East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-03
IT TAKES NERVE TO BE A MAN LIKE THIS,

lives thousand mile; from pendleton who has passed
in manhood which falls the lot of but few in lifetime
This man westernera brother to the perennial % ggorun &
white people in the state white girls rarity when he was in
the lovemakng age
As man an incomplete machine without and this
like all of his kind had the homemnger strong lie had
choose from his pioneer surroundings and so he took
the best of the o-a French Indian girl whose ancestry into the
Champog Frencndan natives of Oregon with the first generation
But handsome girl of her ypeiu a dark queenly
mperous, hafbedhe most beautiful and prcposessing within
But she loved him and he loved her. That was sufficient
This Ogonian capable progressive ambitious man lie
handicapped youth by lack Of educational facilities but he made
up by excellent native Judgment and ability.
His family grew up around him and he gained wealth and in
As civilization crowded around him. opportunities knocked and
he accepted their invitation and grew be rich and powerful IN the
From the station private citizen called into
public life lie gallant and winning feowone of those
irresistible and in spite of himself gathered friends and author
ty about him
In his early struggles his hbred wife had shared all his
hardshps suffered all his defeats bore all his privaons
She patient she mpeous and strong She was
faithful tender she dark with her mothers Indian blood
and the lighter father They loved and
cherished and given education and advantages other children
model home There was love and patience and faithful
ness in it There was fidelity y and trst and devotion
As the father emerged faster and faster from his ocri the
ed in the community And finally the situation reached
that the society which the brilliant husband had been forced by
He knew other fecreed than love and cherish his family
But and with whom he associated began wonder
into prominence
tseemed be his duty Either he should do that
descend again INTO his old 9 &OsfsriE y Z y u
Finally heard demand and waited She
did pine away She did fly into She did put him
to the test to make him say what he would do
in his advancement She Just simply waited and listened
for her be sacrificed for his continued adj
v'neement she was willing since j i meant 50 much to him,
Then people said change him They wondered how
would he do His pressing public duties needed him He should
do something
Everybody waited and listened for developments
It said that he had been offered handsome salary and
@ e ,S T" Ba the P position a oR pbd G'IiSF b% o%
BRINGING his hafeed wife into equal prominence with himself
He must choose between the ys 'ad the new opportunity
Then the butterflies of society and buzzng wasps business
50 suddenly opened before him They pictured the delights and gor
Of the strange fortune which hos come across ross his path
lie was dazed and amazed at its brliancy
He was only human.
Md all this time the patient wife who had been his help and sup
in the old pioneer DAYS. thinking, thinking thinking
She was but Indian gr Her remen still in
crest She would he content to 20 back She would lose herself let
True she loved him. and at times revolted at the strange fate
wficl seemed ugqing STRONGLY TO rull them apart
But if he could upward she would not be hndrance she
WIS resigned and content xw
People said would be fair and him separate from her
since he but mddeaoed and possibilities such life of
f'nors and activity lay before him.
fortune noson rovpr-all Law within his if he
world take this simple and sceminov justified
He white and since civilization has swaed about the
OIL frontier and chanoed conditions. his Obligations which
@ have been binding under the old condition. bsoved by the
cbar~o?
Thus he argued and all the time the social butterflies say
n". "yes," "yes" yes"
90 he spoke 10 her about II.
There hvera There "scene" There tears
i Is .rre, but that all
She said she would and leave him. Fate had decreed it.
hing for him to win and whatever betide she but
In4in girl
Md then the manhood supreme in his breast
lie turned the cultured and who had come to
range the details of the separation, and said: