Show the mans carse A missionary who has just return ed from alaska recently told an amus ing story ol 01 how an indian medicine man s curse affected two americans they were prospectors comlus down the estyl een river he said on the morning of the day on ahli they expected to reach fort wrangle they camped on a sand spit near the camp of an indian tribe one of the tribe s medicine men came down and asked for a seat in the canoe as far as wrangle the white men saying that the canoe was too small the indian in slated and there was a warm ment the two whites finally shoved off into midstream leading the in dian on the bani you never come shore again he shouted the white men laughed and pad died on toward evening they reach ed fort wrangle and raddled in for shore they came within fifty arda of the bani and the canoe seemed to stick fast the water was still five feet deep so the two men piled their paddles desperately still the banoo made no headway suddenly they ceased paddling one of them jumped up and shouted weve got an indian curse on for heaven s sake come out and help us the men on shore stared and laughed then came a silence pres antly it was broken by an old miner who shouted say you two thickheaded jays did ye capen to know yer anchor stone Is hangin overboard 7 the crowd burst into a roar of laughter as the two prospectors sheepishly pulled in their anchor and paddled ashore |