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*wv K?MSA>T LEFT OF POWERFUL CATAWBA* fiecent Marriage on Reseryation in York County Draws Attention to! $ad Condition of Few Kemaining; Indian Wards of South Carolina. York* S. C.?Announcement of the recent marriage of Ervin Gordon and T*li? T-2o rrio TnHift/nS Of the Cat ?aWCi<& Jauc ii?M > w, * ? - - - awba reservation in York county, re calls to mind the fact that the rem nant of this once powerful tribe is rapidly becoming smaller and because of that fact a marriage among them is a subject of unusual interest since there are so few young men and maid ens among them. Now it is sad to think that this once powerful tribe, whose -warriors as late as the year 1760, numbered 3,000, is now reduced to some eighty or ninety persons, all of whom live on the small reservation on the banks of the Cata wba, on the eastern outskirts of York county. Some 500 or more acres of land comprise the reservation, where as the whole of York county and oth er territory adjoining was once the hunting preserve of this dying race wfao have ever been the friend of the American white man and who have lost their all through the avaric?, chixanery and robbery of the white man.. Support From State. The State of South Carolina an nually (makes a donation of several thousand dollars toward the support of the Catawbas; but the appropria tion is so small it does not provide them with the bare necessities of life and many of them are actually re duced to want. A number of them till the rough, and unsuitable soil that forms the reservation, several of the men are good carpenters, who se cure employment at odd times in Hock Hill and around the community surrounding, and others d' odd jobs; but taken altogether it is a nara mat ter for them to keep soul and body together. Just now D. A. Harris, "chief" of the tribe, as he is known, is making a living operating a ferry acros? the Catawba, between Ebenezer and Fort Mill townships. He is paid the prince ly sum of $30 per month by York county for his services. Harris is "chief" of the tribe only in name. He is the most influential anions them and he performs the duty of arbiter in minor disputs among ffiem. Al though they have not the rights of other citizens, tne uatawDas are suu ject to the laws of the State. They give very little trouble, however, and not in several years, to say the least, has one of them been hailed into the courts. The Old Order Go&e. Up until a short while before the war between the sections the law among themselves was their own, anc! what was between themselves was among themselves. Old inhabitants of the "Indian Land" section, as the vicinity of the Catawba reservation used to be known, have handed down a sforv that on one occasion an In ? - dian named Sam Scott killed a squaw nainecl Canted, also a Catawba. At- i ter the murder Scott ran away to tbe Cherokee, tribe in North Caro lina for fear of retribution. He stayed there for some six or eight years, hut the desire to return to his own tribe was strong, and finally he re-1 turned, armed to the teeth, and al-j ways on his guard for fear of being killed. Scott was a lover of whiskey, but after his return to the reservation he tried hard to avoid liquor, fearing that he might be takei^i off his guard while drunk and killed1. I All went amoothlv for a vear. The Indain kept sober and slept with one eye open. Finally, on one occasion with. others of the tribe, he made a visit to Columbia, and while there he got drunk. He returned to the trlbt nd after becoming sober and finding fce had been unharmed, he was much , relieved from his fears and forgot his j oaution. After that he got drunk as often as he could get the liquor. Liquor Finally His Undoing. His love of liquor caused his death, ae day he was lying drunk on the *ie of a road. A party of Cat&wbas aoia hr. amomr them a vouner *in who was the daughter of the woman pott had killed. She picked up a " ifcge stone and hurled it at his head,1 backing his skull. Other Indiana 5* A? party picked him up and carried) kfcn into a wigwam where he breatk ef several days, although he was giv fir no attention, the Indians feeling bo; sympathy for one whose sufferings Ifcey deemed merited. Finally he 4ied, and was buried. The Indian girl j went unpunished for killing him. taei flidians as they, called hereyickpkhim-j tuport, admiring the spirit of "tkt avenger of hlood," a? they called her. j When the Revolutionary war be-j in 1775 there were 5,000 or more Gatawbas who comprised the tribe ! Itarlv tha atriip'p-lxi thpv 1 *; k4AV w*'* ^oo*v i ifeeir lot with the Colonists who were j struggling for liberty and they prov-j *d faithful throughout the struggle, j Many of them gave their lives for the. cause of their white iriends and oth? I ?rs survived the war to see the woou- j man's. axe fall their broad hunting j grounds and to hear the echo of the j ploughman's "hee-haw" to his plod umg jorse as ne core uirougn uie hills that once resounded with the Catawba's hunting cry to the bound- j ing stag. It is said that more than GOO of them lost their lives in the war of the Revolution. Ravaged bv Smallpox, Just a short while after the Revo lution their number was reduced to less then one-half by small-pox.j There is a tradition that the dreaded plague was introduced among them* through the avarice of some white men in order that they might "be en abled more easily to get possession of TitffaYie. 1 in" all probability this is true. The fatal it* nf the dreariM nia.ev* amon? them each day according to tradition, and it appeared as though ?very man, wo man and child of the tribe must fall before the ravages of the disease. Catawba Indian doctors treated all diseases in the same manner and i their method was to administer a ! corn sweat. The mode of giving this sweat was to boil ears of corn, slip-! shucked, take them steaming out of the pot and pack them closely around , the patient, and as socn as If pro- i duced a profuse sweat the patients; were taken up and thrown into the Catawba river. It was more fre-1 quently a dead Indian than a living one that was taken out of the stream. * Experience proved no teacher to Ca tawba Indian physicians, and often as j many as twenty-five dead bodies were : taken from the stream each day dur ing the prevalence of the scourge. A Disastrous Mo?e. The older Indians of the tribal rem- \ nant still tell the story told them, by j their parents of the time when the fathers of the tribe agreed to the i nmrwaitinn nf t.hf> State of SOUtk ! Carolina to sell them what little lands j they had left and join the Cherokee j nation in the vicinity of Haywooa, North Carolina. It was seventy ye?r* | of more ago that the State persuaued. them to sell their lands and move. Most of the Indians were opposed to the step, but through various forms i of intimidation and other means they were at last persuaded to move out. i It was a sad day among them when they went to join the Cherokees. When they arrived there North Caro lina refused to let them stay. They were in a terrible plight since they .had nowhere to go. Finally they wandered back to their former haunts and there they have since remained s\n tV?o fa-or) q allowed thftmt the women engaged in the manufacture of crude pottery, pans and pipes *hich they peddle throughout York and ad joining counties for provisions and old clothes, and the men, most of whom are too proud and worthless to work, living in worthless dignity up on the mere pittance appropriated by j the State, and from wages paid for doing odd jobs when they are abso lutely compelled to work. A striking characteristic ot this fast dying tribe is their contempt for 1 and abhorrence of negroes. Even back ; before the war they are said to have I held the negroes in disdain and the privations and changes in thrir condi-1 tion during recent years have not changed their feeling of antipathy for; the blacks. Most of the white people, in fact all of them, living in the vi cinity of the Catawba reservation consider the Indians their interiors socially and otherwise, arc! hive as little to do with them as possible ex-j cept in a business way. Since, there j fore, the whites will have little to do with them and they refuse to mingle with the negroes, they are forced to live almost whollv unto themselves. Education and Religion. Most of the 'Catawbas can read and j1 write, several of them have been stu- j dents in the Carlisle Indian school^! and all of the young Indians attend 1 the school which is conducted on the reservation several months each year. 1 Up until the past few years most of 1 them have been members of the Mor mon church and until a short while j ago they practiced polygamy. A j' Baptist church has recently been built i on the reservation, and quite a num ber of the Indians have connected themselves with it. The Rev. F." T. Cox, pastor of sev- 1 eral Baptist churches in Rock Hill, is largely responsible for the erection of the church on the reservation, and it is largely due to his influence and ' teaching that the Baptist dehomina- : tion has gained a foothold among the Catawbas. Up until a short while be- 1 fore the war between the sections not a single Catawba Itad ever professed conversion and become connected with a Christian church, although missionaries of all denominations had faithfully preached the Word of God' amnnor tVtftm for manv YParc nrioT* to ' that tine. Sad, indeed, is a contemplation, of the present state of this miserable remnant of a once powerful and noble tribe who were possessed of all the characteristics of the primitive red man. Brea the fish, once their prej and sport in the stream which bears their name, hare aaarlj all departed, and it can be only a few rear* outil the Catawba Ia4iaog, tea, will fear* become eatiaot. JJJCBg D. QHimr. A foung mother, anaoun&nj tM birtk of ker first ciild to a ?rUn4 in a distant citj, soat Utfs tel^^gram: "Isaiak f, ?.* It is & ScripUal T*rm, iaffionins: "For unto u* a ckili is bora, *aio as a son ii glreu.*' Her friend, kowerer, was r*rjr liter al and Lot rerj familiar iritli the Scripture, so she interpreted the ae# sage to lier bu?band U follows: "Margaret evidently has a bojr; but why on earth. aid uiey name mia Isaiah? He muat be healthy, though, for he weighs nine pounds and #ix Dunces."?.New York Journal. Man? Antiques Like It. A tourist with a mania for collect-1 ing antiques was passing through a\ small village when he was stopped by I the sight of a very old man chop ping wood with a veiy old ax. j "That's an old ax you have there.", "Yes," said the old man, "it once be- . longed to George Washington." "Tndeed. I should hardly have thought it as old as that." "Well," the old man said, "it ain't exactly. It's had three new handles and two new heads since then."? Puds. ^wwgggitftr(yww<|?!yM line "all tor tM **?* - fc'K I? ROMO OUlNIj get the gecol LAJ Look for &.?*iatnr~ Ctv TaK? One Pain Pill, then? TaKe it Easy. For Neuralfia, nothing is bettor than Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills Used fly loousanoa for a generation Those who have suffered from neuralgic pains need not be told 1 how necessary it is to secure re lief. The easiest way out of neuralgia is to use Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills. They have re licved sufferers for so many years that they have become a household necessity. "I have taken Dr. Mile*' Anti-Pain Pills for five yeara and they are the only thing that doe* me any good. Thar have relieved neuralgia in my he:id In fifteen minute*. I have also taken them for rheumatism, head ache, pains in the breast, toothache, earache and pains In the bowels and limbs. 1 have found nothing to equal them and they are all that is claimed for them." J. W. SBDGX, Blue Springs. Mo. At ail druggists?25 doses 26 cents. Never eeld In bulk. 1 MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart. Ind. ABLE BODIED HEX, 18 to 45, T r ? HAD L! 13 T> VTiPT? TV Wt k LllAlOLfi r UU fJIiikiftJa a.i Washington, Dec. 28.?Every able bodied male citizen of the United States between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years is held liable foi service in the National Guard in wai time, without further act of congress, by War Department regulations for the government of the guard issuec under the National Defence^ Act. In a circular prepared nearly two months ago, but made public only today, tne Militia Bureau directs that where a. National Guard regiment is called our. for war service, a reserve training bat talion to fill vacancies at the front shall be organized out of the National Guard reserve and by voluntary en listment. "If for any reason," the order con tinues, "there shall not be enough re servists of enough voluntary enlist ments to organize or to keep the re serve battalions at prescribed strength, a suffcient number of the un organized militia shall be drafted by the President to maintain such bat talion or otner lesser reserve umu ai the prescribed strength." The language follows closely that of the National Defense Act, in which the unorganized militia is defined as including every able-bodied male citi zen within the prescribed age limit or those who have declared their in tention of becoming citizens. The National Guard regulations, which will be amplified in great de tail later, also strike at the problem of dependent families of soldiers which has cost the government sev minion n f rftnllara already Viai JAA&iAHNSAA W A. v through the border mobilization. Re cruiting officers of the National Guard are directed to discourage the enlist ment of married men, or those having othera dependent upon them. Such persons are to be aocepted only for reasons in the public interest, men who wish to become officers being the only class specifically excepted. It is provided in the regulations that no officer of the guard hereafter shall be recognized as such under the De fense Act unless he shall have sub scribed te an oath binding him to obey the orders of the President and of the Governor of his State. Appointment* will be made on recommendation U the Secretary of War from Governor* or the commanding officers of State or territorial units of the guard and after proper physical and mental ex amination by boards of officers. Pro motions will be handled i* the soya* iray and mj officer whojCaila In the examination as to his professional ability cannot come up for recojuni** Hon within a year. After three 7^ears' active service ar irkea the organisations are dlebaaded. National Guard officers may pass Into the National Guard reserve. The raierye la to remain as unor ganized hodf ia peace timea except for temporary purpose#. It will be composed of men who hare serred three rears la active organization* and whose enlistment contracts will require them to serve three more la the reserve unless they prefer *^Htq qaptJ/vi ThPHr will hold the same rank in the reserve that they held at the time of furlough from active service except that when draft ed into the federal service they will report in the grade of private. "Ponndinj?," :Ai pleasant surprise and a grand Christmas gift was the bounteous pounding given Rev. and Mrs. EL W. Stone, by the members of West End Baptist church on Saturday night, December 23rd. The table (and It Is no small one) was made to groan 'neath its load of flour, sugar, coffee, can goods, meat and numerous other things. These are indeed great peo ple to labor with and this is not their first time to express by some kind deed their appreciation of their paator and his work. May he put forth great er efforts in this part of the LorTfr v^ey&fd^ as" never ~ before. ftTO-MT-TmM thing ttc> Reatero* Shortest Daj. Spartanburg Herald. The 21st of December is the day of the winter "solstice' (the word mean ing "sun stands"). It is the day when the sun reaches the farthest point south on his annual trip, pauses and then swings northward for a six months' trip. It is the shortest day of the year, despite' the Christmas rush and the need of many more hours nf Axv Tt i* also the date when win ter begins, astronomically speaking. Daylight lasted only about nine hours, in the latitude of Spartanburg, while the night was 15 hours long, twilight included. This variation in the length of days and nights results, as we recall from cur geography lessons, from the fact that the axis of the earth (an imag inary line passing from "pole to pole) ia nnt nernenrilrular to the Diane of the earth's orbit, or path made in its annual revolution around the sun, but is inclined at an angle of 23-1-ii degrees. Had it been perpendicular, there would have been o difference. In length of days and nights, eacn 12 hours at all times, and no alter nating of seasons, but the weather the same for all times of the year. While the days are shorter and we are in the midst of winter, conditions are reversed south of the equator (in South America, parts of Africa and Austrialia, for instance). Just now luey are usiviug tucir nam auuiuci time, with long days and verdant vegetation. As we advance toward the nortn pole the nights pre longer at this sea son. In Greeniand and the latitude of Petrograd, Russia, for instance, night lasts over 20 hours, while a Iktle further north (latitude 66.5 de grees), in Russia and Norway there is continuous darkness for the entire 24 -hours. At the north pole the sun has not been visible for the past three months, and it will be thrt-e montne longer derore he makes ms appearance, but tiien there will t>r; continuous sunshine for six months. At latitude of extreme northern Can ada and Russia darkness will last a: this time of year for two months, to be followed by two months of twi light, then the sun will gradually rise al Jve the horizon, circle around anu around, rising a little higher each day for a month, then gradually low ering for another month, all the time circling around the heavens and con tinually visible. While this is all elementary knowl edge, it is remarkably important and interesting, and impresses the fact that all thvfse beneficent laws of al ternating seasons must have been r.??Ar:jl6rl V* a* r\ AM t r? twI SAYS DRI>K WATER IF lOK WISH TO GRO W FAT XM) FLU3IF . j Think Men and Women?Do Yoa1 Want to Get Fat and Be Strong? i ' ' I The trouble with" most thin folks who wish to gain weight is that they' insist on drugging their stomacn orj stuffing it with greasy foods; rubbing; on useless "flesh creams," or follow ing some foolish physical cuiture stunt, while the real cause of thin j nes8 goes untouched. You cannot'get j fat until your digestive tract proper- j ly assimilates the food you eat. Drink a glass of cold water four or five times j a day and take the following prepa-1 j ration known to reliable druggist3; almost everywhere, which seemingly! embodies the missing elements needed I I by the digestive organs to help them ; convert food into rich, fat-laden j , blood. This preparation is called ton-. oline, aad much remarkable testimony j in wtwan an fa )fa on/>/>aaaftil naa In j : flesh building. Tonoline which somes in J | the form of a small non-injurous tab-j j let, taken at meals and mixed with the j digesting food, tends to prepare fat. flesh and muscle building elements so that the blood can readily accept and carry them to the starved portion of the bod y. You caa readily picture the transformation that additional and previously lacking flesh making ma terial should bring to your cheeks, filing oat hollow* about your neck, shoulders and bust disappearing, and your taking on from 15 io 30 pounds, f\t an.UA hwilthv flpjifc TonolillP is harmless, inexpensive, efficient. New berry Drag; Co. has it and are author ized to refund your money if weight increase is not obtained aa per the guarantee found in e&ch large pack age. Oaatioa:?toaoliae is recommended only as a flesh builder and while ex cellent results i? eases of nerroHS in. digestion, etc., hara beea reported. ' ctra sh?nl4 &? tacen aooac using it a gain of weight ia desired. ftlGf SPECTACLE COMING WITH ?BAJ* SYMPHONY GBCHESTKA D. W. Griffith's magnificent histori cal spectacle, "The Birth of a Nation,'' Trill come to the Opera House?New tje-Ttry?J|ume 8-9. "The Birth of a Nr*?nn" is one of the most widely dihcussed topics in the country. It established an absolutely new art in the realm of the theatre?the arr of pantomimic screen spectacle with music. It also created a tremen-! dous sensation because of its vaster j and more forceful treatment of the j same theme as Thomas Dixon's "The Clansman." The consequences of the! Civil War in Southern reconstruction | are fully dealt with, and fhe nation; reborn is apotheosized. Mr. Griffith, | ?mAnrr ^rppfnrfl managed I piUUUM CMJUVTU^ J the stupendous achievement without the aid of dialogue ot speech, for mo tion pictures, accompanying music and effects tell the coherent, logical and moving story. " Mto On* la * * 14 Yeer 4nwl* wil nfud moner X fAZO OiKTMKWT falls to core say case of Itchinf1 8Kal?Bt?edlac or PiUiihUmK) e* In 6 to 14 >icv rhe first ai>Dlicatic ' w and jteot. - THE COMMUNITY TREE A GREAT ATTRACTION (Written for Friday's paper.) The Community Tree on the oM Court House square on Christmas eve was a sight long to be remember V>v-vm? aat n-o a "-OD anrl lntlf CU, X IXC UVUl OV/W rr uo v u V before tlien people gathered, and when the hour came the four sides of the square were thickly lined. Pave ments filled, length and breadth, tod dlers in front, infants in arms. On the edges of the square, cars and car-1 riages filled drew up. Up on the balcony, others stood, and in over looking windows. At 5 o'clock tl3G aLferoni schools assembled their pupils, and at the ap pointed hour they marched, a veri table army "in bright array," nalting near, until the signal. Then from the high school, the boys and girls "singing as they came," led the way | and mounting the broad steps form- j ed a choir. Immediately in front, midway in tbe square, stood the beautiful tree with its brilliant lights of crimson, purple, orange, green, etc., and close to the tree the children etood with their teachers. From the north side of the city the Speer's street school, from the south came Boundary stre?t and from the west the children of the school on that side were massed, until there was a sea of heade beneath th? eyea of those who were looking down from above. When all were arranged, at the signal from Dr. Kinard, sweet and clear and strong the children's voices j rang out in: '0 little town of Bethlehem! How still we see thee lie; Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The srlent stars go by. Vaf in fVn? A o t?1- otmat o oUinoth The everlasting light, The hopes and fears of all the year3 iA*re met in thee tonight.'' Other bright carols followed, among them the beautiful German hymn, "Si lent Night, Holy Night,'" the ola French Christmas carol, "Noel," the old English carol, "God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen, let Nothing You Dismay," and at. the close, as the chil dren marchpd away, again they sang "O Little Town." We voice the sentiments of the cit when we say that the community tree was a success and that the chil dren reflected credit upon those who trained them. - ? <S> <? SOCIETY. ^ <? Pupil's Recital at Blaokville. On Wednesday afternoon the pupils of Miss Josephine Dunbar gave a pu pils recital at the high school audito rium. After a well rendered prograr^ a musical contest was held. Latei candy and Christmas tokens were giv en 'to each pupil.?Barnwell People. With a hovel. There was a sudden rush of work and the farmer was short of laborers. Going out into the road, he found a muscular-looking tramp loafing at. the crossroads. Here was a possible recruit. j "My man," said he genially, "do tramp cautiously. "Well, can you do anything with a shovel ?" you want work?" "What sort of work?" asked the T'ha fromt* an rl/lon'ltT houmfvl k UO liauip 0UUUVUAJ WVMAMVV. "I could fry a slice of bacon 011 it," he said eagerly.?Chicago Tribune. tevtgoratJiTT to tne Pale ana 51cifly Tke Old Standard general strength*! ioe tonic GXOVB'S TA.STKUBSS c'aill TONIC, drive* ou Maltria.euriche ;t 'ieblood.and builds >ro A *rr>~ V? "" -i the ivuxt The Bell COM TOP tr?y Ml tnbMrilMc, ska t? twy ?fe* goods sdrcrlteW * - ? A -U u y#?ff lysct W?J. /Mm w? Supplements your other advertising but does not conflict with other medium* BOX 00 DISTRIBUTED FU>'D AMOXG E3IPLOYEJ A bonus was distributed" by ti Southern Bell Telephone com] during Christmas to their employe Those in Newberry receiving theii were: Mr. W. C. Garrett and Mis Sarah Halfacre of the commercial de partment, Messrs. V. F. Cook and C.l 'I* 1 a m h r>f tho nlti nt Hanaromfn onrti Misses Sarah Moon, Verna Lane, Grao Hutciiinson, Bernice Hoof, Lora Wick er, Cora Lominack, Marie Wcudc, Liz zie Wicker and Mattie Mann and Mr 0. B. Bowers of the traffic department Manager <vV. E. Wilds of the Wester Union Telegraph company also re ceived his Christmas gift from th company in the form of a check fo seven per cent of his yearly salary equivalent to about one month's saT arv. Sixty Millions Made. Washington, Dec. 28.?Over si million dollars were made in W Street by those having advance formation on President Wilson peace note, according to a telegra received from Thomas W. Lawson day by Representative Wood. Lawson said that it was acta beleved in Washington that the would De a real -investigation last week's leak there would not a quorum in either the House of t Senate on Monday and that th would be a shifting of bank accou similar to those in the sugar in? gation days. Magnitude That Almost Appals. The magnitude of D. W. Griflft feat in staging ''The Birth of a Nati coming to the Opera House, Newber January 8-9, is almost appalling least to the devotees of the Ql theatre. Where now are the li groups of actors, the pinchbeck s ery and the petty properties of .t so-called "legitimate" drama? Anm T"?0 T"r? ^ 4- "U. ? " -v/vsa&apen rt ilii H1C iit^W 'diTLf "legitimate" is infinitesimal. Griffith, in staging "The Birth Nation," used for his backgro ]n0 years of American history as and no less than 3,000 mounts of c airy in the celebrated "rides" of ITll Tt" 111 V Lrlnn A ^ ~ ii. ?" ivu rxtici 1L ?<iS tf.ll U subject, 1S.OCO people as his = ct pleted, he had an operatic score p pared and provided orchestral m~ worthy of Wagner. The motion ture sp?ctacie in which these mar lous things are done will be show here for the first time on the eve o January 8. rorrainei ana 3Ui 360 PICTUR 360 ARTICL EACH MONTH I ON ALL NEWS STAI IS Cents POPU1 MBCHiNrrs r MAGAZINE WfBTTEN^O YOU CAN UNDERST/ All the Great Event?, in M? Engineering and Invention thi? the World, are described in ac int ing manner, as they occur. 3.C readers each month. Shan Notts 20 p**?* iatoe t?il? < and better wajre to do thi n| the shop, and how to make rep?bv at r~ Amataor Mtcbinic* }}&**j^( Issue or Directory EESS SOON am* wtfftant aywtftw. |g fat tkks 4too?*r. rnimmmm anagmc fmc rxtm. 7\ Ghaitgtis md oomctioss jfe lifting-* should be made at once for the new book. I. LUXJiU. 8. e.