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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-01

He rose and approached the other,
who at once, with great awe, stretched
out his hands in an attitude of fear
and worship.
my faith" said the white lad. but
If all your tribe of whose ferocity
have been told, are so poorly nourish-
ed as you are, doubt if they can be
such deadly foes to meet"
The Iroquois listened with parted
lips, but made no reply.
you can't speak French, and
can't speak Iroquois, so / suppose it's
no use my asking if you have seen
aught of a hunters camp this way"
the other went on. Il must search
for myself, but-but-I suppose Olier
will call me a fool-but on the faith of
a gentleman, it were a sin and shame
to leave you here in so bad a case,
savage and Christless heather as you
may be-
His smile was bright: his face shone
with kindness to the young savage,
who had never seen a white man, the
stranger looked like a god.
The Indian dropped his face to the
earth and cried in his own tongue:
He has been sentl Atsans cry was
heard. It is my guardian Dixie"
The fair-haired lad looked puzzled
He took from his pouch some bread
and meat and a flask of wine.
You are weak from hunger. Take
this"
He poured wine 4nto a little horn
cup and passed the refreshments to
the Indian. who ate and drank greed
lily. Then the Frenchman took up his
gun, waved his hand and passed on
his way.
He had gone only a few yards, how
ever, before, in placing his hand on
his breast. he missed something, and
hurriedly ran back. The Indian had
disappeared; the lad looked all around
on the wet ground, but was disap-
pointed
My cross" he said. my little sill
Yer cross-that unerateful Indian has
run away with it."
The Indian boy was, indeed. max
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chimpanzees and yet Harry had
spoken the truth.
The important man did not like the.
answer, as he thought that Harry was
making fun of him, and important
people do not like jokes very much
This is no joking matter, sir" said
he. IF you don't instantly hand back
that chimpanzee I win have you ar
rested.
oh of course, I'll have to. if that's
the case, said Harry, and he whis-
tied to Jim, who came down out of
the tree. Go to the gentleman" said
Harry. and the obedient monkey went
over to the Important One, and put
ting his arm around his waist looked
up in his face with a sweet smile that
set the crowd laughing once more.
phe Important One did not like it, but
ne was not as strong as Jim and they
walked to the monkey house as affec-
tlonateiy as two school girls-only the
affection was all on one side.
Young man, If it is proved that
you let this animal out you will go to
Jail"
IF I let him out I'm willing to co.
said Harry, bursting with delight over
something.
Into the monkey house went the
Important One and the chimpanzee and
Harry and the policeman and the
crowd.
I've brought back your missing
chimpanzee," said the Important One
very pompously, addressing a police
man who stood in front of the edu-
Gated chimpanzee's cage.
The policeman looked into the cage
where the bright little beast was walk
ing up and down in his soldier clothes
and then he looked at the pompous
little man and then at Jim.
Sure, there's three chimpanzees
here and two of them is escaped, but
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BY P. T. BLACK.

''Ayeh, have mercy. Great Spirit, for
I am weak with fasting. Ny lips are
parched with calling to you. Show
me my path! Show me my life! Since
I can never be honored as u warrior.
nor caressed as successful hunter
bringing in the winter food. send me
my Dixie, my guardian, Ayeh!"
The wall resounded through the
primevaI forest.
It came from an Indian boy of four
teen years, the age at which it was
the Iroquois custom to send lads
alone for many days into the wilder
ness TO fast and pray until they should
see, in the form of some beast or dis
torted shape. the spirit who for the
rest of their lives should be to them
a guardian and worn.
The boy was shockingly thin and
emaciated. His fast had been pro-
longed for many days. He was I'M
dersized and delicate. utterly unlike
the average youth of his war-like
tribe. His face was painted a hide
Gus black, but from the deep sockets
there shone two sorrowful eyes, whose
pathetic gaze, so different from the
animal fierceness Of his knsmen's
looks, at once explained his sad cry.
They were the eyes of a poet.
"Hillo! hillo! hillo,"
There came a crashing of branches.
Out from the thicket stepped another
youth, somewhat older than the IrO-
quois, and in dress quite different. He
was fair
His yellow curls fell over his shoul-
ders. A velvet cap with a herOn's
plume topped his hair and his dress
was an improvised mingling of that
which a young courtier of the French
Kings hunt might wear, and that of
the trapper in the woods of the St
Lawrence or of Lake ChamDlain. He
bore a long musket and a hunting
knife.
The two gazed at each other and
the French youth recognized that. in
that slight boy with the sorrowful,
appealing look, he had nothing to fear.
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Picquart's hand and shoulder, the
Huguenot resumed his joureny. 1t
was an arduouS one. The untracked
wood was unknown to them, and they
had to trust alone to the shadows
thrown by the sun, and to their rec
objections of Oilers directions, to
guide them
For hours they stumbled on, and
were yet a long way off from their
place of refuge, when at last the old
Huguenot sank down.
Il must rest a while, Picquart," said
he. My stiff legs can go no further
without pause. But you are young.
Go on without me. and come back, if
heaven wills, with succor. Let me
bless you first, for it may be you will
not find me alive"
Il am no gold-haired Olier," cried
Picquart Indignantly REST If you
must, but l shall watch beside you"
The old man began to protest, to
command, and he rose again to his
feet, clutching wildly at Picquart's
hand. From the thicket there stole
noiselessly the emaciated form of At
san. His face was still blackened for
his vigil; his body was almost naked,
and he looked sufficiently savage in
deed to warrant the fear of the wan
derers.
Picquart grasped his knife. but at
once released it, for the boys eyes
were full of sympathy and tremulous
joy. In his hand he held up the sign
of his imagined Dixie, and cast himself
at Picduart's feet.
MY cross, my mothers cross" cried
Picquart, and would have seized it,
but Alison pressed it to him with pas
siOnate appeal.
He is the first" said the old man.
His brother heathens will be close be-
hind. Picquart, my son, it is the will
of heaven"
But Picquart was not listening. His
attention was all given to the boy, who
Vas gesticulating eagerly. Lying in
the woods he had bethought him OF
what action his tribe would take, now
that they knew white men were in
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/ ing the best Of his way TO the nearest
! village of his tribe. the Mohawks of
! the Iroquois confederation. He stag
( geTed and stumbled as he ran. for he
/ was still weak, hut he rcjoiCed that the
/ Great Spirit had heard his appeal and
given him an Dixie.
As visible sign that he had met his
| life friend. he bore in his hand the
silver cross which the gold-haircd lad
had dropped.
The medicine men could interpret the
mystic symbol Each Indian bore IN
little skin his own individual Oke's
sign-H feather of an eagle. denotins
that he was for life "a warrior. the fur
of a wolf. as "A hunter, and so on.
The weakly half crazed, visionary
boy rejOiCed as he ran and cried aloud
in his gladness.
His arrival i'm the village was greet
ed with contemgtuous shouts. The
boys father was the last to greet him.
and he ashamed of his weakly son, was
more ironical than any other.
What did you see in the forest, At
SAM" he asked. What did the Great
Spirit send to you? A bear. surely,
for such a strong WARRIOR
The squaWs and the warriors and
the stout boys Of Atsan's own age
jeered and gathered about him.
Atsan was lying down. painting but
his big eyes We're full of joy. He be
gan, in his happiness, to chant inn
prOmptu in the way which perplexei
his people who were then half afraid of
him, A wild hymn to his Dixie, weaving
into it his adventure in the forest. He
told them how a fair and beautiful god
had appeared to him in a flash of
lightning, given him to eat and drink,
spoken soft words of comfort and
vanished, leaving behind him this for
a sign. He held up the little silver
cross, and at once there was a tumult
of anger among the Indians
Coward" they cried. ''Why did
you not strike him from behind with
your hatchet?"
Fool" said his father THAT
son of mine should let a white man go
and never even track him to his
camp,"
An old man, unwashed for many
months, painted Economically. with his
neck embraced by a chain of the rat
ties of a snake, came forward Shrek
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forest. They would send out a party
TO massacre them, or bring them to the
torture.
Picquart, his Intelligence quickened
by peril, at last half understood. Yet
his dread of the coming danger was
almost forgotten at first in his graft
tude to the Indian boy.
You were right" he said to his old
friend. "A good deed is not lost. He
has come to warn US. perhaps to save
US"
The old man gathered his strength
as Picquart explained the boys pres
ence.
Let us press on" he said with some
energy. We may gain the Seigneur's
before them"
Picquart did his best to thank At
san. and the two started anew on their
road, but in moment. the boy stopped
them. Vehemently he pointed at the
damp earth, and the clearly defined
marks their footprints left behind.
He is right" said Picquart I'VE
are inviting pursuit. Old friend, we
must go barefooted. :"
Atsan ran into the thicket. beckon-
ing them to follow He brought them
to a brook running in the direction they
were going and they understood.
We must wade awhile" said the
old man. Il have heard of dogs and
savages being thus thrown off the
scent, but indeed these heavy boots
are a burden to carry. Throw them
far into the thicket, Picquart 1t may
be they will not find them"
That was done. and with all the
haste they might, the Huguenots
stumbled down the pebbly stream to
safety. But first Picquart turned his
handsome face on Atsan and it was
radiant with love and gratitude The
old man invoked a blessing upon him,
ana then the boy was alone by the
brook, watching their vanishing fig
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you, but. Master Picquart, If you are
such a fool as to run into danger open
eyed, or such a coward as to run from
a boy"
Coward 7 am mott" cried the lad.
leaping to his feet.
Gently" said the old man. 81 think.
Olier, that Picquart did right. To help
the helpless can surely bring upon US
no evil. Rather let US hope that such
charity may soften the heart of the
soften, Savage!" Olier. the hun
ter cried. Ask the wolf to eat from
your handi"
He was 50 young and suffering"
cried Picquart. Il could not do other
wise and call myself Christian. Think.
Oliert"
That's what 1 am doing" the hun
ter cried, rising up angrily. And my
thoughts are these. Some twenty miles
further to the east lies the Seigneur &
house you seek. I have done my part
and received my pay. / have brought
you out of the hands Of your perse-
cutors. though, Jesuit or Huguenot, it
is no odds to me so 1 be free to live my
own life.
by sun or star you cannot miss
your house or refuge, but I will risk
my scalp no longer with soft-hearted
l'BlS- ne MUFFIN Ms Will De upon lAS
as soon as that accursed cub you let
live, has told them of our presence in
the forest. Make all the speed you
may to the Seigneur's. For me, I am
back to my canoe on the lake"
You would not desert u.s." cried
the old man, fearfully. Remember.
friend Olier, that We are unused to
these wilds and shall have little
chance to find our way"
Blame the lad Picquart, then" said
Olier THE Iroquois know me; more
than one of their nations have I put
bullet into. l care not to wait for
them; so. farewell"
Without another word he was off
and the two exiles looked at each
other i'm dismay.
"Ohl Forgive me- my old friend
my second father" cried PiCquart,
throwing himself at the old mans
knees. after all your perils in France
and Canada, when on the very thres-
hold Of rest, that my folly should ruin
you"
Not So" said the elder calmly.
you did right. little Picquart. Had
you not helped the fallen I should
have blamed you indeed. The good
God will not desert us for a good
deed done in His name.
But the man Olier was right The
savages will seek us out, and we must
make what haste we may to the only
friend we have in this strange, inhos-
pitable land"
Resting on his staff. and every little
while borrowing as well the help of
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ing and dancing He whirled about
in circle for a WHILE and all the
others fell back to listen to this medi-
cine man. He turned at last on
feeblel Old squaw, and shook his claws
in her face, then again in the face OF
the chief, Atsan's father.
Have l not said so, when the son
was born. that he was no Mohawk,
but a devil sent to bring misfortune
to the nation. Why did you not do
as ] babe, and Stay him? Did he not
cry out and turn his eyes away when
he saw a Huron tortured?"
His voice rose to a frightful scream,
and he pointed at the cross which At
san, fearstricken, clutched in his hand.
He has been with the white men
in black robes, and they have given
him the spirit of pestilence. They
took it to the Hurons, and what hap
pened? Did not the plague seize the
whole nation, and did they not die
like sickly babes? They touched the
lips of strong hunters with that medi-
cine, and they wasted away. Let the
Hurons die; they were our foes. But,
if you would not be stricken too with
the plague, drive their messenger
from you, or Stay him."
Only the fact that he was a chiefs
son saved Atsan from immediate death
But they drove him out, and back he
went to the wilderness. bruised and
beaten, the cross still in his hand.
Far away from the yel1s of his tor
mentors he lay down, and lamented.
Meanwhile the young Frenchman,
plunging through the forest, had re-
gained his friends-an old man who
hardly seemed able to bear the rude
life of the wilderness. and a sturdy.
weatherbeaten man in the garb of a
hunter. The youth told of his adven-
ture, and the hunter became angry.
And you did not kill him?" he cried
in disgust. You left him to go back
and guide his people here to bring us
to the torture? Now faith. for fair
hire | have said l would lead you to
safety, Huguenots though you be- and
all the Jesuits in Canada seeking for
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Items From HODGES.
March l, 1903.

ED. ADVANCE
Ae have rather busy little cal
llage, consisting Of two stores, one
grist mill, one blacksmith shop. 4 wo
huXtrs and a nualber of up-to- date
farmers.
We hear some talk of Will Had g
moving to his farm, which he recent
ly purchased just helGw our village.
We wcaId be pleased to have Mr..
Hale In our community, as he Is an
excellent man aud has an excellent
family. Come on Mr.. Hale.
Mr.. Hodge, one of oar merchants.
has just returned from a trip to
Huntington He reports the roads
In very bad condition.
MIR. ID. G.. Sullivan is thinking of
putting most of his farm in grass.
Right you are, ID. C.
Prof. Stcphenson's school will
soon be out. We understand the
Professor will move to Huntington
We wall be sorry to lose him and his
excellent wife from our neighbor-
hood.
Mrs. Ida Beckner who has been
one of WAYNE county's ablest and
best teachers for a number of wears.
is talking of not teaching any more.
V. l.. Beckner has rented his
farm to Mr.. James Stock and will
work at the carpenters trade. Van
liz one of the best workers we have
In this community.
Thomas Brent, who sold with the
view of going to Kentucky, We un-
derstand, will locate on Camp Greek
John l.. Sullivan passed through
our village last Saturday EN- route
to iluntinTton. The boys eyed him
closely, after having learned his
name.
Mr.. Alfred Adkins, one of our
best citizens, has been on the sick
list tor the past few days.
February 2S, 1903.
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En-. ADVANCE

ED. ADVANCE
Mrs. II. Bolt. who has been quite
sick for some time, is better.
Uncle IIense Hay ME says Jimmy's
boy Isa Republican.
l.. G. Freeman. fine saddle horse
had the misfortune TO break his leg
Mr. NJ NJ Bolt, the cattler dealer.
passed the Branch, Saturday, for
Huntington. lie reports the roads
In fearful condition.
James Lambert is at home for a
lew days. Jimmy is late sleeper
lately. WHAT is the matter, Jimm, !?
There is t'lk of building an addi
ton 20 tn" Hayhie Branch school
house. We will need it.
Jesse Havnie is on the sick list.
We learn that Mr.. J. VI. Plymale
rs thk'king of building an addition
to his large store at Dunleith. J.
VI. L. good business man and must
have pSom for his increa ,ing bust
ucs>.
Henry llaynie has lately been Wis
iting on our side of Twesve Pole.
Come often, Henry.
John Nay is we'll from case of
smallpox.
SHORT GnlsE.
March /, 1903.
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What has become of the old fash
Toned man who called boil "gath-
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w hat has become of the old fash.
loned man who referred to coal as
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W henever love talks to us, it speaks
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Dan Chapman gave a supper to
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What has become of the old fash
Toned boy who believed that eatin O
gunpOwder would make him fierce.
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The extra force on the y. IL w.
still work at the slide on Coal Branch,
above town, because it continues to
slide
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What has become Of the old fash.
Toned woman who bought wall paper
and hung 1T herself?
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Terms of Circuit Court: Fourtf Monday in
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Terms % County Court: First MONDAY in Jan
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What has become of the old fash
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What has become of the old fash
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boy when he came in late: "I'Il
attend to your case after superb
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What has become Of the old fash
Toned person who said to child that
had fallen: "Come here, and Pll
help you up?"