The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-06-02

throned in the glowing palaces
of the sun. if lambert flmae a
high, fed with resinons
pine and cracking salt. is graf
full incense TO thee. higher still |
shall the flames ascend. nor shall
this sacred fire cease TO burn as
long as the sun, thy lofty habi-
tation, shines:
SO saving. they rose and cir
cling around the fire, threw 9th
er fuel and salt on il, when a
gain falling on their knees. con
tinued:
1.-The heat which warns our
blood, vitalizes our heart and
animatse our bodies, is but a
spark emanating from thy pure
fountain, Ethereal Essence of
Fire. Light and heat are life;
darkness and cold are death
Light and heat are the INSOFAR
able companions of fire, and the
darkness and cold consort toget
her. KindIe thy fires in our sac
red hearts, Great Spirit, as we
kindle the sacred fires I'M our rs
tuffa, in honor of thee Let its
flames consume all within Us
that rebel against thee that thou
mayst regard us with a friend
" eve. from thy lofty habitation
in the glowing palaces of the
sun. The malignant wizard of
the mountains, enemy 10 thee.
land TO the renowned MonteZuma
who instituted thy worship IN
this mountain-l land. breaking vio
lent way from his ice bound
halls and glacier palaces, now.
amid eclipse. hurricane, and the
earth quakes spreads his bane
ful wings over this sun my land
His whitening curse. partly avert
ed by Monteguma s rod. still
hangs over Gurutha and his peo-
pie. The fierce Doglatha. chiet
of the implacable Apaches, cap
\
ture has borne the raven haired
Iutha to his hostile camp The
aair haired and blue eyed Ola
tina wander through mountain
passes. lost or, his bleeding. eN
haused tlimbs lie scattered and
torn on rock or valley Gurutha
disconsolate. monrns his cap
tured daughter: Montezuma
bewails ms son, lost or slain
The Inhabitants Of Preos affrigh
I'd. tremble and crouch at the
menacing power of the revenge
ful Dog,atssa Shall cold triumph
over fire. Shall the Followers Of
darkness triumph over the wor
shippers of light.
In these and er.h like strain:
the priests invoked the Great
Spirit while Montezuma, over
whelmed with sorfgw sat lament
ing his sad fortune. His griel
was SO consumingly poignant thu
he never pg@e thought of the
powers of the masie wand. OF
which he leaned his droopins
head till the storm began 10 lull
and tho clouds commenced tt
roll away, 80 clear thetrack oil
heaven for the sun s approaoh.
/ But what strange fate has
befallen the raven haired luth.
the captured daughter of the dis
consulate Gnr,rhag Has lightn
ings glare, or bowling tempt est
or rocking earth quake, protect
I'd her laHoealce. during all this
dread night. from the rapacits
tof her ruthless captorg No. nett
her Of sn~ss singly, nor all com
bined could check nnbridlee
lust. But the sacred fires. nav.
not burned in vain in thy deef
Estuffa. disconsolate Gurutha-
The Great Spirit movedwitl
compasion fromhis palaces in tn
sun, has thrown the mantle o
madness over thy daughter in
telleet; which though ;itloses, he
Ito thee ON earth has saved her
| TO humself in heaven. 1t is Law
that neither savage man. MOI
wild beast. nor devil damned
can harm or even -rudely .toncl
the insane; snehawe the mine
J mhmged begets ia man, or de
lvil, or beast.
Il The revengefu Daglatha mac
no sooner reached the SUNNI
Of the rock walled preeipic'
and eliHled the pursuit of tn,
, impetuOus Olatha, than, with ex
! ultant shout. he bore his capfiv'
amid the storm and darkness I,
i his rude tent. His swartly bans