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About The Oregon register. (Lafayette, Yamhill County, Or.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1887)
I „w.rduw. f «to “«U.—" The Indians especially admired 1' Bd cunning. Thu device of L ¿Ww chieftain and hb vnlor when oAod appealed “> th‘)ir *<i“lr»tio,‘- pSwTWas » great »• The renowned prisoner was received ■th the customary chorus of Indian and then, acting upon the lead- . Indian custom, the law of un- Jaded hospitality, a bountiful feast uwt before him. The captive, like m rallant man be was. ate heartily, "ugh ignorant what his fate might Th« Indians seldom wantonly killed ,-ir captives. When a sufficient " her had been sacrificed to avenge “ memory of such braves as had lien in fight, the remaining captives ,re either adopted as tribesmen or ^pcsed of as slaves. ■ So valiant a warrior as this pale- Md cau-corouse was too important a □onage to be nsed as a sltlve, and Lbun-so-n»-eook. the chief, received L u an honored guest rather than ■ a prisoner, kept him in his own Ls fir two days, and. adopting him [ bis own son, promised him a large L of land- Then, with many ex- . pf friendship, he returned ¡¿’ well escorted by Indian guides, the trail that led direct back to the Lflrtr colony at Jamestown......... 'This relation, destroys the long-fa- ilisr romance of the Captain’s life LT saved by "the King’s” own tughter. but it seems to be the only L version of the story based upon ¡sown original report But though the oft-described "res- M’ldid not tnke place, the valiant ¡nrlishman’s attention was speedily mwn to the agile little Indian girl, (x-ta-oka, whom her father called his tomboy” or po-ca-hun-tae. She was as inquisitive as any young jri, savagfi.or civilized; and she was so ill of kin'liyi attentions to the Cap lin and bestowed on him so many miles and looks of wandering ouriosi- r, that Sriiith made much of her in re- urn, gave her some trifling presents ud asked her name. Now. it was one of the many slngn- iroutoinsof the American Indians ever to tell their own names, nor even o allow them to be spoken to strangers y any of their own Immediate kin- red. The reiisou for this lay in their -wiili^r superstition. which held that bT speaking of one's real name gave i the stranger to whom it was spoken magical and harmful influence over nch person. For this very m as on, W a-bun -s o-n a- ook was known to the colonists by the ame of hit. tri be, l’ow-ha-tan, rather ban by his own name. So, when Tie ras asked his little daughter’s name, e hesitated, arid then gave in reply be nickname bv which he often.called er, Po-ca-lnm-tns, tho "little, tom-, ay.” This agile young maiden, by eason of her relationship to the head hint was allowed much more freedom nd fun than was usually the lot of In- ian girls, who were, as a rule, the An ient and uncomplaining little drudges feverj- Italian home and village.— £. 1. Brovin, in St Nkholae. 1 —Toung Simpkins—"If the dsvoUos •f a lifetime will prove to you the strength of my -love, Gladys, It shall be yours. Can you desire moref Can you------• ” Gladys — •• That will be i' aU----- ” Young Simpkins (instinct- ively)—”C*-*rah!' ‘ ‘I’’— Tid-Biu. —An ingenious woman is working' a novel sohume for getting material for a crazy quilt. She has written to many postmasters asking for a piece of ¡silk, satin or velvet, and setting forth that she hopes to get piooeo for her quilt from every State in the Union. —The members of the Moyamensing Hook and Ladder Company, of Ches ter, Pa., are mourning the death, of Budd, the dog of the oompany. He was buried in a neat coffin, wrapped in the Stars and Stripes, and the truck has been handsomely draped in black and white in his memory. * —A twelve-year-old lad Hying in Maine dreamed that he stood by the death-bed of his mother in Boston, she then being on a visit to that city. Thirty-three years after the dream was fulfilled, not only as to the event and locality, but as to oertaln minor details In the chamber of death. —Annie E. Mooro, of Winthrop, bids fair to be one of Maine's most valuable daughters. In 1885, when she was but thirteen years old, (he took the first premium on butter at the State Fair, and now she has taken the premium at the Eastern Maine Fair for butter made by a K'rl not over fifteen years of age. —A two hundred and twenty-five ounce nugget has boon unearthed by Chinamen at Hargraves. Australia. Tho nows of the find leaked out through the transmission of it to the mint by Chinese agents. The celebrated Cair nugget of one cwt was found at Hargraves in the year 1852, and recently, a few miles away at the Maitland bar, a 460-ounce nugget was found. ■-------- MJ I H M aking A True Mother of Heroes. A recent, application of a West Vir ginian namod Brown at the Pension Office in Washington brought to light the fact that one mother had given six teen sow to the servioe of the Union during the war. She had borne thirty- three children in all. of whom twenty were boys, and of these only four did not serve as soldiers in the Union army. Two were killed and fourteen survive. Each of the latter is to-day In receipt of a pension from the Government for disabilities received in the service, and the death of her other soldier sons en titles the mother also to a pension. The case is an interesting one, not only for the remarkable number of sons of one mother who wore the blue, but as illustrating how oontsgioui was the war spirit in some families along the Uno of fire. —• Chicago Newe. __' _ How to Discipline the Eye. Avery good way to discipline■ the Mechanical eye is to first measure an keh.with the eye, then prove it with a Me, then men-u.e a half-inch, then an Ighth, and so on, and you will soon e able to discover at a glance the dlf- irence between a twelfth and a six- tenth of an inch; then go to three iches, six. twelve, and so on. Some ill this, guessing; there is no guess wk shout it. It is measuring with le eye and mind. Acquire the habit I criticising for imperfections every ece of work that you see; do every ling as” nearly as .you can without ensuring (or spoiling it), or as nearly i you can trust the eye with its pres it training. If you can not see things echanicaliy, do not blame the eye for i it is no more to blame than the louth is because we caw-not read, or * (tigers because we can *n<ft write, person may wi ,te a very good hand ith the eyes dosed, the mind, of airse. directing the fingers. The eye necessary, however, to detect imper- utions. Every operation in life re tires a mechanically trained eye, and 1should realize more than we do the »at importance of properly training at organ.— Boston Budget. —uisastera to eresigrit are evidently rommoi. than is generally sup- *”• judging from the statement that »re than 2.00..000 glass eyes are made ■■elly in G rmany and Switzerland. 1 Artificial eye seldom last« more than * years, the -ecretion of the glands nttegitelondy— Arhamaw Traveler. ComusiMo ISO IOLVeTyanoMS or Au. Kiana or Fancy Goods, Wools & Embroidery Material. Mailed free on application by SAMUEL WEITZ & 00., 148 POST STREET, NEAR ORANT AVKNUE. SAN HIANCISOO. GUNS! To reduce my st ■■____ J A______>__■ ■____ AtA_A_ invalids Hotel ud snrgto&l Instituto