1872.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
465 
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The Doctor Talks about Indian 
Eolics. 
Georgia is a queer place for the Doctor to write you 
from, lmt he finds himself here, and not liking to have 
the Agriculturist appear without a word to his hoys and 
girls he writes from this far Southern State. One of our 
boys, Louis, lives herd—where don’t they live?—and he 
of course showed me his curiosities. Near his home he 
had found in the woods the place where had been some 
old Indian graves, and not many days ago he and another 
went and explored the spot. The graves were so old 
that about the only things to be found were stone imple- 
ing them, and in trying to find out how they were made. 
This Mr. Evans, for that is the gentleman's name, has 
published a book which is full of fine engravings of the 
things that have been found in England and other parts 
of Europe. The puzzle as to how such things could be 
made out of flint and other hard stones without the aid 
of steel or iron he has solved by going to work and try¬ 
ing to make such things himself. He has found that by 
selecting the right kind of a stone, and using no other 
implement than another stone, he conld make just as 
good arrow-heads and spear-heads as are found in the old 
graves and mounds. More than this, he discovered that 
by the use of a stick and sand he could drill just such 
holes as are in the ancient hammers and such things. To 
be sure, it required much patience and lots of “elbow- 
grease ” to do it, but he-proved that probably these early 
thought at length that he had had enough of it. Then 
came the winding in of the string, which was almost as 
much fun as letting it out. Down, down came the kite, 
every now and'then giving an angry toss as if it did not 
like to be taken away from its fine place up in the air, 
where it could look down upon everything. But Tommy 
kept on winding in the string, until at last, when quite 
near the earth, the saucy kite gave a toss of its tail, and 
came head foremost with a pitch to the ground. You 
may be sure that Tommy was over the fence in a minute 
to pick up his kite, and what was his surprise to see that 
it had come down in the midst of a flock of turkeys, and 
that the slack of the string was directly around the neck 
of the old gobbler! It was a very respectable gobbler, 
but not at all used to such tricks as this of the kite, so 
he immediately showed fight, and began to twist himself 
ments. You will think that implements are strange 
things to find in a grave, but you must know that almost 
all savages think that they can carry into the other world 
the things they have used in this. Believing this, the 
friends of an Indian bury with him his weapons, his 
ornaments, and his treasures, and some even kill a horse 
at Ins grave, so that the dead man may be mounted in the 
“ happy hunting-grounds ” to which he is going. Louis’ 
collection contained various things that must have been 
buried with the occupants of the graves. There were 
large stone “arrow-heads,” as they are called, but as 
these are over two inches long, and broad in proportion, 
I doubt if they were ever used upon arrows, as they arc 
too heavy for this purpose. I have seen stone arrow¬ 
heads in use among the Indians of the present day, but 
these were slender, and not more than a tenth as heavy 
as those found in graves and mounds in various parts of 
the country. It looks more probable that these heavy so- 
called arrow-heads were used as spear or lance-heads, or 
they may have been fastened to a staff to be thrown by 
hand. I don’t think any bow could carry an arrow with 
such a heavy weight at one end. Besides these war-like 
things, Louis found more or less perfect hammers or 
tomahawks, one of which had a neat hole bored through 
it, apparently to admit a handle. I am not sure that this 
particular piece was not a portion of a pipe. At any 
rate, there was a clean round hole in a solid stone an 
inch or more through. So far as we know, these early 
Indians—for these relics are so old that no one knows 
what tribes made and used them—had no hammers, 
drills, nor other tools of iron and steel, and how hard 
stone could be worked into these various shapes has al¬ 
ways been a great puzzle. 
Implements and other relics similar to those Louis and 
others have found in this country also occur in Europe, 
and an English gentleman has spent a lifetime in study- 
inhabitants of England drilled their holes in stone in 
this slow and laborious manner. All relics like those my 
young friend Louis has collected are interesting, as they 
show us what were the habits of the people who inhabited 
the country long, long before our ancestors came here. 
We can now buy for a few dimes a hammer much better 
than one which the forgotten Indian spent weeks and 
perhaps months in making. It seems not so very strange 
that they desired to have these things, so precious on ac¬ 
count of the labor expended on them, buried with them. 
There are but few places, even in what are called the 
“older States,” where these Indian relics are not occa¬ 
sionally found, and in some of the Western and Southern 
States they are very abundant. Now, I would like to 
have those youngsters—whether boys or girls—to tell me 
about what things of this kind they find. It may be that 
something interesting will come of it. 
Somewhere in Georgia , Oct. 26. The Doctor. 
Toiiusay’s 'ffrouMe aiad. Triumph. 
Is there any story needed with these two pictures—one 
showing the troubles which befell Tommy, and the other 
giving the scene when Tommy had the better of the 
cause of all his trouble ? These pictures are intended 
for our little readers, and very young people like to have 
a little tale with the pictures, no matter how plainly 
they may tell their own story. 
Once there was a boy whose name was Tommy—but 
there is no need to tell you that, for if there had been no 
boy Tommy, how could we have had any picture of him ? 
Well, this boy Tommy had a kite ; a new and a fine one, 
which his big brother John had made for him. Tommy 
went out one fine day to fly his kite. IIow that kite did 
fly, and what a happy boy was Tommy! It was great 
fun, to be sure, but after a while the best of fun, even 
that of flying a new kite, becomes tiresome, and Tommy 
up worse and worse with the kite-string. Tommy made 
a hard struggle for his kite, but when lie recovered it, it 
was not at all the beautiful new one that he had sent up 
that morning, but a poor, torn, draggled kite, that would 
have put its tail between its legs—only you see it had no 
legs. Tommy never liked that gobbler after the affray. 
Some months afterwards it came the gobbler’s turn to 
furnish the family dinner, and when it appeared on the 
table Tommy looked mightily pleased. The rest of the 
family could not guess why Tommy’s face wore such a 
broad grin, but he knew, and we think you do too. 
Aunt Sue’s IPsisKzle-lSox. 
NUMERICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 14 letters. 
My 8, 14,14, 5,12 10 is to declare. 
My 1, 7, 8, 9 is a design. 
My 13, 11, 3, 4 is part of the body. 
My 6, 2, 1 is a toy. 
My whole are useful at night. B. W. P. 
A leanig nomtem fot ash eving 
Thaw earsy fo lito dan napi, 
Fo goln, sourtunidis toli vcali niverts 
Ot uiw, nda lal ni navi. Owego. 
ANAGRAMS. 
1. Rest my claim. 
2. Mundane flat. 
3. Due in his mind. 
4. I need cents. 
5. Nat’s son hit me. 
6 . In scant cover. 
7. Happiest prince. 
8 . I a sure bond. 
9. Ruin tiger. 
10. Cleared vino. 
SQUARE WORD. 
1. A round ball. 2. A diseased person. 3. A fashion¬ 
able entertainment. 4. What sailors steer clear of. 5. To 
expunge. R. T. Isbester. 
