The Elon College Weekly.
THE ELON COLLEGE WEEKLY
Published every Tuesday during the College
year by
The Weekly Publishing Company.
VV. P. LAWRENCE.
E. T. HINES )
R. A. CAMPBELL i
AFFIE GRIFFIN )
W. C. WICKER.
T. C. AMICK.
Editor.
Associate Editors.
Circulation Manager.
Bu»ine^s Manager.
is highly civil, he, although he may be
rough himself, is likely to come to apprec
iate civility and imitate tke civility around
; him. Push Elon to the front by the most
highly civil life possible in the student
bod’..
The Winning of Winona.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1910
The excellent civil conduct of the stu
dent body is an indication that they have
come from well-governed homes. A visit
ing members of the Board of Trutees re
marked publicy, after having spent a night
here, that, although there are more stu
dents here than he had ever before seen
here yet the general deportment was the
best he had ever seen. There is an ap
parent if not a real absence of that wild
ness and boisterousness so disagreeably
present sometimes, in a large student body.
The increasing hostility in the public
mind everywhere to the rough, boisterous,
uncouth exhibition of incivility among
college students is working a reformation
in college life. Excesses in the form of
capital punishment have been greatly
lessened within the last seventy-five
years. Thus the State has learned that
brutality in the execution of law is not
the best means of resisting evils in the
civil government. Sixty years ago, when
Lord Lytton was writing his novels
against the excesses in the English crimi
nal law, and Charles Dickeiis was writ
ing his novels against the abuses in the
English prison administration, there were
more than a hundred—one hundred and
nineteen—different capital offence stat
utes in the English criminal code. Now
there are not over four and perhaps only
three. Then the prison life of offenders
was wretched. Now it is humane and
highly expressive of an entirely different
attitude of the public mind towards crimi
nals. There is likewise far less of cruelty
in parental and school government com
pared with the conditions sixty to seventy-
five years ago. The brutality and gen
eral roughness in the college student life
is passing out for a similar reason, viz;
the way to correct the lawlessness in a
"fies" is not by c. uelty and intir.iidaticn
and boisterousness but by civility and
genteelness. I he College student is at
the most imita ive period of his life, and
if the College life Into which he is thrown
Chapter 111.
As the fates would have it, the re
mainder of the tribe had gathered about
the wigwam in which the " Wise Mens”
had assembled to take counsel, and Oc-
connough, passed out of the villiage un
noticed, ejxept by a few of the old
hunting dogs, who barked at him a few
times, but ceased presently, when they
recogonized that he was one of their
masters.
! Occonnough was glad that he had
escaped unobserved, because he knew
\ that hib people would abuse him and
taunt him for fiithlesinejs, if the;- should
learn how he went. Never before had
an Indian chieftain left his tribe without
an accompanying band of warriors. This
time custom was laid aside, and Occon
nough became innovater of first rank.
' When the "Wise Men" had com
pleted their deliberations, and had an
nounced that a band of warriors, to be i
led by the chief should go immediately
in search of the princess, much of the i
previous excitement vanished, and the
squaws and young people returned to
their occupations. A messenger was
sent to the wigwam of the chief, to in
form him of the decision of the Council.
In a few minutes the messenger returned,
running and loudly shouting, " Ah cheche
shah wan." which I guts^' '.1 to niean,
the Ghief has gone. Again frenzy
seized an easy prey. Again the " Wise
Men" met in their big wigwam. Again
the crowd of women, children and war
riors gathered outside to await the result,
but a decision was not reached so soon
this time. They talked long and serious
ly. When they adjourned they said,
" The Great Spirit has been ofiended—
' we must fast two days, in order to ap-
i pease the deity.
The days of fasting passed and Crow
Foot returned. He had discovered the
escape of his daughter before anyone
else, and had spent the three days which
had elaped, in futile search for his lost
child. The old warrior told a ta!e of
sad disappointment, of his grief because
he had seen no trace of the missing
daughter. When Crow Foot had
brought his story to a close, the ’’ Wise
Men" commenced again. This time
they decided to choose a new chief, and
the faithful old warrior was unanimously
elected tor this honor.
Again the village assumed something
of its usual outward appearance. The
squaws resumed their basket making, and
digged up small patches of ground here
and there, and seeded it with corn. The
older boys began their usual morning
arrow practice, and the gallops upon their
wild ponies, once more, and the small
folk fondled again their old play-fellows,
the dogs. But behind all this, there was
a subtle melancholy, which had lingered
despite the efforts of time to evadicate it.
Many suns had come and faded into the
nothingness beyond the western horizon,
and the moon which was but a slender
and was now a beaming orb again and
still no word had reached them from the
hapless chief and princess. 1 he new
chief had treated the band well, and they
were loyal subjects. But something
would not let them forget.
An old dog has followed Occonnough
as he left the tribe, and one day the old
fellow, gaunt and worn, returned, and in
his mouth he carried a piece of bark, ’
which contained many pictures and sym- i
bols. it was a message from the young
chief. It told a tale of misery and hard- i
ship, hardly thinkable. It mentioned *
days of hunger. It told of sleepless
nights. How during all the days since
the escape of the princess he had gone
alone, and without shelter, save that of |
the blue canopy, through which twinkled >
the never dying candles in the " Land of
the Sky." It was a splendid narration.
The old dog had been his only com
panion. Surely his life during these days
had been one of desolation. There were
many times when he nad had to seek
safety in flight, either from some hostile
enemy or the treacherous mountain lions.
It ended by giving a picture of two
fierce mountain lions upon the ground
and a man up a tree.
(To be continued.)
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