The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-23

and shook the raven locks which hung
down the back of his neck The ef-
! feet OF his gestures at this stage was
{ somewhat marred by a palm-leaf fan
: which he held in his left hand, but the
usefulness of this article was demon
strated when he had finished what he
! had TO say and went back to his seat
withthe perspiration rolling down his
| cheeks.
| "A HA-TONE'S INTERPRETIVE
| Interpretation A-Ha-Tone was scar
| cely master of the best of English.
| but his language was picturesqe and
| his enunciation clear, particularly
when he followed the chief with a
short account of his own conversation.
In Incorporating the chiefs speech he
proceeded each sentence with the re-
mark. ''he say
Here II is translated: 81 am very
glad TO be with you today l have
come from 1000 mile away on visit TO
your church. / am very glad ! here
with you, and l very glad that all of
you speak. TO me kindly and all the
ladies shake hands with me. You
don't know how glad I am to be with
you IN this Baltimore convention. You
don't know much l glad 10 be here.
IN my old times, when / was young,
when my father was chief of the Kio-
was, he set such an example TO me.
My father say to me: You so TO GER
tain place 10 war and fight the people
50 as you be chief same as do Me
take my fathers word and I war
everybody. 1 went fight against every
people, Indian or not Indian, and that's
the way l do all my past life.
HOW HE WAS CONVERTED.
''Now by and by some one come, look
like doctor, who come when I very sick.
and they bring me the Gospel and
raise me up and so I stand before you
now. You see me different man from
what l was before they come God He
has opened my heart and L am a new
man.
Il am very sorry to say this: Why
don't you send Gospel to Kiowas for
50 long time? / lose so many my peo-
pie, who now gone away in the dark
and find.them no more in the world 10
come.
"A goodf many there have become
christians, and now they very much
interested In having missionaries there
TO teach them. /, too, am glad to have
missionaries'l there, because before we
worshipped anything - trees, noun
tains, sticks. And now we stand face
to face with God and worship Him.
THE CHIEF Is A MISSIONARY.
Whenever Ishave an opportunity in
our church and L stand before my peo-
pie. | talk strong to them and tell them
TO follow me and go to the Savior much
the same as L do. And l preach as
much as can The missionaries have
told about you people who are good
and are working for us, and we pray
every Sunday for the christians who
think Of Us and for all christians in the
state. And Ishope you'll pray for the
christian Kiowas and all other tribes
I followed 1.-THE road to christian
life, and not II stand before my people
very much like a locomotive with my
people behind me, and / am going TO
pull them along the good road / don't
only want to- be locomotive myself,
but | want other locomotives given to
my people to talk To them for Christ.
and now brothers and sisters. I
than you from the bottom of my heart.
Help Us just as much as you can in our
work We want more mis-
sionaries. | thank you again. And
that's all May your kindness to US be
everlasting"
;, EFFECT OF THE SPEECH.
.Such was the effect of the presence of
this Indian. who, before his conversion,
a wear ago, was redhanded from the
Slal lighter of both whites and redskins,
that when ne had ended his simple re-