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A MORNINQ WALK.
iriMrtrfwm,MliwiriL
aanfebennty on the enrth and (xt laths
She world tea sot grows old
Warn feelUi tope Mr couobee nor cold,
Mr mtfeerennytarnlah ob the nappy
I the nJgbtln stoning,
regreta heartache and
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the wmdy.asnre mora, wan. clouds
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Life is not aB a cheat.
trite and incomplete.
and shadow flee acrom the nmews of
the wheat;
k upward pierces keen
The auk's snra exakatioa r the
Of theyoanf barley wavy fleece oC
DMetfMnr.ob, narrow heart;
That wlghtr yatare shared thy pear
Face her serene, heart whole, heart tree;
that is the better part.
Are the high beaTens beet,
A van of snow and mpphlre wonderment,
MererytoanA.didl egotist, thy tltwnsldisrnriti'art
Wouldst poor into the ear
Of the yonnc morn the tbouKhts that make thee
drear;
View the land Joyous splendor through the fohy
of a tear
The boon thou bast not had
Ifcmalight trivial thing to make thee sad
When with the sunshine and the storm God Is gk
rioas world is glad.
Hs gaDt to weep for tt!
When bVttte the swaOows by the poplars flit,
Aslant they go, pied cloven gleams thro' leersge
golden lit;
WhOo breezy purples stain
The long, low grassy reaches of the plain
Where ashen pale the adlera quake before the
taxricane.
Ahl there are stm delights
Bid hi the mnkitede of common sights,
The dear and wonted pageant of the summer
days aad nights
The word is not yet said
Of tiKlmste ending, we are quick, not dead,
Though the dim years withhold from us one frail
joy coveted.
Oht life is all too brief,
The world too wide, toowonderfol for grief,
Too crowded with the loveliness of bird and bud
and leaf.
So thoogh we said good-by
With bitter futile tears, my dream and I
Each slender blade of wayside grass is clothed
with majesty!
-Oonaill Magazine.
A THOUGHT AWMENER.
Dr.
Philalethes Sparkle was a great
i small way. He was the vicar
of an important suburban church, where
in a highly respectable and not wholly
unintelligent congregation was wont to
assemble for worship. In that congrega
tion the pastor had no enemies, while he
could boast of a large number of thor
ough going and ardent admirers. The
man was admittedly well fitted for his
post He was kind hearted, liberal
minded, quick witted, a fluent speaker
and, in the opinion of many, a thought
ful as well as an eloquent preacher.
But, in truth, "thoughtful" was just
what Dr. Sparkle was not. His great
difficulty and one that increased weekly
was about ideas. When he knew what
. to say he could say it well. No man could
produce a more brilliant "coruscation"
or effective flare up from a paltry amount
of material; but then the fuel had to come
from somewhere, and that was the doc
tor's difficulty. He liad a reputation to
maintain, and he was fully, almost pain
fully, conscious of the fact. When Mr.
Grundy, the people's warden, invited a
friend home for Sunday he would say,
"The missus will do the best she can to
provide a bit of dinner, and we can prom
ise you a good sermon, at all events."
Grundy, who was a good fellow though
a jerry builder, used to repeat his little
joke to the parson, and no doubt he was
a fair representative of many others in
the congregation.
Under these circumstances, and being
sorely harassed by the recurrent drying
up of the well spring of his ideas, Dr.
Sparkle had his attention arrested one
morning by an artfully worded circular
which he found among his letters. It
began as follows:
"Strictly Private Ad derum.
"Moved by the spirit of sympathy and
actuated, as he humbly hopes, by a de
sire to promote the highest ends, the
writer addresses himself to his over
wrought and sorely oppressed brethren.
Having had an exceptionally wide ex
perience of parish work in town and
country, among rich and poor, educa
ted and ignorant, he believes himself
to be fully conversant with the tastes
and requirements of each separate class
in the community. No one better than
the present writer knows what it is to
have to prepare amid a multitude of
other vocations two, three or more ser
mons a week. He has suffered himself,
and can therefore feel for his brethren
who are suffering. Accordingly he is
anxious, at the lowest price that will
cover actual outlay, to impart to his
brethren the results of a system of ser
mon production which has been per
fected by himself after years of anxious
toil and profound study."
After a good deal more of this sort of
thing, the circular went on to explain
that clients could be provided either (1)
with the finished article, L e., a litho
graphed sermon ready for immediate
delivery, and carefully adapted to any
' specified class of hearers; or (2) with a
"thought awakener" or skeleton, con
taming outlines, illustrations, applica
tions, etc., which could be filled in or
amplified according to the tastes and
talents of the purchasers. Finally a
guarantee was given that the same ser
asoBorbody of notes would never be
sent to two clergymen residing within
Mfty miles of each other, and that as far
as possible a yet wider area of distribu
tion would be observed.
Dr. Sparkle smiled as he read the
bombastic document, and was about to
throw it into the waste paper basket
' when something stayed his hand.
"J wonder whether many clergymen
avail themselves of this sort of thing,
my dear?" he said, tossing the circular
to his faithful wife, who generally sat
with him for an hour of a. morning.
"To deliberately get up and read anoth
er man's sermon seems to me absolutely
anfoL"
"But all men are not gifted like you,
Lethe, dear,' and I suppose there are
some who find it very difficult to preach
a good sermon," suggested Mrs. Sparkle.
"It is the dishonesty of the thing that
shocks me," explained the doctor. "If
a man can't write a sermon or hasn't
taase, let him honestly say so. Let him
take a printed book and read from it;
bat to go into the pulpit with a litho
graph aad deliver it as his own is a
thiag I cannot conceive any Christian
asaa. daring to do."
"It would be different if it were only
the notes," said the lady, who had been
l specimen "taougax awax-
'that had been inclosed with the
"Idoat like the idea at all; it savors
of natruthfulness," replied the vicar in
aloftytoae.
Mm Sparkle felt rebuked, not
so
ach forwaat she had said as for
tttsg she had ventured to think.
itiaae after this the vicar found
to appoint a sew curate, the
M one having married a rich wife and
l kicked over the traces. The
iforthe vacant office were
ly prencc, a good dear
i aa amount of preach-
wosM satisfy the 'coagre-
the vicar's
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several applicants the doctor's
was the Rev. Jonathan Cribber. Bat as
it was necessary, in appearance at least,
to consult tire wishes of the congregation
(who were expected to find the funds), It
was arranged that, before arriving at a
decision, the young man should be In
vited to preach onacertara Sunday even
ing. "Not, of course, a trial sermon,"
the vicar was careful to explain; "that
is a thing I abominate and would always
set say face against, but just to let yon
see say people, try your voice, and that
sort of thiag." Cribber, being a prudent
young man, was quite satisfied with this
way of putting it
When the day arrived on which Mr.
Cribber was "to try his voice," Dr.
Sparkle was suffering from a bad cold,
la the morning, being single handed, be
had no choice but to get through the
aim in1 as well as he could; and being a
man who, when put to it, was always
equal to the occasion, he aconitted him
self very creditably. He delivered a
striking and pathetic address from the
words, "the foolishness of preaching,"
and the physical disability under which
he was evidently laboring only served to
heighten the effect of his allusions to the
"earthen vessels" to which celestial
treasures were so often intrusted. But
in the evening, obedient to his doctor's
orders, the good man stayed at home,
leaving the whole service to Mr. Cribber,
and submitting himself patiently to such
coddling measures as his wife thought
to enforce.
As the night drew on Dr. Sparkle be
came very much depressed, despite all
his wife's efforts to cheer him.
"I am sure you would have been
pleased, dear, if you could have heard
the way the people spoke of you when
coming out of church this morning.
The Grundys had some friends with
them, and they said that they had never
heard a better sermon."
Generally the vicar was keen enough
to listen to any little bit of tittle-tattle
of a flattering character, but on the pres
ent occasion he seemed distressed rather
than pleased. Turning uneasily on his
pillow his wife had made him go to
bed early he merely said in a languid
voice:
"And you, my dear what did you
think of itT
"I think it was the most beautiful ser
mon you ever preached," replied the lady
enthusiastically, "though all your ser
mons have been splendid of late. Some
months ago, you remember, you com
plained of feeling exhausted, and insist
ed that the fountain of your ideas was
drying up. But it seems to me that ever
since your ideas have been brighter and
more original than formerly; they have
bubbled and sparkled as though to match
your name."
This was an old family joke, and it
always used to please him. Now, how
ever, it seemed to have lost its efficacy.
The worthy man threw his arms impa
tiently on the counterpane, and ex
claimed bitterly:
"I feel exhausted and utterly dried up
to-night anyhow. I'm fit for nothing."
"You have studied too hard, Lethe,
dear. Your brain lias been over
wrought," said Mrs. Sparkle affection
ately. "We must go for a nice long
holiday when the new curate,, comes.
Only last week Dr. Brigg said that if
ever a man had earned a holiday you
had."
"Ah, by the way, I wonder how Crib
ber is getting on?" interrupted the vicar,
glad, apparently, to change the topic of
conversation. "I should like to have
heard him for myself."
"You are better where you are, dear,
much better," urged the good woman,
as she carefully tucked him in for the
night. "Mr. Grundy will bring us all
the news in the morning, and then we
can talk things over."
"The important thing is what Mrs.
Grundy, the mouthpiece of the flock,
will say," remarked the vicar, as he
settled himself among the pillows,
pleased apparently with his own wit.
On Monday morning the vicar was so
far recovered that he was able to receive
Mr. Grundy in his study. The worthy
church warden was evidently ill at ease.
His inquiries as to the pastor's health
were profuse and long drawn out; his ob
servations on the weather were diffuse
and inconsistent. At length Dr. Sparkle
found it necessary to bring him to the
point.
"Well, Mr. Grundy, I am waiting to
hear how everything went off last night."
"Oh, first rate, sir, first rate. Large
congregation.beautiful anthem, offertory
above the average."
"AndMr. Cribber?"
"A most excellent young man, as I
believe, sir. Fine voice, made a good
impression that is, on those who hadn't
heard you in the morning."
The vicar smiled, and looked well
pleased at what ho deemed to be a neat
compliment intended for himself.
"Well, my friend, you must remember
he is but a young man and without much
experience. We ought not to be too criti
cal. We all had to make a beginning
once.'
"It isn't that, sir. It was the coinci
dence that struck the people."
"The what?" exclaimed Dr. Sparkle,
a vague sense of iineawnem creeping
over him.
"The coincidence, sir. He gave us
'The Foolishness of Preaching' 'over
again. I mean his text was the same as
that which you so ably expounded in
the morning."
"Bather awkward," laughed the vicar.
"I fear it would have embarrassed the
poor young fellow had he known about
it; but, after all, the thing might easily
happen. The words are in the evening
lesson, though I took them for my text
in the morning. You see, the arrange
ment for Mr. Cribber to preach was
somewhat hurriedly made."
"But it isn't only the text it is the
sermon itself the people are talking
about, sir. I didn't pay much attention
myself, but Mrs. Grundy will have it
that, though the words were different,
the substance, the backbosa, the skele
ton was just the same."
"The skeletonr exclaimed the near
in a horror stricken voice.
"Well, that's the word my wife used,"
said the church warden apologetically.
"I didn't quite follow her myself; for,
though Tve heard of people having skele
tons in a cupboard, I never knew of one
in a pulpit." Mr. Grundy laughed at his
own smartness, but a dark cloud settled
upon the broad brow of Dr. Sparkle.
"I think," he at last said gravely,
"that the people must have been misled
by some passing resemblances and fan
cied analogies. Hearing the same text,
the thoughts of those who were present
in the morning would naturally run in
the lines suggested by my treatment of
the subject, and they would thus read
a meaning and a reference in the per
haps confused language of a young and
inexperienced preacher, which were not
really intended to be conveyed by him."
Mr. Grundy, who had a profound re
spect for the vicar, was duly impressed
with this exposition of the case; but re
calling the withering criticisms to which
the unfortunate Cribber had been sub
jected by Mrs. Grundy and her friends
as cue supper table -the previous night,
he ventured to make a further stand.
"No doubt there is great force in what
you say, sir, and you are well skilled
m the workings of the human mind, aa
becomes an able minister of the New'
Testament; bat there are .some things
Mrs. Grundy and those I have heard
au
Poor Dr: Sparkle was fa a terrible fix.
Bo far as words went he had always beea
truthful, and hewaanotnaturallyamean
man; but what was he to do now? There
was Grundy waiting to be galled, aad It
was incumbent on him tossysoBBSahsBg.
B gave a little; sigh aad spoke ia Us
softest accent:
"Well, yon see, Mr. Orirniy, not hav
ing heard tkJa wondwrfal sermoa, I cam
not discuss the matter ia detail; nor
would I wish to think anything to the
efrparacemeatof a
been very highly recommended to
Several partial solutions occur to
none of them reflecting amduly on Mr.
Cribber. Possibly we may have looted
into the same commentary"
Mr. Grundy gave a knowing nod.
"Possibly Mr. Cribber may have read
some article of mme m oae or other of
the religions periodicals treating of this
subject. I my possibly, though I do not
at this moment recall having written
anything about it"
Mr. Grundy gave another yet more
knowing nod.
"And there is yet another hypothesis
connected with the obscure topic of un
conscious cerebration and reminiscence.
I tell you candidly I have preached on
that text before at the Abbey once and
elsewhere perhaps. Mr. Cribber may
have heard me. My thoughts may have
panned into an impressionable mind.
They may have been reproduced without
the slightest consciousness on his part
that they were not strictly originaL There
have been remarkable instances of tins
phenomenon."
Mr. Grundy was evidently impressed.
"I think," he said, "I can understand
how it has happened now, and the expla
nation you have given is very interest
ing. Butt perhaps, under the circum
stances, you might find some more suit
able gentleman for the curacy."
"I almost think you are right, Grun
dy," assented the vicar, eagerly. "Mr.
Cribber seems scarcely up to the mark
for such a congregation as ours. There,
were several other applicants who were
highly recommended Mr. Playfair, for
instance."
"I am sure he would be popular," said
the church warden.
"Well, I shall give the matter my
best consideration; and you may rest
assured it will be my wish to do what
ever is for the highest interests of the
congregation." .
Dr. Sparkle spoke in his most dulcet
tone, but as soon as Mr. Grundy left
the room he sat down and wrote as fol
lows to the Rev. Jonathan:
"Dear Sir From what I hear of the
sermon delivered by you last night, I
regret that I am obliged to conclude
that you are altogether unsuited to my
curacy. My people have 'become accus
tomed to original, or at all events inde
pendent thought in the pulpit, and I do
not suppose you would yourself main
tain the applicability of either of these
words to the discourse with which you
favored them. I return the testimonials
you sent me, and remain yours, faith
fully, P. Sparkle."
Having sent this ill tempered produc
tion to the post, the unfortunate man
was forthwith ashamed of himself and
would gladly have recalled it He blamed
himself for all that had happened, and
became a victim to horrible remorse and
abject fear. His wife, who had learned
something of what had passed, had her
own suspicions; but, like a wise woman,
she kept them to herself, and did her
best to comfort her husband.
That very afternoon the Bev. Jona
than Cribber, in hot indignation, sought
out the clerical agent who had made up
for his own lack of brains and energy,
and bearded him in his den.
At first he stated his case without
mentioning any names.
"I can only say," replied the suave
cleric who devoted his energies to help
ing his weaker brethren, "that for origin
ality of thought and freshness of treat
ment I consider 'The Foolishness of
Preaching' to be among my master
pieces. I could show you numerous let
ters that I have received in reference to
that very sermon. There must, I take
it, be something very unfortunate in
your voice or mode of delivery. Now
I am about to form a clerical elocution
class, and I would strongly urge upon
you"
"My voice is excellent, sir! I have been
congratulated upon it again and again,"
roared the Reverend Jonathan.
"I do not doubt its power, sir," re
plied the clerical agent, with a depre
catory motion of the hand, "but it may
need"
"You talk about letters, sir. Bead
that," said the irate Cribber, interrupt
ing him and flinging Dr. Sparkle's note
upon the table.
The agent read the letter, and then,
after a few minutes conversation, he re
marked: "Do you mean to say that you gave
them 'The Foolishness of Preaching in
Dr. Sparkle's church?"
"I do; and why not? I paid you for
the sermon."
"You told me you were in Lincoln
diocese when I sent it to you."
"And so I was, but I came to town to
see after Dr. Sparkle's curacy. I had a
perfect right to preach the sermon,"
said the Bev. Jonathan fiercely.
"Yes, I suppose you had at your own
risk," admitted the agent.
"But it has lost me an excellent cu
racy," continued the irate Cribber.
"And vou have lost me an excellent
client. Good morning."
On the following Sunday Dr. Sparkle's
pulpit was occupied by Mr. Playfair,
and it was announced that the vicar, in
obedience to the peremptory orders of
his medical adviser, had gone abroad
for a few weeks.
The doctor is now, with his faithful
wife by bis side, recruiting his energies
and laying in a genuine stock of fresh
ideas. He has resolved for the future
to have no secrets from Mrs. Sparkle,
and to eschew "skeletons." London
Truth.
Tim Peetic Bank Cashier.
It was in Indianapolis, or somewhere
around there. He was a trusted clerk
in the bank, with all the usual Sunday
school connections and religious reputa
tion. It was a big bank, when the direc
tors took special note of character. The
cashier died and they gave him the va
cant post He was a man of feeling and
had a great deal of poetry and originality
besides. He was deeply touched by the
death of his friend, whose place he took.
So he took apage of the cash book where
his friend's accounts closed, ruled it
around in artistic style with broad bands
of black, and in the center be wrote a
beautiful, touching, poetic obituary,
which brought tears to the eyes of the
president and the board of directors.
They were deeply impressed. Later
there came a little dispute between the
board and himself touching an extraor
dinary difference in the balance between
what they thought it ought to be and
what he found it was. He left, and they
turned back to read that beautiful obit
uary again. Opposite thatfeeungtribute
they found on the first page of his career
two "mistakes" which were much against
the bank and to the cashier's advantage.
San Francisco Chrosncte.
One day the driver of Bigelow's milk
route was unable to make bis trip from
sickness. He said to the proprietor:
"Take Batty, the old mare, and she will
take you to everyplace." She did bo,
not missing one customer of the hundred
on the route, and called at The Journal
oAce,attheeBd,forsim to get his pa-,
sac. Lewiaton Journal.
OUR FLAG.
At the recent slaking of the
of
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The tanadar londly booming
The huddled war
Each at
Hack, black Is all of
treat face;
It lightens twist
LSce crumpled
res the mist edge
The hidden reef
But encashes the jagged ledge
On, on they come, the poor dumb things,
The storm winds sereery drivhur:
At her dread work eac
For conquest madly attiring.
If ws must d(e--the leader's vofos
Oatsweued the roar of thunder
Tt is oar own aad solemn choice
To die onr dear Bag wader.
-For as today the battle Seld
b where the sens are lying.
Reclaim a right we cannot yield.
To glory la our dying.."
He ceased: upon the I
The Stan and Stripes were Soatmg.
The sight is like a trumpet blast,
Aad other snips quick noting.
Up to the sky therwlounds a cheer
That starts the echoes flying
Bach comes the answer, loud and dear.
From gallant hearts, though dying
A moment's space, the wave la brine
Baptise the flag low lying.
And from the breakers comes no alga
Ot living or of dying
O Sag, dear flag, once more thy i
As always la thy story.
Has set a thousand hearts aflame
For thee aad for thy glory.
Annie Broasoa King ia Harper- Baser.
BOYEirs stratagem;
Prior to 1857 a large tract of lake ter
ritory lying between the Upper Des
Moines and the Big Sioux rivers was in
fested by one of the most villainous
bands of Indian outlaws which the In
dian policy of the government has ever
called into being. It was the band of
eleven, led by Inkpaduta Scarlet Point
who in the winter of '67 massacred a
half hundred settlers in their scattered
cabins about Okoboji, Spirit and Pelican
lakes, and carried a number of women
into a captivity far .worse tlian death.
These Indians, disaffected Wapekuta
Sioux, had been outlawed from their
own tribe for the murder of their chief,
Tosagi. They were the pest and terror
of settlers in middle and western Iowa
from the timo that scattering colonies
first came in until their depredations
and atrocities culminated in the Spirit
Lake massacre. On that occasion whole
settlements were annihilated, their in
habitants being generally taken by sur
prise and killed inside their snowbound
cabins.
Previous to this massacre, which re
sulted in the capture and punishment of
a part of them and the disbanding of
the rest, these Indians subsisted by beg
ging and plundering among the frontier
settlements, by hunting and fishing about
the northern lakes, and by a sort of black
mail upon the Wapekutas, whose village
was in the pipe stone region.
The village of Inkpaduta was on the
upper Des Moines, near the Minnesota
line. It was more than a hundred miles
from any settlement, until the ill fated
squatters of the Spirit lake tragedy set
tled about the lakes. Tnere were no
troops stationed within a week's march,
and the frontier settlements were too -weak
and scattered to offer organized
resistance.
Occasionally bold trappers, in spite of
numerous warnings of the danger, es
tablished and maintained their trapping
grounds within the hunting circuit of
inkpaduta 8 nana. Among them was
Jake Foyer, a fearless frontiersman,'
who went among Indians regardless of
danger one of the sort of adventurers
whom, strangely enough, the savages
seldom molested,
Jake knew Inkpaduta and his follow
ers. He visited their village every fall
and spring to trado ammunition or
trinkets for furs.
On one of these excursions he carried
a double barreled rifle which he had
bought in Dubuque. It was a fine wea
pon of German pattern, silver mounted,
and -had cost him a hundred dollars.
The Indians were much taken with this
gun, and one of them, Feto Atanka (Big
face), wanted to swap a pony for it
Boyer told him that nothing less than
twenty-five prime mink skins would get
the gun; that when he could produce so
many whole skins, smooth and white in
side, he would swap. These terms of
trade were mado known by signs and by
the use of such simple English words as
the Indians understood.
A few months later, in autumn, Boyer
was visited at his cabin on theOcheyedan
by several of Inkpaduta's band, among
them Husan (One Leg), Makpi Opetu
(Fire Cloud, a son of the chief) and Big
Face. Boyer found them squatted in
front of his dugout upon' the side of a
bluff as he came in from a morning
round of his traps. They rose as he ap
proached with his rifle across his shoul
der. After a friendly round of "How
Howsr Big Face drew from his blanket
a bundle of black looking skins. "Huh!"
said lie. "Me bling um mink, you give
um up gun."
Jake saw at once that the mink were
warm weather skins, and worthless. No
doubt they were the pelts of all the minks
taken or shot by the members of the
band during the summer and early fall
months, and had been intrusted to Rig
Face in order that so fine a rifle might
belong to one of the band.
The trapper drew back and shook his
head in refusal to' receive the skins He
was about to explain what they perfectly
knew to be true, that the pelts were of
no account, when, with a sudden spring.
Big Face was upon him. The others in
stantly sprang forward also, and Boyer's
rifle was wrenched from him When he
was forced to let go his gun he dodged
quickly into a thicket of bushes which
grew up to the door of his habitation
The Indians fired several shots after
him. but he was not harmed He rpaclied
his canoe. In which be kept a squirrel
rifle for shooting muskrat and other
small game, secured the weapon and
made his escape through the tell grass
of the bottom, whither the Indians did
not pursue him.
He made his way to a settlement sixty
miles distant, and tried to raise a party
to go and hunt Inkpaduta's band, and
drive them out of the region; but he
could not find half a dozen men within
a circuit of thirty miles who had in
terest enough in his cause to make it
their own. But he found one adven
turous fellow, who went back with him
to his trapping grounds on theOchey
edan. ' Upon reaching the dugout, they
found, to their surprise, that its con
tents had not been disturbed. Lying
inside the door was the identical pack
o worthless mink skins which Big lace
had brought to trade for the rifle. The
traps were also all in their places.
Evidently the Indians had been some
what alarmed after Jake's escape, and
wished to leave the impression that they
bad been dealing in good faith, and had
kept to the letter the bargain which had
been made for the gun.
.This fact gave Boyer confidence, and
he boldly set about his trapping again,
determined to watch his opportunity,
outwit the Indians, and recover his val
uable rifle. Durinz the next month be
busied Ms bram every any
and Anally hit upon a plan which he de
termined to carry out at once.
Leaving his companion in chares ,of
the dugout and thatmpping.be
for Fort Dodge with two smal
packed with the fall catch. At the Fort,
which wan merely a frontier
station, he sold his furs, procured
mawttioBvblaakets aad some trinkets to
trade upon, and set out f or Inkpadwta's
village, as be had been in the habit of
doing at that season of the year.
In spite of all that had happened ha
expected to make the savages believe
that he was still friendly to them, aad
could not afford to lose their fur trade
for such trifles as the loss of his rifle and
the attempt on his life. He did not be
lieve they would dare injure him again,
for they would surely know that he had
spread the story of their attack upon
him at the settlements, aad his going to
them directly from the Fort would nat
urally make them cautious how they of
fended him. After getting among them
he hoped to recover his much prised rifle
by a stratagem.
He found only a few old squaws and
children at the Des Moines village, but
was informed that the bucks were
camped at Lost Island lake, where they
had gone to hunt for elk.
It was but a half day's ride to the place,
and be discovered the tepees of the band
as he approached the lake shore at sun
set The most of the Indians had got la
from the day's hunt, and as he rode up
were lying about the fires waiting for the
women to boil some meat for their even
ing meal.
They got up and gave some grunts of
surprise as he approached, but immedi
ately broke into most cordial "How
How'sT and grinned in a way that be
trayed their pleasure that he should
come among them in so friendly a fash
ion. He had always dealt more fairly
with them than traders were in the
habit of doing.
Big Face, One Leg and Inkpaduta
were among those who greeted him. He
shook hands with all, telling them be
had come to "swap" again, and acted as
though nothing had happened. They
were immensely pleased, and one of the
young bucks assisted him in unpacking
and then picketed his ponies with their
own.
That evening and the next morning
were spent in trade; and for a half dozen
red blankets, somp ammunition and
beads, Jake came Into possession of all
the beaver, mink and muskrat skins the
Indians bad.
After the swap had been completed to
the satisfaction of all parties, Jake pro--posed
to Inkpaduta that he and a picked
number of his men should ride over to
Ids tepee on theOcheyedan a little more
than a half day's ride and hunt elk at
the head waters of Stony creek, where
he knew that a big herd of them were
feeding.
He had no winter's meat laid In, he
told the chief, and since he had traded
his large gun to Big Face he had no rifle
that carried a ball large enough to kill
an elk. If he would go over with his
men and kill him Jake two big elk, he
would give the chief the smallest pony
he had brought with him.
Inkpaduta was taken with the offer,
and evidently took all the trapper had
said in biucerity. He consulted his bucks
and found them all eager to go, as the
white man had described tiie lierd as a
bigone.
The camp was hastily Etruck and the
whole party set out for Jake's headquar
ters, where they arrived that evening
and camped for the night Jake bad
told Inkpaduta of Ids partner who, he
said, had no gun, but an old musket that
would only shoot small shot
That night, when they were alone ia
the dugout, Jake instructed Williams,
Ids partner, that as soon as. the party
should have got out of sight he was to
pack what furs he could on the pony left
him. cache the rest with the traps, and
make haste for the nearest settlement on
the Little Sioux.
Next day, at noon, the hunters were
camped near the source of the Stony,
and scouts were sent out tc look for the
elk herd, which was sighted before night
A plan of the hunt was determined on
before they slept and as Jake was con
sulted, he so managed that be was to be
of the party. They were to go in three
squads inclosing the band in a triangle,
in which rode Big Face with Inkpaduta
and one of the chiefs sons. Roaring
Cloud, or Makpeahotoman.
Big Face had made no attempt to
conceal the rifle, which was still in his
possession; in fact he had carried it
with a good deal of flourish and dis
play, evidently proud of owning such a
piece of property.
Before daylight the next morning the
hunting parties were mounted, and cir
cling the region where the elk had been
seen. There was a keen wind blowing
from the northwest and as the elk were
in that direction the herd was sur
rounded without difficulty. Two par
ties converged, one from the north, an
other from the west and the third, in
which was Jake, moved slowly forward
from the southeast'
It was plain that the herd should be
driven toward this last party, who were
to rush in upon their front and turn
them about This would bring the whole
hunting party upon them.
In one respect the plan was perfect
At about sunrise the big drove was seen
by Inkpaduta's party, and Boyer ob
served, with no little satisfaction, that
tbeelk were coming directly toward him.
They came right on without seeming
to see the hunters, who had spread a lit
tle and lay close along the backs of their
ponies.
There were more than two hundred
elk, and Boyer said it was a splendid
sight to see them come on, the bulls in
the lead, "an acre "of branchin' horns,"
as he expressed it, "movin down swift
like the front of the wind in a buzzard."
When the foremost elk were within
gunshot the Indians straightened up,
and with loud yells dashed their ponies
at the face of the herd. But instead of
turning the whole bunch spread out like
a fan and went by like a shot, scattering
continually as they sped on.
The Indians whirled their ponfcts and
gave chase, having fired several ineffec
tive shots, and as each selected his game
the maneuvers drew them rapidly apart.
This was precisely what Boyer had
hoped for, and he followed Big Face,
keeping him all the time in view. The
Indian soon overtook a fat cow elk,
whose calf got in her way and Impeded
her progress. Big Face rode alongside,
shoved the muzzle of ms gun almost
against the cow's side, and killed her in
stantly. Be had fired one barrel beAre, and
with'a whoop he now circled his pony
about, sprang to the ground and stood
over the dead elk, evidently satisfied
with his morning's work.
This was not what Boyer wanted at
'all, for there were still other Indians in
sight In fact, nearly the whole party
was by this time racing along in pursuit
of the herd.
But, knowing that he had not a mo
ment to spare if he would allay suspicion
and catch Big Face with unloaded gun.
he drew up alongside. Quickly dismount
ing, be stepped in front of the Indian and
covered him with the light rifle, which
be had not unloaded.
"Give me my gun or 111 shoot." said
the trapper, sharply.
Big Face saw that be was tricked, and
that Boyer had the best of him. Like
all of his kind he was a coward at heart.
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ffhSBBa-hxl tmntnfmmL
bW, let go that poay asnl wask osTf"
tare. The IaWaaa whsysd, ami h-iks
swsyayritlssialimlaageskatasaee
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rate with
havkeg kept halls m hit
Ms
poay he
to the
lariat dnggmg at she aeck of Big Face's
iy, he taoemftnd the Iadhia's hone.
the
which werethea
Just as he started he looked beak over
saw Big Facemakiag
from the top of a knoll
hundred rods away. Bat the
whole party, elk aad alL had passed oat
of sight into the valky of the Stoay, aad
the lest that Jake ever saw of the band.
as ha spurred his poay ia the opposite di
isctioa, was the outwitted Big Face wav
iag his arms.
Itwaaa daring stratagem which had
him his rifle aad a "pony for
" and one which a saaa lam
hardy aad keea witted would aeverhave
panned, aad certainly could not have
succeeded hi carrying out
Iakpaduta and his men evideatly gave
the big elk herd a loag chase, without
aay aotioa of what had happened ia their
rear. IfaayofthemhadseeoBigFaceaad
Boyer near the dead elk they must have
thought the white saaa had stopped oaly
to take charge of his gams At aay rate
they did not overtake Jake, who pushed
rapidly oa to Lake Shetek, where at a
ha was safe from Indian as-
Later, he joined Wttliasss at Fort
Dodge, having pssssd through Inkpa-.
dutas country in the night After that
he trapped west of the Big Sioux, as be
cooaideredthe lake region Siaheaithy"
forhim. Frank Welles Calkins ia The
Youth's Comsaaioa.
An iaveatioa which has already been
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