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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12

f Is no sooner done than the hogan is
tIeyeled 10 the ground and the spot
abandoned If the deceased has no
relatives or is not a person of impor-
lance in the tribe, no grave is dug, but
the hogan simply pulled down over
the body A Navajo would sooner
freeze THAI kindle fire with the logs
Of a fallen hogan. have seen these NOR
tuary hogans in the mountains. Thesur-
viyors smear themselves on the fore
head and under the eyes with tar as
sign of mourning. When il wears off IL
is not put on again, and the name of
the dead is never mentioned In case
for any reason the body be, removed
from the hogsn it is buried in clefts OF
rock, and stones piled over 1t, and the
hogan and all in it are burned up. Old
people, when ali hope is gone are often
abandoned in the brush and left to die
of starvation alone The only instance
of burial in a tree is stillborn child.
This custom among the Navaios nc
counts for the absence Of any archi-
tectural development in the construc-
ton of their houses. They are built to
be brought down or burned
The eastern Indians. Us a general
rule. buried their dead in the ground.
often on the tops Of hills, with stone
eneircied mounds raised slightly over
shallow graves, in which the trappings
- the dead were buried with them, and
sometimes in the case 81 a chief his
fayoritc horse Sometimes the grave Of
a great war chief was covered with
/ large stabilize stones thrown ON 10y each
brave for a certain period of time as he
passed the spot The body was general
/ " buried in sitting posture; four day
fires were lighted 70 lamp the depart
I'd on his way, according TO the sacred
numeral four. among all Indians. The
Montauls of Long Island and other
/ kindred tribes buried their dead in this
way. The Mohawks of New York dug
a large, round hole in which the body
was placed in sitting or upright
posture, Wampum and trappings and
paint were all put on the dead This
grave was covered over with timber to
support the earth laid upon il, which
they raised into gentle mound
Thus the body was not pressed by
the clay. The Delawares in New Ier-
sey buried their dead in pits and under
rocks The Carolina Indians have an
| expensive and prolonged ceremonial.
The corpse IS first placed in q cane hur-
die and then put into an outhouse,
where il is kept carefully guarded for a
day and a night At the end of that
time the first living brave met 10y the
mourucrs is robbed Of his blanket In
this the dead is wrapped and then COW
cred with TWO or three cane mats. The
colin IS woven If canes fastened at
both ends securely Then the corpse Is
carried into The peaeh orchard ana there
laid in second hurdle The family
ana friends circle round The medi-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12
500 Reward. 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure il all its stages, and
that is Catarrb. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Uatarrh being q
constitutional disease, requires a consti-
tutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces Of
the system. thereby destroy ing the
foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in
doing lis work. The proprietors have
so much faith in its curative powers,
that they offer One Hundred Dollars for
any case that it fails to cure. Send for
list of testimonials.
Address. +. J. CHENEY & co :.
Toledo, o. Rs~Sold by Druggists,
15c $50
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12

its eternal youth. Itmellows the sun in
It's midday twilight to moon Of days,
and, bowed with snow, holds in its mys-
terious spell the leafy shut of summer.
1t is the ululant tree.
What a weird reflection of sounds
plays in its muffied harp!-the low sigh
as the dream breath of tho zephyr stirs
in IL; the pathetic moan as the swell OF
the breeze phrases It's rising and falling
cadences; the long drawn wall of the
wind as II blows down the echoing can
yon; the howl of the red savage as the
fury Of the blast smites its wry head
and seams its twisted trunkl II is fur
tive, stealthy, secluded. IL listens. II
points with tasselled finger tips to the
wizardry of its black sandals on the
snowy turf. There is whisper, a cry,
a step in its strewn shadows. II is the
silhouette of old night The dusk face
came out Of it's dark. But there is
burial trait of the pine tree which has
been strangely overlooked even by dem
biological writer's. II is the secret
process of embalming, particularly in a
Try, rajnlcas air, which. preserving a
va tiNtfs iiAstNfHN ~ a III mummy cave
To this melancholy tree the Navajo
mother goes on only ono errand-to
bury stillborn child
The twilight Of Il winter day tinged
the deep ravne as ] rode down the
steep trail along the dizzy precipice
into the canyon below was supcrbly
mounted on a little trained horse, who.
prieking his cars and putting his nose
toward the ground, smelled out the dim
trail in the evening Of the forest like
keen pointer. A little behind me rode
the gallant young guide, Hunt, fully
armed and fearless alike by day or
night in the wide detour we were max
ing through the Indian country. Sud-
denly my horse stopped, pricked for
ward his fine ears and shifted suspi-
eiously.
''Ile scents something" said the
guide. ! was about to give him his
head and bid him go on when, raising
my eyes on seeing the sagacious animal
lift Ais muzzle and sniff the air again,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12

saw a dark. queer-iaoking object
stretched from limb to limb about half
way up pine tree that stood just be
fore me.
''What is that9" ASKED the guide,
pointing 10 it Ut the same time with my
whip.
The guide, following the direction Of
my hand, looked up at the tree and ex-
claimed:
THAT is an Indian grave, See, it IS
the grave Of child. They bury a still
born child in pine tree"
Born dead" ] replied "a mothers
strapgest sorrow"
Determined to satisfy myself thor
oughly about thing which is consid-
cred the most curiou, mormary custom
Of any Indian tribe, | dismounted from
my horse, who had secured for me by
his keen sense the opportunity % seeing
what had heard about but never
found, and, leaving the well-trained
creature standing unfastcned on the
trail, approached the tree. As ! did 50
! saw that the objectvas plainly little
parfleehe, blanketed and sided with
burial boards, one az VI hich had fallen
to the grounc | also saw that the
branches Of the tree leading up Il the
burial case were barled near the trunk
one above another, as If they had been
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12
SEPULCHERS IN TREES.
How the Navajo Mother Sends Her
Baby to It's Final Sleep.
story Of the Trance sIeeper-The secret
Of Ouray-A Grave at the Bottom
Of the Stream-Odd Charac-
teristics Of some Chiefs.


fit he true that we originally sprang
from trees, and like those humanesque
yerd-autiqucs there is as much Of the
human race under ground as above it,
then the pine tree IS the true ambush
ont of which the shade Of the sable In
dian sprang and back 70 whosSclosed
Is struck. The totems, the watons,
the masonry Of the medicine bag are all
inclosed in its burial urn and the Druid
ical legends Of aboriginal destiny sealed
in the chronicles Of its apocryphal
books. The pine tree is the true Indian
funeral tree. 1t keeps the ghost Of the
dead fed az its granary and the memory
Of the departed green in the tropics of
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12

climbed by the feet Of persons anxious
TO see such a rare and peculiar object Of
curiosity. In ascending the tree limb
by limb reached, at last, the little
grave. A jealous crow called ont over
head to me as bent over it searching
~. Sure enough, there lay the little
whitened skeleton. Some Of the bones
were missing. but still enough re-
manned to tell the story. The covering
through which il peeped out at me was
partially dragged apart, probably by
some persistent bird of prey, but the
case boards. with their holes. through
which the cords were passed that held
them together, still pressed the tiny
stranger. whose little form had met the
strange mystery of death at the very
portals of life.
Descending from the tree picked up
the fallen case board with the cord holes
in it, and climbing my horse renewed
my journey.
Born deadr' Born dead" Those
words kept ringing in my ears as the
horse moved slowly forward.
Scarcely had ] left the spot when
loud undulating sound, hardly less hu-
man than the broken sobs of the mother
herself, called loudly over the little
stretcher out Of the top of the pine tree.
"C-o-o-o-o-o-h!''
II was certainly a startling coinci-
dental sound. Had an Indian heard it,
with that stretched grave before him,
he would have hurried from the spot,
filled as he is with superstitions about
the dead, and, calling it bad medi-
cine" refilled his medicine bag with a
new charm secret. But an Indian never
revisits the grave of stillborn child.
| recognized the sound instantly as the
familiar voice TO me of the screech owl,
who, lingering round the remains of
the dead, broods like an evil spirit in
such haunted places, repeating in this
instance, however, the death knelling
dirge that would have been uttered ~
the Navajo mother had her soul passed
into the ominous bird at the death of
her little one
The pitch of the terebonthine tree,
as ] have since learned, is prime death
medicine. 1t is in the medicine bag.
All the mortuary customs of Indian
tribes may be summed up in the tale of
the pine tree.
The burial of the dead among the Ma
vajos is peculiar to themselves. A re-
semblance only to their mortuary Gus
toms is to be found among the Round
Valley Indians, of California, the Ka-
gonlas and Billoxis, of Louisiana, and
the Indians Of Virginia. The Navajo,
however, is the more unique. The
house is the grave. The body is buried
just where 1t dies As soon as death
takes place shallow grave is scooped
in the center of the hogan. In this
grave the body Is placed by the nearest
relatives, who previously smear their
bodies with tar from the pinion tree In
order to protect themselves against the
evil influence OF the DEVILS work This
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12
Good Looks.

GOOD looks are more than skin deep.
depending upon healthy condition Of
all the vital organs. If the Liver be
inactive you have Bilious Look. if
your stomach be disOrdered YOU have a
Dyspeptic Look and if your Kidneys be
effected you have q Pinched Look.
secure good health and you vii have
good looks. Electric Bitttrs is The great
Alternative and Tonic acts directly on
these organs. Cures Pimples. Blotches,
Boils and gives real complexion
Sold at Jos. 7. Benefits Drugstore,
soc. per bottle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12
Mary c.. THOMPSON

teacher of cooking, Minneapolis. says:
"Having used Horsford's Baking
Powder, and enquired into its merits, /
can recommend the same as the most
wholesome, healthest, strongest and
most reliable powder manufactured.
and hereafter l will recommend it to
my cooking school. l consider it has
one advantage over all other. being a
food as well as baking powder. l
most cheerfully recommend It's use 10
all who are interested in the best
foods. 4"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12

Travellers may learn "a lesson from
Mr.. c. ID. Cone, prominent attorney
OF Parker, Dakota, who says: II never
leave home without taking bottle of
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhea Remedy with me, and on
many occasions have run with it to the
relief of some sufferer and have never
known it to fail" For sale by Jos T.
Bennett. Druggist.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12
eUckLIN,s ARNIcn enlv

5UCkLlN'S ARNlCA SALvE.
The best salve in the world for Cuts,
Beuises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores. letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, CorAs. and all Skin Erup.
tons, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed 20 give
perfect satisfaction, or money rel anded
Price 70 CENTS per box. For sale by
JOSEPH L. BENNETT. 48lv
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12

The continual succession of boils.
pimples and eruptions from which
many suffer, indicates an impure state
OF the blood. The most effective rem
edy is Ayers Sarsaparilla. 1t expels
the poison harmlessly through the nat
ural channels, and leaves the skin clean
and clear.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.

When BABY was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them cas.oria
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12

The merit of Hoods Sarsaparilla is
proven by the many wonderful cures 1t
is accomplishing. 1t is just the medi-
cine for you.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12

Philadelphia Record The auctioneer
IS the only man who likes to see his
customers wear forbidding aspect.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12

| think I'll lay low for while, as the
hen remarked when she made her nest
in the sub-cellar.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12

Texas Siftings: He who said 1.-The
world is my oyster" did not like the
world in hot weather.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12

Lowell Courier: The chemists best
girl is analyzer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12

The brain of a man is twice as lare @
as thai of any other animal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12

Somervl.3 journal: Persistency is
great virtue, but it is hard to admire ii
IN fiN
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12

| feel il my duty to say few words
in regard to Ely's Cream Balm. and
do so entirely through solicitation.
have used it more or less half year,
and have found it to be most admirable.
| have suffered from catarrh Of the
worst kind ever since was little bov
and | never hoped for cure, but Cream
Balm seems to do even that. Many Of
my acquaintance have used it with
excellent results. Oscar Ostrun. as
Warren Ave, Chicago, III. 45-47
Cough Cream is a scientific com
pound fol coughs and colds. prepared
BY q weH-known druggist from the for
mula q Q celebrated physician. aud
mus not be cles>ed witch tile many
quaok compounds in marke. Your
druggist sells it. 81 cts.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12

THE use Of 'Castoria is so universal and
its merits so well known that it seems a work
of supererogatiOn TO endorse it. Few are the
Intelligent families who do not keep CastOria
within easy reach"
CARLOS MARTYR, D. D.,
New York City.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12
for Infants and Children.

"Castoriaissowena adapted to children that
recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me-" H. A. ARCHER, ". D.,
Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, NY.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-12

Castoria cures Collie. CONSTIPATION.
Sour Stomach, Diarrh0a. Eructation.
Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di-
geStion,
without injurious medication.
For several years have recommended
your Cast0ria, and shall always continue to
do so as il has invariably produced beneficial
results"
EDWIN F. PARDEB, NJ. D.,
"The Winthrop, 125th Street and 7th Ave,
New York City.
COMPANY, = MURRAY STREET, New YORK.
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the living There are few very de
PRAYED tribes who eat their dead and
thus become living sepulchres entombed
with the departed
Posts, with Indian characters graved
On them, are sometimes placed at the
heads of graves. fires are lindled.
dances are performed, sacrifices offered.
feasts made and gambling INDUCED in
with plum stones, enthusiastically
marked The superstitions INDUCED in
are MS sadly grotesque ana as cruelty
imperious as the ignorance Of the prim-
tive race can make them.
The Indian breads death. He will
take no open or even chances for his
life until he is certain that he has yours
first. He is always armed. An Indian
without his gun is dead Indian.
Such are the various mortuary GUS
toms Of the Indian country.
All this the pine tree told me as it
sang its lullaby in the hushed UP valley
around that little grave. For he it re-
memhered that whatever be tie mode
Of burial, ~ some mysterious way of
embalming, or strewiug, or staving,
or forking, or posting or scaffold-
ing, or picketing, Or tree burial, in
some way the pine tree plays its
part The shades OF the dead ghost
in its hearsed sableS. the plumes Of
the warrior toss on its tasseled tins.
the medicine If the eoniurer turks in its
legendary secrets the miracle Of heal
Ing works IL - brand scattering bal
The state chronicle., 1893-04-26

IHE reported invention of a sue
cessful carbonic acid gas engine be-
longs to the class of things which
are highly important if true. The
problem to which all inventive
minds are apt to direct themselves
IN our time is that of utilizino
forces which may be had more
cheaply than by the burning of coal
There Is in carbonic acid = vast
store of force easily and chesplv
produced. If it can be utilized
there will be gain of incalculable
advantage to the world, and nany
inventors have made their heads
ache in attempts to devise practica-
oie means for its use. George H.
Chapelle, Of Cleveland, Ohio, thinks
ne has solved the problem and that
ne will be able presently to put in
operation an engine under the enor-
NOUS pressure of $500 pounds to
the square inch, the power COSTING o
so nearly nothing as to be almost
out OF consideration
The state chronicle., 1893-04-26

stick OF it remains. But the family
had . most remarkable escape, no,
one OF them receiving serious irju.
ries.
George Mclaughlin, who owned
the first home in Clarke county, is
tonight shelterless, not a roof re.
naming on his place. McLaugh.
lin and his family were in the up
per story of his home when the
WIND hit it. but escaped without in
jury. while his home was entirely
ruined. His house was a new one,
ana cost $1,000 to build, and he had
no insurance.
Every fence and barn on his place
was destroyed, and much valuable
stock was killed.
A valuable Spanish jack was con-
hned IN q log barn on the place OF
Dr. krausse and the cyclone took
the top OF OF the barn and piled it
down to within about four feet of
the ground, scattering the logs
nltaer and thither, but when I got
there today the jack was calmly
surveying the scene from the barn,
which had been transferred into q
very comfortable pen.
Four negroes, whose names could
not be learned, were killed on plan
tations OF Nc Laughlin an Aldridge.
Iwo were women and two children.
A peculiar phenomenon happened
on DR.. Krausse's place. A heavy
cotton mattress was blown out the
up stars bedroom, and in it's flight
1t struck stump, which stripped it
OF It's ticking, and the cotton flew
across the underground, to which
small particles of the white staple
would cling, and today it looks as
II snow storm about 200 feet wide
mad swept over the ground.
The large steam gin and grist
mill OF q. 81. Adams, near Pachuta,
was completely destroyed.
The saddest story of the storm is
that of William Parten, whose fate
was most appalling. He, with his
wife and three children, occupied a
small house directly in the path of
the storm, and how it was swept
away no one can tell. Parten was
found dead half a mile from his
house; his wife was found under an
immense log, and two of his children
were lying lifeless near by his home,
while the third, a little child of 4
years, was crying piteously for help,
after night of exposure, when
found by the seachers this morning.
Eleven negroes are known to have
been killed in the neighborhood of
Pachuta but their names could not
be ascertained.
The whole country is strewed
with the dead bodies of horses and
cattle, and barnyard fowls have
been found miles from anv human
The monetary loss in Clark county
alone will reach 100000. Crops
are destroyed and the people who !
escaped | death are homeless and |
destitute.
The state chronicle., 1893-04-26
Sale Of The State Chronic|e
- -+O+-

BY virtue Of certain martgsg.. exec1
ted py the. hronicle Publishing Company
corporation TO J isephus Daniels as re-
coroec IN bock l2i, p :ge 26i of the re-
cords of rne Office OF Register of Dee.s for
wake county, | Will sell to the highest
bidder for cash at the court house door of
wake county, in Raleigh, y. C., on The
yth day of May, 1893, az IL o'clock NJ. the
following described property. to-wit: The
neWspap r published in the city of Raj
e'gh, N. -, daily and weekly under the
name and style OF the STAT CHhoNICLK,
and ali the types pressing. imposing Stones
mailing ty' and galleys, Cases, fixtures
once furniture materials, and prop rty be
longing or apperiaining to said Chronicle
fuoilshlpg ompany, used with SAID news
paper, or In any m8nner cams cted with il
ana also the subs. riprion books, and
advertising books, good will, franchises
anu contracts Tor advertising of said cor-
poration and newspaper.
JOSEPHCS DANIELS.
Mortga.ee.
The state chronicle., 1893-04-26
The +, caterpillars Asaln Stop a Train.
Charlotte News.

1ne Caterpillars Again Stop q Train.
Charlotte News.
Last year about this time, the
News noted the fact tfof an immense
number of caterpillars crossing the
track of the Carolins Central rail-
road, at Big Swamp, between Lum-
berton and Clarkton. The number
of these insects crossing the rails at
one time stopped the passage of q
train on this road. A copy of the
News containing the article was sent
to Uncle Jerry Rusk, then Secretary
OF Agriculture, and the Secretary
sent correspondent from the Ag
ricultural Department to Lumber
ton to investigate the matter. He
found that the facts as noted in the
News were correct. The same Incl
dent recurs this year. Saturday,
as the west-bound passenger train
passed Big Swamp, the driving
wheels of the engine began to slip
and in a few seconds the train was
at standstilI. Upon investigation
it was found that the track for sew
eral hundred yards was covered
with these insects, from one to two
inches in depth, and it was with the
greatest difficulty that the train
passed on its western journey. The
track OF the Carolina Central di-
vldes this swamp and it seems that
the caterpillars are going to and
from each side OF the swamp, and
the nearest route is across the rail-
road track. The wheels and trucks
OF trains coming into Charlotte from
Wilmington bear evidence of the
murderous act they have accom-
plished in passing Big Swamp.