| Transcribed by Norma Knotts Shaffer from microfilm of
the Calhoun Chronicle dated 6/2/1908.
We have on exhibition at the Chronicle office an old Indian pipe, supposed
by many to have been used for ratifying peace treaties between warring
savages who years ago invested our hills and valleys. The custom
was to first make peace, and then as an evidence, each diplomatic chieftain
would take a draught from the pipe of peace. This curious relic was
presented to us by Mr. Will Rogers of Brooksville, who plowed it up in
an old field on the home farm, where, perhaps some "Injun Brave" dropped
it when he bit the dust, or was driven hurriedly before the westward march
of the white men. |
