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the lake of sacrifice/
Louisiana Body of Water Abcm*
Which There Is an Indian
Legend.
Lake Ca-ia-ou-Ia, the sacred lake *f
the Indiana lie? ensconced, as it were,
In the deep solitude of the forest
which skirts the Attakapaa prairie on
the east aide of the Teche at about
nine miles from the town of St. Mar
tlnville The beauty of Its scenery
and Its picturesque landscapes havs
probably no equal In the atate, says
the New Orleans States. Its water*
have the transparency of crystal, and
its depth averages from 90 to 100
feet.
The word Ca-ta-ou-la means the lake
of sacrifice. The following legend, as
dramatic and tragical aa th* BlblLoal
narrative of the death of Japhthah-*
daughter, give* us th* origin of that
name.
The Tettmetcheo Indians, being
threatened with dire calamity, th* na
ture of which we know not, th*lr
prayermen consulted their oracles, and
were Informed that to propitiate th*
great Manitou and to avert the calami
ty a fair maiden of the tribe was to
be sacrificed to the cruel god and her
soul drowned in the placid water* of
Lake Ca-ta-ou-la.
The beautiful At-ta-I%, the fair
daughter of the chief, offered herself
as a willing victim to propitiate the
Great Spirit
Dressed In all the finery and plo
‘uresqueness of apparel of an Indian
princess, she repaired to the lake in
whose waters she was to find a watery
grave, followed by the weeping maid
ens and the stern warriors of the
tribe.
^^^vHded In her light canoe on the
waters of Thwe'ake until she had
reached the middle-5^ the stream, and
with her eyes upraised and hands ex
4 a J mv n v«4 f n Vsneironl ir w_ onalnn
ot the great Manitou, she offered him
her youth and her life blood as a
sacrifice to propitiate him and to
avert the calamity that threatened her
people.
With radiant smile she then turned
toward the shore of the lake wheru
knelt the weeping maidens. She waved
her hand gently to them, bidding them
an eternal adieu, and plunged into lta
waters, to be seen no more.
Supersititous persons assert that
even to this day in times of greai
calamity and misfortune, when the
moon spans the sky and shinee serene
In the high heavens, streaking with
silvery fringe the gentle ripplee of
the lake, a shadowy form is seen gild
ing on its waters in a light canoe, with
hands extended heavenward, and they
say that all at once, uttering a wild
and unearthly shriek, the shadowy
form plunges headlong Into the water*
and disappears, while the terror-atrtck
en denizens of the forest answer the
shrieks with howls and lugubrioua boot
ings.
From that time Lake Ca-ta-ou-la be
came the sacred lake of the Indians,
and every year they repaired to thia
spot to propitiate the great Manitou
with their offerings and sacrifices. Into
its crystalline waters they plunged
themselves to get cleansed of their
moral and physical impurities; into its
sacred waters they dipped their amu
lets and arrows to avert approaching
calamities and to protect themselvee
against the devices of the evil spirit
He who could not make this yearly
pilgrimage felt despondent and un
happy, and his inability to follow the
others in the saintly journey boded
him no good.
If w’hile performing his immersion
in the lake one should happen to
drown, his memory was execrated, and
his death was considered the Judg
ment of the great Manitou as an atone
ment for the crimes committed by
him.
The lake is still called Ca-ta-ou-la,
the lake of sacrifice, but the greai
Manitou, like his Indian worshipers,
is now a Liiiiig ui luc paou
Frost Makes Fat Turkey*.
“Cold weather makes tat turkey*,"
said the poulterer.
“Why?”
“Because in a warm fall the ground
keeps soft, the vegetation lingers or
and the fields are full of worms and
bugs. What's the result? The result
is that the turkeys, from sunrise til:
dark, tramp the tempting fields on lonj
forages, eating the worms and bugs
which thin them, and walkingtall theii
soft and fine flesh into tough, Btringj
muscle.
“A cold fall, with early frosts anc
snows, freezes the ground and killi
the bugs. Then the turkeys are ho
tempted to wander. They loaf in th<
farmyard, gorge an abundance o
grain, and put on flesh like a middle
aged woman at a seashore hotel.
“But in a warm fall, hunting the ir
resistible bug, the turkeys do their 11
or 20 miles regularly, and become ath
letes. For athletic turkeys there is n<
public demand.”
• The Lawyer.
Now, guess who it is that takes ai
oath “whereby he invokes God's hel|
that he may do no falsehood nor con
sent to the doing of any in court; tha
he may not wittingly or willingly pro
mote or sue any false, groundless o
unlawful suit, nor give aid or con
sent to the same; that he may dela;
'no man for lucre or malloe, but tha
he may conduct himself with all gooi
fidelity.” Guess who takes that oath
But you would never guess it in th
world. It is the lawyer.—Kansas Clt;
Times.
Not in That Case.
He—Do you believe that if one pel
son gives another a pair of aclisor
it will cut their friendship?
She—Not if It’a a nice little pair o
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CAPTURING THE WILD DUC*.
Clever Scheme of the Chinese Is Suc
l cessful Among the Wary
Water Fowl.
A full-grown wild (Juck Is one of the
most wary of all wild creatures. A wa
1 terman may be working all day long
with shovel and pickax, says the author
of "Bird Life and Lore," barely a stone’s
throw from a large flock of widgeon and
wild ducks, and they will not notice him,
for they know that he means them no
barm But let a sportsman enter the
meadows and hide his gun ever so care
fully, and make himself ever so small,
it is ten to one that they will rise In a
cloud when he Is some four gunshota
away from them, and take themselves
off to a place of greater safety.
There is one method of taking wild
ducks in considerable ansxbers. prac
ticed in China and In some other coun
tries, which is so amusing and ao little
known as to deserve notice.
The natives take ears that a large
number of big calabashes, or gourds,
' should always be left floating on the wa
| ter frequented by the birds, till they
get to regard them as part and parcel
of their resorts. The duck-hunter
j chooses his time, and, putting one of the
calabashes, tvith holes cut for his
mouth and eyes, upon his head, he
wades through the lake, taking care to
1 keep the whole of his body well be
neath the surface. He cautiously ap
proaches the unsuspecting wild fowl,
and, catching one of them by the leg,
l pulls him, with a sudden jerk, beneath
the water, causing hardly more coinmo
! tion of the surface than the duck itself
often makes when it dives, or plashes,
sr plunges for its food. He wrings lta
neck under the water and fastens It to
his belt. Then he deals with another
and another in the same fashion, till he
makes his retreat, equally unnoticed,
with a w’hole girdleful of captured wild
H li/o Ira roiin/l L I n ttt n inf
SOFT-EYED MEN OF PACIFIC
Loochoo Islanders Who Possess Most
Winning and Remark
able Optics.
A woman traveler who lately visited
j the Loochoo islands, in the Pacific, de
! scribes her first impressions in tbs
i North China Herald. The first thing
that struck her on landing was the fact
i that the coolies who tumbled lazily
aboard her ship were “very much addiSt
ed to the use of hats, and very little to
j the use of any other clothing.” Shs
continues: “I can best describe ths
hats by an exclamation of one of oui
party, ‘What beautiful waste papei
; baskets they'd make!’ These hats were
| fastened on with loops of thick, brown,
| hairy palm rope, through which were
| passed cotton strings tied under the
1 chin. Every man’s face was ornament
| ed with a thin, brownish black beard
| and mustache, and it was often hard to
J tell where the beard left off and the
hairy rope began. Wisps of unkempt
i hair also straggled about the neck, giv
ing to the man the look of some savage
■creature. Taking in these details, my
! eyes came at last to the eyes of these
i seemingly wild savages, and loi I
\ looked into large, soft, black eyes, so
| wide apart, like those of the ruminating
animals. And in their depths lurited a
good-natured smile, just waiting to an
swer one from me. I never got used to
the Incongruous effect of those gentle
eyes and that fierce beard on each
other.”
COLLEGE GIRL AS MOTHER
Collection of Baby Pictures Shows
Conclusive Evidence of
Fitness.
An instructor at Vassar college has sn
odd and interesting collection of photo
j graphs—the photographs of the babies
of young women who are college gradu
ates. says an exchange, are strong and
beautiful. They number over 300. Ths
instructor said of them:
“I began to collect pictures of the
children of female A. B.’s and A. M.’s
because I had heard so much talk about
the higher education unfitting woman
! for her natural sphere, and soon.
iviy cuueuuuu piuvca iudi iue uigu*
er education makes mothers of an ex
cellece hitherto unknown. Highly edu
; cated women don’t weaken themselves
with tight corsets, with overmuch danc
ing and card playing. They are athletic
and strong. Their bodies as well as
their minds are developed.
“They enter upon the duties of moth
erhood with a unique courage and wis
dom and strength, and the result is that
1 their babies are the biggest, strongest,
; ! handsomest little creatures—”
i She pointed toward the 300 photo
! | graphs.
■ “But just look at those pictures,” she
cried. “Just look at them.”
^ Cento Books.
“This volume,” said the bibliophile,
| j “is a cento. It is composed of de
: tached sentences taken from the worua
of Thackery. It makes a novel, sen
! sible, but short, and It was composed
i In seven years by a bed-ridden baron
( ess. The best known cento is probably
the Empress Eudozie’s ‘Life of Chriet,
t made entirely of lines from Homer.
There Is a similar life composed by
r | Ross, that consists wholly of detached
1 ; lines from Virgil. Centos are often
, very valuable. One compiled by Alex
j ander Hamilton from Milton’s ‘Para
I j dise Lost’ sold not long since for |500,
The book was a history of America.’
—
I ) Placing the Blame.
’ “But,” the young housekeeper pro
! tested, “the milk is sour.”
“Yes’m.” replied the honest milk
man; “it's shameful how lazy them
‘ farmers is gettln’. Ye see, ma'am,
1 they’ve been oversleepin’ theirselvee
lately and before they git their cowi
I milked the stuff turns.”—Philadelphia
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Guardian’s Sale of Lands.
Notice is hereby Riven that the undersigned, as
guardian of the estates of Burnell Lawson.
Doris Lawson and Leightan Lawson, minor heirs
of Thomas E. Lawson, deceased, in pursuance of
an order of the Independence Probate Court en
tered at an adjourned session of its November
1905 term, held on January 10, 1906, will, on Sat
urday, February 10, 1906, between the hours of
10 a. m„ and 3 p. m., at the main entrance of the
Court House in the city of Newport and County
of Jackson, and State of Arkansas, offer for sale
at public auction, to the highest bidder, on a
credit of three months, the following described
tract of land situate in the said County of Jack
son and State of Arkansas, to-wit:
The northeast quarter of the southeast quarter
of section thirty-one (31), township fourteen (14),
north, range one (1) east, containing 40 acres
more or less
Purchasers will be required to give notejwith
approved security and a lien will be retained on
the land as additional security for the purchase
money. In consideration of the amount bid the
widow will convey her dower right in the above
land to the purchaser of the minor’s interest.
January 11,1906- ERNEST NEILL,
21-w4t Guardian.
Notice.
State Land Office, Little Rock, Ark., January
4,1906.
Complaint having been filed in this office by
W. B. Blankinship against Albert Stewart for
abandoning donation No. 37 99. dated Decem
ber 18, 1902, upon sw se and ne se, section 4,
township 10 n, range lw in Jackson county,
Arkansas, with a view ta the cancellation of
Baid donation; the parties ate hereby summoned
to appear at this office on thk 17th day of Feb
furnish testimony concerning: said alleged aban
donment.
Testimony in this case will be taken by and
before Andrew Johnson, Justice of the Peace*
at his office in Jackson county, Arkansas, on the
10th day of February, 1906, between the hours at
10 a. m. and 2 p. m., and continued from day to
day until completed. F. E. CONWAY,
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