NA § § RTZ, Proprietor. ——————— ———r— - CHAS. RU OUR HZ TORICAL REVIEW Two Interesting Letters from Con- rad Weiser EDUCATES FIVE INDIAN BOYS French Margaret—Scarcity of Corn— | Comes Up to Shamokin— Reply to the Indians’ Petition—Weiser a Kind and Useful Man, XXXVII. Last week's chapter closed with a let. | ter from Conrad Weiser to Governor R. | H. Morris. Following up the same sub. ject, relating «then to Centre county, (now Clinton) wg print in this chapter | further letters from this celebrated in. dividual who was an important actor in the days of the early settlers, and bad all the charactenstics of William Penn | in his intercourse with the aborigines. Heidelberg, May 19, 1755. To Richard Peters. Sir ;—My son Sammy is coming to you with two Indian boys, the sous ol Jonathan Gayienquiligoa, a noted Mo- bawk, that can read and write in his language, well known He is poor, and prays that you, with the gen. tlemen managers of the Academy, will teach them to read and write English, and to provide them, during their stay in Philadelphia, which will be as long as it will require time to teach them is a very intelligent boy, and good na. tured ; the other an Indian, as something cross, father says. Mr. Heintzelman, my few weeks to board with hum, it would be agreeable to the lads; because my daughter is somewhat used to the In. dians, and understands here and there a word : then, afterwards you can pat them where you please. The name the biggest is Jonathan, the other Philip. I believe their let them stay long enough to learn Euglish to perfection, provided proper care is taken of them, which I hope wont be wanting. Jonathan wanted me to go to Philadel. phia wit to you. necessaries of lite for The biggest of them is not so, but more of as his If you could prevail with for a son-in-law, of ad father will the boys, but I thougt Sammy could do as well The starving, and have almos Indians Susquehanna t nothing to e He thought t on are at, because deer are scarce have had an cer some provisions corufield. answer before now, con- ning their petition to the governor for fencing in of a of her (lish camp in Margaret, with family, has goue to the En Virginia, and her son MN to Ohio, to the French fort i French some klaus has gone suppose they want to join the strongest party, The In. on Ohio and are gone jor information dians that are with the French are chiefly Anabunkis, neighbors to New England ; and, neither they nor the rest {I cannot learn their number true to the French, as they give out to our Indians. The other Indians on Ohio thinks our troops much too slowly. They say, they will be ¢'ad to see the French driven away from the Ohio. This report was brought by one of Jonathan's sons from Ohio: he was not French fort—he was afraid of going nigh it: but the Indians thereabout have told him so. ’ I wrote to the governor about the Indians’ petition, has received my letter. The Indians should have an answer. What can I say (to them without having it from the gov. ernor or assembly ? will be in the week I hope he last They are continu (ally plaguing me for an answer, which 1 {hope you will send, if you can, by this opportunity. I have nothing to add but am, Sir, Your most humble servant, CONRAD WEISER P.8. Tachnachdorus sent word by Jonsthan for me to come up to Shamokis, that the Indians had something of im. portance to lay before me. I understood since that several mes. sages had arrived at Otstuacky from the Eoglish army of Virginia, (as was said) with strings of wampum to forewarn the Indians on Susquebanna not to come nigh the army, for fear of being taken for French Indians, and to stay where they are. Heidelberg, Beiks Co., June 12, 1755. Honored Sir: Last night I arrived safe at my house from Otstuacky, an Indian town about 45 wiles above Shamokin, on the North. west Branch of Susquehanna river, where I have been with ten hired men to fence in a cornfield, for the Indians, according to your Honor's order ; but when I came there, I found the Indians that petitioned the governor for that purpose, had most. ly deserted the place for want of pro. vision, and chiefly for haviog lost all their corn by that great frost in tae night between the 29th and joth of May last vast, which was the second frost they bad on the river since their corn wan up, | aud entirely killed it. There was only { Jonathan and one of the Cayugas, named | Canadies, upon the spot, with their fami- { lies. They thanked your Honor very i { sincerely for the kindness you had shown | | them in sending hands to fence in their | | cornfield ; but said, that as they could | | have no hopes of getting one grain of | | corn this year, from what they have | planted, they thought it needless to have a fence made about their field; but | should be extremely glad if the govern- {| ment would help them with some pro- | | vision in their present necessity ; which I | * BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1901. ‘MODERN WAYS FOR THE FARMERS Machinery Has Largely Supersed- od Hand Work RESULTS GENERALLY BETTER | The Wonderful Devices That are now Employed in Planting, Sowing and Reaping—Farmers are now Machinists | promised to use my endeavor, or to write | | to your Honor to get it for them. I left | one sack of flour with them ; the same | 10 miles on this side of Otstuacky, and two sacks at Shamokin, with the rest of | the provision I took up with me for the hands, and could now spare I have bought of Christian Lower, a miller of Tulpehocken, of good wheat, and 60 bushels df Jacob Fisher, his neighbor, to be distri 20 bushels buted among the Indians, as vour Honor will be pleased to direct. them that meal should be delivered at John Harris’ Fer ry, where they could fetch it by water- I gave hopes the and, I believe it will be the cheapest way. There isa good wagon road from Harris’. The and wagons Christian Lower's mill to distance is about 40 miles, may be had reasonably [uo my going up, I took John Shickal- 3 lamy with me, and as we passed by Canasoragy, where an Indian town now is, John i told me that it would be very unmanoerly Or unbdeECOming me, pot fo say something to those Indians (chiefly Shawanese and Chickasaws public dian affairs; as [ was a person, and trusted with the In. and that the Indians longed to hear from the governor of Pennsyl- vania, how things are, concerning the war. I therefore told the Indians, who were then met in council, that I the governor stuaky, was sent by of Pennsvivania to Ot. to fence in a cornfield for the Indians, according to their petitions sent down last winter to the governor and his council, by Cayenquiligoa and others; and that the governor took this oppur- tunity to send bis salutation to them, and bad ordered me to acquaint them That the king of a great number of men their ist real Britain had sent and ammunition who are now on d march to drive away the French That on the E d ALY EX Dex ted adly ) WAT was vel g between ish and that it was that. in i them t ears 0 every thing that the meantime, the governor desire stop their French could say to them, and to ii ng brethren the E and to depen their ictiv observe the treaties altogether to sh, upon, that the English, : will str { friend ship, subsisting between them, and their brethren, they Indians, | That ydly as would receive soon as the governor the news of war being proclaimed between the English and French, the let them know, and whatever else should pass, the governor would worthy their notice Gave a string of wampum, There are about 2 >» men in this town, when they are all at home : five or six of them are Chickasaws, that lived many years among the Shawanese There then be messengers from the Chickasaw Nation, in the town, with sme particular message to them. I could not then learn what it was, One of these messengers told me, that his happened to two Nation would be mighty glad to see the | English in earnest to fight the Preach that they, the Chickasaws, had observed, that wherever the French came, they, did mischief ; and that they are more generally bated among the southern Indians, The Indians of this town informed me, | that a few days ago, some Shawanese Indians came [rom Ohio, and reported that the French are in a very poor con. dition at Oo: their provisions being half rotten ; and that there are not one bundred and fifty men there; and that all their Indians bad left them ; but a | | very few French praying Indians are | yet with them. I have nothing else to | trouble your honor with at present, but | am, Sir, Your obedient servant, CONRAD WRIsER, To Governor Morris, Dates of Historic Events, Nov. 14, 1524, Pizarro sailed for Pern; Nov. 15. 1763, Mason and Dixon's line established ; Mov, 16, 1776, surrender of Fort Washington; Nov, 17, 1747, British impressed sallors in Boston ; Nov, 18, 1776, attack on Fort Lee ; Nov. 1g, 1831, James A. Garfield born ; Nov, 20, 1780, battle of Blackstocks, N. C.; Nov. a1, 35, North Carolina ratified Constitution « 22, 1775. Americans intrenched Cohble Hill, Charlestown ; Nov, 2 Elbridge Geary died ; Nov. 24, 1 tie of t Mountain ; Nov British evacuated New York; 1807, Oliver Blisworth died ; mericans 1814, 25, 1783, 1783, So went Into winter quar. 1778, A ters, did to the [udians at Canasoragg, about | While inventive genius and modern | methods have revolutionized the leading | farmer, the greatest producer of them all, has not been overlooked. Farming | today is nearly an exact science, and the | man trained in one of the many agricultural colleges maintained by the different states. He is generally a specialist, it be dairying, grass or grain growirg that he follows, he is fully posted on every little detail of his particular line. It mind that the farmer of today is pot a borny-handed must be borne in son of toil. He uses steam, electricity or horses to do the work that was formerly i done by hand. More than that, he lives in a spacious house, containing every improvement known Lo sanitary science It is often lighted by electricity, and he uses one part of it as an office, from which point, with the aid of local tele i the phones, he directs all f operations of the farm. The wants to do before he bigins modern farwer knows what he operations, and adapts himself to the situation, what. ever it may be. He studies the climate he is in, and be knows what line of farm ing climatic conditions is better to follow under given Then he analyzes the soil, which is a simple thing to do, and thus ascertaing just what fertilizers are needed for certain crops in that soil 18 for the fertilizers, it may be said cidentally that the modern farmer grows in. a crop of clover, beans somethir g similar to supply nitrogen to the soil. or Nitrogen is the most costly constituent of fertilizers, and clover or beans will draw These, when furnish that Atl the same time a crop such pitrogen from the air. plowed lato the soil, costly clement as clover rests and refreshes the soil, which is a necessary proceeding when t : the ls osely cropped If the farmer is situated in the great the West he instead of horses grain-growing di uses a portable engine for plowing and barrowing Oa the evel land there the farmer puts any- where from from six 10 twelve plows in and It not plow anywhere from fifteen to thirty A gang rives the signal to the en gineer is a poor day when they can acres By the old method a man and team would plow from one to two acres a day. The steam engine is used not only be cause of the great amount with it in of work dome a given time, but because it does aways with the expense of keeping | many men and horses on the place dar | ing the slack period. If the farmer makes a specialty of corn, he has a corn planter. This is a low machine, with hoppers on each side, Seed corn is dumped in one set and fer. tilizer in another. He hooks a team to it, setties back in a comfortable seat and is driven over the fields. This planter drops the corn either in continaous rows or at any distance desired by the opera: tor. All be has to do is to set the gauge. | Two rows are planted at the same time, or beans can be planted out of the same | machine, It will drop the beans | wherever they are wanted, and fertilize both properly at the same time. Also, if it is desired to grow pampking among | the corn, which is common practice, this | obliging machine will drop the pumpkin seed in regular distances apart, twenty acres a day. When the corn is ready to cut, a machine also does that | work io the same rapid way. | Should the farmer sow grain, he does | it with what is known as a grain drill, which sows the seed in eight rows at a time. The grain can be sown either in straight lines or zigzag, and the machine fertilizeg the ground at the same time. In order that there may be no mistake as to the number of acres sown in a day, there is a clocklike device on the drill which tells how many acres nave neen covered and also the quantity of seed that has been sown Wo the acre. When the farmer wishes to sow his seed broadcast there is a simple ma- chine that he attaches to the rear part of an ordinary farm wagon. This ma. chine sows from $0 to 100 acres by throw. ing the seed out broadcast, and the power to run it is derived from the hub of one of the rear wheels on the wagon. The machine is very simple and looks like a i funnel with several cogwheels under t. industries of the country, the bumble | who runs the farm is thoroughly | If | A sim. | ple corn planter will plant from eight to | | days does away with the old-fashioned method of cutting them for seed. They are cat still, but the cutting is done by a machine, which separates them into quarters, halves or any other number of parts, as desired. All the operator has to do is to throw the potatoes into the machine and swing over a lever, and several cuts are made at one stroke. When the potatoes have been cut they are dumped into a potato planter, which is operated by one man, who drives the horses, because the machine leaves | nothing else for him to do. This ma- chine marks the rows where the potatoes Then it opens the row, are to be sosed. | drops the seed and covers it with moist | earth from beneath the surface. This is | all done in one operation. It will plant | the seed anywhere from three to nine | inches deep and from ten to twenty six inches apart. It is all a matter of regu- lating the machine, which will plant | from five to eight acres a day. For diggivg the potatoes the farmer | hitches his team to a complicated. looking machine, which is after simple enough all. This is a potato digger, and it roots the potatoes out without bruising of More vines and all one them than that, it throws other trash off to one and deposits the potatoes in a straight row on clean ground When this the gathered up is done potatoe and sorted according size For this auother chine-—a potato brought use. The potat sorter and come out three sizes—large, lium and Ope man stands machine wae picks out the decayed tubers as they over the sorter, When the farmer goes in for any that calls for the transplanting of plants on a large scale, he bas the most won of to do t This by horses and is operated by a man and derful machine them all be work for him machine is drawn two boys. It handles tomato, cabbage, strawberry, tobacco and when they are bat little more { Hugs The plant.setting machine, for all it looks Mz and cumbersome, and seems to be a complicated affair, receives the When moves off, a starung lever isthrown and the plants in a hopper the team machine makes a bole ground this it drops the the root scatters fertd LAT Neat the roots and around the 3 gone by hand t sets the plant deep its a large or operator wan th It sets the plants io a single row with and just for It out injuring any of them each as far apart as the ‘gaage calls will plant from five to eight acres a day, the ] and ound one fool apart put plants in the gr The work done by machne may be jadged the fact that to plant at one foot apart each way this from calls for the settingof 43 560 plants in a If only five acres were cov the trans single acre ered in a dav it would mean 7.500 plants planting of 21 The Hunters. Harry, the sixteen-year-old son of Cline Confer, of Beech Creek ilowaship, shot and killed a large doe within sight of the Hubbard school house Thursday | afternoon. John Gummo, of the same township, killed a good-sized deer on the | mountain back his farm. Caldwell brothers, of the German settlement, are reported to have killed one. The party with George F. Keagle and Joseph Mc- Closkey, who were camped jor a week | past on Panther run, shot one fair.sized doe, but missed a bear Frank Miller, who conducts the board. ing house on Meixel's lumber job east of Carroll, on Tuesday had the honor of shooting a 200 pound doe in Greene's gap. | valley this season. of Bradford party killed three, and the | killing was done by Messrs. Frank Brad. ford, J. F. Smith aud —— Kerstetter, Georges valley party, one deer and | | en day are yet surviving ? one bear. The former was killed by George Breon, Spring Mills, and D. W. Sweetwood, Jr. killed the bear, Wingard party, Coburn, in Bear Mead. ows, four deer, The bunting party to the Slate ridge consisting of the Bradfords and other Potter township hunters, have returned from their two weeks’ hunt, bringing six deer with them, There were about a dozen in the party, Edward Grugav, of Glen Union, travped a black bear that tipped the ccales at 358 pounds. This makes the fourth bear that Mr, Grugan has cap- tured this season. Lomberman Willlam Smith, of Mill. mont, was elected president of the Ar. {of Hawk Run It was the first deer killed in Sugar | VARIETY OF COUNTY NEWS | Bright Spark Items of Interest Gathered From All Sections SHORT AND TO THE POINT What Transpired Worthy of Brief Men- tion, the Past Week—News From Over the County-—For Hasty Read- ers—A New Department. Simon Ward, one of Pine Grove Mills’ young men, left Thursday last, for Pitts. burg where he has secured employment. The wild 3 this county this season, is close on to seventy. This does n fellows shot for wild turkeys. turkey score, shot in five, it include two or three Willis Ripka retarned home to Altoona, from a hunting trip to Pioe He rabbits and tweive pheasants The Hall, at Phila the Bi! Saturday, Grove Mills bagged twenty eij a mortgage against BR WO $ 0 has paper eon the recent burned in paid off and lega presence of congregation at a meeting On Thursday Mr, George Showers, of yasly hurt at the He which was Pleasant Gag WAS Seri he Ring feet hi an Furnace under a scaffold, Bellefoute was w 3 gh, when a very heavy block fel d strock 1. He was rendered un His jers were very badly lace the a Lehigh him on the head PS SB face and snou November oot the treatment alterna ived falling a horse While he om some in the city Captain Fi the ago tend { veterinary clinic at versity of Pennsyivenia While in the woods hunting near Phil of that a load of fine shot in ipsburg, Thursday, James Law place, recetved the face and right side, from a gan in the bands of a young man named Haywood The shooting was purely accidental. Law then walked to his home | The wounds, while not necessarily fatal, are of a serious nature, the physician be ing unable to remove one of the shot, there being sixty in all, A little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Zeig ler of Old Fort, Centre county. had been afflicted with a sore throat, greatly improved. A few days ago the but was { little one suddenly began choking, and before assistance could be secured It whether she chocked from a foreign sub. was a corpse is not known positivels | stance lodging in the throat or whether death was the result of the disease tak. ing a new hold. She was over 2 years old. William Condo, of Aaronsburg, is one of the few survivors of the days of arking on Pennscreek, in which be was a partici. pator and had some of the fun and some that was not exactly fun. How many more of these local navigators of ye old. They might bave an interesting reunion, i Janes | Evans, of Gregg, who died about three | years ago, «lso took a lively hand at ark. ing on Penn creek, {a his day. The start. fog points were Spring Mills and the Forks (now Coburn.) The aged William Eisenhuth, at Beaver Dam, below the Forks, was another, IN ADJOINING COUNTIES. D. 'W. James, of Beech Creek, killed two wild cats recently, Beginning with December a free rural mal! zervice will be inaugurated in the country surrounding Lewistown. The auvual Blair county teachers’ in. stitute wil! *~ held in the court house, Holidaysburg, the week of December 16, Up to this time twenty seven barrels of saver kraut have been put up for the in. mates of the Huntingdon reforimatory. Continued on pages, VOL. 23, KO. 4s. FACT. FUN AXD FANCY ling Paragraphs— Selected and Original. Queer how a can Of whisky straight Chu give a man A crooked gait “Bing a song from day to day, Rome sad heart will hear 1t ywer and go your way | wear it Flantan SOME DOOr SOUL W Got a plearant word 10 say? Let it right away Something bitter you wou Keep us hear 4 speak? t bottled pa week He gr noon and night And ire Although to-day He knew ht of owled at morning ible sought to borrow the sky was brigh twould storm tomorrow Ww he could not stand sled to resist it { on some People who marry in baste sometimes repent in Dakota The bone of contention is generally ked pretty clean pi The beauty we see without is but a re- 3 of that within Lives of great men oft’ remind us that there are book agents Talking of big feet, some people's shoes cover two achers If “a noisy noise annoys an oyster,” can a calm <'am calm a clamorous lamb ng for clammy ¢ The 2 lifference between 3 is tha ord 1at a Isr Not Contagious IY SE gE the young woman had a great lo any diseases incident Knew of pupils them bome until dan- saruing the other day mother was taken | she questioned him as to the Johuny said he didn’t know, and was sent home of his mamma's illness to find out He came back shortly and made the Ab, me madder says it’s a baby and she told following report me to 10 tell you it wasn i Titusvil ketchen if ye're careful.” e Courier, . i a— Died Away From Home. Harrison Stine received the sad intel. ligence that his son Ellsworth had died in a bospital Pittsburg of typhoid fever, Nearly ‘wo months ago he left Philipsburg to secure work, which he found at Oilmg, near Pittsburg. The family received a letter from him dated November 6, which stated that, aside from a cold which be had contracted, be was in his usoal health and that he ex- pected to be home to spend Christmas. The receipt of the message announcing his death a great shock to the family, The deceased was aged only a little over sixteen years. He was a great favorite among the young people in South Philipsburg where he lived. «Journal, io was coosequently Tub Oysters Adulterated, Food laspector James Foust has re. ported to the State Pare Food Depart. ment wholesale adulteration of tub oys- ters by dealers in Blair, Cambria, Centre, Bedford, Clearfield and Somerset coun. ties, by the use of a preparation of bor. acic acid and formaidebyde, obtained from a New York firm. Out of eighty samples tested officially a great part were found to contain the preservative, Informations have been made against thirty dealers in Johustown and Altoona. It Is Truth That Hurts, “A lawyer ln a courtroom may call a man a bar, scoundrel, villain or thief and no one will make a complaint, court
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