The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-05-21
HE REGENERATION OF JUDY.


the Crazy. river flows Which
the mountains ascend abruptly, range
on range, to the turthcst helshhtts ot sth he
Holy Trinity. So the Waehapl Indian
reservation.
Y II was IN tho wachap! that Judy Nv,
I'd. The tribe to which she belonged had
dwell. here for unknown Year,, beyond
The memory even OF the graychalred
Judy's grandfather, conaehsen, who,
was 90 old that his eyes and mouth
were lost. In the burrows ~ his face.
Icomachser aald that tlleIr race had
originally issued from the depths q Mt
TehatlI. the greatest peak 3of the Holy
fTrinlty, aud that that mountains was
their mother and that they were, the
children Of the earth. But the; mission-,
aries Invariably rebukcd him for this
and declared It was nonsense, whereat
.Comachsen would shake Ills head In
'senIle nifty for their, ignorarce3 and! an-i
'swer oracuIarly: n "Was not Judy the.
mother OF %1notlln, the little Dancing
.Flame?"
Now. the little Dancing Flame had
gone out thirty years asp which was
nothing to ,Comaehsen. but a5greatSdeal
,tosJudy, and these references to the On
Client sorrow still had tfe power Ito
move her heart. For. INCREDIBLE asst
might seem,s the gaunt fndsWeather-
beaten Judy had once been yourg and
pretty. The daughter OF inschief she
could ;have married any imam IN Sthe
tribe, but her choice fell on Tuosllt. the,
tal!est and bravest. and the day that
she knclt before him AMI held up4to
MIN In her arms the baby4-ah. me! But
within a .welve-month her young hhus-
band had died IN herHarms. shoss TO
death BY the white, settldr rs In the old.
ar.tThey called It .'the war; these In-
dams, although It was put border
feud brought about bS n U otlun-'
pioneers forl the Indian
lands. and which, further %intiamed by,
the sale of whiskey, burst forth one
summer day in bloodshed and then set
tied into months Of reprlkal, with the
killing Of a. white man \
the more frequent killing Of red one,
with starving Indian wornen and chill
dren hiding in the mountains.
And when, after the death OF her
young warrior. the fall passed and vim.
ter came. poor Judy's strength gradual
ly left her young body, andltheSD Dancing
Flame cried for hunger as he lay upon
her helpless breast and $50 at last the
little light had hickered and gone out.
Soldiers had been sent to- lWacha-
pi In response to the settlershNdemand
and had ended the war bH quellihg hos
Titles and bringing the poor, broken
remnant OF the Tribe back to their
in the valley, which was then
made a government reservation. Since
then agents had come anf gone, honest
men and rogues. preachers. laymen,pol-.
and reformers, aid through all
these changes. good and evil Judy
sort OF independence.
herself and the patriarch of
the tribe, her grandfathef,withy her own
hands and wooddraft. She was
silent and r%epellant, evef remembering
the great sorrow OF hef youth which
the grinding years had nPt been able to
match.
II.
One Gay the governmeHtsat;Washin
ton reversed its Indian ppllcy and plac-I
ed the agencies in the control OF army
oficers, and al Captain Eaynot was de-
tailed for duty at Wachapis Now Judy
had alwagsibeen on. gopds tsrms%wlth
the soldiers at the military post near
the agency. They bought.her fish and
other small wares without haggling,
and Mrs. Donovan. the wife $ot the,
quartermaster5 sergeant, taking pity on
...the lone, lorn haythentr oftena hired
Ter help,on cleaning day4. and in course
81 time taught her good, strong barr
racks English, with an Irish accent.
which accomplishment Judy carefully
concealed beneath the HigpitE OF her
original Ignorance, 3
Shortly after the arrival ofIthe cap
tain, however, judy for the first time
IN her2life. was taken sick with pleur-
Isy, whereupon the new agent hearing
from the doctor that there was a wo-
man lying seriously III in q wicking
near old Jacks ferry, lode Sthither to
Entering tle smokYStnter-
lor, he noted with a. comprehensive
glance where wind and fain found their
way in through crack and Granny OF the
lodge, and the dampness, dirt
and desolatIon oft ALL and forthwith
ordered Jugs removal to anEemptyslog
near the fort.
Z There were no "Ifs" or$s""ands"". or
".by yourtleave," but shk3was takenGup
bodily within the hour andS conyeyedSto
The clean:;d dry house. Here, with an iron
cot, a chair and q table. "a fire crack
Ing on the hearth, the smoke ofSwhich
went out through the chimney and a
young Indian woman TO take care of.
her, the astonished Judy for the first
time in her life had her weary body
made comfortable and |her wants sup:
piled by others.
s5As a consequence JuEy'sf mind was
filled with suspicion and her eyes
watched each movement OF her bene-
factors with ceaseless Vigilance IN the
INC to discover the 9ecret motive of
their conduct. which she dimly fancled
mao some design on chat mysterious
tnlng. her soul. But h%erlsoult was not3re..
1efred to. either By Mrs. Baynot, who.
sent her good things 90 eat. or Mrs
Donovan. who came In ioccasionally 10
nearten her W. a bit,'1 nor by Archie.
ne captains child, a sturdy little chap
OF SIX years, who stole into the hut to
solve the mystery OF It'll
Judy saw him peeping In at the door
and feigned sleep. Then Archie. after
at he- for a while. urged ON by
curiosity made stratdslc ~approaches
from the door to the bell. AEdog. a mon
grel u that no ill-t.catmenf could
u.ise from Judy's side, growled at him,
Maereu2on Jody spoke to the!dog. and.
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