The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-05-22


drive her in when required for the
use of little Charles,-our New
World baby--and her white fee
are continually made red with WHO
Strawberries.
The new settlement begins tc
look quite lively now, with the
gardens around the cabins, the
patches of grain and all. About
thirty of our tenantry have clung
to us through evil and through
good report, and these are for the
most part able and efficient work
peopls. Joe. Naseby hath a neat
rail to his garden ground, and some
sort of ornament and structure on
the top of his house to entice the
wild pigeons,-a cupola like;
When our grey stone dwelling is
done / shalt feel something like
ornamentation, it may be, and for
my childrens' sake, and especially
Alice, [ shall like to make things
look enticing, l think people get
beauty of soul with growing up
among pretty thiugs, particularly
Urls but all. indeed, should have
their home beautified so that they
may love to stay in it or come to 1T
as the case may be. The holy
Pascal said not much of any more
worth than these words: "MOst of
the evil of this world grows out of
peoples discomfort to stay at
home. THAT is true, Now how
shall they love home if home is
not made lovely? Here then we
have the key to our family's
destiny.
will not wait for the new
house for this. / will take An
drew, William and Alice
Thomas has gone a hunting with
his father and John Mackey,-
and plant, this day, some of the
prairic-roses to run beside the
door and on the roof.
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Groom. all came by while the
children and [ set the plants by
our cottage. lie shook his head.
"Wrong," he said, "the Great
Spirit put the herbs where he
want um;" and when Alice
brought him a bowl of clabber he
turned away in great disgust, the
while uttering-"Rotten! no
good"
The child gets used to him and
the other Indians better than l
ever shall. She has many friends
among them, as have the boys,
TOO oE6 thov call her n sweet
namc-"White DOve"-but for
all that they give me the same
feeling as did those painted
Mountebanks of the Christmas
festivities at Darley. [ always
am startled when one of them ap-
pears before me.
John Mackey is like many 9TH
era. lie is good in giving help to
any outside of home. | think,
on the contrary, all good offices
should begin and spend their best
strength there.
John Lewis prospered with his
clearing, his crops and his build
ing. and John Mackey helps him
or anybody else who will hunt
with him now and then, but he
lays up nothing for himself, and
his household might gather many
comforts around, if he would act
different.
My husband hath located one
hundred thousand acres of good
land, but when he goes out to eX-
plore and choose what is rich and
the best, poor Mackey will 60
along to hunt buffalo.
John said to me n Thursday,
"Peg," always calls me Peg
after dinner, yet [ should say that
though lie gets his bowl of toddy
for dinner, a moro sober man is
not in the Old Dominion-said
he" "Mackey has laid up not q
penny since he came to this set
Element"
Indeed | was very sure he had
not. We'll, if he lives at this
gait, l suppose the Indian heaven
will be good enough for him here
attcr,-broad hunting grounds
and plenty of deer and buffalo.
Our town of Staunton goes fine.
ly OF, thanks to John Lewis en-
terpriso and energy. 1t shall de
scend to its posterity that he has
Ibulded the first town in the val
ley 1t is about four miles from
our place of Beverly Mason here
which some call Lewis Fort.
Un.gee-wah-wah and his tribe
we find are not friendly to us, but
still, ifthey make further demon
stration, they captured three ot
our men yesterday, who made
them drunk and then got away,
we shall be able to hold our OWL
against them.
Our fort is formed of block
houses, stockades, and the cabins
The outside wal are ten to
twelve feet high. The block
houses are built at the angles o
the fort and project full two fec