The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-11-24
TTo BE coNTINuED.Y
BURIAL OF THE HATCHET.
How a WOmnn's Sacrifice Healed
q Bitter Feud Among OsnEe
Indians,

If the end of the family feud between
the Williamses and the Harlows of the
Usage Indian nation now seems in
sight, it is because a woman's sacrifice
has made that vision possible. For ten
years and more they have shot and
killed without any cause other than that
Williams woman eloped with a Har-
low.
The feud ended in strange manner.
Jack Harlow's wife ran off with James
Williams and the enraged husband
killed Williams. Then over his grave
20 members of the two families met and
vowed to shoot each other no more. The
officers of the Usage nation are so well
pleased that they presented each of the
families with gold medal for daring
and bravery. 1t is to the credit of Har-
lows wife that the feud was thus end
ed. She planned the scheme all by her
self and it worked out exactly.
Mary Harlow is very pretty woman
for person who has had to work all of
her 80 years of life. When she went to
town she improved the opportunity to
buy herself new clothes of the latest
pattern and she was considered very at
tractive by the mountaineers where she
lived. Jim Williams was very much in
love with the Harlow woman, but he
was afraid of her husband, who had not
long ago killed his brother as a conse-
quence of the feud. Mrs. Harlow al
lowed Jim to see her often in the woods
near her home, and when he proposed
that they elope she readily consented.
Sh wrote her husband what they had
done, and told him they could be found
at certain place in the woods, where
Williams had ranch.
Jack Harlow went there and found
his wife alone. He threatened to kill
her, but she got the drop on him and or
dered him to leave. Then as he was go
ing she told him that Jim would be
home in short time and that he was
coming along certain path. This was
strange proceeding for her, but it was
all in the scheme she had arranged.
Harlow ambushed his wife's COM
panion and killed him. Then he went
back to the house, told Mary what he
had done, and asked her to go back
home with him. She readily consented.
The next day the news spread that
another killing had occurred between
the two families, and that Mary Harlow.
the cause of it all, had issued invitations
for the members of the feud to be pres
ent at Jim's grave and she would tell
them why she had done it. They came
sturdy pioneers, all armed with pis-
tolls and guns-and stood over the grave
until the dead man had been lowered
into it. Then the woman stepped for
ward and in calm voice told them a
story which brought tears to the eyes
of many of them.
She said that the trouble between the
two families had been going on for ten
years and over 40 persons had been
killed by the two families bullets. 1t
was all commenced because Williams
girl had once eloped with Harlow. TO
equalize things she had eloped with a
Williams, and then her husband had
killed the man, just as a Williams had
killed Harlow ten years ago. On either
side, she said, about 90 had been killed,
and now that the two families were
even she believed they should quit and
make up.
There was little eloquence in her
voice. but it touched the crowd. They
looked across the grave at each other,
and the leaders dropped their guns to
the ground and strobe forward to
shake hands. All followed, and now the
feud is no more.-Chicago Chronicle.