The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-20

the body Of the great hunter to his cave and
laid it within. But first they carried out the
warspears, and all that was of use, to be divided
among them for the great hunter would not
need such things any more.
observation-disclosures It was
thus that they conceived the end of man. r.
No british face in that hairy circle looked
upward; no eagle eye saw aught but the cadaver
est : :
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Thus 1t was in the forest ten million years
| ago,
There lies today, in the midst Of great house
the body of "a man awaiting the last honors
which be rendered to it.
A week ago the doings of that man stirred
! two countries; two countries, today, shaken
by the news Of his death
| Nothing of the man shall 20 with him out of
| the world but that which he brought into the
! world with him. And tho it may be that there
| is none, so presumptuous as to proclaim where
| and how man shall arise.% yet there are few, in
deed, SO obstinate as to believe that he has per-
ished utterly. -
1 .,'sa 4 scc.zt4 s.S Iii, - = .>.r.
! Read then, how Sunrise, the Pagan, was
born IN the dark, and; having suffered at the
hands of death, came to see the light glimmer-
ing beyond, and the life. -. = ,z-.H:
The story does not begin with Sunrise,
i but with his parents. His. father was
/ called No Man, because he would not
hunt; but5spent II his time in: his cave
i scratching pictures on t. bones, and be-
+ cause he was coward. He had, however,
i the creative gift. It was he who invented
A the bow = Thru his invention he won She
I Wolf, who. became the mother Of a @son
i to him. and this. son was Sunrise The
story of No Mans Wooing Of She Wolf
will do as well as any, other to show the
authors ways of treating the period in
which the story is set. It runs in part like
this, which follows the narrative of an
exhibition by No Man of his skill with his
| new invention, the bow:
Drink" said No Man.
She Wolf placed her club and her spear and
her knife carefully to side, and lay down
| to drink. When she had finished, she started
to rise, pushing against the ground with her
hands. But No Man, who had possessed him
self secretly of the club, now brought it down
on her head that she pitched face downward
into the stream.
No Man dragged her out and waited patiently
I for her to recover consciousness.
Is After a, time she came to, but she dazed
Il and looked about uncomprehendingly.
~ (which is the stronger of us p said No Man.
Then She Wolf knew that No Man had struck
her., and she sprang at him furously, her big,
i sharp teeth flashing and her lips curling. But
her hands were empty and No Man struck her
again with the club.
After some more Of this gentle wooing
She Wolf consented to go. to No Mans
1 cave, and that constituted q marriage
4 licenses, justices of the peace or clergy
men not. being essentials to nlatrimony il
) those primitive days. a.: -: q = =
Sunrise, the son of these two, by the
use of the bow discovered sparks strucl
off by flint arrowheads, played with. piece:
Of flint, and thus discovered fire. He was
about to marry Dawn, whose wooing wa
far more gentle than that of his father
for his mother had been. But Dawn wa
the abductor and slew him. And the res
Is how he ~"came to see the light glim
l 1neri11g beyond, and the life
This little story has the force of al
allegory. 1t is the story Of the awakening
: Of mans belief In a life beyond this Tn
; author has preserved, all thru, the at
t mosphere in which prehistoric man dwell
. and prehistoric mans viewpoint, so far a
y the popular conception Of that genu
goes. The dawning Of the higher aspira
4 Atfons and hopes in such surroundings fur
nishes striking contrast of no little in
terest and suggestiveness.
Long Bridge Boys.-A story of 1861, b.
w. O.. Stoddard, tells the tale of an actua
attempt made by the confederates of Tir
ginia, just prior to the outbreak Of tn
Civil War, to seize the city of Washing
ton by force Of arms and make prisoner
Of President Lincoln and other high gov
: eminent officials. One Of THE Lon
. Bridge Boys" who lives at the Washing
l ton end of the bridge, discovers the pic
: while on visit to his young confederat
E friend on the opposite side of the river
I and by his prompt action saves the CAPT
= tai. -
Henry James new international novel {
American characters and European back
: ground will be presented by Charles Serb
d ner's Sons about Oct. j. It's title, TIL
: Golden Bowl, suggests a dramatic, stor!
9 and its pathos is believed to constitut
: | an element Of emphasis and of relic
d Apropos of Mr.. James, Miss Cary's articl
f concerning his literary mission will az
pear in the October Scribners Magazine
s The Uneasy Chair.
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