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THE EVENING STAR. SATURDAY, MARCH. 23, 1895—-TWENTY PAGES. MAINLY YOUNG GIRLS The American Colony in Paris and How It is Constituted. ~ VARICUS TYPES IN ‘THE FRENCH CITY They Study Music and Some Are on Marriage Bent. INTERNATIONAL MATCHES Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, March 4, 1895. HRRE IS AN American quarter in Paris, inhabited prin- cipally by French- men; but it is called fj the American quar- ter, nevertheless, be- cause there are’ so many Englishmen in it. The delusion that resident Ameri- cans have any ad- preciable part in the life of Paris is due entirely to the en- terprise of the Paris edition of the New York Herald. Without that kind-hearted Journal to afiiche them and make them seem more important than they really are, the American colony in Paris would sink back to an easy and dignified repose. Without this, the band is lamentably dwindling. From 4,000 registered Ameri- cans in 189% the quota fell in 1894 to a remnant of 3,000. These figures are from the prefect's report, and exclude tourists, floaters, the obscure, and all the insoum!s who have refused or neglected to register. These 3,000 members of the colony are composed of, say, sixteen great classes, principally young girls, accompanied -by their mothers, viz: @) art students, (2) other students, (3) American barkeepers (these are all Germans), (4) divorcees come abroad to spend their alimony, () elderiy ladies (who do good), (6) bankers (who do no harm), (7) life insurance agents (these are all French), (8) American dentists, (9) negro minstrels at the Casino, (10) whole families escaping from the empty life of Tourists. America, (11) young English and German clerks, invited to musicales to amuse No. 11, (12) the cream of American wealth and breeding (this includes everybody), (13) girls in schcols, (14) widows writing books, (15) young men preparing for college (at the Moulin Reuge), (16) a scattered thou- sand or so of nice, well-to-do people who could not tell ycu, for their lives, why they remain abroad. Perhaps they find society less mixed in Paris than at home. Of all these types the American young girl, rich or poor, plain or pretty, is the only one of enduring interest. There is the one who comes to study, the one who comes to marry, the one who is brought away from an attachment in America (bad luck to her parents), the one who comes to have a good time, the one who was born in Europe, and the one who comes because her mother brings her. This last one has a strange lot, she who comes to Europe because her mother brings her. And yet such things happen. I tell you there is a tide in the affairs of some American mothers which takes them across the flood of the Atlantic, with their won- Going to Marchest' dering daughters by their sides, as sud- denly and unexpectedly as the deacon took his son to the menagerie for the improve- ment of his mind. There comes a time when the mother who has been patient, serious and seemingly contented always breaks loose and puts her foot down. “I will go to Europe!” It seems to occur at about that period when her eldest daughter Tas become almost & young lady. Is it a stampede from terror of old age, a fren- zied desire to have a respectable fling, though late, or merely concern for Mamie’s education? The father cannot leave his “Then I will take Mamie myself: suppose the lady have no daughte: let her do as the other deacon did, who had ro child to personally conduct to the cir- cus. He borrowed one. Chaperone some girl, or a small party, to Europe. But let no young lady believe that she will have a better time with the chaperon than the chaperon will have for herself. The best way for a girl to come to Paris is with her father. Have you any idea of the life led by an Parisian (Boarding House) Society. American girl stowed away in a Paris con- vent school, say at Suresnes? It is a life of calm. I speak of real schools, and not so-called convent school boarding houses, from which a young person may escape into the outer world, even at night, if any authorized person fetch her and bring her back again. In the real schools the life is calm. At dinner you have first the soup and then the soup meat. For exercise there is a walled-in garden. Twice a week the girls are walked out in a string, which the great eccasion for their French companions to make eyes at all the gentle- ete That seems stupid to the fair Amer- cans. There are also fairly strict girls’ boarding schools conducted by French Huguenot ladies and others; and even these are a constraining change for American. girls who have, very properly, enjoyed a wider and fuller liberty at home. The fault is that it isin Paris. A dissatisfaction erises, often, which induces the young lady to cry to go home before her term is finished. Some American girls are born in Europe, and some grow up to womanhood ‘ar e ever having secn their native land. effect is very curious. Was it not At Church, in the “ sion Beaurepas” of Henry James? That little story should be read by every one in- terested in the sub- ject. It is so utterly untruthful. American girls born and reared abroad not only pre- serve their American aceent—which they come by honestly from thelr American parents—but they keep almost all their natural _ frankness, the Anglo-Saxon re- spect for the truth (even when they do not speak it), the American sense of humor (which is the American girl's best safe- guard), and, best of ail, they do not keep their eyes continually cast down in the European-young-person-fashion. It is im- modest for a girl to baisser les yeux, and I can prove it. Question. Why should a girl continually keep her eyes down so modestly (1)? Answer. To be looking around indicates a disordered mind and an unlawful curiosity. That is the universal To Marry—Under the Best Auspices. European reply, and does it not refute it- self frcm the American point of view? The only fault to be found with the American girl reared abroad is that she sometimes despises her own country. When an American girl comes to Paris to marry she ought to bring some money with her. Then she will always have suc- cess. She does not need to be so rich as Anna Gould nor even so rich as many an aspiring Parisian bourgeois family cha- grined to find itself without the pale of great society. Middle-class Parisians of wealth who wish‘to marry their daughters into the ancient noblesse complain of this. They say that the prejudice of the old aristocracy against the new democracy does not exist in respect of heiresses from America. Now that court life has passed away the noble families open wide their doors to the American girl, provided she be rich and beautiful. It is easy now to count up American titled ladies in France by the dozens; and one notable duke, after divorcing a first American wife, was not content until he had married an American grasswidow. His daughter by the former and his step-daughter by the latter have both been married off in turn, so as to add fresh American vigor to the somewhat pale blue blood of these ancient nobles. Because they are ancient nobles: the blue blood of England {s a ‘ool to the blue blood of the Faubourg Saint-Germain. Although money is necessary, it is not altogether a question of mere money. This common delusion may have some founda- tion, but it really dates from a time when such international marriages were next to unknown ard created surprise. Stendhal, whose writings have continued to influence French literature, was the first to analyze the American girl, doing it badly. He pre- tended that young American women were Showing It to the Landlady. so penetrated with sweet reasonableness that love. which is an idle flower of life, would be a stranger to their youth. So marriage would be less a question of senti- ment than of business. But every one has seen that this cannot be the case; remark the devoted international couples who love so truly that even after flight or separation they often manage to make it up again. At present there is a special reason why the old familles of France should prefer marrying American money (so to speak) rather than give admission into their circle to the daughter of even a richer. bourgeois at home. The republicans of America are not so obnoxious, historically, to what re- mains of the old noblesse; and, strange to , the rich American is often more in sympathy with the cherished ideas of the aes than is the new element of Europe. t has recently been pronounced from out this mysterious heaven (to which Henry James this time did full justice in “The Americans”) that “an American man re- mains an American always, under what- ever latitude chance may bring him; on the contrary, it 1s enough that a woman of his race should set her foot on the soil of old Europe for her to take up its customs and habits.” Put that in your pipes and smoke it, oh, Daughters of the Revolution and colonial dames. Another very general feeling was expressed recently (how re- cently or on what occasion, need it be said?) by the head of a ducal family in ad- vising one of his mates on the questioa of matrimony: “My dear fellow, choose your. wife among our own class or else look for ene in America, for henceforward we can- not admit any other alliances.” Of all the types of American girl abroad the student is the most pleasing and the least pathetic. When a little tub is full even a great big tub can be no fuller—1 mean that each is full; and whatever be the student's capacity, she is absorbed in her work, has a constant spring of activity and is thus enabled to lead the most natu- ral life, though transplanted. If a girl be plain it matters nothing. If she be poor she is the best provided for. The American Girls’ Art Club in Paris (Rue de Chevreuse) is so favorably managed for the girls that it has yearly a handsome deficit, which is said to be made good by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. There is matronly supervision, esprit du corps, comfort and cheapness. ‘Every one says so. The girls enjoy a good social position from their mere habitation of the establishment, and they appear to be more or less petted now and then (though not enough to spoil them) by some of the American residents (class 5, elderly ladies, who do good). At 10 p.m. the lights are ex- tinguished and the house closed up; but should a social engagement detain an in- mate the concierge will open the door when she rings and hand out her room key at any hour to the young lady. Trere are other institutions for the amel- joration of the condition of American girl art students in Paris. Some have been in the papers and some have been in the law courts. All evidently do the best they can, being founded in good will and maintain- ed and supervised at the personal incon- venience (the crumpled rose leaf) of those to whom Prof. Goldwin Smith very un- justly applied the phrase “excuse for an- archy,” 0 little he knew the American colony of Paris. Nevertheless, many girl art students prefer to live freely in their own apartments, clubbing together, or board in private families. Each system has its advantages. What strange fate pushes poor girls into such a miserably paid profession as paint- ing and draws such a large proportion of rich girls into such a splendidly paid ca- reer as singing is a mystery which is ex- plained only on the physiological ground of feeding. A girl must be well nurtured and cared for from her youth to be a great singer; while there is something in the proud dejectedness and restless weariness of the painter that goes best with high thinking ahd poor living. STERLING HEILIG. THE USE OF HALL’'S HAM RENEWER PRO- motes the, growth, of = hair and restores, ite natur: and beauty, frees scalp of dan- Gruff, tetter and all impurities, GRANT AND BADEAU The Gontroversy Over the Famous Book of Memoirs. BADEAU'S CONNECTION WITH THE WORK The Position of General Grant as Shown by Correspondence. SALE OF THE BOOK Written for The Evening Star. HE DEATH OF Gen. Adam Badeau this. week will recall inevitably, and will probably revive the controversy which raged seven years ago over the claim made by Badeau that he was joint author with Gen. Grant of the famous book of memoirs,which broke the royalty record just after the gen- eral’s death. A difference of opinion be- tween Gen. Grant and Gen. Badeau over the part Badeau was to play in getting to- gether the material for the work separated the two friends permanently; and after Gen. Grant’s death, Gen. Badeau got into a controversy with his widow and her scns over the compensation promised to bim by Gen. Grant, and in the course of this controversy he made a statement for Publication claiming that Grant could never have written the memoirs, and that he was quite as much the author of them as was Gen. Grant. Then it developed that Mrs. Grant had offered to settle the claim of Gen, Badeau for a satisfactory sum, but that she would pay the money only on ccndition that Gen. Badeau give a receipt disclaiming any part in the work of writ- irg the memoirs. This Gen. Badeau re- fused to do, and so the matter got into the newspapers. Badeau had been Grant's military secre- tary, and he had published two Grant books before Grant began to write the fa- mous memoirs. The history of those me- moirs is well known. Gen. Grant had never done any writing, as he himself says in his book, until financial misfortune over- tcok him, and then ke accepted a proposi- tion from a magazine for four war articles. He found the work of preparing these so congenial that he accepted the proposition of a New York publisher to prepare two volumes of memoirs on a royalty. To save himself the drudgery of looking up facts and figures, which were not en- tlrely fresh in his memory, or of corrobor- ating his remembrance of occurrences, Gen. Grant asked the assistance of Gen. Badeau. Gen. Badeau had done the same service for him in connection with the magazine articles. Gen. Badeau accepted the employment, and the question of com- pensation was not determined. When the prospects of the book appeared to be very bright, Badeau wanted Grant to sign a contract with him to pay him $1,000 a month in advance for his work in connec- tion with the book, and to give him 10 per cent of the profits of the publication. Gen. Grant’s Terma. Three months befcre this proposition had been made, Gen. Grant had signed an agreement, in which he stated that “in consideration of the fact that the book which IT am now ergaged upon will be in competition with Badeau’s history of my campaigns, which was written with my consent and with the expectation that it would take the place of all that I would have to say upon the subject; in further consideration that I shall use maps which he had prepared with great care,” etc., he voluntarily stipulated to pay Gen. Badeau $5,000 from the first 320,000 realized from the sale of the book, and 35,000 from the next $10,000. This was signed February 27, 1885, and on the 2d of March, three duys later, Badean signed a receipt for #250 as his share under this contract of the first $1,000 paid to Gea. Grant in advance by his publishers. But a little later, as has been said, Gen. Badeau came to the conclusion that he was not getting enough of the profits, and he demanded a larger percent- age of them. He complained in a letter to Gen. Grant that the labor which it was pro- posed he shculd do was “hack work,” and suggested that he should have a more ac- tive part in the preparation of the book. “Your book,” he said in a letter to Gen, Grant, May 2, 1885, “has assumed an im- portance which neither you nor I antici- pated last summer. It is to have a circu- lation cf hundreds of thousands .and the larger its circulation the greater its im- portance—the more completely it will sup- plant and stamp out mine. The better I help you to make it the more effectually I destroy what I have spent my tife in build- ing up—my reputation as your historian.” Of the character of the proposed work, he said in the same letter: “You propose to dictate and I am to plece and connect and prepare the disjointed fragments into a connected narrative. This work is the merest literary drudgery, such as I would [never consent to do for anyone but you— five timos as laborious as original compo- sition, with none of the interest. I must efface myself ard work intensely without increased pay or any at all until a year and a half from the beginning of my labors.” Beyond this, the letter says: “You have neither the physical strength nor the habits of mind yourself to make the re- searches to verify er correct your own memory. If you cannot yourself finish the work nobody can do it fitly but me.” A Dying Man’s Determination. At the time this letter was written Grant was on the verge of the grave. It was about six weeks before his removal to Mount McGregor, where he died. Grant's condition at that time was known to be serious. and Badeau knew how much re- maine€ to be done to complete the me- moirs. Evidently he thought that the dying man would not be equal to the task. The story of how Grant clung to the work, knowing that the future prosperity of his wife and children depended on it, and how he completed the last page just four days before his death, is still a familiar memory. May 4 Badeau wrote another letter to Gen. Grant, saying: ‘I have no desire, in- tention or right to claim the authorship of your book. The composition is entirely your own. What assistance I have been able to render has been in suggestion, re- vision cr verification.” On the following day Gen. Grant sent his last letter to Gen. Badeau. He refers in it first to the fact that Badeau had reminded him of the promise of $10,000 for his as- sistance. “I said,” continues the letter, “that I would like your assistance because I have never written a book, and there was much work connected with the undertaking that I was not familiar with. When I said this you replied that I knew what a pleas- ure it would be to you to serve me, and that you would take »-** “1g if it were not for your circumst—uces, which I knew. It was out of respect for your sensitiveness that I enumerated, as I did, the details of compensation in the paper which I long subsequently handed you, so that in case of my death you could still get what I promised on the fulfillment of your part of the work. I did not contemplate your writing anything except in case of my death, but expected you to help me ar- range it and to criticise my work so that I could correct.” - Not Under False Colors. Finally, Gen. Grant says: “You say that Iam a man of affairs, etc., and can tell a simple story, etc. You imply that a liter- ary man must supply some deficiencies, and that you are the only man who can do it. If this is the case, general, I do not want a book bearing my name to go before the world which I did not write to such an ex- tent as to be fully entitled to the credit of authorship. I do not want a secret be- tween me and some one else which would destroy -my honor if it was divulged. I cannot think of holding myself as depen- dent upon any person to supply a capacity which I am lacking. I may fail, but I will not put myself in any such position.” ‘Thereupon Gen. Badeau wrote a letter which closed the correspondence, saying that he would attempt another work as a monument to Gen. Grant, hoping to make him and his family appreciate the effort. It was only a few weeks after Gen. Grant’s death (in October, 1885,) that Gen. Badeau sent a letter to Mrs. Grant, asking when he was to have a further share in the profits of the work, which had already be- gun to pour in. He inclosed with his letter @ copy of the agreement*which Gen. Grant had given him in May. When Mrs. Grant rectived this letter she set apart a sum of money to be used in satisfying the Badeau claim in case it should<prove to be just. She did not want to payany of this to Gen. Badeau, however, uniess he would give a receipt stating exactlf the work which he had done on the book: Mrs. Grant con- sulted Roscoe Conxlitig*about the matter at the time, and he supported her position. Publicity Given. The matter remained unsettled and gen- erally unknown until:June, 1887, when Gen. Badeau, through his‘attorneys, offered to submit it to arbitrdtion, but Col. Fred. Grant, for his mother, declined to do this, and again offered ta:pay Gen. Badeau on the conditions named before. Then Gen. Badeau brought the matter into the news- Papers, and made tle’ statement that he was in some measure the author of the Grant memoirs. This statement was dis- puted by the Grant family, and the cor- respondence quoted above was given to the Public to substantiate their position. This started the discussion of the authorship of the memoirs, and friends of both parties to the controversy were quoted. The friends of Gen. Badeau testified to the nature of the work he had done for Gen. Grant and tried to prove that Gen. Grant never could have written the memoirs. They pointed to the fact that Grant was near the bottom of his class at West Point (twenty-first in a class of twenty-nine), as he himself said in the story of his life. They claimed that he was incompetent to do the work. On the other hand those who had known Gen, Grant well testified that he had a very strong,terse style and that the lan- guage of the memoirs was plainly his lan- guage. His Ability as a Writer. Gen. Ruggles, who was one of. Grant's aids and was. with him at the Military Academy years before, said that while he would never have expected young Grant to develop into a writer, he found when in service with him that he could express him- self extremely well, that he wrote all of his orders himself and that he never asked the assistance of any one in writing. He and others recognized Grant’s conversation- al style all through the book. The burden of proof seemed to be on the Grant side. The Badeau claim was compromised final- ly_In private for $5,000. If Badeau had been able to persuade Grant to give him 10 per cent of the profits of the book, he would have received fully $50,000 in addition to the $12,000 for which he stipulated. Within a year of the date of publication the publishers of the’ memoirs had given Mrs. Grant two checks for $200, and $150,000 respectively and some smaller amounts. In addition to this money Mrs. Grant received $135,000 from the sale of her house in New York, which had been the gift of some wealthy men, and this money she put out at interest through Geo. W. Childs, most of it being lent on improved Teal estate in Washington. Mrs. Grant has also a pension of $5,000 from the govern- ment. It was not lack of money that made her dispute the Badeau claim, but respect for her husband's memory. ————_-e+______ My Danghter’s Lenrned to Cook. We used to have old-fashioned things, like bominy and greens. We used to hare Just common soup, pork and beans; But now it's boulllon, comsomme, and things made Fot'au Feu‘and Julienne, al dat Pot au Feu an fulier ‘ein hier’ learned to cook, dha ine made out of We used to have a plece of beef—just onlinary neat, And pickled pigs’ feet, spareribs, too, and other things to eat; While now it's dilet and:qagoyt, and leg of mutton ised bra And macaroni au gratin, amd sheep's head Holland- aised; Escallops a la Versaillesa 1a’this and a Ia that, a And ep cerreal @ la Dieppoike—it's enough to kill But while I suffer deeply f tnthriably took As if I were deiighted ‘cause my daughter's learned to cook, { We es rte Jot of salad thtngs;-with dressing mayoo- In place of oysters, Blue ‘Polhts fricasseed a dozen (anil ocalipel olay mAGlays octpiean (pea chimectaaaes Enough Freck.a Atomgeh' that Is-ynade of plated ‘The gvod old thitigs asp pasted Sway, in silent, sad retrent: We've lots of highfalutin’.things, but nothing much to eat. i And while T neyer say: word, ang always pleasant You het I've ia‘ dystidpetit’ sinee my" daughter’ Tearded t6 etek She or nes MO, Sanenter’s +COURT CHALLISS. ———_+-e+— Shun the Sctentists. From the Cineltihat! Tribune. Two prisoners in the county jail, who were discussing the various methods of capital punishment, brought out some de- cidedly new ideas relative to the proposal of New York scientists to resuscitate elec- trecuted criminals. “Them suicide gallows in Colorado is a bad thing,” observed one. “No worse than the automatic gallows in Connecticut,” responded the other. “The worst of all,” resumed the first speaker, “is the punishment in New York. Pretty soon they will punish double mur- derers there more than they do singie murderers.”” “How can they do that?” “For the first murder de prisoner will be sentenced to be electrocuted, and for the second he will be sentenced to be resusci- tated by de scientific mokes. If he kills three persons fhe will ‘be electrocuted de second time, and so on.”" “Terrible, terrible,” muttered the other, awe-stricken at the human punishment contemplated by the narrator. —__+ 0+ —____ She Made a Misstep. From the Indianapolis Journal. This siory is told of a young woman who boarded a car one evening recently which was so full she had to stand. She was crowded into the vicinity of a woman who had on the floor near her a basket of eggs. As the car turned a corner it lurched and the young woman lost her balance. When she righted herself she found she had planted one of her feet in the basket of eggs. At about the same instant the wo- man made the same discovery. She screamed out: “Howly Moses, she’s sthepped into me eggs.” Before she could take her foot cut the old lady shrieked again: “Would yez be after takin’ yer foot out and not be a batin’ them up to a froth?” Of course everybody laughed, and the young woman was embarrassed. Every ene stared at her and she stared out of the window. The old lady left the car at the next corner, and as soon after as possible the young woman disappeared. ee at Concerning Kissing. From an Exchange. The reason kissing is so pleasant, says an osculatory expert of scientific tendencies, is because the teeth, jaw bones and lips are full of nerves, and when the lips of persons meet an electric current is generated.—Yon- kers Gazette. 9 Yes, and it is so confounded cheap. You don’t have to have a dynamo machine, nor a battery in the house nor a call box, nor a button to touch to ring up the central office, and there is no patent on it, and the poorest person in the world can enjoy the electric current better than the millionaire, and it never gets out of,order. If Edison had invented kissing, it woujd cost $100 a year, like the telephone, and then extra kissing would be charged, up extra, and if you didn’t pay for it they would take out your kissaphone and dissonnect you from the central office. ——see. Some Modern Pulpit Topics. From the Buffalo Express, Farmer Oatcake, who, with his good wife, Mandy, is on a brief -visit to a daughter-in- law in Buffalo, looked over the newspapers on Saturday in an endeavor to find a church service on the following day which he might attend with hope of securing spir- itual satisfaction. He soon gleaned that the following scriptural subjects would be discussed from the various city pulpits: “Is the Trilby Craze Dying Out?” “Fitzsimmons vs. Corbett.”” “How the Pastor Spends His Vacation.” “Should Our Daughters Marry Foreign Noblemen?” “High Sleeves and Theater Hats.” “The Gold Brick Saloon.”” “Canal Street on Pare | Night.” “Wordsworth and the Lake School of Poetry.” “The LIIId Congress. “Rights of Motormen.” Farmer Oatcake gave it up after a while and laid down the paper, saying, with a sigh: “Law sakes, Mandy! I do believe that the Gospel amd the Scheme of Salva- tion have gone clegy out of fashion.” With Their Carolina Brethren. A COMMISSION ON MARRIAGE Descendants of the First Families of the Old Dominion. A DWINDLING RACE Written for The Evening Star. MODERN IN- tance of an entire a nation in search of N eligible wives and \ husbands by the wholesale {s just now furnished by the interesting but little- known tribe of Pa- munkey Indians, liv- Ing in eastern Vir- ginia, who are in- deed literally . the “first families” (F. F. V.’s) of the old dominion, being lineal descendants of the true aborigines. So blue and exclusive, in fact, is the Pamunkey blood, so unmixed through centuries with any other strain, that the tribe is dying out, and experienc- ing the urgent need of a matrimonial alli- ance with some outside stock to preserve the root. The detrimental effects of con- tinued intermarriage between members of the tribe have become alarming, but, inas- much as they scorn a union with their white, as well as their colored neighbors, they are in a dilemma as to what steps they should take to restore their blood and save themselves from extinction. It is a case somewhat like that of the primitive Romans and the Sabines—except that thus far no Sabine women have been lured ameng them and captured. Under these circumstances the head men of the Pamunkey tribe have opened ne- gotiations with the Eastern Band of Chero- kee Indians in the adjacent states of North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama to precure brides for their unmarried sons and husbands for their unmarried daugh- ters. The male Pamunkeys understand the Eastern Cherokee women to be excep- tionally pretty, modest and sensible, and the female Pamunkeys regard the Eastern Cherokee braves as handsome, loyal and industrious, from general hearsay, and calculated to make safe husbands. Corre- spondence was begun about a year ago with the chiefs of the Eastern Cherokees, as the result of trepeated conferences on the subject between representatives of the Pamunkeys end Commissioner of Indian Affairs Browning, at the Indian bureau in this city, and inducements were offered to the mountaineer Cherokees in North Carolina to send on a select sample con- signment of eligible girls and youths. This week three emissaries of the Pe munkey tribe departed for North Caro- lina, to visit Principal Chief Nimrod J. Smith and other bead men of the Eastern Cherokees in person at Bird Town, Wolf Town, Soc> and Big Cove, and bring the negotiations to a favorable conclusion. Whether the hardy Cherokee mountaineers will consent to ally themselves with the Pamurkey dwellers at tidewater without urreasonable inducements is doubtful, put = ey ee are confident of success, and hope for a speedy inf of new blood into their tribe. J — Home of the Tribe. This tribe live in a queer settlement call- ed “Indian Town,” over in King William county, Va., twenty-one miles due east of Richmond, and one mile east of the his- toric “White House,” where George Wash- ington was married to the beautiful widow Custis. Their reservation, comprising sw) acres, ceded to the tribe by the ancient eclon: assembly of Virginia, isan oddly shape neck of land, almost entirely sur- xyounded by one of the serpentine curves of the Pamunkey river, not far from its de- bcuchment into York river. The place is connected with the main land by a single narrow sandspit, and the isolation and pro- tection afforded by this peculiar situation have doubtless saved these Indians from destruction. About one-third of the reser- vation is good farming land, and the re- mainder consists of woods and low swamps, well stocked with deer, raccoon, otter, muskrats, mink, reedbirds, wild geese, ducks and turkeys. There are now ninety Pamunkey Indians actually present on the reservation proper, and thirty-five more residing on another small reservation twelve miles northward on the Mattapony river, beside twenty others employed as boatmen on steamers plying the Virginia rivers, making a total of 145 Pamunkeys now living. In appear- ance they are distinguished by the usual copper-colored skin, straight, coarse hair and dark eyes. They are not particularly strong or robust, and their average lon- gevity is less than that of their white and colored neighbors. There are few members of the tribe who are not closely related by consanguinity to every other person on the reservation, and this accounts for their waning vitality, to remedy which they are now exerting them- selves. Most of the adults can read and write, and are reasonably well-informed. ‘They are temperate, moral and peaceable. Ill-feeling between them and their neigh- bers is almost unknown. Their homes are comfortable and well kept, and most of their houses are weather boarded. As a rule they are a story and a half high, em- bracing from two.to four rooms. Their church building. where Baptist services are held every Sabbath, is a creditable struc- ture. The church receives the hearty sup- pert of the whole tribe. All Talk English. The Pamunkeys wear ordinary. citizens’ dress, but affect an excessive use of gaudy colors. All talk English, and scarcely a vestige of their old tribal tongue is left among them. Following the habits and in- stincts of their forefathers, they spend their time largely in hunting and fishing, using dug-out canoes in their aquatic sports. They also do a little farming to supply their own tables, and make a little earthen ware for domestic uses. Still they cherish an inherent dislike for manual labor, and frequently hire impecunious negroes to work their truck patches for them. A few horses, cattle, sheep and hogs are raised. A general merchandise store is conducted by a joint stock company composed of members of the tribe. Their surplus fish, game, furs and farm products find market in Richmond and Baltimore. ‘The reservation belongs to the tribe as a whole, and there fs no individual ownership of land, The houses are individual prop- erty, however, and can be bought and sold at pleasure. The land is allotted to fam- ilies from time to time, and on the death of occupants it reverts back to the tribe for reallotment. The tribe is not taxed by the state of Virginia, but voluntarily pays, from time-honored custom, an an- nual tribute to the governor, personally, in the shape of a brace of wild ducks or other game. Th® tribal government is conducted by an elected chief and council of four, who administer a code of laws framed by the Indians themselves. C. 8. Bradby 1s the present chief, and . Dennis, W. G. Sweat, R. L. Sampson and Terrill Bradby constitute the council, with R. W. Miles as town clerk, and James H. Johnson, W. T. Neal and Dr. B. Richards as trustees, The chief and council are the judge and jury of all who break the laws, and settle all disputes between members of the tribe. There is no such thing as corporal punish- ment under their laws, either by chastise- ment or imprisonment. 3 ————_—_. A New Isthmian Canal Route. A new route for an interoceanic canal across the Isthmus of Darien is described in the Engineering News. It was discov- -ered by Mr. Gustavus A. Karweise, who considers it important by reason of the small cost at which it can be constructed. 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