The Forrest City times., 1908-10-16
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~ camps were not hos tile now. and warriors righ, on neighboring territory was not ques- tioned So long as his arrow was kept in is culver and his greeting was one Of peace.
 With his calm face toward the trail, his moeeasins giving back 10 echo the Cherokee brave. straight as an arrow. had almost strode upon the maiden when he came upon her weay- ing fragrant grasses by messy brook-side
 With never a move 10 indicate that he had seen her, or a pause. he passed in measured step, He did not need 10 look back He knew that at his appearance she had fled, gentle and quick as the breeze.
 Stately and silently again he fol- lowed the trail 10 the brook but the place was vacant When the maiden returned she found bunch of blue jay feathers. beautiful and blue
 A second time the young chief went through the forest, to find a vacant place But the smooth. blue feathers were gone. h their place he left redbird's wing, and the maiden found this also
 Once again he came. This time hc moved cautiously between the trees for the maiden was weaving grasses and into her lap he shot an arrow tipped with gorgeous bit of breast from rare water fowl The maiden sprang up, and her quick eye follow ing the direction from which the ar TOW had come. spied the brave She paused moment, hesitated. Then from the band tbat held her shining hair she took a redbird feather which she placed on the moss, and, taking up the brilliant bit of breast, she fed.
 A brightness akin to a smile lii the face of the Cherokee brave. Passing Breeze Will come again." he said.
 The seventh day he placed a gift upon the moss-his choicest gift. a trophy of his proWess. II was a necklace Of fox teeth. white as pearls and shining as the dew on he man drake bloom.
 It was precious treasure. and from the shade of a mighty oak he watched it until the maiden came shyly from her side of the forest. Then h. leaned forward to watch as she examined tse treasure Al first she hesitated but when she had dropped the cleaning string around her neck Dar-dah-ne-leh stepped out. and at a distance stood before her. proud and calm waiting fer reeogui. tion X moment she regarded him in thoughtful silence Then she took from her neck an ornament and held fl forth, and thus the Cherokee brave made friends with the Choctaw maiden by the brook where the sweet grass grew.
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 They were drifting down the river in ttfie bark canoe, the Cherokee brave and the daughter Of the great chief Troung Wolf
 No sound broke ihe stiffness Of the night save that of a mockingbird singing 10 the evening breeze and the sluggish play of the water against the dropping willow branches. Far away the camp or the Cherokee slept. while nearer. the teepes of the Choe. taW showed their triangular tops here and there against the sky
 From the moonlight which flooded the broad, smoothly flowing Arkansas. the brave turned his canoe and in the shadow of 8 great rock let t foat. and here told The maiden Of a panther he had killed that day whose skin he had stretched 10 dry for a rug when her little red blanket should hang beside his on his tepee wall. and his lodge should be hers
 Now our nations are at peace" he said. and vour father. the great chief. Trotting Wolf, will not say I may nct visit al his lodge and smoke with him the pipe of peace Hear. the panther is calling for his mate. ever % dces the heart of nar-dah- ne-eh cal 10 Lea-onettah to make Of his heart her lodge,'
 Then he told her stories of his -atior the greatest Of all peoples ths Cbe-0Ks5.qs