Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-09-09

uiduSub VI SWeeLneSS, even as this aDDrO-
pirate from thy lips'
.Ah, thou growest so strangely dear to me,
VIII not my mirror sister be iealous?'
Who, then,'is the mirror sister, of whom
you SO often speak p
n, l refuse to answer thee nothing any more.
Thou mayest thread the ways of nv heart
freely as the hunter the prairie path: there
shall be no coverts, lofty or lowly, to hide
from thy gaze
CHAPTER III.
There is secret somewhat in antipathies and
loyels more than faney.-PRovERBIAL PHILOSOPHY.
1t was the hour of deep sIumberousness
which divides night from day dawn-mark-
ing the crisis in which earth in her dark eued
chamber rallies against the semblance of her
original chaos. and looks forth prospectiyeIy
to light and hfe-when the indian girl. the
newly betrothed bride of Randolph Campo.
began her history thus -
we believed ourselves twins-my sister
and but since her death hardly a month
ago, woman of our tribe, very old and very
wise, has showed me that only l was born,
while she called sister was of holier sphere
| was yet an infant whose age they counted
by days-so said the aged wise woman-when
one beautiful spring morning that I was
sleeping among the soft, green grasses and
fragrant flowers of gentle hillock, afar out
on the silent prairie, whittier my mother had
ranlbled full of anxious fears for the safety
OF my father, who should have returned from
the battle at the head of his many braves.
cherub fioated towards us upon a breeze of
the sweet southwest. and alighted at my feet.
Long she smiled with her eyes bowed ON nv
face, and at last lay down by my side and,
with her arms around my neck and her cheek
to mine, slept with me. Scarcely were her
eyes closed in slumber when the guardian of
the eherubs came Fastening in search of her
wandered charge and looking with sorrow
full disapprobation on the little one, took away
its wings from it as punishment for having
slept like to the children of earth. These the
guardian bore away with her towards the
pleasant southwest, and the cherub was left
seeming only child. My mother carried
us together in her arms to the lodge, and
nursed us through days and months with
equal tenderness. Ny sister was named,
Fua-a1th-co (Morning) my name I would
rather not tell thee, for since it has been so
often on the lips of one hate, l love better
thou should'st call me by the new name thou
hast chosen for me. We grew so entirely
alike that my father when he came home from
three days hunt of the buffalo, would often
ask which was PIG-0rth-c0 and none save our
mother could answer him.
w hen the flowers of ten seasons had bloom
ed for her daughters, our mother died. The
medicine men could not save her, though they
made incantations day and night they said
the Great Spirit was angry with our nation
for having left unrevenged the murder of one
OF our young women, by neighboring tribe.
days, but sat goomifpTF sh nv n ihleRs during many
had loved our mother with great love; then
he rallied his braves and, mounting his eager
war-steed, led them forth upon the trail Of
our enemy. A dazzling spectacle were they,
with painted faces, and plumed hair, each
with his weapons of warfare and the fame
reed sash of the chief streaming behind at
| the bounding away of his charger over the
plain. In five days they returned with loud
shoutings, having taken every one scalp,
and brought alive the young squaw whom all
| had supposed slain but who, instead, was
only forced into captivity. Ny father cele-
brated his victory by marrying this person,
who was the daughter of one of his dead
councillors. She was grateful to my father
for her rescue and attended so assiduously
to all his wishes, thatby and by she obtained
great influence over him. We, his daughters
were never cared for by her, as formerly bv
our own mother, and she grew jealous Of oul
fathers love for us. Every day she proposed
to him to give US, as wives, to some Of the
young braves, because secretly she desired
to see US no more in our fathers lodge; anG
at last our father promised her to do so.
There was one whom, cannot well tell
why, l had disliked from my childhood He
was known as, NADIA. curte-ndnl chicke Flint
Eye) but l called him Noo-be-er (Serpent.
My step mother maliciously preferred him tt
tall the suitors for my hand; and persuaded
my father to engage me to Serpent as hi:
wife. My sister was likewise engaged to an
other whom she regarded scarcely more
Our father, however, made conditions witt
the two young men, that it should be only
when each could count his riches by hun
dred horses, they should become the hus
bands of his daughters. At once they, witt
a score of others, set off towards the Mexi
can frontier, for the purpose of stealing from
that people the animals required by the stip
ulation.
Months went, and PGo-drth-co lost he
elasticity both of spirit and of limb. Th
night was as day to her, for sleep fled from
her eyes always nor did she heed whethe
the hunters came to camp well laden Will
tHe HoSH oI bue DuHaIO anu ueer, or Wletne
they came without any spoil of the chase
for her lips loathed the sweetest food NJ
father did not much observe the change, fo
yielding to the seducements Of his squaw, b
of late had become cold and even stern to us
knew she was dying and wept much, bu
the sorrow was all for myself and none 70
PuG-d1th-co. But when one day saw tha
she could not more rise from her couch t
walk without in the sunlight, grew sadl
frightened, and ran and brought from dis
tant lodge the very old and very wise VIC
man, and prayed her to tell me what plar
on all the prairie would cure my sister. Sh
only shook her head, and groaning turne
again to her own lodge. She told me sine
that as she gazed upon the sick girl, sh
knew that because Ra-arth-eo had borne he
earthly lot SO gentle, unmurmuringly, he
blessed guardian was fastening to give he
back her wings. And SO she did give then
and my sister scared again to the Elysiul
whence she had come.
'tSoon after, at midday, one of the Ion
absent marauding party galloped into Il
town, with the news that the remainder we
advancing and would arrive by sunsettir
Of the following day. My cruel mother W
delighted, more especially when she asce
tanned through token sent by Na-da-cur
naW-chice to my father, a hundred hairs,
different colors, from the names oe as MAJ
different horses-that the expedition h
! been wholly successful. She command
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