The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-07-27

Hed American Horses camping ground, saw
hum in ali tie glory of tne gasoline lamps
thst diamincd ann, and pTOmyJi = AIN love
witn mia. Her affectlOn completely pos
Sessed her as she llst.aedt to A nerIcAn n orse
extoi the virtues of the mage rsedcine''
tnet is guaranteed 10 cure ever ythng, from
warts 81 iocoinotor Ataxss bGC trat utterI y
ralcd TO cuuTe Miss LEzles love SICK
ness. Her father, observing her inf.8tua-
tloa, warned her thus:
kicsafoo inc,ian, eh? II yoa GO TO that
pettdiing auack's tent gain III kick a poo
tnsliaa out o Bucks. You hear me,
Lizziel"
American Hofse does not wear biirlk
he saw that Miss Lizzie favored him. and
at once changed his war paint for a pale
yellow, the love color of the Kfckapoos.
Here was the opportunity TO gain what be
lacked, w-incidentaIly q pretty
sqGaw-to fill the bottles with Magic
Medicine, to comfort his solitude to cfop
wood, 70 nestle in his bosom, to draw
water and cook-in a word, to be his wife,
with all that implies to a Kickapoo.
Last Friday, uniucky day, Miss Lizzie
disooeyed her good, Old father and once
more drank in American Horses words as
he told OF the results OF drinking his medi-
cine. After the Indian had sold n dozen
bottles he put out the lamps andhis audience
and, leading the foolish girl into the
shadow of his tent urged her to fly with
MIN. lie described in glowing, guttma al
words the happiness and wealth awaiting
those who can make magic medicine for
10 cents a barrel and sell it for % cents
per small bottle. Miss Lizzie struggled
against this golden temptation, but yielded
They mounted ponies and that very night
gaIioped to MouisviTle. Soon they crossed
the Delaware River TO Trenton, to New
Jersey. where a Kickapoo Indian feels
much at home.
Farmer Anderson searched for his daueh-
ter all over Bucks county.
They will try to hide themselves In a
great city," said the farmer at last. So
he wired to the police of Trenton to look
out for tall Indian, in pale yellow coat
of paint, and pretty girl in a red dress
with almost human intelligence, Sergt.
Ditmar, OF the Trenton police, identified
American Horse and Miss Lizzie at the
Union street railroad station Yesterday.
American Horse saw the sergeant's uni
form; saw the sergeant approaching him:
sprinted around the corner, and " as lost
to view. Sergt Ditmar took the weep-
ing Lizzie to the Second precinct station
house, and when her father came there
she was handed over to him. More In
sorrow than In anger he took the willful
girl back to Bucks county
AS soon as they were gone the lion In
American Horses breast was aroused.
He W ent to the police:
'Give TO me the daughter OF the aged
jay" said he, speaking in the flow ery Ian
guage OF the Kickapoos "I, American
Horse, will deal with the ancient Rube.
His scalp shall dry in the smoke of nv
carp fires, and for four months he shan
take his breakfast off the mantelpiece."
1.-THE girls gone back to PENNSYLVANIA
with her father" grinned the police. go
and get her. ThereT be good Indian In
Bucks IL you do
But last night, Lizzie, red-eyed, sobbed
herself to sleep at Tullytown. While the
redskin, at Trenton, did fine business
In Magic Medicine" f" which, alas, does not
cure heartache.