Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-09-20

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PORT ROYAL FAIR.
Big day, fair day, variety enter
tainment-never so many people here
at one time before, big Indians, uh!
That's what was said q thousand
times last week at the Port Royal
fair. The fair has been running q
full generation aud the men who
managed it when first started have
nearly all passed beyond the river
Jordan to the happy land of Canaan.
and those who were boys looking on
in wonderment thirty years ago, are
the managers with better aud larger
grounds and larger assemblages
The big day was on Thursday and
the crowd was perfectly Kraleidos-
copic in its movement of people, aud
wonderfully resonant in sound from
the voice of the faker and the hoo!
hoo! and hi! hi! of the Indian to the
tuf, tuff step of the race horses feet
on the track. The turn out OF car
risges that were tined out of the vaz
40 ,g the inside of the fence was un
precedented aud would have made
procession miles in length, if moving
at one time on any of the roads Of
the county. Miffiintown contribut-
ed its full share of people. The ex-
hibit was the best in many years.
The buildings contained the finest
specimens of the needle handiwork
of ladies, choice fruit, fine potatoes,
plump wheat, large white oats, corn
and full line of garden vegetables.
maze aud several nice specimens OF
castor oil plants, musical instruments,
stoves, cream separators, harness,
&c. The grounds, if they lacked the
agricultural Implements. it was bs
cause they were left rest in the big
barns and out-houses on the farms OF
the county. The people have those
things for use and not for show, and
the agricultural implement agents
believe that they caa drive their bus
mess better, operating in other ways
than through the channels of an ag-
ricultural fair ground The manage
ment were select in the sscurement
of entertainment for the multitude,
and the boys and girls of such an age
as to receive Impressions will never
forget the snake charmerS the sleigbt
of hand performers and trick of
lodging a ball, the Industrious Dan
ism village, the American war r-ship,
and the songs and baDj, playing of
sailors and the half hundred Indians
from Carlisle Indian school. The
Indian band was represented by
score of tribes. Their rendition of
civilizsd music was first rate. While
there was no gusto about it
their earnest stoical expression
gave evidence of the heartiness
with which they sounded every note,
and when they struck an Indian
tune on their instruments the de-
light of the audience broke out in
applause.
Their "when the white MAJ comcs
to the Indian camp" caused the
white man to long for more of the
same kind. Some of the Indians
told thst their grand fathers had
spoken to them of the Tuscarora
mountain In the east. They little
thought when they were thus ad :
dressed by their sires that they would
give entertainment to their white
successors in the very presence Of
that grand old mountain that per.
petuates the name of an Indian
tribe. Tuscarora, What q nice
smooth word. What awful TRACE
dies were enacted in its forests and
along the banks of the creek of the
same name that traverses the Tusca-
rora valley. The musical notes of
that Indian band last Thursday were
waited to and plainly heard on the
very spot where the crack of the In
dian's gun and the stroke CT his TOM
ahawk and the swish of his scalping
knife did their deadly work upon
white settlers across the creek from
MeCulloch's Mill at the time of the
last great Indian raid in this valley
in 1853. Every white inhabitant in
this valley that was not killed at that
time was chased across the mountains
to Carlisle where the present Indian
band received its musical education.
The writer thought of all this when
he sat listening to the music made
BY the Indians last Thursday and by
his side was u woman whose anees.
tors were chased out of the Tuscaro.
ra valley by the raiding Indians in
1868 and within the range of his
vision at that moment were the rep
r.sentatives of two ether families,
who were settlers in Tuscarora Val
lev, and of course they too were ref.
ugees to Carlisle where the descend.
ants of the then raidlng Indians are
now being educated. "Talk about
pedigree" said man at our elbow,
"why them redskins over there on
the platform footing music beat the
pedigree of the pale faces on this
ground ten to one. They we're here
when the Pilgrims landed two hun
dred and seventy-nine years ago,
when Miles Standish scared them b,
shooting off his gun. They thought
lit was thunder and lightning" 1But
Golly what fine music they make. Il
the Indian had only adopted the
ways of the pale face in industria
affairs what a race they might be to-
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