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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-15
The Last of the MohlcAns.

Boys who have been fascinated by
Cooper's novel of "The Last of the
Mohicans," will be glad to know that
Chingach COOK was a real parsonage.
Under the name of Wasamapah, he
was known about one hundred and
fifty years ago, to all the tribes of the
Lenapi, as their fiercest and most
powerful leader His fate was, how
ever. very different from that which
the novelist assigns bin. He was the
first Indian met in the wilderness by
Ranch, the Moravian missionary, and
was converted by him, and baptized
Job, or Tschoop. as the MOravians
pronounced it. job was for awhile
subject to backslidings, both into
hghting and drunkenness. One story
told of him is, that being in Philadel-
phIa. one of Penn's brethren found him
sitting in the gutter on High street
very drunk indeed.
"How's this, Tschoop7' he said. II
heard thee had joined the Moravian
brethren"
Tschoop gave knowing wink. $50
gOot! When me in Bethlehem, me
brother to Moravians, when me here
me brother to the Quakers.r \ reply
of which we will understand the point
when we remember that the early
Friends were as heavy drinkers as
feeders.
TschoOp, however, afterwards be-
came a sincere Christian, and was then
as Jealous and determined leader for
his people in religion as he had been
on the war-path. He travelled among
the Lenapi until he was an old man
preaching with success attained by
no white missionary.
This famous red man. testified
Bishop Sprangenb, has a marvellous
power and the countenance of a
Luther"
In the quaint Moravian Goods Acre.
at Bethlehem, with its rows of little
queer stones sunken fiat in the grass,
is one gray with lichen. marked
"TschOOp.' Beneath lies the fierce last
chief of the Mohicans, So long a
favorite hero with American young
people.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-15
Interpreting q Dream.

Dreams? Now you've touched a
tender spot. Madam, | expect We had
more dreams than any other man in
this L. 5. A." said Bijah.
"Well, I've had Dreams" she con-
tinued. as she bent her eyes on the car
pet. I've had such dreams "a l never
heard tell of, aud being as a woman
told me that. you could advise me, I've
called to talk with you"
$50 right ahead on the starboard
tack, madam"
There's a man-there' ; a man COM
ng to our house, sir" she said. as she
partly hid her face.
"Comes to read the gas meter, sup
pose. Well, go on"
HE comes TO see me-" she said, Civ
ing her head an indignant toss, Il
might as well own up that my face or
form to conversational powers have at
tracted him. Judging from his actions
he seemed to love me-"
Does, ehs Has he ever brought
you peppermint drops? Has he ever
read poetry to you: Have you ever
noticed him gazing at the moon?" {
81 am satisfied that he loves me, >" she
musingly replied, "and confess"
'.That you love him."
She blushed.
Which was very, very proper in her.
s'Same as ever-old, old stOry-end
in the usual way-no cards." he said,
as he solemnly shifted the eat.
"After he left me last night | had a
dream,'' she said. 81 dreamed that
was trying to darn pair of socks with
a door key tor a needle and some te!e-
graph wire for yarn. While was try
ing to mend the holes l heard horn
blow, and looking out of the window |
|saw-what ?"
"A fish peddler, of course
"No, sir. l saw two-horse wagon
loaded with collins. The dream awoke
me, and 1 found myself sitting up in
bed. 1t has worried me ever since and
| want to know If you can interpret it. -
Madam" began Biiah, as he rose up
and smoothed down his head, ''you
have come to the right man, and at the
right time. / have never Dragged
around any on my power to interpret
dreams, but being it's you will say
that can knock the spots of any hui
man being IN this town on the dream
business"
.'And you can tell me the signifi-
canoe of this one?'
''Thsn you dreamed Of door key.
That's sign of an accident. Be care
full, madam, and don't hit The clothes
line in splitting wood. and don't go up
on ladder over the door fifteen feet"
az never, never climb a ladder, sir ~
"Don't YOU? So much the better.
But be careful how you go down the
cellar during the next few weeks. Then
you dreamed of telegraph wire, madam.
That's another bad sign. Don't go
around the back yard barefooted, or
you may cut your heel on an old bot
tie, and have fatal case of lockjaw."
81 go barefooted ~ she gasped.
81 hope not, madam; and if you eat
any peanuts for month throw shucks
away. Even if they don't hurt you
there is only two per cent. of nourish-
ment in 'em."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-15
Putting the Plaster on the Wrong Back.

An old sea captain, well known in
the days of Havre packets, "who sailed
the seas over" for fifty years or more,
used TO tell that in the early part of his
first voyage as captain, when he had
but just turned twenty-One, his cabin
boy complained of lame back. There
was a medicine chest aboard, whose
contents il was the captains duty 10
dispense according to the best of his
knowledge and ability. In shallow
drawer st the bottom of the chest were
three or four Spanish fly plasters al
ready spread on kid, and one of these
the captain decided to apply to the boys
back. Ii was done, and the little fell
low sent 10 bed. In the morning he
was on hand bright and early, but the
captains usual cup of coffee was mis-
sing. "Cook isn't up, sir" was the
boys explanation. 'Whv not ?" asked
the captain. Says he can't get up"
g Why not?" Essays his back hurts
him, sir" Back What's the matter
with his backg' "The plaster, sir"
= What do you mean?" exclaimed the
captain; ~ didn't put the plaster on
his back" mo, sir, but | did,"
whimpered the boy. ''You did, you
young rascal,'' howled the captain.
jumping from his berth. "Whar on
earth did you do that for?' Well, !
SIR" answered the boy, getting well |
out of the range of any stray bOotjaek |
Or other missile that might chance to
be within the captains reach, ''when
woke up in the night it hurt me so
had TO take il off. The cook was i'm the !
next bunk asleep, and just clapped ii 1
)n his back. | didn't want to waste 1
.he plaster. sir" And he didn't. Ii |
worked to perfection, keeping the poor
,OOk in bed with sore back over a
week; and in the next bunk, keeping
lim company, was the boy, also with a
'Ore back, but il wasn't the plaster that
made it so. a ropes end was favor
tie prescription in those days.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-15

nave given you opportunities of know
ing everything that passed, and OF
gaining insight into tine character of
men in public life which could not oe
cur to many individuals. Were | To
decide to attach you to my person,
should expect you TO first inform me
frankly what were the measures and
who were the men whom you employed
in those days to obtain your infOrIna-
tion. L do not allude to my stay NJ
Nerons, or at Mittan-I was then sur
rounded by numerous adherents-bur
at Hartwell; for instance, were yea
then well acquainted with what passed
under my roofi"
"Ies, SIRE" replied FOuche; "eyery
day the motions of your majesty were
duly made known To me-
"Eh7 What all of my move
ments3' said the king, with apparent
surprise.
Even so, sire, was but performing
my peculiar duty in spying upon you"
Louis seemed much troubled. and
placing his hands behind him. he
walked slowly up and down his cabi-
net as if musing to himself, now and
again shaking bis head thOughtfully.
his eyes all the while bent upon the
floor of the apartment. Presently
stopping before Fouche, who stood in
silence watching the mood of his royal
master, he said
Surrounded as was at Hartwell by
trusted friends, who eould have be-
trayed NE T.
"Will your majesty excuse me upon
that point y said the really discOncert-
ed
81 insist upon your naming him i'm
mediately," said the king, promptly.
"Sire, you command me to name
what must wound your maiesty's
heart"
Speak, sir; it is no novelty for me
to find people to have proved unfaith-
full"
eff you still command it. then must
own. sire. that I was in correspondence
with the Due d d'Aumont. who was
my ~
what De Pienne. who possessed
my entire confidence p asked the king.
''Sire, it was De Pienne."
"Well, must acknowledge replied
Louis, with malicious smile, ''he was
very poor; he had many excuses. and
living is very dear in England
True, your majesty"
''But still, NJ Fouche, it was who
dictated TO him those letters which you
received every week, AID | gave him
nine out of the eighteen Thousand
francs which you so regularly remitted
in order to obtain an exact account of
what was passing IN my family"
The astOunded FOuche blusbed like
a woman, but still he was afterward
employed by the king.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-15

She looked at him in amazement, and
he kindly went on:
"You heard a horn blow. and THAT Is
II good sign. I've known women who
had struggled with cold feet for
eighteen straight years 20 dream of a
horn blowing, and he perfectly cured
i'm five hours
..Sir,'
That's me madam, and Il rejoice
from the bottom of my heart at your
good luck. Then you dreamed of cof-
fins. Did you see any figures on em:'
al don't remember
"Well, | s'pose the undertaken will
put enough figures on 'em, for that
matter. To dream of coffins, madam,
signifies that you will shortly have an
Offer"
SIS that so:" she softly replied, and
she blushed.
cit is, madam. Less than month
ago a woman came TO me who had been
dreaming of collins, and within three
yays she had ali offer"
"And she accepted him."
sit was an offer, ma1am, to nurse a
woman with the roomytiz-salary, So
per week and found.'
''Mr. JOY" said the gentle dreamer,
as she rose up and made grab for her
train, II shant 20 out as nurse-not
just yet"
Il wouldn't either; it's very try
ing position, particularly where the
patient is despondent and imagines that
you want to murder her,
"Mr. Joy, I'm very much obliged"
'''ris well-'tis well. Good day"
She sailed away, her face as red as
coal, and her nose up, and he sat down
and muttered to himself.
''She believed every word of it up to
the offer. and just cause wouldn't
liz about il she goes away feeling dis
persed and put out. That's the way
with 'em-onsartin, unhappy, and on
grateful"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-15

of the South Atlantic. 1t is not pro-
bable that it was ever before inhabited
but when the commerce with the Cape
of Good Hope began to assume large
proportions, although ]. 500 miles of the
direct route, it was often resorted to as
haven of distress by anxious and
ind-beaten mariners driven from their
course. On their return from the
strange harbor, from which flight of
rude steps hewn in the rock leads to the
lOghouse called the citadel of the island
they told wonderful tales OF a voice
which seemed TO sound from beneath
their feet, like the Voice of some of the
oracles OF old IRON the very bowels of
the earth. To their superstitions ears
these mystic sounds were full of mar
velOus portent; there was scarcely a
port or a seacoast of Christendom in
which weird stories were not told of
mid-ocean, like a monolith in Saharah.
But this strange solitude Of these South
Atlantic cliffs is not the only feature
which should consecrate them to the
genius of romance. Wonderfully
enough, they are welded, indirectly
perhaps, to the memory Of a great con-
queror. When Napoleon was sent to
ST. Helena the islands were occupied
by detachment of English mariners
under the command OF one Coporal
Glass. There were but few OF them,
sufficient, however, 10 form a commu-
nifty, and at last the British government
commissioned the corporal as governor
general over the barren spot-a house
of call for but a few ships wanting
water. Twenty five years ago Glass
had about forty men, women and child
rem subject to his jurisdiction, and, af-
fixing his prOguberuatOrial signature
by a mark, he forwarded petition to
the English government to send out
gentleman who could act as schoolmas-
ter, or pastor, at once. He asked for
the due ad ministration the rites of bap-
tism and marriage, and the education of
the people. His letter was illiterate, but
the government sent out certain Mr..
Taylor Under his influence the island
and its settlers were restored to civil
Zation, but after residence of three
years he petitioneG the English govern
ment to convey all his parishioners 10
the cape. There they all died, ba-
nishcd, as Zimmerman would say, from |
the beatitude of solitude. But the |
waste places of the remote isles of ocean |
were not long left untrodden by human
footsteps. A new colony left by pas
sing ship occupied the deserted cottages |
and the abandoned lands. According |.
to the latest accounts their isolation has |
not deprived them OF human effection,
Or the paucity of their numbers OF
manly courage. In their rescue of the |
survivors of the Mabel Clarke, these |
few islanders, less than a dozen and |
half in number, have proved them selves |
worthy of all the courage of their blood,
no one to applaud them, no one in au-
.hority to direct them, no one to drill
hem into discipline. After reading |
The account of the individual courage,
he pluck and the heroism of these few
ISLANDERS, it will be difficult, if not i'm
for the most pronounced pcssi-
mist to sustain any argument pointing
% the degeneray of the race.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-15
Alfred EtheIridee Makes . Call,

Mr.. Alfred Ethelridge is bashful; he
does not deny it. He wishes he wasn't,
sometimes, but wishing doesn't seem
TO help his case much. Everybody in
Burlington likes him, except the father
Of young lady ont on Pond street.
With an instructive knowledge of this
old gentleman's feelings, Alfred had
fOrbOrne to aggravate them and kept
OUT of the fathers way as much as pos
sible, atoning for this apparent neglect
by seeing the daughter twice as often.
The other afternoon Alfred went up
the steps and rang the bell. The door
opened and
Papa stood staring at him, looking
thousand things and saying nothing.
Alfred Ethelridge had never felt
quite 80 lost for language in his Life.
Presently he stood on one foot and re-
marked:
Good afternoon :"
"Gottnoon." grunted papa, which is,
hy Interpretation, also good afternoon.
''Is-ah-is-er-er- Lollipop-
is your daughter at home ?" asked Al
fred, standing on the outer foot.
eyes, sir;" said papa, rather more
shortly than Alfred thought was aoso-
lutely necessary. Then nobody said
anything for long time. Presently
Alfred Ethelridge stood on both feet,
and asked:
'.Is sine in?"
''Yes, SIR said papa, not budging u
step from his position in the door, and
looking as if he was dealing with a book
agent instead of one of the incest young
men in Burlington. Then Alfred Ethel
ridge stood on his right foot and said;
"Does she-can she receive COM
pany?"
"Yes, sir" papa said, savagely, not
at all melted by the pleading intonation
of Alfred's voice, which everybody else
thought was so irresistibly sweet. Then
Alfred Ethelridge stood on his left foot
and said:
"Is she at home?"
"Yes, sir" papa said, kind of coldly.
Alfred Ethelri1ge looked down the
street and sighed, then he looked up at
papa and shivered. Thea he stood On
the right foot again and said:
Sis she in?"
'-Yes, sir" papa said, grimiy, and
never taking his eyes on the young
mans uneasy face.
Alfred Ethelridge sighed and looked
up the street, then he stood on his lett
foot and looked at papa's knees and
said, timidly, and in tremulous tones:
"Can she see me?"
"Yes, SIR" papa said, but he never
moved, and he never looked pleasant.
He only stood still and repeated Il Sc
cond time, ''Yes, sir"
Alfred Ethelridge began to feel i'll.
He looked up and down the street and
finally pinned his wandering gaze TO
the bald spot on the top of papa's head,
then he said:
"Will you please tell her that Mr.. Al
fred Ethelridge called?"
"fes, SIR" said papa and he didn't
say anything more. And somehow or
other Alfred Ethelridge kind of sort of
got down off the porch and went kind
of out of the gate like. He discontin-
ued his visits there, and explained to
friend that the old man didn't say any
thing that WASN'T all right and cordial
enough, but the manner of him was
rather formal.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-15
l.tt--ilu .pust-

\ good deal has lately been heard OF
the progress of female emancipation in
Russia, but it is somewhat of a novelty
To find the Russian ladies figuring in
the character of duelistS, ,as was the case
not long since. with two bellies of Pit
scryk. a well-known watering place on
he northern slope of the Caucasus. \
dispute arose between the rival beau
ties, springiag out of the attentions
paid TO each in turn by handsome
young cavalry officer quartered in the
neighbOrhood. The quarrel ran so
high that one of the AmaZOns at last
dispatched her maid TO the other with
formal challenge, which was instant
ly accepted. The belligerents met with
out seconds, in lonely place outside
of the town, each armed with Il brace
of loaded pistols. Before, however,
they had even taken up their respec-
tive positions, the trembling of the one
lady's hand caused her pistol to ex-
plode prematurely, sending a bullet
through the dress of the other, who
sErieked and fell down in swOon.
The assaiiant, frightened out of her
wits. flung away her weapon and
rushed TO raise the supposed corpse, but
her. ungrateful antagonist, recovering
her senses as suddenly as she had lost
them, clutched her by the hair with
one hand, while she boxed her ears
with the other in the most energetic
style. The firing having now ceased.
the battle proceeded hand TO hand.
Locks of hair, ribbons and shreds of
clothing flew in every direction, and
but for the timely advent of three or
four policemen the affray might have
ended like the somewhat singular COM
bat of. the Kilkenny cats. The military
Lothario's only remark, On hearing the
story was: ''It is lucky they took to
clawing each other, instead of me.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-15
A Farm StocErd with Ostriches.

James Murray has taken his family
from Gilbertville, n. V, to his South
African farm of 300 acres, which is
stocked with 1000 ostriches, and 300
mares of rare blood and pedigree. He
finds ostrich raising so profitable, that
he recently sold so birds at Cape Town
for s27 900 and pound Of feathers for
$500, or ss a feather. The difficulty
encountered has been that of Matching
the eggs, artificial incubators proving
unless and the old theory of Matching
the eggs i'm the sand false, but this was
finely overcome by watching the birds
and separating mates from the flock at
pairing time, when they took care Of
their own eggs and young.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-15

"A curious case of restitution Is
mentioned in the Belgian journals. In
August last a box containing $1,000
from a farmhouse at Ronquieres, in the
Commune of Hainault. A short time
ago the box was found to have been de-
posted during the night in the garden
belonging TO the cure of Henripont,
who at once handed it over to the police
1t still contained 5000 francs.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-15
AN AUTUMN RAMBLE.

lis but dim o'ershsdow' d day,
While only transient CLEANS
OF sunbeams DER the hilltops play.
And mist-Iike kiss the stream
I've wander'd through the woodlands wide
Where fern and lchen grow;
I've climbed the mountains sloping side,
Where red tea-berries glow.
Ny hands with forest gems are filld.
Nv arms with tinted sprays
Ny soul is. with. that pleasure thrilrd,
Which nature wakes always
Yet. still the sky is overcast
The blue all drsp'd with gray;
The sun see ms brooding o'er the past
As night broods over day.
Msyhap the season feels the woes
suffering people bears,
And with tear dripping eyelid shows
The sense of gloom she shares
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-15

-Bonna:, the Freneh artist, has
begun TO paint portrait OF Hugo, VINO
has given 20 artist a sitting since lsi2.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-04
Increase In Lunacy.

DR.. Lush, the president of the British
MediCo Psychological Association, in
the course OF I'm address delivered to the
members, drew attention to O marked
increase of late years in lunacy. In the
first report OF the commissioners on
lunacy they state that in June, 1916,
there were in England and Wales %, 600
persons of unsound mind. The popula-
tion was then about 1900, 900, now it is
$4,000, 600, and it is estimated that on the
first of January, 1879, there were 70,S23
persons in England and Wales who need
ed the protection Of the lunacy laws. 1t
appears. therefore, that while the popu-
lation has increased at the rate of forty
five per cent, the number of lunatics in
detention has risen at the rate of $50 per
cent. Assuming that another thirty
three years will yield similar results.
accommodation will have to be provi led
in 1912 for nearly a quarter of million
of insane or imbecile persons in England
and Wales. The true solution of the
difficulty, he thought, is to be sought
lst. In increased family responsibility.
I'd. In educating the popular belief in
the gravity of the disease itself. Sd. In
further State interference if possible.
4th. In increased efforts to make the lot
of insane persons under detention as lit
tie irksome as is consistent with safety
and the conditions of their malady. Be-
yond these he feared not much can be
done or hoped for; less ought not to be
required; and if, instead, a eallous in
difference continues to prevail as to the
extent of insanity, grave and calamitous
results, to be discovered only when too
late to be repaired. must follow a neglect
of the accepted teachings of medical
science and experience.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-04
A Glass Mountain.

Another marvel recently brought to
light in the Yellowstone Park of North
America is nothing less than Il mountain
of obsidian OF volcanic glass. Near the
foot of Beaver Lake, band of explorers
came upon this remarkable mountain,
which rises at that place in columnar
cliffs and rounded bosses to many hun
dreds of feet in altitude, from Kissing hot
springs at the margin of the lake. As it
was desirable to pass that way, the
party had to cut out road through the
steep CLASSY barricade. This they
effected by making huge fires on the
glass to thoroughly heat and expand it,
and then dashing the cold water of the
lake against the heated surface, so as to
suddenly cool and break it up by shrink
age. Large fragments were in this way
detached from the solid side of the
mountain, then broken up small by
sledge hammers and picks, not, how
ever. without severe decorations of The
hands and faces of the men from fyine
| splinters. In the Grand Cemon of the
Gibllon river the explorers also fount
precipioes of yellow, black. and banded
obsilian hundreds of feet high. TIL,
natural glass of these localities has from
time immemorial been used by the In
dians to tip their spears and arrows. -