WHAIiES NOT IN DEMAND FEW LEVIATHAN^ LEFT AND THEY

ARE NOT NFUCH HUNTED.

I >«■ «r Earth'* l.arjr-

Wartli

F\ir lie whale the»c are. in lie laasnage of Jack MtliW* farewell. ' H*?-

HIAWATHA IN OJIBWAT.

li lold in BtaUnUca. In 1846 tliera were 15* «<•»»<•’.» carrying the Amcrlcan flag rjtractii-nllj- wer* 1 From New Bedford), huntlnc whale* In every corner of the watered world, from Okhotsk to Arabia. That was a ' mighty fleet, pf it today are left but 39 small barks and •cjotuert. Jan. 1. ■ If59. a year before i.:e civil war b."- . K an. there were 625 re-t -la; by 186C.

py da)"S and many of cm. cioaiw* ■ n |o ,,.3 ,e Boston Ev.-ning Transcript Alter ; ^ antmts of mlnad New Bedford

strenuous life of four centuries Inis f

-chs I r-

fortunes will tell I

decrease w

Alabama The whalers would b

how much ot the 1 by the vindlctlyi

Is the coffee-and-cigars. the easy-chi andallppers |wrlod of bis exlstet

S.nce the lime when Columbus crossfd , homf from four-year-long cruises the Atlantic be has been hunted and , |n ^ AnUc knew nothln< o! harried from Arctic pillar to tropic : , he vrar that h#d glnre they jrcst. but.the economic cycle has. passed |n Thfy werf !olided down w , th and for the present the whale Is en- , o!ly fjirgo ^ thp Qrrw% Bnl , joying a period of comparative secur- | cheerfully enough to the ity. when be may roam the waters In , hou|thl of hom c War< j bound. Then peace, multiply tfod geopla once more voula com( , ^ utonU:] ed encojintei the depleted seas. 1>>1 none begrudge. wlUi thp Ala i, am4 Bn(1 ltie whaling >‘im his repose. The whale deserves cnpUln W()uld Imce , he Confederate'e well of the world, "'hat he has In h'.s g prisoner and watch the fruit ol humble way contributed to the Intel- • hlg |0 „ ro| , ofr B( . rosll the rra big lei tual development of the human race bi|low , of drnM black smoke, only the Imaginative .an compute.only AlBbBmB gourde wa . artificial, the ungrateful deny. For four ten- Aflt , r (be mBr thp lrBd(1 p lcked uS . | D tunes he fed the scholar's lamp.and ls69 there were 339 vessels. Then

the victor's torch. For *6 much of r>mp lh< . ,

literature and of science as we owe to '•midnight oil- the thoughtful and the

generous will give the whale due cred- of the remngnt oJ the fleet still afloat

.aervlc* *— ’—" “*■

AN INDIAN PLAY ACTED BY INDIAN

CHARACTERS.

Unique Alfresco VerfoMnsneo at Do«l>srsis. Ont.-Vlrst Produce.! to Eotnrtnla 1'sot Longrsllow's lisuglnet"—Herlvol of Kodmou's Aoclont An* and Castomr. Wholly apart from the spectacular attrac tiveness of the play, there Is a

aignlflcance I

ojtbway

'• " presc

»p. Desbarata. Ont.. which

sented dally at Hlawa-

sbarata. <

den- It worthy the interested gttent

the performance

Indian drama "Hia-

watha. 1

Cami * It w

of all who view the Indian us a romantic figure or systematically concern themselves as to ula welfare, writes Wm. E. Brigham In the Boston Transcript. Of all American Indiana, only the OJlbway la Increasing In nuroberw, yet his contact with the white man has cost him his nationality and hi* dominion, which formerly included the lands as far east as the Gulf of Su Imwrence and Western Massachusetts. His ancestral home, however, was the country about Lakes Superior and Huron. where the tribe concentrated early

before the abvancing whites.

t precon the

It. But the»service bo has long per- bBi] New Bedford, four from formed IT now done better by another ProvlncelowIli two from Boston and

t perlotber

l compsratlve-

the striking of oil In Pennsylvania. and the whaling Industry was

doomed.

i flfet 1 ford. I

has attained a considerable degree of civilization and the-OJIbways doubtleaa arc the best types of the aboriginal American In existence. A peace-

1 f(V>m San Francisco.

agency, and he enjoys lv unmolested rest.,

One day last March. » “P ; AUanttcT In from the tropics as wefrt-*s the rank- I j.p.n Okhotsk est yarn that ever came out of a v fo'c's’le, but verifled as accurately as voyagW

nlly r singularly pure, most of them are devout Christians and. In a word, they utterly belle tne commonly accepted

thief

a government report. The New ford whaling bark Kathleen was float Irg calmly in a placid sea, when sh<

Bay and In the

Seas. With the old fashion

took a large gap from

the sailors' Uvea still persists. Somt of the New Bedford! whalers have

Ith the estimate of the Indian as a pftty thl

1.fhn mihwav learn

caught the attention ot a giant 1 back. He swam .up in his majertic j

i within

aciflc coast are half a doxen

1 steam whalers which .go out for but

way. and when within a few yards of ; g few dBVg w B tlBe Bnd tow their the ship he dived Just below the sur- ( prlies ghore Xo ^ cul up Bnd boiled, face and moved slowly beneath the | Tbls mc bod will soon entirely superkeel. Then he rose quickly and sav- ; epde the 0 j d one _ Bnd t b e steamers agely. In the manner of a bucking ; wl) , mODO polUe what Is left of the

bronco, until the ship was sheer above l whBUng industry,

the water, it toppled over on Its side. — the whale moved on a few feet and

the arts of the white man pease of many of his own, and It Is a gratifying fact that the presentation of the Indian play, under Its peculiarly happy auspices. Is destined to revive among the Indians a knowledge of their own ancient customs, ceremonials. arts and style of drees, which stood In grave danger ot passing away for-

The Idea of the p

A drum used in the (Jrams was ones

of Shingwank, the mast

. Ice at Queenstown I

the War of ISIS.

Hiawatha of the poem la the Hiawatha ot the play, and it needs only a reasonable familiarity with the poem to follow the action of the play undcrstandlngly. even though H Is given In the OJlbway tongue. The | scene Is an Island fronting a natural amphitheatre on the mainland. On the right of the stage, from the log j scats ol the spectators. Is the tepee of ! Nokomls. On the left, across a short stretch of water, rises the point of a cliff, thick with trees, and a little ,

the left the hill which terthe cliff also forms a waterwhich the Falls of Mlnne

haha dash In a green and white spray. 4 This waaresenUtlon is finely done in oil by riancis West, and Is the only d«parture from natufle In the J^ole sotting. At the left again, beside the falls, the Ancient Arrow Maker and bis (air daughter Minnehaha sit at the entrance of their tepee. Across Lake

1 flrama was one* Thomas H. Taylor, the gwank. the mast boot and shoemaker at ? a^ls time, and Washington street, does all

-a Heights.In i ng

... *t n

the popular

•sir-

ally tboroughtly ^am ible' prices. He has beei

reasonal . }

doing business in Cape May elven year*. Rips in uppers tewed oy machine with silk to match. Lost or broken eftlets or hooks replaced.

high cliff, further t ml nates shed do

between Campment D'Ours and

impmc . with

■ gap Cop

y originated with ontreal, for more

are for America (and I- O. Armstrong of

ling- business. "America'' . than 20 years a protest 10ns. ■ New Bedford. unUl a compare- —If the term he permissible—’

J I lively few year* ago. when San Fren-

Now. that may be considered the des- c , gco began to hunt for whale* with

naddened, | s « ewBera- ) indeed, no o'hercalllng In

the world demands the highest quail ties of courage and daring. Compared

irting f ted fugi

the whale.

Down on the .ancient business streets of Boston. Purchase. High and India, and along the old wharves, you will find a sepre perhaps of weather-beat-

en gilt

proclaim that

within sell, among other things, and whale-oil. sperm candles

il. Spec t those

and whalebone."

not the truth. They are signs of noth- , twenty-four ships

lug at all but the conservatism of the ] Bedford will disappear one t»y Boston business man. '^-ho changes his j The whaler ol the future will hunt wares to meet new demands, but | *-jth steam. He will bnlld his boiling changes not his sign above him. The establishment on some shore near

prowling newspaper man who asks ^ which the whales congregate,

the Junior partner for Information '

built a neat —

the Desbarata group of Islands In Lake Huron, which for centuries have been the summer playground of the OJlbways. Mr. Armstrong, himself an ardent admirer of Longfellow's poem, was delighted to find that the Indians were familiar with it. Sympathizing with the desire of their leading men to preserve tbfclr traditions, he suggested that they should be embodied In a

rept

In the career of Hiawatha.

The OJIbways too* to the Idea with enthusiasm, and. under Mr. Armstrong's direction, they made their first attempt at a national drama, when the three daughters of Longfello* visited Desbarets. thejwafest village to

the tribe's playground. In 1900.

When this memorable Journey was made, the visitors were treated to a spectacle which, as Miss Alice M. Ixingfellow afterward wrote, "possessed an Indescribable charm." The presentation was exceedingly crude, from

tt of view, never-

rery simplicity and the eriousness of the Indians

charmed the guests exceedingly and

__ Miss Longfellow described the play

df'tim whale. _ But New”B^d- ** "* unl( l ue interesting

ancient feud. Only In order to look «m 1 llpg of

It in this way. we shall have to give i to R go , dlerln R, even In time of war. the whale credit for carrying about In 1 te a comparatively serene business, that huge head of his a kind of Mach- The perccntag e of casualties on an iavefllan subtlety and a mind for deep- 0ld . fash | 0ned whaling trip would planned revenge. And as every old : battle of Colenfco look like whaler knows, the only thing in a a chud ' g picnic, n i 8 only natural

• whale s head is some three or four , thBt guch a B honld attract the dramatic representation of the chief

tons of liquid spermaceti, worth in mogt M lf-rellant men In the world, the New Bedford market about *50 a the meD wh gought fortune In an barrel. It is a pity this prosaic fart unpeopled w Art d . and the descendint* is so. for U forbids us to indulge In j of thoge A( . eBr i y aa 1775 New the poetic fane) of imagining the b^Io^ with , Beet of 350 ships. mOn whale as entertaining a feeling of : 0 p 0 , lt ed the whaling business of the gratitude to the Standard Oil com- I ^.orid. This moncpoly la maintained pany and erecting monuments in the , go , ong ^ , he industry lasted. It Is deep to the glory of John D. Rocke- i esUmated that in 1S46. when New

feller, who is chiefly responsible for his emancipation. The petroleum age tbe for the world spells golden age for j

Bedford had 730 ships on the water, total Investment of money was 0.000.000. and the number of people dependent on this harvest of the sea

was 70.000.

Comparatively

dwindled to a mere nothli

even dwindle

never entirely disappear,

always be/some slight business In the

blng. It may Bat It will

the present-day p

signs tell f 0 rii will not be Its headquarters. The s of noth- 1 twenty-four ships that sail from New

this station he will go out every n

ing. shoot his whhle with

1 a half-indignant , gun. Instead of in the old r

drama of the forest, with the broad stretch of lake In front and the forest trees closing In on the scene." The Interest aroused was so great that other representations followed as a mater of course, until Qte performance of the national drama became an annual fixtures at Desbarets. and per-

-. , July 10 c

or more away, the main ship channel runs through the p*vM'» Gap—a reduced counterpart of the Palisades of the Hudson. Directly west of the stage, half a mile distant, are two miniature Islands. That with the two trees sticking up is Woman's Face. It were a waste of words to comment upon the exquisite beauty of such a A column of smoke arising from the peak of the cliff is a signal fire lighted by the Great Spirit to call all the nations that they may smoke together the pipe of peace, the Pukwana. Brave In feathers, robes and weapons the warriors assemble; some in canoes. some rushing down over the hill from the forest, some picking their way along the margin ot the lake. They glare at eacB other with looks of hatred—your average OJlbway Is a good simulator—and strike at each other with their tomahawks. Suddenly the voice of the Ureat Spirit is heard lamenting the quarrels of his j people; and. moved by a common 1m pulse, the warriors rush to the water's edge, throw down their garments of bearskin and their weapons, and. dashing Into the water, wash off the warpaint Sitting In a circle. "Indian fashion," then they smoke the pipe of peace. The wedding feast is made the very appropriate excuse for the lutroduc- j tlon of a series ®f dances and songs In which steps and melodies which have echoed through the great north- j era forest for uncounted generations ; ydneed.

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The insult to old Nokomls and Minnehaha by Pau-Puk-Keewis, In the absence of Hiawatha and the braves, and their angry pursuit of him now constitute the most thrilling details of the play. Omitting mention of several other noteworthy incidents, which there Is

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"Great Scott, man. wake up; this Is j low him in to be cut and bdiled the fortable hotel and picturesque l 1902. We don't deal in whale-oil. We 3CXt ^y. while he steams off aftet afford ample accommodations for rls-

tiell mineral oils." And when you call more game. Within the past five year* i itora.

bis attention to the sign which he this protest, has been Introduced ;l : The reason for the crudity ot the has seen with unseeing eyes these three places—on the coast of Norway, original performance is worth noting, twenty years he explains that that Is ou eio Pacific coast of the United Mpat of them, as a matter of fact, had of the past, and refers you to "Smith an d 0 a the coast of Newfound- forgotten what the ancient garb of A Co., around on India square—thej- laad the tribe was. and such of the older handle the whale-oil. I think." And . | generation as remembered lacked then Smith, the commission dealer. I Waiter seott a. a Volunteer. 1 cither the materials or the skill to ■ays: "We don't carry any whale-oil; j The recent discovery In Edinburgh make the proper costumes. As the . there Is an old fellow out in | 0 f a summons calling upon Sir Walter Znnis excel In pottery and the Nava-

Hiawatha.

"Realistic" Is a word Inadequate to describe the effect of this remarkable scene. It was the real thing which the spectators of the Indian drama at Desbarats witnessed and the picture will remain In their minds until the magic

spell of the | * ' ‘

broken. Aa a bar of purple and bolden sunshine sparkled westward across the lake from the Island of the Woiw an’s Face to the ledge of the Indlah prophet, Hiawatha came forth raising bla hands to the blue sky above

him. chanted to hla people his sad

farewell. The refrain was caught up

and repeated by the sorrowful men and I.« oqupped with New and Modern Type. Ideas thoroughly acre^ the d Waters's** tender* as^so? and practically handled. Can turn-out first-class Work

The Herald

I #§Job Office^

we don't know what he does with IL Some old Rip Van Winkle. I guess, that sticks to the old ways." After diligent search you find the ene or two houses that do make a business of whale products, and you learn that there U now Just one staple use for sperm oil—miner*' lamps. Then. too. a few railroad

like It for thi

ite.

the Edinburgh army reserve durin; the troubled period of 1803. has beoi followed by the unearthing of Scott'! reply. Dated from Lass wade Cottage.

: <jnil from tt.

reservation

James Lalng, clerk to the Uffflenano | a of . the city of Edinburgh, the letter 1 reads as folio**: "Sir—As I observe 1 r by the enclosed summons that I 1

drawn 1 * " ~

1 of artistic embr

r leggins and moccasins w r cases, destitute of any 1

mutation,

soldier of the. army of re ! and their general appearance was far

serve. I be* to Inform you It is my !

a soldier I be* to 1

Intention to claim the e

I from that of the i

f their tribal hi

their signal lamps,

certain curious purposes, like Ing steel, the universal mineral 611

improved by a slight admixture

spermaceti. j LoJhlin V. Cavalry. I understand ; Ited the Smithsonlal Institute at WashIn New Bedford you will hear the ; from Col Dundee that the adjutant, ington and reurned with drawings.

' " - — *- *' **■- **—*“ photographs and object-lestoca which.

vided In flavor of volunteer cavalry, the Longfellow epic,

having been for It years a member The Indefatigable Armstrong, now admixture of of the Edinburgh troop of the R. M. heartily in love with the project, vis-

ta America Is goee 1

Western ’ population that made Ne^ Bedford's wharves a spot raver. Frank T. Ballen has written their requiem: "From all the Isles of the Boult they came—sturdy of limb aad clear of eye from Polynesia; lithe, sinewy aad ernsi-vtaaged from Malaysia, black arith the blackness of soft coal from East Africa, stolid aad haughty from AraMa. aad but. but greaUst both la number aad In Importance, the stalely, cavalier-like Rortugoaae from that Atlantic cluster of Jewelled teles, the 1 Azores. Cape Verde aad Madeira “

f in lengths as you e

. Is to supply the 1 i lUt of the oorps. In ml my name regula

If further verification of the exemption Is requisite, have the goodarea to acquaint Mr. Adams for mo I remain- sir. your obedient servant. Walter Scott" In spite of hla Mine ness. Scott was an enthusiastic—apd Immensely popular—volunteer, and used to inrn out to drill ot five in the

Aa IM.Iileeat Mr*.

The yakamlk. or trumpeter of Tea*

rueta. a fowl of the crane species, tea bird of extraordinary tateUtgawce. The

natives wee it Met aad of ah

• In which his a tade love and war. hanted I. The drama la now “ate k small Island just out fn 1 amphitheatre on the malt

Camp, aa It I and tt la “curt aklll and wit

>t the aatkmal pride

It Is apaprent of the OJIbways

•luted by the attention their performances have attracted, aad they eater into them with much of the reverent ep4rtr alt ends st upon the prsswia

said that, however far the yaks thm ef the Pasrion Play. Visiter*

t way home at tho two dramas aad H all the cve» ease b made by them

the waters as i thrilling as t

emn. as thrilling as the noblest song of Wagner. It lifted (his wonderful rerformance above the plgue of a t exhibition and made it aa eVdhL

at short notice, and at reasonable prices.

\With

stride of h chieftain, HM-

hlmself at the a

with hands uplifted, paddle nor canoe,

ing the meloncholy farewell, the Indian actor passed slowly from vie

until when he had

If at the shore a . touching' neitt and vole* cha

Paint! Paint! Paint!

IT'”

But when yon do. os*, trials. I mix print and rxpidlv, snd ext

i, cheerful!

k In the splendid path o

llded.

he glide

He disappeared wholly at last In the shadow of the Woman's Face. There could be no finer piece ol stagecraft

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