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Her birthptace at Caughnawaga ai 8 FRAG i f Jett her aiorphan. An uncle suc- ee seceded her father in command of the m re formality, but it struck terror: Turtle clan and adopted the child, Into the heart of the girl She was Tn the new chiets household ghere old that she would not have to marry Peekery MT poroapine quills'and many De Tracy, who had come MBDIOINE HAT DAILY NEWS. Sanaa is Maid Perpetual Honor cand inspiring) distinction inher bearing that spoke HBory lid Gefore the Pove of the best thit was Inher race Bopince Jeanne d'Arc's claims of A. bow shot from the Long Housel Potieidered bf the Vati- where Tasekwitha lived with her wif POP AN Indian maiden, who cle a clear cold spring bubbled and, Canada s first saint. The atin. bubbles through mossy stdpes the Counctis of Baitinore near the root of a giant oak. This treal have petitioned and aro spring to-day Is called Kateri spring, for er canonization, Thefand the piigrams who wander: there of the United States are en- believe the waters are blesed by the cause spirit of the Indian maid. In child- sri. Tewrakwitha Cath rine, who hood It was h r fevorite spot, and Mi order is the name of thig / he grew older; it was bere that girl. Tee memory of her, freshi Abe studied and taugtt her people. It pr 200 years, fa one of te noblest * Teorded that when she was cight ae of the Inoquols. It has been 'a years old she wax seated near the for go0d during the two centurie soring stitching a beaded: belt for her hat race's strucgie for betterment, uncle when she sighted the approach iid to-day. tg: held us a common herit. of the Mohegans, the most dreaded by Catholics of nearly every race. of all the Mohawks foes. She sounded oH the alarm. It was cry which opened ier GTave at Auricoyiile, New York, are terrific battie and in which the Mo- i shrines for whites and the Indlans bawkx werc to prove victorious. It ilke, Three thousand white pilgrima was the first warfare she had ever, visited Aurieovile last year. Tens of Se n, and It illql her with horrow. nda Qelieve in Tegakwitha's Of the drunkeh -debauches which of fatervession with the Divine always followed the trips down the cles are attrituted to her. fakes and rivers to the Dutch settle the records, this Indian Ments; where the furs were traded for er peugid there mwas but one ; that the liegt et ot Northern New York. 7 as the Rene Goupil, Killed at Auricse f Genevieve of New France. and under Wille September 29, 1642 name many books Rave been writ- sbout her by the French Thel 7s Catholic Bncyclopedia cals her The firewater, the gir knew little. Her Lily of the Mobewis. fine mature had Aiways shrunk. from ity Wor the statement that her death the eficemes and the bestiality which was that of a saint and that deyotions marked these events, Si would run to het began to be manifested by ber to th aged Anastasia for protection and people immediately after she died and have continued durin: all of the gen- her. erations since-then. It ig her Algonquin blood that ma- stop-her cars to the sounds around e Kes her timid. the chief would say. a ee But St will make ther easy to manage In 1656, when the Five Nations tiad when we have given her to a brave. wunk to the vilestdebauchery of sava The victory of the Mobawits over the Sery, the Iroquois captured in battl monegans detercninal them to offer a Christian Atgonquin woman. Shel ineir captives as sacrifices to thelr had been bound with bark and twigs god of war, Alreskol. They prepared And was bot to be burned cake when the chief of the turtie clafileniidren were formed into. a circie to: marked her stoicism. This quality sp- witness the tortures which invariably pedled to bis savage heart, As al preceded stich sacrifices, Tegalowitha chiet h Riel a richt to claim ter and proke from hem and hid n the ravine he took her to wiie. of barbaric cagtor and Christian slave ) was botm in 1657 The Lily of the Mohawtaiy whose -pirit im lt; few Short years was to turn the ourrent.cf ceiebretion of the victory, Tegakwit. the for the death dance, The women and this mating which hell her spring, FIRST GLIMPSE OF CIVELIZATION The following morning, in further e ha s*uncie gave her in detro 4 pox swept the Mohawics when young buck who bad 4 ithe was four year old-,and him elf in the battle and at feast of the Mohegans. This Was: until she was fifteen years old. I shall never marry, she toid old Anastasia I would die; but I jrould not gite enyself forone of these men. Tegaiewitha learned all of the arts and orsits of her face. She hunted with the men and BO desirned their rugs and ornaments, She knew nogh- ing of lvilization, but an, inbe desire for the beautiful and better things of Tite Gilied her with unrest. Sh+ was twelve years old when the MotiaWke wheld another fendish death feast, Among their victims were ristlans, Again she was forc- ed a clrcle of women and chil- Grefito bebold the torturing of the wictl Sebi ndt watch 2 man Olen, she taking her first wilful stand fer elders, It ta braver toe-fban to torture bm. It ts Eto torment something, Whichtis ped at this. Then gruken frenzy to a ot lance, but her UPd arms wers loaded with beadW:fiupht fect carried het thir reach. Te tunt, which wus stitched with ' Betorg the fires of their human sa- was heavy with em. crifices-had died away the troops of ver from Beads. The maijper of this gtr was Cannde,to subdue or annihtiate the uiet avd even shy, vic and Saintly The Bishops of the: Councils of Baltimore and Montreal, the In- dians and the Jesuits Have Pe- titioned the Pope to Canonize Kateri Tegawitha, The Lily of the Mohawks, Who Lived 230 Years; Sermon in Ravije paar) a RS of the tribe who could get away sought refuge in the hills from fire devils, the canon ot the French soldiers, Te- gakwjthd,-who stayed behind to see the manner of. gods. and rdevils. who. coyld conquer the proud bravery: of her people, watched the French lay in ashes thelr yliages and her own Long jouse among them. blacksown, the chaplain, and the sol- diers minister to the wounded and dy- These people then, did not tor- She drew closer. She saw the ture their captives The soldiers.knelt and the blacgown prayed. The hills became still and and just as daylight was breakink the solemn swell of the Te Dew the valey. glimpse of civilization. DECIDES SHE MUST MARY The-next year three Jesuit mission- aries went to Fonda or Auri s Creek, where he Mohawks had rebuilt thelr. villages. The old chief absented him- fuleaving Tegakwitha to entertain The impression the girl these cultured Frenchmen in thetr letters, which are fin the Convent of the Sacred They speak of her the unusual.quality of her i purity of her Instinct and the great toye and pity she had for her It was the child's first Father Jogue s Statue at Duo. woodis,, querable with all the odds against he gt;. She was told:that her uncle wns get- ting old and that a strong buck was neoded to bring in venison for food and furs for trade. Ican make tho finest'delt, the best Diankets and moccasins in the tribe, he said, I will make them and trade them for venison and furs. she was t.o young and that she had no inclination to marry. the * guests. ae Sho sald Visit of these black tasin revealed to the of Father Jogues and young Goupi , who had come ty ch: of. m God who red men alike. This taken pinog't n years. B Wwitha s birth. The ch desire to, gowns rangements were. riage and a plot: sisted of the aul of the woman Ih ing a.meat at her the woman's act of in the presen e spective tarailles, a Ja plece of Wan a cod, vat it the, bias warned a Todge. time wh a. ghe and her utile One evening According to the tro ed her in all thi gakwitha could not be for el to marry but falling t'obey her parent org 2ar- dians shp. could be killed or* given in slavery fo another tribe. had cone to take little pleasur festive customs of the Mohawks. vePuld work and serve hor-family, cars tor the old andyoung, but she declared she would not marry, den development of will. power with nherent force to mould Its awn fate. Sure of her inalienable rigntito: deaide for herself in. the importent uisatior, she Was accustomed this fashion whe The mia distinguished guests were expegted. Thus attired, she was ire In her uncle when*the chiefs of the various clans and the young Urave who had beet pleked for hor the brave had sitting by the Herp was a aud- ite entered. aken a seat by her, her uncle asked her to hand the guest plece of wood. meaning of the request and the acene In that The Sepulchre in the Ravine With a ry Tegakwitha sprank from her seat and fled the house, running toward the mision of the blackgowns.* She was overtaken near her spring in the ravine. * I will not go back, she declared. You may kill me, but you cannot make mo marry. I will not About this time Yegakwitha came under the. observation of Father deo Lambertville, a Jesuit missionary; who git He began her education and con- verted her to Christianity. Her quick wit and fine morality soon began to win her the respect of her tribe. There had been a time when the Iroquois had vaunted the chastity of their women: in the breath with which they boasted tha bravery of their men in the battle field and their prowess. in the hunt. This girl reminded thom of all that was good in their pest. They became openly. proud of her because her will was as strong 92.the strongest, brave. But her purity betame a reproach to recognized the unusual qualities In the Anastasia had gone with a band of Christian Indiins inte Canada, The priests advised Tegakwitha to follow her there. In 1677, Hot Ashes, an On- eda Indian, who hid been the execn- toneer of the plorieer Brebauf, but hal since become a Christian, took the maiden and some of her followers. to Caughnawaga, Canada. Father de Lambertville, writing of her to the Canadian misionarles, said, I send you a treasure, Guard it well. Tegakwitha attended school in Can ada. She studied dard, witn the sin- gl object jn view of returnnig to teach her people, At *hristmas time she was in Montreal, where she witnessed the Noel servic? and saw a little waxen image of the t hrist child. She vltain- od'one of chess images and pu: sactedly. She carried It the following year when sh2 went int) che furssts with her people on thelr winter, hunt- ing excursion. When she started her adopted sister and old Anastasia urged her again to marry. ' to Her Shrine Last Yeap : ; her tribeswomen and they began to: resent her. She had become a Chria- tian; she would not work on Sunday, she was lazy on that day and, there- fore, they sa d, she must have no food when she did not work: TAUGHT CHRISTIANITY Fresently Tegakwitha s aunts decid ed that she must elther marry or be condemn d to servitude. Marry she would not, she vowed, and the uncle turned her out of the Long House, tell- ing a group of fellow debauchees that, the one who Would catch his . niece might have her without the formality of mariage, A young man who,bad long been among. her suitors. redthed her side first and claimed her, but 4t look from her turned away. companions mocked him, and in hi drunken fury he raised his tomohawk to-etrike her, I am ready to die if need be, she sald calmly, making no move to eschpe or to ward off the imperiding blow. My life you can take willingly. My faith 1s my own fn Ife or death. 1 fear you not. 1 fear nono of you. The God who gives the sunshine, who rops the rain upon the corn and who cools the water In the spring is near me. I am not afrald. Z The man dropped his tomahawk and fled, and Tegakwitha. unmolested, made her. way to the mision. Later that dy, when the carousal in her un- ele s lodge had subsided sho returned there and took up her work. We find this girl next declaring to the clans of her tribe that the God of the biackgowns was the God of all men, paleface and red, Mohawk and Mohegan. There was protest. It Is 40, insisted Tegakwitha. The hawks gives it to the Mohegans also, The.rain that fails upon our corn, falls upon theirs. The waters that cool us drivee the deer and the moose into our bit there war Mohswit,, descended upon them. All of choosing hustmand, she was uncon- dawned upon her, ordered the blackgowse away. years, she answered, I have much work to do. I belong to all my people. I will never marry. and unsucc seful hunting, the tribes- men returned to the camp exhausted. One old hiinter thew himself upon the first couch of boughs he could find and went to. sleep. It was. Tegakwitha s bed, but she made no complaint. She sought out Anastasia and. sat out the night with the old woman When morning came th hunter's squaw dis- covered Him in Tegakwitha s lodge, Before awakening bim she brought sev- jeral oki women: to see for themselves. It was not that the thing they sus- pected was in Itself wrong, according to thelr standards, but why, they ask- of this girl who was no dsttor than they? a's followers dropped away. The old women of the tribe stayed in thetr corners and gossiped much. There was new food for gossip when it was observed that Tagakwitha was work- ing on a beautiful box made of dell- cate skins and fine barks. men said. ANNUAL PILGRIMAGH TO SHRINE go also to thera. The same hand that) backed and in a natural arbor showed hills drives them into the lands of tho sek Mohegans. There s but one God, wy? It: people. A God Incomon wit onemty, the Mohegans This was k. This tha shee Mohawks could not t and they asid ihe trite to pray with her: I will: not he in this- world many, One evening, after three days of bard) 1, should they. listen to the teachings This was in December. Tegakwith- It ts for the papoose, the old wo- The most relutant to betleve evil of n aten ahe called everybody to induce Tokakwitha to marry, There were many Christian Indiang who sought hor band and even: white sett lers, who had come to know the ro- markable and lovable qualities of her nature, would have been prond ta have catled her wife. Father Cholenge, the Canadian bistorian, urged her to marry for her better protection In the wikler- ness. E have no tear of poverty, Derak- witha sald to him. so tittle le re quired to supply the necessities of thi life that my own labor can furnish them. am not any longer my own. I have given myself to God. It is not possible to change masters. 1 must serve all of my people* Tegakwitha was permitted to tak the solemn vow of chastity in the Cat- holle Church on March 25, 1679. She was the first Indian to, take this v In the spring of 1680, when the corn was belng- planted, this remarkable girl was taken ill. While she lay in the hut of Anastasia she occupied her- self teaching the children lessons of love and right living. The French peo- ple of the setlement visited her and brought physician to tfeat her: It would be useless, she told her friends. My work is done and it is time for me to go. Theresa will help you. A great sadness fell upon the Iro- puols. The Indians as one prayed for her recovery. Pray that I shall not be forgotten, she asked them. I will love my peo ple always. 1 Will pray for them in heaven. I will help them. The Jesuits who maintain a mission at Aurleaville in memory of Tegak- witha and the martyred Jogues and Goupil have organized the annual pil- grimages which are made there. It in upon the result of these pilgrimages that the Indians, the Jesuits and the Bishops of Baltimore and / Montreal base: their claims for the canoslzation of The Lily of the Mohawks. IRISH-AMERICAN, WHO . WAS A COLONEL; AN INTERESTING FIGURE Charles Waller, Sir Charles he was: entitied to be called, although be rop- Ded the title, died the otter day at the: seventy-seventh year. He was ax Irish. baronet, the seventh of bis lime, Dis n phew explained, but he was bern in the States and had spent all Bia life there. To give him all his name, he wes Sir Ghariea:: Waller; Baronst. of, Newport. The title, according: to Burke's Peerage, Originated May 10, 1760, when Robert Waller of Lisbrian, was created bar onet of Ireland. He was one of thecom- missioners of the revenue and member of Parilament from Dundalk. His eldest son, Sir Robert, succeeded in the same year and was followed by his brother, the Rev. Sir Charles Townshend, whovs ttle passed to a nephew, Sir Bdmond, in 1830, and sixteen years jeter to Sir Bamund-Arthur, then to f the baronet who died on he father of the agi ES his nephew, William Edgar Wailer, who s the proprictor pf department store 4p Rutherford, NJ. Mr, Waller he seldom made use of his title had been a familiar figure at the Broadway Central Hotel, where he made his New York home fer some years past. He was a kindly oi gen- Yeman with white hair who seemed rather feeble and lived very quletly and Hatnemann Hospital it wds sald that ie aad been a patient there several times and had been there for the past. two months suffering from a complica- tion of diseases aggravated by his ad- vanced age. At the hospital he was known as Mr, Waller, although the doctors understood that he held title in. Cy country. fra neptow, William Edgar Waller, who now succeeds to the baronete: sald last night that the title from Now- port comprised an egtate scattered in Tipperary, Mayo and Limerick coun- ties and had been by the past three holders as itee landlords. SPEED RACE. BETWEEN RABBIT AND AUTO Phe scene was on the road from Tol- edo to Polnt Place. Iuminations were. one man and two girls, aleo four. The big automobile was: along: ithe highway, sending ite white light whead, when suddenly right across the path of the raya from the head lamps shot a young rabbi. The chauffeur Slackened speed, hating to hurt the little Tegakwitha no longer defended her stare and tnen the rabblt hopped back purity or her teachings. Christmas rty une Day, as nearly as Tegakwitha could fix It came. The night before she. gather- ed as many of. the tribe. around the camp fire as would Ifsten to her and told anew the story of the Christ chil born in a manger. In the morning shi was the first one ustir and after the God whd gives the sunshine to the Mo- cujktuat of meal and venison had into the centre of the road again, gave lone look into the blinding glare of the lampe and started the race, Straigbt down the centre of the emocth. white highway he shot on ahead of the car, and the chauffeur epeeded up a bit Just to see how fast the race was going to be, but he could not catch the rabbit, pot by ten feet. That little eritter's feet went eo fast there Gid not seem to be to any there, and Just speck where the certain fit tree. Its boughs were iomf eare bobbed with the motton of his ltUe body and a brown blur of hair, cnt wir snow. She pushed them eGrWlls box of fine bark which bad could not stop. while betind In the car fined with the choicost pisces n vkins and in them reposed Ingl678 the last attempt wus made O14 women's tongues warging. DIg. Jaxy pursers laughed and watohed holeort ntnS:land begged the chauffeur not to ran him down. There waa no sudh ohance.- The rabbit was too quick. When he was thelwaxen image of the Christ which fed Of the eport he hopped to ene side of the road as the car went by, brought rom Montreal. She/up Me Uny head and winked out ef one pink eye am he looked at the apeedor and ie occupants. with guizaical ewey. to bie ttle: mouth, you and the blackgowns will teach ese Hahnemann Hospital, New York, in bis iq not make many friends, At the furnished by the moon and stars, Be-- lsidea the rabbit and the auto there wers And etilt he ran, on and on, keeping bie aietance ahead of the Dig: machine aa t the eht had hypnotized him and he Free to Someone WOULD YoU Come to giving this pi It carries the Yotes give 3,000 vote 3,500, vote: Mar: Regedtoctesgectees ee also taught the by knots. Monday night tl took charge of the rols teaching them The patrol leader watds and discus: that is going to co rangements for sat jn the hends- of P Rossiter, who is make-dt the best cine Hat Scout: cir trol has. been fors Rutherford as ps Laurence Rossiter The Sconts have ments for holding exhibition next m will be done by bo: tothe entertaining. The secretary-tr velve applications class to be conduc master, at his offic the 24th. Applicat in ink, and each a) same in the followi it at the office: Name..... Age... All orders will b from now on accor on page 86 Canadi: All boys must ki Have all Scouts r
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Image 980 (1912-11-23), from microfilm reel 980, (CU1773190). Courtesy of Early Alberta Newspapers Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.