The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-06-09


fir IN our species. Extraordinary
capacities, for good or for evil,
have ever been attributed to
them. Their dimlnuture size has
provoked the jeers and gibes of
their fellow creatures. till they
have shrunk from mingling with
mankind, and have sought re
fuge in solitude, or else, have
braved the world, and remained
TO hate, and to be revenged.
To the conduct of Dongotha,
however, no such motives are to
be attributed. Though dwarfed il
person. his noble head, and in
tellectual face would have re-
deemeed a thousand such bodies
from contempt No. thou, DOngo-
tina, didst not fly TO solitude TO
escape the jeers and gibes of thy
fellow creatures. nor didst thou
bear thy infant sister thither
from other motives than those.
the noblest, that actuate a bro
ther's heart. Yea loftier impuls-
es influenced thee, which were
to rear the last scion of thy OWL
house, away from the world, -
where her plastic mind could be
moulded into beauty. Miotha s
mind was Dongotha constant
care-the fertile garden which
he toiled to cultivate and adorn.
Though bred a recluse, she was
not ignorant of what wasoccur-
ring in the outside world Don
gotha gathered knowledge, and
like a faithful bee, carried if
to his mountain hive, to store
it in the cells of Miotha s mind
Her mind was the capacious
scroll into which he transcribed
the observations and incidents of
each day; so, that she was so
we'll conversant with what was
occurring, as if she were per
sonally mingling in the busy ele-
ments of life. Nor was she unac-
quainted with the past history
of her race and people, nor with
that of the various tribes of red
men who rOameed mountain OIL
plain. DOngotha had told her OF
the emigration of their people
from the far west, near the Pac
ific ocean, of their long journey
ings, of their final settlement OF
| hte head waters of the Rio Gila
Of the wickedness of the people
and of the flood that drove thel
on the high rocks, of their i'm
pending peril, and of the sacrl
flee of young MonteZ,ma, ant
| Colindrina to appease the wratl
of their angry deities. of the su
sidence of the waters, the sprins
ing up of the pillars of the tw'
young Lovers. and the discover.
of the identical sacrificed child
rem, sitting on their SUBMITS il
the person of the renowned MOI
tezuma, and COlindrine, of how
in their transformation. the god
had restored them with complex
ion as white as snow. after hay
ing passed thrOuhg strange plat
es and other countries, suffer
ing shipwreck, and bringing wit
them higher civilization, an
a purer religion.
An intimate in the family Q
Montezuma. Dongotha taught Nj
otha all the accomplishments {
(which he saw bestowed on Imn
by Colmdrina. Love the Lowell.
Snow Cloud, Miotha excelled a
her sex in personal charms. Or
!. only secret, Dongotha had stud
. ously concealed from his sist
: he had never told her of Oh
tha. For well he knew that
= the noble virtues and manly gr
o es of the accomplished Olatl
: had won his esteem and admir-
: ton, the appreciative soul of I
!. itessr, MiOtha, could never sto
short of a higher sentiment,
= sentiment that would burn
her heart s core, and beside
realm, Of which he generous
] thought should be, and was. !
- tha's
E, BUT sit thou, Miotha, charmi
r reclIlse, beside crystal flowing
y rills, On grassy couch beneath
le SADIE Of thhe nut bearing pine
y and trill harmonious song
q scale, like mountain sheep, I
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