The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1890-07-03
UNTO THE END.

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In the. soft. gray twilight band of
dusky Indians sat silently around a smould-
ering camp FIRE. The present century had
not yet reached its meridian. and the
southwestern land-now SO we'll known as
the Indian tcrr;tory-was far removed
from civilization. There was council
that evening in the gray twilight, and
there were two factions among the old
men. This was the issue: There was in
the Cherokee tribe young man whose
father was full blood, but whose mother
was a creole. Out of this union he had
sprung-a noble-iooking youth. 1.-the.
arrowy. strong, Sc f-rcliant. intelligent,
sagacious, lie was born leader of his peo-
pie. A great. gaunt, sphinx-faccd old
man, the head of the faction, rose slowly
in his place and said:
.'Thc young brave is to be our chief.
His home is the prairie. lie is strong and
tcet. He will be always first. He will
| never fool us, never fail us. We must
! have him for our chief He has stood the
test. He viii lead us to many victories. I"
There was significant silence. Then
while the smoke from many pipes min
gled with that of the smoldcring embers
and made single slender spiral leading
MP toward the shining stars, the leader of
the opposing faction spoke:
.'All this is true. But more. The
young brave will be best when he knows
most. Let US send him among the pale
faces and he may learn more. He will
come back to us. You will scc lie will
lead us best them
Without change in feature the first
speaker rose once more and said with
voice that was pregnant with an intense
patbos:
NO; the pale face will wcan him. But
let him go.'
And so it was all ended By long,
weary stages, by marching on foot, and by
horseback stretches, the distant railway
station was reached and the swift-specding
train took toward the Northland one pas
senger. whose princcly bearing, whose
superb, stately form, whose strong swarthy
face made him the subject of many q COM
plincntary comment. Where he was 60
ing, what he was to do, what he should
sect was al vague in his wild young
breast. But he was going TO obey the will
Of his sire and of lis tribe. From his
mother he had learned much of the En-
glish. He had proven an earnest and apt
pupil and had made rapid advancement in
the rudimental branches. So lie was not
wholly unpreparcd for the work be-
fore him Then came the course.
For six long years he laborcd. and like an
ever widening universe the systems of
knowledge opened before him. The day of
graduation came. Never from the classic
halls of old Dartmouth was graduated
uobler specimen Of manhood. The hand
of the divine Master, TOO, had been laid
upon his head, and out of the pcrplexitics
and doubts that sometimes think are the
besctting sins of science he came TO til
well-rounded, well balanced, Christian
man. The attraction of the college course
had done more than to merely wear away
the outward roughness of savage life, and
the young Antelope" of less than cen
tury ago had been rcchristcned Antoine
LIE Sueur Proud, magnificent in his
micn; filled with heroic zeal TO elevate his
race; looking eagerly forward to the time
when he might rejoin his people and lead
them upward and onward toward the
highcr ife-he was grandcr character
than any Napoleon, notable cvidt zee of
what our higher education can an1 does
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