The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-07-30
Literary.

One of the most tragic episodes in the
life of ''The First White Baby Born in the
Northwest after she had grown to girl
hood, is told by w. S. Harwood, In the
Ladies' Home Journal for August. Her
father was an army officer and the little
frontier post where he was stationed had
been established to prevent bloodshed be-
tween the Chippewas and the Sioux, and
to see Justice done between them. A
uuintette of Sioux braves had brutality
killed some of the Chippewas without
cause The commandant of the post in
vestigated the affair, demanded the guilty
Sioux, and, as there'was no question re-
garding the crime, turned them over to
the Chippewas One of the Sioux, stall
wart young fellow, was an especial favor
ite of the little girl. He was a master
hand at fashioning curious toys and many
were the treasures which he had given to
the little paleface whom he loved. So it
was with a heavy heart that she heard the
decision of the Chippewa council-the
gauntlet. Far across the flower decked
parade ground stood the line of Sioux
waiting for their comrades. Opposite
them were the Chippewas with their best
rifemen in readiness. If the prisoners
succeeded in reaching their friends they
were entitled to liberty. One by one the
Indians sprang forth, and one by one they
wereb left quivering amidst the summer
flowers. Little Six" the friend of the
girl who stood watching the strange scene
from the doorway of her fathers quarters,
was the last of the five, and the swiftest
runner of them all. There was an in
tense hope in her heart that he might be
spared, but though he withstood one vol
ley she was doomed to see her favorite
spring into the air, just as he reached the
goal, and fall dead at the feet of his
friends.
New York-our great Greater New York,
which is better known as having the most
densely populated tenement districts in
the world-can show places that are more
truly rural than any other city of modern
times, places where the town does not
succeed in obtruding itself at all. From
Hampstead Heath, green and delightful
as it is every now and then, the gilded
cross of ST. Paul's may be seen cleaning
far below through the trees. And in Chi
cago, bucolic as certain sections of it may
be, one can spy the towers of the city
from miles away, across the prairie; even
when down in certain wild murderous
looking ravines there is ever on high the
out in the broad rolling farm lands of
Long Island, you can walk on for hours
and not find any sign of the city you are
in, except the enormous tax rate, which,
by the way, has the effect of discour aging
the farmers (many of whom did not want
to become city people at alp from spend
ing money for paint and Improvements,
and this only results in making the
country look more primitive, and less like
what is absurdly called city.-From
Rural New York City," by Jesse Lynch
in August (Fiction Number)
Scribner's.
When the Cosmopolitan, in its Apri
number, published an essay, at once
clever and philosophic, on "The Ideal
Wife, demand was created for paper
on 1.-THE Ideal Husband by the same au-
Hart. The August Cosmo-
politan contains an essay on this subject
on which few people agree-which is GER
tain not only to prove widely interesting,
but to cause lively discussion. In the
same number Mrs Van Rensselaer, Cruger
Julien Gordon) tells the story of the life
of the French wife with all its tragic
narrowness. The woman
of small capacity puts up with, and, per-
haps, does much toward maintaining pre-
sent conditions" says the author, ''but
there are women of brains who die at an
early age of no disease known to doctors
but simply from utter WEAKNESS" The
Cosmopolitan for August reveals the late
Grant Allen in new light-that of a keen
and clever satirist of modern society, not
only in England, but in the world at
large The Cosmopolitan, Immediately on
his death, secured from his son all his
papers, and the clever allegory-' The
Temple of Fate'-in the August number,
IS one of those selected. Like "The
British Aristocracy" in the April Cosmo-
politan, the present article impresses it
self on the reader with direct fearless
ness which is a new quality in the authors
work If it is true that all the world
owes loyer, then Edgar Saltuss clever
story of the princes who
nave relinquished thrones, position,
marry the women
hey loved, should indeed be popular.