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Show I DEMAND FOR WIVES, PAMUNKEY TRIBE OF INDIANS STOP INTERMARRYING. Til. attorn Thmtrinl the Ferpttat-- t Ion of (be Race They Now Went to Chcro- iatoanny with the kee Tribe. C MODERN instance of an entire nation or people in search Of eligible stives and husbands t y w the is Just now furnished by the Interesting holt-sal- e but little kno-tribe of Pamunkey Indians wl.o live In one of the-- tide vvater eastern coun-anties of Virginia are indeed literal-o- f lj the first families' the Old IWunin- Ion. being lineal descendants of the tiue aborigines. So blue and exclusive, tn fact is the Pamunkey blood.ao unmixed through centuries with any Other strain, that th tiibe is dying out and exp-rt-- v eming the urgent need of a matrimonial ailia-iewith some outside stock to preserve the root The detrimental eftects-e- f continued Intel .marriage between m, mbers of the tribe have become apparent to them, but Inasmuch as they ima pnion with their white as well as their negro neighbors, they me in a dilemma as to what steps they should take to restoie the blood ot, their tribe and save themselves from extinction it is a case like that of the primitive Romans and Sabines, but thus far no Sabine women have been lured among them and captured. Under these circumstances the head men of the Pamunkey tribe have opened negotiations with the eastern band of Cherokee Indians in the adjacent states of North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama to procure brides for their unmarried sons and husbands for their unmarried daugh ters. The male Parnunkeys understand the eastern Cherokee women to b exceptionally pretty, modest and sensible, and the female Pamunkey s regard the eastern Cherokee braves. as handsome, loyal and industrious calculated to lmxke model husbands. Correspondence wats begun about a year ago with the d e -- " chiefs of the eastern Cherokees as the result of repeated conferences on the subject btween rpresentattves of the Parnunkeys and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Browning, at the bureau of Indian affairs in Washington, and inducements were presented to the mountaineer Cherokees In North Carolina to send on a select consignment of eligible girls and youths. Last week three emissaries of the Pamunkey tribe departed for North Carolina to visit Principal Chief Nimrod J. Smith and toteachtiietrutii. Missouri their prestige antalied. they still Illus- urged ty the people of both Interior the of as Kansas and eur secretary trate tn thrmseb tra the law tf the OS under President Hayes, cm account vit a) of the fittest. affair-I western with Thts precious trio? live in a queer set- his familiarity tn 8lZ rungfc tlement called Indian T.v. n." tn King wan again tieoted to and as a candidate in. 1894 b overcame William countv'. Virginia, twenty-on- e 3,ooi, whlca miles dueeast of RU hmond. and one mile a majority of more than at the east of the historic "White House," his opponent had received the seat claims and election was marprevious where George Washington at- tit polls ried to the beautiful widow Cuitis on the ground of fiauda admitted by the op been have which 800 Xhi-l- r at tes, reservation, comprising position to arr extent that leaves Htta ceded to the tribe by the ancient colonoubt as to the outcome. As a ial assembly of Virginia, Is an oddli an Horn has been accorded Col formed neck of land almost entirely more b one of the serpentine ui x ts great skill and sagacity, and for of the Pamunkey river, not far fiom Us than twentv-fiv- e yiars he has been an k debouchment xnr The phase '- rwffutmW'WwyfoePliJf is conne'cted with the mainland by a state ccrmmrttees of his party. narrow strip of sand the isolation and T. B. BLACKSTONE. protection afforded by this pet uli.n have no doubt saved these InOwner of t ecuct I'rlue-lpa- t dians from exteunlnation. About one- -' T h, Great Kallway. tliild of the reservation is good farmand Timothy 15. Blackstone, ing land and the remainder consists of principal owner of the Chicago & Alton woods and low swamps, will st . with .dovx. raccoon., ullm nr) d inr qiorc than, thirty .years. mink, redbiids.t wild gtese, ducks ami turkeys. There are now 90 Pamuiik v Indians actuclly present on the nseivation proper and 33 more residing on another small reservation 13 miles northward, on tiie Mattjipony river, besides 20 ojhers employ ed In scrvke as boatmen on steamers plying the tnginia mets. making a total of 143 Parnunkeys now In appearance they are disliving tinguished by the usual coppei i elected skin, high cheekbones, straight, coarse hair and dark eyes Thty are met strong or tobust, and their t lower averuge longevity is than that of tlielr white and toloeeji neighbors. The eastern Cherokees, towanFu hom tiie Parnunkeys are now turning longing eyes, are a vigorous,. tin Ring people, occupying teriitorymf their own tn the southwestern pan of North Carolina and contiguous portions of Georgie, Alabama and Tennessee, numbering 2,885 souls... There are 1,520 of them in T. B. BLACKSTONE. North Carolina, 936 in Georgia, 318 in Tennessee and 111 in Alabama All are occupied a prominent position among citizens, moral, the great railroad magnates of the industrious, comfortably fixed, west, and. It might be added, of the and wev citizens' clothing. The only country. In point of energy, ability aid they receive from the United States and success he is the peer of any of governmdht is for their schools. The them, and from some points of view he males and females are about equal in excels all the rest. The Altcffi is about number, and Inasmuch as a consider- the only road in the country of which able portion of each are still unmarried, It can truthfully be said that there la albeit of marriageable age, they fulfill not a drop of water in its stock or any In the Judgment of the Parnunkeys, all other of its securities. It is the only NEW HEADQUARTERS FOR THE SALVATION ARMY, Building Force, - Progrew from IV ill Which He A nc-V- a the Directed of the glum Grout llrlgade Raperteci hy AlU n poIU--cU- small and devoted band, the membe-of which have made themselves so MARY PARKE FOSTER. much respected in the darkest places Id the great city that anyone wearing the garo of the fialvatkm Army is free to NEW PRESIDENT OF REVOLU. ' come and go without fear of danger or TIONARY DAUGHTERS. Insult at any hour of thcAny night. those who Few but poor ptoipU-Anre uneducated, a y4 particularly at- Th Wife af Joint W. Foster she Ila. Seen Math of the World and Is tracted by the njethmls of the b. nation Army exhorynt indeed, these methods Favorably Known at Coarts of EuiU pled to attract those who were lt were fruo.pbJoaudobaa(M, lb OiUJMA, whlijlUeach pre feired Hut the church c --- HE GROWTH OF -c , v tfea into-Yor- Or-tboe- 'Army SaK.-ui-- tn various parts of the wotldU "and es-tpoetally-icity of New York, may n st-uati- mly be understood by any person not blinded by n ' This Christian oi kers finds occu-- , fields pat ion in Aleh nav e been desol ted by all the Other churches Under such circumstances the Salvation Army grows naturally in a congenial field and occupies the ground it was meant by its founders to cover without opposition from rival organizations Indeed, the army new appears to have no rivals, as the other churches and the active workers of thttu have learned by .experience to jvspeot these men and womn who cairy out the otdeis of their superiors in authority with an unquestioning obedience indicative of the highest discipline (inly a few years ago these soldiers were attacked in the streets by idle ruffians, and thrir meetings were broken up by disorderly intruders. The police made only a pretense of protecting them, and the police Justices declared them to bediaoi derly disturbers of the peace In other words they were persecuted, lit ten years they have almost completely lived down this disrespect, and now all broad-mindpersons regard the army as a great moral and religious force, an organization from which may spring a great prejudice bov w .. mu.-.Lijis- ly soim-wha- of was organized Tor the benefit of those who were not looked after by other TMurehrer the. pft.e-- rbucvlo-- illd not reai h Theie la, therefore, no necessity to criticise these methods from the standpoint of delicate reflne-men- t. but tiny should be judged alone These result by the results produced are indicated by the flgutes given v above; and the cry 'gkTHTnl respect which succeeded the j rejudhe of a few years ago. Material prosperity in' alVeligloua or ganlxatlon may or nitty not be an indication of eai and piety on the part of the niembt rs of it When this prosperity is due to the sacrifices of poor people who contribute from their scanty wages the mites which in the aggregate make wealth then it is a fair inference that a mlfchty interest has been And the Salvation Army awakened eemS to tie entliely prosperous. The headquarters of the army in the United States has Just bet n established in a large new building In Fourteenth street. New York, built a an expense of I20,-Oton land width cost 1160,900. There is picture of this building In this pv seen, it is an imposing per, and as will if not a beautiful stiucture. The architect has endea voted to put up a house fitted for commeri lal purpose's In the lower story, but with something of the feudal aspect of a fortress of a eastle. The army occupies all tiie building save the two stores on either side of the main street entrance. Behind these store on the first floor there Is a meeting hall which will seat 500 persons. On the second floor there is a halt where 2,500 may be seated. The remainder of the HE NATIONAL v. of --v e 1 the needful requirements for the desired inter-tribmatrimonial alliance. The young male .Parnunkeys are particularly desirous of wives from among the eastern Cherokee maidens, and at the same time the femMe Parnunkeys, while less demonstrative, in outward manifestations, are llkewlib anxious to secure eligible husbands fro in the same tribe; so that if all goes wbll in the pending negotiations down tft. North Carolina, both classes hope to be agreeably suited. ; of the Daughter American Revolu- tlon, In its cholfe of a new - -- president- - general at the recontinental cent congress has continued to allow the estab- -' precedent " nsiicdln TfvSc aw cf Ita first leader, the late Mis. Benjamin Harrison, and ad- hered to with its second, Mrs. Adlal E. Stevenson, for In electing to chief office Mra Mary Parke Foster, wife of John W. Foster, of state, and at present peace commissioner for China, the revolutionary society has . chosen a woman allied to the nation's x official center. Neither has it swerved from Rs former requirements as regards the personnel of Us chief officer. Mrs. Foster combines the same womanly virtues and force of intellect possessed by her predecessors, and, as in their ease, 4he honor came to her unsought and uncoveted. She Is a charter member of the Boelety Wnd was an active member of its national board of managers during the presidency of her near and dear friend, Mra. Caroline Scott Harrison. Because of her long and varied experience In foreign lands, where she accompanied her husband on his official missions, Mrs, Foster baa added many accomplishments to her natural gifta and previous cultivation. In Mexico, Spain, Russia and other realms site mastered the language of the country, and went among the people to study their life and habits, and wrote many valuable papers oh the results of her research. Everywhere she received, with her husband, marked attention from royalty and nobility alike. In Spain she entered the court circles of the young Alphonss XII., while In St. Petersburg the czar and czarina treated her with especial favor. During her stay In that city occurred the czar s assassination. .She, spent part of her time In translating Russian fiction Into her own tongue. In her recent pleasure with trip around the world. In companywhich Mr. Foster, India was the spot most charmed her, filled as It Is wllh ancient and historical mosques, tombs and templet. Mrs. Foster is possessed of a charm- - al . ROBERT T. MRS. M. P. FOSTER, ing personality, and though domestio In tastes, and not overmuch given to public life, yet she takes pleasure In' entertaining her friends, and every He- -' cember, with Mr. Foster, the gives a series of elaborate functions, for which their palatial residence on I street. Washington, Is well fitted, Surrounded by luxury, the gentle chatelaine Is yet as simple and kindly asherhumbieat worker, though she" hears the stamp of birth and breeding. She 1 an earnest laborer In the church, charitable to a degree, an advocate of the higher education of women, and friendly to all movements that may widen the latter's Opportunities for use fulness, though she smilingly declares that She herself has always had all the rights she could wish for. With such beauty of character and powerful environment, the new president of the society Is sure to enlarge it scope and Influence and under her just and wise rule even a greater future opens before It. HORN. The Man Who Is Contesting for Tara- - f, locating the New York ft New Haven load. He began as a rod man, but in neyg Seat In Congress. tftte time graduated as a thoroughly Few men have taken a more active part In the development and progress Southwest than Hon. Robert trained, skilled and practical civil He wag appointed assistant engineer, of the fitockbridge ft 1'Ulbf.f Id He was born valley rohd. In 1861 he came west ana took charge of the construction of a section of tbe Illinois CentraL His headquarters were at LaSalle and the residents of that place elected him mayor, in the coming eongrer In Pennsylvania, of rev in stock, .tionary while still He became a printer In 1855 became a resident of Kansas City and founded the Journal newspaper which, under his long editorship has been one of the leading commercial and political papers of the west. He was elected mayor of Kansas City In 1861 on the Union ticket and soon after organized the first troops for the union army raised In western Missouri, He was major and lieutenant colonel of the Twenty-fift- h Missouri Infantry and made an excellent record at Lexington, Shiloh, Corinth, and participatA CHEROKEE MISS, ed In many important movements in other head men of the eastern Chero- the south and southwest His services kees In person at Bird Town, Wolf were so greatly needed at home to direct Town. Soca and Big Cove, and bring the destinies of the wavering state, the negotiations to a favorable conclu-- . however, that he was elected to the Whether the hardy Cherokee senate .of the state pbile still In the slon. mountaineers will consent to ally them- field, and In 1864 he was elected to con- selves with the Pamunkey dwellers at tidewater without too flattering inducements is doubtful, but the Parnunkeys themselves are confident of success and hope for a speedy Infusion of new blood Into theif tribe. This plight of the Parnunkeys and the peculiar conditions that give rise to R are the morejioteworthy.from the fact that the members of the tribe are the lineal descendants of the old Powbatans of the days of Captain John Smith and Pocohontas, dwelling on a part of their original hunting grounds, and representing all that Is left of the once powerful aboriginal confederacy w hleh gave the. early Virginia colonists so much trouble, until expelled from the Jamestown region in 1644. Their progenitors possessed the land when Captain Newport In 1607 founded Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement on the American continent. Consequently the present Parnunkeys are the real blue bloods" among all the Indians surviving in thlscounlry today, and they form the largest remnant of the old Algonquin stock now to be found on the Atlantic coast. Only a few ROBERT T. VAN HORN, trifling offshoots and uncertain and feeble strains of blood remain of the other greet. As congressman he was untirPowhatan tribea The Parnunkeys alone ing In hi efforts to build up the west have survived Intact the encroachments and originated many measures of great Importance to the rapid settlement of of civilization, add although their manners are now modified their blood Im- the vast territory. He served in conpoverished, their language lost and gress two terms, and was later strongly a 1824. boy, and -- . rope. 1 which is jrhe only political office ho 1856 he was appointed chief engineer of the Joliet & Chicago road, out of which Hie Chicago ft Alton has actually grown. He was elected president In 1861, and three years later, when the road became part of the Alton system, he wai chosen president of the new company. At that time the road had only 550 miles of tracks Its present mileage Is over 1.000 miles Mr. Blackstone has .always been alert to adopt new Improvement. If) was an Alton coach which was transformed Into the first Pullman sleeper and was on the Alton the first dining-car- s Were run. Jeffersonian simplicity is a marked characteristic of Mr. Black-stonHe Is easier of access than any other railroad president In the country) He Is large-heartand generous to a fault and recently established a public library to the memory of his father In his native town. T- SALVATION ever held.' In -- e. ed - A DISTINGUISHED The Coanten VISITOR, Knllrnmn of Austria in the Country A distinguished Austrian lady, the Countess Huffman,' Is Row in this counb try, accompanying His Excellency Imad Nawaz Jung Bahadur, of Hyderabad, and Ms wife, who are visiting America for the first time. The countess Is returning to Vienna from a visit to the orient, and the party arrived In San Francisco on the City of Peking some time ago. The countess; husband. Count Huffman, occupies a high position In the Austria!! court, fihe is not one of the nawab's party, but has been the traveling companion of the nawab's wife since they were accidentally thrown together at Hong Kong, fihe will Accompany the ngwab and his wife to Europe. j, Na-wa- Stops in Hot Weather, A Spanish paper In the Pyrenees regularly suspends publication In hot weather. ' HEADQUARTERS. church, to which the masse gladly and profitably go. At the meetings of 'the army 'no bewildering ecclesiastical theories are discussed and so far no officer of the army ha been for .heresy, , The army is military in Its organization, and Its operations are always against the devil and all his works." Gen. William Booth of England is 'commander-in-chle- f. and his son, Booth, Is commander of the United States forces," These American people's will court-martial- ed Bal-llngt- on have garrisons In 430 cities and States, and the force conoutsist of 644 corps and number posts, The general officer 1,782, while the local officers and bandsmen number 2,660, During 1894 there forces thirty-nin-e fifty-eig- ht sre held 138,040 open-ai- r meetings. thoce who attended the meetings of the year which ended last September numbered 18.790,400. In New York City there Is a branch of the army called he slum brigade," especially organized for work where the people are particularly debased by poverty misery and crime, says Harper's Weekly. When this work was begun It was found to be. quite perilous, for the dwellers In thw slums" are usually hardened persons' who have scant respect for anything save brute force. Rut even here the Salvation Army soldiers made their way.by their earnestness, their directness and the unselfishness of their motives. When Baillngton Booth made a general report last autumn he presented the statistic of the 'slum work" for the preceding twelve month Here are the figures as given by him And hi his own words: Souls saved, 1,134; families visited, saloons visited, 40,613: tenements Prayed in, 21.884; dealt with In, saloons and streets, 72,110; meals given. 36.538; garments- - given or sold, 11.164; sick cases nprsed. 1,454; children cared for, 8,792; hours mending end street work, 12,666; washing rooms, 126. a year's work of a While 7; building, which extends through the block to Thirteenth street, is occupied for offices, dormitories, and so forth. The building was opened with ceremonies conducted by4 the highest offi' cers of the army. . Smith A fries Kaffir Choir, When In the course of their singing the words become especially deep and full of meaning, the bodies of the ting ere away from eld to aide, and the hands beat the time. This swaying is especially noticeable in the Song of the Bell"! the body seems to Imitate the THE UTILITY OF FLATTERY, motions of the tongue that strikes the fall back quivering, and Mss Sized WUh the bell, then l the Haggles on th other side. Another down plunges Intelligent Fses, , Is In narrative, describing the song beSay." began Haggles, you see progress of a family of natives from the i 7 fore forest on a Journey to th coast. The to Oh. I know what you are going listener is suposed to heat a house a say," Interrupted the man, Your wife the side of the road upon which the Is sick, your children are starving, procession Is to pas. At first he hears your house leaks c.,d you yourself them faintly, then louder and louder, haven't had anything to eat for thirty until the singing family reach his door; - , , lx hours" then he too, with all the members of hia Youre on to me. aint you?" household. Joins them with his voice WelL X should say. and bands until the party passes away Been i tire Journey this singing and clapping That's what 1 haver ' "It's a pretty smart man that work of bands are kept up. Although you I knowed that when I cannot understand the word of thw you for a coin. first seen you. I says to myself that a song, it ,1s o vividly pictured that you man with such an Intelligent face As catch Its meaning without a conscious - . , you has cant, be fooled. But I goes effort on your part, and tries better Jedgment my against If, and now see what a fool I've made , Italy la "Hard Cp Of myself, I humbly axe your pardon," The late King Cecco of Naples w and Raggles made a humble obeisance, entitled through his mother, the PrMs Oh, you needn't feel so bad about ess Christine of Savoy, to 180,000 ajlSar. it," replied the man. "Here, take this," but Count Cavour confiscated as a measure ofripublio and he deposited a quarter in Raggles Uncalloused palm, and strode on. safety." but really and truiyUfcecause Flattery pays, and it dont cost United Italy was so terribly hard up much," said Haggles to himself as he that he did not know wbao Is now going t oAt made started to find his friend Dusty, and by tell him to head off the soft and shining the king s heirs on the maternal side Don Carlos, his brother.-'rtno- e mark on the next block Alphon-s- o, and th Ducheas opold of Bavaria for the restltUAon of the propI Graeco, Bosds , Good erty. The success pf h!s attempt seem oblemattcaL HumGreece at the present Urn has over to be somewhat 2.000 miles cf wagon road, built, in bert Is a very bjiSest man, but Italy at a to even harder sy now thsft when Uec-e- oa many instances, over mountains cash was --Onflscated cost Of 810,009,000. j. you" - . the$5rop-ertyvavowed- a, ly ad-pllcat-lon , |