The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-07

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and the Arctic ocean nerth of tho Boring
strait, Captain Frim, from Portland, Me-,
was assigned 10 the waters Of tho far north.
In tho fall Of that year his ship was wreck
ed, and Tut for a tribe Of Indians along
tiiunurthern coast ho and his crew would
certainly have persisted.
Old Pon-a-tauk was tho name Of their
chief, and he had a daughter, lila HE by
name, a most beautiful and charming
creature. Captain Prim, having shared
with the chief his lodeo until the follow
ing spring, grew very fond Of Il-ia-hie, and
n-la-hio grew very fond of him. At his
request and by the consentof tho chief she
accompanied him to one Of the missions
along the southern coast, where she at
tended school. Later on she entered a con-
vent in Canada and grew to be a most &C
complished Subsequently she be-
came the wife Of Captain Prim and bore
him q SON. Their homo for q year past
had been ut Sitka. The captain, who was
now IN the employ of the government of
the United States, had gore on an oxplo-
ration OF tho interior of Alaska, and dur
ing his absence his wife made the ac-
quaintance of Baron Oranoff. The result
Of that acquaintance can best be told in
the following continuation of this story.
As Don ,a-wauk stood with his back to
tho sido Of tho hill and his face to tho sea he
did not notice tho approach of Louise. She
called him twice, bit ho did not answer.
She then hurried past tho Russian guard,
who had stood all of this time apparently
oblivious to the passing inciaents around
him, and gently laid her hand upon Dom
a-wauk's shoulder.
"Loniseln ho exclaimed in astonish-
ment.
Eyes, she replied, 81 returned this
morning. Tell me, Don-a-wauk, what
does this all mean?"
sSoli like dogs" answered he.
"Wha5 do you mean?'
aMcanl We are sold-Indians, dogs,
convicts-all sold"
"By whoin?"
"Your husband has sold this country,
and Il-la-hio has sold her people,
"II-la-hieis exclaimed Louise.
A few days later Louise and Don-a-
walk stood upon the cliff Watching the
departure OF the Russian feet. Neither of
them said a word. BY tho side of Louise
stood her boy. rhe awful suffering of tho
mother seemed to influence tho child, fer
he was weeping bitterly md clinging to
her hand. Louise had passed hat stage
where tears can relieve. They watched in
silence. The only sound that broke it was
the moaning of tho child. Presently they
saw a boat leave the side Of the Resica.
There were two sailors in it.
.What docs it mean, Den-a-wauk?"
said Louise excitedly-
"As / expected, Z replied the Indian,
"Il-la-hie has compelled them to send for
her boy"
"Don-a-wauki' cried Louise, catching
his arm with the grip of a tigress. "Do
you think it possibles"
sWhat possihIeg" he grunted.
ssThe sailors do not know her child. /
will give them mine instead.
"Yours?''
eyes; he would go with his father
cried Louise exultantly. With this sho
kneeled by tho child and spoke in tender,
re~assuring terms. She told him he was
to go with the sailors to bis father, and
she would follow. She dried the child's
tears and kissed him, again and again.
When the sailors reached the shore and ap-
preached her, sbo told them that In antici-
patton Of their coming she had brought
them the child of Il-la-hie. The unsus-
pecting sailors took the boy without. fur
ther inquiry.
Louise and Don-a-wauk stood and
watched. The sailors finally reached the
side of the Resica. She saw them taken
in, sho heard the bells, the command was
given and the ship sailed out to sea.
s'Thank Godi Thank Godn she cried.
"Thank Godi" A voice of a child was
heard, and, looking up, Louise saw tho
boy of Il-la-hie. where is my mother?"
be asked.
Louise looked down upon tho poor, de-
serted, motherless child, and with a cold
and heartless smile she replied, "Gone!'
That night the storm came, and the
wind blew. Away up ON the mountain
side the dim rays of a candle shonc through
the riffs of a cabin wall. Within sat Cap
tain Prim. He was writing to his wife,
H-la-hie. telling her of his coming home
and how happy they would be. Before he
had finished he heard the crashing of trees
above his cabin roof. He ran to the door,
but it was too late. The great landslide
of Karakk mountain was upon him. IL
crushed his cabin like an eggshell, and be-
meath the avalanche of stone the body Of
Captain Prim lay entombcd.
The winds still blew. and upon the
shores of Alaska a child cried for its moth