New-York tribune., 1906-04-01

sanity men the plains have ever known The girl
had been educated and cared for by the church and
the civil powers would be justified in interfering
10 Abbot Marti, then, she went; but the good
man MAJ GO oonla th 90 nothng he pointed out to Nellie
the polty OF the church was TO educate especially
wel-bor and intelligent Indians with view to the
little eaven and the lump. Nellie he said had been
brought up Catholic, and devout one Who
better than she could do missionary work among
her kind! She asked to give III, more to
suffer than the good nuns who reared and
taught her, many of whom had left homes of luxury
and social careers OF promise to become dedicated
and consecrated TO the service of the aboriginal
people:
Nellie urged her spiritual pastor and master to
let her hive with the agency people at night and her
fathers folk IN the days, but the Abbot said that
would not do, as she could not possibly travel the
necessary distances daily, nor could her influence
for good be valuable if broken and half-exerted.
One more passionate appeal did the Princess
make 10 the priest and her heart was voiced by
her lips praying for life very self.
With his own eyes dirnmed but his purpose
falterlng, the Abbot lald his hands on her head
benediction and dismissal, his final decision being:
Go to your home my daughter. Strength and wis
dom will be given YOU if you pray therefor"
1t was as If the Abbot had struck her. The whole
bearing OF the girl suddenly changed. She drew
herself into rigid erectness and her eyes flashed
she answered:
Pray Who pray TO white god in an
Indian tepee? can save neither myself nor others.
You have doomed me by asking the impossible
Until | adopt Indian ways of speech, dress and
thought, / shall be despised by those of my
age and chidden by my elders My people do not
Your religion, your dress. your manners your
medicine your morals. They love their own
lives best, and one girl cannot change them any
more than one beaver could dam the Missouri von-
der ! do not thank YOU for my education. II will
prove nv curse Good-bvi"
Impressed beyond the ordinary by Nellie's plight
her professions and her prophecies, the agent made
frequent inquiries during the next SIX weeks as TO
her veal or BevOnd learning, however. that
Two Bears had recovered and with his tribe
migrated to Grand River. forty-tive miles away
nothing gathered as to Nellies whereabouts
fortunes. She with her people; but seemed to
have been absorbed to the disappearing point.
One day IL the agents duty superintend
the distribution OF beeVes, slaughtered the hoof
TO the thirty-siX hundred Indians of Standing Rock
reservation. The corral in which the dead steers
were living was, always, the scene OF blood, filth
suffering greed and general license that would never
have been tolerated had other method OF issue
been possible at that time and with the means pro-
durable After the cattle We're all down and dead
supposedly dead, squaWS and Youngsters would
rush over and among the carcasses, each seeking
a tongue steal some unapportOned morsel
Now and again huge tWo-thOusand- FOUNDER from
the BrazOs the Arkansas, that had been stunned,
not killed. would rise in a rush and amuck
among the despoilers. sometimes wounding-on
more than one occasion killing SquaW a too
VenturcsOne Young buck
On this occasion, after order had been somewhat
restored by means of threats and promises. the
agent was attracted by the figure of squaw who,
knife in hand stood ready TO defend a tongue she
had cut from a steer claimed prospective prop
ertV bV another SquaW who evidently coWed
by the fierce deneanor and shrilly voiced threats