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CHARLOTTE PAILY OBSERVER, JUNE 21, 1C03. GOING I ?OM3;JJ I Gosnfintmedl From . Pass TEs-es : to aid the ?Jorta Carolina settlers In crushing the Tuscaroras arter tne -rtat massacre bv the latter. The tradition roes further that the Croa ' tans la this war ha3 taken a num ' ber of Mattamuskeet Indians pris oner and took the latter back with 7 them ' to Robeson county as slaves, the descendants of these Mattamus- keets yet living- there and claiming this descent, some of them bHns; able - to locate tha region Where their an cestors lived. It is to be noticed that the Croatans always, speak of Virginia as the place where their people lived. They mean the Vir ginia of Kir Walter Raleigh' found in;. TARPT JUSTICE. The tardy Justice which North Car . ' Olina gave to these strange and most " interesting people came to them in " the spring of 185. and when the - act of the Legislature recognizing them as Croatan Indians was publle- ; 'ly read, an ajed Indian, a very Intel ligent man, remarked that he had al ways heard his ancestors called Hat- teras Indians. There are those who believe that the settlement on- the " lumber river was mad as early as ';1450. for French Huguenots, exiled from their homes, who found refuge In twutn Carolina, sent certain i their number as settlers to North Car- 1 terior they held communication -with the people' on ; the . coast and It may have been some of these very up coun try Croatans, visiting- their : former home who were seen by Larson , In 1708 and who spoke of their ances tors as persona who ' could ."talk in a book." Early French, English, Irish and German 'Immigrants who came among-, the Croatans In the Robeson section seem to have frequently mar ried these Indiana The name Chavia, now common, U a corruption of a French name, as Is also Blanx, while Leary was CLeary. In buiWIng- they show much skill. They have the Indian love for bright : colon and when walking in ; bodies they march in Indian file, one ehlnd the other. They brought with them from ihe coast country the love of tobacco and the knowledge of how to grow It and the very earliest visitors to the Robe son section found patches of tobacco near their houses. They never forget an obligation or a debt nor do they forget a kindness or an insult ' A century ago they had good Inns for travelers. Their -women are extreme ly handsome and the most noted one amonglhjfm ! now Rhoda Lowrle, the widow 'of Henry Berry Lowrle, a famous outlaw. State Auditor Dixon recently visited the Croatans and spoke to a great assemblage of them at Pat, ihe location of their nor mal College. There he saw Rhoda, who inM to be a great beauty. Her hus band's father and several other Croa tans, not recognised then as whites or Indians, Dui..as iwpwn, nam ki i they went to the northeast, and that they fixed themselves about the point where Avoca now is, in Bertie coun ty, and that they there built them selves substantial houses; that the Indians fell upon them, under the leadership of Wanchese or some of his friends, and massacred almost all,' great rivers being- on either - side, which the colonists' could not cross, but that the Indians ' spared lew, Including- "a young mayde;" that those captured , were taken - further up the country and that the English men of their number were made to build, houses, partly at least of stone, for their Indian masters, and that it was these houses and these captives of whom Captain John Smith heard and of whom he made note, the in formation concerning them having been brought by Indian runners to him and his colonists at Jamestown, Those who hold this view that the coKSnist after leaving- Roanoke Is land went towards the northwest and settled as above stated, say that Gov ernor White and other leaders had been up In that part of tho country and had fixed on this as a place better for a settlement than Roanoke Is land, which was and is extremely Isolated and in a section subject to storms, there being entirely open wa ter all about ; To aret to Avoca the colonists had a very good boat of sumcinet slse to carry them. Those who hold this view believe further that the Indians with blue eyes and fair hair and ruddy complexions who were seen byviater explorers on tne North Carolina coast were not the descendants of the Lost Colony at "!!! A ' - ..- . -?z." 7,'-. i. - d " OS ,v WRPICIDEmL JAYE IT "HEEPICBE ML IT TOO LATE FOIUiCTCItt r ' (N. B. These, drawings are protected by U. S. Trade Mark. SAVE YOUR HAIR WITH MB WBROfS ;:.. ' . v ', . , ' -' , ' ' .--' ..' .. ..f- ..... ; ; .... 'i ' , ... . ..iTlMV,,.,n 1 !!. h'. wlille yoa have hair to save. Nawbro'a Iff rplcldAVkUU the' germ tliat caiwfs dandruff, itchlnr ecaln atul v 'jJ'SZZto't tl' - b"Dd tQ CrWW nUI ecept in case, of clironlehaldnes.). HcrpicWe sto I hff of tSS : scalp altnoNt InMantly. I find that Ilerplclde will do all you claim for it, I am now on my second bottle and it has cleansed my head nicely and I can see new hair coming in. It also stepped my hair from falling out and I am well pleased with It and will and do recommend rt to all. - (Signed) R. I LEIQH. Hopkins vllle. Ky. . -. J wish to say that X have used part of the bottle of Ilerplclde thlt you sent me and I think It Is a good tonic and have recom mended it to quite a number of my friends. I believe it will cure dandruff and it is a splendid and delightful hair dressing. . (Signed) H. J. FORSDICK. Memphis,- Tenn. I ,have, given your 'Herplcrde' V thorough t test I can' cheerfully say,' that It is the best Hair Tonic I have ever used. -It will be one of our household remedies from now on -and will surely recom mend sanie to all my frfends and acquaintances. ; (Signed) . PETER PEHU : , Scdalia, Mo. , u very kindly sent me a - bottle of -Ipur Herplclds and I gladly answer your, inquiry as to its qualities. I have "used'' it now for some Urns and know it to be the beet thing for the hair I have ever lissd and it keeps my hair free from -dandrofr told aa soft as silk. I have in duoed several of my friends to use it and they are pleased with It 8,n1) W. M. SHOOK. ; Nasdvllle, Tenn. . '; iJ1" end $1.00, at dniff stores. Send loo. In stamps to The. HerplcMe Co., Dept. L., Detroit, Mich- for a' sample. Guaran teed ander the Food and Drugs Art June SO, me. Serial No. 015. Be 'sore you get Ilerplclde. - - 1 yuaran- Applications a Prominent Barber Shops. . v V IW IL JORDAN Jt CO., Special Agents. The Cabin of Harriett Graham, Type of a Croatan Home. olina In 1701 and these found the Croatans with good farms and roads and evidently long settled there. The language spoken by the Croa tans Is a very pure but quaint old Anglo-Saxon and there are in dally use some 76 words which have come down from the great days of Raleigh and his mighty mistress, Queen Ellza- - beth. These old Saxon words arrest at tentlon Instantly. For many they say '-on; pronounce "tatner ' "faytner; ' Use menoion for measurement; ax for .ask; hosen for hose; lovend for lov- og; wit lor knowledge; house n for houses. Many of the words in dally use by them have for many a long year oeen entirely obsolete in English p peaking countries. Their homes have always, been neat in the extreme and they are very hospitable to strangers ,aaa always ready to befriend white people. They are Intensely proud and ooasi aiiae oi their EngiHh and their .Indian ancestors and- bluod. fVhllo their disposition Is peaceable they will f ght desperately when aroused. They are shy as a race, though under the new conditions and la the more Cuth ollc spirit which now prevail they are coming into the open. Their life has ' been away from crowds of other races and their homes away from the public roads. Some of them now show their . Indian traits even more strongly than they did a century ago. Their Engllnh love for good roads is shown by the feact that they have been and yet are great road builders and have always had the best public roads In the Ftate. No special census hns been ta ken of them, but the number Is said to be not less than 6.000. of which more than half are In Ituboson county. There are about 1,100 children of school aae, of thewe the roll having fceen made. The State hag provided separate normal s-nools anil public SK-hooIi for ' thse neonle: tho mover. fior has addressed them; they are be ing aroused to fresh pride In thlr an eestry and In learning andtheir de ( velopment is becoming rap'id.The Leg islature took every step to-safeguard these people and amended the general law by declaring null and vId any and all marriages between Croatan In dians and persons of negro descent to .. the third generation Inclusive. They are quick-witted people. One ef them was ex-United States Senator Ilevel. of Mississippi, who was classed as a mulatto white really a Croatan I who was born in Robeson county. The Croatans are almost universally own. rs. of land and in Robeson county thus occupy a territory of more than : S.00 acres, all owned by them. They are now beginning themselves to look more cioseiy into traditions and some of their leaders state that the tradi. tions of every family whlh bears the name of one of the lost colonists point ' to the Roanoke country as that of their ancestors. It being a further tra dition that long after they left the coast country and went Into the In- j work during the civil war on the forts, left and went home, were pursued by tho Home Guard and several wety shot being classed aa deserters. Hen ry Berry Lowrle was then only a youth, but he swore by the blood of his ancestors that he would kill every kpne of the Home Guard who had shot kls father. He kept this terrible oath to the letter, except In the case of one of the Home Guard, who fled the State to escape the swift and sure, death which had come to his comrades. Low rle associated with himself other dar ing spirits and It required State mi litia and even Federal troops ta crush out what came to be known as the Lowrle outlaws." Their leader ac cidentally killed himself with his gun; his brother, Steve, for whom a reward of $5,000 was offered by the State, was shot from ambush, - and the trouble was quelled, but not before many a white man had been killed, and a reign of terror existed which attract ed national attention and brought about action by the President and the War Department. INFLUENCE OF. ENGLISH. The domlnutlnx .Influence at th English upon this race has been shown very clearly by the language mm uy me customs, wntch have re laineu nothing of the savage. - There are no Indian words in use, nor have mere wen mesa hundred years or mure, ana mere are no Indian cus toms. The Indian Is shown, how ever. In some of the facial character- iNiica, in tne physique, and In the walk, the latter having, much if the r-d inun's stride and swing, which when ortee seen is not to be forgot ten. There Is that llklna- for rav rolors which has always been an In ula n characteristic. The carriage of the women Is superb, and thev uncon sciously look like statues in some of tneir poses. . Their color Is vecy rich, their figures ample and graceful in every outline. The very heart of their settlement Is the little town of Pembroke ,and around this some of the best examples of their road mak ing, house-building and farm work are to be found. . . ' - Of course there are doubters, and among historians, too, as to the sta tus of those people, and there are those who believe that they are" a mixture or blend of the first white settlers who It Is claimed pushed up Into that region from Charleston, fl. C. and the Indians of the locality. A comparison ef the typical Coatan and one of the Roanoke Island In dians, as painted with, extreme rare by John White. Sir Walter Raleigh's great artist shows many points of re semblanra between that race and the present-day Croatans, among whom splendid figures are the rule rather than the exception. . QNE ARGUMENT AS TO RA- ' LEKIH'S COLONISTS. . The argunient has been advanced by some that the Raleigh colonists when they left Roanoke Island, did not go to the southward, hut that all but of Indian women and of the first party of Englishmen put ashore, the latter not being on Roanoke Is land, but on one of the long sand banks between that Island and the sea, which forma barrier between the sea and the sounds which have al ways marked the North Carolina coast. These colonists were landed as an outpost to give notice to the others and also as a 'guard of the from the sea to the sounds and thence to Roanoke Island. EVIDENCE OF; RELICS. There has recently been-found In Robeson-county, in the heart of the Croatan settlements, an iron toma hawk, such as were described by Cot William Byrd as sold along the great Indian "trading path" and along the "Lowery road" by traders early in the eighteenth century. A great deal of search has been made for relics of this class as well as of those which distinctly mark the English settlers. Another find Is an ancient cross-bow of English make and mod el, of the type which was still oc casionally used In .Queen - Elizabeth's time. This bow bears the marks of much UBe. A hand-mill of the most primitive type, but showing r very clearly its English' origin,, has also been found , in one of the - Croatan houses, with the tradition that It had been used by their people before they moved from the - coast country. There are a number of the Croatans in the County of Cumberland and, there was a stone church near the present Vil lage of Hope Mills, In that county, where tradition says de Rlchebourg, a Huguenot preacher, who had come up from the. earliest South Carolina colony, officiated. The church Itself Is gone, but the foundation of brown sand stone can yet be seen plainly. The reticence of most of the Croatans as regards the history of their peo ple as well as, their personal history Is explained by one of the oldest men of the tribe, he being 103 years of age, by the statement that their sta tus had been so long made uncertain by the laws that they had felt them selves to ie an oppressed people. They are now gathering strength and with this comes pride In their his tory. . . ' ' ' ' , Thus linked together th ' history of the Lost Colony , of Roanoke and that of the most interesting of In dlans on this continent; Interesting because ' in the blending . of their Indian and their English blood there comes down through the cen turies so much of the romance of the old world and the new; of the kntghty ly endeavors of the great Raleigh, the master splrV-of his age. and of the Indians along this coast ' who) seem to have been models of their race: a strange Unking of those first baptisms of the baby white girl and the -Indian king, and of the new awakening ef education and hope and pride among the Croatans, to whom North Carolina at last holds out the hand oferecognitlon and respect. . NEW AMSTERDAM HOTEL . 4th At. A ' tlstS. 1 - a. Zaropwa Fka Rooms with ass of Bate. SI sad With rrt Vftto Ulh t tor oh, fLM I of two sad asward. Ncw Baths and Plumbing MoH Cement! Loctio4m Cit From tad Ntrrst tallraad tarlet or fronj Orand ('nirU statics, tako oar direst to kotaii m traattera. ' - , . , Special Katies Made GREEN POND GRANITE BRICK COMPANY ' GIBSON. JT. C Offers contractors and builders the neatest pressed building brick on the market for the money. Do not break in shipping, not affected by frost harden with age and compare favor ably, with the highest priced brick in inlet, through which boats passed-r" . country. ,nWrlte - for prices and L Nye Hutchhca S Sen INSURANCE ACCIDENT . OFFICE No. Boat B sliding. Bel! Tho atOS. til 11 i' v RW.JONKf, , r""! - t-T-J fMWMWmfB it testimonials. Dfetrkt Meeting of J onion at noble . . . in (ham. - . fpeefal to The Observer.- -' - . Rockingham, Jane 20. The jr. o. TtT.'Arjf; of the eleVehf R "dltrtct met li R'Kklngham Thursday with Rock inzham Council No. 111. . The morn icf exercises were held in the lodge room, ' A number of councils wss represented snd -several prominent visitor contributed to the pleasure an! profit of the meeting. In the evening at the court house x e'!ent addresses tSjere delivered by Pr. Claries E. Brewer, of Wake For '.. '.ate councilor; Mr. Z. P. Smith, fRalelgh. past State councilor, and Mr. Webb, ef Salisbury. The musio for the evening was furnished by the local band.. The Daughters of Liberty attended - in full force.- ; ... - The Rockingham Council of Jun. lore numbers very nearly three hun dred members and the council here is in a very live and prosperous condition. Slight Passenger Wrerk in South Car- ' Una. Special to The Observer. ' Spartanburg, s. C June 20. -South Carolina de'egates to the T, P, A. convention and a large number of travelers from the low country en route to mountain resorts were la the I passenger wreck or train pto. w one i .nil.. ..A - h.tf tVil mA nt fimntnn this morning. None of the passen gers were Injured, though the bag-, cagemaster was painfully injured by falling, trunks. Air - of the -coaches with the exception of the, rear, car left the track and the tender turned completely over and was thrown into a cornfield. - The baggage car : was tossed across the track. - Ttje passen gers were brought; back to the city and sent out on a special this after noon. . .' - - ' , New Tor Sun. , . - ' ' Stella I understand there Is a diamond erisls, - Bella Tea, . S auarreled with -Jack.- . , . Wall Paper Paints! dlabastine Jap-a-lac Calcimo Paint Co. 10 NORTH TRTOX. COURTHOUSE BONDS 7 ISS.000 ' LEE COUNTY (SOUTH 'X CAROLINA) COURT . HOUSE ' BONDS. " . Notice Is hereby given that-proposals will be received by W. A. James,-Secretary, Bishopvllle, S. until July. 14th, 10. 12 o'clock m.. for the - purchase of rSS,000 , non taxable, , Interest-bearing - coupon Court House Bonds of Lee County, S. C. Said bonds to be issued in denominations of - 11,000, will be dated February 1st 1908, payable to bearer 29 years after date, with light reserved to county to redeem all or any part thereof after the .expiration of It years from date ot issue, bear ing Interest a the rate of ( per cent, per annum payable ' annually on February 1st place . of payment of principal and Interest to be desig nated at selection of purchaser. Bonds to be prepared, executed and delivered at earliest date' pos sible after the award of same, - and all bids must Include all expenses of printing, issuing and delivery of bonds to purchaser without exception. Certified cheek, free from con ditions, of 5 per cent of issue-mast accompany each bid. made payble to R. W. McLendon. Chairman. In case of award, deposit will at time of de livery of bonds be credited to pur chaser; checks of ' unsuccessful bid ders will 'be promptly returned. ' All proposals hall be - sealed and endorsed "Proposal for Purchase of Court" House Bonds, which pro fossl shall be submitted In the name ef the principal and not his- agent without exception, and the same shall be opened at the office of the under-: slrned, 11 o'clock m., July . 14th, 101, and award publicly mads. No bid less than-par shall be considered, and the right to reject any and all proposals or bids Is hereby reserved, Further Information furnished on application. R. W. MctENDON. . " C. C. II. Com. June 14th. 1101. 10 Per Cent. That Is . what PIAMONDS have increased every y-ar , for the past eight years. Do you know of any safer Investment? We havo all size stones, loose and sinounted. Our prices are very low for tho quality. Let us show 4hem to .you.. fine Old Whiskeys IVI a i I Orde rs Pro m ptly Fi 1 1 ed tUl Good Qwrmntd Undor tin jVahona Pore Food Laws : W are Distillers. Our Tiiskeyg are aeed properly." ' W ship direct to consumer. Better goods and quicker shipments. 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