Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-25

an fightin'" urinkins
'Drinlsingl isn't It against van. ,.
to sell liquor in the Indian cnn mug Jaws
ON. YES, but Jack getg II snn,a,.,.,
After q little further talk the Old nor
strolled down to the barn to turn on, III
horses for the night, and Joined Jant
IN the lot. ""'N
Jack,
les
gu were not raised In the Indian
country were you? You have been
around 2 good deal, | imagine.'
OK J es' pout as much as most fellers of
81,
Nov long have you been here?r
mere WI the old man?'
es.
bout y years.
JACK; said l., we've only known
g"cn 9'her a llttle while, and perhaps
:. ~ KY business, hut are YOU not
s srs, ,,reu OF your NE here, The old
nun says you are not-well-not as
ssiie5Yuy US you Were. What Is the trou-
nie now tomorrow am going away
perhaps VIII never see you aenin-and
u ii hinuer occurred to me that you would
i Hhr " .uik hp9ut yourselt little.
, 9vlle.e ever pouy reels that way some
III. ,,,,,,,,a,
~ . Miit5eu long ilme-so long
' e,,'u 4 thnousnl ne was going to rebuie
ny .st mu,m MS silence-hhu then
mo-. 'iv ,ni,1 dneauoW larks-hear EN-?
ny! hi"he he pluer tnnn denth-them
"u ir, ,hut glIi mere by the cows,
t,lii p i3 NJ wnlsue Of the meadow
it Ira, vouiq oe henru on an sides, and the
i hgIIg Oh lhe pretty indian maiden,
uushiis yutiineu ngalnst the evening sky,
SSusscs,e9 the etGhing or the Angelus.
~ ..1 Wonuer poor Juck telt blue.
,., WHeh nrst come here was only n
~ u II MY nome was IN Texas but
peeh rninDlng about over the country
u np ,V ueai; Aluwee there was only D.
ht u, hali-Dreeu indian girl-but purity
70 MI l iuught ,her letters to her and
tauSnt her now to spell aud then to read
ni'iei ana Wheh she was ~ she could
reIu the newspapers.
,oack looked UP at TINS for some appre-
Iim,t!oli OF ms nonle WORK. Ills nostrils
u,iltteu III sWeihhg pride at the recol-
,yctloh ana then, as memory carried
MN on rom that to something that
s ss ~ 10 strike MN deeper the lines
OF the evening erept into his manly blue
eyes Yes,
Ihen her father, thought the child
KNOW enough, but l know'd she didn't.
IN 4 Know q she ought to be sent to school.
me nation was just starting a big sem
mary at Iahlequah, and / got the old
man TO let me take her there. I'd rather
not tell this-but the way / got him to
do 1t was by paying all the expenses
myself, though of course / wouldn't let
the girl know it. | didn't have any
mother or sisters to take care of, so /
just thought I'D do what l could for
this little Indian girl.
ITS twenty miles to TabIeouob and
/ would take her over there in n Wraon
and 90 after her Christinns times e,,d
vacations When the school term was
long once or twice Went bnek IN Toyas
to rustic up little eXtro mone,. In
I'll always come back in time to "a
after Alluwee. wish / could tell Won
how she crowd md rot nurtier every
day; how her fnce got brighter thon ti,Ss
faces around ber ns sbc ic5r,,oJ o,,I
learned She nsed to asi, ,"a H., "n "
questions about history nm and u tovn NC al al
such things, Tint was when sS",d con,a
home and sometimes Of s,bo0 sIn'd
write mo Ietfers viii nnastiors In ~,
md III III ~, 9o. MI Yug ,'idt IN en-
answer thrpn Sir 10 ,.,,, ~ 49,, - u "
10 waiting and Iongin' for +hn,, ..a ~
Nos sir y 4 'nein ic''els :
,Tnck was fbinlir, ooo;r o., l.
yot down fro,n w. bl onVg ne
and kicked m"ebonirnlly ot wa" IL SUM- ,nnii
stones thnt law nj his So,t ~ ' III siiii,n n
picked mn ono AMI hn,,.i H. ngi ns
INTO tbe mea,lovv 6oio;y, a. a., shileu y on
shol,a an ~ ,.i,l Guy ne couiuh
II done know WIN Il ,,o NJ :, Wv I4"V a.,
continued. "Lut Whom sbo ,,.o n,"i =,
she anti ostin,, me- n,,as f maS uuIut -
nerc.,J ~ III i,ie iutsuohs, ana com,
Der one story sbn told ,,a obo,,+ leii,''lil-
named Nnx'iI KILLING f"Ilnr o,,', hii Hun
him in n trnt,I and afto,.,,. "rI ni h,s
for 1t. Ever bcnr o'thot5 w. T.u
sposed Won hnj-but fboro NO.. i6.,
othiugs like tbot she Womb to,l n,o ~
then-nnd Them" nv "'u
What lack ~
"Fhen-I was trviug IN tbi,,,, how, 90
tell it-but anyhow. whom ri try to teE
her anything. instead o'her Iooi,in,, IN
tercsted and her brown rves actf;m,, hia.
ser like they use 10 do IA c.t"L Ler
laughing-Ouiet like-fitSt as IL sI,a
know'd all about II before and was
amused nj my poor way Of teiiine II
Jack paused again and gozed mn ot
the little stars that had begin 10 tyyinlIc
in the evening sky. He wonId, per-
harg have told me more of his simnle
story had he not at that moment been
to perform some sort of sorry
ice for the old man. What he Ind TOLD
me, however convinced me that .Tnck
was desperately In love with the pretty
Cherokee maiden. who, unfortlinntely
cared nothing for him. Though once the
simple lite half-brced girl who looked
up to the honest. hired boy as hero,
and was most happy in his COMPANY.
She was now educated. accomplished, |
and a belle in the social circles of the |