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Show SPOTTED TAIL'S DAUGHTER. AS INDUS MAIDEN'S DEVOTE!! LOVE DYING WITH A liiOKfcN HEAKT. During Ihc-Ialter years of the war a part of Spotted Tail's family wag at Fori Laramie, aud with them wbb his favorite daughter, a young girl of eighteen. The- Fort was then garrisoned gar-risoned by companies ot an Ohio volunteer vol-unteer cavalry rogiment, and amoDg the officers was a handsome young lieutenant, of pleasant manners. Shotted Tail's daughter fell violently in love with this young man. Her passion doea not seem to have been reciprocated, aud it is said he did all tie could to couvinco her he could not marry her, and therefore it would be wrong for him to visit ber or recoive visits from her. But lueinfatuated girl would net be convinced and could not aee why she, a princess and the daughter of the most powerful chief on the plains, was not asuitable wile for the young soldier. Diy after dy she would dress herself with scrupulous care and come to the fort to see her beloved. It was pitiable to observe her as hour after hour she would eit on the door step ol the oth-: oth-: cer's quarters, waiting for him to come out. At other limes she would follow him about like a dog, seemingly perfectly happy to be near him and enjoy the poor privilege of looking at him. Spotted Tail, hearing of the 3trange conduct of his daughter, and deeply mortified at her want of Bell-respect, hastened to the fort and putting her in charge of some kind friends bid them carry her inti the Rocky Mountains, Moun-tains, where he had a little camp and a portion of his people dwelt in the fall and winter timo. They were told to divert her in every way, aud, it possible, endeavor to make her forget for-get ber foolish passion. She went away meekly enough, but fell into a deep melancholy, from which no effort of friends could rouse her. Presently Bhe refused to take tood and pined away until Bhe was a mere skeleton. One day a courier, whose horse was covered with foam, sought the chisl to tell him his daughter was dying of a brokn heart and wished to see him once more before she passed to the spirit land. Away, over mountain and stream, hurried the great chief,, aud paused not by night or by day until he reached the bedside of his beloved child. He found her alive, but sinking very fast, and Bhe bid him sit close beside her and hold her hands in bis while she told him all the simple eiory of her love aod Buffering, and a broken heart. She said: "I shall soon be at rest, my lather, and with those of our kindred who have gone before. Iu that beautiful land I will wait for you, and you will soon come to join me, dear father, for your hair is white wilh years ol care and toil and you are growing old and tired. You are a great chief, and have yet many warriors, but I pray you not to quarrel with the whites, who are more numerous than the leaves OD the trees ot the forest. Spare your people, my father, and reBt yet a little while in peace; when you will have reached the end of the journey of life And co ne to join me iu that happy home where I am going. The pale lacea are the people ol him I loved so Mil, and between you and them I hope war will never come again. And, oh, my father and my chief, when 1 am duad take my poor wasted body to rest on the hill beside the fort where I learned to love so well." The chief promised lie would do all she wiBhed, but bid her live and Bhe might yet be happy. She lingered n i few days and tbt-n the faithful heart ceased to beat. Almost heart-broken Spotted Tail bid his atteudanta prepare pre-pare the body for burial, and bear it as rapidly ag possible on their shoulders to the fort. Philadelphia Times. |