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NUMBEK 15**' l,red, her dwindling descendant now/’ ,?;,OD a 8ta,e iPwrvation, and died in be 1Kj6, wired a boot 104 years. Her father of ffii the last chief who ruled, and she un was consequently of royal blood—aprinc c$* iq fdct* fts she would bcco in:rs name, had the tribal condition i»r her peo ta! pk* continued.sir I remember seeing her a few weeks be-u- fore her death, end she talked with freo-ty dom of the Indians and their habits. It he was interesting to hear her proa unci a-is : liou of the Indian words which have now wf become local property, and are now at-he (ached to so many places. In almost is- every instance the modern use of them la si merely a n duct too of larger and more only managable onea—words which, as they id | are now used, have been shorn of half or a third o! their original syllables, 8be c. i wo intelligent and accustomed to talk, L*e and remembered of course, many curious *; I things. I was struck with her statement that she law, when a little girl, an old Indian who had seen king Puiilip. The old Intiii.u was telling her father of the td personal traits and appearance of this doughty hero, and narrating, perhaps }. some of his unrecorded exploits; mad she ). wna a« rapt listener to the conversation.a H was rugjresitve of Thorcau's way of ,* uM aaunn/tb* distance which tb« correntd lt;rip lure chronology sets between us andit *be garden of Eden; for, be says, It only require# about sixty of our gaaadmoth-crs to take us back to Ere. To see an Indian who had seen King Phidip (and 1 therefore, came inly within one remove B of it) was like 'putting your hand back-l - upon the vessel which landed at a Plymouth Rock. When one sits down ;o s think the matter seriousiv over, it dors * not set tn so long as it didf Ince Colutnbns it; discovered America, or sloce William the 9 Conqueror set fool in England, or, in fact, sine* anything ancient hapjicntci. F.vem c those indeterminate svons of Huxley and 1 the geelogM are visibly shortened when u * few memories pasted together cover a such an arc of time.r ir EdlUrltl Trlsb.
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Plymouth Marshall County Republican
Plymouth, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 29, 1877
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