Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-02-08

Fifty years after this raid there came t.
Bath County splendid looking old chic
in Indian dress, accompanied by grow
son and daughter aud a few warriors. TIL
stranger inquired from house to house TO
Mrs Brown, and came finally to the fine resi-
dence of Colonel Samuel Brown, who ownet
a fine estate, and had large family aroun
him. With him his old widowed mothe
lived, bent and feeble, broken in spirit, blu
with clear mind and memory. Colone
Brown, with the prompt hospitality of thai
day, invited the travellers to become hi
guests, and his invitation was accepted
When the time came for the evening meal
which was served in the wide clean kitchen
the master of the house went to an inne
room and brought out on his arm his aget
mother.
The instant she crossed the threshold
the Indian chief and his children sprans
forward and kuelt before her; they werl
SILENT after the Indian fashion, but thu
chief showed strong emotions in every line
of his rugged features.
The old woman trembled violently as she
gazed upon the kneeling figures of father
and son; something in the younger face con
frmed the wild hope that swept through
her soul, and with cry as Of one who sees
the dead come back to life, she fell ppou
the old warrior kneeling before hero
Dan, my boy, my boy"
1t was indeed the boy she had lost half a
century before. Fifty years had changed
him from ruddy-striplipg into brorzed
and white-headed old man ;.had given new
generation to take the place of old; had
brought the old mother herself to the brink
of eternity, yet it could not make her forget
her 1rst-born. Under his change of name
and nature and galb and guise she recog.
nizsd her youth and strength seemed renew
cd.
The kiusfolk gathered from far and neal
to hear the old mans story. He had been
carried off to the shores of Lake Huron,
and adopted into the tribe of his captors.
They told him that every member of bis
family had been slain, and the
bloody scalps at their belts seemed
to prove the truth of their words. Dar
TUNED from them vi b dee p aversion at first,
but was bought by FrenchmaD, who had
married a squaw, and the lad soon become
in ali respects son of the tribe.
HIS fine physique, his quick mind, his
ability to read and write. and his valuable
services 10 their treaties with the whites
gave him decided prominence in the tribe
He married woman of their uation, and
his son and daughter had inherited many
Of the finest qualities of both races.
''Why did you not come back to us dur
ing all these years?" cried the old mother
with passionate reproach. Brown (for he
had kept his old name) told her that he baC
never doubted the tale told him fifty years
before, of the destruction of his whole
family. Why should he care to visit the
scene of snch desolation?
"And what started you at last?" querled
Colonel Brown, bluntly.
There had been treaty on foot between
the Indians and whites, Brown said, and
one of the whites had lived In Virginia as
a boy; had sat on the same bench at school
with the Brown brothers, and this man told
the chief that his mother was still living,
but warned him that if he would see her
alive he must make no tarrying.
q few weeks later, and the stalwart sons,