t the winter in hunting. In the springtime, as
they were returning, laden with peltries, she and her children occupied
a canoe by themselves. On nearing the Falls of St. Anthony she lingered
in the rear till the others had landed a little above the falls.

She then painted herself and children, paddled her canoe into the swift
current of the rapids and began chanting her death song, in which she
recounted her former happy life, with her husband, when she enjoyed his
undivided affection, and the wretchedness in which she was now involved
by his infidelity. Her friends, alarmed at her imminent peril, ran to
the shore and begged her to paddle out of the current before it was too
late, while her parents, rending their clothing and tearing their hair,
besought her to come to their arms of love; but all in vain. Her
wretchedness was complete and must terminate with her existence! She
continued her course till her canoe was borne headlong down the roaring
cataract, and it and the deserted, heartbroken wife and the beautiful
and innocent children, were dashed to pieces on the rocks below. No
traces of the canoe or its occupants were found. Her brothers avenged
her death by slaying the treacherous husband of the deserted wife.

They say that still that song is heard
Above the mighty torrent's roar,
When trees are by the night-wind stirred
And darkness broods on stream and shore.

IV

AUNT JANE

_The Red Song Woman_

Miss Jane Smith Williamson, the subject of this sketch, was one of the
famous missionary women in our land in the nineteenth century. She was
widely known among both whites and Indians as "Aunt Jane." The Dakotas
also called her "Red Song Woman." She was born at Fair Forest, South
Carolina, March 8, 1803. Through her father she was a lineal descendant
of the Rev. John Newton and Sir Isaac Newton. Her father was a
revolutionary soldier.

Her mother was Jane (Smith) Williamson. They believed that negroes had
souls and therefore treated the twenty-seven slaves they had inherited
like human beings. Her mother was fined in South Carolina, for teaching
her slaves to read the Bible. Consequently, in 1804, in her early
infancy, her parents emigrated to Adams county, Ohio, in order to be
able to free their slaves and teach them to read the Word of God and
write legibly.

The story of Aunt Jane's life naturally falls into three divisions.

I--PREPARATION FOR HER GREAT LIFE WORK.

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