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had a secret conversation with Ellen
Wade and through her conveyed into the
mysterious tent letter.
The next morning as the tribe of Ish-
mael were about their usual preparation
for starting out on hunt. strange
thing happened.
The mysterious tent had been pitched
high sup upon the summit of the rock.
Upon shelf of that rock, before the tent,
stood Ellen Wade looking out upon the
plain. She was pointing out upon the
prairie and speaking excitedly. appar-
emily to some invisible auditor in the
tent.
Nell Nell!,' called 1shmael what
is it, child?" But Ellen did not answer,
The folds of the tent seemed to be agitat-
ed as if by some one striving to get out
of it.
Let her if she dares," muttered abb
ram. The curtain of the tent was actual
{ " lifted Nelli Nell. are you madi' cried
! lshmaei again and bringing his rife to
his shoulder he fired in the direction OF
the girl
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A Place of Refuge

Come, Trapper," said he at last. you
have dwelt long in this clearing. If
you had the handling of this business
what would you do?"
The Trapper told him that three miles
away was place where a stand might
be made for an indefinite time. The
place was a rocky eminence rising from
the plain which could be barricaded
and easily defended and was close to a
spring of sweet water.
Inc Indians who had, the previous
night stampeded Ishmaeps horses, were
evidently party of Sioux out upon
buffalo hunt. They had accidentally
learned of the presence upon the prairie
OF lshmaels outfit and their cupidity
had led them to steal the cattle.
This was not the Sioux country-that
lay further to the north. And the
Trapper believed that when the Paw
nees learned of the presence in that re-
gion of the Sioux. their hereditary
enemies. the Pawnees would come out
with strong war party after them.
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Quarreling in the Camp

Asa turned to Abiram with anger and
said:
This, then, is the beast you have been
transporting to the prairiesl l know you
to be a man who seldom troubles truth
the newspapers of Kentucky have called
you kidnaper of black flesh hundred
times; but I did not know you were a
kidnaper OF white flesh"
Abiram answered angrily and quarrel
ensued which was closed by the youth
striking his uncle full in the face. Then
1shmael interposed and peace seemed to
be restored.
But when the hunters came back from
the plains that night Asa came not with
them.
Airam at first declared that they would
soon see the boy coming in with a fat
buck upon his shoulders and later said
that he had seen signs of Indians being
about. 1t was an anxious night.
At daybreak. leaving Ellen in charge of
the stronghold, the little colony went
forth in search of the missing one. Dr..
Battius left the party and sought the
place where he had met the Trapper, the
captain and Paul
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Another Stranger

one evening, as Paul and the Trap
per were seated before the fire kindled
in a little run few miles from Ish-
maers stronghold, ea ting OF a. roast
buffalo hump, they saw come Wandering
toward them DR.. Battius.
When the animals of Ishmaels outfit
had been stampededf the naturalist had
been out upon the prairie. engaged in one
of his searches for new genera
OF course he was mounted upon that
faithful mule which had been his mount
from the settlements and so he now pos
sessed the only animal remaining among
the tribe of Ishmael.
But this evening the good doctor had
wandered far on foot and it was quite by
accident that he stumbled upon the Trap
per and Paul at their evening meal
They welcomed him kindly and made
him partake of their repast which he
pronounced to be the most savory and
satisfying he had ever eaten The Trap
per the doctor had seen before, but was
a little puzzled at the presence of Paul.
The darkness deepened as they ate and
all at once the hound gave the signal
that human being was approaching
Paul Hover threw up his rifle and cover
ing the man who was advancing toward
the campfire, called out: Advance, IL a
friend"
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Captain Middleton

Il am Christian and a friend" an
swered a voice from the gloom, and there
came into the ring of light made by the
fire man of tall stature and solderly
bearing.
His dress was partly that of an officer
of artillery and partly that of hunter
or trapper Across his shoulder was
thrown a short military rifle and ON his
back he wore a knapsack marked ~.
S. A."
The stranger was welcomed and asked
to share the meal of the others. Then he
told his name.
He was Duncan Uncas Middleton, cap
tain of artillery. Lewis and Clarke were
then making a military expedition through
the newly acquired possessions of the
Louisiana purchase.
But their command was at a consider
able distance from the prairie where the
captain now found himself In fact, he
had set out with a small body of men be-
longing to his command upon an expedi-
ton which had something of a private
character to it, though he was making it
as part of the explorations of the larger
body
In order to obtain the object which he
sought he had divided his men, sending.
them out by twos in various directions
with instructions to meet at a certain
point upon the Platte at certain time
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In After Years

Hard-Heart said that Middleton's- sol4
diers were awaiting him near the Paw
nee villoge and thither the partyeof the
Trapper at once repaired.
That night Ishmael hanged his wifes
brother.
When once more they had returned to
civilization and Middleton had restored
to the arms of her father his lost raugh-
ter the captain settled Ellen and PauI
now man and wife, upon a. plantation in
Kentucky and DR.. Battius went back to
his scientific societies in the cities~of the
east.
As for Middleton himself he rose ia
high anlx in the army and, upon re-
tirement, settled down to his old aga.
upon the plantation which his wife In
herited from her father.
Ishmael and his tpbe disappeared
from the scene. AS for the old Trapper'
1t was a year after the exciting events
here recorded when, making a trip to
the Pawnee village where he had left
him Middleton came upon. the sold man
in his last hours.
He was dying amid the friendly saw
ages. The career of 'Natty' Bumppo
ended in peaceful death from old age.
Next weeks one-page classic will ba
Amelia" by Henry Fielding
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27
Captives of the Sioux

Al a considerable distance a band
of about 80 Indians could be seen max
ing for the encampment of Ishmael.
They were mounted on Indian ponies
and were approaching their goal
swiftly and silently.
But the keen ears of the Indians had
heard the cry of the hound and in
another minute they had surrounded
the Trapper and his companions and,
in spite of Pauls attempted resistance,
the three were captives.
The Indians seemed under the COM
mand of a large and powerful chief,
who after short consultation with his
followers, came to the captives and be-
gan to question them in a hAghty
manner.
He spoke in the Sioux tongue which
was called Mahtoree
He questioned the old man sternly,
but the Trapper was an adept in parry
ing Indian inquiries by the use of the
same 'highflown language which they
themselves employed.
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tion house to visit an old dependent she
had been abducted by the kidnaper, Abb
ram White, whose idea was to extort
heavy ransom for her from her wealthy
father.
Some weeks after the abduction a dis
sipated confederate of Abrams, who had
sold the information of what had actually
happened to Captain Middleton, who had
at once started TO find his wife.
Learning that he was being pursued,
Abiram had Joined his brother-in-law's
caravan and sought safety beyond the
Great River.
When at the campfire of the Trapper
the captain had heard of the presence in
the neighborhood of 1shmael and his party
and of the mysterious tent, he knew that,
at length he had found what he sought
and had revealed all to the Trapper and
Paul and the doctor. They agreed to aid
him In the rescue.
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Pawnees to the Rescue

Mahtoree's band of Sioux finally did
capture the party of Trapper. They es-
capped, only to be captured again.
While celebrating upon what form of
punishment the captive should suffer
Ismael and Mahtoree got into a quarrel
and Ismael retired from the Camp to his
stronghold
The chief had semed inclined to give ip
to him neither the cattle nor the Trapper.
But Hard Heart was about to be put
to torture All was prepared and the
cruel work was just beginning when a
party of Pawnees made an attack.
In the confusion the captives ESCAPED
and found refuge in the Pawnee ranks.
After some desultory fighting the two
bands of Indians drew away from each
other
Then between the ranks rode out Hard
Heart singing his war song and chal-
longing Mahtoree to single combat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27
In Single Combat

There between the lines they fought
and the Pawnee was the victor. A gen.
eral engagement now ensued and into it
came plunging Ismael and his strong
sons.
The cattle and the captives were what
they wanted. and they were otherwise
interested on neither side.
So, amid the confusion old Ismael
seized and bound the Trapper, Paul the
doctor and Middleton, taking them and
the two women swiftly away upon the
Indian horses, which he seized, to the
stronghold.
There Ismael proposed to hold court
after the rude treas OF justice which he
held-an eye for an eye and tooth for
tooth.
Ihe court was assembled the next
morning. and as Ishmael toon his seat
of judgement there came in the chief.
Hard-Heart
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Seen in the Hazy Light


SO as DR.. Battius was an MD as well
as a naturalist Esther and Ishmael
gladly allowed him to make the jour
ney to the great plains with them.
Ellen Wade called Ishmael uncle. but
in reality his wife was the widow of
Ellen's deceased uncle
She was an orphan and for time
brough up in good surroundings. But
left lonely and penniless, Ishmael and
his wife had taken her and cared for
her for some years now.
The sun was setting and the caravan
was about to encamp for the night
when suddenly upon one of those long
swells which like the waves of the
great ocean change the great plains
into a semblanee of the sea suddenly
arrested in motion. there appeared the
figure of a man standing out distinctly
and looking to be of gigantic proper
tion in the hazy and shifting light.
The men of the party were on their
guard as the solitary figure drew nigh.
1t was that of an extremely old man.
bu ia man who was still rugged" and
upon whom the years sat lightly. He
was accompanied by a hound who. like
himself. SCENE to be beyond the age
usually allotted to the species
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Their Secret Told

When Ishmael set out for the great
plains Paul Hover had secretly fol-
lowed the caravan and sought stolen
interviews with Ellen.
He knew II would be death for Ish-
nael and his sons to discover that he
was on their trail with the design of
inducing Ellen to elope with him and
return to the settlements and marriage.
Ellen felt that her duty lay with her
uncle and his family and had tried in
vain to dissuade Paul from his pur-
suit The youth was persistent. He
safety in the wild regions to which she
was being carried
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! CLAS SIC
IN A P A G E

copyright, 1918. by irving King. All
rights reserved.)
In noint of sequence, as lar as the
storv Of Nattv Bumpo-or Bumppo=-
goes. this story of THE Prairie is the
last and final volume of the Leather
stocking Tales-those stories SO much
admired bv scott. and which have Civ
en- pleasure to SO many generations.
In this story Cooper kills off the
mighty hunter with old age. He wrote
fiae tale in 1927. But later, in 1871.
eooper wrote what. in point of writing
and publication, is the last Leather
stocking Tale and first In story Sc
auence-"The Deerslayer.'
OF all Cooper's works, with the pos
sihle exception of the Red Rover the
Misunderstanding Tales are, and ever
were, his most widely read stories
When lie let his mind loose amid the
wids of nature and drew his hardy
pioneers who made the advance guards
OF civilization he lost much of that stud
led verbosity which is blem1sh TO
his other and more aspiring works.
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a guest of the Trapper, but kept the
knowledge of his being in the vicinity
carefully concealed from all of Ish-
mael's party-except, of course, from
Ellen. whom he managed occasionally
to see. and who was much distressed
by the persistence of Paul in remaining
in the neighborhood.
And, yet it is possible that she would
have been as deeply distressed had
Paul given up his quest and returned
to the settlements.
1t was, after all, a consolation in the
midst of the anxieties and the hard
ships of her present condition to know
that, somewhere out there on the great
desolate plains, was one whose chief
thought was for her safety.
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Many Plans

He himself had gone alone, intent upon
making the discovery which had, in real
fty, been the chief object of his expedi-
tion. This the captain told the three
other men seated by the fire-and later he
told them more.
When Captain Middleton gave his name
the old trapper had started and eagerly
inquired the names of his father and
grandfather.
When the information had been fur
nished the Trapper knew that this young
officer was the grandson of that Captain
Middleton of the British army with whom
he served under such exciting circum-
stances in the colonial days-as is record
ed in that veracious chronicle, The Path
finder
The conference between the four men
gathered about the campfire was long and
earnest that night and much was spoken
of and much planned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27
One Consolation

The strong men of Ishmaers party
hauled by hand the wagons to the
place indicated by the Trapper. The
great rock to which they came was one
with upon the plains
There lshmael established his little
colony and prepared to await events.
Several weeks passed. The party of
Ishmael easily supported themselves by
hunting.
Now and then the Trapper visited the
camp. Paul Hover still fingered on as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27
Sitting in judgement

Middleton was the first examined. He
told his story straight and in digni-
fed manner and did not hesitate to de-
nounce the villany of Abiram.
You and your wife are free to go"
said Ishmael l shall wander no more
and If you will abide with me Until
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27
Not New
From Fun.

FfOm Fun.
You should see my new typewriter?s
said Mr.. Smart to his friend as they
went down in the elevator together:
but it's second hand"
Second hand"
''Um-hm. A widow"
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All this was soon made known to the
Trapper. Ellen having implicit conf
dence in him and saying so to Paul,
Our secret is safe with this good old
man."
AS they talked the hound gave an
other low signal of alarm and the Trap
per said down. down in the grass! 1t
is a party of the accursed Sioux"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27
A Pertinent Question

From Puck.
heiress after ALL said Binks.
Yes" said Slithers Wonder where
they went to spend the honeymoony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27
Stolen on Her Wedding Night

But upon the very night of the wedding
the bride had Disappeared. Passing
through the grounds around the planta-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27
The Secret of the Tent

When the naturalist returned to the
stronghold of Ishmael he was thoughtful
and did not talk as much as usual He
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27

made known to them, and become about
the only thing they really respected
of all that civilization respected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27

Next weeks one-page classic will ba
Amelia" by Henry Fielding.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1913-02-18
ZlOcini druzbe.

V Scooba. Miss. je piiana
drhal zadnii petek linGala crnca.
Par ur poznejc Sc .ie izkazalo. da
jc bill nmorieni Grnec popolnoma
nedolzen. Ralph Gregg. vodja lin
carske tolpc ie sci nato Y cerkev.
kjer ie jokal mad Svojim grehom
in drugi dan Sc .jc uSmrtil. Gregg
je bill dober kristjanl
- V CollinSu. Miss. 50 10. {.
m. Obesili mrtvoudnega crnca. ka-
teri je bill spoznan krivim umora.
Obsojenca so princSli pod veSala
V n%osilnici in diva rabljeva poma-
gaca sta ga drzala ma rokah. do
kler so mt nategnili zanjko okrog
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1913-02-18
Novo delo k~ruSnega trusta.

P%ittsburg, Pa. 8. febr. t. !. - v
zadnjem SASH cujemo vedno vec o
kruSnem trustu. Posebno V ma
Sem mestn je ze prece.j vkorenin-
jen.
Dne 3. febr. .ie trust Ward
Baking Co" kupil zopet emo mai
veGjo tukajSniih pekarn "Baur
Bros ma Penn Ave.
List Steer nam porocaio le o
prodaji zemljiSG. ma kojih stole
stavbe. namreG: lots 25Ox4S feet.
S4X120 feet in 77xsO feet ma Sc
vcnth ward in 10 Skupno "a $780,
600. Ja>no pa ie. da nina pOme-
ma IN trust nakupiti lie svet pod
stavbami. Zakai pa trust ne da Y
iavnost podrobnoSti? Vzroka ina
dovolj "a prckriti Svoia, deistva.
V zadnjem GaSu odklanja "a
vedno dclavStvo Wardove izdel-
Ike. Z njceovim Zip Top" torei
ne gre vcf kot hi imelo It'll. Treba
jc najti drugo pot "a razpecavan-
je truStnih izdelkov. V to svrho
mai hi sluzila pekarna "Baur
Bros. katcra obdrli syoie stare
inc kliuh temu. la ie Y lasti
Wardov.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1913-02-18
MekSika.

Tam dol Meksiki imajo spet
friSno" rcvolucijo. Te "revolu-
so kaj sumliive. Ko ie pred
lansko jcsen Madcro strl tirana
Diaza bio .ie pricakovati. da Sc
potem naseli V neSrecni Meksiki
mir, civilizacija in kultura. Toda
priSlo je ravno narobe. Gin ie bill
Madero izvoljen predsednikom.
vstalo je proti MENU tucat raznih
protirevolucij. Ko je Sci Madero
V boj prot Diazu. je veliko obliu-
bill meksikanskemu ljudstvu; ko
Je pa izSel IL boja kot zmagovalcc.
Je ma vse svoje obljube nitro -
pozabil. Sc wee! Pokazal ie. da nj
dosti bOljSi cd tirana Diaza. Ma
dero je veckratni milionar in po-
sestnik ogromnih zemliiSc.
Toda Madero gori ali doll. On
je lie predsednik in pri bodocih
volitvah GA lahko Meksikanci DO
pokoi. nakar no neskod-
lJiv. Diaz .ie "predsednikoval"
trideset let n YES cas- ie zaduSil ?
--....-Ii IL
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1913-02-18
ROZe.
(Etbin KriStan.)

Pri Dolinarievih ie bilo vcselo.
da je bila hiSa %premaihna "a to-
like vesel.ia. VISA vas ie bila pol
godbe in pctja, tenko zvcnke-
tanie kozarccv Sc .ic sliSalo daleG
naokrog, a glaSneiSi cd vsega hru-
pa in Suma so bill zeninovi klici
in vriSki. Bogati Petek ic praz-
noval porOko in zmago.
Sedaj ko ie doSegel cili. Sc mu
zazdelO smcSnO. da je moral TEX
movati s takim GlOvekom. $ svo-
Jim v%rtnaricm. In da ic obupaval
in norel. reSnicno norel. misleG.
da ina Minka raiSi beraca. XII GA
on lahko zapodi cez prag. kadar
hOce. KakSna zmota, FL. dekleta
so %navihana. hahaha. in tudi Min
ka jc vcdela. da jc ljubosumnost
najboljSa kuriava "a liubezen.
Tako zalo dekle. pa da hi ljubila
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1913-02-18
Udobnost.
Porocevalcc.

VSakdo liubi komfort, to ie, ia
ie prost bolecine ali Sitnosti. Fl
ziGno udobnOSt dobite. &c Strogo
pazite Da vsako nerednost pri de-
lovanju tcleSa. Ponavadi prinese
dobro zdravilo, kakor ie Trinerje-
vo ameriSko grenko vino, takojs-
no zbol.iSanie, ker oGiSti organe
in Jim da novo moe. Ogreio
telo. naredi dobcr apetit. prisili
prcbavlialne organe k delu in je
pozitivna pomo6 pri zelodGnih ne
prilikah organih. Rabi mai Sc Pri
zeubi apetita, napctju. %neprebav-
nosti. bruhaniu. boleGinah Y re-
lodcu. zaprtiu. g%lavobolu in splo-
Sni Slabosti Pc lekarnah. Jos. Tri-
ncr. 1888 So. Ashland ave.
Chicago, Ill Trudnc mi;ice in trdi
udi Sc mai drgncio 5 Tr%inerievim
linimentom.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1913-02-18

Petek Sc je opotekal. Po5asi /.
sla Minka "a MIN. komai da ;.
premikala noge. Glavo je inei,
globoko sklonjeno - ali je pls.
dala roze, ali je mislila misl;.
la?
GleJ. tudi Pc Stopnicah ie bio
vse polno vSe gor do sobe In
zdaj, ko So Sc imela odpreti vra.
ia, so sc naenkrat pomnozili utr;.
paJl nJenega srca in postal take
mOcni, kakor da ina V prsih M.
klo in kladivo.
Idaj zdaj - zdai -
Petek je prijel "a kliuko, pa Sc
ozrl ma nevesto. Njegove motn.
oci so opazile plamen ma Mink.
mem obrazu in luci V n.jenih oeeh.
opazile so memo razvnetje in te.
daj je planila zaliubljena pohot-
most njegovem srcu. Sklonil Sc
jc k nevesti iecljaje:
- Ne misli, Minka, da zaradi
ocetovega bOgastva. Minka: lie
zaradi Tebe. I'll. I'll
Sklonil Sc ie Sc blize in Mink
je puhnil Y obraz ostudni did IL
INST pijanca. TIA hip je spoznala
njegovo gnusno pohotnost in ia.
Sna il je bila VISA b~odocnost. s
krepko pestio ga ie sunila. da Sc
je opotekel in telobnil ma tia. Pri,
pognila Sc jc, pc 'rala rozo in ne
da hi Sc ozrla. je stekla pc stop
micah. skozi veio, IL hise.
Pred durmi ie stall .Jerneiec.
TT 80
- Da. .Iaz sem vedel
II vrtov je prihaiala diSava
roz.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1913-02-18

navadnega d~elavca'G! Kje je bila
njegova pametF
Jernejcu bi bio re disalo. Sc
vedal
Nemanic, pa da hi dobil tako
posestvo! Verjel ie pac, hehe; sal
ga je znalo dekle gledati, da so
mu godli sami kerubini. doGim so
mega, bOgatega Petka, Scipali vsi
satani. A danes ina Petek nebe-
Ske muzikante. Jerneic 81 pa iu-
tri zveze culo, pa hajd premerit,
koliko je svct dolg in Sirok. Pa.
meten MOI. kakrSen je Petek. ze
We, kaj della. Tezko je bio. gleda-
ii zaljubljenc oGi svoiega delavca.
a bolie Jill jc bilo gledati. nego
pustiti, da hi Sc vrt izpremenil V
puScavo. Sedaj je delavec opravil.
kar je bio treba in .iutri - sreG.
no pot
Take so bile Petkove misli Sc
daj, ko ie incl eolobiGico V klet-
Hi in je bill prcmagan strah. HI
ga je bill vendar spremlial skoraj
do cerkvenih vrat. Idai je zave.
zanO in blagoslovlieno torei
veseloi
"Pijmo, Zapoimo.''
Vino Sc ie razlivalo in hripava
grla so stiskala piiane glasove i,
sebe. Srecni zcnin Sc .ie potil. vsc
je Sumelo, lc nevcSta .ic molcala
"Hoho, sre5na ic. vcndar il
~srecna", jc pomiSlil Petek. &C,
hi bila glasna, hi lahko mislil. da
hoGe prcSlopiti Svoic srce. 4 '
njenih oceh je blagoSt."
PonoScn .je hill tudi nevestir
oGe, XII je znal racunati kakor nj
hGe V cell fari.
IRE so uhaialc. nihGe iih n
Stel. Zakaj bilo ic vesclo in vs.,
vcscleiSe. Ko Sc .ic zcninu obeSi
spanec oh trcnalnicc. SO blcdel,
zadnie zvezde ma nehu