries by reverting to savage
conditions.
Nevertheless he paid civilization the
compliment of respecting academic as
sociations. He did not scalp Professor
Marsh, but sat down on the rocks and
had pleasant chat with him. He even
! made an attempt to interest himself in
some of the bones which the naturalist
{ had exhuned. And when he remounted
& his pony he sent This kindest regards to
: the Hadleys. Youths Companion.