The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12

through his abdomen to put his
bow through. 7 hesitated a mo.
ment, and then addressed her:
! Is the heart Of the forest maid
ell heavy? Is the Laughing Tad
pole lonely? Does she mourn over
the extinguished council fires OF
her race, and the vanished glory of
her ancestors Or does her sad
spirit wander afar toward the hunt
ing-grounds whittier her brave Cob
bier er-of-the-Lightnings is gomez
Why is my daughter silent? Has
she aught against the paleface
stranger?
The maiden said:
:Faix, an is it Biddy Malone ye
dare to be callin' names Lave this,
Or I'll shy your lean carcase over
the catharact, ye snivelling blag-
yard!
I adjourned from there also
'Confound these Indians, / said,
they told me they we're tame; but,
if appearances should go for any
thing, I should say they were all
on the war-path.'
I made one more attempt to fra
ternize with them, and only one. I
came upon a camp of them gather
ed in a shade Of a great tree, ma
king wampun and moccasins, and
addressed them in the language of
friendship:
"Noble Red Men, Braves, Grand
Sachems, War-Chiefs, Squaws and
Iigh-you-Muck-a-Mucks, the pale
face from the land of the setting
sun greets you! You, Benefcient
Polecat-you, Devourer-o f-Moun-
tains-you, ng-Thundergust-
you, bully-boy-with a-glass-eye-t the
paleface from beyond the great wa
ters greets you all. War and pes
thence have thinned your ranks and
DESTROYED your once proud nation.
Poker and seven-up, and q vain
modern expense for soap, unknown
to your glorious ancestors, have de-
pleted your purses. Appropnating,
in your simplicity, the property Of
others has gotten you into trouble.
Disappointing facts, in your sin
less innocence, has damaged your
reputation with the soulless usurp-
er. Trading for forty-rod whisky
to enable you to get drunk and
L~ppy "nd tO,>A~A"vvlzy your sAHAiies,
has played the everlasting mischief
with the picturesque pomp of your
dress, and here you are, in the
broad light of the nineteenth cen
trry; gotten up like the rag-tag and
bobtail of the purlieus of New York!
For shame! Remember your an
cestors! !! Recall their mighty deeds!
Remember Uncas and Red Jack
et-and Hole-in-th -the-day and Hor-
ace Greeley! Emulate their achieve
ments! Unfurl yourselves under
my banner, noble savages,illustrious
guttersnipes-'
Down wild him !!
Scoop the blagyard!'
Hang him.
:Drownd him.
It was the quickest operation that
ever was. I simply saw a sudden
flash in tha air of clubs, brickbats,
fists, bead baskets and moccasins-
a single fash, and they all appear
ed to hit me at once, and no two of
them in the same place. In the
next instant the entire tri b e
was upon me. They tore all the
clothes off me, they broke my arms
and legs, they gave me a thump that
dented the top of my head till it
would hold coffee like a saucer;
and to crown their disgraceful pro-
ceedings and add insult to injury,
they threw me over the Horseshoe
Fall, and I got wet.
About ninety-nine OF hundred
feet from the top, the remains of my
vest caught on projecting rock,
and I was almost drowned before
I could get loose. I finally fell,
and brought up in a world of white
foam at the foot of the Fall, whose
celled and bubbly masses lowered
up several inches above my head
Of course I got into the eddy. I
,ailed round and round in it forty
four times, chasing g chip, and
gaining on teach round trip
half mile-reaching for the same
bush on the bank forty-four times,
ard just exactly missing it by
hairs breadth every time. At last
a man walked down and sat down
close to that bush, and put a pipe
in his mouth, and lit a match, and
followed me with one eye and kept
the other on the match while he
sheltered it in his hands from the
wind. Presently a puff of wind
blew it out. The next time I swept
round him he said:
Got match.
'Yes-in my other vest. Help me