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«S3S333305B U/>e Nemesis Continued from first page 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 room of Atlanta’s Carnegie free library was thrown Open to the public. The fin ishings and floor are in hardwood and are for the ■most part extremely hand some. But of greatest in terest. not only to children 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 ed by- D Appleton & Co.; and it is by 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 A NEW MONEY MAKING BUSINES NO LET US START YOU. WRITE TODAY. COSTS YOU EXPERIENCE jlAAB and Expenses NOTHING TO * REQUIRED to 900 WEEKLY INVESTIGATE US' WRITE US FOR OUR PROPOSITION. ANYWAY. NO HUMBUG, FAKE OR TOY PROPOSITION. An Honest. Legitimate Enterprise. Backed By An Old Reliable. Re sponsible Firm. Capital. $ioo.ooo.oo. BIG PROFITS Qiick Process. Loaned. DON’T FAIL TO WRITE TODAY. For We Manufacture Complete Outfits. 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Write Today to G R A Y &, CO., Plating Works, 184 Miami BTd’g, ~ Above firm is tboroughlv reliable a nd will do just as they agree. The outfl ts are just as represented and do fine I’nlins. and after investigation we con sider this one of the best paying busine eses we have yet heard of.—Editor Sunny South. . " 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. 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