Published by Roanoke Publishing Cot
fc'F0R GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
W, FLETCHER ATJBBOV, EDITOR.
C. T. W. ACBBOIf, BUSINESS MANAGER.
VOL IV.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1892,
NO. 5.
4
Germany's railroadi have a trackage
of 24,843 miles, 6000 miles more than
exist in Great Britain and Ireland, the
early home of the railway, ' "
" , - . 11 a
It sounds a little odd to hear that tho
members of . the East Northfield (Mass.)
Training School are now dividing theil
time eqMally ' among Jhe study of tho
Bible, the art of dressmaking and learn
Ing how to cook ; and yet there is noth
ing incongruous in this programme.
r
. The shiprN-th Maritime Prov
inces of the I . ;, .f c i"riir tan
clined rapid in tfrfii past Ifeight yean,
to the New Work Times,
sars to lie no iinmeflliate pros-
, improvement in thoVsituation.
The declo is of the extent ofB 210,756'
tons froiW total of 890,810 tons, or.
nearly twty. four pur cent.
"-Reports Vbm' the' Northwest inlicato
that the buess of taking seals in no$
' likely to pn very lucrative this vear,
s they ha j been thinned out to such'
an extent thtiHhey tre relatively scslrce.
The destruction of the seal fisheries Jwill
only add one We fr the numerous in
ttances 'of tbeWy of man, killing the
, goose that lays ;he golden eggs.
; "Thcro are 0,009 children in the
:iwenty-one iudultrlal schoote scattered
through the poor Wnement districts of
, &ew York City. . count made last Oc
tober?" says Jacob ; A.. Riis, in Scribner's
Magazine, 'showed that considerably
wtnore than ohe-thirl were born in twelve
foreign countries where English was not
spoken, and that 10,000 knew no word
of our language."
' - There is an , industry in the Uuited
States, asserts the" Ban Francisco Chroni
cle, which, owes Its existence almost
wholly to the deve'ropment of our cities.
j4damely ' the manufacture of cast-iron
pipe. In the census year the value of
U products :wa-s . $15,168,682, the
amount of wages paid directly to
tc, $3,794,407, and the cost
ii9,-.i!9,483,389. The latter
Stem is coniposebfatFtiv-thirds,
.labor, as the material used in producing
ca3t-iron pipes is pig-iron and sand. .
ij. Secretary Blaioo has concluded, learns
the New York Advertiser, to send a
most interesting exhibit to the Columbian
Exhibition. It will consist of the origi-,
ual Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution of tha United States, the
Articles of Federation, the famous pro.
lest of the Philadelphia Carpenters'
Company to King George III. , and other
documents which are the heirlooms of
the country itself,of our National history.
These will not be shown by fac-simile,
but' by- the originals. They will be
shipped in steel caskets, and guarded
, .
" by soldiers while ea rdiite and at the
Fair.
i There has not been a year for some
time, declares the Boston Transcript,
when game was as plenty in Maine and
when so little was killed and destroyed
as during the past winter. One reason is
that the suow in many localities Was n&fe
deep, and at the satins time it was bard,
holding up the deer and caribou, and giv
ing them a chance to protect themselves
by flight. Another reason is that the
guides and hunters have learned that it
is for their interest to leave the game
alone, especially during the deep snows.
Moose aie quite plenty in the central part
of northern' Maine, ' and deer are now
plentier than they have been for a long
time at this season of the year. . In the
Nicatous region both game and fish are
particularly plenty this year.
It is calculated that . the number of
tmcigrants who have come into the
United States in the last 100 j ears is, 'in
round numbers, 16,000,000,. or the
equivalent to one-fourth the present
population of this country. Of this
number nearlyS, 000,000 were from Ger
many, 3,500,000 frorn. Ireland, 1,500,
000 from England, nearly 1,000,000
from Swe3en and Norway and nearly
600,000 from Italy. Of . the 16,000,000
who have come, fully 14,000,000 were
from Europe, 300,000 from Asia, over
1,000,000 from British America and
about 150,000 from other American
Vcountrie?. The Chinese immigration
rom 1855 to the time of its' prohibition,
M 882, amounted to about 275,000.
Ve the passage of the Chinese cxclu
i act in 1882 the number known to
'. come in under tha jaw U but about
tho" 'i i is averted that lnrgi
ns : wo f s.e i- ' nou ;;ieth
THE ARBUTUS.
Arbute, blossom of the May,
Thou and the wind together
Make, whatever, the almanacs My,
, .The spirit's brightest weather,
When youth is gone and fancy flown.
When thought doth little and dwells alone,
The blooming foot-paths open a way
To many a". Ion j past holiday.
Though youth be flown and fancy gone.
The mind's sweet memories may live on.
Only let the eouth wind blow, --'
Thou and the South together;
JFor thou and the balmy south wind make
. The spirit's brightest weather. -
James Herbert Morse, in the Century.
DRIVEN 10 MARRIAGE.
HAT Hugh Colewood
ought to be the hap
piest man in Green
ville was everybody's
opinion.
He was young,
handsome and well
educated; then, just as
he was preparing to
fight his way to fame
with poverty arrayed
against him, he had
suddenly been made
the sole heir " to the
fine old estate of bis
eccentric aunt, Miss Betsy Colewood, re
cently deceased.
What more was necessary to the hap
piness of a gay young fellow like Hugh
Colewood? Nothing, it seemed to the
envious bachelors. .
However, there were conditions, or
one, at least, in his aunt's will which
caused hiul no little uneasiness-. He must
love and marry the girl of her choceone
whom he had never even seen.
Hugh Colewood caught up his aunt's
last letter to him and read it again and
again, hoping to find some little loophole
of escape from the galling condition.
But it was there in merciless black
and white. This is the part that worried
him .
' 'If you cannot comply with my wishes
for you to meet Ethel Wayne and love
and marry her you forfeit your heirship
to my estate. Ethel's mother was my
dearest friend, and if you marry her
daughter it will be fulfilling my fondest
desires. You cannot help loving her.
"I could not rest ia my tomb peace
fully and know that Ethel was not mis
tress of ray estates, and you, dear boy,
the master. My lawyer, Mr. Cranston,
will, arrange' for you to meet Ethel, as he
(s one of her guardians. You know how
thoroughly I despise old bachelors.there
fore, I give you warning that I will not
allow you to inhabit my houses and
lands as one of that disagreeable, crusty
order."
So had written the eccentric spinster.
Hugh nibbled the ends of his mustache
impatiently as he pondered on the con
ditions which the will imposed.
. Hugh loved the Colewood estates, and
could not bear to think of giving them
up. Now, if the will had not specified
whom he must marry, but left the selec
tion of a wife entirely to himself, nugh
believed that he would have enjoyed the
romance of hunting for a bride. ,
He picked up his hat and rushed from
his room, going up to the hotel where
Mr. Cranston was stopping, while he
arranged some business matters with
Hugh.
"Hello, Colewood! . Have a seat,"
said the lawyer, scrutinizing the flushed
face and nervous manner of the visitor.
He was just wondering to himself if the
unexpected good fortune had turned
young Colewood's head, when his visitor
remarked;
"You are aware of that one peculiar
feature-in my late aunt's will, Mr. Crans
ton?".; v
Light at once dawned upon the lawyer
and there was a twinkle in his eyes.
However, he asked indifferently i"
"To what peculiar feature do you refer,
Mr. Colewood r
"The one that absurdly commands me
to marry a gal that I have never seen."
"Oh, that I", returned Mr. Cranston.
"You are a luckv fellow, Colewood.
' That's the 'bestattof the fortunei"
"It's the most exasperating part,"
Hugh cried desperately. "How can a
fellow love and wed to order?"
"Well, it's a deal of time and bother
saved to the wooer" remarked the law
yer, puffing. "I have no doubt Ethel
Wayne will suit you better than any
selection you are capable of making."
Hugh Colewood flushed warmly at the
lawyer's cool observation and be spoke
hotly.'.
"I'm sure she won't suit me,sir. The
estate can go to charity for all I care. I
don't love any woman and I love my f roe
dom too well to marry yet awhile. I
don't want to be thrust on any woman
for tho sake of a 'fortune, and I don't
suppose Miss Wayne carei two Btraws
about the absurd conditions in my aunt's
will."
"It is very likely, although Ethel had
the, greatest respect for the late Miss
Colewood, and was very careful to humor
all her vagaries," returned Cranston,
much amused over young Colewood's ex
citement. "However, I hardly feel able
to state whether the girl would accept
Miss Colewood's last great vagary in the
shape of her impulsive nephew or not."
. "I shall not jrive her the opportunity,"
said Hugh, nettled at the lawyer's word?.
"Hold on, Colewood. Let's drop
nonsense and come to business. Yen
like your aunt's estaon, but you cannnt
i r -- i n 1lv -n vl'aout runplying with hir
v' " rs. Voii 1, avs t.ovt-r met Vzz :'
6
whom your aunt has chosen. Perhaps It
wm De proved that you are neither of
you opposed to fulfilling the condition.
"At least, you must meet.. I will ar
range that. Ethel will pass the summer
with my sister in the country, and I'M
manage it for you to spend a few weeks
with them. You can very soon teU
whether the condition is wholly obnox
ious or not. What do you say?"
"I will do as you advise:, thank ycru.
sir," replied Hugh, who had now coole;!
off and was trying to take" a business
view of the strange situation.
Four weeks later Hugh Colewood was
speeding away from Greenville on the
morning express, bound for a little town
among the blue hills of Virginia.
When he stepped from the train he
was disappointed to find no one waiting:
to convey him to the cauntry home of
Mr. Cranston's sister, a distance of eight
miles. ,
He was in the act of asking the way
to the best hotel when a buggy came
rapidly up to the station and halted.
The station agent hurried forward to
meet the driver, who was a slender
young girl, with bright dark eyes aqd
hair as golden as the J nne sunbeams
touching those hills.
"Is Mr. Colewood of Greenville wait
ing here to ride out to Mrs. Thurston's?"
inquired the fair driver in a sweet voice
which won Hugh's interest at once.
"I am here and waiting, thank you,"
returned Hugh for himself, smiling pleas
antly as he came forward on the station
platform.
"I came to drive you to Mrs. Thurs
ton's," she answered simply.-
"Shall I take the reins?" he asked, as
they started away.
"No, thank you; I like to drive," she
answered.
"It was too bad for you to take so
long a drive for a stranger," he re-
marked, as he stole a side glance of ad
miration at the girlish form in dainty
blue.
"Oh, I don't mind the distance at all:
besides, I rather had to come," she re
plied. "I did wish to go with the young
folks, who are having a picnic this morn
ing over on Laurel Hill, but Uncle Jerry
was sick, and of course he, couldn't come
for you." .
"Then Mrs. Thurston and Miss Wayne
never drive, so they made a virtu-' of
necessity and sent the last resort of the
place," and she laughed merrily.
"It is too" bad my coming prevented
you joining the picknickers," he said.
"I shall not he able to forgive myself."
"That's nothing. " I am enjoying my
self now too well to think of Laurel
Hill," she returned brightly,
i "Thank you, and at the same time let
me assure you that I, too, am enjoying
myself excellently well," and Hugh
bowed to the young girl, whose eyes
dropped beneath the warm light of ad
miration in his blue ones.
"I hope you will enjoy your visit, Mr.
Colewood," she said, to change the sub
ject. "I know Mrs. Thurston and Ethel
will do all they can to make your stay
pleasant."
"Thank you; I've no doubt I shall find
it pleaaant," returned Hugh. "You,too,
are oue of Mrs. Thurston's summer
household, I suppose?" ,,
"Yes," with a smile. "You see I am
a distant relative to Mrs. Thurston; then
Miss Wayne is my cousin and exercises
a kind of cousinly guardianship over
me, which no doubt is very necessary."
"So you are Miss Wayne's cousin? I
do not remember hearing Mr. - Cranston
mention you. I did not expect to .have
the pleasure of meeting any ladies but
Mrs. Thurston and Miss Wayne."
"How unkind in Mr. Cranston not to
prepare you for th-taeeting4" and there;
was a roguish gleam in her eyes which
Hugh did not see. "I had up to date
regarded Mr. Cranston as one of my. very
be&t friends, but to ignore me so utterly,
when he knew I would accompany
Consin Ethel here, looks like downright
intentional neglect."
"You have not given me the pleasure
of knowing your name," said Hugh,both
amused and pleased with his pretty dri
ver. ;
. "Oh, I'm a Wayne, too, "she answered
laughingly. "Ethel Estella Wayne,
variously nicknamed, as you will observe
later on." .
Two Ethel Waynes! Here was a real
surprise for Colewood. Why had Crans
ton not mentioned that strange fact to
him?
If the Ethel Wayne referred to in the
will was only half as animated and gen
erally captivitatihg as the one by his
side, Hugh thought it might be an easy
matter after all to obey that condition
which had so vexed him. '
Colewood received a cordial s welcome
at Mrs. Thurston's pleasant home. He
found Miss Wayne to be a tall, dignified
girl of about twenty-three, with coal
black hair and deep gray eyes. She was
as unlike her little merry-hearted cousin
as it was possible to be.
Yes. Hugh decided that she was just
such a woman as his eccentric aunt would
be likely to select as the wife of her heir.
In the weeks which followed Hugh's
arrival he saw a great deal of Miss Wayne,
although much of her time was divided
between her taste for literature and in
remonstrating against the innocent
pranks of her cousin.
It did not require a long time for the
young man to realize that he teould never
jove Miss Wayne as tte man should love
the girl whom he intends to marry.
lie made another important discovery
rthat his life would bo a failure without
the little cousin to furnish daily sunshine
and wifely cheer for his own home.
i.To rr ,Ue i to Ll- li Wav i hav?
one-halt of his aunt's estates and the
orphan asylum the other. He would
marry the girl of his own choice, pro
vided he could win her, and boldly fight
his own way through life.
Having so decided Hugh set out for a
stroll along the river, feeling more manly
for his resolve.
He came suddenly upon a little figure
in white, reading, in a little viney nook
by the river's side.
"Wait, Estelle," he called, for she had
started to run away. "I shall leave to
morrow, and I have something to say to
you which you must hear."
The telltale flush which swept over
face and neck at his words might have
given some hint of an easy surrender.
However, in a moment she had regained
that customary piquancy which had
more than once exasperated Hugh.
"I'd be sorry to heve you leave us
with any burden on your mind," she
said, provokingly.
"It is needless fcr me to tell you why
it was arranged for me to meet Miss
Wayne here," he said, unheeding her
light words. "You know, I suppose."
"Some slight idea, I believe," she re
turned, fingering her book.
41 Well, I may as well tell you that
that condition in my late aunt's will can
never be fulfilled."
"And why not?" ,
'Because I love another," he cried,
passionately. "Oh, Estelle, can you not
see how tenderly, how ardently I love
you? Without you I shall make a fail
ure of life. Won't you show mercy,
Estelle?"
'Oh, Hugh! would you marry a poor
girl when you have a chance to win a
dignified bride and retain those princely
estates?" she asked.
"Yes, darling. I prefer you with
love, in a cottage to the wealthiest woman
with all the estate in the world 1"
"Rash statement, young man."
"It is true. Do not torture me long
er, Estelle. Can you not love me a lit-'
tie?"
"No."
"Then you do not love me?"
"I'm afraid I do."
"Do not meek me, Estelle."
"I am not mocking you, Hugh," in a
very sweet voice.
"Then you do love me a little?" I
"No, not a little, but very much."
He would have caught her to his
breast, but she eluded his arms, crying:
. "Oh, there's Uncle Cranston (" tend
she rushed forward to greet the little
lawyer, who had approached them un
seen..
"It is useless for me to 'ignore facts,"
said Mr. Cranston, pleasantly. "I did
not mean to overhear your conversation,
but I arrived unexpectedly and thought
I'd hunt up my spirite hereand surprise
her. , I see you understand each other
pretty clearly."
"Yes, sir," said Hugh, bravely; "I
have decided to enjoy love in a cottage
with this dear girl rather than keep the
estate with Miss Wayne."
"Love in a cottage! Oh, that's too
good!"
And Mr. Cranston broke into a hearty
laugh, in which the girl finally joined
him.
"Will you have the goodness to
explain what amuses you so much in my
statement?" asked Hugh, not a little
nettled.
"Pardon me, Colewood. But really
you are the victim of your own blunder?"
'"Blunder? I don't understand you,
sir?" returned Hugh.
"Of course not," and the lawyer
laughed again. "This spirit, whom you
took to be the unimportant little cousin,
is in reality the Ethel Wayne referred to
in your aunt's will. I did not tell you
that there were two Ethels, so while Bhe
was driving you over here you jumped
to the conclusion that Miss Wayne at the
house was the Ethel.
"You see I have been told all about
your amusing mistake. Ethel would not
explain her real identity with the girl
whom your aunt had selected for you,
and, as the other ladies believed you
knew, you have remained the victim of
your own mistake."
Six months later the condition in Mies
Coleman's will was cheerfully obeyed.
Boston Globe.
Country People to the Front in Cities.
Recent statistical inquiries have shown
that cities grow because they absorb the
best, and not the worst, of the rural
population, who better their condition
by coming to town,
Charles Booth, the eminent English-
statistician, in his great work, "Labor
and Life of the People," has . shown,
from very extended inquiry, that most of
those who come to London from the
country either have work already en
gaged, or have good prospects of get
ting work; and that their condition is
generally improved by their change 01
abode. .
The British census of 1890 confirms
this in a striking manner by showing
that the people of country birth are most ;
numerous in the wealthv Quarters of the
city, where employment abounds, and
least numerous in the poverty stricken
quarters. :
Alt this is contrary to the preconceived
opinion that countrymen wander aim
lessly to the city, and are chiefly tramps,
or broken down persons. Soribnor.
H. R. Marcy, of Forsyth, Montana,
has the head of a deer that has three ir
regular horns on each side and nine ir
regular horns in front, between the two
large ones. The side horns are nine in
ches in length and those irs, front from
oat, to fo ;f inc.1 : a leujr u
LIFE IN THE NEW STATES
FOTJH ANNTJAL INVASIONS OB
THE NOBTHWEST.
Sheep-Barbers From California and
Cattle-Herders From Texas Hop.
Pickers and Wheat. Harvester.?.
ECAUSE it is impossible to pic
ture the novelty to an Easteri
reader of life in the North
west, and because it neverthe.
less must be suggested, let me tell onlj
of four peculiar visitations that the new
States experience of four invasions
'.which take place there every year. In
May there come into the stock ranges of
Montana shearers by the hundreds, in
; bands of ten or twenty, each led by a
captain, who finds employment and
makes contracts for the rest. These
i sheep-barbers are mainly Calfornians and
New-Yorkers, and the California men
are said to be the more skilful workers.,
To a layman, all seem marvellously dex
Iterous, and at ten cents a head, many
,are able to earn $6 to $S a day. They
lose many days in travel, however, and
may not average more than $5 on that
account. Their season begins in Cali
fornia1 in February, and they work
ithrough Oregon, Washington, and Mon
tana. to return to a second shearing on
the Pacific coast in August. Some cone
mounted and some afoot, and some are
shiftless and dissipated, but many art
saving, and ambitious to earn herds of
their own.
They ome upon the Montanan hill
ahead of another and far stranger pro
cession that of the cattle that are being
driven across the country from Texas.
This is a string of herds of Texas two
year olds coming north at middle age to
spend the remaining half of their lives
fattening on the Montana bunch grass,
and then to end their careers in Chicago.
The bands are called "trails," and follow
one another about a day apart. Wytij
each trail ride the ' hardy and devil-may-care
cowboys, led by a foreman, and fol
lowed by a horse wrangler in charge ot
the relays of broncos. A cook, with a
four horse wagon load of provisions,
brings up each rear. Only a few mile3
are covered in a day, and the journey
consumes many weeks. These are en
livened by storms, by panics among the
cattle, by quarrels with settlers on guard
at the streams and on their lands, by
meals misfed and nights spent amid mud
and ram. That is as queer and picturesque
a procession as one can easily imagine.
Then there is the early autumn hop
picking in the luxuriant fields of the
Pacific coast in Washington. Down
Puget Sound and along the rivers come
the industrious canoe Indians of that
region in their motley garb, and bent on
making enough money in the hop-fields
to see them through the rainy and idle
winter. They are not like the Indians
of story and of song, but are a squat
figured people, whose chests and arms
are over-developed by exercise in the
canoes, which take the place of the In
dian ponies of tho platns, as their rivers
are substituted for the blazed or foot
worn trails of the East. To the hop
fields they come in their dug-outs from
as iar north as British Columbia and
Alaska. When all have made . the
journey their canoes fret the strand, and
the smoke of their camp fire touches the
air with blue. .Women and children ac
company the men, all alike illuminating
.the green background of the hop-fields
with their gay blankets and calicoes,
themselves lending stj"lher touches of
color by means of then ther skins and
jet hair. They leave fal of silver be
hind them when .tho Jiepart, but the
hops they have pickt represent still
more of gold a millioj J last year; two
millions the year befoff
Againj a fourth s of invaders ap
pears; this time in it iota. ' These are
not picturesque. Ti r come not in
boats or astride horsey' jut straggling or
skulking along the h jways, as the de
moralized peasantry tie their way to
Paris during the fciich revolution.
These are the wheat IfcrVesters, who fol
low the golden grain air the way up from
Texas, finding themselves in time for
each more and more northerly State, un
til in late autumn, they reach the Red
River Valley, and at last end their strange
pilgrimage in Manitoba. The hands and
skill they bring to the dense wheat-fielda
of Eastern North Dakota are most.we
come there, and theshartJfolk might
easily occupy a high; niche in' Benti men
tal and poetic literaturif; yet they don't..
As a rule, they are not at all the sort . of
folk that the ladies of the wheat lands
invite to ; their tea parties and sewing,
bees. On the contrary, far too many of
them are vagabonds and fond of drink. :
In the Red River country tho harvesters
from the South are joined by lumber
men from Wisconsin and Minnesota,
who find that great natural granaiy a fine
field for turning honest pennies at
lighter work than felling forests.
Harper's Magazine.
.- V
Pecan Culture.
Pecan trees, says the. California Fruit
Grower, ought, when possible, to be
grown from seed and planted where the
trees are expected to remain. In dig
ging from the nursery rows the tap; root,
of nut trees of this kind is almost inevit
ably injured, and this being the "main
support of "the pecan, the trees do not
generally do so well when transplanted
as when allowed to, remain where the
seeds have germinated.
in 'I i Vn j
The United States contaia more than
SELECT SIFTINGS.
. Nearsight Is hereditary. ' ,
Chile has an area of 218,925 square
jmiles.
All Fools' day is traced through every
country of Europe to the Hindoos.
In Russia, where blindeis are never
used, a shying horse is almost unknown.
The Mohammedans consider silk un
clean, because it is produced by a worm.
. The ordnance survey of England took
sixty-five years to make, and was com
pleted in 1856.
The average number of fire alarms in
New York City in a year is a little in
excess of four thousand, which is at the
rate of more than ten a day.
There is a house in Summerville, Oa.,
which has had since its erection three
tenants and soon after its occupation by
each was struck by lightning. '
Albert G. Wakefield, a veteran lawyer
of Bangor, Me., wears a pair of calfskin
boots that he has had since 1861, and
they are in good condition now.
A Florida fish story tells vt a shad,
some twenty inches long, -which leaped
from one stream to another, over a con
siderable space of ground, in search of
food.
The ants have their great personages
as well as the hurtan race. These little
insects go under commanders, and it is
well known that bee'' colonies have their
queens. . V,W -.
. Leonard Whitton, of Brighton
Canada, weighs 469 pounds, 300 poind
of which he has acquired within rten,
years. He is not yet forty, and is still
increasing in weight.
A tree was cut in the Puget Sound
(Washington) forest Ihe other day from
which seven cuts were taken without a
knot, their combined length being 179
feet. The tree scaled torty -eight thou
sand feet.
A Scotchman who wanted to sell some
bees inserted the following advertise
ment in the local paper? "Extensive
sale, of live stock, comprising no less
than 140,000 head, with , ad unlimited
right of pasturage."
One of the finest opals in the world is
worn on his cap by the Chinese Minister
at Washington. It is as large . as a
pigeon's egg and is surrounded by dia-.
monds. The value of the cap, with the '
ornament, is placed at $5000.
The old stone house in Kingston, N.
Y., in which the State Constitution was
framed and adopted, is now open for
visitors. Among the curiosities already
displayed within its walls is a flax wheel
used by Teunis S wart's wife in 1787 and
a dresser 200 years old, once the prop
erty of Peter Marius Green, on the shelves
which are several pewter dishes, used by
old-time Dutch people.
Good and Bail Feathers.
Feathers figure very prominently in the
religious customs of most aborigines,
and remarkably so in the Southwest.
Among Navajos and Pueblos alike these
plume-symbols are of the utmost efficacy
for good or bad. They are part of al
most every ceremonial of the indefinite
superstitions of these tribes. Any white
or bnght-hued plume is of good omen
good "medicine" as the Indians would (
put it. i '
The gay feathers of the parrot are par
ticularly valuable, and some dances can
not be held without them, though the
Indians have to travel hundreds of mitei
into Mexico to get them. A peacock is
harder to keep in the vicinity of Indian!
than the finest horse those brilliant
plumes are too tempting.,
Eagle feathers are ot sovereign value;
and in most of the Pueblos great, dark,
captive eagles are kept to furnish the
coveted articles for most important occa
sions. If the bird of freedom were sud
denly exterminated now, the whole In
dian economy would come to a standstill.
No witches could be exercised, nor sick
ness cured, nor much of anything else
accomplished,
Dark feathers, and those in particular
of the owl, buzzard, woodpecker - and
raven are unspeakably accursed. No one
will touch them except those who "have
the evil road" that is, are witches and
any Indian found with them in his or
her possession would be officially put to
f death. . Such feathers are used oaIv in
secret by those who wish to kill or harm
an enemy in whose path they are laid,
with wicked wishes, that ill-fortune may
follow. New York Journal.
Culture of Water Cress.
The water cress plant is aquatic in It3
habit, and is grown in beds through
which water runs freely. The drains of
swamps made six feet wide and two feet
deep make the'bes ground for the crop.
If the bottom is sandy so much the bet
ter, but the muck makes a bottom that
produces very good cress, but is not si
clean. The seed is sown in July or later,
and should be fresh or it may not ger
minate. The seed is quite email, nnd
few ounces will sow a lar:; be i rr
number of small beds. Or ti e b-1 r
b "planted with cuttirgs from ( .
,hed, and t'.jpcic r.;ot v-rry fr.lv, i." : t
the soil ao i covered v i to ' m
"of the top., I 13. crcp c . wi. "
spring, and by .'... u 0f . .t , - ,
beds a winter crou i ;? f' - !-
which sells at Li lij.s, . . ,,-
is done With Sili i jrj.r .
inches of te tc p. :
It is sold i j lor - ;nr; - t s
about a psck, .iv'.' ' i'
centi tha basket Hm Tart "nmiw