Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-09-22

the tree under which Penn made his
treaty. With every relic he has its his
tory.
The entire museum was unlabeled,
unclasBified.
Newly things he has classified or IN
REGULAR relation 10 each other are the
stone reAcR. He has turned ono side OF
the wall over for stone department.
Here are 81 boards. Thirty-one Of them
show 72O arrow and spearheads OF
white, gray, pink and jasper stoneA
Tho other 30 boards show antiquarian
stone relics, such as pestles, toma-
hawks, rubbing stones, stone slinning
knives, axes Of unusual size, pieces OK
pottery, one double-edged M, very rare
" found and the other curiousdy con-
Structed relies Of indian life.
A conspicuous relic here Is an Indian
mortar that was the property OF Parson
Heckenwelder. Mrs. Heckenwelder
WINS the first white child born east OF
the Allegheny mountains Above this
in value Is the powder horn presented
10 Tecumseh, by Gen. Howe, IN 17V9'
The pouches, moccasins, scalp locks
scalping knives, wampum and beadS
are rich and valuable.
He has another department made up
from baTs shells &nd hand grenades
found on different battleAelds during
the civil war. Capt. Reeder has given
him huge knife, found on the battle
field of Pittsburg Landing, and Capt
Yard, Of the v. p. T., gave him bugle
Of the rebel army, captured In Florida
His great souvenir Of the civil war
Ia Gen. Robert E. Lees silver-mounted
hunting horn, taken from Arlington
during the rebellion. Next to this 10 the
first confederate flag captured by the
union forces, June %, 1851, BY Sergt.
Joseph Oliver, Of the V. p. T. He has
also the handouts used upon Merry
man, who set fre TO Gunpowder Creek
bridge In '61, the chasing Of ten-inch
shell, Hred by the Monitor at the Merri-
mac; gun carriage and casing made
from apart Of the old ship Cumberland,
which was destroyed by the Mcrrimac'
"But this Is another piece Of the con-
federate flag" asked, what was
thst2"
"Col. Ellsworth tore that down from
q staff erected on the Marshall house"
he said, "and near IL have put a piece
Of brick from Libby prison, portion OF
the scaffold on which John Brown stood
when Lees men shot him, and spear
used by one OF John Browns men when
they were hunted down in the round
house."
A piece OF Paul Jones' ship, Reliance
Is alongside sword with pistol attach
ed at the hilt, used by Maj, Gen. Ma
thanIel Green at the battle Of Trenton.
This is indeed q curiosity, for 1t is prob
ably the only one Of that make In
America,
Surgeon Barttle's scales that he used
at the battle OF Trenton are keeping
company with large pair Of cotton
epaulets worn by Peter Ciayman in the
war Of 1912, and near two such impor'
tant relies 10 a knife presented to the
ugIiest man In EsetOa,
It would be unfair to publish hia
name.
'In tho matter of knives, here Is the
one owned BY the famous Daniel
Boone" YOuells said, "Rnd another
from Andersonville prison"
An Eskimo harpoon nine inches
long, brought from the Arctic regions
by Dr., Kane, and piece Of whale bone
taken from the shrouds Of the British
ship Resolute, constitute the Arctic
souvenirs.
Two pieces of wire attached to a
frame did not look significant, but one
was piece OF the wire over which went
tho first telegraphic message, used by
Prof. Morse in 1887, and pieces OF thu
first and second Atlantic cable.
His Rennsylvania relics, which tbs
Historical society would delight In, arr
piece SG Bhingle from the roof o.
PENIS hoHse, a lock from the front dool
Of the same house and one OF the key
Of the old Walnut street prison in PhilR'
delphia.
Certainly In all the search for that
historic dial of the clock in the state
house, no one proved himself SO delight
fully interesting q parsonage as Der
YoueIIs. barber, with his record, hfi
relics, his yesEs and his luck In the lit
tic barber shop down on the Delaware
in Easton.-Harrydelo Hallmark, II
Philadelphia Press.
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