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flocked«tbe runaway slaveVand the white
men whose conduct had' rendered it Im
possible t<» live at home without rum-lng
a tilt with the law. From Georgia and
from Alabama they came, confident of
being safe from the Nemesis of Justice
when once hidden In the funereal forests
of the Peninsular State. These outcasts
generally fell In with the Seminoles. The
negroes were made slaves by the In
dians and the white mon were usually
adopted. More than one of these rene
gades became a chief and led the Seal I-
noles In their wars with the United
States.
Then as now the most beautiful section
cf Florida was the lake country. This re
gion edges the Everglades and boasts
lakes as beautiful as famed Como and a
climate which is perfection itself. There
the skies are tinged with that beautiful
blue which travelers ascribe to those
that arch over Italy and the air is al
ways sensuous with the perfunie of the
orange and magnolia.
On the border of the Everglades, which
\eep their secrets even to this day, the
hike region was a favorite haunt of tne
Indians. There in 1830 a sub-chief of the
Seminoles had established a small village
antf was living in the patriarchal sim-
pllcay and dignity that marks aboriginal
life. There were not more than fifty
souls in this village .and all were related
either by blood or marriage to thd chief.
He was growing old, but there were stal
wart sons to take up his work and per
petuate his name and one daughter—the
child of his old age—to solace his last
years. To this Indian girl tradition his
ascribed a , beauty as dazzling as ever
graced a court lady. Only 17 years old.
with a complexion brighter than the av
erage Indlari, with a form lissome and
gracefully rounded, she was on the
threshold of'what promised to be a ocan
ty that would live in the traditions of
her tribe.
The life led by this Indian village was
idyllic. Bound,by ties of blood and fam
ily, no discord had ever arisen and the
most dangerous foe was the rattlesnake,
which was too brave, however, to strike
without warning. But another sort of a ’
snake was about to enter the village. Its
color was white and its fangs unsuspectea
until felt by Its victim.
Uncle Remus” Ties are a Unique Feature of
Atlanta's New Carnegie Library
Copyrighted Illartratlom by 4. B. frost. Reproduced by PermUeiom of D. Jtppleten f Co,
|FHS week the children's
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free library was thrown
Open to the public. The fin
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hardwood and are for the
■most part extremely hand
some. But of greatest in
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but to grown-ups. Is the
magnificent mantel and
tiles at the south end of the
room. The subjects are
principally from the famous
Frost edition of “Uncle Remus,” publish
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permission of this well-known firm that
The Sunny South is able to reproduce
three photographs of the tiles, the Frost
pictures being copyrighted. The Mies are
something over a foot in width and
length. The picture over tfte center of
the great open fire place Is that of "Uncle
Remus” add the "Little Boy,” which 13
the frontispiece to the book. The other
subjects can be found on pages 11, 15. 33,
42, 69. 108. 129 and 132 of the Frost edition.
-The tiles were made in New York city
and are a light blue and extremely artis
tic.
This Is but one of the many Interesting
features of the new library. The building
when completed will have cost 3126,000. At
lanta received this amount from Mr.
Carnegie, and it is the largest amount ex
pended by him in any one city south of
Washington. A board of trustees Is in
charge and the city contributes annually
35,000 for maintenance. The librarian.
Miss Anne Wallace, is probably the fore
most in the south. She is ably seconded
by a corps of assistants headed by Major
TWO
At the close of a December day In 1830
a* hunting party of Indians from this vfl-
Iatge was returning laden with the opolls
cf forest and stream. Suddenly the lead
er's attention was attracted by a sound
that had in its note something of human
and he stopped and listened inten'ly.
Then; with a gesture to indicate that t*
was nothing but the sough of the wind
in the forest, the march was resumed.
Again came the moaning note and again
the party stopped. This time the leader
plunged into the woods In the direction
of the sound, and in a few minutes a
shout from him brought his comrades to
his side. _
They found the chief standing over
what had once been a young white man.
but so overcome by suffering that only a
bundle of quivering flesh remained. His
"Rimyer, 'Brer Wolfl Yo’ cov>gsvine in degroan'.'
'Yoa feels
clothing was in tatters and his flesh was
torn and bleeding from wounds inflicted
by the thorns of the wilderness. Long
past speech, only a moan at intervals is
sued from his fever-parched lips. On a
finger was a gold ring and in his bosom
was foukl a blood-stained knife.
At an order from the leader a rude litter
was constructed, the stranger placed upon
It and the march to the village resumed.
Arriving at the village, the stranger was
tenderly cared for. His tattered clothing
was removed, he was bathed, wrapped in
blankets and was soon in restful sleep.
In carlqg for him the Indians removed
the ring from his finger and the blood
stained knife from his bosom.
The next morning ‘the stranger awoke
in his right mind, but greatly agvtated.
He made his nurses understand Shat his
ring and knife were missing. The arti
cles were brought and he slipped tha
ring on his finger and thrust the knife
into his bosom. In a-few days the
stranger was completely restored, but
showed no desire to leave the village. To
the old chief, who could understand some
English, the white man stated that he
had left home moved by a spirit of ad
venture and would like to remain in the
village. The chief grunted assent, flat
tered by the desire of the white man to
adopt the Indian's mode of life. 1
Weeks passed and the white man -be
came as one of the Indians. He hunted
with them, joined them in their dances
and cast longing glances at the lissome
daughter of the old chief. She, foolish
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maiden, although a marriage had been
planned between her and a young brave,
was moved by the white man’s bold ad
miration and answered his passionate
glances by a coyness that had In it some
thing of invitation and rendered her all
the more tempting. Meanwhile, her young
Indian lover, quick to Jealousy, was be
ginning to glower and finger his knife
in a manner that boded no good for the
stranger.
With the passage of time the white
man’s fondfless for the old chief's daugh
ter became apparent to all the village.
Even the chief noticed it and, thinking
to make his daughter happy, proposed to
the white man that he be adopted and
become the husband of the girl. But the
white' man demurred. Pride of race there
was In him yet, and the thought of be
coming an Indian add the husband of an
Indian girl was repugnant. Perhaps, too,
that ring, which he guarded so jealously,
was a pledge of love given by a fairer
maiden in that world whence he had fled.
When the white man refused the hon
ors of adoption into the tribe and of
marriage with his daughter, the old chief
told him that he would have to leave the
village, explaining as best he could the
situation which had been created by
the stranger’s admiration for the Indian
girl. The white man promised to go,
but day after day he lingered and day
after day he sought the company of the
Indian girl, who was frequently in tears
when not with the stranger. He seemed
to be urging the girt to a course which
she was reluctant to pursue.
The climax came one night when a
womans shriek shrilled through the vil
lage. Aroused, the old chief, followed by
bis sons, rushed to his daughter’s tent
and found her in a paroxysm of fear
with the wjiite man bending over her.
The chiefs eyes flashed the fires of hell,
but he stayed the arm of a son who
Talsed his tomahawk • to brain the de-
spotiler. The chief had another mode of
vengeance in his mind.
THREE
Seized and bound, ’ the white man whose
sense of honor ha< been overcome by his
passion for the Indian girl remained un
der guard until morning. Then he was
borne to an elevated knoll about a mile
from the village. On the very summit
of the knoll grew a tree and this had
been lopped of its branches by the In
dians, leaving only the trunk. For a
space of 30 feet or more everything had
teen cleared from the elevation, so that
the semi-tropic sun might have full play.
About this cleared space there were trees
laden with oranges and not 30 yards away
a bold spring musically gurgled.
The white man was stripped nude as
s^hen he came into the world, save for
the ring that circled one of his fingers,
and was then securely bound to the pol
lard on the summit of the knoll. Then
the Indians squatted on. the edge of the
clearing and watched their victim. As
burning darts of pitch were driven into
his flesh, no brave tried his skill at
hurling knives into the tree 'so as Just
to miss the shrinking flesh of the bound
man. Torture of that description was
too tame for the outrage he had offered
the daughter of the chief. Hunger was
to gnaw at his vitals when there was
tempting food in sight; burning thirst was
to parch and blister his throat when -
water was gurgling almost at his feet;
the flaming rays of a tropic sun were
to roast his flesh when all about there
was cooling shade; tropic insects were
to glut Aheir thirst on his Mood when
hands were helpless to drive them away.
All this he was to endure until feeling
and reason fled, because he had entered
the tent of the daughter of the chief at
night.
With the cruelty of their race, when
anger is aroused, the Indians were re
solved to enjoy his agony. They prac
tically moved their village to the knoll
on which the white man was expiating
the insult offered the Indian girl. Morn
ing, noon and night they cooked savory
dishes that the odor of the food might
reach the bound man and add to his tor
ture. They drank the water of the spring
with grunts of satisfaction which their
victim could hear. In front of the suf
ferer, so that his eyes might rest on
them, they, placed platters containing
venison and fish and piled oran’ges, grapes
and other fruit in profusion. It was the
torture of Tantalus over again with ad
ditions that made the agony more ex
quisite than that endured by the man
of mythology.
Day after day this torture continued.
He saw and felt the insects draining
him of his life blood, but was powerless
to prevent. Then his stomach spoke In
angry tones, hut he could do nothing
to satisfy it, though food was all about.
He felt the dryness of the desert creep
ing up his throat, but could not stay its
parching progress, though water trickled
at his feet. After a while his stomach
went dead and then his throat. But bis
heart continued to throb and l$s brain
to burn and his eyed to see those red
executioners grouped In front- of him.
The end came at last when heart and
brain went dead, too, and the attempt
on the honor of the Indian girl was
avenged.
Bound to the pollard, the Indians left
the corpse with the ring still girdling
the finger—left it for the vultures to pick,
for the withes that bound it to the tree
to decay and for the bones to fall In a
heap to the ground.
Eplloflue
In the winter of 1894 a hunting party
entered Osceola county, Florida. Osceola,
named for the great chief who led the
Seminoles In their last war with the
pale faces, is In the lake country and is
bordered on the east ~t>y the mysterious
Everglades. The guide of the hunters
was re, years of age. but still a vigorous
woodsman. He had been in Florida sixty
years and all his life had been hunter
and guide, spending much of his time
with the remnant of the Seminole tribe
still In the southern portion of the state.
One night the party camped ■•on a knoll
at whose base bubbled a bold spring.
The next morning, while searching for
wood to build a fire, an exclamation from
the guide caused the hunters to gather
about him. Right on the summit of the
knoll the guide had found a pile of bones
and examination showed that they were
the remains of a man. In moving the
bones there was a gleam of sifiethlng
yellow and after a little a gold ring
was found. The luster of the metal
was but slightly dimmed, and after being
rubbed It was as bright as ever. Inside
the ring, standing out as clearly as when
first cut, were discovered the letters:
EMMA TO J. M. W„
1830.”
About the camp fire that night the
guide told the story of the torture of
the white man. who repaid the kindness
of the Indians.by an insult to the daugh
ter of the chief. In the party was a
Georgian whose uncle, years before he
was bom, had fled the state because he
had killed a friend In a quarrel over
cards. The memory of the crime' had
faded and the fate of the uncle was
never known. The Georgian only re
called It as a vague story he had heard
in his youth. But he remembered when
a boy that he was petted by a sweet-
faced lady who seoired to carry a great
grief In her neart and who told him he
was very like one of his uncles who was
unfortunate. This lady’s Christian name
was “Emma" and after her death ho
learned that she had loved the errant
uncle and that he had worn her ring
when he fled.
Alone of the party, the Georgian knew
that the ring told the story of a’crime
committed years ago and of a career
ruined by a moment of passion. He alone
kr.etfr thaj w,hen the Indians. toftured
their victim an Indictment for murder
which cumbers the records of a Georgia .
county Was satisfied. The ring, pledge
of a woman’s love, told the tragic story.
Merely an Abbreviation
Notwithstanding the gravity of the
situation in South Africa, the British In
vaders seem to get an occasional gleam
of fun from their surroundings. Not long
ago a colonel of a British regiment who
was repairing a railroad after one of Gen
eral DeWet’s many breakages discovered
a fine empty house, which he proceeded
to occupy as headquarters.
When the news of the colonel’s com
fortable quarters reached Bloemfontein he
received a telegram which read:
“G. T. M. wants house.”
The colonel was unable to make out
what ”G. T. M.” meant, and inquired of
officers, who translated “general traffic
manager.”
“All right,” said the colonel. “If he
can use hieroglyphics so can I.”
So he wired back:
“G. T. M. can G. T. H.”
Two days later he received a dispatch
from Bloemfontein ordering him to at
tend a board of Inquiry. On appearing
in due course he was asked what he
meant by sending such an insulting mes
sage to a superior officer.
"Insulting,” repeated the colonel, inno
cently; ‘It was nothing of the kind.”
“But what do you mean,” demanded
his superior, "by telling me I can ‘G. ’
T. H.?’ ”
”It was simply an abbreviation,” re
plied the colonel. “G. T. M. (general traf
fic manager) can G. T. H. (get
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