The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-04-20

their skill at the target, with som,
degree of success, though none o
them had exnctly struck the center
the distinguished stranger, who hat
stood with folded arms and looked
on with all the proud dignity and
gravity which monarch of the old.
en- time might be supposed to view
the deadly contests of his own fierce
gladlators, signifiod his wish to make
trial. This being readily assented
to, the noble stranger stepped for
ward, displaying his majestic form
to the best advantage, and with a
manly effect that low murmurs of
admiration involuntarily ran among
the assemblage. Conscious that
every eye was upon him, he walked
boldly forward to the usual stand of
the thrower, without the least appar-
ent trepidation, and after cody sur
veying the ground for n moment,
quietly stepped back some five or six
PAGES, as IL he disdained to be on an
equality with his predecessors even
in distance. This act alone in any
one else would have drawn forth a
shout Of applause; but In the present
instance all were too excited to let
even so much as q breath be heard.
Having fixed himself In suitable
position, the stranger drew forth h 3
bright tomahawk, and glancing at
its shining blade, poised it in his
hand a few times, much as = wood
chopper handles his AK preparatory
to striking powerful and accurate
standing erect, in the center of the
arena, alone, with his feet close to-
gether and 80 even, that two parable!
lines would have touched alike both
toes and heels. Nothing could be
finer and more commanding than
his clearly defined, symmetrical,
Fitzsimmons-like form, with its full
rounded, muscular arms and chest,
set off below with the ornamental
trapping ofa Mingo warrior. And
then his head, so erect, with its
slightly aquiline nose, expansive
nostrils, we'll turned mouth, bold,
high forhead, and dark eagle eye,
which he calmly fixed upon the OBJ
ject toward which his skill was about
to be directed, made him indeed ap-
pear something worthy of admira-
tion. as the work of the Great Un-
seen, even though he was lost to civ
ilization and Christianity.
For moment the stranger stood |
as we have described him, and then
giving loud, short whoop for Nc
Kinley. he threw himself back upon
his launches, and with Il motion like |
lightning he sent his little, old |
thomashawk about l6 miles or less |
into the next county. He didn't |
come within two miles and half of
the target, but that cut no ice with |
the stranger, who, as If satisfied with
what he had done, sprang upon his
thoroughbred, which hadn't moved |
from the place where he had left |
him, and with naughty ha, ha, ha,
galloped off down the valley. The
Indians were surprised at the mary
elous Workmanship o. the noble
stranger, but none the more than
was Lewis Wefzel, who had eagerly |
watched the proceedings from start
to finish. Sc excited did hebecome,
I'm fact, that he could not contain
himself when the stranger displayed
his remarkable skill, but gave three
cheers and n tiger, in his most robust
campaign voice, for the only man in
America who could perform such
a feat, and whom he had recognized
even with his disguise Of paint and
gaudy trappings, as the great and
only General Seth Weldy, the terror
Of the wild and grasshoppery west.
And Seth it was indeed. He had
heard OF the affair that was to come
off at Lancaster, and had ridden up
in disguise, just for the fun Of the
thing.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE TOURNAMENT AND DISCOVERY.
CO HE cheers of the old hunter
wv inspired by the marvellous ex-
hibition OF the skill of his
friend General Weldy, were heard
TO the utmost limits of the village, of
course. They might have been heard
clear to Sugar Grove, or Carol, 80 ro-
bustly were they given. The eyes OF
the savages were now all turned to-
ward Mount Pleasant and the look of
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