Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-23

{ huuters had notythe energy to mount
their runners and ride forth to the
chase.
Under one of the raised lodge skins
..an, Indian trader reciined upon g
couch of robes, lazily smoking. The
people of the lodge were out gossip
ing, all but mold, old man, who, like
thu trader, was thoughtfully smoking.
Hs had been blind for many year
his thin hair was white. Not the white
Eot the aged Anglo-Saxons, but a yel-
lowish, tawny white. His skin was
streaked and furrowed and wrinkled
with age; his form bent and withered;
he was the oldest OF his tribe, and had
seen nearly hundred winters come
and go on these northern plains. His
thin, low voice broke in upon the
traders reyerie. $50, -,
still here?" =
"Yes," tfss trader replied. eyes,
am here; what can do for Hollow
Horn?"
''Hand me my medicine sack; the
large one which is hanging up. I will
show you something, and then tell
You story. This day reminds me of
journey I once took to the south,
where every day was like this, only
hotter"
The trader arose and handed him
the painted and fringed cylinder OF
rawhide. Hollow Horn deftly opened
it and began to draw forth various
packages and parcels, until he found
the one he was seeking, which ne
tossed across the lodge.
.'Look at that" he said.
The trader unwrapped its covering
of buckskin and found that it was G
long, slender lance head of gray steel;
stamped on the socket were the words:
Antonio Perez, Sevilla, 1928"
why" he exclaimed, Sits Span
ish lauce head and very old. Where
did you get it?"
s.l will tell you," the Indian re-
piled. ..Itis long story and avery
strange one; but strange things hap
pen. Perhaps we should not say that
anything is strange, for is itSnot all
ordered by the gods ??'' ~
.F .hens he told the story OF the Span
Iss shs long slwels slss tribs
and OF his vengeance on the brother
who drove him from civilization out
among the Indians; a story such as is
seldom met with outside of books Of
romance, but. one which might even
now be corroborated by records or
traditions in some old Spanish settle
ment in the southwest.
Long ago." he said, "when I was
youth, we were hunting one summer
along the Yellowstone, One evening,
when the sun had nearly set, the peo-
pie saw something coming toward the
camp, and at first they could not make
ont what it was, but after little they
saw it was q man, Imping along very
slowly by the aid of staff. Some of
the young men were for rushing out
and killing him; but my father, the
chief, forbade them.
"'Let him come, he said; he can
do us no harm. We will find out who
he is and maybe learn news
$50 everyone stood and waited, and
the man came on, very slowly and
painfully, nearer; and nearer. He
came to where we all stood watching,
and the people drew back this way
and that, leaving my father to face
him. Indeed all were afraid, and
many of the women and children ran
away, for never had such man been
seen before. He was naked except
for o long, ragged shirt he wore; his
long, thick black hair, his beard and
.mnstache, weresmatted like bulls
full of grass and burrs. His eyes
were wild and rolled like those of q
wounded wolf when it is brought to
bay. He was thin; 80 tim and lean
that the bones seemed sready to burst
through the skin; his feet were sore
and bleeding; wound in the thigh
dripped blood down his leg. He did
NOT appear to see us, but kept qimping
on, sinking his head, looking wildly
) this way and that, and muttering to
himself.
/" Where are you going9' asked my
father, stepping up and placing hand
on his shoulder. The stranger gave a
sshrisk, and fell senseless to the
ground.
"a s'Itiwas MANY days before he recov-
cred, and it was nearly e year before
he learned our speech. He said he
came from the far south, where the
weather was always warm, where all
kinds of berries and things grew the
year round, where snow never was
seen, except on the tops of the high
est mountains. His people were white
men,; but of another race than the
trappers we had seen, His, father had
died, leaving him and bis brother
large square lodges made of stone, and
great riches of various kinds This
brother had always been very mean
and. cruel, and as soon as the father
died he began. to plan to get all that
the old man left. One night the great
chief of that country came to the lodge
of the brothers for a feast, and on his
way homesomemer sprang out of the
bushes byst trail and would have
killed him but for the warriors who
were with him. Then the bad brother
went to the great chief and said: L
know who did this wrong; it was my
brother and six of his friends and
relations ps s, :, ssa.-,.
''Ths chiefs. warriors seized them
all, threw them into q strong stohe
lodge and told them to pray, for when
the sun rose the next morning they
would be shot. But there were those
who knew the bad brother had lied
and pitied them; in the middle of the
night these good friends let the pris-
oners ;out, gave them fast horses,
weapons, food and robes and sent
them away.
Day after day, moon after moon,
they rode over to the norta One