Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-27

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 Singing :>trPaH! het! 9Ht Ha hands |. sally iff 3 gesture of aPPeaj-7nd ''lHtt leretl. Of the chiefs daughter, walk HIS proudly Sat2y W8s afraid: but supplicating half breed in strips ot purple calico not even herImed. Was | matter for melfilueHt. Sally put heT hands OH her hips, arms akimbo. and laughed dry cackle. The light i'll ths brown woman's eyes as she looked II the white was like prairie fires rolling forward through darkness. There Was no need of 8 common speech between thenn The whole destiny of woman was ill the laugh and the look that all swered it.
 And the man they could have mur- dercd for came from the house, an un- heroic figure with suspenders dangling and d eorucob pipe in lis mouth. SUI len angry and withal abiectly fright eneu, as mere man inevitably Is When he snitfs d woman's battle in the air. The bride at sight of her hus band, took to hysterics She wept, she laughed and down tunbed her hair She felt the situation demanded q scene. Rod ney. with d marital brevity hardly to be expected so soon, commanded Sally to go into the house and to shut up
 Then he faced Singing Stream and said to her ill her own language: You must go away from here. The pale faced woman is my Wife by the white mans law-ring and Bible. No Indian marriage about this
 But the brown woman only pointed to Judith. She asked Rodney had she not been d good squaw to him.
 And Rodney, who at best was but a poltroon, could only repeat: You got to keep away from here. It's the white mans law-one s4uaw for one man.
 From within came the sound of Sal Tvs amentation as she called for her father and brother to take her from the squaw and contamination. War. ren Rodney was d man of few words It had become his unpleasant duty to act. and to act quickly. He snatched Judith from her mother and took Lef into the house, and he returned with his Winchester, which was not loaded to Singing Stream.
 You got to go." he said and, lev cling the Winchester. he repeated the command Singing Stream looked at him with the dumb wonder of a forest thing. Il was d good squaw to you she said and did not even curse him. And, turning, she kan toward the foot. hills with all the length of purple cal ico trailing
 Now, Mrs. Rodney, nee Tumlin, was but human. and her cup of happiness 10 fo of ,n{ the brimmng beaker she had antici- pated. The expulsion of her predeces- sor at such time to make room for her own home coming was, it seemed, open to criticism. 'The neighborhood' Git included perhaps five families liv- ing in radius of as many hundred miles, felt that the Tumlns had es- tablished bad precedent. squaw man driving out q brown wife to make room for white is not heroic figure It had been done before, but it would not hand down we'll in the traditions of the settling of this great country Trespass of law and order with then swift. red handed reckoning, was but move of the great game of coloniza- tion, but to shove out a brown woman for white was mean move. Few stopped at the Rodneys' ranch, though it marked the first break in the Journey from town to the gold mining country Rodney had faIiea fyoul his estate as pioneer; his political opinions were unsought in the conclaves that sat and spat at the stove when business brought them to the joint saloon and postottice. The women dealt with the question more openly. scorning fem. mine subtety at this pass as inad. equate ammunition. When they met Mrs. Rodney they pulled aside their skirts and gsared. This outrage against woman 1t vas woman's work to Sellle
 The fumlin talnfly did not remain long enough in the Black Hills countr, to witness Sally's hafhlRe as the wif1. n,