The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-11

unattainable ideal A brave light Should
shine from her eyes. and her brown fac
show a patient yearning that raises IN
dian stolidity sometimes 10 a ane stole
ism. Physically. she was never pretty
nor handsome. nar imposing-only, whel
she was young. a rare subtle humol
lighted her countelance, and she Away:
carried herself upright.
Her father was Coweta-Saukee, an Ole
1uil-blood Cherokee who had been a lusu
young warrior and a head-beam Of lnfu-
ence in the tribe when the great migra-
ton from Georgia 70 a fTesh-mappec
country west Of the Mississippi was w
certaken in 1898. Coosa- ukee was q
daughter Of his old age. when she was
just coming into t-5manhood. the Old mar
was in a tottcl -. garrulous decline
The mother Of the girl, gentle-eycd Red
Bird. hardly survived the daughters ia
by-hood
So at an age when guiding viii
should have been at her back Coosa-
Saukee had to lead feble father and
blaze for herself as plain path as she
might
when she had just passed seventeen,
there came into the girls life Standing
Bear-a duh Industrious. persistent full
O-ood. whose yo1tl- cameo @ HeI young
"ol'ii--ii'''-' OH whose '-ahA race never
4s"lee @I -'-1 1s-iAi7 ~ neg S-'-i-7 -
eyes DuI l14 tsD -i7 o"ls
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men my daughter qua ga lHe oiD
man s-la- see soL SIZE WIN" d. pio-
tscuHs ARIA o-l1 --e' am may o7'
happy Win your ci--l-i--- anu 4oI me
TOO. yoAE nome VIII 'e nome sl--ll
play VITA yo-F niue ones p+--s
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WIN plenty o. l.iie LOT aleallls
1-l I-s tI-' are So- "'' Content
mere. j S-a4 1 l-@'t YOU --l' Dol i'l
staining Le-F- re e young yel' '--i~
must "tit-aii' you'll zoo am Nels
young anu , want YOU my Iall'7f' ul@ll
suddenly ner eyes t"inA--d- 30
ran away from CoNeia iAe5 eisl4s
back Il nave q lover alreaay-ah oid
one 4 moment lrololed queslloalns
crossed the "TlnEied race only % ehanse
q contented smile "nen she turned naiI
round g. wave a KISS from her own
brown fingers The old man sank olcA
into MS sunny set5 on tne s-llu si1e
OF his cabin, and musins.y discussed WIN
himself the crickers that' d-llnl-i'ec IN the
frost-uro#ne4 grass
But in the sprlAs-tn-t VII oe the
time
The ola man c11ea- o. ara putting ms
thin hio7diess hands on his knees pur-
sued the tAocsht' Ne" then wren frost
comes. the grass dies ard io = Iiee-es-
the sap.ess old tree IS as 5000 90 tne
touch az the younS one 'afe OF leaves
Bur IN the s7ri-s-taeA me leaves come
out and the sap lo|s-1s- th7A she "it
mate Wen God knows II Is inc way
Of the world The t'lTseore-s e'-rs-oid
child smiled g manor ----" oiil s-----e'
and turned his iett side u me sun one
cay when The AR vas l-4l % s2iins-
tender green Gfass blades covering tne
black olral-oseI Ai--=- --1is crows nap
Ping out ~ The timber % explore D9"eta-
Saukea Htte cofn-ilei~' ana s--4Is ii-=
bacA WIN s-e-Ai's il'-al az --i7 -----1s
g'lardins tae ifesA- p-tilseo grains, s-o-
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