The Cheyenne Star (Cheyenne, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1915 Page: 3 of 8
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CHAPTER IV— Continued
“Once when the - Chauffeur was
away fishing ahe begged me to kill
him With tears In her eyes she
begged me to kill him But he was a
strong and violent man and I was
afraid Afterward I talked with him
I offered him my horse my pony my
dogs all that I possessed lf he wu1d
give Vesta to me and be grinned In
my face rod shook his head - He was
very lnvultlng He said that In the
old days be had been a servant bad
been dirt under the feet of men like
me and of women like Vesta and that
now be had the greatest lady In the
land to be servant to him and cook his
food and nurse his brats You bad
your day before the plague he said
‘but this Is my day and a damned
good day It la 1 wouldn’t trade back
to the old times for anything’ Such
words he spoke but they are not his
words He was a vulgar low-minded
man and vile oaths -fell continually
from his lips
“Also he tojd me that if he caught
me making eyes at his woman he’d
wring my neck and give her a beating
as well What was I to dot I was
afraid He was a brute -That first
night when 1 discovered the camp
Vesta and I bad great talk about the
things of our vanished world We
talked of art -and books and poetry
and the Chauffeur listened and grinned
end sneered He was bored and an-
gered by our way of speech which he
did not comprehend and finally he
spoke up and said: ‘And this Is Vesta
Van Warden one-time wife of Van
Warden the magnate— a high and
stuck-up beauty who Is now my
squaw Eh Professor Smith times Is
changed times is changed Here you
woman take off my moccasins and
lively about It X want Professor
Smith to see how well I have you
trained
“I saw her clench her teeth and the
flame of revolt rise In her face He
drew back his gnarled fist to strike
and I was afraid and sick at heart I
could do nothing to prevail against
him So I got up to go and not be
wttness to such indignity But the
Chauffeur laughed and threatened me
with a beating If I did not stay and
behold And 1 sat there perforce by
the campfire on the shore of Lake
Temescal'and saw Vesta Vesta Van
Wcjrden kneel and remove the moo-
caalns of that grinning hairy ape-
like human brute
— Oh you do not understand my
grandsons You have never known
anything else and you do not under-
stand " ’Halter broke and bridle wise the
Chauffeur gloated while she performed
that dreadful menial task ‘A trifle
balky at times professor a trifle balky
but a clout alongside the Jaw makes
her as meek and gentle as a lamV
“And another time he said: Weve
got to start all over and replenish the
earth and multiply You're handi-
capped professor You ain’t got no
wife and we’re up against a regular
Oardeo-of-Eden proposition But I
ain’t proud I'll tell you what profes-
sor He pointed at their little Infant
barely a year old There's your wife
though you’ll have to wait till aha
grows up It's rich ain't It? We’re
all equals here and I'm the biggest
toad la the splash But X ain’t stuck
up — not L 1 do you the honor Pro-
fessor Smith the very great honor of
betrothing to you my and Vesta War-
den’s daughter Ain’t It cussed bad
that Van Warden ain’t here to see?
T lived three weeks of Infinite tor-
ment there In the Chauffeur's camp
And then one day tiring of me or
of what to Llm was my bad offset on
Vesta he told mo that the year before
wandering through the Contra Costa
hills to the straits of Carqulnes across
the straits he had seen a smoke This
meant that there were still other hu-
man beings and that for three weeks
he had kept this Inestimable precious
Information from me I departed at
once my dogs and horses and Jour-
neyed series the Contra Costa hills to
the straits X saw no smoke oh the
other side but at Port Costa discov-
ered a small steel barge on which I
was able to embark my animate Old
canvas which I found served me for
a sail and southerly breese fanned
me across the straits and up to the
ruins of Vallejo Here on the out-
skirts of the city 1 found evldenoea of
a recently occupied camp Many clam
shells showed me why these humans
had come to the shores of the hay
This was the Santa Rosa tribe aad I
followed its track along the old rail-
road right of way across the salt
marshes to Sonoma valley Here 4
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the old brickyard at Glen Ellen I came
upon the camp There were eighteen
souls all told Two were old men
one of whom was Jones a banker
The other was Harrison a retired
pawnbroker who bad taken for a wife
the matron of the State Hospital for
the Insane at Napa Of all the per-
sons of the city of Napa and of all the
other towns and villages In that rich
and populous valley she had been the
only survivor Next there were the
three young men — Cardiff and Hale
who had been farmers and Wain-
wright a common day laborer All
three had found wives To Hale a
crude Illiterate farmer had fallen Isa-
dora the greatest prize next to Vesta
of the women who came through the
plague She was one of the world’s
most noted singers and the plague
had caught her at San Francisco She
had talked with me for hours at a
time telling me of her adventures un-
til at last -rescued by Hale In the
Mendocino forest reserve there had
remained nothing for her to do but
become his wife But Hale was a
good fellow In spite of his Illiteracy
He had a keen sense of Justice
The wives of Cardiff and Wain-
wright were ordinary women ac-
customed to toil with strong constitu-
tions — Just the type for the wild new
life which they were compelled to live
In addition were two adult Idiots from
the feebleminded home at Eldredge
and five or six young children amd In-
fants born after the formation of the
Santa Rosa tribe Also there was
Bertha She was a good wom-
an Hare-Lip In spite bt the sneers
of your father -Her I took for wlfa
She was the mother of your father
Edwin and of yours Hoo-Hoo And
It was our daughter Vera who mar-
ried your father Hare-Lip — your fa-
ther Sandow who was the eldest son
of Vesta Van Warden and the Chauf-
feur There are only two othep tribes
that we know of — the Los Angelltos
and the Carmelltos The latter start-
ed from one man and woman He
was called Lopes and he was descend-
ed from the ancient Mexicans and was
very black He was a cowherd in the
ranges beyond Carmel and his wife
was a maidservant In the Great Del
Monte hoteL It was seven years be-
fore we first got In touch with the Los
Angelltos They have a good country
down there but It Is too warm I
estimated the present population of
the world at between three hundred
and fifty and four hundred — provided
of course that there are no scattered
little tribes elsewhere In the world
If there be such we have not heard
of them Since Johnson crossed the
desert from Utah no word or sign has
come from the East or anywhere else
The great world which I knew In my
boyhood and early manhood Is gone
It has ceased to be X am the last
man who was alive In the days of the
plague and who knows the wonders of
that far-off time We who mastered
the planet — Its earth and Sea and
sky — and who were as very gods now
live In primitive savagery along the
water courses of this California coun-
try Hut we are Increasing rapidly—
your sister Hare-Lip already has four
children We are Increasing rapidly
and making ready for a new climb to
ward civilisation In time pressure
of population will compel us to spread
oub and a hundred generations from
now we may expect our descendants
to start across the Sierras oozing
slowly along generation by genera-
tion over the great continent to the
colonization of the East — a new Aryan
drift around the world
Hut It will be alow very slow we
have so far to climb We fell so hope-
lessly far If only one physicist or
one chemist had survived I But It was
not to be and we have forgotten every-
thing The Chauffeur started working
In iron He built the forge which we
use to this day But he was a lazy
man and when he died he took with
him all he knew of metals and ma-
chinery What was I to knew of such
things? X was a classical scholar not
a chemist The other men who sur-
vived were not educated Only two
things did the Chauffeur accomplish—
the brewing of strong drink aad the
growing of tobacco It Van while he
was drunk once that he killed Vesta
I firmly believe that he killed Vesta
la a fit of drunken cruelty though he
always maintained that she fall Into
the lake and was drowned - -k
“And my grandsons let me warn
you against the medicine men They
call themselves ddetora travestying
what was ones a noble profession but
In reality they are medicine men
devil men and the make for super-
stition and darkness They are cheats
and liars But sq debased and degrad-
ed are we that we believe their lies
They too will Increase In numbers as
we increase and they will strive to
rule us Yet they are liars and charla-
tans Look at young Cross-Eyes pos-
ing as a doctor selling charms against
sickness giving good bunting ex-
changing promises of fair weather for
good meat and skins sending the
death stick performing a thousand
abominations Yet I say to you that
when he says he can do these things
he Ilea I J H Smith say that he
lies I have told him so to bis teeth
Why has be not sent me the death
stick? Because he knows that with
me It Is without avalL But you Hare-
Lip so deeply are you sunk In black
superstition that did you awake this
night and find the death stick beside
you you would surely die And you
would die not because of any virtue
In the stick but because you are a
savage with the dark and clouded
mind of a savage
The doctors must be destroyed and
all that was lost must be discovered
over again Wherefore earnestly I
repeat unto you certain things which
you must remember and tell to your
children after you You must tell
them that when water is made hot by
fire there resides in It a wonderful
thing called steam which Is stronger
than ten thousand men and which can
do all man’s work for him There are
other very useful things In the light-
ning flash there resides a similarly
strong servant of man which was of
old his slave and which some day will
be his slave again
“Quite a different thing Is the alpha-
bet It Is what enables me to know
the meaning of fine markings whereas
you boys know only rude picture writ-
ing I have stored many books In
that di7 cave on Telegraph hill where
you see me often go when the tribe Is
down by the sea - In them Is great
wisdom Also with them I have
placed a key to the alphabet so that
one who knows picture writing may
also know print Some day men will
read again and then If no accident
has befallen my cave they will know
that Professor Smith once lived and
saved for them the knowledge of the
ancients
There is another little device that
man Inevitably will rediscover It la
called gunpowder It was what en-
abled us to kill surely and at long dis-
tances Certain things which are
found In the ground when combined
In the right proportions will make
this gunpowder -What these things
are I hare forgotten or else X never
knew But I wish I did know Then
would I make powder and then would
I certainly kill Cross-Eyes and rid the
land of superstition—'
“After X am man grown I am going
to give Cross-Eyes all the goats and
meat and skins I can get so that he’ll
teach me to be a doctor” Hoo-Hoo as-
serted “And when I know I’ll make
everybody else sit up and take notice
They’ll get down In the dirt to mat
you bet"
The old man nodded his bead sol-
emnly and murmured:
“Strange It is to hear the vestige
and remnants of the complicated Ar-
yan speech fall from the lips of a
filthy little skin-clad savage All the
world Is topsy-turvy And It has been
topsy-turvy ever since the plague"
“You won’t make me sit up" Rare-
Lip boasted to the would-be medicine
man “If I paid you for a sending of
the death stick and It didn’t work X’d
lust In your head— understand yon
Hoo-Hoo you?”
“I'm going to get Granser to remem-
ber this here gunpowder stuff" Edwin
said softly “and then I’ll have you all
on the run You Hare-Lip will do
my fighting for me and you Hoo-
Hoo will send the death stick for me
and make everybody afraid And If
I catch Hare-Lip trying to bust your
head Hoo-Hoo 111 fix him with that
same gunpowder Granser ain't such
a fool as ’you think and Im going to
listen to him and some day I’ll be boss
over the whole bunch of you"
The old man shook hls head sadly
and said:
“The gunpowder win come Noth-
ing can stop It — the same old story
over and over Man will increase and
men will fight The gunpowder win
enable men to kin millions of men
and In this way only by lira and
blood wUl a new civilization In some
remote day be evolved And of
what profit will It be? Just as the
old civilisation passed so will the
new It may take fifty thou-
sand years to build but It will pass
AU things pass Only remain cosmic
force and matter ever la fiux ever act-
ing and reacting and realizing the
eternal types -the priest the soldier
and the king Out of the months of
babes comes the wisdom of ill the
ages Borne wlU fight souqs will rule
some wlU pray and aU the rest wlU
toll aad suffer sore whUe on their
bleeding carcasses Is reared again aad
yet again without end the
beauty aad surpassing wonder of the
civilized state It were tut as well
that I destroyed those eave-etock
hooks— whether they remain or per-
ish aU their old truths jrtil he dis
covered their old llee lived and hand-
ed down What is the profit — ”
- Hare-Lip leaped to hls feet giving
a quick glance at the pasturing goat
and the afternoon sun
“Gee I” he muttered to Edwin "The
old geezer gets more long winded
every day Let’s pull for camp”
While the other two aided by the
dogs assembled the goats and started
them for the trail through the forest
Edwin stayed by the eld man and
guided him in the same direction
When they reached the old right-of-way
Edwin stopped suddenly and
looked back Hare-Lip and Hoo-Hoo
and the dogs and the goats passed on
Edwin was looking at a small herd
of wild horses which had come down
on the bard sand ' There were at least
twenty of them young colts and year-
lings and mares led by n beautiful
stallion which stood In the foam at
the edge of the snrf with arched neck
aigj bright wild eyes sniffing the
salt air from the sea
“What Is It?” Granser queried-
“Horses” was the answer “First
time I ever seen ’em on the beach
It’s ths mountain lions getting thicker
and thicker and driving ’em down"
’ The low sun shot red shafts of light
fan-shaped up from a cloud-tumbled
horizon And close at band px the
whits waste of shore-lashed waters
the sea lions bellowing their old
primeval chant hauled up out of the
sea on tbs black rocks and fought
and loved
“Corns on Granser" Edwin prompt-
ed And old man and boy skin-clad and
barbaric turned and went along the
right-of-way Into the forest In tha
wake of the goats
THE END
SPREAD A SPIRIT OF JOY
s
Fat Men With Hie Laugh Dispelled
' Some of ths “Blue Monday"
Downhearted ness
Ths scene was s crowded street car
and the time jras about eight of a
Monday morning Blue Monday waa
written plainly acroee the face qf
nearly every passenger— except one
He was s man round of face and al-
moet spherical of figure who clung to
a strap and swayed with the crowd as
tbs car rounded the turns In hls (res
band he held a humorous weekly
which he read between sways And
as hs read ha laughed Not a dry
cackle or a low chuckle but a whole-
lome laugh which teemed to start
somewhere near hie ahoes and gather
volume and tone as It rose through
hls body and finally emerged from bis
parted lips Some gaxed et him with
a kind of subdued horror expressed In
their eyea as It be had Intruded on
tbelr private case of bluet But the
majority looked upon him with envy
and that envy called attention to a
common human falling nil too common
for the good of the race We are In-
clined to look upon wholesome laugh-
ter especially in public as s sign of
reprehensible vulgarity But then why
the envy? Perhaps because the man
seemed to be enjoying himself after
his own fashion and though bis fash-
ion might bo wrong the enjoyment
might be all right There Is some-
thing refreshing about wholesome
laughter which Is contagious and U
Is probable that those who beard -the
fat man laugh went to tbelr work In
better spirits In that case be per-
formed s real publlo service and he
Is a man to be praised And In any
case there can be little doubt that the
fat man ate better slept better and
worked better for hie totally uncon-
scious exhibition of n rare talent
Little Wooden 8hoes
As I tramped tor hours among the
refugees from Antwerp one thing Im-
pressed Itself strongly upon my mem-
ory: the noise of so many little wood-
en shoes — children’s shoes — that click-
clacked on the cobhleatoLee In the
characteristic short run of frightened
people My memory holds a whole
collection of noises but none quite
so pathetic aa the quick tok-tok-tok"
of these hordes of children trying des-
perately with tbelr tired little legs to
keep up with father and mother —
From the Amsterdam Handelsblad
Pain Is a Hint to the Wise
One thing that should be regard ad
seriously is pain In any fora In any
part of the body U there to a dull
headache frequently find out what
causes 1L Pain in the knee the arch
of the foot or at any point should be
taken seriously Xala means some-
thing wrong It may bo brave to
bear It but It to not wise Remember
that pain felt in one part of too body
may be the result of something wrong
In anothor part Bee a wise doctor
about IL— Boy Scout Handbook
Dally Thought
Life to made up not of great sacri-
fices or duties but of Uttlo things in
which smiles aad kindness and email
obligations given habitually are what
win the heart and secure comfort—
Dolly ThewehL '
la character la manners la stylet to
all things the supreme exeeileoee to
simplicity — Longfellow
MfflAnoiwL
SlMfSfitOOL
Lesson
(By E O SELLERS Acting Director ot
Sunday School Course of Moody Bible
Institute Chicago)
LESSON FOR JULY 4
ABSALOM’8 FAILURE
LESSON TEXT— II Samuel 18:1-15
GOLDEN TEXT — Children obey your
parents In the Lord for this Is right—
Ephesians l:L
His connivance with Joab in the
death of Uriah was a costly bargain
for David and the development of sin
In hls family with Ita long train of
fearful consequences teaches us that
sin respects not person nor position
The dark story of chapter 13 involves
Absalom’s flight and Josh’s strategy in '
getting him back to Jerusalem (ch
14) All to not aa well however as It
outwardly appears for Absalom tho
beautiful (14:25) soon stole the heart
of the ten tribes Israel (ch 15) from
hls Indulgent and Indifferent parent
Then follows the story of that father's
flight and of ths son’s entry Into too
capital city
This entire story is one of the most
wonderful dramas recorded in secular
or sacred history It may be divided
roughly as follows: Act L Absalom
slays hls brother Act IL David fails
to become fully reconciled Act HL Ab-
salom’s rebellion Act IV David’s
grief The lesson for today has to do
with Acts HI and IV
Act III Beane 1 David’s Flight
and Flnesas chapters 15 18 and 17
“A foolish son to a grief to hls father
and bitterness to her that hare him"
(Prov 17:25) On the other hand an
Indulgent and an Indifferent father
brings grief to hls son
Beene 2 The Battle of Mount
Ephraim (chapter 19) David at the
Gate r 1-6 The place where David
“numbered” (v 1) hls followers waa
Mahanalm (17:27) where Jacob saw
the two “hosts” of angels (Gen 32:1
2) What David saw was quite dif-
ferent As he waited he had time to
contemplate that other time that he
remained behind when he ought to
have gone forth to battle and which
resulted In tho sin for which he was
oven now suffering (ch 11:1-7) Ab-
salom waa shrewd as men count
shrewdness but he made one fatal
omission In planning hia campaign
he left God out of hls reckoning (ch
17:14 R V) David’s use ot Hnshal
was fully Justified by too situation
into which this reckless son waa pre-
cipitated still It is probable that David
listened to too advice of hls follower
(r 3) more willingly because of hl
reluctance to light against hls own
son
Beene 3 Absalom’s Defeat rr 8-
10 The battle was so planned that
tho advantage of the forest was on Da-
vid’s side and more of tho enemies of
David were smitten by the hand ot
God (v 8) than were slain by ths
servants of David These men
brought Judgment upon themselves
through tbelr disloyalty to God’s
chosen king (Judges 5:20 21) and In
this we aee a type of that final victory
which shall end our David’s engage-
ment with hls foes (Rev 79:11-21
II These 2:8) Men who today are
disloyal or disobedient to God’s
chosen King can only expect “a cor
tain fearful looking for of Judgment and
fiery indignation which shall devour
tho adversaries” (Heb 10:27) Atthe
end of the battle proud Absalom la not
found In hls chariot bat helplessly en-
tangled In the crown of hls pride
Beene 4 Absalom’s Death w 11-15
“Absalom chanced to meet” ( 9 IL
V) there la no chanco In toe provi-
dences ot God Hls desire to meet
David’s servants Is granted yet that
meeting brought Absalom dismay de-
feat and ruin
Joab now takes matters Into hls
own hands He held David In hls
power and had a debt to pay Absalom
(ch 14:29) Most dearly did Absalom
pay toe penalty to this vengeful time
abiding aoldler Joab waa not content
to slay tola proud youth but to show
hls contempt he cast toe deed body
Into a pit aad raised over It a “great
heap" of atones (v 17) Bo Absalom’s
proud monument (v 18) failed of Its
Intended purpose David’s victory
waa complete even so will be the ul-
timate victory of our “greater David”
(PhlL 3:10 11)
Act IV David’s Grief v 19-33
Beene 1 The Messengers Again oar
attention to centered upon toe grief-
stricken father Hls anxiety to sin-
cere end heart-breaking but It to
tardy The first messenger Ahlmaaa
to a good man but brings not good
news In oar message ona of life or
t death? The second messenger
gives a diplomatic bat a blunt answer
to Devtd’a anxious Inquiry What
eared David for hie enemies hls army
say for himself if only too “young
man” were safe
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