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THE POCAHONTAS TALE. TRUE VERSION OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL LEGEND. Focabontai Die Not Save Jtvlm Smith's Life, bnt Interceded In llelialf of One . of Her Lovers. Who Mas Ungmei! to Die and Whom Shu Did Xnt Marry. "It is strange and incomprehensible, nevertheless a fact, that raconteurs, from the time of the first liar down to the present age of Mulhattons and Mnn hansens, with a wonderful unanimity persist in , falsifying and twisting the truth Into an unrecognizable quantity." aid"Colonel G-eorge as he gazed at the wondrous landscape panoramically coTn ing into view. We were speeding oveV the beautiful ea green waters of the Chesapeake bay tin the steamer Ariel from Norfolk to Richmond. 'I made the acquaintance on board of the gentleman who gave utter ance to the above sage remark. When the colonel spoke the boat was on the eve of passing historical Jamestown, and the passengers had grouped themselves together on vhe lee side to catch a fleet ing glimpse of the ivy clad front wall of . the old church, standing sentinel-like on , a peninsula formed point of land. As we rounded the wide bend of the river, and the church, the sole remain ing Telic standing on the . scene of the romance of Captain Smith and Pocahon tas, hove into view, the colonel resumed his conversation, or rather monologue: "You must have noticed in your life time how a story will grow as it is re peated from lip to lip how the truth becomes distorted and subjected to in- Tinmerable alterations of fact. : In illus tration of this," said the colonel thought fully, "! will relate you an Indian legend recalled to my mind by that old ruin," pointing to the church wall which the boat was just then gliding by. "The iory as 1 heard it, was told me by an ld farmer, well known in the neighbor hood, on my last trip up the James river, just before the war." POCXHONTAS' -REAL 'NAME. Jamestown vanishing from sight, the -colonel and I returned to the cabin, sought seats away from the crowd of passengers and I settled myself comfort ably to listen to the tale. "When Captain John Smith made the "Krst settlement' in Virginia, the white and red man lived on terms of amity and confidence." began Colonel George. "Caucasian and Indian mingled with acb other and were held in mutual es teem. Until the 'outcropping of the greediness" and avariciousness of the Englishmen, became apparent, peace and prosperity smiled on the hardy settlers. "In the village ruled by Powhatan there dwelt a lovely Indian maiden. Her skin was the color of polished copper, her hair of. raven's hue and her eyes sparkled as the morning star veiled be hind a gathering storm cloud. Warriors from far and near sought her hand in marriage, but her heart remained invul- nerable to all vows of love and devotion. However, when the white man invaded the habitations of the Indians, among their number was a youth comely to look upon, famed for his courage and manly qualities. Tetehee. in the course of her many visits to the newly founded village on the James river, cast her eyes on handsome Homer Castalwain, and, lo! the little India god of . love pierced her heart with his arrow, and she loved him with all an. Indian maiden's fierce ness. Now..Chief Opechaucanpugh, one of Powhatan's tributary rulers, had a son who was madly in love with Tetehee; the Morning Star. Bankee (Black Bear) was cruel and vindictive Indian," and when he learned that Tetehee's heart be longed to a despised white man he swore vengeance upon his tomahawk against Homer Castalwain. . THE TRCK VERSIOX. ln the soft Indian summer, with nature aglow with variegated colors,' Tetehw, in ompauy with the other maidens und (tnnnwa nf r h.i ;n.,,.A - 1 - . v. ,.UW ItlldgCt 0 gathering the golden ripe maize for win ' ter use- from the Gelds of the king. While the maidens were at work Bankee raided the cornfields of the powerful Powhatan, carrying off to his own vil lage the object of his savage affections. He meant to coerce Tetehee into mar riage while in his power, raise a war party, attack the settlement of the white ."Castalwain. upon- hearing of the threatened danger of his lovely Indian bride-to-be. accomnauied bv -Cantain John Smith, supplicated King Powhatan for aid to rescue her, - This was granted. So, with a warparty composed of Indians and settlers, under the leadership of Smith, Opechancanough's village was surprised in the midst of his son's wed ding .. festivities. Tetehee rescued and Bankee captured and carried before King Powhatan. , . ' , - "Then it was that his fate was decreed death by'beheading, do to speak. As Bankee's head lay on the stone,, a huge . Indian, standing over him. Pocahontas f rushed between the upraised club and prostrate man and begged her father, the king, for his life not from love, how ever, 'but simply through pity and weak ' ness of heart. , "This ia the true version of the world wide famous legend of Captain Smith and . Pocahontas, which poets .-add' his torians have handed down fur genera tions. It is a sample of what a truth undergoes how it is garbled as related . by one and another in the course of nar ration. ' The accuracy of the story is xm- . doubted in my mind, as it is a well au thenticated fact in the neighborhood in xpr-irIV htt' rtrl fgrmar" liv-o I. t l.n the last living descendant of Homer Cas talwain and Tetehee, the Indian maid en." Atlanta Constitution. Tha Ivory Nnt. The vegetable ivory nnt of commerce in the albuminons seed . found .in the drupes of, dwarf palm! From these nnt European turners fashion the reels ; of spindW.'Hiuall boxes, and many other little fancy articles, which can be'coloreil with ("pJpbnrU acid. ChHJnbprs' Jonr MONKEY ACTORS. A Trainer Mast Become a Monkey to Be . Able to Teach Them Trick. The training of monkeys for stage per formances .demands peculiar talents and a curious psychological ability on': the part of the .instructor. ; Brockmann, probably the most successful monkey trainer that the world has seen, once de scribed thus the necessary method of ap proaching a monkey pupil: "To the monkey man is a'strange and incomprehensible " being; . I therefore must adopt as far as possible the mon key's ' way of regarding persons and things. The monkey must find in me one of his own kind a monkey like him self, . only., a much ! stronger monkey, whom he must obey. Then he has some thing which he can understand; - he ac customs himself to it, and he voluntarily takes more pains to comprehend me than he would take to comprehend a be ing who made on him about the same impression that a monster from another world would make on us. '.I adapt, therefore, all to his mode of life. When he disobeys and rebels against me I do not strike, because he does not strike; but I bite because he bites. The behavior of a troop of monkeys trained by Brockmann would undoubt edly strengthen the convictions of the Russian Duroff, who gave up teaching in a high school to instruct pigs and geese, and who holds that, of all pupils, human pupils are the least docile. A man once behind the scenes of Brockmann's mon key theater wrote: "I have always regretted that Brock mann did not give his performances on a perfectly open stage, so that the audience could see the waiting , performers. ',. The conduct of the . quadruped' actors while awaiting their parts was much more fascinating than their best acting before the audience. Like a company of gnomes or lilliputians the little performers sit there dressed and made up, perfectly well behaved, each in the proper human attitude on his tiny chair, each follow ing with undivided attention and eager anxiety the progress of the play so as to be ready at the exact moment for his ap pearance. No person is "near them, no servant or attendant to distract them, and no prompter to whisper at the proper time: " 'Fraulein Lehmami, look out! You come on immediately; or, 'Herr Schulze! Where is Herr Schulze? Quick! Quick! You must go on." "Every one knows his part perfectly. Every one is acquainted with the progress of the plot and with the stage of the development at which he is ex pected to appear. Without a catchword or motion he hurries down from his tiny chair and out on the stage, plays his lit tle part, and without a bow for the ap proval of the audience turns back to his place, not to leave it before duty, calls him again before the footlights. Here all alone and unwatched these little fel lows never forget their roles so far as to settle down on all fours, cower in mon key fashion, or indulge in the pranks of their mercurial natures.": New York Sun. . Lively Fly Paper. Unfortunately we are all familiar with the sticky fly paper, which, despite its nastiness and horrible appearance when covered with its victims, holds its own purely by its undoubted efficacy in rid ing a room of these most annoying pests. One household's experiences with, this very heroic remedy were most amusing. "Good gracious! what' is the matter with that paper?" said "Auntie," jump ing up suddenly from her chair as the family were seated at luncheon and pointing to a piece of fly paper that was circling wildly around iu the middle of ' the room. armarentlv blowinsr this -nrnv an that in the most lively breeze, there Deing net a particle of wind stirring. A dash at the lively sheet on the part of one of the children , explained ths mystery underneath it and quite con cealed by its 6ize was "a tiny Make- kitten, who was too astonished at in-:-, predicament even to mew; but her pen testations were loud and vehement vli:-!i they tried to pull off the firmly attached fly paper, and ber situation for a day or two was most uncomfortable despi te ller repeated cleanings, as she stuck to the floor whenever she went to sleep and had to be "unglued" every time. New York Tribune. The Sunday Breakfast. . Among the many practical methods devised by kindly -Christian people to reach and help the poor and criminal classes, one of the most effective is the Sunday breakfast in Philadelphia. At fl. "o'clock every Sunday morning a room is opened in one of the most, de graded quarters of the city within easy reach of sailors, emigrants and that un numbered class who are homeless and hungry. The room is clean and warm, a pleas ant refuge in stormy weather. The ta ble is . set, and each man or woman who enters, no matter how filthy or degraded, is heartily welcomed. The breakfast consists of two substantial sandwiches and a cup of strong hot coffee. After the meal is' over there is music, and one or two hymns are sung, while the hosts men and women of all sects go quietly about among their guests and try to find out the special misery in their lives, and to make them their friends. Youth's Companion , -.; How Egyptian Women Paint. ' Loret says the ancient Egyptian wom en bad blue hair, green eyelashes, paint ed teeth,and reddened cheeks. ; He says the modern Egyptian women are much the same; they tinge their hands with henna and prolong the eyes ' by means of kohol; they stain the nails brown and paint blue stars on the chin and fore head. "One hesitates a little about put ting his hand into a' hand -even very small which extends itself to you paint ed a brick ' red. One is a little timid about lookinz too long into eyes even very tender when . the blue star be tween them makes yon squint. Loret. i however, got bravely over his hesitation and his timidity..' nd thinks the fashion not altogether bad. Popular Science Monthly ,; . . STRAWBERRY FLOWERS. RULES TO DETERMINE THE PROPER . MODE -OF TREATMENT. Seedlings Should Be Pruned and, Eon nera Looked After to Prevent a Too Rapid Growth of-yine at the Cost of Fruit Buds. Few understand the strawberry in its peculiar mode of growth and self propa gation. A 'few points in explanation may prove of value. Strawberry flowers as we usually see them are of two very different kinds. These are pistillate va rieties, having pistils female organs only, The other, bi-sexual, or with stamens the male organs and pistils in the same flower. Plants of these two kinds have -very different modes of growth and if this is not taken into con sideration in tlys management and cul ture the result is entire or at least par tial failure. A variety with perfet pis tillate flowers can bear no fruit as a rule unless it is near a staminate to be pollinated. There are rarely yarieties with perfect staminate or male, flowers with no pistils and ' such cannot bear fruit under any circumstances. ... ( Pistillate varieties are usually much more fruitful if they are supplied with pollen than varieties with bi-sexual flowers.' "They are also more prolific of young plants, called stolons, off shoots or runners. As some may not know how the strawberry propagates . itself natur ally it maybe explained. They grow readily from seeds but the seeds and young plants ' are very, small, . delicate and. tender. Therefore nature has pro vided a more hardy and surer method of self propagation for such .seedlings as get a start in life. . This is, by stolons, or runners. .The first effort, of the young seedling . is growth. Plants started from seed July first, by September reach full growth. It then forms -what is called a "fruiting head, ". which is-.sim-ply a cluster of .flowers . in. embryo cov ered with their envelopes. Then if the Reason continues warm with moisture it may form one or two ' more fruiting heads, if it is of the bi-sexual class, and the plant will show the next spring one, two or three fruiting steins crowned with flowers. Usually a bi-sexual seed ling forms only one fruiting head which is the same as a flower bud 4 on a fruit tree and then goes-to rest. ; . : With the, pistillate plant it is differ ent and ignorance of this- difference leads to mistakes in culture. If the seed ling is a pistillate it usually forms one fruit bud and then starts out from its base a slender straw like growth which grows to a length of several inches and forms a plant at its outer end which, if the ground is moist, takes root, and soon forms a strong independent plant. ; If the season is late this will send out an other "straw" or straws and form other plants and the : original ' mother ' plant may grow other straws and. plants and expend her force "in, growth , of plants. Here is the point I , wish to- make. If these straws are pulled of& ..from the mother plant as fast ; as they start, her force.will be expended in forming fruit buds and so . many of these .- will be formed, clustered "closely together, ; in many instances all throwing up: flower steins in the spring, that none will have room or nutrition to give any good fruit. I once planted in May a lot of. seeds of the first fruits to ripen. ". They came up at once and the season being, fine they grew wonderfully and soon . began to make runners.; These I kept , carefully pulled off. "' By autumn I had a grand looking lot of plants. Some of them had crowns of fruit buds as large as a saucer and by actual count the number of buds ranged from five to twenty-seven.' When they bloomed all those with numerous fruit buds wtere pistillate and from this f act'it is demonstrated that pistillate va rieties are not well adapted to culture in hills. If the runners are kept off clean so many fruit buds are formed that but little fruit is matured and that of small size. This is owing to the crowded con dition of the stalks. Second, many bi sexual varieties with pollen enough to pollinate its own pistils have these char acteristics of strictly pistillate . plants, of niakinir vprv nnmflrnni vnn n rr nionf-o rj J . jV..Uq AWllVO, and are likewise not adapted to culture in hills." Third, the strong staminate or bi-eexual plants make a less number of new plants and fruit buds and are far less productive than pistillate varieties. Such varieties are the old Wilsons, Al bany, Longfellow Prolific, etc., and all the fine English and. European strawber ries. In the East but few" experts grow the strawbery in hills i. e. with the runners kept off but grow them in matted rows. - The rows.' three and a., half feet apart, are carefully cultivated and when the runners begin to form they are trained along the rows and there rooted thinly. ' By autumn half the ground is covered with young plante. -Each one has room to developl They form from one to three fruit buds each and give an enormous yield the next season. The usual practice is to plow . them under as soon as the: fruit is gathered. Others cross' harrow the patch with a sharp har row several times, break up the, ground between the rows deeply and finely with a "bull tongue shovel plow, cross harrow again and let . the young plante spread over the new ground. Then in the aut umn plow up the old matted row. ; This last was my favorite plan. I had a bed thirteen. years;old and the last crop was as good as the' first. .: 7" .77" ' The first plan is best where" land is high and. insects and diseases are preva lent. On this Coast a modification of this plan gives the best results. . Start the iilants, as is usnaHy done, in hills three;feet apart each way". " Keep-the runners . off the first season. The second season, root four runners in the row from each plant, giving each as much room as possible. Young plants must layered where there are no summer rains . i. e. scrape off the dry soil and press the root of, the young plant in firmly, but not too deep when it will soon root. Keep any other runners off clean.. ; The next season, run four plants out. in the other direction and when , they are firmly es tablished plow the old plants up. D..B. Wieb. i RABBITS AND HARES.' Australia's Pests Not Likely to Flourish on This Coast. . - , - 7 What trouble the rabbits cause in Australia. The rabbit that; is - commit ting such devastation in that island con tinent, is the common tamo rabbit of England and Europe. , It is there bred in vast numbers in warrens, under con trol and is a source of a large amount of fresh meat It was taken to Australia for the same purpose. That climate suited it finely and having there no nat ural enemies and being a prolific breeder It increased to such numbers as to be come a pest. Millions of acres of pastur age have been ruined by them. Herds of cattle, horses and sheep have starved in consequence and many stock growers ruined. There are now so many rabbits in that country that man with all 'his engines of destruction can make no ap preciable progress exterminating them." Government aid has been invoked, com missions appointed and' millions' of dol lars spent in trying kill them off . The rabbit is a gregarious, burrowing animal and. honeycombs the land in every 'direction in immense natural wor rens and it is almost impossible to dis lodge them," They now spread, over vast tracts of grazing country . where their only enemy is man. . They breed five to seven times a year. . : . There areno rabbits proper natives of this continent. Ours are all hares. The main points distinguishing the two fam ilies are: Rabbits invariably bring forth their young in burrows in the' ground. The young are naked and their eyes are closed. The mother suckles her young for quite a long period, v. Hares are not gregarious. . They bring . forth their young in nests above ground or in more or less sheltered depressions,. Few of them burrow at all. , Some seek protec tion in the burrows . of other animals. Their young are born clothed in a full coat of fur with eyes fully developed. The mother suckles them only a few days. The young are able to forage and to protect themselves almost from birth. They are not as prolific breeders as rab bits. . ; ''..-; ' There is some danger of the domestic rabbit gaining a foothold on some parts of this Coast. ' A' great portion" seems adapted to it. Nearly allhe valleys of Nevada, " Arizona, Southern- California and Eastern "- Oregon and Washington are adapted to its subsistence; -There are enough here in a domesticated state for" a ' start and . they are carelessly guarded. , Yet it may find too many en emies here to gain much of a foothold. The latest news from -the rabbit in. Australia is that it has .evoluted." The regular old fashioned . rabbit was never known to climb. - He considered his place was on or in the ground and staid there. -The Australians put up .wire nettings to keep him out of their gardens and orchards.' v The rabbit:- accepted the situation for a time until he got hungry. Then he climbed over and now no nefc tmgof any reasonable height deprived him of his dinner. We will next hear that' the' rabbit climbs trees for food. CLKVsi.Axb. Wash., - - ..". . ; ' June 19th, 1891. J . S. B. .Medicine .Co., r-. ' Gentlemen Your kind favor received, and in reply would say that I am more than pleased with the terms' offered me on the last shipment of your medicines. There is nothing like them ever intro duced in this country, especially tor La grippe and kindred 'complaints. : I have had no complaints ,so- far, and everyone is ready with a word of praise for their virtues. Yours, etc., - .' -' f-: ; ' ' . M. F. Hack lb t. . 1 A Revelation. . Few people know that the bright bluish-green color of , jthe ordinary teas exposed In the windows is not the nat- ural color.' Unpleasant as the fact may be, it is nevertheless artificial; mineral coloring matter beiag. used ' for this parpoee.- The effect is two fold. ; It not only makes the . tea a bright, shiny green, but. also permits the Bse of " off-color " and worthless teas, which, once under the. green cloak, are readily worked off as a good qnality of tea. ' An eminent authority writes on this sub ject: "The manipulation of poor teas, to give them a'sner appearance, is carried on exteu- . sively. Green, teas, being, in this country especially popular, are produced to meet the . demand by coloring cheaper black kinds by glazing or facing with Prussian blue, tan. eric, gypsum, and indigo. . ThU method it so gen- f eral thai very Utile genuine uneolored green tea i offered for mile." . It was the knowledge of this condition of affairs that prompted the placing of Beech's : Tea before the public. It is absolutely pure . . and without color. Did you ever o any genuine uneolored Japan tea T JLsk.your grocer to open a package of Beech's, and you '. win' see it, and probably for the very first , time.. It will be found in color to be just be- ' . tween the artificial green lea that you have . been accustomed to and the black teas." '. It draws a delightful canary color, and is so , fragrant that it will .be a revelation to tea drinkers. Its purity makes it also more economical than the artificial tecs, for le.i of It is required per cup. Sold only ia pound packages bearing this trade-in ark: ' r:- , . . . . ' beII II your grocer does not have it, he will get - It for you. Frlce60o per pound. For sal al Xieslle tdiitlor's, THE DAIr.ES, OREGON. life Tie Dalles i: c xms come to stay. t Hopes f to win its way to public favor by ener gy, industry and merit; and, to this end we ask that you give it a fair trial, and if satisfied with its course a generous support. 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Ask your Postmaster for a copy, or address. THE CHRONICLE PUB; CO. Office, N. V. Cor. WashinEiorvfiand Second. Si lioiiicle Daily Obieets Eastern Oregon. ... - 1 ' vr. four to six eight! . -