The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-16

you who will be we'll advised will re-
main at peace, but those Of you who are
still for war can now 60 on, There are
still some days of the truce, but let those
who wish to fight the whites go at once."
Nearly three hundred young warriors
withdrew In body as desfrous Of going
to war. Spotted Tail addressed them
again: "You do. not wish to take my
advice. DO, then, and when your hour
of great distress and necessity comes,
and come 1t surely will, remember am
still your chief and return to me. You
will be hungry and will feed you. You
will be naked and will clothe you. You
go out mounted, but you will come back
tootsore and weary. Most Of you will
never return alive, but such OF you Us
survive the conflicts Of war will find me
at Randall, and there you shall have a
friend and home as long as / live.V
The warriors then depapted, and the old
chief, having discharged his public duty,
returned to his lodge to mourn in silence
the fate of his people.
During the latter years OF the war part
OF Spotted Taips family remained for
time at Fort Laramie, and with them
was his favorlte daughter, young girl,
just budding into w0manhood. The tort
was then garrisoned by companies OF an
Ohio regiment Of volunteer cavalry.
Among the officers OF this regiment
WIGS young man OF good appear
ance and pleasant manners, and with
whom the chiefs daughter fell in love.
Her passion does not seem to have
been reciprocated by the young soldier,
and he did all in his power to convince
her he could not marry her, and, there
fore, 1t would be wrong In him to pay his
addresses to her. But the infatuated
II ~ ,ra,,ld y,nf ha M pviuaad aud nnt1lb
not understand why she, princess and
the daughter of the most powerful chief
on the plains, was not suitable wife for
the young soldier. Day after day she
would dress herself with scrupuIous
care ana come to the fort and see ter be-
loved. 1t was pitiable to observe her,
as hour after hour she would sit on the
doorstep of the young officers quarters
waiting for him to come out. At other
times she would follow him about the
parade ground like dog, seeming per-
fectly happy il she could only be near
him and enjoy the poor privilege Of look
ing at him.
Spotted Tail hearing Of the strange
conduct of his daughter, and deeply NOR
titled at her, want of selkrespecJ, hast
ened to the fort, and, putting her In
charge OF some kind friends, bade them
carry her Off into the Rocky Mountains,
where a portion Of his tribe dwelt, and
endeavor in every way to make her for
get her unfortunate love. She went
away meekly enough, but fell into deep
melancholy, from which no effort of
triends could arouse her. Presently she
refused to take any food and pined away
| to a mere skeleton.
One day q courier, whose horse was
white with foam, sought the great chief
and told him that his daughter was dying
of a broken heart, and wished to see him
once more before she passed to the happy
spirit land. Away over mountain and
stream hurried the chief, and paused not
for food or rest until he reached the bed
8 ide OF his beloved child. He found her
still alive but fast sinking, and she bid
him sit close beside her and hold her
fieshless hand in his while she told him
all her simple story OF love and suffering
and broken heart. She said: ~ shall
soon be at rest, t,my father, and with those
of our kindred who have gone before. In
that beautiful land will wait toy you
and you will soon come to join me, dear
father; tor your locks are whitened with
years of care, you are fast growing old
and tired. You are great chief and
have yet many warriors, but the pale
faces are more numerous than the leaves
srarrinu Win them. spsre your peopi-,
my chief, rest a little while in peace,
and you will have reached the end of
your journey Of life and come to join
me in the happy home to which am now
going. The pale faces are His people,
and between you and them hope war
will never come again. And, D my
father and my chief, when l am dead
take my poor, wasted body and lay it on
the hill beside the fort where learned
to love so well.o
The pulseless hands grew cold az the
great chief promised his child all she had
asked OF him, then the lusEous eyes
glazed over, the thin lips ceased to move,
the smile fed from the wasted face, and
the Indian girl was dead.
The heart-broken chief bid the attend
ants dress the body OF the. princess for
burial, and on the shoulders of stout
warriors it was carried all the way to
Laramie, and laid to rest among the pale
iaces, one of whose race she had so IA
tally loved. Her grave is still pointed
out to the traveller, and there it will long
remain monument OF the saddest story
OF the plains. Spotted Tail often speaks
of his dead. daughter with affectionate
remembrance, and once in great ooun-
Gil held with the whites at Laramie he
said: "Were not the hopelessness Of re-
sistance and the dictates of policy suffi-
cient to restrain me from actsOf war, the
pledge made to my dead child in her
dying hour would cause me TO keep at
peace with your people,"