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SAVAGES,
but the whites here so mixed with them
that the full-blooded Indians have prac
tically died out and the Cherokee Natfon is
more white than Indian to-day.
"WHITE) JLKD RES TS "WEDLOCK.
I am stoDnine at ft Tery fair hotel hr.
and an Indian editor and an Indian physi
cian, both graduates of Eastern universities,
ait uuhu wnu mo ai we tuuie. xne omv
sign of Indian blood in them is their hiirh
cheek-bones, and they talk English and are
dressed in the same sort of clothes you find
on Broadwav. The Hon. Mr. Bushyhead,
one of the most prominent of the Cherokee
statesmen, who has been several times Chief
of the Nation, and who is as intelligent as
any white man in the Territory, tells me
that 1,400 white men have married Cherokee
gins within tne last ten years and that there
are now 2,000 men in this part of the Terri
tory. Many of the Cherokee men marry
white girls, and just here I would jay that
I find Indian girls here who are well
educated and good housekeepers.
There are about 4,000 Cherokees en cared
in xarming ana inev nave about 0,000 neaa
nfnttll lOfl OOn hnmi tfnA 19 Ann !.,...
White Men "Who Have Married Indian Girls I see some excellent cotton fields and they
raise more than a bale to the acre. The best
Carpenter Tisits the Firo.
Nations TVIio Own the
Indian Territory.
ALL DfDEPEHDEHT TEIBES.
Chief Mays Displays as Much Brains
as Axerase Congressmen.
THE PURCHASE OP THE STRIfV.
to Get Their Lands.
THE CHEEKS TOITE WITH JfEGEO BLOOD
ligation, laws and a
(COSSXSFOITOEXCB Or THI DISPATCH.!
TA.H1.EQTJAH, Ixd. T., September IT.
CROSSED Texas
in coming from
Mexico to the In
dian Territorv,and
I am now again in
a foreign country.
The five civilized
tribes, who own
the best part of
this Territory,
claim to be inde
pendent nations.
They have a civil
government of their
own, and these Cherokees, among whom I
am now living, have their own parliament
here at Tahlequah, and they elect their
Senate and Hn without regard to the
United States.
They have a president or chief, who is
elected by the vote of the people, and they
settle all civil matters in their own courts,
the cases being pleaded by their own lawyers
and decided by Indian judges. They have
their own Secretary of the Treasury and
their own police, and politics cuts as muoh.
ox a ngure nere as it does at V asnington.
A OLMPSE COT TUB CAPITAL.
Tahlequah is a town of perhaps 1,000 peo
ple and the State House is in its center. It
is a big two-story brick building which
looks more like a country country court
house than a National Capitol, and it is
located in a large park filled with great
forest trees. Around this the streets ex
tend out in every direction. They are wide
ana unpavea ana are lined witn sucn buiid
ingsas you will find in any town of 1,000
farms, however, are owned by white men or
halt-breeds and white men are acauirini
more farming territory here every day.
THE XiAKOS OF THE CHICKASAWS.
Some" of the best lands in the Indian Ter
ritory are those of the Chickasaws, and you
find some of the largest farms among them.
Erank Murray, a white man, married to a
Chickasaw woman, has 16,000 acres under
cultivation and he keeps 5,000 head of cat
tle. He is said to be worth 5300,000 and he
adds to his lands every year. Sam Paul, a
half-breed Chicasaw, has 8,000 acres under
cultivation, and awhite man named Hector,
who married a Chickasaw girl, is farming
COO acres. Here amonir the Cherokees
there is a half-breed named Starin, who has J
o,uuu acres, ana tnere are many other farms
much larger.
The Chickasaw country is the only one
which has been surveyed and divided into
moretliai' '18.001,900 for it, but I suppose
that the G.xreruiiicnt will try and get it for
fl 23 nn cere.
A CHANCE FOB TUTOLB "
It has been so arranged now that the In
dians get no revenue from it, and if Uncle
Sam holds on long enough they will proba
bly come to his terms. It will in all likeli
hood be the old story of fraud against the
Indians and will take itt place anion? the
unpaid Jaims of Congress. In 1868 the
United States made a treaty with tho Choo
taws and Chickasaws, and thereby gat a
large tract oi iana lor wmen tney agreea to
pay the Indians $6,211,000. The Indians
never got the money and the whites have
the land. At the same time there was a
treaty made with the Creek Indians, which
hung fire for years, and the five civilized
tribes if they had their dues would receive
millions of dollars from the United States
Treasury. As it is, they get a certain
STORIES OF THE SKY
As Told to the Modern World
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Cherokee TjTtlverstty.
have
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Inhabitant, in the United States. The
houses back of the main or business street
have big grounds, and some of them are
eight and ten-room cottages. Only a few
of the houses are built of logs and the most
of them are nf boards and some are after the
models furnished in books of suburban
architecture.
The Capitol contains the legislative halls,
the Treasury Department, the Supreme
Court and the Department of Education. I
Tisited it to-day, and I found the Treasury
much like a country bank, consisting of a
counter running across a 10x12 room. Iron
bars ran from the front of the counter to the
ceiling, and in the space behind there was
a safe and an Indian who talked to me
through a little hole over the center of the
counter.
A TALK WITH TEE CHIEF.
The legislature was not in session, but I
took a J oak into the halls and called upon
Mr. Mays, who has for two terms served as
Chief of the Cherokees. I found him in his
executive chamber on the second floor of
the Capitol. He is a bis, broad-shouldered
man with a big head and an intellicent face
In which few signs of Indian blood are to be
seen. liis hair is dark brown, and the Jower
half of his lace is covered with a short
brown beard. He was dressed in citizen's
clothes and his talk was in as good English
and as full of ideas as that of the average
American Congressman.
He has been Supreme Judge of the na
tion for years, and he is a very intelligent
man. He lias a fine farm not lar off from
Tahleguah and he cultivates the soil after as
ecientifio methods as thobe which prevail on
the estate of Uncle Jerry Itusk in the gar
den of Wisconsin. During my talk with
him the question of the Cherokee strip came
up and he told me that there was no doubt
that this valuable piece of land would
eventually be sold, and he evidently
thought that the Indians ought to be allow
ed to sell it to the highest bidder. Said he:
ornnts fob the stsif.
This strip contains over 6,000,000 acres
and these are as fine lands as exist in the
United States. It lies north of Oklohoma
and west of the Osages and it is well water
ed and valuable. I have received a number
of offers for it since I have been chief, and
u ivautiii vyiiv una wouia nave given us
30,000,000 for it. Another party offered us
E20,000,000, and a third offer which we have
had was 512,000,000. AVe may have to sell
It to the United States, but if we do we
ought to get a fair price for it."
This strip has nothing to do with this
part of the Territory. The nation owns
some of the fincEt lands of the United States
in the northeastern pnrt of the Indian Ter
ritory, and from the stage rides which I
have taken through this country I judge
that not more than one-tenth of "it is culti
vated. Still it U seems to be rich. I rode
from Muskogee, the biggest town of the
Creek nation, to the Arkansas river, which
we forded, and thence came on to Fort
Gibson and hy another stage down here to
Tahlequah. Along the whole way the soil
tts fertile. There were great plains cov
ered with luxuriant grass, and the ride was
more like one through
A WELIf-KETT E1TQI.ISH PABK
than through a half-settled Indian reserva
tion. It is the same throughout these civil.
Ized nations. The Missouri, Kansas and
Texas ltailroad p.vses through four of them
and this is the best road for visiting the In
dian Territory. Allalong.it from Texas to
Eansas you see rich farms, fat cattle and
there are a nnmber of very fair towns, the
biggest of which is Muskogee, with 2,000 peo
ple. You see also great stretches of unoccu
pied land, and these Indian nations have
curious regulations in regard to their lands.
.every jnerokce has the ngnt w as mucn
laud as he can use, and he can hold all the
land he fences in, provided he cultivates it.
He has also the right to a quarter of a mile
of land tor grazing outside the fences all
around his larm, and some of these Indians
have big estates. The farms here range all
the way from 160 acres to 16,000 acres, and
many of the farms are managed by white
men, who get in here by marrying Cherokee
wives. There aro about 25,000 Cherokees,
sections, and I don't think that there is a
good system of records among the other
tribes. Lands maybe sold as far as their
improvements are concerned, hut an Indian
cannot sell his land to awhite man. The
Texas cattle men look with envy on these
rich plains of green and they try all sorts
of dodges td get in. Xot long ago in the
Creek country they tried to steal 50,000
acres and they built 110 miles of wire fenoe
around this. They had something like 10,
000 head of cattle on this land and they
rather defied the Indians.
THE INDIANS TOOK THEIE OWIT.
The Indians held a council and went along
the fence and chopped ofiT the posts close to
the ground. They said: "We don't know
about tne- wire, that may belong to tho
white man and we won't touch it. But as
for these posts, they were cut from our
forests and they belong to the Indians and
we will cut them down." The result was
that the Texans had to take their cattle out
of the country.
A great many Texas cattle are grazed in
the Territory by Indians for Texans, and
there are a number or pastures in the Creek
country ranging in size from 10,000 to 60,000
Bcres. xney receive irom ti. to l 6V a nead,
and thongh the grazing of cattle in this way
is against the law of the tribes, it is winked
at and permitted to be done. Many of the
Cherokees employ white men to work for
them, and in the Chickasaw nation in the
Washita Valley there is a farm 60 miles
long, the owner of which is an Indian and
the laborers are white. There is an Indian
here who has a costly residence in the cen
ter of 1,000 acres of beautiful land, and
among his hands are some Cherokees that
get 10 a month. They could have farms ot
their own, but don't seem to care to take
them.
CHIEF OF THE CH0CTAW3.
I had a talk with Governor Smallwood,
who was for a long time chief of the Choc
taws. I met him at the little town of
Atoka and found him a very intelligent
man. He tells me that the Choctaw nation
has 17 counties in it, and that it has its
Senate and House just as the Cherokees
have. Its Governor gets 52,000 a year as a
salary, and is elected for a term of two
years. He has the same authority as one
of the Governors of our States, except that
he cannot pardon. Governor Smallwood
says that there are about 18,000 Choctaws
and that these believe in the Christian re-
Two Creek JJoj'S.
ligion and are of all denominations except
Catholic. The Choctaws live in log houses
and plain cottages and their people are
steadily advancing in culture.
There is no State in the Union that pays
proportionately more toward education
than the Choctaws, and I find that the
Cherokees here have an excellent system of
fiublio schools. One of the leading "political
Bsues here at Tahlequah is the public
school system. They have a big boys' col
lege here and a female seminary, and they
have a system of public schools which ex
tends throughout the country.
CtOSED FOB WAlfT OF FUUDS.
The revenue of the nation, however, ran
behind, and these schools have all been shut
up for a year on account of there being no
money to pay the teachers, and the ques
tion of this payment and the reorganization
of the schools is one which the young
Cherokee orators are now discussing on the
stump. The opposition to Chief Mays' re
election charges that it is due to his ineffi
ciency ana bad government tnat tnere nas
not been enough money to pay the teach
ers, and the friends of the Chief show quite
as plainly that the deficit rises from other
causes. In the meantime the big seminary
lies idle and the university has no scholars.
I w ent through the seminary this afternoon.
It has as fine accommodations as any col
lege in Ohio, and it is run on the Mt Hol
yoke plan, the girls keeping their own
rooms in order and doing part of the house
work of the institution.
The Government has not treated the
Cherokees fairly, and in the sale of the
Cherokee Strip Uncle Sam ought to give
them what it is worth. Chief Bushyheod
tells me that when he was at the head of the
government he was offered 53 an acre, or
amount yearly, The Cherokees
ccived 5145,000 a year. This is divided up
per capita, and the man who has a dozen
children gets ten portions more than the
man who has two. I traveled to Tahlequah
with a little boy and his Cherokee mother,
and the woman told me she was going to
the capital of the nation to get her Govern
ment money. The Creeks get about 5180.
000 per annum, and they pay ?50,000 of this
for keeping up their schools. They are
now putting up three colleges and they
uuvu a guuu euucauonai system.
RICHEST rir THE wobld.
The Osages are the richest of all the In
dians. They are just west of the Cherokees
and they receive 5250,000 a year from
Washington. Each man. woman and rhild
injthe tnbe gets somewhere between 5150 and
5200 a year, and these people are compara
tively the richest people in the world. The
Government owes them more than 57,000,
000, and there are only about 1,600 of them
living. Besides this they have a reserva
tion which gives them about 1,000 acres of
land apiece, and if they worked they
might become Croesuses. They do not
labor, however, and they are Baid to be fast
dying out
By all odds the worst men in the Indian
Territory are the white men. There are
ten drunken cowboys, horsa thieves und
jailbirds to every one decent man among
mem, ana mis utile town 01 xaniequan,
with its Indian population, has infinitely
better order than the towns along the rail
road, where the whites have been permitted
to do business. The hotel here Is gpod and
I have not seen a bit of disorder or any
drunkenness during my stay here. It is
against the law to sell liquor in the Terri
tory, and that which is brought here is
smuggled in by the whites.
HOW THE WHITES ACT.
There was a big celebration at JFort Smith
the other day, and the railroads going
through the Territory gave excursion rates.
The cowboys along the line attended, and I
happened to be traveling in one of the trains
by which they returned. I have never seen
a more drunken, disreputable and disorderly
crowd. Tho men were wild with liquor,
and red-faced cowboys with big hats on
their heads jumped up and down, vellincr
and crowing like roosters and swearing
they could whip any blanked man in the
car.
One of the worst of these men was a
deputy marshal, whose hair was like tow
and whose face was as red as 'a beet. He
came from Muscogee, and he is evidently a
good fellow when he is sober, but he is a
mean one when he is drunk. This man
swaggered to and fro making a letter S of his
tracks which ran from one end of the car to
the other. Every now and then he would
clap his elbows to his side, hop up and
down, and crow like a rooster. There were
others with him quite as bad, and there
were a couple of half-breed Indian girls, who
were drunk, and now and then you would
see a man jerk a revolver from his hip and
brandish it around, and at times there were
half a dozen revolvers out It was by no
means safe, and I was glad when we finally
stopped at Wagoner, where I was to stay
over night. Here I stopped at a hotel
called the Valley House, kept by a drunken
landlord named Harris, and was given a
room just over the office, where I could
hear Harris and the cowboys carousing for
into the morning.
2TEGBOES OF THE TEBBITOBT.
There are many negroes still in the Indian
Territory and you find many of the Creeks
who have inter-married with the negroes.
The Choctaws have also many people of
mixed Indian and negro blood and the
Chickasaws had big cotton plantations be
fore the war and had many slaves. These
Cherokees here are the "proudest of all
these Indian tribes. They are the aristo
crats of the Five HatioDg. They seldom
intermarry with the negro, and they have
separate schools for them. There are stores
here run by the Indians quite as good as
those of the white men in the towns along
the railroad, and I am surprised to Bee
wnat big 6tocks of goods they carry and
what variety of articles they use. The dry.
goods stores contain all kinds of ladies'
dress goods, and these women here do not
confine themselves by any means to calico.
Such as I have seen wear as good clothes
as you will find worn by the women of any
town of this size in the United States and
they dress in exactly the same way. Most of
the families of Tahlequah have sewing
machines, and nearly every house has a
piano or organ. They use cooking stoves
and have exactly the same kind of house
hold furniture that yon will find in an
American village. The men dress in the
same way and of the Cherokees only the
fewest cling to their old habits and there
are none I think but who wear citizens'
clothes. Some of the poorest Indians, and
these are generally full-blooded ones, live
in log cabins and these do nothing but fish
and cultivate a little ground for their own
corn. These, I understand, are chiefly in
the eastern part of the nation, where there
is some mountainous country.
THE WHITES ABE A NUISANCE.
As far as I can learn the Indians would
get along better if the whites were kept en
tirely out of the Territory. The "most of
these who come rob the Indians, and they
are as a rule shiftless, unscrupulous and bad
citizens. The Indians themselves know that
they must be eventually swallowed up by
the whites, and.though they will not confess
tnis, tney say tnat it it aoes come the Gov
ernment must pay the Indians for their
lands and allow each one a fee simple title
to a farm.
The Indian Territory has now only about
80,000 Indians. Still, the country is much
biggerthan New York and Massachusetts,
and it is nearly the same size as Kansas. It
would support a population of 5,000,000 or
6.000,000, and it contains the best lands in
tne United States. Thousands of settlers
are watching it, and white men have settled
here and there in it evading the law in some
way or other, that keeps them out, to be
ready to take advantage of the situation
when the Territory is opened to settlement.
There are thousands of men who are watch
ing the Cherokee Strip, and when it is pui
chased it will be settled as quickly as was
Oklahoma a few years ago.
JFeank G. Cabpenteb.
Great and marvelous has been the ad
vance made in the science of astronomy
since the invention ot the spectroscope. As
Dr. Huggins remarked in, his recent Presi
dental address before the British Associa
tion at Cardiff, "spectroscopic astronomy
has become a distinct and acknowledged
branch of the science, possessing a large
literature of its own and observatories
specially devoted to it, and has opened a
pathway into the unknown of which even
an enthusiast 30 years ago would scarcely
have dared to dream."
Dr. Huggins sees a grand future before
the sublime science to which he has de
voted his life:
Astronomy, he exolaimed, the oldest of
tho sciences, nas more than renewed her
j-outh. At no time in the past has she been
so bright with unbounded aspirations and
hopos. Never were her temples so numer
ous, nor the crowd of her votaries so great.
The British Astronomical Association,
formed within the year, numbers already
about 600 members. Happy is the lot of
those who are still on the eastern side of
life's merldlapl Already, alasl the original
founders of the newer methods are falling
out Kirchoff, Angstrom, D' Arrest, Secohl,
Draper, Becqnerel; but their plaoes are
more than filled: the nnco of the race is
paining, but the goal Is not and never will
bo in sight. Since tho time of Newton our
knowledge of the phenomena of nature has
wonderfully Increased, But man asks, per
haps more earnestly now than in his days,
what Is the ultimate reality behind the
reality of the perceptions? Are they only
tne petioles oi tne ueacn with wnicu we
have been playingt Does not the ocean of
ultimate reality and truth lie beyond?
ITS WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS.
Speaking of what has been accomplished
with the aid of the spectroscope,he said:
By means of Its light alone to analyze the
chemical nature of a far-distant body; to be
able to reason aoout its present state in re
lation to the past and future; to measure
within an English mile or less persecond the
otherwise invisible motion which it may
have toward or from us; to do more to make
even that which is darkness to our eyes'
light, and from vibrations which our organs
ot Biglit aro powerless to perceive to evolve
a revelation in which we see mirrored some
of the stages through whloh the stars may
pass in their slow evolutional progress
suroly the record of such achievements,
however poor the form of words In which
they may be described, Is worthy to be re
garded as tho soientino eplo of the present
Having referred at some length to the
improvements which have been made in the
construction of the spectroscope, and to the
spectra ot the light of the sun, of the
electrio light, and of flamo, Dr. Huggins re
ferred to the Aurora Borealis, the true
nature of which had not yet been dis
covered: The speotroscope has failed as yet to in
terpret for us the remarkable spectrum of
the Aurora Borealis. Undoubtedly in this
pnenomenon portions or ouracmospnere are
lighted up by electrio discharges: we should
expoct, therefore, to recognize the spectra
of gases known to be present in It. As
yet we have not been able to obtain similar
spectra from these gases artificially, and es
pecially we do not know tho origin of the
principal line in the green, which often ap
pears alone, and may have, theretore, an
origin independent of that of the other lines.
Recently the suggestion has been made that
the Aurora is a phenomenon produced
BY THE SUSI OF MEIE0E3
and falling stars, and that near positions of
certain auroral lines to lines or flutlngs of
manganese, lead, barium, thallium, iron,
etc, are sufficient to justify ns in regarding
meteorlo dust in the atmosphere as the
origin of the auroral spectrum. Llveingand
Dewar have made a conclusive research on
this point by availing themselves of the dust
of excessive minuteness thrown off from the
surface of electrodes of various metals and
meteories by a disruptive discharge, and
carried forward into the tube of observation
by a more or less rapid current of air or
other gas. These experiments prove that
metallio dust, howeyer fine, suspended in a
gas will not act like gaseous matter in be
coming luminous with its characteristic
spectrum in an electrio discharge similar to
that of Aurora.
The president then proceeded to state
some of the considerations from the charac
ter of their spectra which appeared to him
to be in favor of the evolutional order in
which he arranged the stars from their pho
tographio spectra in 1879.
This order was essentially the same ai
Vogel had previously proposed In 187t, in
which the white stars, which were most
numerous, represented the early adult and
and most persistent stage of stellar life, the
solar condition that of full maturity and
commencing age, while in the orange and
red Bears with banded spectra he saw the
setting in and advance of old ago. Photo
met rlo observations, comDlned with its as
certained parallax; showed that the star
Sirlus emitted from 40 to 60 times the light
of our sun; while we learned from the mo
tion of its companion that its mass was not
much more than double that of our sun. It
followed that unless this star was of an im.
probly great emissive power it must be of
immense size, and In a much more diffuse
and therefore an earlier condition than our
sun, tnougn proDamy at a later stage than
tmmo irmiv Biars w
light was bright.
THE DXBUZtAB HYPOTHESIS.
All the heavenly bodies were seen by us
through the tinted medium of our atmos
phere. According to Langley, the solar
stage of stars was not really yellow, but,
even as gauged by our Imperfect eyes,
would appear bluish white if we could tree
ourselves from tho deceptive Influences of
our surroundings. We had before us in the
sun and planets obviously not "a haphazard
aggregation of bodies, but a system resting
upon a multitude of relations pointing to a
common physical cause. From these con
siderations Kant and Laplaoe formulated
the nebular hypothesis, resting It ongravl.
tation alone, for at that time the science of
the conservation of energy was practically
unknown. These philosophers showed how.
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which, the hydrogen
on the supposition that the space-now occu
plea by the solar system was once filled by
a vaporous mass, the formation of the sun
and planets could be reasonably accounted
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By a totally different methnrt nf Tasmitnir
modern science traced the solar system
backwaid, stop by step, to a similar state of
things at the beginning. According to Helm
holtz, the sun's heat was maintained by the
contraction of his mass at the rate of about
220 feet a year. "Whether at the present time
tho sun was getting hotter or colder we did
not certainly know. We could reason back
to the time when the sun was sufficiently ex
panded to fill tho space occupied by tho solar
system, and was reaneed to n. irt crlnwimr
nebula. Though man's life, the life of the
race perhaps, was too short to give us direct
evidence of any distinct stages of so august
a process, still the probability was great that
the nebular hypothesis represented broadly,
notwithstanding some difficulties, the suces
slonof events through which tho sun and.
planets had passed.
Dr. Huggins next discussed the applica
tion of photography to the methods of as
tronomical research:
STEEAMS OF TWINKLINO STABS.
The remarkable successes of astronomical
photography, which depended upon the
plate's power of accumulation of a very fee
ble light acting continuously through an ex
posal e of several hours, were, he said,
wortny to De regarded as a new revelation
Some j:oeont photogragbs by Mr. Russell
bhowed that the great rift in the Milky Way
in Argus, which to the eye was void of stars,
was in reality covered with them. The
heavens were richly but very irregularly In
wrought with stars. The brighter stars clus
tered into well-known groups upon a back
ground formed of an eulacement of streams
and convoluted windings and intertwined
spirals of fainter stars, which became richer
and more intricato in the irregularly rifted
zone ot the Milky Way. We who formed
part of the emblazonry conld only see the
design distorted and confused here
crowded, there scattered, at another place
superposed. The groupings duo to our posi
tion were mixed up with those which wero
real.
Feet without corns are pearls of high
price. Daisy Corn Cure ispositive and per
manent in its effect. 15 cents; all druggists I
A STORY OF THE AMERICAN' STAGE.
WBITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH
to herself that in a little while
over.
'It comes in aminute," Freda whispered,
passing near the entrance.
Daisy's heart thumped heavily. Just
then a startled murmer from the girls be
hind her caught her attention.
The girls ("ladies of rank," on the pro
gramme) who, by entering with her, were
to assist the scene with a generous display
ot chalked shoulders and such luxurious
impression as their property dresses could
around the rouge, "there lies one side of
the life into which you are swarming. A
sweet, brave, loyal heart is broken here.
This wee bit of womankind has braved a
fight ten times beyond the strength of any
woman. Her name heads ns all on the
programme out there. What does that
mean? Toil, patience, courage undaunted,
dogged courage. And here is the end of it
all! She lieshere at the feet of a man who
has had from her her best of loyalty and
love. And this is the end of it alii Xoa
convey, were all, with widened eyes, look- have sneered and laughed! Dare to do it
ing down the longhall which terminated at'
the stage door. Up this hall, with rapid
steps came a white clad, diamond-lighted
figure whoso soft hair and strained face
showed clearer as she neared the glare of
the wings.
"Its Miss Ellaine," gasped the girls.
They fell back from her, and Daisy
shrunk asideas with rustle of silk and
chink of beaded fringe, her eyes bright and
fixed, she came. At sound of the fomilar
I nowl Her faith has claimed even her life.
and she has not failed. It is like her to
come here at last, make no sim against him,
though her heart's blood comes to her lips
to speak for her."
She gathered the frail form in her arms
and moaned over it.
That night Bird's eyes opened and rested
on Freda's face, then wandered to Kildare,
who stood glowering at the foot of the bed.
As her eyes cleared from stupor he bent
CrTAPTEB XV.
BIRD TAKES UP HEB CUE.
"Bemember," said Freda to Daisy, as
the performance was about to begin, don't
act, keep cool; mind your business, don't
speak till you are sure you have your cue,
and, if you leaye out anything, don't go
back for it"
Poor Daisy was white through her make
up; trembling and breathing in short gasps.
"Give her some whisky," said Tirade.
"And make her sickl Go away."
"Oh, what shall Ido?" panted Daisy.
"Don't gasp, for one thing; it only makes
you more scared. Breath slow and strong,"
and as Daisy began fluttering the leaves of
her part, "let your part alone, you can't
learn any more now, and you only add to
your fidgets."
"Freda, I can't control myself."
"Self control," said Freda, "is at best
and at first suppressing display of emotion.
Keeping quiet physically will make you
quiet mentally. Do it."
Daisy began to whisper, while the
muscles of her face twitched. At this
Freda saidt
"Look here, Daisy I .You're going to be
calm or in hysterics before five minutes, ac
cording to whether you take my advice or
go on starting and gasping, and walking up
and down."
By dint of hard-hearted talk like this
Freda got the girl through to her first cue.
As "end of my rope" sounded, Daisy, with
sudden stiffening of every muscle, walked
on the Btage humming, as .Freda had
directed; only she hummed "Oh where, oh
where," instead of the suggested melody.
At the sound of her own voice and the com
forting observation that her feet were mov
ing ail right, confidence, like a dove of
peace, settled upon her. The audience
melted from her thoughts. She was con
scious of a soft orange glow in front of her,
Jike a luminous curtain fringed with the
wavering footlights. Her own identity
faded, and the scene went smoothly, even
charmingly. "Very well, my dear, very
well," Baid Kildare, giving her a slight
squeeze before he dissolved the curtain
picture, "and your dress is charming, too."
"Don't feel too sure," Freda warned, as
she hastily pinned on the ''drapery waist"
and adjusted the borrowed train.
For all that, Daisy waited impatiently for
the cue. This was her "big scene;" in this
she would show them.
"Let her come in," said the Nabob.
Daisy flung the door open and came in
flying. There was a scene brace across the
door though, and over this she tripped. In
spite of the stumble she gathered lierself,
but the pause had given the door time to
ftlAea fr ar twin "Rtt lirt fltnn Tt haA
freed herself all courage for "flying in" had
departed, and she pattered weakly to her
"father," slumped on her knees and won
dered if her feet were free from her dress.
The Nabob's eyes were fixed expectantly on
her. A pall of horror crossed her brain. Of
course, of course, she ought to speak I The
Nabob roared the line in her ears. She
fathered herself and spoke it, but her confi
ence was gone. When she rose she found
herself jammed between her father's chair
and her tangled train. Her mouth was dry
and she could not wet it. An awful hush
seemed around her through which her own
voice piped quaveringly. The "house"
was alternately a black yawning vault and
a flame-streaked space. Now and then the
heads of the musicians and the handle of
the bass viol showed like demons swimming
m a sea ui uauie. -i.il e loouigms gave ner
that idea, she supposed, and, having
stopped to suppose that, her lines left her.
A panic-struck thought of running-away
came. To get away where? Anywhere
dark and quiet I Then the words started
again. They didn't sound like sense, but
she was glad to voice whatever came in her
head. The Nabob evidently got his cue all
right, for he made his exit.
Poor Daisy felt herself deserted in a
jungle of India with wild animals all around
her. She fought desperately through the
stream of words, her arms swinging here
and there, she went'down on her knees for
the 'prayer' part, and thought she heard a
pin give way. Then the page she had
studied appeared before her. She thanked
her Maker, and read wildly from the phan
tom manuscript. When the words blurred
she 'made up.' At the end, mindful of
Freda's directions, she rose and backed into
the calcium. She heard more pins go, and she
was a good deal out of wind, but she braced
for a final effort, With her lost breath she
shouted huskily:,
"I will .marry the DnkeP
Of course it shonld have been 'Count
She realized that at once, and as the curtain
descended corrected herself in a shrill
squeak, which fortunately, the curtain musio.
drowned,
"Oh Freda!" she wailed, "I shall never
be an actress."
"Never mindl It wasn't so bad. Lucky I
used safety pins, wasn't it?"
"Bat I out out the whole plot saying
Dnkel,M
"Oh, well, that doesn't hurt the play.
Most of them expected you to say 'Count,
and probably thought yon did say Count
The rest didn't hear anyhow."
Daisy's xterve was gone though. Even
her coming wordless scene seemed too
much for her. vAh! how delusive were the
tales'o? the joys of acting and the triumphs
of understudies! Freda managed to get
her on and off two or three times, the last
time saying:
"Your next ends it, remember the Nabob
brings you on."
Daisy stood faint and trembling, saying
IMw fo x' V' ' -vix- ill iKill l r l5 ' I
A FBIOHTENED IiOOK OF HELPLESSNESS CEOSSED HEE FACE.
words from the stage her face lightened.
The cue was upon her. She lifted the
dranerv. and stood in the light of the stage.
A stir went through the house at sight of
the slender, nerve-sustained ngure, with
great earnest eyes and star-crowned brow.
The people on the stage fell back. She
motioned the nabob aside and with head
erect and unfaltering step, came to her ap
pointed place. Her shining.eyes were fixed
on Kildare. In that moment all faded from
her but his face. She lifted her arms
toward him.
"I am come!" she said, and then again,
more loudly, "I am come!"
With this she swayed, her eyes showed
white, and she fell upon her face.
The curtain rang down. Freda lifted
Bird, and turned her face. A trail of blood
came from between the clenched teeth.
"She is dead!" Freda moaned. Then she
stood and pointing at Kildare she cried:
"And that coward there has killed herl"
OHAPTEBXVL
TOU SEE HE LOVED MB.
"You are crazy," smiled Kildare.
"I am not; I mean it You have killed
her as surely as IT yon had put a knife into
her when first you saw her. You have killed
her heart and soul and will, through all
these cruel two years. You have wrung
from her, her beauty, her youth, her
strength, and now the poor life oomes, tool
You are a coward and a brute! You will go
unhanged, but this red blood here is on
your head. Look at her," she went on to
the "extras," who crowded about and
whose roughly painted faces showed pale
over her saying harsely:
"Where is it?" A frightened look of
helplessness crossed her face, then she re
membered and made an effort to lift her
hand to her breast. The satin gown had
been cut from her, but the lace undergear
had not been touched. From its folds
Fjeda drew a bit of paper upon which Kil
dare's hand at once closed.
In this moment Bird's face took sudden
beauty.
"You see, Freda!" she cried a ring al
most of life in her voicei-"you see he
loved me." Then, her eyes on him in
piteous question she said again: "You yon
love me?"
That was the end.
chapter xvrr.
COME.
The newspapers explained how the beau
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had heen stricken on the stage. They gave
a sketch of her career; of her little country
home which she had left for a course in the
New York Lyceum of Arts; of her progress
there, of her subsequent short experience,
her versatility, her ambition, her careful
study under Kildare. They spoke, too, of
his noble grief at her death, of his tender
thought of the mother into whose care he
resigned the shrouded form so lately fall of
life, and of his generous care of the sorrow
ing parent even to the door of the. desolated
home. All this though dates were canceled
and the company idle. They didn't men
tion that salaries were not .paid, but what
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