Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-25

sented picture unrivalled in beauty and in
innocence.
The stars stopped down and kissed the fair
maiden, He-le- o. pa, as with soft tread and
q light bound, she skipped among her COM
panions, the fairest of them all. With a
perfect figure; beautiful, soft black eye; jet
black hair, and clear complexion; with
merry laugh, and heart warm and gener
GUS in its impulses, no wonder she was the
queen of her sex and the loved of her tribe.
just 18 moons had passed over her fair head
and still SO innocent, still so lovely, still
so charming"
The old Indian paused; dropped bis head
upon his hands; uttered moan, and then as
if recalling something in the long past, be-
came as calm and as cold as marble and con-
tinued his story
Up short distance from the lake, embos-
omed in the aims of nature, nesting with
the flowers and listening to the whippoor-
will, wandered He-le-o-pa. The noise of the
children had ceased; the moon was high in
the blue sky; quietness brooded over and
about the lake; the Indians pulled their pipes
and recalled the stirring scenes of the fight;
when, all of a sudden, there was piercing
scream ! 1t broke out again, and the echo
came back to remind the peaceful Indian
village that an enemy was in their midst
The women and children entered their to-
pees-the men clutched their guns, 1and
haste ming in the direction of the noise, halt
I'd. What means it? Who is missing?
1t seems that while He-le o-pa wandered
in the moonlight, talking, as it were, with
invisible beings, company of thirty Sioux
stole in upon her-seized her-bound her to
a;pony and was flying with her to the camp
of the enemy. Before any concert of action
could be devised by those who had congre-
gated where the noise was heard, Nim-pe-
wa.pa gave most mournful wall and
bounded in among them, uttered impreca-
tions upon the miscreants, and with-"He-
o-pa-revenge and deethv' dashed into
the thicket followed by his friends.
The Indian paused again. He refilled his
pipe; then stretching himself up to his full
height, exclaimed Nisisshin!'' and
closed his story in the following graphic
manner:
.sNim-pe-wa-pa sped like an arrow.
Through the bushes, over logs, Jumping RAJ
vines, he seemed to possess the power of the
incarnate. He rode the air, and his men
fled like birds at his command. The re-
treating Sioux are in the distance. Ten of
his men have left the main party to inter-
cept them. On they rush, pell-mell. The
Chippewas are gaining the Sioux are scat
tering. With the impetuosity of q hurricane,
MIN pe-wa- pa darts down upon them. He
approaches them and in the full moonlight,
fires. Mad with revenge, he continues the
onslaught. He draws nearer; again
he fires; q Sioux falls. How he gloats as he
tears the scalp from his head, and then again
continues his pursuit. In the meantime his
friends have come up to the rescue and soon
begins one of the fiercest Indian fights on
record. Hand to hand they meet; hand to
hand they fall; hand to hand they die.
Where is He-le-o-pa? Death! death! The
party of ten Chippewas haYe intercepted the
flying Sioux. They close in upon them.
Red, CORY blood curdles in the moonlight.
MIN pe-wa-pa rides like demon. Five of
the enemy have fallen by his unerring aim;
and still, with loss of vital force from a
dangerous wound, he continues the con-
flict. Dashing into the thickest of the
fight, he makes one desperate effort, and in
that effort he confronts the Sioux who has
He-le-o-pa bound to his horse, and with an
impetuous plunge, dismounts him; but in
the act The animal upon which his sister is
secured falls dead! Nim-pe.wa-pa reels,
staggers, drops to the earth The conflict is
over! Several Chippewas and eight Sioux lie
dead upon the field. Twenty two of the
Sioux have escaped-three Chlppewas are
lifeless. The bodies of He-le-o-pa and
MIN .pe-wa-pa are brought tenderly back to
the lodge, and there, amid great lamenta-
ton, they repose side by side. ALI of a sud-
den there is great CONSERVATION in the
camp! He-le-o pa breathes! opens her eyes!
moves! lives! is not dead!
The old Indian arose from the camp fire,