Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1848-02-04


child, when they were torn asunder. Witt
frantic energy the poor widowed one tossed
her arms in the air. and called her youn geS'
and best beloved, who vainly struggled in the
strong arms of the boor. The deSoiate chile
heard the lopd snap of the whip, as they drove
her away, and the sound cut deep into his
tortured soul That night, as he lay weep
ing on the mud floor of the Dutch cabin, he
thought over the beautiful words of the Mo
ravian missionary, and he could not under
stand how it was that these men believed il
the lme God.
Two wretched years he lived in the Dutch
MANS service, beaten by hum, and kicked by
his sons, whenever they drank too much
peach brandy, or met with any accident that
ruffied their tempers. Every seventh day
they refained from work, and sometimes a
man came among them who read from big
book and talked and prayed. But Marossl
herded with the pigs and the dogs, and no
notice was taken of him. Once he had his
ears soundly boxed for making the dogs bark
on a Sunday, but this was all the religion he
was ever taught; and certainly the fact that
dogs might bark every other day in the week,
bat that Iitiko did not like to have them bark
on the seventh day, was not remarkably well
calculated to eulighten his benighted SOUL
And the heart of the orphan was starving.
even more than his mind. He had not heard
the tones of kindness since his mother was
torn away from him. His only comfort was
an antelope he had tanned, whose mild eyes
reminded him Of the playmate OF his early
childhood. But the DOORS son soon took a
fancy to the animals beautiful skin, and he
swore he would have it for Jacket When
Marossi claimed the antelope for his own,
and refused to part with it, the old Dutch
man gave him 1ogging for his impudence.
Under such influences, clouds OF stupidity OF
course gathered fast over the originally bright
young soul; bat the strong affections, which
were now all centered on one small animal,
could not be easily stilied, He inwardly vowed
that he would suffer anything, death itself,
rather than see his favorite cut up to make
the young Doors jacket. So he rose stealth
lily at midnight, and ran away with his beau
tful antelope. 1t was a fearful undertaking
for 4 boy of ten years to go forth alone into
the wilderness, where hyenas laughed IN the
darkness, and lions made their lair. But he
was less afraid of lions and hyenas, than OF
those Christian men. who whipped him fer
claiming his own, as they had whipped hIHl
for making noise while the preacher talked
of UtiAo, who had sent good prophet on
earth, to proclaim peace and goodwill.
The morning Eghc showed stuPendous
mountain ridges, the sides of which he climb
ed to avoid pursuers. The antelope was used
to such rugged passes, and sprang Lightly
from rock to rock, sometimes apparently lost,
but always returning to her masters whistle.
From the cliffs above, the eagles swooped
round him with wild screams, and in the IA
vines below. balloons peltei him as he passed.
The sharp rocks cut his weary feet, but he
was afraid to stop long. and ever and anon he
walked through streams of water, lest the
hounds Of The Dutchman should get on his
track. About noon, he came among bill
Lowry chaos of huge rreciplces, trIShtiul IN
their fantastic grandeur, and skirted by dark,
dense forests, through which tramped great
herds OF buffalces and elephants. How awful
was the landscape to that poor ignorant boy !
Vague ideas Of what his mother said OF Udali
the Creator, and what the missionary taught
concerning Utiko, the Beautiful fitted thro'
his mind with ghost like, oppressive soemni-
tv He wondered whether Udali lived up
there among that sea of preciPices, and
whether Utko knew that he, the f.iendIess
child, was trj.2eIsing those great mountains
all alone. The elephants had forced way
for him through forests tangled with inter
lacing boughs and rope-Iike vines. Through
these deeply shaded paths, the weary wan
derer came at last in sight of wide, dreary
plain, where no verdure was. few os-
triches were seen in the distance, and here
and there n Secretary-blrd stalked awkward
" about in search of snakes. No rain had
fallen for some time, and the country was so
marched that not even the buzz of a wild bee,
or the ct.irr Of grasshopPer, broke the dis
NAL silence Maross had dread Of entering
upon this level tract, where no hiding place
of rocks, or tiIickess, could be found. But from
what he had heard the preacher say, he
Judged that a Noravian settlement lay in that
direction, and his heart yearned for the kind
missionary who came TO his fathers hut, and
told them Of Utiko the Beautiful, who filled
the whole heavens and earth with his love.
As he travelled on, even the ostriches dis
appeared, and no living creature could be
seen. but myriads Of ants crawling in black
streams over the ground, or building their nu
merous pyramids of clay, on the sides 0