ABORIGINAL TAMMANY.
A CANONIZED INDIAN CHIEF OF THE
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
He Conveynl a Trit of I.nnd In Fnnyl
Tnla to William rutin and Wm Hlglil.r
EitovmiMl by the Whltci During the
evolutionary Period.
" The chief whose name has been thus
queerly canonized by, and perpetuated
ejnong the race which supplanted his
own, was the most celebrated and illus
trious fti the whole history of the Dela
ware, though loss is definitely known
of him than of Teedyuscung, who was
their great man in the middle of the
eighteenth century, at the time of tho
French and Indian war and the various
troubles in Pennsylvania consequent
upon it.
Tammany or Tamanend, lived in tho
middle of the seventeenth century, and
well toward its close ; but that was the
period merely of the beginning of the
white occupation of Pennsylvania. Thus
he was far less known to the colonists
less observed by them than was his fol
lower in tho line of succession, Tecdy
nsenng. Perhaps his reputation for
ability and virtue rests more upon tho
white man's ignorance than his knowl
edge of him, aud the fact that he was
held to be so good and great an Indian
may be explained by that other fact that
be was a long time and thoroughly dead
Indian at the time public atteutiou was
called to him. His fame rested upon
Indian tradition rather than extensive
acquaintance of the whites with him,
but, nevertheless, the pioneers of Penn
sylvania, among them the Proprietor of
the Province, actually saw and con
versed with him.
In 1683 Tammany and a lesser chief
affixed their hieroglyphical signatures
to a deed conveying to William Ponn a
tract of land in Bucks County, between
tho Tennypack and tho Neshaminy
creeks.
It is traditionally asserted that tho
greater part of his life was spent in tho
territory now constituting the State of
Delaware, and that assumption contains
tho elements of probability, because in
the time of his early life at least, that
was the region of the greatest Lenni
Lonape population. There seems rea
son to believe also that at a later period
he had his home in the lonely region of
the Upper Delaware, on the west bank
of the river in what is now Damascus
Township, Wayne County, Pa., to
which portion of the valley, together
with the opposite bottoms where is now
Cochecton, N. Y., the Indians had given
(ho name Cushutunk.
It was round about the site of the
present village of Damascus upon the
bank of the Delaware that the first Con
necticut settlers in Pennsylvania located
themselves in 1757 (antedating Wyom
ing by several years.) It is significant
that to this locality the Yankee settlers
who were destined to make much
kouble for the Pennamites, gave tho
name " St. Tammany Flats " and that
aome years later the name of the famous
chief, in its canonized form, to a Ma
sonic lodge which they organized.
Tammany is not only claimed by
Pennsylvania in life but in death, for
there is made with some support the
statement that the grand sachem was
buried not far from a spring (as was a
common Indian custom), three or four
miles west of Doylestown.
While aomo of these matters are in
volved in obscurity the general fact re
mains clear and unanswerable that ho
was a groat man in the estimation of his
own people, and by some process be
came almost revered by the whites dur
ing the Revolutionary period. After ho
had been half facetiously and half in
earnest canonized, his name became a
synonym for "good Indian," and for
much that is admirable in ideal man
hood. The Indians revered him and
when they were visited by Colonel
George Morgan, of Princeton, they be
came such enthusiastic admirers of his
that as the highest possible compliment
they bestowed upon him with belittiug
ceremony, tho name of tho venerated
Tammany. His name was for many
Tears printed in the calendars, and fig
ures iu tho page of Cooper's " Last of
the Mohicans," (chapters XXVIII.
XXIX).
Tammany was according to the tra
dition of Lis people (and the limited
knowledge of his white contemporaries),
a remarkably wise and just ruler, an
eloquent orator, and a mighty warrior,
though he exerted himself chiefly for
peace aud was a warm friend of the
whites. His favorite motto was " Unite
m peace fur happiness, in war for do.
fence." Heekwelder, who simply sums
up the Indian traditions of his charac
tor, says : lie was in tho highest de
gree endowed with wisdom, virtue,
prudence, charity, alfability, meekness,
hospitality iu short, with every good
ana nouie qualification that a human
being may possess."
A Now Cnro.
A German doctor has started atlieor
that most drunkards can bo cured bv
very simple uud idcasant emivsi. " .
a
of
treatment, numuly, by eating apples
every moid. Apples, Dr. Tup!
maintains, if eaten iu largo quuntiti
TJOhsess nroiierl ies -liiel, imii!iv.U
ut
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do
away with the craving that all v.
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milieu ui'unr.arus nave lor unuk.
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um:uir Hays mat in many bail cases
which have come under his notice
Uos liceil able to efl'ect a enre liv
tl
means, tho patient gradually losing
un ciesiro lor alcohol.
Where the Money I.
Thoro are fiflntm National banks
New York city which have 1.
seeding fifteen million dollars each, tho
largest umoutit being thirty-three mi
lion dollars in the National l'urk JJan
il-
and tho uext largest amount twenty-ii
vo
muuon in me unemical National. T
en
banks have over fifteen million rlnll
U1SJ
each loaned, tho Natioual Park havi
uie largest amount, and tho First
iionul tho second largest.
WOMEN PAST FORTY.
Their Opportnaltles for Intellectual Im-
provement are Few,
" Why should a woman at the age of
forty be, in any sense of the word,
passe? " asked Mrs. Terhune, the other
day, at the Monona Lake assembly.
And then she answered the question in
a paper that was full of the simplest yet
the saddest and most pathetic sentences
that one is likely to hear for many a
dav.
Mrs. Terhune pointed out, that after
tho ago of forty the mental forces of
woman aro at their best, and yet the
sunset of her life is darkened. Tako
the averago case. A woman of twenty
marries. Sho is handsome, intelligent
and educated. She has read, she has
bathed a little in the sea of thought,
aud looked with wonderment upon its
billows. She has even dreamed of voy
ages out there where stately ships of
splendid minds are grasping all tho
wiuds that blow, and are pushing for
the port of progress. And then she
turns to her duties as wife. At first
she follows her reading and tries to
keep up with the times, but it keeps
her busier now than it did. Then tho
children como, and sho is so hurried.
Her work is so unending aud so exact
ing. She finishes one task only to rind
it has brought her to the threshold of a
hnndred new ones. JShe thinks some
times of the culturo she is losing, but
sho has no time. Here are duties that
will not bo waved aside. She is a good
mother, and her children shall not bo
neglected.
Sho loses her touch with the women
whose cares are lighter. She forgets
much that she once knew well. Sho
bends every energy that the children
may have advantages. She would feel
that she had done a selfish, an unpar
donable thing if she sat down to read or
to study when there were tasks de
manded of her by her husband or her
children.
Presently she sees that the bovs and
girls havo discovered that mother does
not know.
How quickly children come to that !
They compare her with some one, and
she suffers. Without meauinc it or
knowing it, she loses interest in the
things that interest them. Sho never
would have thought she could do that.
To avoid it is the very thing for which sho
sacrified herself. She has made duty her
slave so long that duty is her master.
bne can not escape from the treadmill
she has builded. She goes her weary
way till the day is done, and even in
sleep she dreams of toiling. All her
associates drift further and further from
her. Her circle Barrows till she stands
in the center alone. There is not a
throb from her brain that is answered
by a thought from the world, and she
knows it.
Has sho done best ? Would it have
been selfish for her to neglect the chil- 1
dren a littlo in unconscious infancy to
Keep pace with them better in acute
maturity ? Does she not quicker lose
hold of them, lose guidance of them
when they can outrun her outthink
her ? And when they have gone and
left her alone, and the echoes are loud
where laughter used to live, what has
she ? Neglected, forgotten, unrequited,
nnthanked, in many things ignorant, in
many things dull, the measure of suf
fering that must be hers will simply bo
the measure of possibility that was hers
the day she wed.
KeMralnt of Jarenlle Smoking.
It is time that the attention of all
responsible persons should bo seriously
directed to the prevalence and increase
of tobacco-smoking among boys. Here
and there, as we have recently shown,
there have been observed expressions
of a strong repugnance existiug in tho
public mind against this form of juven
ilo perversity ; but we still lack the
support of a general and outspoken ob
jection to its continuance. At the same
time, we feel assured that no man who
has really given any thought to the
matter would hesitate in condemning
tho injurious folly of this practice.
Stunted growth, impaired digestion,
palpitation and the other evidences of
nerve exhaustion and irritability have
again and again increased a lobsou of
abstinence.
Not even iu manhood is the pipo or
cigar invariably safe. Much less can it
be so regarded when it ministers to tho
unbounded whims and cravings of every
heedless urchin. Clearly thero is need
of some controlling power here. Tho
parent, in certain cases, is almost ns
ignorant of consequonces and, prob
ably, often quite as apathetic as his buy.
Where ho can be roused to the a'-tivo
exercise of his authority in repression,
he should be. In very many cases ho
can not, and we have no hesitation in
assorting our conviction that it is in
cumbent upon tho Legislature to re
strict this habit by ui age limit which
will full outside this period. Lancet.
The Ideal IMiiliiK-Kooin.
East and south," says an architect,
"is the ideal exposure for a dining-room.
That lets in the morning sun, than
which nothing is more cheerful on a
winter morning, and the southern expo
sure gets all tho breeze going ou a sum
mer day." Persons in buildiug do not
halt consider such questions, which is
iuexeusublo iu these days of multiplied
sources of information on iho subject.
Tho saying of former times that "a first
houso has to be planned to know how
to build the second" ought not now to
bo accepted. A tliree-tliousund-dollar
houso may have the comforts und con
veniences of a tweuty-thonsaiid-dollur
one. One of tho former soon lately had
tho "ideal dining-room" facing east uud
south, una the small piazza on the east
corner was, in winter, class-inclosed.
and heated from the steam heat appara
tus by sending a single- coil of pipo
around it. "Hero we take sun baths on
frosty mornings," expluined the host,
"With a rug and one or two easy-chairs
and tho inevitable growing plant, it is
the most cosy and comfortable loung
ing place." Which may be a sugges
tion to others with such a nook as yet
not utilized.
, SEARCH FOR THE DROWNED.
Superstition Common to White Mem !
dlane and Asiatic.
Superstition everywhere lias many
enrious modes of recovering the body
of a drowned person. The universality
of this form of superstition is shown by
tho fact that in one form or another it
is shared in this country by white mail
and Indian alike.
Sir James Alexander, in his acconnt
of Canada, tells ns i "The Indians im
agine that in tho ease of a drowned
body its place may bo discovered by
floating a chip of cedar wood, which
will stop and turn around over the ex
Bct spot. An instance occurred within
my own knowledge in tho case of Mr.
Lavery, of Kingston Mill, whose boat
overset and himself drowned nearCcdar
Island, nor could tho body be discov
ered until this experiment was resorted
to."
Not many months ago a man was
drowned at St. Louis. After search
had been made for tho body, but with
out success, the man's shirt, which ho
had laid aside when ho went in to bathe,
was spread out on the water and allowed
to float away. For a while it floated
and then sank, near which spot, it was
reported, tho man's body was found.
A loaf of bread is a favorite talisman
in most European countries. Some
times it is found sufficient of itself and
sometimes it needs the aid of some
other substance. Thus in England tho
loaf is usually weighted with quick
silver. In Brittany, when the body of a
drowned man can not be found, a
lighted taper is fixed in a loaf of bread,
which is then abandoned to tho re
treating current. When tho loaf stops
there it is supposed the body will be
recovered.
In Java a livo sheep is thrown into
the water aud is supposed to indicato
tho position of tho body by sinking
near it. Hut the objects used for this
purpose vury largely in different coun
tries. A corresjioudent of Sotcs ami
Queries tells how a corpse was discov
ered by a wisp of straw around which
was tied a strip of parchment inscribed
with certain cabalistic characters writ
ten on it by tho parish priest.
A curious custom is practiced in
Norway, whero those in search of a
drowned body row to and fro with a
cock in tho boat, fully expecting that
the bird will crow when the boat
reaches tho spot where tho corpse lies.
It was a popular theory in days gone
by that the body of a drowned man
would float the ninth day, a notion
which, Mr. Henderson informs us, pre
vails in the county of Durham. Sir
Thomas Browne alludes to it as believed
in his time, and in his " Psoudodoxia
Epidemics " there is a discussion on
this fanciful notion. It was also be
lieved that the spirits of those drowned
at sea were doomed to wander for 100
years owing to tho rites of burial having
uover been properly bestowed on their
bodies.
The Ideal Theory.
From College class to class come
down certain stories of men and customs
which illustrate the ideas of different
years. Hero is one relating to mush
und matter.
In the beginning of tho Revolution,
Doctor Witherspoon was president of
Princeton College. He was a Scotch
man by birth, and a man of strong
common sense.
It was the fashion of the time to hold
the ideal thoory a practical denial of
tho existence of matter. Tho ideal
philosophy taught that external life,
and what wo call material world, aro
the creatures of faucy. This system of
philosophy was even moro prevalent at
that time than materialism is at the
present day.
It is said that Dr. Witherspoon, find
ing it impossible to reason upon this
subject logically with people whose
minds were on firo with the ideal tho
ory, entered the class-room one morn
ing, and in tho course of his remarks
said :
"Yonng gentlemen, if you think
there is nothing but ideas iu tho world,
just go out on tho campus and butt
your heads against tho college walls !
Yon will at least got an idea of mat
ter. "
On another occasion tho students
were at supper, at long tables, with a
tutor presiding at each. Thero was ono
student of tho senior class who did not
believe in the theory of ideas. They
had hot mush and milk for supper ; all
at oueo they were disturbed by this sta
dent uttering a dreadful cry.
Everybody started up to know what
was the matter. Iho student said :
" Mr. Tutor, I ask vour pardon. I
have just swallowed a red-hot idea."
Tho tutor bowed, uud tho apology
was received without any evidence o
amusement.
Not in Hit Holy Temple.
During a trip to the Mediterranean,
writes ivate is. 1 nomas mu Washington
paper, when tho late Admiral Golds,
borough was in command of the fleet,
t.ie chaplain, ft zealous vouiijt man, m
forred request to hold se rvices on board
tuo nag-ship on Sunday morning. Tho
first Sunday after permission had been
given, the young chaplain's trepidation
1,-ave piucu io supreme sausiacwou when
ho noted that with tho exception of tho
r.diuiral the officers and meu of tho fleet
were nrsemblod in full force. After
waiting a few moinonts for the admiral,
...1. . r . , a - . . . .
uj luiiou to appear, ino chaplain
opened the services in regulation man
ner : "iho Lord is m his holy tomplo.
let all tho earth koep silence beforo
In m.
As the voice rang out in tho opening
words, t ho admiral walked on dock, and
though his face betokouod a storm, ha
took his seat in silence, and so ro
niainod uutil the congregation had been
dismissed. Then he rose, and stridiug
over to the chaplain, said : ,
' Young man, I want you to under-
'Htami in mture that the Lord is not ia
Ins holy temple until Admiral Golds
borough is on deck."
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