The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-07-21

found himself millionaire. Then y
returned to the United States and we'd
ded the maiden, who had waited for
him. Then, alas. through the under
mining of his constitution while work
ing for his sweetheart. he died just
after the gates of earthly bliss had
opened to him. 1t is a pretty story, but
not all the story. The rest of it is that
while the man was making his fortune
on the Yukon he had an Indian wife, a
creature so gentle and devoted that she
won the respect even of the white min
ers in the Klondike gold country, men
whose scorn of a comrade that takes an
Indian wife is unutterable. When these
heard that the millionaire was on his
way back to the old haunts after mar
rying the sweetheart of his youth. they
made threats that they would deal
roughly with him. He had simply gone
away and left the native wife-deserted
her. The threats of violence were never
executed. but prophecies were freely
cast upon the air that no good would
come to the man. No good did come to
him. He lost much of the wealth be
had acquired, and then ne died.
There is a whole row of rich men In
the far northwest who have married
wild native women, and not one know
of gets any satisfaction out of his life
for all his wealth. An evil fate hangs
over them all. Serves them right for
marrying into an inferior race, the
world says. Perhaps it does, but their
punishment is heavy.
There was one among the first gold
discoveries at Dawson. He lived with
the EskimOs. and two brown skinned
Indian brothers-in-law helped him win
his wealth and shared it. He took the
children to the States to be educated.
| saw the whole batch of them as they
were starting for San Francisco, the
low brOwed. shrinking Indian wife try
ing to look like a white woman and
failing miserably, the wild little half
breed children lodging hither and
thither, the man standing by them like
man. but looking worried and asham-
ed, not chum or a friend among white
men who knew him. He said he would
put his children to school, then he
would return to Dawson and live with
his brown wife's people. Il know" he
said. that she would never be received
in society in the States"
''If that fellow with the Injin wife
comes in here on the trip down." said
the sturdy engineer, TN turn the hot
water on him."
There, too. was that white man at the
Yukon trading post who had an Eskimo
wife. The wife wore rich silks, but she
was a drunkard and carried on wild
orgies with her Indian mates. The hus-
bands financial interests lay about the +!
post. so that he could neither run away |
from his wife nor his business. There F.
he staid. there he stays, transformed !
into man Of fierce temper. soured to !
all races and. like others who have !
done as he>did, despised by his fellow !
white men. | know not what it is, but !!
there is something implanted by nature /
In the soul Of white person that re-
volts against "herding with narrow !
foreheads." 1t must be natures safe |
Sudru Tor the preservation or the SUI /
perior race.
There is yet another case. to my mind
the most melancholy of all. At another
trading post is a white man Of the high
est education and culture. In fit of ,
desperate pique against society one day
he ran away to the northwest. While I
the fit was on he took an Eskimo wife,
Perhaps he thought to revenge himself
on society, when. poor wretch, he was
only revenging society on himself. He
behaves himself as a gentleman, he has
manners that would grace any court.
he has the singing voice Of an angel,
be has ample means, but-he has also
the Indian wife and the half breed chill
1ren. He can never return to his own.
ROBERT LYON.