The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-02

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win o. Hall. who is about to enter hi
| go to visit Mrs. Van Cleve. Mrs. Va
about twenty years ago and will be re
! story from the Ladies' Home journal i
A little over eighty years ago a de-
tachment of. United States troops. wea-
ry with long voyaging, for they
had been months on their way by lake
and river from the distant East. en-
| tered Fort Crawford, a military out
post of the continent far beyond the
scant fringe of frontier civilization;
though it was only as far west. as the
present city of Prairie du Chen, in
the State of Wisconsin. The destina-
ton of the troops was a point still sew
lerai hundred miles to the north, where,
at the junction of the Mississippi and
st. Peter rivers, they had been order
ed to establish a fort, since famous
among military posts as Fort Smelling.
| One of the officers of the command
was Lieutenant Nathan Clark of the
Fifth Infantry. Accompanying him
was his young wife She had refused
to remain in their snug New England
home, being both willing and glad to
face the privations and the dangers of
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the side of her husband. But an hour
after they reached Fort Crawford, on
the morning of the 1st day of July.
| 1873. little child wa born II them
the first white child to be born in all
that vast region which now comprises
! the great Northwestern portion of the
United States. The parents gave to the
child the name Charlotte, but the Off
GERS of the command begged to be al
flowed to add another name, that given
by the Indians to the river which en-
tered the Mississippi hard by, Ouiscon-
sin, since changed to Wisconsin.
EARLY SCHooLED TO HARDSHIPS
/ AND DANGERS.
The little ones life seemed all but
lmiraculously spared. The mother,
stricken with fever, was unable to
care for. much less nourish, the tiny
/ babe. With many hundreds of miles
between them and food supplies, with
no medical attendance save that of the
TROOP surgeon, who was seldom fit for
duty until the soldiers had poured cold
water over him to sober him up from
his normal state of intoxication, the
conditions were far from favorable
ishould an adult fall i'll; for baby a
decd Musty flour was mixed with
sweetened water and tied in a bit OF
lcoarse cloth, rudely but tenderly fash
Toned to fit the little mouth, and this
was her only food But, strange to
say, she throve and bore the rest OF
the journey, three hundred miles by
lopen boat UP the Mississippi river as
iwell as any member of the party.
! ~ do
little one, but she overcame them all
land when months had passed, and the
stone fortress on the mighty bluff over
Hooking the Mississippi at last had been
completed, she was rapidly approaching
! girlhood. a strong and vigorous child
lkeeniy alive to the many strange fea-
lures of her Tfe. Her environment, as
she grew toward maidenhood, was
tuuite unusual Two dominant features
of this environment were always before
her. One of these was military; always
the soldiers going to and fro; always
lmuskets and drills and parades; never
tout of sight of the flag.
| Once. however, for a short time. she
was too far away to hear the call OF
1.-THE horns The savage wolves had peer
stealing her chickens. In company
with her younger brother-she herseh
Twas not in her teens-and aided by ohe
lof THE soldiers of the post, she nad SCI
a huge steel trap for the depredatofs
lon a sharp winter morning they arose
early. before their parents were awake
and slipped out to see what the tral
might hold. Unmistakable traces OF
istrueple in the snow indicated the tral
had done. its duty. Looking 1arther
they found the trail of the VOL eVi
/ IDENTIFY an enormous fellow, as he mac
dragged the heavy trap after him. Inc
THE excitement of the moment ran .o'
thigh for any such humdrum Things d
caution or foresight or thoughl
danger so cloakless and hatless III
4 two hardy youngsters. bred to expo
sure. took up the trail and started %
Ia mad chase in the starlit dawn Ia
across the wide parade ground ana "
ibevond the confines of the post, TRACK
ling the wolf with eyes keen TOT sue
pursuit.
TRAILED A TRAPPED WOLF Al
GREAT PERIL.
They had gone mile or more beyon'
1.-The limits of the fort before a pair
consciences suddenly aWoke 10 u.
fact that they were doing that Whici
they ought not to do, what even
soldier would not do, for the resiol
Was full of savages-and dead children
. M less than dead men,; tell no tales
And besides. and what probably hur
them fully as much, they were DOT
sware Of the stinging cold. So happii,
!. ,neetine an Indian boy they told mn
.bair story. and shouldered the puIue!
of tba wolf upon him. He went a Oh
, lfartbar on and. hard by beautilui ca
aract famed among the Indians an
successive in sentiment to a poet Wn
never saw 1.-THE Minnehaha OF Long
0 lfal,ow-tbe boy captured the wolf. an
the children, with the Indian lao drag
Ding the trap in which the wolf wa
stiu alive. brought their trophy M