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INDIA?? ?Their Rich. XiOve?ine remarriage of the 1 ' Nm y from the intermingling of the white 6Dd the red blood io the Indian Terri tory there bin growo up a rice nota ble for the peauty and gra?eof'its women. The girls of the indian Ter ritory are no more the wild, untamable, dusky beauties of early Indian fiction than they are the wretched creatures found among some of the tribes to day- They are to all intents and pur poses on thc same plane with white women of eduoation and refinement, except that the strain of wild, strong Indian blood in thejr values gives them a tinge of ri??er ou?or, a brighter eye, a more lissome grace than their white sisters possess. Reckoned in fractions of blood, these Indian beauties are more Cau casian than aboriginal American. All of them, hot ever, are Indians, politi cally and socially; they hold firmly to their membership in the tribes. M*ny of them are one-quarter or enc eighth cr even one-sixteenth pr one-thirty gecond Indian; but the. red strain is tn G strenge? ?sd shows, ix not in some lingering richness of oolor or io the moulding of the face, at least in an all bot indefinable fascination and grace, the heritage of a forest people. Among them one may find perfect blondes, with the Indian strain still salient and palpable. And although they have succumbed to tho corset Q? civilisation, in almost all oases they have their trammelled ancestress to thank for the blessing of a well-nigh perfect figure. And one other of wo man's best gifts they possess: clear and low voices, with not a traoe of the guttural intonation which is common to original Indian tongues. Pained amid scenes of the bloodless conquest of their race by the whites, they look without concern upon the destruction of tribal uuatoms, and the thinning and dying out of the old blood. To this last they even contribute, for so seldom does one of them marry an In dian that such an event is commented upon in the Territory as remarkable. Before the middle of the last cen tury a Cherokee woman one day met a hunter in the forest. She was frightened at his white skin and fled, thinking him an evil spirit. But he was fascinated by her beauty and pur sued her into camp, where he learned that she was cue daughter of a friend ly chief. The hunter laid siege to the heart of the dusky belle and finally gained her consent to marry him ac cording to tribal custom then in vogue. This hunter and his squaw raised a half-bred ohild who was a great curi osity to the redskins. As years sped by other hunters invaded the domain of the Five Tribes of the Indian Ter ritory and married other dark skinned beauties. Intermarriage in the Chero kee, Creek, Choctaw and Seminole tribes has flourished to such an extent within the <]ast quarter century that the full-blood element is now on. the ?ergo of extinction. The old men of the tribes are beooming alarmed and hive passed laws against interinar riage. Some of these Uws are very severe, almost prohibitive, in faet. fte young Indian women objeot to these laws, because they do not want, u a rule, to marry the men of their *wn tribes. The Chickasaws are the strictest re garding intermarriage. A law recent ly placed on their statute booxs re quires any white man applying for a license to marry a ?hiokasaw girl, fat, to produce evidence that he has resided in the Chickasaw nation two years, next to furnish credentials as to his good character, and third, to Hy $1,000 for the marriage license. Of course, the girl has and sometimes "les the privilege of eloping, at the n of losing her right in the tribal bods and money, and of disgracing ?erseif in the eyes of her relatives. Her bead-right is something worth .ouaideriog. A right io tho Chioka *** nation is valued at from five to !?Q thousand dollars, and in the berokee, Creek and Chootaw nation \ if rom five to eight thousand dollars. e intermarriage laws of all the four ?lions named are about tho same, ex iting that the Chickasaw nation "'gea $1,000 for a license while the "thew only ask $10. There is good reason for these laws. ?ny fortune h linters, iattraoted by wealth -?f 4he *??&s ir?d**?,.' we io tho $**t married foto iWi n*<* and ^rhed eonttol of ?i?rgo; ^ts of laud, fostered outlaws and "?ed bad families. There ware Cow *}py marriages, and cot until the Sien of tho tribes met end passed act making every white man show 1 credential? before the, lir-snse was was there a betterment of **. conditions. Tho character of * applicant was carefully examined or? he wasi admitted. For Several thereafter respectable and in eua white men married into the ?nd ?their children married ? GIRLS. ss is tho Result of In. 'n&ian and Caucasian. orb Sun. * whites. It was so on down the line until to-day the eighth, sixteenth and thirty-second part Indian predomi nates. K)t pure bloods there will be hone in a few years. Still this open door marriage policy, while it admitted no bad characters, was fraught, with many evils. Macy well-appearing men, with a gift of love making, could go there and win a bride and a handsome fortune at the same time, provided his record was reasona bly good. The women there were not so highly eduoated as they ar? no?-. But they possessed a desire to marry white men, hence it was easy sailing for fortune hunters. This class of men fenced in large tracts of the pub lic domain, or land belonging to the red-Bkins in common, used the land for cattle ranches, and converted the minerais into ?sh. Many men be came millionaires at the expense of the tribes. They were known as gal vanized Indians or squaw meu. Five years ago the evil was partly remedied by the action of the tribal councils in disfranchising all squaw men who thereafter married into the tribes. This cheoked the influx of money seekers for a time, and then it became as bad as ever. Early this year the Chickasaw raised the mar riage licenses to $1,000 each. They now expect true love marriages to oocur. The average Indian girl of to-day possesses an excellent education. All the shrewdness of the Indian, com bined with the thirst for knowledge belonging to the whites, has filled these girls with a desire to advance. The Federal government spends the nearly $400,000 annually in educating tko youth of the five tribes. The Cherokees and Creeks have the best schools, while the Chickasaws spend the most money with least results. It is. difficult at this time to make a correot estimate of the wealth of these girls, but the opinion of government officials on the subject is lhat $5,000 is an underestimate for the tribal right alone, while many of the girls have property besides. The Indian girl has generally selected her vocation before she is 20. She marries early and set tles down easily to the duties of do , mestic life. Or if she is going on the stage, and many of them do, she has completed arrangements for it while 'still in her teens. Others cote: ap?? oial fields where they believe that their talent will win them fame. All are ambitious. None is sluggish. The wedding of an Indian girl is the orowning glory of her life. She makes muoh of it and her friends for hun dreds c " miles* around are certain to attend.. The ceremony is made as striking as possible. The. Indian maiden who has the reputation of being the belle of the Territory is Miss Tookah Turner, ? whose Indian name is Pretty Whirl I i og Water. She has not only beauty, I but also accomplishments. In another j sense she is tho greatest oatoh in the j Indian matrimonial market, for she ! will oome in for a large slice of the fortune of her father, W. C.Turner, I of Muskogee, a millionaireoattlo man. I Miss Turner is a Cherokee. Another Cherokee belle is Mrs. I Baohel Davis-Brady of the Georgia j Oherokee branoh. She carno to the territory only ted* years ago, but she belongs tho. J by ancestry, as she is of I the famous Boss family, the head of j which, Joshua Ross, was for forty years chief of the tribe. The Ross family is said to bc the richest Indian family in the country, and the aggre gate of its wealth mounts up into the millions. A ?io thor of the Ross family who is notable for beauty is Mrs. Dr. Thompson. Of the Creek beauties, the young granddaughter of Pleasant Porter, the present ohief. is au oxoellent example. She is also heir? OH to considerable wealth besides what her tribal right and land inheritance will give her. Miss Loots' Crabtree, Cbitto Mekko in the Indian nomenclature of her tribe, ia another pretty Indian giri. Though oho is tribally at Chickasaw, she has Creek blood in her veins, being a granddaughter of Isparbeoher, called tho grand old man of the Creeks, who has fur years been chief of the Ore k council; and is still one of the most influential members of the tribo. All of this family have been outed for prowess ia war, windora inoouaeit and $e**ifr?rt'-9sr?ro.' Sf?sV^Cfobroee is 'bighry'fe^catca. 'Shvahtfweless'trsoo: of "hst aboriginal hiood than almoet any of her compeers. Tho Indian girl of this typo when she is visiting tn tho east, where every oss is of tu? opinion that there aro no Indians but those who. wear blau kc ?a and live in ?ipeca, is sensitive about her blood. A member of the Ohero kee tribe not long ago expressed herself thus: "I am not ashamed of my blood, but. when I Sm surrounded by ?,hose who do not understand that I am an In dian, I never disclose my race. It only lends to notority and half of the people I meet would not believe that I was Indian if I wore to tell them so.*' Why This ls Tfuihfuiiy Catted a nit Courtry. After all th ?re eecss to ba reaso?i for calling thia conn try "free Amer iea," in fae*, tb? only free country tb? s*is shines ca, aa ju?gcd from iSo ?ollowieg from the Cincinnati En quire* : As an Amanean you kare a perfect right to Uk? .aa much water aa you like oat of the ?ea and do whatever you ebonee with it; but ti you drew a tumblerful of sea water on a-Fr en oh beach j ou could be commanded to pour it back instantly, and you would have to obey. Should^you attempt to carry any away you would be summoned and fined anything up to $20. The second offense would procure you a fine of $250 or more, and if you stole' any French Boa a third limn you wnnld find yourself in prison. This is be cause na?t is a government monopoly in Franco, and nobody but an official ii ?Hewed to draw sea water, for fear they might separate it and obtrin the salt. The same laws govern Italy and Portugal. You have a perfeot right to open or shut your own windows whenever you like, but were you a Spaniard the looal. authorities have the power to order all your windows closed, and kept dosed, after a certain time at night, or even altogether for a week on ead. This is done in times of epi demic to keep thc disease from enter ing the "uouaeo, though it is more likelp to shut siokness in than shut it out. An Amerioan may smoke what to bacco he pleases, but for a Freoohman there is Only one kind of tobacco, and that is the kind the go vera mon t makes, /n France nobody is allowed to make cr sell tobacoo, or to smoke any but tho government brand. If he does be is fined. Nobody can dictate to you how long you may keep a dog if you have one in America, but if you were a Dane you would be compelled by law to kill your dog as soon as it was 12 years old. This law it* enforced on humani tarian grounds, to prevent old dogs lingering on in suffering, but as there are plenty of dogs that are quite spry at 12, it is an arbitrary rule. Ac American's house is his castle. It always has been, and- always will be, but if you were a Frenchman, every now and then a police inspector would oome and examine all the stovea and fire places in your rooms, to see if they were safe, and ' drew" properly. If they did not he would order you to have them altered, and bo quick about it, and a delay would procure you a fine of $60. The polioe have no need of a warrant to entera house outside of America, and they exercise their pow ers as much as they piesse. When you have bought ?a railway ticket, paid for it and your train is waiting for you, you may get in. But ;i you were a German or Saxon, you would be hauled off the footboard by the scruff of the neck if you attempt ed to get in before the guard himself, as roughly as he plea?od-and heaven help you if yon protested, for he is a government offioial, and you would have been arrested and fined. The railways belong to the State, and are answerable to no man, and nobody ever thinks of disputing with a servant' of the government. Cures Blood and Skin Troubles. TRIAL TREATMENT FREE.-Is your blood poor? Is it thin? Nose bleed ing and headache? Pricking pains in tho skin? Skin pale? Skin feel hot and swollen? All run down? Is your blood bad? Have you Pimples? Eruption? Scrofula? Eating Sores? Itching, burning Ezenia? Boils? Ul cers? Cancer? Scaly Eruptions? Skin or Scalp itch? Tired out with aohes and pains in bones and joints? Have you hereditary or concentrated Blood Poison? Ulcers in tbo throat or mouth? Swollen glands? Rheu matism? A? tired in morning as when you went to bed? Have they resisted medical treatment? If you have any of. the above troubles B B B. (Botanic Blood Balm) should be taken at once. B. B, B. bas a peeuliar ef feot-different from any other blood medicine-it drains the impurities, poieons and humors that oause all above troubles out of the blood, bones and entire system, healing every sore, restoring to the Skin the bloom of ?'-rfeot health, and staking new, rioh Hood. Trial treatment nf B B B. free by addressing BLOOD BALM CO. Atlanta, Ga. Describe your trouble, and we will include free medical ad vice. B. B. B never fails to oura quickiy and permanently, after all fails Thoroughly tested for 30 years Over 3,000 voluntary testimonials of cures by B. BB. Hill OrrDrugCo., Wilhite db Wilhite and Evans Phar macy. _ y^--_ - Tho mtliUnt spirit ia dominant io Nebraska. In the Fourth district in that State there Vere 400applicBO?i ' far the West Point cadetsbip. Where ?an yon invest sss?j more j profitably than by buying a. bottle nf - Priokly Ash Bitters-you get four for I one. A kidney medicine, a liver tonie, , stomach strengthener and bowel den ser. Four medicines for one dollar. Evana Pharmacy. - The man who never emilee it no more to be trusted than the dog who never wags his tait Laxative Bromo-Quioine Tablets eora a cold in one day. No Core, No ? Pay. Price 25 oeutp. Frankrooess ??d Crime. We have often beard dtaokenneee pleaded ie extenuation of crime and we regret to nay that we hare teen Buoh pleas effective ta Qcorgia ?ourto Mee indicted for murder in this fute hare either been acquitted or hare received ridiculously light eeo teneos oe the ground that they bad been drunkeo long that they had beoome 'rreapon Bible./'".'Mania a potee" is tho iiigh sounding name tho lawyers give to this state of mind, which, it is olaimed, exouses crime. The Louisiana Supreme Court takes no fi took in this mania. A man named Boab was indioted for manslaughter. His defenee was that he waa suffering fro.m delirium tre mens and did not know what he was doing. The jury fouud him guilty ? and ho waa sentenced to four ynurn the penitentiary. The caso was ap pealed and in affirming the judgment of the court below thc supreme pour! said: "Where a party io possession of his I mind enters into voluntary drunken debauch hu is not legally excusable for a homicide which he commits dur ing its continuance, and while in a con dition of drunkenness, even though the drunkennesa may be such at the time of the commission of tho homicide as ; to render his mind inoapable of know ing right from wrong. If the debauch be one eontinuing voluntary drunken debauch, starting with the sanity of the party engaged in it, the mere length of time the debauch may ex tend over is immaterial. Drunkenness for a week no mere exouses a homicide committed as its immediate and direct result than would drunkenness for an hour.'' This is good law and real justice. Wo do not wonder that the deoision is commended highly by the press of Louisiana.-Atlanta Journal. Remarkable Cures of Rheumatism. Vindicator, JCuther/ordton, 'K. (J. The editor of the Vindicator bas had occasion to test the effioaoy of Cham berlain's Pain Balm twice with the moet remarkable results in each case. First, with rheumatism in tho shoulder from which he suffered ex cruciating pain for ten days, which was relieved with two applications of Pain Palm, rubbing tho parts affltoted and realizing instant benefit aud en tire relief in a very short time. Sec ond, in rheumatism in thigh joint, almost prostrating him with severe pain, which was relieved by two ap plications, rubbing with the liniment on retiring at night, and getting up free from pain. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. mu % mm. - - In England the breeding of mice has reached a high state of develop ment. A Manchester mau recontly paid $125 for a black and tan mouse of distinguished ancestry. Prickly Ash Bitters cures disease of the kidneys, cleanses and strength ens the liver, stomach and bowels. Evans Pharmaoy. - Mrs. Annie Ray, of Oakland, Cal., who lately filed suit for divorce, appeared as her own attorney, and prepared the necessary papers herself; without the assistanoe of a lawyer. Headache often results from a dis ordered eondition of the stomach and constipation of the bowels. A dose or two of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets will correct these disor ders and ouro the headache. Sold by Hill Orr Drug Co._ A Decisive Step. His chusa ?S??? in and found him Blipping a look of bair into sn envel ope, not fur ti vi ty or surreptitiously, bot just placing it under cover in s> .aim. busioessltkeiway. "Hollo!" says the visitor. "What's up?" "Nothing," be aaswered. "Fm only sendlog back Miss Hemilton Highlow's hair, that's all." * "Engagement off again?" 44 Yes.' "How many times does this snake?" "Five. It s final this time, though, one way or the other." "Does she say so?" "Oh, che always flays its final. I'm deciding things just. ' It's off for ever or cards are out noon." "How do jou do it?" "Little scheme of my own. You know tho color of her hair, don't you? Warm brown, with a little raw umber in it? Well, i hi- s-mp!c of huir I'm rioiug up is red. I tell you wo re going to g-1 down to genuine emotion this time. She'll know whether she loves me or net, and if ?he does she'll walk mo in by the ear."-London Moil. SYMPTOMS LIKE THESE BELCHING. BAD BREATH, BITTER TASTE, BLOATING Attar Meeta, HEARTBURN, BACKACHE, HEADACHE, DIZZINESS, NERVOUS WEAKNESS, LOW SPIRIT?. indicate bad digestion, a disordered system and falling state of health. PRICKLY BITTERS ls a positive and speedy cure. It clears the body of poisonous secre tions, cleanses the blood, aids diges tion, strengthens Ute kidneys, purifies the bowels and Imparts renewed energy to body and brain. Di^iGGiSTS SELL IT Prit ^f i^w - ; Evans Pharmacy, Special Agents. D. 8. VANBIVKB. E. P. VANDIVKB. J. J. MAJOR. We have a limited Hupply only of Swift's and Royston's Guano Left. If you want tbfse fine goods see aa quick. The Blickest, nobbiest and LOWEST PRICED lino of BTJQGrlES To bo found anywhere. Special prices on WAQON8 to reduce stock at once. Youra for Trade, VAN DIVER BROS. & MAJOR. E. C. EVANS, JR., * CO.. P?NDLETOK, 8. C. . FUL"L LINE OP BuiBt's Garden Seeds, Paints. Oil, Varnishes, Gasoline, Drugo, Medici jea and Chemicals, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Perfumery, Toilet Soaps, Sponges, etc. A ? pply of Peruna, Manalin and Lacupia on hand. 9@F Physicians Prescriptions carefully compounded, jsaa A Well furnished Home Is not necessarily an expensively furnish? d one, as at TOLi-Y'S hand some, even sumptuous, FURNITURE is procurable without great outlay. Not that we deal in knocked-together, raade-to sell sort, hut because we are content with a reasonable proOl on really g<>od articles of Furniture. Our best witness is the Good.* them selves. Yours truly, G. P. TOLLY & SON, The OH Reliable Furniture Dealers, Depot Ht., Anderson, 8. C. House Furnishing Goods v Of All Kind?. Sew Stoves Exchanged for Old Ones. Bwpectfully, JOHN T. BURRISS. P. S.-All those who owe me for Stoves and Accounts must positively come in and settle. have to zz**l to see yon it will be at your expense. Hope to see you at once. SOBS T. BUREIS5, m i -- ? House "York is Hard Work without GOLD DUST. FARMERS, FA RM ?fIS ! Prepare for the coming Plowing Season by filling your Blacksmith Shop with good Tools, Brich as---. Anvils, Hammers, Cievers, Vises, Forges, Bellowses, Etc, Of which we corry a. full line, and can sell them at prices that every one can afford to buy. We can supply you in the best GALVANIZED BARBED WIRE. Six-inch or four-inch, at the market price. Also, Galvanized Poultry Wire, any height, from 30-inch to 6 feet? all at a low price. Come and see us before you buy. BROCK BROS, Anderson, S. C. FBKD. G. BROWN, Pres. & Treas. FRANK A. BuRnainoic, 8npt. R. E. BURRISS, See. OFFICE OF ANDERSON FERTILIZER CO., CAPITAL STOCK AIOO.OOO.OO, uiiln CnnKiiiini ?. Shipping; Peint s West Anderdon, 8. ?J. ANDERSON, 8. C., Jan. 18, 1901. As we promised you in our last advertisement that we would be running in January we now wish to inform our friends that we arc now turning out the following brands of Goods, all of which have been registered at Clemson Col lege ac? o Jiog to law : Ava. Amo. Pot. Anderson Npecial Fertilizar. 8 8 3 Andora <n High Grade Fertilizer. 8 2} 1 Anderson Ctton F?rtil?z*r. Xi 2 2 Atideraon Holli hie Guano.8 2 l Anderson XXXX Bone PotHfb.10 - 4 Anderson XX Bone Pot OH h.10 - 2 Anderson Pboxpb-de with Potash.10 - 1 Anderson Super Phosphate.10 - - Anderson Klgb Grade Dissolved Bone.13 - - Anderson DUH dve<< Bone.12 - - Aoderson Kalnlt (Imported).- - 12 We are also importers of Nitrate nt Soda and Muriate of Potash which we keep <n stnok. We are mwkn g a special run on nur "Super Phosphate" 16 per cent avail able Pbna. Acid. We matte this from Florida and 'rennessee Rock combined, which ls the highest grade r-ick on tue market. W e also call your attention to our ' Spacial Fertilise?," 8-3-3, and a*k you to at least try some or it. It costa you more money, but you get better results and loss trelght to haul. You will noiv Hod us liftai led tn our new office over Powell Bros. Htore, next door to Ligon & Ladbetter. Call and get our prices and we will tr\ to please vou. Yours truly, ANDERDON FERTILIZER CO. FREI?. G. BROWN, ?'resident. Now is the Time to Buy Ton a . . . WI? can give them tc you at any price, and any kind that you want. We have a good No. 7 Stove with 27 pieces of ware for ?7.75. We have * big lot of IRON KINO and ELMO 8TOVE9 which you know are the beat Stoves ou the market. Now we just want to speak to you one word about our HEATING STOVES, Especially about our Air Tight Heater, which you know ia tbe greatest heater on earth. If you would see one of them in use or try one of them, you would not have anything else. And just look at the price-they cost almost noth ing-only $1.75 up to 8600. We want to call your ut ten? ion to our big Stock of Tinware, ?lassware and Crockery. Now we have just got too much of thia and it must be sold, so we ?us want you to come and look and let us pnce you through. We have some of the prettiest pieces of Odd ? bina you ever saw. Would make nice Wedding, Birthday and Christmas Presents. Now we are just opening up the biggest line of TO YS vou ever eaw Wo want you to come round and bring the children and let them see a grand sight in Toys. And remember that all of these Goods muBt be sold at some price be tween now and the 25tn day of December. Come now while you can get a good selection of everything. Yours truly, OSBORNE & OSBORNE. o < S? co o 33 ?-BB g 1 ss O'S g fi Sf SS* tE>~ Otogen g g S ? H,t-"^ OATS, OATS, AND RICE FLOUR. WE ABS EOABQ??ASTEBS for ail IINDS of &RAIN. Three Thousand Bushels of TEXA8 RED RUST PROOF OATS. One Car of that famous HENRY OAT (or Winter Grazing Oat) Th? only Oat that will positively stand any kind of weather. Have just received Two Cara of fine FEED O vTS at lowest prices. Have just received Three Care of RICE FLOUR for fattening your hogs, and it come? much cheaper than any other feed and is much better. Yours respectfully, O. D. ANDERSON & BRO.