Show American Heroines By fly LOUISE M M. COMSTOCK Cynthia Ann Parker LN her ber relatives finally found W WUI- WUI her ner and restored her ber to the birthright birthright birth birth- right which was hers as a 8 white woman woman wom wom- an of good family Cynthia Ann Parker looked like an on Indian her skin burned brown under the limit hot sun of ot the western west ern plains her clothing a dirty blanket and worn horn 1 and she acted like on one meeting every ery advance with the sullen silence characteristic of ot her ado adopted tell people She he was one of ot the few examples In our history of ot a white woman gone completely Indian Here lIere was a strange story The Parkers Par Par- ken hers came caine pioneering Into Texas between between between be be- tween and IS-Id IS when Texas tutu had Just wrested In Independence epen lIce from Crom ruin Mexico Mexico Mex Mex- ico and bands of hostile Indians and marauding Mexicans still roamed the sparsely settled plains They s settled near the present site of ot Groesbeck Only a little later during durin an attack by bythe bythe bythe the Comanche Indians Cynthia Ann Annand Annand Annand and her small brother were captured and carried away Years pa passed sed before the whites learned of at the fate tate of ot the little girl Then a band of hunters visiting the camp of at the now turn turned d friendly saw her ber there grown to young joung womanhood They finally perd persuaded per the red rell men to allow v them to talk with her lint Hut It was an nn unsatisfactory factory Interview The girl refused to speak mainlining a n stolid silence andon and an on expressionless face More went wen I by The white girl was married after the Indian custom to a n brave named Ieta Nocona and bore hore him hint a son don destined to become known throughout hout the nation as Quanah Parker chief of at the Coman Comno- ches one of the most noble and famous famous fa ta of the red men mea When Texas achieved statehood military force torce was organized to clear her borders of the menacing red men During an expedition led against the by Capt L L. S S. floss Hoss eta Ieta Nocona was killed and end Cynthia Ann captured curried carried away awny from her son and ond her tier red friends and restored to the whites Still her face tace was an Impenetrable Im Im- penetrable mn mask k She seemed scented to have hare hareno no recollection of ot her own language or people Finally I Captain Ho Ross Hoss s re resorted resorted re- re Ort sorted ll to the happy device lle of or relating to her ber detail b by detail but as If Jr It had happened to someone else the thes Story s tory ory of ot her own o childhood When he told of at the Indian raid and her face tace a nt at last lost lit with recognition Pointing a grimy finger nt al her herself sh she said sold Me lle Cynthia Ann I At Austin Texas she was seas placed In Inthe Inthe inthe the home of ot a n brother Hut But she was here hero ns as restless us as If In n actual captivity cap and only a few v years jears later Inter she died led e Day Dawn Down DownA A AN IDYLL of ot the American forests Is the story of ot Tim Se lien Ken Se-ila Se Day Dawn a lovely ely Indian maiden who gave gare her life lite to save sn that of at an unworthy and perfidious ulI lover loyer During the Trench French and Indian wars the friendship of at the time American Indians was assiduously courted by both the Trench French and the colonists Colonel Schuyler with rare tact and judgment hall had succeeded In forming an on alliance for tor the colonies with the th most powerful power power- powerful ful tul Eastern tribes The friendship between between be be- tween the white man and his red confederates confederates con con- federates had reached such success that the great chief of or the time Iroquois had accompanied the colonel on a trip to England and amI there been hen highly hon honI honored ored orld and loaded by hy the ladles ladies of or the court with presents for tor his daughter Day Dawn To undermine this alliance and B. B se secure secure se- se cure for tor themselves the loyalty of ot the fi fighting red men the Trench Frencl bent hent their I efforts Spies pl's were dl dispatched patched In to I every direction from Quebec rather Father 1 LeMoyne loyn a n Jesuit priest succeeded In winning over OHr the And at nt length the Trench French laid crafty plans to win also the powerful Iroquois I Day Dawn wn was their victim a n dandy dandy dan dan- dy of at court M M. DuValle Ou by hy byname byname I Idy name nam was their tool Ou DuValle con a meeting with nay hay Dawn In Inthe inthe I the forests wooed woold her with gifts of ot I game come anti and wild flowers And beautiful Day any Dawn f slipping away awny from her 1 tribe for tor secret t meetings with him I lost her heart henrt completely to tn this ele ele- I Frenchman I with the polished foreign for tor sign eign manners I And then one night when the moon was turning the to silver and i the thra f shadows along snore Shore to tn black and I sliver silver bowers a faithful friend camp cam e running down lown from runt the village to warn I Ithe the lovers that flay Day Dawns Dawn's absent absence had been hlen discovered and the he braves res o othe of the tribe were almost upon them Du Ou I Palle Jumped Into Inlo hIs bis canoe while flay Day Dawn untied It It and slipped away Into Cato th the shadows under the thra river bank hank rum I-rum a n covert cO near the shore Ili the e girl watched the pursuing braves es arrive ar nr rh rive rise heard them parley and und then d decide de de- e cide clde that DuValle Du had escaped an and d mIght be Intercepted If they followed d the bank up the river riser If they di did dd d that flint she knew her lover was lost Quickly she took up tip the his cloak still lying In the thicket put on her hea head d his discarded lint hat and stepped out o oher of ot f her concealment her figure black blac k against the moonlight und and a sure tar get 1 Her lIer kinsmen let Ie fly their ar rows Thus Day pawn Dawn unwittingly saved sa not so much the life lire of ot a 8 worthless worthies lover but hut nn on enemy of the American America n colonies colonl 9 C e. 1153 N w p |