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AMERICUS, GEORGIA; WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1882.
TRUE HEROISM.
Eleanore Gray and Dora Alton were
great friends, though two more dissim
ilar in every way it would be hard to
find.
For, while Eleanore was tall, dark,
and brilliantly colored,Dora was child
ishly slight, with a pale, lily-fair skin;
and was vivacious and
daring, Dora was shy and quiet.
And, strange to say, the one you
would deem least fitted to cope with the
world was the one whom circumstances
had compelled to do so from her earli
est youth.
The acquaintance between the two
girls began at school; and when Elean
ore, leaving school-days behind forever
came to her beautiful home, at her
urgent solicitation, Dora, whom she
had grown to love as tenderly as a sis
ter, accompanied her.
The first month of vacation has pass
ed and the second has been entered
upon, and Dora sighs as she thinks
how very soon the time will have flown,
and this delightful experience that has
come to her like an oasis in the mono
tonous desert of her life will have ended.
And yet the roses of pleasure have
not been entirely without the thorns
that always accompany them.
Five weeks do not constitute a great
portion of time; but in them much may
happen, and they have sufficed to im
plant in Doras gentle heart a some
thing as strong as she knows it is hope
less.
By the terms of the deceased Mr.
Gray’s will, his friend, Mark Eldridge,
a man many years younger than him
self, but possessing his utmost confi
dence was left executor of his large fort
une and guardian to his daughter.
Thus it is that Gray Cottage fre
quently sees Mr.Eldridge’s genial hand
some face; and thus it is also that, in
listening to his fluent conversation,
which opens before her broad vistas of
knowledge as well as entertainment.
Dora has come to think that not in all
the world is another so wise and good,
and worthy of a maiden’s love.
But not a hint of the truth does she
suffer to escape, for sh 6 imagines that
she has read a secret, and she is not
surprised.
“She is so beautiful and intelligent,
it is no wonder that he loves her,” she
muse's, as she watches with feeling of
mingled admiration, tenderness, and
pain the guardian of his lovely ward.
The days go by until one comes
which is long remembered.
It has been a stormy afternoon, and
with the gathering darkness the thun
der begins to mutter menacingly.
Sweetbriar Cottage, as Eleanore’s
pleasant home is called,is situated upon
a slight elevation, whose foot is wash
ed by a narrow stream between which
and terra firma runs the railway.
From their position in the bow-win
dow, where they are watching with
fascinated eyes the cloud-phantasy of
gloom rent by lurid light which the
| storm presents to their vision, the girls
j can see the line up and down for some
j way.
Suddenly a tremendous crash startles
j them to their feet, and at the same in
■ stant a lightning flash illumines the
| whole sky and surrounding objects.
Eleanor’s face grows very pale as
she grasps her companion’s arm, and
points down upon the line.
“Dora, the great elm at the foot of
the terrace has been struck.
“See, it has fallen across the line.
“The seven o’clock express will be
due in half an hour.
“Dora, they will be wrecked, for the
curve will prevent them seeing the dan
ger before it is too late.”
Dora looks and trembles.
.“Can we do nothing, Eleanore?” she
asks.
“No-; for the nearest telegraph sta
tion is across the river, and there is no
other for five miles.”
“We crossed the river yesterday,
Eleanore.
“Can we not do it now? I am going
to try.”
Eleanore gazed at her in surprise.
“Dora Alton, you are crazy to think
of such a thing.
“To cross upon the stepping-stones
in fair weather is quite a different thing
to attempt in such a storm as this.
“The water is very deep.
“A single false step, and your life
would pay the forfeit.
“Nevertheless I shall try.
“I know the way, and 1 may be the
means of saving hundreds of my fellow
creatures from a horrible fate.
“Do not try to persuade me,Eleanore
I must go.”
And though Eleanore redoubled her
terrified remonstrances,Dora went about
her preparation firmly with a look of
determination upon her young face that
never faltered.
At last she was ready, and Eleanore
strained her small, water-proof-clad
figure close to her heart.
“Heaven protect you and keep you
my darling!” she said solemnly.
“You go for duty’s sake to brave a
danger that, fearless as 1 have always
deemed myself to he, I would never
dare to attempt.
“I love life too well to face what
seems certain death.”
“Ah, I, too, love life,” Dora said,
as she disengaged herself from her
friend’s clinging arms; “but something
draws me on.”
“Though I knew I never should re
turn, I should go.”
Out in the storm and the darkness
Dora harries.
The winds beats against her, now
pushing her back, now urging her for
ward, until at length Bhe stands upon
the brink of the little river that ripples
so innocently and cheerily along under
a sunny sky, but whose waves now are
leaping and tossing their foam-crests
like mad things.
The stepping stones, which hut yes
terday were so easily crossed, are before
her, and Doia begins her perilous jour
ney.
“Come back! Dora, Dora, come
back!” calls Eleanor’s voice from the
terrace above.
But she does not heed.
Steadily she goes onward, but. oh,so
slowly! oftentimes slipping, and on the
very edge of falling iuto the treacher
ous water, whose inky blackness only
seems the denser when, for a few sec
onds, the glare of the lightning shows
her what progress she is making.
She has gained the centre of the
stream.
Her slight form is trembling with
the combined effect of the cold, which
strikes through her dripping garments,
and the bodily exertions she has been
compelled to make to keep hei footing
upon the slippery rocks.
Will she be able to reach the other
side?
Bravely she struggles on, and at
length the goal is reached, and her feet
touch the other shore.
A short while later the telegraph
operator, leaning idly back in his chair
in his warm office, is startled by the
entrance of a small, dripping figure,
looking, with its dishevelled hair and
pallid face, like a visitant from some
ghostly sphere.
“A tree has fallen across the line op
posite Miss Gray’s cottage.
“Telegraph for the seven o’clock ex
press to stop.”
Then, her mission accomplished, the
brave heart stops beating, and Dora
sinks uneonscous to the floor.
Four weeks have gone by—vecks of
the most intense anxiety; tor all that
time Dora has laid between life and
death.
But at last the shadows has lifted,
and out once more into health’s sun
shine she has emerged, to the heartfelt
joy of the friends who have prayed for
her recovery incessantly, even when
they feared their prayers would be of
no avail.
It is a bright, pleasant day, though
somewhat chill, and in Eleanor’s cosy
sitting room, in an easy chair, near the
cheery fire, Dora is seated.
She looks very lovely, for the fire
glow has lent a delicate color to her
pale cheeks, and made into a aureole of
gold the short waves of hair that clus
ter about her lair forehead.
The door gently opens, and a voice
says, “May I come in?”
It is Mr. Eldridge, and it is the first
time since her illness that Dora has
met him.
The delicate color deepens as she re
signs her hand to his clasp, and an
swers his words of greeting.
They chat for a while; and then, to
Dora’s great surprise, she learns what
she has not known before, that among
those who to her brave deed owed their
safety from death was her friend’s
guardian.
“I asked Eleanore not to tell you,”
he says; “for I wished to thank you
myself, and at the same time to ask
you a question most momentous to me.
“It is this.
“Dora, will you make the life you
have saved more precious by laying
that dear hand on mine, and saying
that you will be my wife?
“Ah, little one! my heart went out
to you tho first time that we met; but I
little knew to what a strength my pas
sion had grown until the dark hour
came when I feared that death was
about to snatch you from me.
“Dora what is my answer to he?”
“And I always thought it was Elean
ore you cared for,” Dora says, as, a
little later, she sits with a happy face,
and her little hand tightly clasped in
her lover’s.
“So I do care for Eleanore—very
much; but it is Dora the heroic darling
that I wish for my wife—the guardian
angel of my heart and rny home!” is
his answer.
“I am more pleased than I can ex
press,” is Eleanore’s esthusiastic excla
mation, when the blissful secret is con
fided to her,
“I do not believe that in all the
universe there is anyone nobler than
my guardian, and, Dora, darling you
are well mated, for nobility and hero
ism are kindred qualities, and after
what has passed you can certainly never
call yourself a coward!”
Dora stopped her mouth with a kiss-
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MONDAMM.
BY N. A. Jl’c.
The rosy light of morning dazzled
the eyes of May Fallis when she awoke
the day after arriving in the country.
On arising she went to the window and
gazed upon the lovely landscape before
her, glistning with those gems of morn
ing, the dew-drops, whose globes be
neath the light of the sunbeams reflect
ed the prismatic colors.
“O, gift of God! O, perfect day!”
sang May, as she thought of the beau
tiful day, which the repose of the*ele
ments apparently promised. “O, Alice,
how glad lain I have come to the coun
try in September, when everything as
sumes the rich mantle of autumn. The
flowers before being chilled by Sir Frost
are brilliant in hue; the fruits assume
the rich colors of the flowers', and vie
with them in beauty.”
“Do yon know, Cousin May,” said
Alice Grey, “it seems to me as if tho
grapes borrow the rich purple of the
violets; the apples, with their varied
lines, are like varigated flowers; and
what can be more beautiful than the
soft mellow colors of the peach? But,
May, do hurry, or we shall be late to
breakfast, which father so dislikes.”
“Uncle,” said May after breakfast,
will you go over the farm with us?”
During the walk May noticed how
many cornfields there were.
“1 wonder,” said she, “if we had a
wand of magic might if we could in
voke the spirit of the fields to tell us
something about the origin of corn.”
“(J, nonsense, May,” said Alice,
laughing, “nothing can be said about
so common a thing as corn. Father,
you can not imagine what queer notions
she has sometimes. She is always
wondering about something.”
“O! May, let me be the fairy,” said
her uncle, “and on fancy,s airy pinions
soar back to the days when the Indians
were sole possessors of the land. In
those ancient times I think I hear the
Spirit say the Ojibwas had a legend
called Mondanim, or the legend of In
dian Corn.
“There once lived a poor Indian
whose only possession were his wife and
children. He was of a kind, contented
disposition, but unskilled in procuring
food. His eldest son was called Man
abozho. Mauabozho had always been
a kind, obedient son. He had now ar
rived at the proper age, according to
the rites of bis tribe, to undertake the
ceremony of the fast, in order to see
what spirit was to be chosen as his
guide and guardian through life. It is
during this fast that the youths and
maidens ‘see visions and dream dreams!’
“Early in the spring liis father built
him a wigwam some distance from his
own, where he could be undisturbed
during his fast. For several days the
youth amused himself rambling throuh
the woods watching the trees bud, the
flowers peep forth and all nature assume
her spring robes.
“‘Why cannot the Great Spirit,
who supplies us with game and fish,
permit us to have an easier way of
gaining a living? I must try to find
out.’ said Manabozho.
“On tlie third day, being weak and
weary, he remained in bed. He dream
ed he saw a handsome, graceful young
man come down from the sky and ad
vance toward him. His visitor was
clothed in many garments of various
shades of green and yellow. Upon his
head was a golden-lmed plume of
feathers.
“His guest thus addressed him:
“I am sent to you by theGieat Spirit,
who knows your wish is only to aid
others, and not to ask for strength to
gain glory and renown in warfare, that
you fast. Therefore he has sent mo to
instruct you how you may do good.
Von must now get up and wrestle with
me, as it is only through this means
that you can hope to do good.’
“Manabozho, although weak with
fasting, arose and wrestled with him
until he declared it was enough for that
time, but that he would return to-mor
row. Smiling, the visitor disappeared.
“Manabozho, though still weaker the
next day, felt his courage wax stronger,
and declared to himself he would rather
die than fail.
“His combatant returned and ad
dressed him as on the previous day.
When the trial was over for that day,
the stranger said to him:
“ ‘Be of good cheer, for the last trial
will take place to-morrow. If you are
successful in that, you will obtain the
boon you asked of the Great Spirit.’
“On the third day they wrestled
again. Manabozho, although almost
exhausted, exerted himself to the utter
most. After the usual time had elaps
ed the stranger declared himself van
quised. He then entered the lodge, and
sitting down by the youth proceeded to
tell him how to profit by his victory.
“ ‘The Master of Life has granted
your desires. ' You have wrestled cour
ageouly. To-morrow is the seventh
day of your fast, and the last day of
trial, and you will be successful. I
will now tell yon what you must do in
order to benefit your tribe. To-mor
row we will wrestle for the last time.
As soon as you have overcome me take
off my garments, and bury me in a
spot where you have cleared the earth
of roots and weeds, and made the ground
soft and loose. When you have car
ried out these instructions, leave my
body in the earth; do not disturb it,
but come once a month and place a lit
tle fresh easth over me. Also watch
for my coming to life, and do*not let
the grass and weeds grow on my grave.
Do as I tell you, and you will become
the benefactor of the nations.’
“He then shook hands with Mana
bozho and disappeared.
“On the following day the youth’s
father appeared at the lodge and thus
addressed him:
“ ‘My soil, you have now fasted
seven days, which is the allotted time.’
“ ‘Father.” said the youth. ‘Permit
me to continue my fast until sunset, as
I have a special reason for so doing.’
His father granted his request.
“At the usual hour his vision return
ed, and the trial was resumed. With
supernatural power, he threw his com
batant dead upod the ground, and took
from him his gay garments and wav
ing plumes. He buried him as he had
been told to do, feeling very certain of
his return to life.
“Manabozho then returned to his
father’s lodge, but was careful to con
ceal from all what had taken place.
He visited the grave often, and kept
the earth loose and carefullv weeded.
“Toward the close of summer On his
return from hunting, Manabozho invit
ed his father to visit with him the
scene of his former fast. The wigwam
had been removed, and in its place stood
tall, graceful plants, with long leaves
and golden clusters on each side, sur
mounted by nodding plumes of soft,
golden, silken hair.
“ ‘lt is rny fiiend. It is the friend of
all the tribes. It is Mondanim,’ cried
the youth. ‘We need no longer rely
upon fishing and hunting for a living.
So long as we cherish this beneficient
gift we can obtain our living from the
ground. The Master of Life has grant
ed me my supplications, and sent this
great blessing.’
“Manazho then pulled an ear, and
communicated to his father the instruc
tions he had received. He told his fath
er the husks must be torn from the ear,
as he had stripped the garments from
the stranger in wrestling. The silk
corresponded to bis waving plumes.
When the ear was thus prepared, he
showed his father how to cook the new
food. This is the origin of Indian corn,
the gift of the Great Spirt.”
“But,” said his daughter Alice, “was
there much corn here when the colonists
first came?”
“The Puritan fathers found it in
abundance along the New England
coast. Humboldt says it was found by
the Europeans from the south of Chili
to Pennsylvania. Another author sug
gests, he might as well have said to the
St. Lawrence. It was the great staple
of Mexico. The Aztecs knew as many
and various ways of preparing corn as
any cook. In the equinoctial regions
the gigantic stalks are stored with a
saccharine matter not found to the same
extent in northern latitudes' This
supplied the natives with sugar not
mush inferior to that made from cane.
“The Peruvians were also acquainted
with the different methods of preparing
this cereal, although they did not use
it for bread except at festivals. They
made an intoxicating liquor lroin the
fermented grain. Both they and the
Aztecs were immoderately addicted to
the use of it. One of the liquors, called
chica, the Peruvians used at their relig
ious festivals; another, called sora. was
of such strength that the use of it was
fobidden, at least to the canaille.
“Uncle,” said May, “if both the
Peruvians and Mexicans had corn,what
does the fairy say concerning them?”
“If the fairy must speak again,’’said
her uncle, “Centeosl was the Aztec
goddesg of maize. She was said to be
of surpassing beauty. During some of
the Aztec religious festizals, process
ions of women and children, crowned
with garlands, bore offerings of ripened
maize and fruit to their gods.
“Maize was of great importance also
in the Peruvian religion. Corn was
one ofltheir minor deities. Their minor
deities were called conopas, and they
corresponded to the Lares and Penates
of the Romans. One speceis of the Zea
Conopa consisted of certain stones cut
in the shape of ears of corn; and this
consisted ot a doll made of cornstalks
clothed in a mantle and topus of silver
like that used by the Indians. They
also worshipped ears of corn, which
had grains of various colors.
“In the time of harvest the Peru
vians offered the earth (which was a
terrestiai deity) ground corn and chica,
imploring her to favor them with a
good harvest. When they wished to
cross a river or fish in it they threw
corn into it, in order to render the God
of the River propitious. The Peruvi
an religion required confession. The
penitent in order to prove that he had
concealed nothing, was required to
throw a handful of corn into a vessel;
if the number of grains was found to
be uneven the confession was unavail
ing, if even it was efficacious. Some
of their soothsayers prognosticated fut
ure events by means of small heaps of
corn.
“One of their principal offerings of
the vegetable kingdom to their deities,
was corn in all its forms; cooked orraw
on or off the ear, or converted into the
liquor chica. The Indians emptied a
small gold vase filled with chica as a
libation to the God at every feast;
when all the ceremonies were concluded,
the Indians themselves indulged liber
ally in their favorite beverage, thus
terminating most of their religious fes
tivites'in a general inebriation.
“The Peruvians had a feast during
the winter solstice to implore the sun to
protect the corn from the severity of the
frost. This festival was preceded by a
day of general fasting. The feast day
was celebrated with great rejoicing, and
was concluded by three days of solemn
dancing. Even the names of some of
their months were derived from the vari
ous stages of the growth of corn; as for
instance, April was called Agrilmay,
j FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM,
which signifies an ear of corn with
grains of different colors. In this month
they commenced their harvest of this
vegetable with the usual harvest festivi
ties. Those who found certain colors
in the grains of the full ear, were award
ed prizes. The successful competitor
was celebrated throughout tlie nation.”
“L T ucle,” said May, “will yon please
tell us it they had gardens of gold, and
if any maize was represented in those
gardens?”
“Several authors,” remarked her
uncle, “assert that the Peruvians had
artificial gardens of gold in the gardens
of the royal palaces and in those of the
Icm pie of the Sun. In these artificial
gaidens were different kinds of maize;
their stalks, leaves and ears were of
gold; in some the fibers found in the ear
and stalks were of gold, all the rest be
ing silver. Sometimes the golden ear
was displayed amid husks of silver,
whilst a tassel of silver floated grace
fully above. These gardens sparkled
with flowers of gold and silver and vege
tition of all kinds. Where the flower
was yellow it was made of gold; where
white, of silver. In these gardens thev
had also animals of gold and even
statues of women in gold and silver. If
this seems incredible to you, remember
how rich Peru was in gold and that this
gold was the property of the Inca.”
“Oh, how pleasant it is,” exclaimed
May, “to have fancy’s rays illumine
even so commonplace a thing as a field
of maize!”
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