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Show 12 THb BEE. may ne read by those skilled Jn the sign ami color language of these Indians. How are the blankets made? Oh. the manner Is very primitive and seems simple enough. They are woven on upright frames by hand and the threads are pounded together os tight as possible. Hut the glory of the Navajo blanket has departed and I expect before many years the secret of their making will be lost." OLD NAVAJO BLANKETS. (iettulu ArilrlM Kew .iliuiMl fto Mare l U rrlr II. Work of Charlestown ha rfturiml from a trip to Arizona au4 has brought back with him several But," he reiuarke4 Navajo blankets. sorrowfully, they are not what they. usl to be. The Navajos are too Improvident and lazy to make such blanV ets as they used to make In the ytari gone by and before the white man be Dr, g.n s. .... Everett Pfeijo. old-fashion- bee: ticularly Indestructible. The women who weave the blankets of today can blankets Just make the of as well, for they know the manufacture, but the cheaper blanket Is easily sold and takes only a sho: time to make, while It would take nearly a year to weave one of the real blankets, those glorious combinations of colors and materials, one of which old-fashion- office. .... would easily be worth $100. Thejr have exquisite color sense, these wo- -' men, and blend their materials perfectly. The coloring is fast, and la made of vegetable and mineral mat, ter, the secret of the making being handed down from generation to gen-- j eratlon. A tribe can be known by the color scheme of Its blankets. The deSometimes resigns vary greatly. ligious ceremonies are typified, sometimes tribal and sometimes personal history or other themes, all of which. M. in Tit-Bit- Incldeul Showing (lie Good Srne of llii Ute 11. K. Bruce. From the Philadelphia Press: On one of the late Blanche K. Bruces recent visits to New York he told of an experience he had Just after he was elected senator from Mississippi, and It was an experience which illustrates the tact and good sense which always characterized him, and which explained llow lie Lout HU Job. much of the success and respect which An exchange tells the story of an THE TAR BAKERY. he gained by his public life In Washcolored man whi asked a white old It was announced that the man If he could ington. give him work. The senator would go from his Mississippi the asked man white negro If he had a home by one of the Mississippi steam239 S. MAIN STREET, boat. When the negro replied, Yes, LAKE CITY.... SALT boats. at least as far as St. Loul3 on the white man responded:, boss," man of the a The his way. captain, Well, you see all that driftwood boatname of Leathers, was a typical MisYes, sah, was Fine Bread, Cakes and Candies. ing down the river? sissippi steamboat captain, and he was the Well, then," continued the reported to have said he would show whitereply. man, you row out In the river the black senator when he got aboard Our Ladies Lunch Very catch that driftwood, and Ill give his boat that he would have to keep and Popular. Try Ue. colored man The half you get." you he if put his place on that boat, and worked hard for a while, when all of on any airs because he happened to ARTHUR B. KENT, Proprietor. a sudden he stopped and pulled for be senator the captain would teach him On being asked the reason manners. As soon as Bruce boarded the shore. his return, he replied. Dat wood DIVIDEND PAYING the steamboat he sought the captain for Is Jest as much mine as tis his. I and said to him: Captain Leathers,! IH1HS STOCKS. aint gwlne to give him any, and so AND INVESTMENT I am going to Washington, and a part Im out of work agin." of the way as passenger on your steamboat. My name Is Bruce, and possibly Not Their Funeral. you have heard of me. What I want505, W. E HB1BIID Clergyman My child, beware ot Telephone ed to say is that I know perfectly well 15 tV. 2nd So. St. (I, a of instead muskr. a toadstool who of picking many people what the feellnj weave. The blankets now turnej out are pitiful and tawdry affairs com-- ' pared with those of bygone times. Those of today can be bought for about blanket $"0, while a real Is really priceless and cannot now be bought. Those ancient blankets were half an Inch thick and would hold waTha ter as well as a wooden tub. with finest of them are found burld bodies of deid chiefs and they are par- IP. ln New WON HIS WAY BY TACT. to hanker after that partlculrr are travelers regarding persons or my ruuuj. 'I m contuse. Child color Is. They cannot help It. and I am That be all rolgbt, sur. that be! Us to eat em ourselves going o give them no occasion for any balnt I am a passenger on while to market to bo sold' anno).ioe I theyre are that ask you boat. simply your to It that I am made as comfortable as possible, and I assure you that you will have no reason for complaint." The bluff captain stepped back a pace or two, looked Bruce over, and then Jield out hla hand and said with great em, you shall sit at my By phasis: A on my right hand shall sit table; you on the entire trip, and If any man objects he will have to fight me. A man who can talk ns you have and who Is ns fair as you are la a sight better AT A PLECTKOIIIOSK fitted to be a United States senator than GREAT hACKIFH K. ATTACH MUST. some of the white senators I have carried on this boat," and on that entire for Parllrnler Addrewi: trip of three days the captain made K. B , Bruce his guest. j i TEE.TS BARGAIN STORE. 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