The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-11-10

have TO spenu II remaining 0dl'
of her life among savages was
maddening.
The people were very kind Il
her. All her wants were supplied
to the best of their ability. They
seemed TO almost worship her
but they were a rude race, entirely
unciyilized. Slowly she learned
their language. She was grateful
TO them, and after a time began to
think how she might help them.
So she taught the women how to
spin and weave cloth from the
wool that grew on a kind of sheep,
She taught them various other
simple occupations,
In this way five years passed
since her advent in this strange
land. One L.Orning her own par.
tieular maid came to her, all ex.
element. Would the White
Queen for that was the name
they had given her, come to the
tent where council was to be held?
4. stranger whose skin was white,
Ike Milka's, had come from the
north with a band of natives,
who were more fierce than the
tribe with whom Milka had found
a refuge; and who sometimes
made war on their southern
brethren"
Milka turned deathly pale. She
trembled so that she could scarce
~ follow her brown guide; all the
latent hope was reused within
her. Was it her father or lover
come to seek her?
She entered the tent; at the
farther end stood a tall, finely
pr0portioned man. He turned his
face toward her; with a cry she
sprang forward. He looked It her
Il moment, then clasped her to
for it was indeed her lover,
hanged by hardship and suffer.
ng, yet the same brave, no.
Die man.
My father? Where is he,
Mera?" she asked, anxiously.
"You will never see him again."
said Mera, sadly.
Tell me what happened to you,
md how he died." begged Milba.
He seated her on a rude bench
md told her the story of his ad.
'entures.
Everything went well until we
cached the north pole. There
We bored deep holes, placing the
explosives according to the pro
essor's directions. Exactly six
weeks after we left home every,
hing was ready to apply the
park to the fuse. | went back to
he air-ships for something, in.
ending to join the party before
he explosion. | started to leave
he ship when | heard a terrible
looking toward the pole,
rock, ice, water and my late
ompanlons all flying through the
II. 1t was a terrible sight. Then
anne a lurch in the earth itself;
he anchor of the ship broke loose
'hile a terrible gust of wind sent
he at a terrible velocity sailing
oward the south. | knew then
hat the expedition had succeeded
a moving the pole, but the result
greater than the professor
adj reckoned. After many hard
hips managed to reach the
Duntry north of here, and
here | have lived the past five
ears. The inhabitants are kind
, me and have chosen me chief,
have wished to return to our
ONE, but have not had ships of
ny kind to carry me-"
Then Milka told her story and
lie fate of the beautiful island,
hey both reasoned that the NOV.
lg of the pole was the cause of
$ destruction.
When the natives saw that the
yo were friends, they begged
they stay with them, and BE-
Ieir rulers. AS their island home
nd friends were gone they con.
uded to do so, and they and their
'scendants ruled the simple ma.
YES for centuries in a wise, kind
amer.
These simple children of the
Gods explained the appearance :
strangers by saying that they !
ere children of the sun sent to :
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