<¿<<7^ ^/v xTV *7* t long ago waa telling roe of nestness in whaterer »he undertake«, tempts And 'ho rhym oof Q»r mt»ir Roes ringing away uearing the station, and how, when I pauy, he bre.igbt meuicuteil bandage" her mother who in at a critical period in her eoastantly ta g a beyond her ureiigtl'- looked again a moment later, she was which be bound about her torn auk:.v her Read T*> ahoroa :Lat Ho over the !v. ml none bay. the story o f a Colorado woman a» life. She had been subject to terrible faint­ A uom rnt v.a linear and drift with th« tide. gone. and ointment which he pnt upon b told to our reporter: “ Eight years ego,” ing spells, and the wfcole family would work ctJ» cf cur tf«r Htt!e harbor we glide. said abe, “ m y nusbaud died, and I was left over her. p r . WiJJiama’ P in k P U lt h av not “ With a start the brave chieftain wonnded bead. After that she coutina rs, and still and better world. Once she had asked there was one day less of waiting tor all of the state and county offices were self-addressed stamped envelope. The freighted with floating mush ice, splash McAlaster about the future, and he, her return. And she did oome hack. administered by the Republicans. This Dominion Ootupnnv, Dept. Y Chicago. ed by ou its way to l ’nebioaud the terre touched by the earnestness of her na­ One night when the ruin waa pouring was from 198C to 1874, when the Dem­ DEAF AND DUMB. «.aliente. The little gray, glad faced ture, had told her in bis own way a down she opened the door of her father's ocrats again secured control of the gov­ eargecu came along presently and told story bia mother had told to him many tent aud wailed to be welcomed home. ernment and have held it ever since. W h a t I t M ean s to R e C u t O ff f r o m flpoooh Piauk that he might go home on 8stnr a time—the story of the Christ. ‘Think The election of George 8. Houston, a “ The old scout w aa pacing hia tent, a n d U e a riu g . • lay, and that made the old engineer, of a big, afvkward clown like m e,’ said for he bad not ceased to grieve for bia Democrat, us governor iu 1874 was out) To bo deaf is to be unable to hear, usually a little mite cranky and irritn Slide, ‘trying to unravel the mysteries daughter, but now that she had return­ of the hottest ever held in the state, and 1 tv, ua happy aa a boy about to he loosed of tbe future—trying to convert this ed to him, as cue from the grave, ber many were the tricks practiced on both and to be dumb is to be unable to talk. from school. white scaled woman who,without know­ coming served only to augment his mis­ aides in that election. Possibly the most Tho lack of hearing is remedied by “ Hay, Finn»," I began, "have you ing it, has been the means of making ery. At sight of her he bud taken a step novel was a device pat into operation at teaching the child to use bis eyes and ever known an Indian girl who could me a better man. * or two toward the tent door, and then, Mobile. Repeat«.‘rti were common in understand either signs or the motions by any stretch of imagination be con- “ I’ve noticed all along, though, that pausing to look upon her for the last those days, and this device was used by of tbe lips, and the lack of speech is N Hidared handsomef" love of a good woman always wukes a time, his face grew gruve as he pointed the Democrats to catch the negroes, who remedied by teaching tho ohild to use •rYe», ” he said thoughtfully, placing man gentler, braver and better. a long arm dov. u the darkness. In a had learned the repeating trick. All of bis vocal organs or his hands to make his well foot ou top of tho railing aud "When Red Fox had explained to me hoarse voice he uttered those ominous the negroes voted the Republican ticket others understand, and. behold, the task is accomplished, and he is “just like frowning from mere force of huhll. that Wakaloua had not been killed, but words, 'The shadows lie upon tbe shore then. “ Wo were at North Platte at the time, bad wandered away, I nrged biui to —to the river be gone.' With a despair On the election day mentioned the other folks!’* Not one thought is given that being the end cf the track, aud nail tbe scouts and search the plains for ing look tbe princess turned back into polling places were opened, and the vot­ to language, to the wonderful medium there I knew a Puwnee maiden who was her, but he shook his head. ‘It is true the rain swept night, and now a new ing commenced. Tbe Democratic elec­ of exchange by means of which the busi­ really good to look upon. 1 never knew that my child has not been killed,'hi danger confronted her. The guards had tion officer« at the boxes had secured a ness of life is carried on, that is sup­ her name. We called her Walk Alone said sadly, ‘but she is dead. It m true seen her at the tent door, by tlie dim stock of small fishhooks with which to posed to come by nature, or instinct, or at first, because she seemed never to that she still walks the earth, but she light of a gri use lamp, aud now they carry out their new plan. Whenever u miracle, but never by teaching. A cultnred lady, a literury woman, jnix np with the other squaws, but is dead to me and to all her people,' aud seized aud bound her. Her father bad negro voted, an officer stack a hook iu when Slide JicAlaater, the head brake- tbe great brave bowed hia head in ti left to her the one chance of flight; the the voter's vest fror.t, where it could be said to me ouco, after seeing some deaf inau on the construction train, began lent sorrow. guards bad showu lees pity, and while plainly seen. After having exercised hia children and hearing them go through to make lovo to her he named her Wa- “ Then I remembered having hearo she sat, bound and gnarded, in a dimly constitutional right of voting, “ Gaffy" certuiu vocal exercises which included kalctia, which he thought a more fit­ that an Indian who had lost his scalp lighted tent, her lover slept aud dream­ proceeded to another polling place and every elementary sound in the Kngl.sh ting title, inasmuch ns she hod already was looked upon as one demented or ed of her coming, not 100 yards away. sought to vote a second time. He was language: “ Now, if these children can boon called by Colouel Cody the Priu- dead, and 1 knew then what hud hap­ Tbe day dawned grndgingly, tbe dark­ thereupon arrested and put in jail upon make all these sounds correctly, why I ceas o f the Platte. pened to the Princess Wakaloua. ness seemed reluctant to leave tbe earth, a charge of fraud. The scheme worked don’t thev go right on and talk? Wiiat j “ Wakalona'a father. lied Pox, was “ How beat to break the news to pool tho sun remained behind tbe dark like a charm. By noon 176 negroes had binders them?” hbowas a bright worn- ! •me of the bravest of the Pawnee scouts, McAlaster was a question over which 1 clouds, from which the rain continued been arrested and jailed. The whole­ an, and when a very short explanation "and his daughter whs naturally some­ pondered ou my way back to the camp to full in torrents At noon the raiu sale am-sts so frightened the negroes bad been given her tlio reason flashed thing of a helio among her people. Kite He was strong aud sensible. He had ceased, tbe suu cuuie cut, meadow larks who had not voted that they refruiued upon her, aud she said: “ Why. what a was tall, tawny, graceful, willowy aud seen many a comrade pulled out of a caroled free in the Line above, but tbe from going to the polls that day, and fool I nm! I see! They’ve got smoothing I ‘wild. It was a Jong lime before Slide, wreck mangled almost lAyoud reccgui haplrea Wakalt na lay ft Itered in a rain the Democrats won the election.—Chi­ to say, and the mecliauicnl ability io say it, but no language to say it in.” . big. blond end handsume as be was, tion. He had been in more than one In Hoaked tent The story of her capture cago Times-Herald. And in that one sentence she expressed could gain the confidence of tbe stately ditto fight, but he bad uever luiu help­ waa kept a profound secret, for tbe tbe reason for being of all tbe institu- i T h e W h ly p tB g Paa« l a Beaten. primes*. It was mouths before sho less upon a stretcher uud listen, d to u Indians knew that tlie United btate* would allow him to walk with her, and tale such as I might tell. And while 1 army officers would interfere If they Aline Morse Karlo, in an articlo on tiona and schools for the deaf in the even then the leathered head of u Jeal­ framed a story of how Wakalouu had learned that tbe j i ,i. ocsa was to be put “ Pnnlshnients of Bygone Days, “ found oonutry. “ No language to say it in ,” that ex ous buck could always be seen peeping gone that very day to visit a neighbor­ to deutb. In the oatkueas of their igno­ in Ths Chapbook, after giving John Tay­ from the high grass und keeping con- ing camp the Jioor princess wundired rance they bi lit ved that they were do lor tbe Water Poet's rhymed descrip­ presses the condition of a dc-nf child’s slant wntch over the girl. tions of corporal punishment in London, mind before he is taught very well, but over tbe prairie. All night she walked ing their duty “ Waknh.na, like tho other women, tbe trackless wilds, uud when the stars “ Ou account cf the rain we bad not explains how rapidly flogging camo into perhaps “aud no language to think it iu ” should be added. Let the reader worked in tho fields when tbero were paled she lay down upon the damp gone out thut duy, hut late iu tbe after use in Boston: any fields to be worked and at other earth to sleep She knew thut she wus uoon an order < ante from tbe dispatch­ Tbe whippiug post was speedily iu try for himself and see how much con­ «Mtes made herself useful about her expected to die, that she ought to die. er for us to ruu light to Omaha to bring full force in Boston. At the session of secutive thought he can accomplish father's tenk Her mother was dead. hat she shcunrd death, not from auy out a train of steel. Aa we pulled out the court held Nov. 80, 161)0, one man without words, and if with his mind She was tho only child her father had, dread of it, but for the love of life. over the switches I noticed a great was sentenced to be whipped for steal­ trained by years of intelligent thinking and ho was very proud of her. In a bat- i “ No doubt alie fully iuteuded to die, crowd of Puwnces down by ths river ing a loaf of broad, another for shooting he can do little nnlil the words come, tie between tbe Sioux and the PawuecH, hut she would put the thought cf it by near tbe railroad bridge. As we ap­ (owl on the Sabbath, another for swear­ let him imagine, if he can, tbe state of near Ogalullu, tho Sioux had captured for n little longer aud dream cf tbe pule proached we could see that they were ing, another for leaving a beat "with­ a mind cut off from language. —Mabel .Wakaloua, uud her father and Ba g ni o faced brave. Ab, he might lovo hit waving their bauds aud patting up out u pylott '* Than we read of John E. Adams in Popular Science Monthly. Bill had rearued her almost miraculous­ still; who could tell, for the white peo­ weird signals. Now, as the engine, still Pease that for “ sfryking his mother and A Ullnd Bargainer. ly from four of their foemeu, three of ple were so strange. She slept anil creeping along, working the water out derydlng b»r he shalbe whipf." Shoppers in one of ths big otoiva whom they had slsin. After that tbe doubtless dreamed of tbe little field, of of ber cylinders, uiured the bridge, Me Lying, swearing, taking falsa toll, Sioux had marked Bed Pox aud bis her father, of the twilight time and of Alaster suddenly cried, ‘Wukalona I' aud perjury, selling mm to the Indians—all down town last bargain day curiously aaughOar aa their own. and niauy Ion« the sweet surprise of her lover’s arms leaped from tbe eugiue. 1 stopped tbe were punished by whipping. Pious re­ watched the movements of a blind hod boon set to euanatv them. , | about her, aud tbeu she started up sud­ engine, and, looking over, saw Wokalo- gard for tba Sabbath was fiercely upheld woman at the dress goods counter. Sbe “ At North PIutteRod Pox had plant- denly, putting her hand to her head, uud im seated iu u canoe, with her bead bow by tbe support of the whipping pest. Iu was about 80 years old, her faoe show­ *d a little field of corn, and it was here, the recollection of her misfortune made ed down alu>oat to bar kue«a, A stal­ 1848, Roger Scott, tor "repeated tieep­ ing great intelligence and iwfiusmeaa when the sun wus low, that Slide mad her heart aad, and soon she slept ugaiu. wart Pawnee sat in one end of tbe ca­ ing on the Lord’s day," aud for strik­ Bbe was richly dressed for the street, to woo the dark eyed Princess of tbe "When she awoke, the sun wua high noe, hoidiug a single oar, while anoth­ ing the person who waked him from hi« and a girl about 8« yean old accompa­ Plattn. 1 used to watch her working in in the heavens. She waa hungry und er Indian, equally well pit portioned, godless slumber, was sentenced to be se nied her. Tbe bliud woman examined the fab­ tba held, and when we whistled she thirsty. The blood hud dried, uud now sat near the girl, whose feet were fet­ verely whipped. Women were not would always pause iu her labors aud abe went down to the river todriuk and tered and whuae bauds were bound be­ spared in pubiio chastisement. “The rics placed before ber by passing them look up to make sure that it was the bathe her fevered fare. Thru she sut by hind her back Now the whole baud gift of prophesy’’ was at once subdued through her baud» Sho depended upon whistle of No. 49, a ll hough she uever the river for a long time, trying to began to chant: In Boston by lasbes, as was nnwomanly her own sense of touch apparently, fqr sho seldom spoke to ber companion, and looked np fur tho whistle of auy other make up ber mind to die, but ahu could carnage. "The shadow» lie upon tbe shore. then only in answer to qnestiona Sbe Tlie d.wd shall walk the eorih no more eugiue. I think, us she began to lone nut. appeared to bo unite critical, and before her heart to McAlaster, that sho came "The auu sut like a great, red wheel W e ll Stwned. “ She knew that she waa counted m know the sound even of tbe bell aud among the dead by her people, und if that hud sunk hub uiepin the sand, and The schoolboy was endeavoring l- «he made her selection the counter woe piled high with patterns of ail kioda the rattle of the spring hungers ou the she returned to them she would be when half the rim w as below and half is or tw o things clear to his fa After she bad examined a large naw- old work eugiue. Jim wus McAlester's drowued in this river wrheu the auu above the earth tbe second stansaof the llxir. ter of pieces «he took up one of the rial ntnie. we nailed him Slide because went down. Late in tbe afternoou she death chant arose from tbe river as tbu " Y e * sea.*' ha said, “ it's just th! first that had been shown her and de­ he could never sot a bruku if be D«cd came to a little station where tb.re waa boat was pusbed oat into the stream: way: Bvory time W illie Jonee gets lull both bauds without twisting it up so a lone operator aud u water tank. Tbe "When the tirral eru aun is half In the skj a fight ha gets licked, bathe goes arounu cided to buy it. When tbe clerk bad measured it, abt And half in ih ea a ith , the ura.l n.uat d ie fight that the wheels would slide, so station agent gave her food and cffeicd telling every one that he licked the otbci luarvclooaly strong were his long, sin her shelter, but she shook her heed und “ Now for the first ti ne Wakaloua fellow, and so he gets the reputation c verified the length herself by measur­ ing it with h-r oatalretched arms. owy arms. Whcu we were coming into asked him where the river lay The lifted h«r lyi < ,.iid ■ !i.t loheld her lover being a pretty good fighter. ” Heemingly satisfied that tbe piece con­ the Platte ou a summer's evening. Slide spectacle of a woman wandering ulsmt leaping from . ',<■ : ( , n A few strokes The old gentleman nudded to sho« tained as much as she bad bargained vend to jump off the engine, where he half rruaed, half starved uud aleue was brought him \ r t i ; «■■ at the UtHa that ba nndarotood. always rode, open the switch, close it a sad one, aud the eperutor, fci liug his boat, ami be i v c cl ; .. « IX-« ut-.. i I uoma nutrii I Tbe rue lndi- ludi- “ And that's why we call him Gen­ for, she look a transfer ticket and went 1-ebind the cationse and then stroll orer own utter loueliueaa. tried to per uude au at the < .n »ici d i p »nu faced bim. eral Woyler. ’ ’ added the boy.— Chicago to the counter where trimmings wa sold. There she «elected the material into tbe little cornfield where Wakalouu ber to stay Puiutiug to the west, she Tbe big bras, «a, ihan sv r.ug bw kftig right Post with which to finish her dress, examin­ worked began to chant: arm, caught it the Pa*.me aathr the ear. ing the laces and other delicate fabrics “ Now, she always knew be was coin- and over he w,n> I'.fuebifig down, bs “When the vre«i red aun I* half in ihe sky M r. Hawkins (in the lib ra ry>— Most meat critically. ltig, but, like her white sisters, she And half In ilk' * *rth. ih e.li.u l must d i* lifted the t i l - i *11 ifiii lodily, turned After th«i blind woman had left the liked to play that she didn’t, an 1 wheu "Theu she bared her hew ml head, uud him bulf ovi i i.« . ith ail hia might sxtraoruiuary thing 1 aver heard o il he would steal up behind her and catch he saw tbe little round spot where the drove hiiu i n . i ii.tu the sand at Am 1 awake, or is thia merely a dream: atore tbe floor manager said her shop­ Mrs. Hawkins—Goodneos, Jeremiah! ping was net an unusual thing, 8be her iu hia arms (if no cue waa looking) akiu hod bwn m t awuy aud understood the bom.iu 11 « . it» « r was but one of the many blind custom­ ahu would start and shudder aa natural Thia revolution, however, caused ths "While li in a* mg on the little What has happened? Mr. Hawkins—Hera's a magazine ers who camo into the store regularly. If as a country schooltuu’am. agent to rec. uble I.is ifi< its to eave tlie bark waa iltif' k. ■ . ‘id ly toward tbe This women, he said, was uot only able bnuga M-’Ali "We went iu the ditch uue day, Slid« huph'sa maiden from hi im If i cut the coed thut that h a n ’t got an article about Grant, had his aukle vprained and was obliged “ After much cc.ixing he succeeded in bound the v> u u , >« » d the oar and Lincoln or Napoleon) — Clevelaml Io make the nicest discrimination in tho matter of trimmings, but so deli­ to ride iu that eveuiug in the caboose. getting her into bis little room iu the made the Iu . Ji t ta low the engine. Leader. cate was ber touch she could often dis­ I whistled a* usual for the station, aud rear of the telegraph < fllce, whole she Lifting the g ill iu bis aims, ran up tinguish rolora He added, however, iu the twilight saw the Indian girl still soon fell asleep The suu went down tlie tiurnp, pis«“ il her iu tbs H a was watching his neigh bur's trou working bn the field and waiting foi and still abe slept, aud he knew aho waa and » e aii> A» we reached bleaome boy clim b a tree, and be hod a that she never depended entirely upon ‘the sweet «nrprioo for which she bad safe, at least for another day The dark­ eastiu d ol it bi.tigv 1 looked look of painful anxiety on hia rounte- ber touch in watching shade«, but veri- fled ber selections with tbe eyes of the legrned to wait. 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