Tombstone epitaph., 1917-04-01
Braesenndge of Pittsburgh. The

Ing at some nonsensicd Ddiidu aoout smoking that Mir. Freneau had writ | ten"
 "Freneau is our greatest poet" said Harrison. "Surely his beautiful lines on The Indian Burying Ground his exquisite ode to The Wild Honey suckle,' and that matchless dlrge for the dead who fell at Eutaw Springs will live forever"
 And in his deep and resonant voice. his face shrouded in the shadows of the vsranda, he began to reclte that splendid elegy. For a while no one spoke. Each was thinking of the shadow of war with England that seemed deepening with ,he days; of the closer, more terrible shadow of the Indian.
 Someone began to speak of Presi- dent Madison's policy of diplomatic correspondence with England, and his attempts to settle the maritime dis putes peaceably.
 Spier Spencer, the hot-headed-Da- vid's host at the tavern-was about to reply that 1t was more lntolerable to endure the insults of Britain than to plunge the country into honorable WIT, when his young wife and a beyy of radiant women made a sudden rush from within and the gentlemen were led captive to the great silver punch bowl, where officiated a grinning. duckiag, beruffied darky.
 David was swept into the midst of group of young people; but the chat ter in his ears ceased. as far as he was concerned, when he saw Toinette radiant among the rest. Ike Black ford joined them, and when she had heard what the men had been discuss ing, the girl demanded why the two had not yet joined Spencer's company of militia.
 "So you want us to get shot, do that we're a worthless pair. but l didn't think We were that bad"
 "Stop being funny. Mir. Blackford; {; should think you two great. strong men would be eager to enlist and help drive out these terrible Indians for good"
 Well, I'm as ready as the next man to have the Indians leave us in peaco" declared David slowly. but I've never been soldier and I don't believe that I'd make a very good one"
 "Pshaw!" cried Toinette indignant | ly, you're just as able to be a sol | fr, ha are, you know you are"
 Measure Us for our collins. David" laughed Blackford, i've may just as well give in to her first as last" David laughed too. But he was si. lent, thinking more of Toinette's words than of Blackford's. Ike con- | tinuel his chaffing:
 "No, we're neither of us soldiers. Davids fast becoming the merchant Croesus of the West, and I'm a law yer, though I'd hate to have the late | lamented Blackstone hear me say that. He'd roll over. I've spent the best years of my young life cooped up in Judge Ford's office in Morris town, wrestling with McNally' s Rules of Evidence" when should have been shedding luster over the social life of New Jersey. and I don't feel as If It would be right for me to throw away all this mighty erudi' ton just to give some red-skinned gentleman the pleasure of wearing the scalp of future chief justice at his belt, or even the pleasure of my acquaintance. expect to have very few clients among our red brethren very few. Somehow, they seem to prefG retaining hatchet, rather than hatchet-faced attorney Though, for the matter of that, don't believe I can blame them. Judge Hurst tells me that in spite of all oi Governor HarrisOn's efforts to put the
 little unpleasantries of the frontier to decision by the courts, there hasn't been one white man hanged for the
 murder of an Indian since the terri
 tory was begun. and that there nevel
 will be.
 "Eut seriously, Miss O'Bannon"-
 Blackford went on-"there can't be S,
 great a necessity for drilling around
 with a lot of militiamen just now
 can there? They make me think O
 Falstaffs opinion of his ragged re
 cruits: I'll not march through Gov
 entry with them, that's flat" Necessity" cried Toinette. "Oh
 you haven't been here long enough t, hear the reports of all their eruelties
 Haven't you talked with any of thes backwoodsmen whose families hav . been cut down and massacred an, tortured? But I don't care-go ol
 and practice your old law! ThereT be plenty of other lawyers to shoul , der a gun. If they get killed there1 be just that much more chance fo
 you to succeed"
 Blackford winced. Toinette was 8 , dangerously near angry tears that h was sorry he had tested as he had.
 Well. we'll" he replied soothinglJ David and will try to measure u
 to your idea of a man If things ge : any more serious. I'll promise yo that David will knock down dozen
 of savages with his yardstick an I'll tie them hand and foot with re ,, tape"
 You're both simply hateful" dc clared Toinette; and the subject wa dropped.
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