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:‘:B‘2'—‘.:m; ":E»..e.;'o'::.:r:1sr:ax JOHNSON.

NACGESSIBLE‘ "as is ‘the haughty Iroquois, there 'are. instances ~whe_n‘*he unbends with

.. , thegrmost exquisite con-. ‘ ‘ desg_ensio”n from his \ tr_i_bal“ordinances, ' ' ‘arid-_,conf_er_s both honor eand}fa‘v_or;where worth‘

- merits‘ the i distinction.

His keen insight into I, national: 'and/1ndivid- ual?-Jcharacter seldom 2,‘ B’ ‘ideceiyee him; it has

I f gfzfrindinglstone of greed . ,and-- injustice to lack‘ ' A ' an edge. ' There are 7

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w whoqmeet ‘the North American Indians if ' disinterestedly: if-‘ native/f1ife' is studied at

all it is generally for gain. The "researches. made ‘in ‘archaeology andethnology beneflt not thesubjects studied.‘ The scholar but strengthens his own mental acquirements, ,

‘just ask the traderfattens, his pocketbook. ' But ‘there’ are to ‘this’, class of "self-seekers - some noble and exceptions, who.

are not only practically sympathetic regard-

‘ing the rights of a royalghumanity, but who j

are" doing their utmost ‘ to show the world how ‘the good old Indian character when

-unsullied by contamination with the

vices oftheir. white brethren, breathes no- bility, romance and beauty. as forest pines in their native grandeur exhale a wild, stimulating perfume. _ _ “

There, is nonatlcn in the world‘. more ten- acious of their'birthrights—-.-and of all heri-

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almost unintelligible English how loyal they were to his "great mother” and how well they remembered his brother, the 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 medals and ornaments,

that dainty, thouhh deadly, scalping knife,

and well-worn‘ tomahawk. how familiar

»‘i7,.3.3_".tb§:l3. fl.o«1,1I1t5T1E.CI§8lLQI,_9S§lii.Qb;.P131139! , thatfvvaving, fell almost to. the ’shoulders' -

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

"arching its head so proudly-—-for had not

the queen's son just patted its glossy flanks and praised the royal little horse for its beauty? V

i'I‘hen 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-A

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

7 herblue English eyes when she saw “our”

chief dismount, toss off the scarlet blanket,

spread it on the green as a carpet, conduct

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The prince wsrsthieni lustily cheered as is p" Si§',Naflon Indian, ».and ._ this old ’ newspaper says “11e..t>0¢1iata¥h§1s new dec9r8ti°ii-k1ndlr. .:

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-your kind andegaflfeetignate-”,mention mother and for -your ‘loyal

toward-her._” "

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-V and I cherished ousg" of ‘the Six ‘

~ hearts {buti*I4donbt it; inithe ‘latter’ ,4:

11:8, he found is monxént or ya-N ‘people more ‘ interesting .than ;whe_n=he. stood among the ,

‘chiefs,’-brayes;'a‘nd warriors that were to confer .uponi,,..».~him— the _most ~ ancient honor. ,,that,_‘-‘.A;mericae could ’ offer. on w this s latter ‘occasion,’ ' when the

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newspaper-i;1);9i1:i;whi5lse“was written “With” ki,nd,._‘regards"'t._.ffrcm' your brother

chief--.A.rthur,f”"" who ‘ clocked‘ longingly at, ,3

an old buckskin coat with its tarnished silver medals, at a‘ rusty tomahawk that lay on a, British-red broadcloth-—at some

..purple wampum belts and deerfoot anlnlets,

but there-is no ‘one to -wear them. The

warrior‘ rider,-with many-‘ others,-who gave the war-whoon‘;t.ha.t day; ’;g,ore than twenty‘

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years ago, has . “sailed into the dusk of evening ' In the glory of the sunset’ ‘B ‘ To the islandsofthe blessed To the land of the hereafter!"

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“WITH PARDOL ABLE -‘PRIDE, HE TOOK THE PRINCE’S HAND WITHIN‘ HIS AND THE STRANGE. SOLEMN RITES COMMENCED. '~« ' '

The “titled” families, exclusive and con- servative for K4centuri:es_', renew in each generation their-' claims to a peerage,” the

_ accession of which has '_never‘bee'n ‘weak- . enedby the intermixture of race or blood. A The Iroquois Chief‘ possesses a purer pedi-

‘gree, a “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 I have in my

memoryis the occasion. when one of Eng-. land_’s young princes received this most ei-

alted honor that ‘-his mother’s‘Indiap sub- jects "could bestow. 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 a voice in the adminis-

tration of the affairs of the Six Nations.

Twenty‘ years ago! 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 l)ear~ .

The Duke of Con-'

'it, take from ,-his own shoulders a mag-

nificent lsashyf of Indian workmanship in ,.

beads," .;moose 1hair'and:"porcupin‘e quills. and I

-laying it across young royalty’s ‘shoulder.

tieit in a loose knot beneath his._.a~rm.

7 "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 exquisite language—a

veritable Indian Ruskin. That splendid’

old veteran fought bravely for the British

'flag in the long ago, so with pardonable A '

pride he took the prince's hand within" his own, and the strange, solemn rites com- menced. A ‘My ears have heard some of nature’s love- liest songs-—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 torturing loneliness that mid- night airs breathe, when flapped through the p".7xir»r.°~-w’ mi<":':1tirv.:r v7..=‘.H'. l>i‘r<ls<, and