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VOL. 67. NO; 20.

é& BROTHER CHIEF.

'BY’ H.

NACCESSIBLE as is
the haughty Iroquois,
there are instances

" when he unbends with

.. the! most exquisite con-

e dpwension from hia‘
. rigid tribal ordinances,
- -and confers both honor
. -and favor.where worth

. merits the’distinction.
His keen insight into
national ‘and /individ-

A¥ ual' character seldom
4 'deqe'ivaa him; it has
n-t00 often whetted

.. by the white man’s"
grlnding stone of greed:

,4 .a.nd 1njuatioe to lack
an edge, ' There ‘are

7, ;‘lgtew who meet the North American Indians
' -disinterestedly. if. native/ life is studied at

~ all it is generally for gain. The Tresearches
made in. archaology and ethnology benefit
pot the’ subjects studied, . The scholar but

strengthens his own mental acquirements,

just as the trader fattens his pocketbook.
" But there are to this, class of self-seekers

. some moble and welcome exceptions, who

are not only pra.ctica.lly sympathetic regard-

"ing the rights of a royal humanity, but who

are doing their utmost to show the world
how ‘the good old Indian character when
. unsullied by contamination with the
vices of their white brethren, breathes no-
bility, romance and beauty, as forest pines
in their native grandeur exhale a wild,

stimulating perfume.

There is no nation in the world more ten-
acious of their birthrights—and of all heri-

- . 859 4 " S peaen -1 ‘andy wp \ O
tages, chioffainship ranks 55 highent

| vividly
‘arching its head so proudly--fo; had not

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P.A.'U'LIIN'E JOHEHINSOIN.

almost unintelligible English how loyal
they were to his ‘‘great mother” and how
well they remembered his brother, tha
Prince of Wales,

But my childish eyes watched only two
people in that vast gathering, the pale |
young prince and the dark, military-look-
ing chief that rode beside him. How proud
my little heart was of that rider! How
well I' knew those square, Napoleonic
shoulders, that beautiful buckskin costume,
those brilliant silver medalsand ornaments,

‘that dainty, thouhh deadly, scalping knife,

and well-worn tomahawk, how familiar

a'| was that. flaunting crest of ostrich plumes

ment, then with gaining ponfldence replied
“I'am much . touched by the kind
which you have just delivered, and
particularly happy’ to be made oue of your (¢
tribe. Most sincevely do I’ thank.yom for

your kind and: aflectiqnate mention of ‘my {: ¥

mother and forall your loyal expreasions?‘
voward her.” - 4

Six Nation India,n, and this old newspaper |

says “Hegtsook Lo h;ls new decora.t.ion kindly, |x
andxomhm whq already wears the ribbon
the ; ared ,,to enjoydt.” P
e ~. 10!18! lonz.’

Wibis‘ redakin- i

for his beautitul o gl ti?«-portraits of the'~ :
queen, the prince oonsort and himself—are |
to-day thb most. bonomd and _cherished |¢

that, ‘waving, fell almost to the shoulders¥i

over which was , flung the
broadcloth “blanket’” that contrasted so
with  the jet-black  pony

the qneen’s son just patted its glossy flanks
and praised the royal little horse for its
beauty? ,

- Then my ears caught the sound of the
deer-foot rattles ornamenting my rider’s
ankles. Ah! me, how the latent germs of
nationality will well up even in” a child’s
sentimentality. ‘The jangle of those rattles
that kept. such perfect time with each de-
termined little step of the pony, flew to my
head like reddest wine.

I leaned far out of the window and peered
down into the savage-visaged throng.

. **Will he look up?” I cried to my mother,
but she was too eagerly watching that pair
to reply, and a clear, proud light crept into

| her blue English eyes when she saw ‘‘our”

chief dismount, toss off the scarlet blanket,
spread it on the green as a tarpet, conduct

wlamwarm A8 Ty .1 ¥
pReeIiety CL Q3LOo7 Gpon

s e ey YN NS ¥
o VbdAL, Rl v u b e

| years ago.

§ mers ago,

was received ’trOm ooast to coa.st by "loy,a.l
hearts and bme,” ‘bus I'donbtif inthe latter 4
‘days he found a moment or a people more Y&
interestmg than ‘when he stood among the |
chiefs, braves ‘and - warriors that were to
confer upon shim  the most - ancient | ¥
honor that America could offer. And|§
on this: . la.ttan _occasion, ' when ' the | g
whole. atmos;:here rang ‘with cheers, ‘there | &
'was one ‘'who. crept guietly /into an unpre- | 8
tentious-paslors  She resurrected from a | §
quaint ‘birch bark-:vfiaakefi an ‘old yellow
newspaper- upon whoae marzin was written
“With’ kind regards from your brother
chief—Arthur,” who' looked longingly at
an old buckskin cost with its tarnished
silver medals, at a'rusty tomahawk that
lay on a British-red broadcloth—at some
purple wampum belts and deerfoot- ankaets,
but there is no ‘one to wear them. ' The
warrior rider, with many others, who gave
the war-whoop that day more than twenty L
has | &

“Sailed into the dusk of evening

" In the glory of the sunset - =

To the islands of the blessed

To tho land of the herea.tterl" R

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“WITH PARDONABLE ‘PRIDE HE TOOK THE PRINCE'S HAND WITHIN HIS OWN‘
AND THE STRANGE, SOLEMN RITES COMMENCED. e

The ‘titled’”’ families, exclusive and con-
servative for centuries, renew in ‘each
generation their claims to' a peerage,  the
‘accession of which has ‘never ‘been ‘weak-
_ ened by the {ntermixture of race or blood.
The Iroquois Chief posgesses a purer pedi-
gree, & “bluer’” blood, than any hand, Brit-
ish or French, that ever planted the Red,
‘White and Blue within his territory.

But there are rare instances where this.
'rite of chieftainship has been conferred
upon outsiders, and the one 1 have in my

memory is the oceasion. when one of Eng—.
land’s young princes received this most ex-.

alted honor that his mother’s Indian sub-
jects could bestow, The Duke ot
naught, who was cheered by all ‘‘Canada
from *sea to sea’ two years ago, has for

twenty years been possessed of the right to.

sit among the-hereditary chiefs in the great

- council and to have avoice in the adminis-

. tration of the affairs of the Six Nations.
Twenty years a.go! My childish recollec-

" tion of ‘the ceremony consists of such rude

. outlines that I fear they would make but a
very unfinished sketch if reproduced un-

aided, but this old yellow newspaper bear- |

Con-:

'it, take trom hls own shoulders & mag-

nificent sash’ of Indian workmanship in-|;
besds, moose hair and/porcupine quills, and-| S
laying it across young royalty’s shoulder | &8

tie it in a loose knot beneath his.arm.
‘Then stepped on to that scarlet carpeting
one, rich in years and renown, one whose

‘privilege it was to adopt the young Brit-

isher into the Iroquois nation, one who had
been the speaker of the council for forty
years, who was called ‘“the Mohawk War-
bler,”” because of his exgquisite language—a

veritable Indian Ruskin. That splendid-

old veteran fought bravely for the British

‘flag in the long ago, so with pardonable

pride he took the prince’s hand within his
own, and the strange, solemn rites com-
menced

‘My ears have heard some of nature’s love-
liest sengs—the wild splash of rapids in
great rivers as they leap over broken rocks
and cascade in murmuring eddies away to
the sea; the hushed melancholy of winds
in the forest pines- away up in Northern
Canada; the torturipg loneliness that mid-
night airs breathe, when flapped through
the pinions of micrating ni and

sht birvds,

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