Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1899-03-18

Territory, and began har work.
Sue went out with the soldiers,
and rode all through the Indian
Territory.
She preached to the Indian braves
and went into the struggling tepses
and nursed the Indian children.
She showed the squaws how to take
care Of their funny little broTn ha-
bies, white woman fashion. She
showed them how to write. She
gave them yards and yards OF rev
red calico, and showed them how to
make dresses out of it. She taught
| them how to wash with wash5oard
and how to make bead work mot
| toes with "God is Love" onNthem.
The Indians sat in a solemn circle
and listened gravely to the preach
ing.
When she bad finished, they fled
past her in long trailing Inc.
| Each Indian as he passed the
t'white squaw with tie sneeol Ike
the winds Of the evening held out
his hand.
Ii Miss Lyons dropped 8 few
cents into the hand the warrior
stalked on in dignifed silence.
If she let the outstretched palm
remain empty, the warrior spoke
gu.turally and regarded her with
small eyes of suspicion.
| The squaws sat by the door of
the tepee and looked at the "wbite
squaw with the busy hands, and
let her clean the tepee, and build the
fire, and wash the babies, and when
she was gone they laughed together
and rubbed the babies with the oil
of the prairie dog to keep it from
taking cold, and they took the new
| little wooden socks off the babies
feet and tied the babies up in their
bark cases and sat down and mark
ed the bead work notices, saying
"God is Love- and when the mot
toes were finished they took them to
| the settlements and sold them, and
bought fire water and brought it
home to the warriors, ard all was
we'll in the tepees.
But for all the laughing and the
scolding about the cleaning of the
tepees, the squaws loved the white
SO Jaw, for her voice was gentle, and
her shining eyes were blue, like the
summer sky, and they were bright
like the summer sunshine, and when
the babies were sick she would come
and nurse them, and let the squaws
90 on with the bead work, which
was really help in the village.
| So, to please her, they learned to
answer the questions she asked
them about the Great Spirit, and
they tried to lcok interested when
she talked 10 them about the Happy
Hunting Grounds of the white MAI.
For five years the white squaw
worked happily among the Indians
She rode from village to village,
on her wiry little mustang, and
there was always room in the tepees
for her and her books and her soft
voice and eyes like the skies in sum.
.mer.
One day there came to the meet
| ing OF the warriors and the old men.
a young brave, very handsome. He
was straight and tall and 1.-THE. He
could outrun any lad in the nation.
He could outshoot the oldest scout
in the white mans army. He could
leap over the burning campfire, as
buck leaps in the spring time
among the budding trees OF the for.
est.
He could make songs, like the
singer of the Chippewas. he was
the leader of the young men of the
nation, and he smiled when he saw
the white squaw talking to the war
riors and old men.
The young mans name was Tx
leo. The soldiers at the forts knew
him. They did not like him. They
said he was bad Indian. He
drank and gambled and stole horses,
and be fought--always with knife
he fought-and they warned Miss
Lyons of him and of his influence
among the young men of his tribs.
Miss Lyons listened to the tales
of the wickedness of the young man,
and her heart softened to the young
man who had made her good squaws
laugh at her. She pitied him for
his wild and wicked life, and she de-
termined to snatch him as brand
plucked from the burning.
So when she saw Tixico riding
across the prairie like a cloud chas-
ed by storm wind, che waited
until he came near, and she called
10 him, and at first he would not
stop for all her calling.
He rode by like ~hirling thun-
der cloud, and tried to brighten her
wiry little mustang and make him
run away.
But one day he stopped long
enough 70 see that the white sqoaw
had blue eyes and a smile like the
moon shining in the early dusk OF
evening, and after that he listened
patiently 10 Ler talk OF the Great