Tho Progressive Farmer, :eptembor 24. 1901.
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The Home. Circle.
JUST TO
Jnst to be good
This is enough enough !
O, we -who find 'sin's billows wild and rough,
Do we not feel how more than any gold
Would be the blameless life we led of old,
While yet our lips knew but a mother's kiss?
Ah ! though we miss
All else but this,
To be good is enough I
It is enough-
Enough just to be good !
To lift our hearts where they are understood ;
To let the thirst for worldly power and place
Go unappeased ; to smile back in God's face,
With the glad lips our mothers used to kiss.
Ah 1 though we miss
All else but this,
To be good is enough ! James Whitcomb Biley.
A REPUBLIC IN
8Y UROOH KMCMT, ii tki Sprligfiill "Woaai't Rent ComptQoi."
Frmpr bv sneclal
IN TWO PASTS
The President has a cabinet of
three members, who are appointed by
himself and confirmed by the legis
lature. They are selected from the
most substantial men of the nation,
and though the pay is nominal they
never shirk duty. They are the ad
visers of the President, and he never
acts in matters of importance with
out first consulting with them. The
head of the present cabinet is David
Ogoocoo. He is also Marshal of the
Eepublio, and perhaps has done more
than any other single individual to
promote the cause of religion in the
country.
The legislative branch of the gov
ernment is vested entirely in one
grand council, or house of represen
tatives, which is almost omnipotent.
Its membeis are elected biennially.
They must be citizens and freehol
ders of the republic and twenty-one
years of age, and during the time
for which they are elected receive
one dollar a day. The speaker of
congress, who is elected by that
body, has a compensation of one dol
lar and a half a day while the house
is in session. This is limited to
thirty days, but th'e president can
convene it in extraordinary session
whenever the exigencies of public
affairs may require it.
In the congress is solely vested the
rights to make treaties, dispose of
national property, levy taxes to cre
ate or abolish courts, allot lands,
and in fact to do anything else
which may affect the welfare of the ;
people or territory of the Cherokee
republic. Any act may be vetoed by
the president, but that nevertheless
becomes a law if passed over his
veto by a majority vote.
Matters of foreign relations are in
the hands of congress, but as a mat
ter of fact the work is delegated to
a minister. The present incumbent,
Honorable James Blye, is altogether
a very remarkable young man. I
know of no one whose use of pure
and accurate English excels his. He
is possessed of a high degree of the
qualities of statesmanship, the judi
cial termperament being especially
well developed. These make of him
a minister whose policies are fol
lowed and not prescribed.
The officers of she congress are a
speaker, a vice speaker, clerk, ser-geant-at-arms
and doorkeeper.
Speaker Cornsilk, of the present
congress, is a full-blood Cherokee,
but is an able man and a very excel
lent presiding officer. The laws of
any people indicate not only the ex
tent of their civilization, but their
capacity for it, and in this connec
tion the jurisprudence of the Chero.
kees is of iterest. Citizenship is of
two kinds, natural and acquired. It
can be acquired alone by intermar
riage, and that is possible only to
whites. Intermarriage with the
negro is considered miscegenation,
and is therefore treated as a crime.
. The title to all real property is
primarily vested in the government ;
but when a citizen reaches the age
of sixteen, or a Cherokee girl mar
ries a white man, the right accrues to
Belect any section of unappropriated
land, and upon application to the
legislature it is segregated, a patent
issued, and the applicant becomes its
owner to all intents and purposes,
except for sale, which is prohibited
unless the purchaser be a native. If
the title to real estate is acquired by
intermarriage with a Cherokee, and
she dies, it reverts to the govern
ment, unless she leave heirs, and in
that case it descends to them. A
will, whether written or nuncupa
BE GOOD.
NORTH CAROLINA.
termisslon. W
PAST II.
tive, is valid if it is attested by two
witnesses; but if there is no will
the property of the intestate de
scends to the heirs equally. '
All male citizens over sixteen years
of age are invested with the fran
chise, which is freely used and the
selling or purchasing of votes is made
a severe misdemeanor.
Previous to the first republic trial
by jury was held sacred and their
first constitution provided that it
should never be denied. In addition
to these there are other laws pre
scribing a statute of limitations, fix
ing punishments for embezzlement
and perjury, and in faot making all
other regulations for an equitable
and orderly administration of jus
tice. They were never a polygam
ous people and some of their most
stringent laws are directed against
it and the violation of the Sabbath.
Before leaving the political phase
of the country I wish to say that
they are the only people who are
citizens of two separate republics.
Under the treaty of 1817 they were
made citizens of the United States
for the purpose of voting for federal
officers, and this privilege was later
confirmed and provisions made for
counting their vote as a part of that
of North Carolina.
One of the most striking charao
teristics of the Cherokee a trait
which distinguishes him from all
other American aborigines is the
fact that he adopted the Christian
religion almost as soon as he came in
contact with it. His neighbors, the
Creeks, the Seminoles and the Tus
caroras, manifested some interest at
first in the sanguinary stories of the
Old Testament, but even that was
languid and evancescent. But to
the Chorokee the teachings of the
lowly Nazarene were living truths
that commended themselves to him
as the best standard by which to reg
ulate his life, and consequently his
conversion was not a mere perfunc
tory performance to propitiate his
white neighbors, but was entirely
sincere.
I do not believe that there is
another instance certainly not
among the aborigines of this coun
try where a whole nation has adop
ted the religion of Christ at almost
the first contact with it. No coun
try in the world has more churches
and Sunday Schools in proportion to
its population than has the Chero
kee republic, and to that fact it
very largely owes its position in the
soale of civilization. The chief ex
ecutive of the nation is an ordained
minister, and there is a church
within almost a stone's throw of his
residence, at which he officiates as
superintendent of a flourishing Sun
day School, and always fills any va
cancy that may occur in the pulpit.
Among the officials there are sev
eral other Sunday School teachers,
and I believe more than one minis
ter. It is a rare thing to find a
Cherokee who is not a member of
some church.
As might be expected from so re
ligious a people, there is no indiffer
ence to the cause of education.
When the capital was moved from
Qualla to its present sight at Ellah
Wadih, .one of the first provisions
was for a school, which has grown
and expanded into a very interest
ing institution. At first there was
same opposition from, the small non
progressive element that was pon
fined to the remote recesses of the
mountains, but that has now diaan-
oeared. nnri i ;a u
- tuo am union or
every Cherokee that his children
shall be educated at the national
school. This school is under the
able administration of Professor and
Mrs. Spray, who are doing a work
the value of which cannot be over
estimated. The course of instruc
tion is comprehensive, embracing
everything from the primary depart
ment to the equivalent of a high
school education. The industrial
idea is also a prominent feature in
ie. The girls are taught to sew,
cook, and in faot everything neces
says to make them good housekeep
ers, while the boys are familiarized
by actual experience with the prin
ciples of carpentry, shoemaking,
iron-work and agriculture.
One of the objections the old In
dian raised to sending his children
to school was that white teachers
would rob him of his language ; but
that has been proved a fallacy, and
it is certain that so long as the race
exists they will speak the tongue of
their forefathers, irrespective of ed
ucation or other considerations. In
faot, it is an impossibility for any
language to fall into desuetude so
long as the nation that speaks it
holds it in sufficient veneration to
conduct their legislative and other
public deliberations in it.
One of the most notable effects of
education on a primitive people is to
ameliorate or change altogether the
facial expression, and it is interest
ing to note how it has operated on
this race. They were always re
markable for a fine physique ; but in
old photographs there is a fierce
harshness of feature which is very
difficult to find at this time. The
Cherokee of to-day has an air of re
finement and a certain intellectual
bearing that is not observable in any
other Indian. In the case of the
women it is almost universal, and it
is by no means a difficult matter to
find types of great beauty.
When compared with other Indian
races his progress has been phenom
enal. Whether the limit has been
reached is a question scarcely worth
discussing, for from an intellectual
standpoint there are no limitations
to his capacity that do not apply
equally to the white man. If he has
not written a great book or added to
the inventions of the world, it must
be remembered that in less than the
hundred years of his national exist
ence he has passed through an or
deal far more severe than some
which have utterly crushed more
powerful nations. That he rose su
perior to it and emerged from the
ruins of his greatness and began to
reunite the threads in the rent fabric
of his civilization is the best evidence
that a splendid destiny yet awaits
him here, where, perhaps thousands
of years ago, his Japanese progeni
tors, crossing the blue-crowned hills
of the West, founded tor him this
beautiful home in the vales of the
Oconaluskee.
NO MORE QUESTIONS.
The nature of a presiding officer's
duties varies with time and place.
An athletic miner was in the chair
at a jolitical meeting in New South
Wales just before a close and excit
ing election. One of the candidates
was present to speak.
During his address he was inter
rupted by hooting and rough chaff,
and the chairman was soon in a state
of boiling indignation. Smothering
his wrath, however, he pacified the
"boys" by assuring them that at the
end of the candidate's speech they
should be at liberty to put any ques
tions they chose. Accordingly, at
the end of the harangue he rose and
inquired, in stentorian tones and in
a rich Irish brogue ;
"Has inny gintleman a question to
airsk?"
A stout little Welsh miner, who
had been a oonspicuous disturber of
the peace of tho evening, shuffled
slowly up the steps of the platform.
But at the top he was met by the
chairman, who without the slightest
warning delivered a terrific left and
right, and sent the Welshman sprawl
ing on his back.
'"Now," roared the chairman, "has
inny other gintleman a question to
airsk?" and there was no jesponse.
Youth's Companion.
"What does Satan pay you for
swearing?" asked one old man of
another. "He don't pay me any
thing," was the reply. "Well, you
work cheap, to lay aside the charac
ter of a gentleman; to inflict so
much pain on your friends and on
civil people ; and to risk your own
precious soul, and for nothing you
certainly 'do work cheap, very cheap
indeed."
Our Social Chat.
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AUNT JENNIE'S LETTER.
Of course you are reading "A Re
publio in North Carolina," pub
lished in this paper last week and
ooncluded in this week's issue. Very
many persons have believed that the
Indian, no matter to -what tribe he
is allied, is an inferior being, and
fail to realize that heretofore their
advantages have been meagre. Our
little band of Cherokees have proved
that they are capable of much that
more than enlightened races find
difficulty in obtaining. Self-government,
for instance, , requires good
sense and much judgment, cool
headsjand brave hearts. "Manly" and
"Sixty" could tell us muohmore
concerning the Cherokees, for they
are neighbors of this tribe.
Letters appear this week from
from Mrs. M. S., Mrs. Hutchinson, A
Friend and Careless Tom, all of
whioh are well written.
Aunt Jennie.
BEAUTIFYING A GIRL'S ROOM.
Dear Aunt Jennie: I was in a
girl's room last week that was so
artistic and pretty, and at the same
time so home-made, that I imagined
many of the girls of the Circle would
enjoy knowing about it.
Well, the first thing I spied was
the rugs. They were beauties and
I could hardly believe that they made
by hand, but they were. Little
strips half an inch wide and six
inches long were cut of red and solid
black goods. Then they were sewed
together alternately in a long strip
and a ball formed. She used long
wooden kneedles to knit the threads
and a lovely rug was the result.
In another rug she had employed
several colors with black and it was
equally pleasing.
Over the mantel and on the walls
in several parts of the rooms were
hung pretty engravings of artistic
design. Her bed was a beauty with
its counterpane of heavy sheeting
almost covered with little daisies
that looked as if they had been
thrown there, only they were red
and put on with outline stitch. On
each sham was a large bunch of the
same dear flowers likewise in turkey
red, outline stitch. The spatter
cloth back of her washstand was
adorned with the figures of many
brownies with tubs, brooms, towels,
mops, etc.
The curtains I admired very much ;
they were models of neatness, plain
white, with hemstitched hems on
whioh was an occasional tiny clover
leaf, also of red not enough of these,
however, to seem superfluous, but
just a bit of color was all. Many of
our girls could have their rooms
equally pretty with a small outlay
of money if they will only try.
Where there is no "try," there is no
success.
Most girls like to have fancy work
that they did themselves, and why
not combine beauty and usefulness
in your work? It is more sensible
than spending months on one little
drawn work mat, that will never be
of real use to any one. Where are
Eva Plamondon, Patience and Hap
piness? Mrs. M S.
MRS. EVANS' QUERY ANSWERED.
Dear Aunt Jenne : I have never
written a letter for publication, but
feel disappointed that there has been
no reply to Mis. Evans' question,
and as you requested an answer, I
will now try to give one.
Mrs. Evans wished ' to know her
duty, whether to go churoh and
Sunday School with her husband
and children or stay at home and
have them warm dinners on their
return. In the first place I would
refer to Heb. 10: 25, where we are
told not to forsake the assembling
of ourselves together. Again, we are
told that example is better
than precept. In addition to this I
would say, take the advice of your
good husband and go vith him and
the children to churoh and Sunday
School, considering the wants of the
spiritual welfare far more impor
tant than that of the body which is
so soon to perish.
I was raised up on good Sunday
dinnersthe best of all the week,
my mother always taking pains to
have something nice of such things
as could be Drenared beforehand
(and warmed over if necessary).
And here I would add that she spent
a large portion of her life keeping
boarders and attended ohurch reg
ularly. I have been keeping up the
same practice in my housekeeping
over 25 years and am a grandmother
trying to instil the same principles
into thdse following on.
E. G. Hutchison.
Mecklenburg Co., N. C.
SELECTED QUOTATIONS.
Dear Aunt Jennie: It has been
quite a while since I last wrote for
Social Chat, and even now I shall
not write a letter of my own. But
be it known that Careless Tom reads
much. He also has a habit of tak
ing occasonal notes from his read-,
ing. Some of these, I think, should
interest Social Chat readers, and
possibly suggest topics for discus
sion. At any rate, if you think this
miscellany worth publishing, you
can use it. Careless Tom.
In no art is it ever safe for a man
to fall below the best that is in him.
Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver.
We measure success by aooumula
tion. The measure is false. The
true measure is appreciation. He
who loves most has most. Dr. Hen
ry Van Dyke.
In the school of life many branches
of knowledge are taught. But the
only philosophy that amounts to
anything, after all, is just the se
cret of making friends with 6ur luck.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke.
There is one excuse for every mis
take a man can make, but only one.
When a fellow makes the same mis
take twice he's got to throw up both
hands and own up to carelessness or
cussedness. John Graham, in Satur
day Evening Post.
Horace Greely once said that there
are three classes of fools : first, fools
that that never know their own
minds ; second, accursed fools that
are all the time changing them ;
third, doubly accursed fools that
never change them.
I suppose a bird is the .bravest
creature that lives in spite of its
natural timidity. From which we
may learn that true courage is not
incompatible with nervousnesss,
and that heroism does not mean the
absence of fear, but the conquest of
it Dr. Henry Van Dyke, in "Fish
erman's Luck."
Among the great poetic names of
the century in English literature,
Burns, in a general way is the poet
of love ; Wordsworth, of lofty con
templation of nature ; Byron, of pas
sion ; Shelley, of aspiration ;' Keats,
of romance ; Soott, of heroic legend ;
and Longfellow, of the domestio
affections. George William Curtis.
You might read all the books in
the British Museum (if you could
live long enough) and remain an ut
terly "illiterate," uneducated per-
son : but it you read, ten pages oi a
good book, letter by letter, that is
to say, with real aocuraoy, you are
forever more in some measure an
educated person John Ruskin, in
"Sesame and Lilies."
Of course, there is a difference of
standards, of ideals and education,
in people, and therefore differences
of conduct. But for their knowl
edge of what is right and wrong I
do not think the so-called better
classes, which should, in truth, be
called the prosperous classes, live
up to their own standards of right
anymore than do the poor. "The
Honorable Peter Stirling "
A friend is a person with whom I
may be sincere. Before him I may
think aloud. Every man alone is
sincere. At the entranco of a sec
ond person, hypocrisy begins.- We
parry and fend the approach of our
fellow man by compliments by gos
sip, by amusement-?, by appeals,
covering up our thoughts from him
under a "hundred folds. Emerson,
"Essay on Friendship."
KINDNESS IN DEALING WITH CHILDREN.
Dear Aunt Jennie : I ask a favor
of any reader of The Progressive
Farmer. I read in the issue of An
gust 27th an article entitled "Chil
dren's Fears " It is very true and
interesting.
But I wish to ask, is it not equally
as wrong and sinful to frighten chil
dren by harsh words and cruel
frowns, as by telling them those
horrible stories? Children should
be prompted to duty, in a kind and
loving manner, not harshly scolded
forv amusement or the least devia
tion from their duty.
I know a number of children who
are kept almost continually in fear
by their father's harsh words and
terrible promises. At the least at
tempt at amusement, the father is
ready to rail out at them about the
noise.
Dear parents, children cannot lead
a quiet life, as aged persons can.
What father or mother would have
the children grow up full of the cares
of life? They are apt to take np
life's burden early enough without
your scolding them for lack of
seriousness. We are surely commit
ting a sin when we embitter the life
of an innocent child by scolding him
for things about which he has no
knowledge or reason.
In the family where ohildren are
kept in fear by their parents rough
speech, there is but little peace and
happiness for either parent or child.lt
is a worse evil than picturing to their
minds any ugly creature, or almost
anything else, for when we cannot
live lovingly and pleasantly, without
fear, with father and mother, our
lives are diminished ; our hearts are
weakened; and the Holy Spirit
grieved.
Parents, please consider with a
prayerful heart these few words. I
should like to hear from some one
else on this subject. A Friend.
RELIGION APPRECIATED.
"Spectator" in the New York Out
look reports the following conversa
tion with a lady fried :
"You know," she said, "or more
probably you don't know, so I'll tell
you that when a young colored
woman is Peeking religion, ' one of
the jolder women in the church, a
sort of mother in Israel, is appointed
to be her 'mother in the Gospel.'
This 'mother in the Gospel' looks
after her salvation to the best of her
ability, and has a certain authority
over her in consequence. One day
my colored house girl, who was at
tending the meetings and trying to
'come through,' was set to churn the
butter. She made" such a small
quantity that I was rather astonish
ed ; Emmeline insisted that that was
all the butter that she oould get out
of it. That evening, as she was going
off to the meeting, I caught her with
a package in her hand, and found
out that it was a pound or two of
butter. Thereupon she broke down
and explained that she had taken it
as a present to her mother in the
Gospel beeause she had helped her
so much in getting religion !"
. '"The greatest menace to the mor
ality of both rioh and poor in New
York is he fact that it is a city of
flats and tenements and not a citv
of homes." This is a remark of an
expert from the United States Depart
ment of Labor, who, with six special
agents, has been investigating the
conditions of living among New York
working people. "Yesterday," he
went on to say, "I found the family
of a skilled mechanic, consisting of
eleven persons, living in four rooms.
That is indecent. There can be no
privaoy in such conditions, and with
out privacy there an be no civiliza
tion. I would like to ask the men
who are building colleges and endow
ing libraries to build model tene
ments instead. I would see no col
lege endowed, and not a book given
to a library, until the people had
homes. ' ' Selected.
COULDN'T COMPETE WITH DICKENS.
A bookseller in Cleveland adver
tised for a porter. A big muscular
Irishman walked into the shop and
glanced around. Finally his eye
rested on a big sign over a table
filled with bQoks: "Dickens' works
all this week for four dollars." The
Irishman read it thoughtfully and
then edged toward the front door.
The floorwalker asked pleasantly if
there was something he wanted, and
the applicant remarked, with a
backward glance toward the sign,
"Oi come in t' git th' job, but Oi'H
not care f 'r it. Diokins kin wcr-
ruk all th' week f 'r $4 if he wants to
Oi'll not. Ye'd better kaoe h?m
And the visitor Strode vigorously
out.
If you have any volumes you wish
to .wear out a good way to make
their lives short is to leave them
open face downward, as to break
them through along the back, says
a writer in St. Nicholas. Another
effective way is to shut up some
thing thick between the leaves. This
latter plan will be sure to crack the
glue whioh fastens the leaves at the
back and the early fate of the hated
volume is assured.