The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-12

with his cousins wife, Diana. The earl.
who is hard pressed for money, indis-
creetly borrows from the regimental
funds, and finds himself wiped out by
a stock transaction. James Wynnegate,
TO save Diana from the shame of her hus
bands disgrace, takes upon himself the
burden of the crime and fees to Wyo-
ming, where he takes up cattle punching.
While crowd Of COW punchers, In
dams and bad men are gathered in the
Long Horn saloon at Maverick two years
later, tourist party consisting of the
Earl of Kerhill and wife and Sir John
Apologize, who are travelling in a pri-
vate car, stop at the town and visit the
saloon. There they meet James Wynne-
gate, who is known as Jim Carston.
Carston falls foul of a bad man, one
Cash Hawkins. who swears to kill him.
On the departure of the train Hawkins
makes an attempt but is shot through
the heart by Bat-u-Ritch, the daughter
of Tabywana, an Indian chief. In graft
tude Carston marries the girl, thus earn
ing for himself the epithet of "squaw
man.
Six years later the Earl of Kerhill is
killed on the hunting field and Mr.. Pc
trie, the family lawyer, travels from
England to induce Carston to return and
take the title. He explains that he
cannot desert his Indian wife and son.
and then the lawyer points out to him
that it is his duty to send his son to be
prepared for the position he has refused.
1t would be unfair to tell what follows
this suggestion.
1t Is claimed that rarely has a drama
fist succeeded in bringing the breezy
western life of the early SOS to the stage
as had Edwin Milton Royel in The
Squaw Man., which Liebler 81 Co. are
presenting this season. The theatregoer
of the present day, be he a resident of
| the east or west has but faint concep-
| ton of the insult attached to the appel
| lation squaw man. To call a white
| man that out west is as deadly an af-
| front as to designate a COW puncher
sheep herder' or "a rustler.' 1t means
| fight.
Yet were it not for the ''squaw man
| western civilization would not have
| reached the high plane 1t now occupies.
| Running over the list of the great
(, plainsmen 1t will be found that Kit
| Carson and Joe Rebedaux, the founder
of ST. Joseph, Mo-. ''Trapper' Baker,
| Jack Hardy, jim Stillwell, Colonel Par
ker and other men whose names are
| indelibly engraved on the pages of the
| history of the west all took squaws as
| wives.
! Later on the disgrace came, for the
! simple reason that hundreds of white
| men, worthless beyond expression. mar
| ried Indian women for the purpose Of Sc
| curing $40 acres of land, beef flour, salt,
! coffee, Shoes hats, overcoats and the
{, regular issue of annuity goods given by
| a philanthropic government. Visit any
| of the great reservations today and
\ YOU will discover that the whites sur
| rounding the tract have nothing what
| ever to do with a ''squaw man. and
| that the Indians treat him with absolute
| contempt One of the exceptions to this
/, rule is q man on the Ute reservation,
| Henderson by name, wTo claims to be
+, closely related to one of the wealthies.
! families In America. He is about IS
wears old and has lived with the Indians
| for over 40 years. 1t was just about
| that time that a brilliant young society
| man dropped out of view in New York
| and has never since been seen. '"The
souaw Man comes to the Biiou for
| the entire week with matinees Tuesday.
/ THURSDAY and Saturday.
PLAYHOUSE GOSSIP.
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