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less-sou met-on a no Isletâ€"IQ ‘ some: land cum A letter from Pence “hey. ills Tcrritur . says : The Poness n be: 580, an there are but six hall-breeds 1n the tribe. They have maintained their purity of blood in s remarkable degree. and are, as a com uence, purer in nor- nls than either the we or the They at one time had a number of and quarter bloods in the tribe. but these hare nearly all died out, and none hue been horn in fill their places. The Person are gaining numerically your after year since coming to this reservation six years ago, They were moved from Baxter Springs here at that time. hut came origi- nally 1mm Dakota. In the matter of‘civ- ilization they get on slowly. For 0! the men and none of the Women can speak English. They have a large brick school- house. 25 stories hi h. with basement capalrlu of accomnn sting one hundred scholars, and have an actual enrollment of over seventy. There ere no laws com- pulling school attendance. The children are doing fairly, learning to spark Engv lish rapidly, and some of the classes are in the Third reader. Mathematics come easy to them. Nearly half the men wear civilized clnllnng‘ and all I’onoa women wear tti- CHMS in- trad of leggings. 'l‘he blan at is novsr wholly discarded, lichwr and ruins to he nearly indis ensihle for a wrap and for bedding. early all re- fer boots and shoes to moccaeins in a womln-r. in tho nlal ter of farming eight ln ninmy fznnilies will raise considerable \ m n this woman, an cussing, imi‘luspe, six to , oight m'rvs to each family. Theagent says there nmy be eight hundred wires of corn raised this year by the Fences. They misc some wheat. and potatoes. but are sadly doliciont in stock of all kinds. Mnny’ families have none of any kind, and very few have teams for farming. The tribo is without religious instruction excl-pt a Sunday school. 'l'horb is mission here of any kind The men what outdoor Work is done at all. The gnVl‘l‘lllUlll issues about one-third rations of salt, sugar, hoof, sad and flour. The tribe has lOl,>-l‘.)i mm: of land and $70,000 trust fund at 5 per cent. They also havo a treaty fund of 88,000 per an- num for live years yet, {or clothing, etc. 'l‘hoy have leased seven thousand acres of land to J. H. Sherburn, the licensed trader here, for five years, at $1.700 per unnum. lie is to fence it all, and is now mugagod in that work. M r. Shorburn mow litht,‘ livu yoms ago a bankrupt, is how lesson of alusuttwo-thirdsof the resorâ€" m' ion, has a line stock of goods, and nearâ€" ly two thousand head of cattle. . In preceding letters mention was made of Kaw and Usage polygamy. But a com- parison of those tribes and the Fences and Dims is greatly to the credit of the former. V'l'hc ‘l’ouoas have a number of ,nrlygmnistswhow many Could not be def- lllétli'ly ascortained. nor are the instances always known. The practice is open and gllih‘llnwlt‘tlgnll‘ sanctioned by usage and sull'ornnce, and if it has not many open advocates it certainly has few or no assail- :mis All acquiesce in it ; none attack it. Thu (lupus nu: WUI‘SO. (lull (if about fifty faunilins to:i"polyg.nnous ones were named as well known, with the admission that thoro was prohablyhscvoral others. Prob- ably one-thinlof all the married men in tho lulu: haw more thannne wife. 'i‘ho interpreter. a fat, lazy hulk, sat in rho ugoncy store taking his case while his u iws drew seVoral barrels of water from lho sell in haul home. He then got in the wagon and one oi his wiyes drove the team. ’l‘heir marriages rest upon agree- ment, are usually made u by friends, :md‘the young couple have on to say con- cerning it than any others of the tribe. Frh‘nils of the groom propose to the fricn is of the bride. The question of price 1h rn comes in, Ponies, calico, elm, nl‘i- giva-n liy his friend to hers. If an it li'lc, cousin, or other near relative p use the match it is delayed or brokom . INTECH (1984) associates~ , 1025‘ Hamlin: Rd.. Uni! lundon. Onlario N6! mun. muun CUSTOIS. [‘HIS ORIGINAL DOCUMENT IS IN VERY POOR CONDITION An Utoe wand.) of the tint water has just occured. A whoa! girl was recent] married to a man much older than hefie f again» her wishes. She soon filer an away with her former youthful lover. The deserted huubnnd was irate and about to follow on tho tar-path. A council was called, and many of the friend: of the runaway couple lat up with him all night attempting to ullay his anger. One of them gave him his fineat moccasin: and leggings, another a brooch, and others still other presents, till he mid “his heart felt better ; his heurt was not so bad in it had been," and he finally said “ his heart was all right now," and they might come back. “ She was dead.” 'lhin ()toe cus- tom might be a semible one in some white communities. lllssllcs Thrown st Juana. Any stick, says tne proverb, will serve to beat a. dog ; and it appears to be the opinion of some persons that any inissle will do to hurl at a judge. None can have iurgnttcn the egg which Vice Chsn- cellor Mslins happil evoiled. and which he supposed “must ve been meant for his brother Bacon ;” and now one Mary Cawley (thirty-three times convicted) has been throwing a clog at the Accrington bench of magistrate-s, whereby the chair- man was struck on the bresst. The most notable story of the kind in our judicul annals is thus given by L’Estrange 2â€"â€" ”J udge Richardson, in going the Western circuit, had s great flint stone thrown It his head by a malefactor, then condemnâ€" ed (who thought it meritorious, and the way .to be a benefactor tn the common- wi .lth, to take away the life of a man so odious) ; but leaning low on his elbow, in a. lazy, reckless manner, the bullet flew too high and only took oli' his hat. Soon after some friends congratulating his deliverance. he replied by way of jest: . . . . ‘You see, now, if I had been; an upright judge' (intimating his reclining; posture), "I Would have been slain.’ " The remaing ‘fscta of the case are given in Chief Justice Treby's “Notes to Dyer's Reports," in the remarkable jargon of the law. reports of the period :-“Rich- ardson, Ch. Just. do C. Bane. sl Assizes st Salisbury, in summer 1631, fuit as- sault per prisoner in condemne pur feloni; que puie son Condemnation ject un brie - hat e 1e dit justice, qui narrowly mist; ct pur cos immediately fuit indictment drawn, per 'Noy, envers 1e prisoner, et sundoxter manusampute, snd fixetgibbet, sur que luy meme immediatement hange in presence de court.” N 0y, was of ‘cuurse, the Attorney-General. Pepys } had heard that Richardson really wanted to save the prisoner’s life, snd was con- suiting as to whether he could not sen- tence him to transportation, when the wretched nmn thus decided his own fete. Ueuelly a few extra nt- eoltenl the objectionl. A but allows. Equation: have not been common in time: put, but two case! have occurod in ll: weeks in which the huebend ha ehudoned hie wife tad children end untried mother women. Unleu the tribhl council break: up these pmticee the government will then be oompelled to take action. mevumxzw BURIAL autumn. The body was placed in the grew in a sitting position, the mouth of the grave covered over with Ingl, dirt piled on tl ow, and a horse killed on the top at this. The hone must be the beat that can he prncured. and it is choked to death on the gqu. If the dead man had one or more relapses prolunging his eiokneu, the bone must be turtured in a. similar eluw "HUI- uor. All friends of the family ere ex- pccted to make present: of calico and other articles. Eleven thoumnd doll": Worth of ink was used by the post. oflice de rtment last year in stamping and cmce ling lot- ters. An economically‘disgxwed non thinks that if the government won (1 per- xnit. cauceuad stamps to be re-iuued, much of this expense might be uved. Sure enough ; but, the government never did go very strong on economy. 'l‘llE FARMERS VILLE REPORTER. of seals sre caught 'on the toasts of Lab- rsdor and Greenlsnd-â€"-the harp, the square flipper, the hood, snd the nstive seal. The square flipper is the largest, snd the nstive is the smsllest of the'seals caught. But the meat of the young nstive sesl is used as food, and is relish- ed, being on pleadsut to the taste ss 'sny saltâ€"water bird. its length is from three to five feet, and it is more call domesti- csted than any other species 0 the seal. It frequents quiet buys in the coast of Greenland. The hoql seal is so named from s hond covering over the hesd, cap. able of being distended and elevated or depressed at leasure. It is the most diflicult to iii I, because it inflates the hood, which' is so thick that a club or bullet will not penetrate it, but it struck in the threat it invariably, though re- luctantly, submits. >_ ‘ The hood seal is most eagerly sought after. They have their young earl in March, and whole families are foun on the ice and easily killed. The bar seal receives its name from a large deck, crescentshaped mark on each side of the back. It ranges from six to eight, and sometimes nine, feet in length. Seal hunting requires great patience and skill. ()ne seal seems to be always placed on watch where danger is to be apprehended from bears and hunters. They climb up through the holes in the ice, and will re- main for hours, if not disturbed. They will scent a. hunter at a. great distance, especially if the hunter is to the wind- ward of them, and no sooner does the scent beCome perceptible to the soil than he dashes off into the water. The food of the seal is salmon, Whitefish. and codiish. It is believed that the hunters must keep up A sharp war on the seals in the vicinity of Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in order that Codfishcrmen may have lsrger catches. The hunters believe thst the number of seals is increasing in the west of Newfoundland, and the seal- ‘tisliing has become one of vital import. once; but this alone would not support the colony. The seal’s search for salmon is so eager that it has been known to hunt the neighborhood of the salmon-nets for a long time. and to take the fish after they had been entrapped. Include Haunt» on tho Gent 0! Mb- mu-A Invent». Ions... The mliug season has 1nd s In no" favorsblo opening this you than in runny lessons bofm'o, writes s corms )ondsnt from St. Johns, New Foundlsn . The sealing season commences shout the lat of March and ends about the ialt of Msy, during which time seven! of the sealers make two voyages, and on rare occasions three. The owners of all sealing vessels furnish all the boats, sealing gear, powder, shot, nnd provisions, in consideration of which they are entitled to one-half the souls, and the crew or hunters are entitled to the other half. The masters of the vessels recuive a percentage of thgownur's share as a salary: Foui difl‘urent kinds Contrary to the oilinion of many, the fur seal is never found on this coast, but there is considerable difference in the species of the common seal. The latter is generally found in small herds. its skin and oil are of considerable mercantile importance. The skin is dressed and tanned and used as leather. The oil, if made before decay has begun. is colorless snd nearly’ inodorous, and it is much superior to whale oil for many purposes. The flesh is used {or food in Greenland and Ltbmdcr. By the eagerness of the hunter, he generally loses in the hunt 10 per cent. of those he kills. as he frequent~ 1 kills and piles on the ice, at a great 'istance from the vessel, :1 lot of seals. lIn such n case, in transporting the skins to the vessel they frequently become frost~ ‘ bitten, which makes them worthless, 0:1 they are capsized from the ice in a gale. After the seal is shot, or caught, the skin- ner removes the fat. An expert will re- move the fat from five hundred seals in ten hours, being careful not to injure the skin, In every hole he cuts in it deducts SEAL HUNTISG. Phonez'mm 6864970 Aher Hour-J 657 0390 tell me particulars. Ifihad been bitten, he said, on putting his foot to the ground while moving off his charpo in the dark, but, thinking the bite was t at of a non- poisonous snake, had given no more heed to the matter, and gone to sleep I gain, till he was awake by his friends coming in search of him. With some difficulty I was able to find the biteâ€"~ve-ry faint, no larger than the prick from a pin, but still the unmistakable double mark of tho poison-fangs. He felt the poison. he said, gradually ascending the limb, and pointed to a. part 'ust above the knee. where he felt it ha already reached, the limb be- low that being, he said, benunibed, and painless to the touch, like the foot when “asleep.” I gave him the usual remedies, and kept him walking to and fro, but gradually his limbs seemed to be losing; their power of Voluntaly motion, and his head was beginning to droop from the overpowering drowsiness that was surely gathering over him. At intervals he pointed out the poison line steadily rising higher, and was still able to answer quesâ€" tions clearly on being roused. At. length it seemed to he of no use torturing him further by keeping him moving about, and he was allowed to remain at rest. Shortly afterthis, while beingsupportcd in aaitting posture, all at once, without any premoni- tory sign. he gave one or two Jung sighs, and life ceased, about an hour aftcdie had himself walked into the compound. Tler was something terribly real ll) this f: culty of pointing out each atage of the :imwnd- ing poison (as the snake-bitten patient al- ways can) that was gradually bringing him nearer and nearer to death, with the prospect of only another hour orhultlwur of life remaining to him ; and yet the pa- tient does not seem to realize this with the keennoss that an Oil-hmde dues, pmlmbly from the poison benumhing at the same time the powers of the mind as well as of the body. Bitten by a Cobra. Among many instancel 0f Innkuobito )innning I have seen was a strong young rnhmin of 20, well-known to [Mt whu had been bitten during the night. WW watching his maize cro . Ere I knew of it they had brought him into my com- pound in front u! the bungalow. Al yet yet he walked ( uita steadily, only lean- ing slightly on the arm of another man. There wan that peculin: drowsy look in his eyes, however, as from a. strong nar- cotic, which aiudicabed his having been bitten for-01nd time, and lcft but little mpxn for hope now. Hfluulq still plum-1y together with the Rel-hunting. if carried on with proper cm md tmtmeut, would bethe mean- of giving 'lucntive employ- ment to many more of our people, and enable them to provide the necessaries of life, of which many of them are now dentitute. 10 cent: from his 'y. About 3.000 Douglds of mlfatwil produce 250 allom 9! ogl: Thqheyring codfluh edges: Japanese people are wry superstitious, and have innumerable signs and tokvnn by which to regulate their cmnluct. They never sweep the rooms uf a house immw diatcly after one nf the inmates has not out upon a journey, as this Would sweep out all the luck with him. At, 11 mar- riage ceremony neither) bride nnr bride- groom wears any clothing (if u purple color. 16kt, their marriage Lie lw soon loosed, as purple is the eulnr must liable to fade. They hnvu 3mm: curiuus ideas in regard to the finger nails, which are out only at. certain times. If a Woman stop: over an eggshell, she will go mad ; if cm! a razor, it will become dull; if or a Whetstone. it will be hmkcn. If a 'an should set his hair on tire, he will go mad. The Japanese have numberlcss other superstitions of a similar character. If you Would not fall into ain, lit by tho (Inm‘ of jemptsfiofl. Japanese Superstitions I»<~.â€"o«--â€" ~~~~ v do not