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

evolves all that is pure and |
good. Everything would be can
.elled and accursed. were 1T not /
FOR its vitalizing Influence 1t Is
tie real aliment Of the soul, the
1 Elections flourish only IN its
genial oil. and without its kind
lv dews, all happiness withers,-
and die.
Ilnna. the snow Cloud, asleep
was ranging it's Intoxicating SER
ice. In sleep, love visits the
naked spirit. and infuses itself
into the unguarded soul. Again
comes her idoIized lover and IN
vain strives to fasten the cham
o luna. victim of ideal love,
wide waters roll between thee
and thy dream lover. besides thy
father. mother, and brother, none
Of thy color treads tins I'M
known continent. Centuries shall
roll by. and no storm shall wait
another vessel TO its shores. Not
until the lofty genius OF the
Genoese shall dare old Ocean s
trackless waste. shall thy native
continent be pressed by the foot
of til ewhite race Sleep luna,
as thv world and dreams are thy
life.
Are. then. dreams all shadow
and portend they nothing? Why
come thy in slumber, it on thei
wings they hear no tidings from
the spiritual world no warning
10 Influence our waking hours!
Dongotha-the dwarf of Zuni,
and Cohndrina are in luna $ a
part ment. smile after smile, Is
playing over the sleeper face.
like alternate light and shade ov
er a waving field.
Tears gathered in Colindrina s
eyes. while she thus mentally
unused:
80 luna. my dear love Snow
Cloud. how solitary and how
isolated art thou in this new
world amid these red men. 9
cruel fate, that drove us from
our native land, and cut us of
from our own race. Fate doub
~ cruel to thee, my daughter
whose lofty soul clings to It's
nobility of birth. Color is the
birth light of the white race the
gift, yea. the greatest boon, oil
Him who sits enthOrned in the
glowing palaces of the sun, the
signet it is of superiority over
AL other races. He who painted
the lilly and the rose, and gave
TO the rainbow its richest hues,
vouchsafed TO thee, my own love
Snow Cloud, a complexion as
fair as drifting snow. Can the
lilly mate with the thistle, OF
the rose with the bramble? No,
my daughter. there is marked
distinction which the Great
Spirit has stamped upon his own
works. and we honor him by OBJ
serving and respecting that dis
function. Thy repugrance TO mate
with one of an inferior race,
j. the offspring of a sentiment
grounded in sacred instincts
sanctioned by him who created
lis different, and enforced by
His immutable laws.
Dongotha watched the dream
ers face, and was happy In the
thought ofhaving contributed
to her wishes. The thought OF
loving her, never entered his
mind. He was contented in being
allowed to adore. He knew him.
self 10 be of a different race
and color. and he aspired not tt
oyerstep the boundaries prescrib-
ed by nature. The consciousness
o. belonging to an inferior race,
did not debase him in his own
estimation. He quarreled not at
nature for making him red, but
accepted his LOT with philoph-
zeal resignation He knew not
that the lovely heing over whose
>ltmbers be was keeping vigils,
viewed him or his race as in
ferior. Indeed. she bad ever
treated him as her eqtDls and
the artlessness and unsth3ied
courtesy with which she ever no
ored his presence, and deferred
TO his Opinions, would have per
saaded a smaller mind .hs,n hls
that she deemed him more thar
peer yea, superior. But Donga
tina presumed not from luna
unassuming department, that BY
her social and intellectual pow
ar vaS ron1nro1 Tho lowop n,