UNIQUE METHODS OF COURTSHIP. cn;iot s c t sroM ok an \i:izona INDIAN TJ:jm:. Young People Noted for Their Strength and B'.iuty—Woman Respected and the Wife Head of the Family—The Betrothal Ceremony and Marriage. Out oil the "Painted Deserton the border line of northwestern Auzona, and extending ilown into Mexico, there lives a, i.: eof fiio most acclusive and el uini-h people mi the lace of the earth. The llopia are now I'ncle Sam's own people, ft r they have their homes on his reservations; and yet lew le-side- the Government officials who look after their welfare have even a reading aeijnain tanee with this ini cresting tribe of re I men, if red men they air. I' pretty go'crat conceded. says the i/>- in; fir- Times. ]'■ >t .'1! the |>uo'• lo peoples 112 i!;.' great i' -ii 1 lv-crl are Uusccn ! ,nts of the rice or ra es which doited the-e territori •- and south ern Colorado with tran.e leke houses and who are known as < lilT dweller*; Imt ljeyomi thai very little is kn l wn of them, ■even by their next door neighbor-. Or. Elizabeth Snyder of Philadelphia i- the first woman to penetrate into the heart life of the people. Recently returning from a lengthy visit anion!; the Ilopis.' she brought with her a i m>antic love story, the enacting of which gives a clear idea of the ancient customs still strictly adhered to l»y these people living right in our iniil-t. The young people on those rescrva- i tions are noted for their -tr- ngtli and beauty;, and Courtship among the Ilopis is just as ardent as in civilized circles. Marriage is a. sacred institution, and al though separation is countenanced there : can he no remarriage once a child is born < to the couple, ino marriageable ape is 13, and it is seldom a girl marries after 17. Although a virgin is treated with perfect, courtesy she does not leceive the same respect as a wife. Among the Ilopis the women are held in high esteem —they are treated with a gallantry remarkable among Indians. Unlike the women of other tribes, they perform only the lightest duties and are consulted on all transactions of note. The men farm and barter; they also make the clothing and househol 1 uten sils, The dressmaking is done in the kivas or underground ceremonial cham bers, where stone shelves run around the room, upon which the leather, cloth, &c., are placed for cutting. It was from young Gonorilliez, a fam ous llopi beau, that Or. Snyder gained an insight into the courtship and mar riage custom of this strange race of peo ple. Gonorilliez loved and was loved in turn by a popular belle knkywn as Mas hong-ce, or Butterfly Wings. He had al so won the affection of another young beauty, Alaxie. or Fleetfoot, and like the young gallant in song, he sighed, "How happy could I be with either were t'other dear charmer away." Both these young girls were ill high fa vor with the parents of Gonorilliez, while Newspaper Publisners and Job Printers! Bran new 8-point Roman newspaper body type, cast from standard formula type metal, at twenty-five cents per pound. Eleven-point lawbrief at 25e per pound. All unit or point set. (self-spacing.) Liberal discount for cash. Five hundred pounds up twenty-four cents. Immediate shipments. Empire Type Foundry, UPtf Dele van, N. Y. ,-c ' w,.. . '■■■ . 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This ieve ils the curious proposal cus tom am .ig the Ilopis. When a maiden, Usually between 1'! and 15, bus selected the young man -he wishes to marry, she M.'iulii - tin iact by calling upon his mother and -isters, ii he has any. As , i he llopi- are a very sociable race and ! visit e ich other coutinualh she is obliged ' to c.i'l day after day, in order that her intentions may be known, I r she speaks lin word of hive either to members of her own family or those oi her choice. The maiden during her calls never ad dresses the young man nr does she men tion his name, in fact he lrei|Uently does > not know of her visits, beiir; occupied alii Id. When, however, the mot her or sisters I'eel convinced of the purpose of their visit r's numerous e:i!ls. and it tfley are well pleased with the maiden, the on a.- laan is notified, and then eomiuei.. j Ihe grinding or I ctrotluil ceremony I continued until nightfall, when a small lire was made of eoha over which an | earthen olla was placed. When this was | ' siiflieientl\ heated the meal v. as stirred j 'ilimit in it by means «;f a round wicker ! lteater, to keep it from burniug. Then I the least cakes were made and refresh- I 1 meuts were served. The festival eon j tinned three days amid much merriment, | the quests coming-anil going at will, and | always partaking of refreshment, which > ; was kept in waiting. When the ceremony t\as completed j , Mashting-ee hade farewell toner mother- j in law ver\ early in the morning ami re | tunr-d 11> her o weeks laid Ahixie died of a brok- \ n he art; her name will never again lie : mentioned among her people. Oil the second in rning after the lie- ! > rotli.il ceremony, <; uionlliei' and Ala >hoi:g-ee travelled tn a hillside, carrying a pinch ol ground corn in their hands. 1 lacing the .im they awaited ils rising, | and when ii appeared the.v scattered' their corn in I pivstruted themselves in; pr i.ver. When a child is born to them they 1 nil: -lart Iv u-ekooping i» a home of j their own. I ntil then the wife 1 h:h >n o"s | to her mother; she owes the mother I work ami olelience as before her mar-i riage. 1 lie husband remains around as he did during his courtship and make* himself generally useful. I he christening ceremony is a solemn "ne. I r nine days the mother and child arc kept in tnc underground ceremonial 4 eh i miter, where no ray of sunshine is permitted to penetrate. Beofre dawn on the tenth day the mother takes the lit tle one, and accompanied by all her fe male relatives goes to the very edge of the precipit us mesa, the plain lying 000 loot below. lie fore the sun appears a high priest in full regalia marches toward the wait ing group. Priest and relatives have se lected a name for the little one. and just as the sun appears the mother raises the i baby high above her head with a shout. ! I lie priest calls aloud. "I devote thee to I the God of Life." All the women shout i aloud the names they have chosen, anil the mother selects the one which pleases her best. I bus the child is named :tnd 1 taken into the tribe of Ilopis. j The Hopi women stand above the wo men of tlie aboriginal, tribes, inasmuch . as they own their houses and all that : ! Ihe.v contain. They are the heads of the | family, and all property is handed down to the females. The race is entirely pure. Alliance with any other tribe or with I lie white race is unknown in their his tory. Ihe greatest care is taken in rear ing the children, anil large families are . prayed for. i I'Very elan has its Viva, or ceremonial chamber, where the boys ars instructed , in literature, history and legends. The . priests of the tribe act as instructors. ■ They have no books, neither do they write, but they have an extensive litera ture, which is transmitted orally, i I he costume of the women consists of , a home woven robe, made b\ husband or ! father, and dyed in indigo. \\ hen made. I it looks more like an Indian blanket than . " dress, but when the woman throws it, , over her right shoulder, sews the two j -i les together, leaving an opening for . the right arm. and then wraps mie of the highly colored, finely woven sashes alt. ut ! I her waist, the robe is pielTn ■ stjue and | I | graceful indeed. j The legs and (cot are gen.iai;, left j ' ire. but on ceremonial ■ eon-:m> back- I • -J.ins. cut obliquely ill t >. ai wrapped . I around the legs a., fastened ..bovo the t !:reos with thongs. Her feel are then in a.- 1 I in eiulir itiered ii . . • ins. Mthough < lonorilliez, M.-dnug-ee and AI i \ie were educated ,1 K ai.s Canon ; Schools, one of nele Sun's i oarding •liools, established in his Painted Des c, i. they proved that :ieo a |i pi means l| !' va .v~ !l Hopi, for they conformed si . icily to their own betrothal and mar riage rites. Despite all 1 tide Sam's 112. ■ i rts to educate, them in tli" ways of civilization, the Ilopis remain .* primitive people, but there is no land where wo men are held in more respect, \ here mar riage is held more sruTed or where social anil political laws are adhered to more e! -oly than among this little known tr be ot hi lians dwelling so close to the paleface, and yet so remote from him'in every re poet that even the nearest neighbors know nothing of the life of these children of the Painted Desert. o SOON FORGOTTEN. "How soon we are forgotten when we are gone." says Rip \ r nn Winkle. This is shown by the fact that very few can five the members , 112 the last three Pres ident s cabinets, anil have to study to name President Roosevelt's. This was tested not long ago bv the members of a ladie- dub inn nearby city. After an hour's study 'filly three or four of the Cabinet officers could be called to mind anlletl to seek sump (me better posted. "Mv husband will kiittw. sail the wife of a doctor,but the doctor replied that lie was too busy lo answer the question. An appeal to a : lawyer resulted in an evasive answer and |no enlightenment on the subject. "Well, j my husband can tell us. 1 know," ejac | idated the wife if an editor as she gave | the lever of the 'phono a run of half a minute. "Say, Adolphus, who are the members of President Roosevelt's cab inet?" The supposed wise man at tho other end of the 'phono studied a minute and replied: "Well, there's llay. Root, flugo— oh. I'll be blanked if 1 know." Vow there may be some oxag.'oration in this -torv. but in Iho niniii it is truth ful and illustrates a point of some iin - p itan o. Of course, a man is not neces sarily wise who can name all the Popes, Kings of England, President ; and Vice Presidents of the United Styles, and so on, still, not to know the names of those who comprise the cabinet of a living President indicates a carelessness about public alVairs of any intelligent people, which should not bo the ease. Liberty b -non lost when people either refrain from voting or do not even know the names ol those officials profession;!l poli ticians do elect. —Lancaster ]\vaminer. I ° SEVEN THOUSAND GOOD FARMS I The biggest bunch of farms that Uncle I Sam will ever have to present, in a sin gle batch, to his sons and daughters, is to i lie parceled out the middle of next I summer. Seven thousand farms of 100 I acres each in the Big Horn and Yellow |-tO'.io valleys of Montana, with irrigation j ditclics prepared in advance by the gov ernment, will constitute this prize distri | hut ion. It will be the first distribution | of irrigated lands, and tho plan is to ap ' port ii u among those who I ike the lands ; the cost of the irrigation works. The e.\- j act date for opening these I inds, which ; are now part of the great 4,000.000-aere j tnu'l const ituting the ('row Indian reser ' it on. has not yet been fixed by Presi i dential proclamation. \ number of de ■ tiN including the uji■ t price on the I lands, are to be settled. But it is deter- I mined that the opening will lie made as -oon a- the irrigation works are carried 10 a point near completion. | Ibis ti lot of ceded lands extends over j 150 miles along the Uig Horn and Yel- I low stone rivers, and is to be turned into an* irrigated paradise. It has been do- J i lined ly engineers that bore is the most ! nearly ideal piece of territory for irriga -11 ii purposes that investigation has yet discovered. There is plenty of water, its supply is -uro, tho grades are just right for its distribution; and the land is of great fertility. People who secure farms will have the advantage of set tling, not in a now and unbroken coun try. but amongst the best neighbors in the West. Ihe.v are tho Crow Indians, it is true; but they.are the musst civi lized tribe in the country, and the rich est community, of its number.-, in Amer ica. Once a warlike tribe, for two fen erations they have been the friends of the white man.and have tried enrnestlv to become civilized. An interesting fact about the new opening is that the lands include as a national park tho historic last battlefield of General Custer. The ( row is now the largest reservation in the country, and Commissioner Richards of the general land office does not antici pate that there will ever be another land opening at which so large an area of land will be ottered. I'he lands in this case w ill be offered by the lottery plan, which has been, on the whole, very satis factory in recent experiments; but a number of changes will be made in the methods. Among these, it is expected, will lie a stronger guarantee of good faith than the registration fee charged lor the Rosebud and Devil's Like open ings. | his is (o be tlone because so large a proport ion of those who drew landsat those openings did not take their prizes. In the present case it i.s the wish to as sure that, so far as possible, every per son who draws a quarter section shall without delay become an actual settler. I his problem is a hard one, and not yet worked out. No le-s than 100,000 people registered for the Rosebud drawing, though only 1,910 farms were offered. Out of that great total of 100,000 there wore doubtless five times as many people anxious to become bono tide settlers, as there wore farms offered. Tho rest wore speculators, l 'milling u the chance of drawing a to .n.-ito and making a for- I tunc. 'let tola\ not nearly half the ;I- -child lai arc <> -aipiod or claimed, j It is propose I to give tiie gool-I'i.ith set.- >■ ■- all the evan o 112 uinnin; jt «s~iblo tii" ;' st.he -aid ihe other Jay. "for such ccoi* ni \ as use I to bo practiced by an old li.xton re-taurateur who recently died. "'lbis oh follow \ i~ economical to excess, bit while he potteri 1 ah ■•■ lit his kitchen trying 1 ■ make one ■ :rg do the work of two, iii- neighbor acrti!«-. the wa\ was introducing a roof garden and a man lolin orchestra, and tho < ■on nuist, 1 lmdeivt and, hardly left enough on his de mise t pa\ his debts. . "lit? was, beyond any doubt, an econ omist. A couple of plumbers v ere work ing one day in his cellar. It was too dark down there to see, and the men ask ed for s> me light. " '\\ ell,' saitl the old fellow, 'here's a candle. Make it go as fur as von can.' "'One candle wont do.' said the plumbers. "It won't give us sufficient light. We must have two.' "I he old man knit his brows and the light. • 'How long. boys, will you bo working down there?' lie said. " 'About fifteen minutes,' said the plumbers. "'Then,' said the restaurateur, 'cut tho candle in two.' " Want a Sure Cure. Butcher—"l tell you, ma'am, that ba con's as right as you are." Customer—"l tell you it's bad." liutchei How can that be? Why, it was only cured last week." Customer -"Then it must have had a relapse, that's all." Of the four \oung women who re ceived tho doctor's degree at tiie Univer sity ol Berlin last year, two were Ameri cans. one Australian and one Gorman. A Hacking Cough Irritates tho throat and raelcs the l ings. \ remedy that will Instantly r. !i. \.■ oniel-'V ■ ai" Chi: ■ \Vh n; e:r t'• iin a,;lronclli ris and Throat and Lang rotiblei i , torally la icv.'iluablo. <-ir:i' V It.--! ■i i ■ ;.ii iolu' (• ,-r --ai :• ad to core these diaea ■ I >ed for yearn 111; ■>." ue.iloc|.i'al.-l't IONS PRi:- VAI LI NO IJI KIIK. WORK TO BE DONE. ; The United States Government Already is Busy Making Radical and Impor | tant Reforms. | Congressman W. 11. llyau, who return ed to liufl'alo recently for a briei stay, after a month's absence from the city, has saint; interesting things to tell ui.oul the conditions on the Isthmus of Pana ma. Air. Ryan made a trip to Panama with the members of the house commit tee on interstate and foreign commerce The object of the trip was to gather in formation which would be useful m for 1 mulating legislation, and in t! is respect I the committee's visit was very success fill. Mr. Ryan declares that the United States government got a bargain w lien j it paid .fin.tHXt.OOO for the Panama can i concession and tli ■ riuhts and p; i]tcrlies j of the French company, otherwise known as the Do Lesscps oinpany. Among the | things act|uirod by the United States in i this ! il were a railroi i propertv worth I 12,000,000, a lc unbent lino, fine piers ! and other pr portv in the shape of dredges, rolling stock, etc. Mr. Ryan -ays the I.essops ( ompiuiy had a fine plant in o;. ration. It appears, however, that executive ability was sally lacking j in the administration of the company's: affair:-. For instance, at one p iinl ■ n the canal, the United States authorities found a $000,001) Belgian dredge entirely hidden by vegetation, furthermore, the French company had a machine and blacksmith shop worth $.">00,000. and thi~ was found to lie in go <1 condition w hen the United States acquired the. property. The railroad priiportx is said to be in good shape, and it includes 3.500 dump ing cars, besides thousands of drills and other tools. If it wasn't I'or the United States gov. j eminent, the present government in Pan- , ama wouldn't last '24 hours, according I to Mr. Ryan. The standing army of the' Panama republic consists of 25 negroes. Sanitary conditions on the isthmus are in frightful shape. Drinking water is tin water which is caught ill tanks. There are no wells and no waterworks. Xcnrly every store, be it a department store or jeweler's shop, has a saloon for an annex. And in that country it is al most as good as fatal to drink liquor. The United States engineers are now constructing a waterworks system at Colon and at Panama. The swamps are being drained. The saloons will be cleared out. City streets will he paved. The unpaved Condition of tlie streets tends to bad sanitary conditions. Tho average rainfall is 120 inches a year. During tho rain.v season tho streets are rivers of mud. Then comes tho dry sea son wljen there is no rain, and street traffic must work its way through rivers of dust. The work to lie done, by the. United States on tho isthmus is stupendous. A single cut through a mountain that lies in the route of the proposed canal will necessitate the removal of enough earth to cover five square miles to a depth of twenty foot, xno United States has just shipped one powerful dredge to Panama, and thirteen more dredge- are to bo ship pod there at the rate of one a month. These dredges will be turned over to the contractors at their appraised value when the contracts are left. Mr. Ryan says nil arbitrary form of government will have to he established in the so -illetl canal zone. Tie says that there are about 0.000 persons living iu the zone, in -t of them being negroes. Indians. Spaniards and halfbroeds. Asa. mineral thing tluy are of a lo v order of in I dli"t i'i-e. shiftless and do not care who "overns them. It is hinted that Con. D.avi.-. who has had much experience in tropie.il o mi tries as governor of Por to Kico. may be the 'irst governor amor al of the canal zone nn l that if he is se lected lie will have lai' o powers. ARE WHALES COMING BACK. \ whale eighty feet long was blown ashore i n the Maine coast in the storm of Sunday, says the Chicago Ilitei'-Ocenn. A whale seventy foot long was washed ashore on tho Atlantic const three weeks ago. A whale of large size cruised along the Massachusetts coast last summer, j Whalers fi\nn the North have just re- ! turned to San Francisco with more blub- 1 her and bone than have been brought in for several years. /WORLD'S WORl\ m The magazine \uuhich tells |||l of the progress of the bvcrtd ||j|j tefonderfrxl pictures BSB and terse articles. ImS PACiB & COMPANY N. 8.-ANDREW CARNEGIE says: Ihink TH ? world 'S work remarkable." 1 1 Those fncts raise the question, Are whales as scarce in their old habitat* at whalers have siip]»osed? It is known that when the whalers of the seventeenth century raided the N rtnern I taunts of 1 1n- whale in Spitsbergen waters the u hales disappeared, lint were found on the coast of (Jreenland. From !(!!)() to 17-10 whales were so 1111- moroim oil the New I.upland coast and in the liav-. th.it whale fishery wu prose •ufced in boats from the shore. Aftei 1710 the whales liegan to leave the New Kiigland coast, going north and south tc waters unfrequented l»v man. Ij&ter, tli< whalers followcl them to the Arctic ami Antarctic Oceans, and for sixty years the colder seas have been the hunting grounds of the whalers, the supply do (Teasing so rapidly as to cause many t< believe that the species would hecom extinct in the next fifty years. Possibly the whales, having been pur sued from their old haunts to the Arcti< Ocean, and having l>een driven fuom that have been returned to the New Knglam' co i-t and to other waters frequented 1/ them 100 and 200 years ago. Tlierq/r not one whaling vessel in commiis-non mow where there were fifty a hundred I vears ago, and there is less inducement ! to activity in whale fishery.. len whales are killed now where 112. | thousand were slaughtered in the eigh | tecnth century, simply because thr j whaler- cannot fin I the whiles. Buf I while our .small whaling fleet has beei I cruising this summer in the frozen seas . three whales have been washed ashore o i the New Knglnnd coast, and the pn sumption is tli.it they were in;L the onh ones on the coast. 1 1 his is a small showing compared witl i the old time ahund nice when whales 10< feet long and yielding thirty tons of oi were freijiienth caught. As late as 1832 ninety-eight whales were driven into th harbor of Stnrnowa, Lewis Island, b men in small boats, and all captured in single day. Neither in Ainoriean noi | huropean waters will whales over la abundant, but it is possible that havinj j been driven from the Arctic seas they an again seeking their old haunts. ORIGIN OF KISSING. | Why do we kiss? More correctly, the question slioub read, "\\ by do we. kiss nowadays?" Fo the kiss as an expression of love and af fection is in all likelihood a relatively new "invention." Neither Homer no tiesiod knew of the kiss in our sense Hector, on biding farewell to Andr maclie, does not kiss her, nor f ten are caused by Caiarrl? whi is nothin? but an Inflamed condition o* t ; mucous surfaces. i We will give One Hundred Dollars for n 'case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that ca not be cured by Ilall's Catarrh Cure. Send t circulars, free. P. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, Sold foy Drufffcists. 75c. Take Ilall's Family Pills for constipation.