The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-02-13
NO III
and who landed al R, mol . in 1881

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One Ct tie stIepaest IIcef The
he members cf ibe lcst cclcny
tter giving up being found by
beir English friends intelmarried
18th the oroatans is the fact that
t least forty out of ninety family
smes found on that colony roll
re still retained by the Croatans
{ Robinson County. North Caro-.
"a In addition to this Q great
nsny of the other names, with q
pbt change in the spelling, are
4 use among them. For instance
Dare is spelled "Daure," and II is
remarkable fact that the sur.
mes are retained, being repeated
yer and over, and handed down
rom generation to generation, 90
that on the school rolls are found
ubstantially the same names TO-
iay that appeared on the list pub.
iished in England after the calamity
that was supposed to have befallen
the colony.
This tribe is known to have
found the interior of North Caro-
lima as early as 1850, and in the
early history Of the State are de-
signated "free persons of COLOR"
They live in very primitive style,
raising their own fax, spinning
and weaving the oloth from which
their clothes are fashioned. Their
chief town, Stufietown, is a village
Of small houses, log or frame, ell
built along one street. They have
a church of their own, in which
there is a mingling Of true religion
and Indian superstition.
Blue eyes and auburn hair are
by no means rare among them,
though as rule they retain the
dark eyes and long black hair of
'e Indian race. However, their
,mplexions are fairer and their
.atures finer than those Of other
rIbes, go that even at the distance
three hundred years from the
ualgamstion of the races the
English blood in their veins asserts
right of way and makes them
Ifferent from other tribes Of their
lwn race.
They have a tradition that some
IF the proud English who would
not mingle with them, went of,
far toward the sunset, and lived
and died away from their half
Indian friends. Another tradition
among them is Of the "White
Angel" doubtless Virginia Dare,
who when she grew up, led her
people hither and thither, but
always right, and at last, when her
work ended she few upward, the
sky opening to receive her. from
which place che still watches over
the tribe, guardian angel to each
dusky maiden, whose promised re-
ward for good, pure life is that in
the eternal oity she shall be all
white and fair and lovely like the
White Angel who now keeps solemn
vigils over her.
Too many of US are looking for.
ward to happiness 10 the future
years instead of getting all the en-.
Joyment possible out of the pre-.
sent. 1t is we'll to remember that
the time never will come, in this
world, when We shall have every
thing We want just where and
when We want it. The only way
to be happy is to enjoy all We
have to the utmost as We go along.
1t is right to lay up for old age in
youth; right to prepare for a rainy
day, but it is not right to bend all
our energies to this end and put
off until the future the happiness
we might enjoy every day. II is
very common to see people work.
ing and saving, denying themsel.
YES all recreation and many oom.
forts. to lay up money to buy more
and, to enlarge their stock Ito
save for their ohildren) thinking
that when they hsve accomplished
this they will be happy and begin
to take comfort. The hoped for
point may never be attained, or if
it is. sickness or death may have
come first and the dear ones whom
we expected to be happy with may
be gone forever.
The Legislature Of Indiana has
under consideration 3 law taxing
bachelors. This strikes us as be-
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