The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-08-30

All the disagreeable work is put up
on the women.
They attend church, Missionary
Baptist, Methodist or Quaker. but
their religious sincerely is only sur
facedeep. There is one school in
each town, and in Yellow Hill there
is a very good industrial school.
The schools are kept up by the gov
ernment-let out by contract to the
lowest bidder. A fair per centage
OF the children 60, but recess is all
they study about. They are taught
English, and wear shoes and hats.
only tG go back home and discard
the entire layout, English language,
shoes and hats. The children are
paid to come to school. The man
that took the government contract
to teach them pays them one cent a
day to come to him. The schools
don't do any good. Not one in a
hundred can speak English, and
then only broken. They quit Eng
fish when they quit school. Their
alphabet has eighty. six letters, and
yet little fellows not more than ten
years of age can read and write in
Cherokee. There is a paper pub
lished in Talequah, the capital of
the Indian Territory, one side Of
which is printedin Cherokee. There
are number of subscribers among
the North Carolina Cherokees, and
they watch for it very eagerly.
The Indians as a usual thing, are
honest and truthful and the maidens
virtuous and the squaws faithful.
The women are mere drudges, mar
ry young and die young. A strap
ping big Indian will make his wife
carry heavy load on her back,
papoose strapped to the bundle,
while her vagabond husband will
walk along in front throwing rocks
at birds or hornets nest.
They distrust white men. They
seem to think that the whites are a
superior people, and the less they
trade with the whites the richer the
Indians will be. They despise ne
gro. This is the way an Indian puts
it-"White man, Indian, Indians
dog, negro"
OF late years their marriages have
mostly been performed just as among
the whites-license and preacher.
An improvement on their old Gus
tom, wild celebration and feast, get
you hut and put your squaw in it
and consider yourself married.
A real Indian seems out of pro-
portion to white man. For in
stance, they 90 and hunt for days to
find a suitable laurel tree. Then
they spend two or three days cutting
out wooden comb, and walk thirty
or forty miles to sell it for fifteen
cents. Same way with tent cent
wooden spoon or a twenty-five cent
breadtray. Old Mike Walkingstick
carried peck Of chestnuts sixty
miles over the mountains and sold
them for ten cents. One Indian
murdered another not long since
just for pair of shoes aud a quart
of whisky. Another one shot COW
that he couldn't catch, and then
took off her bell and sold it for a
drink of whisky. The COW was
worth $50 and was not even used
for beef. The bell was all he want
ed.
Again, they can be sublime in
their conceptions. DR.. Miller
preached a powerful sermon to the
Indians once and after it was over
he asked an Indian if he understood
the idea of the trinity-three per-
sons in one God.
eyes"
"What is it p
Snow, ice, water" said the In
dian.
Their game is with bats and ball.
Poles are six yards apart, and di-
rectly in front 200 yards off,two poles
are set up the same away. The ball
is thrown straight up, midway be-
tween. Any number can play, but
equal on each side. AS the ball
starts down, both sides rush. The
object is to catch it on the bat in the