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The Plains of Abraham
« « « « By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD » » » »
© by Doubleday Doran Co., Inc. WNU Service.
THE STORY
With his English wife, Cather¬
ine, and son, Jeems, Henry Bu
lain, French settler in Canada in
1749, cultivates a farm adjacent
to the Tonteur seigneurie. As the
story opens the Bulains are re¬
turning from a visit to the Ton
teurs. Catherine's wandering
brother, Hepsibah, meets them
with presents for the family. To
Jeems he gives a pistol, bidding
him perfect himself in marksman¬
ship. Hepsibah fears for the
safety of the Bulains in their
isolated position. Jeems fights
with Paul Tache, cousin of Toi
nette Tonteur, whom they both
adore. Next day Jeems calls at
the Tonteur home and apologizes
for brawling in front of Toinette.
CHAPTER IV—Continued
Jeems did not go again to Tonteur
manor, though occasionally tie heard
news from the seigneurie. Every one
was in high humor there because of
the activities going on in preparation
for tiie exit of the entire family for
Quebec early in September. Toinette
was going to school at the convent of
the Ursulines. .Teems had a feeling of
loss. It was as if the fire of his
dreams had not only burned itself out,
hut even the ash were being cleared
away.
Autumn came, and with it a great
glory in tiie wilderness. Jeems loved
these maturer days of golden ripeness,
of first frosts, of painted hardwood
forests, and of crisp, tangy air when
ali life seemed rejuvenated and his
own veins danced to tiie thrill of un¬
ending promises nnd expectations. But
this year a heaviness of heart was In
hitn with the changing of tlie seasons.
Toinette and her people left for Que¬
bec. and one evening, a week later,
Hepsibah gravely announced that he
could no longer delay his departure
for the far frontiers of Pennsylvania
and the Ohio, where his obligations as
a trader called him. Catherine was
silent for a while, than cried softly to
herself. Jeems drew back where Ids
uncle would not see him clearly.
Henri's cheerfulness died out like a
lighted candle extinguished by a
breath of wind. Ilepsihah’s face was
grimly set, so hard was he fighting to
hold a grip on his emotion. He prom¬
ised that he would never again remain
away long at a time. He would re¬
turn during the winter. If lie failed to
come, they would know he was dead.
When Henri got out of his bed to
build the fire tiie next morning Hep¬
sibah was gone. He had stolen off
like a shadow in some still hour of
t tie night.
More determinedly than wiien his
uncle had been with hitn, Jeems con¬
tinued at his work and at tiie mental
efforts with which he was struggling
to reach out into the mountains and
valleys of experience ahead of him.
Through the fail and winter the Bu
lain cabin was visited by wandering
Indians who had learned that food,
warmth, and a welcome were always
there. Jeems’ friendship for them
was tempered by tiie tilings Hepsibah
had told him, nnd while tie brought
himself closer into intimacy with these
uninvited guests, winning their confi¬
dence and making himself more effi¬
cient in their speech, lie was also
watching and listening for the signs
of hidden dangers against which ids
uncle had repeatedly warned hitn.
Most of tHe Indians were front tiie
Canada tribes, and among them he
found no cause for unrest, but when
occasionally an Onondaga or an
Oneida came. lie detected in their man¬
ner a quiet and sleepless caution
which told him these visitors from
the Six Nations considered themselves
over the dead line which marked the
country of their enemies. And he
made note that tiiey always came
through that part of Forbidden valley
which Hepsibah had predicted would
be a future warpath for the Mohawks.
This winter lie went farther in His
adventurings. Captain Pipe, the old
( aughnawaga, had a habit of spend¬
ing several of the hardest weeks near
the Bulains, and with his two sons,
White Eyes and Big (.'at, Jeems trav¬
eled to the shores of I.ake Champlain
for the first time. He was gone a
week and planned with his friends to
make a longer expedition the follow¬
ing yeah, as far as Crown Point and
a place called Ticonderoga, where the
French were going to build a fort
some day. On this excursion he ex
jierienced ( the real thrill of danger, for
White Eves and Big Cat, both of
whom were young braves who had
won their spurs, moved with a caution
which was eloquent in its significance.
With Toinette and her people away
from the seigneurie, Jeems had no
hesitation in going to the Richelieu,
and made trips there with his father
on snowshoes; and in March, during a
break in a spell of intense cold, he
went alone and remained overnight in
the house of the baron’s overseer with
whose young people he had become ac¬
quainted. This overseer was i’eter
l.ubeck, an old veteran for whom
Tonteur held a warm affection, and
through his son, Peter tiie younger,
Jeems had his first news of Toinette.
She was at tiie Crsuline school, and
her parents bed taken a fashionable
house in St. Louis street. Peter said
Tonteur wrote in every letter to his
father ttmt he was homesick to get .
back to tiie Richelieu.
As another spring and summer fol¬
lowed those which had gone before,
Jeems knew he was fighting something
that had to be conquered, a yearning
for Toinette which filled him with a
bitter loneliness wiien its hold was
strongest.
For two years Toinette remained In
Quebec without making a visit to the
Richelieu. During these years, the
tragedy of Ids divided birth was forced
upon Jeems. There was no doubt that
the English in him was uppermost or
that the urge in His blood was toward
tiie southern frontiers and tiie col¬
onies of Hepsibah Adams. Vet he
loved the place where lie lived with a
sincere passion—the Big forest. For¬
bidden valley, all tiie miles of wilder¬
ness about him ns far as lie could
look to tiie horizons. This was New
France. It was his father's country
and not his mother's. Between his
fattier and himself a comradeship had
grown up which nothing could break,
but his worship for His mother was a
different thing, as if something be¬
sides motherhood bound him to her.
His friends had increased in number,
lie came to know people along the
Richelieu but was always conscious
lie was not entirely one of them.
Tolnette’s words nnd tier hatred for
him persisted in Ids memory and kept
recalling this truth.
Late in August of tiie second year
of her absence, Toinette returned to
Tonteur manor for a month. Jeems’
heart ached with tiie old yearning, but
lie did not go to tHe seigneurie. Paul
Tache and his mother were also at
tiie baron's and lie felt a sense of re¬
lief when he learned that all of them
were on their way to Quebec, with the
exception of Tonteur, who remained
for the harvesting of crops. A fort¬
night after they had gone, Peter told
him about Toinette and Paul Tache.
He had scarcely recognized Toinette,
he said. She hud grown taller and
more beautiful. Tache was a full
grown man and dressed like a young
noble. One with half an eye could
see that he was desperately in love
witli Toinette, Peter avowed. But if
lie were a judge of such affairs, and
he considered himself to he that,
Tache was a long way from a realiza¬
tion of Ids desires, even taking
Toinette’s tender years into consider¬
ation. She granted Him no favors.
There had actually seemed to he a
coolness in her attitude toward him.
Peter's words stirred Jeems with a
satisfaction which lie did not let tiie
other see, and not until he was on his
way home did he pull himself from
the folly of his thoughts about Toinette.
Even if she were not smiling on Tache
as warmly as lie had supposed, lie
knew she was as far removed from
him now as tiie sun was from the
earth. Vet, as time went on, this fresh
Contact with her presence, though he
had not seen her, gave a determined
Impetus to his plans for the future.
There were hours in which lie saw
himself a splendid enemy where fate
had ordained that tie could not be a
friend. With increasing maturity giv¬
ing to him a deeper and more under¬
standing passion for his mother, and
a fuller comprehension of tiie noble
qualities in Ids father, he was harassed
by a conliiction of emotions which he re¬
vealed to neither, and confided only
in Hepsibah Adams, who iiad re¬
turned from his trip. The diffi¬
culty of solving tiie problem which
confronted Jeems was as great for
Catherine’s brother as it would have
been for Catherine iierself, for as
early as the spring of 1753, wiien
Jeems had passed His sixteenth year,
there was no longer a doubt in the
minds of tiie people of the Colonies
and New France as to the surety of
the struggle which was impending.
While France and England were offi¬
cially at peace, the forces of tiie two
countries in America were on the
verge of open war and were instigat¬
ing the Indians to a strife of ex¬
termination. Everywhere along tiie
unprotected frontiers the Indians were
killing and burning and such vast
sums were being expended by both
sides for human hair that scores of
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Simple Strategy That Ended Frogs’ “Talkfest”
Picturesque lily pools ornament tin I
grounds of a famous hostelry in Pasa¬
dena, Calif. In tiie lily pools are nu¬
merous large, deep-throated bullfrogs,
picturesque enougli by day but a thun¬
dering nuisance at night with their
loud conversation. Ducks were intro¬
duced, hut the row they made 'when
they caught a frog too big to eat but
too nice to let go proved worse than
the hubbub they were supposed to
cure. Quackless Muscovy ducks were
substituted. These appeared to annoy
the frogs considerably, hut they ate
more flowers and plants tliari^ frogs.
A bounty of 3 cents a frog was then
offered to neighboring children, and
more frogs than Had ever been seen
or heard in the country were speedily
brought in as having been extracted
CLEVELAND COURIER.
white men had taken up the lucrative
business of hunting for scalps.
Almost at the door to Jeems' home,
war preparations were in progress,
for every landed baron along the Rich¬
elieu was training His vassal farmers,
and wiien the wind was right the
Bulains could hear faintly the twice-a
week firing of muskets at Tonteur
manor. Being free of the seigneurial
protection and laws, Henri did not go
to drill. Nor did Jeems. Vet Ton¬
teur rode frequently to their home,
especially when Hepsibah was there.
He was in better spirits than usual,
and it was all on account of Toinette,
he said. She was homesick for the
Richelieu. Her letters to him were
filled with a longing for it, and she
declared that, in another twelve
months, when her schooling would be
finished, she wanted to live at the
manor and not in Quebec. That was
enough to make him happy, and he
laughed at tiie thought of danger for
womenfolk along the Richelieu—In
the fortified places. The English and
their savages would not got nearer
than the lower end of Lake Cham¬
plain when war came; and they would
he driven from there very shortly,
and also from Lake George. But on
such an outlying farm as the Bulaln
place, which had no protection what¬
ever, there was the possible peril of
wandering scalp hunters and he never
tired of urging Henri and Catherine
to make their home within the safety
of tiie seigneurie.
lie asked Jeems and Henri to come
to His drill, and that they did not re¬
spond made no difference in his friend¬
ship. lie could understand how hard
it would be for Henri to prepare for
war against iiis wife's country, and ids
secret adoration for Catherine was
greater because of her courage and
Her faith in both peoples with the
catastrophe so near. It delighted lilm
to think that his own confidence wns
a comfort to her, and the eagerness
with which she accepted his opinions
as a soldier encouraged Him to go be¬
yond what Hepsibah considered in¬
telligent bounds in giving easement to
her mind. He did not guess what was
in Jeems’ heart, nor did the boy’s fa¬
ther or mother. Only Hepsibah knew
fully what was there.
Early in tiie autumn, tiie trader took
Jeems on a journey to the English fort
on Lake George, thence traveling Into
the New York country, returning in
November. They found a change In
Catherine. She was not less confident
or less contented in tiie paradise she
was helping to build, but something
had come into tier life which she was
accepting bravely and courageously
and even with pride. One evening, she
spoke of tiie military activities along
the Richelieu. Many river youths
were training with their elders, she
said, and it did not seem right that
Jeems should not be among them.
While killing was wicked and inex¬
cusable, It was a God-given privilege
to defend one’s home nnd family. She
quoted Tonteur to substantiate her
belief that war would never reach
them, and she knew that Jeems would
not seek it any more than his fattier.
But she thought it would do no harm
for Jeems to prepare himself along
with the other young men of tiie
seigneurie.
To this suggestion Ilepsibah’s home¬
ly philosophy made objection. He told
Catherine the day was coming when
Jeems would be compelled to fight and
that he would have to choose one side
or the other to champion. When that
day arrived, sentiment would not
stand in the way, for, with a world
in turmoil about them, one could not
lie English and French at tiie same
time. No man could tell on which
side they would he when forced to It,
and as lie despised a traitor more than
anything else, it whs his opinion that
Jeems should not he taught the ways
of war under the flag of France and
then, it might he, fight for the Eng¬
lish. As a frontiersman, he main¬
tained that tiie finest fighting man was
tiie Long Rifle, a free wanderer of the
forests, a leather-stocking t re hied to
a hundred greater tilings than the fir¬
ing of a musket in company with a
score of others. That was whst Jeems
should he. As a Long Rifle lie could
serve where honor and duty called him
when the act became necessary.
(TO EE CONTINUED.)
from the pools in tiie iiotel ground".
A sharpshooter was the next experi¬
ment, hut lie woke up more peop’a
than the frogs. Then the hotel man¬
ager read up “Frog” in all its aspects,
and solved tiie problem. He strung at.
electric light over each pool (a good
iiurricane lamp serves equally well
where electricity Is not available),
and, behold! the baffled brutes hence¬
forth sat silently waiting for the dark¬
ness that never came.
Meaning of Musical Term
The musical term "col legno” (with
the wood), signifies that the notes so
marked are to be played by striking
the strings with the stick of the bow
instead of the usual way.
Improved Uniform Internationa!
SundaySchool T Lesson T
(By REV. P B, FITZWATKR. D. D.. Mem¬
ber of Faculty. Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.)
(©. 1931, Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for May 10
THE PARABLE OF THE POUNDS
LESSON TEXT—-Luke 19:I1-2G.
GOLDEN TEXT—Moreover it is re¬
quired in stewards, that a man be
found faithful.
PRIMARY TOPIC—Jesus Teaches Us
to Do Our Best.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Jesus Teaches Us to
Do Our Best.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP¬
IC—Partners With Jesus.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP¬
IC—Stewardship of Money.
The purpose of this parable was to
correct the misapprehension of the
disciples as to the immediate estab¬
lishment of the kingdom. They were
on the way to Jerusalem, and the dis¬
ciples thought that immediately upon
their arrival there Jesus would begin
the exercise of his kingdom rule.
Christ taught the disciples the reality
of his coming and tiie setting up of a
real kingdom, but indicated that there
would be a long delay after his as¬
cension before he would return.
I. The Absent Nobleman (v. 12).
Going away to receive a kingdom
was a common occurrence among the
Jews. Members of the Herodian fam¬
ily had gone to Rome and secured
their appointment to rule over Pales¬
tine. This pictures Jesus going back
to God to receive his kingdom. Jesus
ascended on high to receive from God
tiie Father a kingdom. He will return
when the fullness of the Gentiles be
come in. Though the time of his re¬
turn be unknown, and even delayed,
let no one mistake the certainty of
his coming.
II. The Distribution of the Pounds
(v. 13).
These pounds represent Christ's
gifts to his servants. When Christ as¬
cended he gave gifts to men (Ephe¬
sians 4:7-12). To eacli servant was
given the same amount, showing that
to all a certain gift had been given
and therefore all will be held respon¬
sible for its use. The distribution
was made by the sovereign. The
servants did not choose ns to whether
they would have a gift at all, or even
its amount. It was also a purposeful
distribution. They were to put their
gifts to use during his absence. What
the nobleman demanded was faithful¬
ness.
III. The Rebellious Citizens (v. 14).
They hated him nnd sent messen¬
gers after him, notifying Him of their
refusal to be subject to him. This
pictures the unbelief of the Jews after
Christ's ascension, and their repudi¬
ation of his rule. It also pictures tiie
unbelieving world in its hatred and
rejection of Ciirist.
IV. The Accounting (vv, 10-27).
1. Us certainty (v. 15).
Christ will surely bring every one to
account for the use made of ids gifts.
Men may go on in proud unbelief and
rebellion, but God never forgets. He
has appointed a day in which he will
judge the world (Acts 17:31).
2. The time (v. 15).
It will take place wiien Jesus comes
back to tiie earth. His return will
take place when lie has received His
kingdom. He will receive his kingdom
wiien lie asks the Father (Ps. 2:8).
His delay in asking tiie Father for his
kingdom is because of Ills long suffer¬
ing mercy, extending grace to as many
as will receive him ns Savior.
3. Rewards given for faithfulness
(vv. 16-19).
(1) The first report (vv. 16, 1«7).
He did not say, “I have made ten
pounds,” but “Thy pound hath gained
ten pounds.” He recognized the Lord's
ownership. To tills the Lord replied by
commendation. He praised him and
promoted him, making him ruler over
ten cities.
(2) Tiie second report (vv. 18, 19).
In this ease tiie pound had gained
five pounds. He did not get the Lord’s
commendation for he had not done so
well, but was appointed to a place of
riilership over five cities. Tiie reward
in eacli case was proportioned to faith¬
fulness during the Lord’s absence.
4. Judgment upon the unfaithful
(vv. 20-27).
(1) His report (vv. 20, 21).
This report was entirely bad. He
had not put the pound to use but laid
it away, throwing the blame upon the
Lord. He asserted that the ctiaracter
of the Lord was such as to produce
fear.
(2) Condemnation (vv. 22, 23).
The wicked servant is Judged out
of His own mouth. His excuse in¬
creased his guilt. He is called wicked.
To fail to use our opportunities to
serve Ciirist is the basest wickedness.
(3) Stripped of tiie pound (vv.
24-26).
To fail to use one’s gifts means to
lose them. One of the losses of the
next world will be the deprivation of
what we now have.
Must Battle With Evil
Evil never surrenders its hold with¬
out a sore fight. We never pass into
any spiritual inheritance through the
delightful exercises of a picnic, but al¬
ways through the grim contentions of
the battlefield. Every faculty which
wins its spiritual freedom does so at
the price of blood.—J. Ii. Jowett.
Aids and Burdens
One staff aids a traveler, but a bun¬
dle of staves is a heavy burden.—
Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
Cement Pumped Across
River at High Pressure
All cement required for tiie re¬
cent construction of a 16-mile con¬
crete highway along the Allegheny
river in, mountainous Warren county,
I’ennsylvania, was pumped across the
river in dry bulk through a three
inch pipe, il was reported to the En¬
gineering News-Record, New York
city.
Compressed air at 100 pounds pres¬
sure carried tiie cement in powdered
form from freight cars a distance of
768 feet, the length of tiie pipe, to
(lie batching plant. This unusual
method of handling cement proved
thoroughly practical and economical.
The pipe was suspended across the
river from a cable.—Science Service
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Didn’t Know George
Caller—Is George in?
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Hesitant
The liired man asked little Johnny
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Looking at his mother, the boy
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‘•Shall I give him the salt?” he
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First Golfer (telling fishing story)
—He was about as long as that last
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Second Golfer—Oh, really!
“Yes, so I threw him back.”—Stray
Stories.
Noble Girl
“He swore lie would shoot himself
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“What did you do?”
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your stenog?
Pitzer—No, but site changed the
“Private” sign on my office door to
“Public.”
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Jack—Jim doesn’t stay engaged to
one girl very long.
Bill—No, it looks as if every time
he pays an installment on the ring,
some new flame gets it.
Nought
It is nought good a sleeping hound
to wake.—Chaucer.
