Weekly Trinity journal., 1878-08-03
THE INDIAN PASSION.

GU III pioneer lhShlon ON the western 'front.'
ier Of the United States, in small settle
ment called Fort Dearborn. He traded
with .he Indians, lived maritally with a
sQuaw, and saw spring up about him a
family fyellow-complexioned children.
The eldest, a bright. handsome boy, was
separated in infancy from his savage
mother, and sent to France, where he was
received BY his fathers family, and edu-
Gated to all the manners and ideas OF a
wealthy Partisan. He lived abroad till
he grew to manhood, and was as highly
educated and wonted to as dainty refine
ment of life as had he been prince OF
the reigning house.
AT tweuty-one he returned to Fort
Dearborn, then no longer known by its
original name, where he became tho
leading lion and the most pei feet gentle
man of the. rapidly increasing communi-
ty. His clothes were always ordered in
Paris his horses and carriages were the
most costly and elegant the state had ever
seen his manners and his dark beauty
were tho adorat ion Of the bellies ard the
envy of the beaux, through all the wide
country for which the former had just
become the metropolis. He was courted
by all who wished to draw about them
the mystic circle called society, for the
Indian trading father had gained vast
fortune, and the savage mother dying had
ceased to live in peoples memory.
Finally, this dark young Beau Brum-
mel married one Of the bellies Of the
young city, and although still wearing
/ Partisan clothes, and still driving high
stepping steeds and drinking rare foreign
wines as other people drank water, seemed
to settle into quite n domestic and proper
young husband. A daughter was born
to him, upon whom he lavished unlimited
love, and for whom he dreamed the most
ambitious dreams.
Yet it was noticed that with every re-
turning spring time the young husband
and father became strangely reckless and
abstracted. lie took for weeks no inter
est in his usual pursuits, and absented
himself for days nnd nights from his
family. 1t was known that he spent
these days and nights somewhere away
from the town, although it was not known
till long af,erward that he spent them in
aimless moody roaming over the open
prairie.
For four or five years this inexplioable
moodiness possessed him. He accounted
for it to nobody, and became enraged il
questioned concerning it. Then one
spring day when the prairie stretched
away into a sen Of golden mystery and
hther and thither were almost one, he
disappeared entirely, leaving his young
wife and his many friends tormented
with the strangeness of his taking off,
lie remained away year. Then he re
turned, camu again to his family and
friends ms if he had not left them for O
day, gave no explanation OF his conduct
and for another year, until another spring
time, lived rs sober and commonplace .
life as any young Benedict in the town
But with the spring came the same dis
Appearance with return two years later
Thi, time he remained with the family
only "A few weeks, and the strange rest
e.sness and moodiness never left i'm
while be remuined.
After his mex; disappearance he never
returned, and nothing was heard of him
for years. Then, after many years, dur
ing which his wife had obtained divSrcf
and married n prominent business mar
Of the city, he was heard Of from far be-
yond the western rivers, living with his
mothers tribe = nomacic savage lite, and
in blanket, feathers aud war paint, de
claring himself happier than he had evsI
been m Partisan bvoadcloth and glaves u
the most exquisite ft The daughter
took her stepiather's name and, grown to
womanhood, married AVID then divorced
a husband, whose name Is so common ir
that western city, that it might be like
Smith, Jones, or Brown without affecting
its dignity in the least
Some years ago, certain tribes OF west
ern Indians sent u deputation to urge theiI
wrongs upon the Great Fathers at Wash
ington. Their leader and spokesman wsi
chosen because Of his superior aud com
mandirg intelligence, and because Of hi'
perfect com mand of the language ir
which the Great Father clothes his ideas
This Indian leader, who had been educa
ted in France. passed through the west
ern town, now grown to be famous and
populous city, and during his stay here
in, sought out his daughter. She refused
to see him, and it is said for better reason
than anger for hls desertion of her moth
or, whom, by the way, he had left will
all his fortune. For, every spring, wheT
the warm earth is pierced through anc
through with sharp young blades o
freshest grass, and the golden mist
sweep low like dreams upon the wilC
prairies, she, too, is possessed OF strang'
unrest, Il yearning, and pain, that sh'
would die. rather than confess. Then sh'
struggles with the awakened nature with
in her, and would fee her father as she
would fee pestilercs, lest she follow
him. H0a
THIS is about the time of year wher
the old man knocks off work and tells hi
wife he is going fishing, and he leave
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