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Lnd we wUl Put Money its Genuineness. Mr. D C. Hook, of Glade Run, drop¬ ped in at our office a few days ago and left with us, for examination, the Demo cmtic Advocate, which was in the year 1843, “issued every Friday morning at Warren, Warren county, Pennsylvania, by 8. J. Goodiich.” The copy before us bears the date of November 3 -d 1843. In looking over the • Advocate’s editorial columns there is no doubt left in the mind as to the politics of the publication, which constitutes about the only obj ctionable feature of the paper—it was democratic and a free trader. At that time the Advocrte seems to have had a hot tariff discus¬ sion on its hands, and gives Henry Clay a turning ovef wlvch he, perhaps, never forgot up to his “dying day.” While we would not detract in the In that early day of American politics least from the honorable record of the the work of applying complimentary appellations to candidates and party Hon. gentleman referred to in the ! above, yet in point of years the Hon. representatives was reduced to a fine S. P. Johnson, of Warren, has the art, and one article, referring to the honor of a longer record, both as to intention of the whigs with regard to their action on the tariff, starts out in length of life and service, as an attor¬ ney. this unctuous way: “When you hear Judge Johnson was born in January a federal'slang-whanger’ ” etc. It ap¬ 1809 in Venango county and studied pears also that parties in that day ei- law at Danville, then in Columbia perienced the same trouble of keepirg bolters in line as they do now. county, m the office of Hon. Robt. C. Greer, afterwards of the Supreme The first page of the Advocate con¬ Court. tains a long poem with the imposing j title, “Address to the World,” a “Story Judge Johnson was admitted to the of the Much Wronged. Man” and a bar on the third of November 1833 at column of humorous matter. Then Sunbury, Northumberland county, un¬ follows the editorial and political page der Judge Ellis Davis the first day that and two pages of advertisements. honorable gentleman sat on the bench, Among the latter are the bufiness and Judge Davis was wont to call cards of “L. T. Parmlee, attorney and Judge Johnson his first born in the counsellor at lawj” an announcement legal profession. of a new arrangement whereby “T. Judge Johnson settled at Franklin Strut’ners and 8. P. Johnson have this after he was admitted to the bar and d«y associated with them in the came to Warren 58 years ago, during proctice of law, Rasselas Brown, e?q.,” which time he engaged in the active dated August 28,1840. practice of the law, and although he withdrew from in the Warren county 2

How a Gang of Woodsmen Robbed courts two years ago on account of de-| Fohr Visitors and Hoi'' the fective hearing he has continued to at¬ Thieves Were Captured nd the tend to his office practice, making a Goods Recovered—Where i'lucJk term of 60 years of a active practice in Beat Muscle. the profession, and only left his office on the last day of 1892 on account of I had succeeded in getting business sickness. at both the "Blue Store” and “Che¬ quered” front into a prosperous condi¬ I As senior member of the firm of tion. 1 had a good force of clerks; money Johnson, Lindsey & Parmlee, the judge was easy and plenty, and, believing that “all werk and no play makes Jack a is frequently consulted. Last week the dull boy,” 1 listened with bated breath firm received a letter from to stories of good trout fishing and fine parties in Lancaster with shooting on the western slope of the Allegheny Mountains, about 30 mile? reference to the title to some above Warren, Pa., which were told in lands in Warren county, of the Lan-j an entrancing manner by John Gal¬ braith, a fine, big, broad-shouldered law¬ caster Land Company. The matter yer of Scottish descent, who tempted was placed in the hands of Judge me day in and day out to leave tin Johnson Who wrote a long history of shop, the making of sordid wealth and to fly with him to the mountains. There ttys-Jtlnds east of the river in his we would find rest, ozone and renewed ''opinion. • youth; we would live on speckled trout broiled ou a willow stick, basted with The Judge is also engaged in writing fat, juicy slices of mess pork, the suc¬ the history of the judiciary of this culent woodcock and the white meat ol the wood pheasant, together with sa county, four chapters, of which, eachj vory dishes of frogs’ legs and solid ac¬ about the length of the ordinary ser¬ companiment of pork and beans, anc mon, have been completed and read potatoes roasted in wood ashes, and we would drink our fill of “nature’s best’ before the legal association. This his¬ out of pure mountain springs uncon tory has been brought up tothe jurisdic¬ ta ruinated by surface drainage or any other drainage. tion Of Judge Gaylord Church. Judge Galbraith was no novice at camping Johnson is the only man living who , out. He knew it all, and when he said he would take charge, would build the had a personal acquaintance with all I camp, would cook the game and would the judges of this county. catch the fish, I joyfully assented. With In his long career he has never been a grain bag filled with just the things we needed (and nothing else), a shol out of his office,nor kept from hisbusi-1 gun, a seven-barreled ride, fishing rods ness in court on account of sickness and fishing lines and hooks and flies away we went in the latter part of the until the last day of 1892. The Judge month of August; and by a special is improving and growing stronger permit were dropped at a place called daily and will, no deubt, soon be able Palmer’s Mill, a few miles from the summit of the Allegheny Mouutains to be around again. / on the Philadelphia and Erie Railway. Galbraith shouldered the bag of pro¬ visions and led off with big strides right into the wilderness, and 1 followed with guns and fishing things as fasl as I could. A spot was selected aboui a mile and a half from the railroad on "Two Mile Run,” for our camp Galbraith, with a sharp axe, soon chopped down a few saplings to forn; the frame work of our “Tabernacle oi the Woods,” which he deftly covered with boughs. And after cutting some hemlock branches for our couch he pronounced the work good, and the job perfect. We jointed our rods, and soon were whipping the stream, whicl: yielded plenty of speckled trout of aboui half a pound each and under. We caught, the first afternoon, about 70 To see the limb of the law clean the fish, run a willow wand through theii gills, and between each pair of troui impale a slice of pork as thin as a wafer, then over a bright fire of dry Thomas Martindale Continues hickory wood pa>ss the stick with its precious load to and fro until the riel: His Reminiscences of the Days incense of the mountain stream’s rar¬ est treasures told us “it is enough,’ When Oil Was King. would fairly make you “jump for joy.’ John Galbraith was a woodsman. He was more—he was a poet who reveled Hunting and Fishing in the Woods With a in nature’s varying moods; a philos¬ opher who would rather dream greal Poetic Lawyer as a Companion._} II I this theory of his was unexpectedly put things, talk great things than a'ct them.'' to the test. It had rained almost every Never was man more lofty in ideal, day we wore up there' without rhyme, more pure in thought; but when it reason or forewarning. I suppose that came to 'action a certain indolence per¬ the vapor-laden clouds from the heated vaded his efforts, so that they some¬ surface of Lake Brie (which was less times went awry. At night we laid down with the twinkling stars for com¬ than a hundred miles distant) on strik¬ pany. The air was redolent and balmy ing against the cool timber-laden side3 with the sweet odor of pine balsam, of of the mountains at .onc-e discharged hemlock, spruce, maple, beech and ^ttheir aqueous contents, for the rains white wood. There was a roaring, log "came without the slightest trouble and !fire, a murmuring brook at our very so copious as to wet us through and | feet, babbling over its slippery bed. .through. One afternoon we were out With these surroundings I listened ! gunning with shotgun and rifle when nightly to snatches of sublime poetry, j the heaviest storm of all assailed us. to oratorical gems from ancient and It seemed as if the deluge had come modern orators, for my companion was (back again and “that the windows of a rich storehouse of all-that was best heaven were opened and the fountains in prose and verse, and when our bed¬ of the great deep were broken up.” The time first arrived he led off in this rain beat fiercely in our faces, pitilessly fashion: running down our necks and soon filling The bed was made, the room was fit, our boots. In this extremity we came | By punctual eve the stars were lit; The air was sweet, the water ran, across a party of woodcutters, who No heed was there for maid or man, were making their way to their log i When we put up my ass and I shanty further down the stream. They j At God’s green caravanserai. invited us to go with them, promising us (This quotation, from an old play. I a warm fire, dry clothes and a good sup¬ I have since found in Burrough’s “Pe- per; and we were only too glad to join I pacton.”) them. We found their habitation a big And the last thing I would hear be- log house divided into two parts, one to I fore drowsy slumber would enfold me ■ cook and eat in and the other to sleep I would be his rich voice rounding off in in. We were given dry clothes to re¬ I finished cadence maybe Bryant’s “Than- place out wet ones, and having hung atopsis,” Sir Walter Scott's “Coronach” these before the fire to dry we surveyed or selections from Tennyson’s “Idyls” of our hosts, whom we found to be as ' the King.” rough-looking a lot of men as I have In this, our sylvan home, solitude ever seen—over 33 men, all told—verita¬ reigned supreme, the silent woodcock ble “bushwhackers.” Coarse, foul- kept us company, but we never knew he mouthed fellows who looked as if they was near (although we saw his borings would just as soon cut our throats as everywhere along the banks of the not. After we had been seated at the stream) until we disturbed him at his evening meal two other anglers or evening meal, and then with a spring sportsmen came: in and craved the favor into the air, emitting his peculiar star¬ of the fire and supper, which was read¬ tled cry like a meteor he -was gone. The ily granted. Alter eating we were in mink we sometimes saw gliding along hopes the storm would moderate, so that 'the banks intent upon more than an we could go b; ck to our camp, as we I average trout that took his fancy. A : did not by any means feel comfortable ipair of kingfieshers, in their brilliant in the company we were in. I have of¬ plumage, often flashed by us, bidding us ten slept in lumber camps before and a surprised “good morning,” and then since, but this .vas the only lot of lum- hurrying timorously away as if the sight berinen that I ever have seen whom I of such monsters as we were was more felt it was not safe to associate with. than they could bear. The hooting of But the storm abated not a jot or tit¬ the horned owl and an occasional tle, and we we-e of necessity compelled screech of a wildcat, higher up the to spend the u:ght there. We slept on. mountain side, once in a while broke the top tier of [he hunks and slept well. the stillness of the night; but save these 'Next morning When we got up we found uncanny visitors all else was still. The that the majority of the men had been, merry songs of birds were not heard, gone for some time, and on putting on I neither did we hear the rollicking bark lour clothes we were not astonished to l of the “chickaree” or “red squirrel.” observe that everything of value was j So we were left to a sweet communion missing. The two other guests had lost with nature and to the indulgence of Ipocketbooks aqd a revolver each; Gal¬ retrospective and introspective thought. braith, watch, money and revolver. Galbraith had a hobby which he often From my clothes only my watch was 1 dilated upon; and that was, that it is taken; for some reason my money (about “nerve force, and not muscular force, $30) was left.; The four of us held a council of war outside as to what was that counts in the battle of life.” He j best to be ddne. We interviewed a illustrated his dogma by drawing him- | young lad who belonged to the “chop¬ j self up to his full height (he was over pers,” and who told us that there were six feet, of magnificent proportions, four ring-leaders, very hard cases, something like General Hastings or his among the men, and he felt sure that I prototype, Henry Wickham, only he was ; three of theses four had robbed us. He I taller and broader-shouldered than eith¬ gave us their names and somewhat of er) and then, observing that if a difficulty their history. They were of that de¬ arose in which he and I should be en¬ spicable class iof men known as bounty- gaged in, that if my nerve force was jumpers, and deserters, who would stop greater than his, his own strength of at nothing in the way of robbery. He muscle (for he was a veritable giant) ; informed us that we might consider our¬ would count for naught; that I selves lucky that our skins were whole, with my 143 pounds and five feet if our pockets were pilfered. Galbraith ] eight and half inches would surely and the other two summed up the dif¬ I prove a winner. And now ait ficulties, and all agreed that it would this introduction is to tell you how be impossible to do anything toward or namicntts on bun. Again at 'ftnout the recovery of our stolen property. half-past 12, the men watching the four Warren, the nearest comity town, was prisoners dozed off: and the first thing ^ 30 miles away, and if we did .go to they knew they were awakened by Warren to swear out a warrant, no hearing some parties outside' dragging Constable could be found to serve it, one of the four out of the window. He and if one were found, where would he was pulled back and nothing more of in¬ be among this gang of toughs? To allj terest happened until morning, when of this I replied that I was determined1 one of the four broke down and told us to have my watch back; that I would where the plunder was* which we re- go to Warren. I would get a Consta¬ covered to a cent. We flagged the train ble, and I would have these men ar¬ and took the men to Warren, where they i rested. When they found arguments were bound over to appear at Court J had no effect upon me they agreed to be At the trial, which I think was before^ within hearing all the afternoon, so that Judge Wetmore, it came out in evidence if a train stopped they would be on the that this same gang had planned to lookout for me. I was fortunate in get¬ wreck the passenger train, run it off the ting an early train down, went before a track and rob the passengers, which Magistrate in Warren, swore out a caused the learned Judge to put one of warrant and then started out to hunt a them away for five years in the peniten¬ Constable to serve it. These men were tiary and two of them in jail for a known, and it was some time before I shorter term, and for further details of found a Constable plucky enough to this affair, are they not chronicled in the take the risk; but a nervy fellow I was columns of the “Oil City Register,” sent, ty Said: ulnch at that time gave a goodly andi “This is the chance I have been wait- voluminous account of it? j&g'for,” and strapped on a pair of re- _THOMAS MARTIXDALE. jvolvers, took four pairs of handcuffs and 3 the warrant, and we started for the. r depot. At that time there was but one pass¬ SENECAS IN OUR STATE! enger train a day each way, but lota of Empire freight trains. I hunted up a railway official, and told him of my PROGRESS OF THE INDIANS AT THE) di!eim»ft, and he gave me permission to ride on an Empire line train, and or¬ ALLEGHENY RESERVATION. dered the conductor to stop and let me oft, also giving me authority to flag an Empire train going West next morning THE MAJORITY STILL PAGANS if we should capture the three men, so as to send them down to Warren. When the train approached the place the con¬ ductor let us off a little below the plat¬ The Seneca Imitates the White Man, How¬ form, so that we wouldn’t be noticed. ever, and is a Pretty Good Citizen—They It was early in the afternoon when we arrived. We found the other three Have Indian Virtues as Well as Beliefs awaiting us, and we planned to get into the sleeping part of the shanty to se¬ and Are Respected. crete ourselves and wait until the men came in, and were seated at supper, be¬ fore making the arrests. This we ac¬ From a Correspondent of The Times. complished successfully. When the time Warren, October 29/# was ripe I walked out with my shotgun How pitifully meagre is an inheritance of at full cock, and barred the door, fol¬ royal blood when royalty constitutes the sole I lowed by the Constable with his war¬ possession ! Of what insignificant conse-1 rant and Galbraith with his seven shooting rifle. The warrant was read quence to inherit a chieftain’s name when ' and the three men were ordered to stand tne kingdom is the kingdom of poverty and I up, walk out and be handcuffed. This its accompanying memory of greatness and of I they did after they had been assured the days when the name ruled among people. that a refusal might compel the firearms Here in Western Pennsylvania we have a to go off in their direction. We set a I kingdom which is not a kingdom, for it has; watch over them, dividing our own force | into two parties, one to watch the pris¬ no subjects, all being of royal blood; yet, oners until 1 o’clock in the morning, having no subjects it is the veriest kingdom I the other from 1 o’clock until breakfast of the earth, for there are none in all the little time. There were two attempts madoi domain but are in line, more or less removed, to rescue the prisoners by their fellows. truly, but in line nevertheless, for the throne. The first was about 10 o’clock at night, It is a kingdom in a State, and inasmuch as when one of the prisoners asked if the' Constable would not permit him to it is a kingdom of royalty, and of poverty change his clothes. Permission was and ignorance bounded on all sides by a Com¬ given, his clothes were changed, the monwealth of enlightened and kingless bracelets put on again, when he asked people, it is unique. St man to screw in a shirt stud for him. This bunch of royalty on its own territory, While this was being done I noticed that the two men were talking with their sustained and upheld by the laws of Pennsyl-| eyes and looking into a corner, where vania and of the United States, which permit mv shotgun anil the rifle were stand¬ no citizen to be royal, is the family of Corn- ing, and almost at the same moment planter, once a mighty chief in the Six Na-1 tile man and I jumped for the corner, tions, the wisest and most powerful in their and he got hold of the rifle first, but I day of all the Indian federations or tribes of! got the shotgun and knocked the barrel of the rifle up and then had him cov¬ North America. A century ago old Corn- ered, making him put down the rifle. planter s name was one of the great ones in The Constable then put the extra pair this section of the Keystone State. He was) a chief of wisdom and discretion, of power | and influence TjSfong liis,-people, and before Itime the followers of the tribes that inhabited his death the State of Pennsylvania called North America. They seem, so far as can be' him to Philadelphia. There a treaty was learned, to have been the most powerful, as made whereby he and his descendants were well as the most intellectual, of the Iroquois federation, or the Six Nations, and some of the granted a square mile of land on the banks of speeches of Cornplanter, Red Jacket and the Allegheny river, in the northeast corner Halftown are remarkable specimens of un¬ of Warren county, to have so long as any of cultured eloquence. The Six Nations, at the them shall exist. The remnant of the royal time of the discovery of America by white household, to the number of about twenty- men, were a federation, not of six, but of five five souls, still inhabit the little block of land tribes, and including the Tuscaroras in a limited membership, the latter making the in one of the most delightful spots in the sixth. The Tuscaroras enjoyed some of the Allegheny Valley, and while they have minor privileges to full extent, but were al¬ added no laurels to the name of their dis¬ lowed no voice in the councils when matters tinguished ancestor they have cast no partic- of importance were under discussion. The ! ular discredit on it. Cornplanter claimed to full members of the federation were the Mo¬ (have been born in 1732, the same year as hawks, who are thought to have been instru¬ Washington. He outlived his contemporary mental in founding it, the Senecas, Onondagas, many a year, dying at the ago of 104. A Cayugas and Oneidas. monument was erected to his memory at the These tribes were allotted or held different reservation and is visible from the passenger sections of the country, chiefly New York trains of the Western New York and Penn¬ and Western Pennsylvania, although they sylvania Railroad, which runs close by. claimed Ohio, Indiana and occasionally more | of the West as hunting grounds. It may be A few miles further to the north, where added that they generally enforced their the Allegany river of New York crosses the claims. They were easily able to do this, for State line and becomes the Allegheny of after subduing and driving the Algonkiusout Pennsylvania, another and a larger reserva¬ of New York the Six Nations had no oppo¬ nents in the country worthy of the name. tion is set aside for what is left of the aborig¬ The Mohawks were the eastern tribe of the inal inhabitants. The Allegany reservation is federation and were, if the traditions may be wholly in New York. Beginning at a point relied on, the guardians of the frontier. The where the river crosses the State boundary Senecas held and protected the west. The line the reservation continues up the river a Onondagas held the centre of the territory distance of forty miles. It is an irregular, and to them, as being less in danger of as¬ narrow strip of land, about a mile in its av¬ sault, was entrusted the keeping of the coun~ cil fire, which burned continually in Central erage width, narrowing as the valley nar¬ New York. There the chiefs and great men rows, widening as the hills recede from the repaired to hold their tribal meetings and at Istream. the object being to give the red man such times as affairs of importance called tail the possible fertile soil between the them together. The Onondagas are note¬ foot hills. The Allegany Indian Reservation worthy as being the tribe whence Long¬ is a fine tract of land. It is fertile, the water fellow’s hero, Hiawatha, is said to have sprung. is of the best that mountain springs ever poured forth and the climate is of the most As the American Indian is more of an genial of any territory held by the Senecas imaginative than a strict and mathematical while they were masters of Western New historian his traditional story must be taken York. On this reservation live about one thou¬ with ample consideration. There is no doubt, sand Indians, nearly all of them of the Sen¬ however, that the Iroquois, or original Five eca tribe. In a shiftless style they cultivate Nations came from the westward, probably as some three thousand acres of the alluvial far as the upper Mississippi country. It is river bottoms, and graze perhaps half as quite reliable history that they captured the much more. Their farming is slowly im¬ east from the Algonkins, which tribe four proving as the example of the white settlers of the neighborhood comes more closely to hundred years ago embraced nearly 100,000 souls, one-third of the estimated Indian theiT notice, and occasionally an Indian has a fair farm and tolerable buildings, but the population of the country at that time. The majority live in uninteresting cabins, with Indian tradition is that the great Spirit, few marks of comfort or of civilization, and Owayneo, wanted a superior race of people. touch the earth gingerly in their quest of its To raise up such a race he procured from products. At the eastern boundary of the somewhere in the magic land of know-not- reservation, around Olean, are some of the where five handfuls of mysterious red seeds. finest farms in the State of New York, but These he sowed, and from the seeds sprang the country west and south of the Indian up Five Nations. The Tuscarora Indians, possessions has not yet been reclaimed from who were not raised from the seed, joined the forests which are still headquarters for the federation about the year 1700. Later the hemlock lumberman and bark-peeler. they left and settled in North Carolina. A Therefore, while living all this time in a remnant of them returned and a few of them State which leads the rest of the Union in are now on the reservation. Others of this wealth and population, the Indians of south- tribe are in the West. jwestern New York have retained their affin¬ ity with the wilderness and many of their old These six tribes were pretty decent In¬ lhabits and customs. What they might have dians, and excepting the other family, which (been had they lived in a settled community is at present represented by the deteriorated is an interesting subject for conjecture, Zunis and Pueblos, of New Mexico and Ari¬ although it may be inferred from observation zona, the Iroquois were the most enlightened of the small handful on theTonawanda reser¬ of the American tribes. They tilled the vation, near Niagara Falls, that the red man (earth, in which they were quite thrifty. In would have advanced slowly under the most the chase they were unexcelled, for they favored circumstances. (were courageous, cunning and energetic. The Seneca Indians, who comprise the bulk They fashioned themselves clothing and of the Allegany reservation, were at one dwellings, made implements for agriculture and for hunting, and for preparing their food. ae knowledge of cookery. They original Seneca offered prayers, sacrifices; and snappy, peaceful and harmless people, in many ways entered into religious devo¬ a he white man brought to them the vices of tions. The dances of the Indians, as they drunkenness, lying, licentiousness, and de¬ were among the early Jews, were originally veloped other had traits to a greater degree religious rites, if the Seneca historians of than they had ever reached before. War was modern date are to be depended upon. The common to all of the Indian tribes, and the war dance dates back to the time of encoun-1 Iroquois made war upon each other occasion¬ ters with the southern tribes within the last! ally as well as upon the common enemy, j two centuries, and is the only modern dance. mucb'the same as their white brethren did; All the others are old and are dances of either but there were years and years of intervening devotion, purification or religious feasting' peace, and of thrift and industry as far as and thanksgiving. those virtues can be ascribed to a barbarous Many efforts have been made by mission-j people. aries to convert the pagans to Christianity, | The reservations date back into the last especially by the Baptists and Presbyterians. , century. When it became a problem what to but the success is only tolerable. The pagans ; do with the Indians to get their lands they argue that the white man’s religion is good were narrowed down to limited territory. enough for the white man, but that the Great From time to time this allotment was chipped Spirit has stood by the Indians so long and off heTe and there until the present boun¬ given them so many marked favors that it daries were finally reached. The land is not would be ingratitude to him and unsatisfac¬ allotted in severalty, but the whole flat of the tory to them to depart from the creed and the Allegheny reservation belongs to the tribes as god of their fathers. The Friends, of Phila¬ a body. A gTeat deal of agitation has been delphia, a hundred years ago established a caused by that plan, as many of the lead¬ school just off the line of the reservation, for ers argue that an Indian has no incentive the benefit of the Indians, but it was not under it to become a settler and a useful much of a success. The government tried to member of society. His land is not his own, conduct schools on the reservation, and while) and the inducement that comes from a home some desirable results are attained, there are assured to himself and his children is not held schools elsewhere in this wide world that can out to him. Nor can he become a citizen, he boast of greater benefits to the human family. the man whose ancestry was born to the soil Perhaps the vices of lying, drunkenness, back to the day when the land was not shiltlessness, and above all, the faithlessness dreamed of by the white foreigner. Very of some of the squaws to the marriage rela¬ sensible views are presented by some of the tion acquired through the neighborly offices more educated, and they profess to feel keenly of tho whites, show more on the side of the narrowness of a law that allows a man degradation of the Indian than educational horn in another country and but a few years and religious influences from the same source in America to be a full-fledged American have done to elevate him. I while the native is barred from every civil right. Yet while some of the men on the The Allegany reservation Indians are not reservation might be good citizens, and Gen¬ a bad class of people. They are certainly not' eral Parker, of New York city, a lineal de¬ the worthless Indians that are found on the 1 scendant of old Red Jacket, is good evidence Western reservations, nor do they have the| that they can, many of them are crude ma¬ terial for sovereign Americans. vicious and lazy traits of character common! To tell the truth, the majority of the in¬ to the “blanket” Indians of the plains.! habitants of the Allegany reservation are The Senecas are of superior clay in a great pagans yet, and hold to tlie original Indian many respects. They get drunk occasion-* ideas of religion, politics and education. The ally, but largely on cider, which has until pagans outnumber the Christian Indians suf¬ recently been considered by the Federal; ficiently that the administration of the na¬ Government a suitable Indian drink. Othc/ tional affairs is in the hands of the pagans alcoholic beverages have been forbidded most of the time. The pagans, although them, the sale to them being a crime in thbi called so to designate them from those who eye of the law. In July hard cider was also have embraced the Christian religion, are not condemned by the authorities, and now the by any means an irreligious set. The Indian red man will be held a little further from thd; beliefs, handed down from father to son by temptations of the pale-face. In attire the those who received the traditions and doc¬ Indians follow the white man’s styles, and an trines from their fathers, back to the day when the seeds were sown from whence they occasional belle shows considerable taste in grew, are rigidly adhered to and accepted as keeping her personal appearance up to the satisfying and complete. Like all great re¬ standard of the modern rural dressmaker. ligious faiths, a high type of individual and When lumbering in the pine forest was an industry in Western New York and Pennsyl¬ common good is the basis of the creeds, and they have tried to keep their feet in the line vania, the Senecas found employment in the of uprightness and to obey the commands of woods and on the river. They made excel¬ their teachers to be moral and honorable. lent raftsmen, and in the spring they were) numerous on the river from Olean to Pitts-1 burg. Of late so little lumber is rafted that' The Seneca religion has the Great Good it is a rarity to see a Cornplanter or a Seneca) Spirit, Owayneo, or Nauwahneu, who is the on the low'er end of the river. They find > creator of the world and of every good thing, employment yet, however, in the bark wood'/ and the Senecas say they are his particular and on the hemlock jobs, and make ver/ people, as did the Jews of old. The Great good hands. Spirit abhors evil and punishes vice in a fu¬ The original Indian government was triba i and federal. The Senecas had two chiefs, j ture life. His residence is in a country far One was hereditary, and was more of a coun¬ away, where plenty abounds, and where the cilor and peace ruler. The other was an good Indian will have nothing to vex him. elective chief, and to him w’as entrusted the The soil is perfection, game is abundant, the fortunes of the tribe in war. Besides these1 crops are always bountiful, the streams teem two, were councilors and medicine men who with fish. Over this the great Owayneo had weight and influence in their lines, but not in executive privilege. The chiefs were reigns an all-powerful king. To this happy members of the councii fire at Onondaga, land all may go who have the confidence of which held its importance until the latter the Great Ruler. To gain this confidence the -Mt

HOH-HOO-E-YOH, - A CORN-PLANTER OF ROYAL BLOOD. rlt°L}.* he last— century,.-mo whmTth^whftelHaS- wmie man rew too aggressive and the noblest and most the faces of many of them make them decid¬ owerful of the native inhabitants fell back edly attractive. They are inclined to reti¬ °/ reservation life and per- utted the sacred fires to go out forever cence m speech, hut they are rather shrewd LfhVtlnment with the Senacas has mentaswv,rs’ *?d have saSacity and judg¬ council fire. In connection -—-.ment. When the women--LO pay attention to r+\?lanS °f 9attaraUfms reservation neatness m their attire it is notmicommon to little further north in New York, the Alle- deedTheye°f ‘hm passablY handsome. In¬ haS been co“stituted by the let black aPPrec'ates the beauty of hite men s government a nation, and all [jet-black hair, black eyes and a suggestion of fleers are elected. They consist of president a Spanish complexion will be struck with kretary, treasurer and peacemakers. These tftlneca tribe'Tf th° women 5 &atrionlmThpt0 °Ur C°UrtS °f justice and fewnfth»m ob ’ for they are as beautiful—a bitration. The young men and the pagans p t le® ar® a.s any women in the world ■e the ruling forces in Indian politics and mnk'frf family alone excepted. Their is intimated that the trickery of the nale mode of life confines the beauty to the young ce is sometimes imitated by the wire^work! women, for they age very rapidly. The^men M s of the reservation. At least, rottenness is nftvh-f«°^ei h^Dd’ ShoW more force and dig¬ easionally preferred by some of those not nity as they advance in years, probably be- dding office against some of those who do cause maturity has more to do with those id things sometimes warm up as com for t- ly as ,n a more pretentions political cam itate°th°cUwbi?e Seneca of the future will im¬ Lign conducted by the more civilized ra“’ itate the white man more and more for on re red man is too apt a student to live in a builtrebvrVa^nS S6V,eral towns ba^e been iw York political atmosphere and not im built by whites under a ninety-nine-year be some of its influence. ease of land, and the contact of the strong race with the weaker leaves its traces in borne of the Senecas are fine specimens of habits and customs. Of these towns Sala- inhood. They are tall and firmly pnt arni fnv/10 + nsh 111 P1 aee of several thous- tether, and the great force of character in nd mha-bitants. with modern conveniences, p -9 tbe end of two divisions of the Erie Kanroad. Ked House, Vaudalia and Carroll- ton are enterprising little places also peopled by whites. Killbuck is now a white man’s of this borough. But James H. Eddy tows, but for generations itJbad been the lately deceased, had a clear recollection home of the descendants and ancestors of the old chief Killbuck, who was a conspicuous of nearly all the early incidents of any character in the tribe when the whites first importance happening in the town, knew the Sonatas. The population of the could remember when Warren contain¬ reservation is slowly increasing, and as the Indian has good neighbors traces of white ed only about half a dozen houses; blood show continually with the darker color knew the men of enterprise who gave of the aboriginal Indian. The Seneca Indian of the past is held in this little town in the vast wilderness high esteem in Western New York and the first impetus in a business way, and 'Pennsylvania. In 1892 one of the finest monuments in the two States was unveiled was himself an active worker in pro¬ in Forest Lawn Cemetery, in Buffalo. It ducing the great results achieved by covers the ashes of Red jacket, one of the most illustrious of the American aborigines. Warren and its people in the last cent¬ He died in 1830 in Buffalo, almost 80 years of ury. Mr. Eddy was the last of the old; age. His name in the Seneca tongue was old residents who were born here in! Sagoyewatha, meaning, “He keeps them awake.” If the name alluded to his enemies the pioneer age, who bore the priva¬ it was truthful enough. Red Jacket has a tions and hardships incident to those ^descendant, General Ely S. Parker, of New York, who has added to the fame of his line. times, labored earnestly for the compe¬ General Parker is a Seneca and until he re¬ tence that justly rewards such efforts, signed the honor was a chief in the tribe. In early life he left the reservation to go to col¬ and lived on into our present age of lege. He graduated with distinction and luxury. soon after entered the service of the United States as an engineer. While stationed at So many people who took part in and Galena, Ill., he formed the acquaintance of knew of the settlement of Warren, had ' Goneral Grant and later, when the civil war passed away without leaving was in progress, General Parker was a any record trusted member of Grant’s staff. At General of early events, that little is known of Grant’s dictation, General Parker wrote the those times except the vague outlines terms ot the surrender at Appomattox. At the present he occupies a position of promi¬ gathered from general history. Abou nence in the employ of the Federal Govern¬ a year ago it occurred to the writer, ment in New York city. Not long ago his health began to fail him and as he is in the that in a short time there would be no neighborhood of 80 years of age the greatest one left, who could give any informa-) living Seneca will before long be gathered to his fathers. tion upon this subject, and that a de sire would sometime spring up to se¬ cure the early local history of this vi¬ cinity when too late to he obtained. From, Z zr C 4 s-4. Z1 Mr. Eddy was then requested to give his early recollections of Warren and /.(2k, | vicinity, and willingly complied. The writer took notes of the earliest set¬ tlers, improvements and incidents re¬ Date, -ZZ/'Z?9'iA lating to this part of the county .spoken of by Mr. Eddy, and laid them away so carefully that only a part of them can A FEW REMINISCENCES now be found. Those remaining were taken down nearly in Mr. Eddy’s own words and are as follows: Of Warren's Early History by “I was born Nov. 11, 1814, in the block house built by Martin Reese an Old Resident. about 1803 located where my store building west of the First National Some Historical Data Which Will he of Bank on Second street now stands. Interest to the Present Generation—Per¬ My father, Zachariah Eddy, came td sonal Reminiscences by the Late James Warren about 1801 and afterwards kept H.Eddy, who Remembered When War¬ hotel in the block house where I was ren was a Village of a Half Dozen Build¬ born, and entertained one night at that! ings. hotel Aaron Burr when on a trip down! Few people now living in Warren the river in a boat to Blenerhasset will appreciate the great changes that island. The first building erected in have taken place in our beautiful town Warren was the Holland Land Co’s, within the memory of an old resident, block dwelling and ware house built in or that a man living in 1894 could re¬ 1795 on the main branch of the Oone- member so far back as the settlement wango creek, now the mill race or pond, on' the south side of Water street be¬ court house built by Wm. Hodges from tween Liberty and Market streets, 1825 to 1827 was the first brick building about where -John Keller’s house and erected in Warren. I worked for twen¬ shop now are. My father moved from ty-five Cents a day helping make the 'the hotel into this Holland Land Co’s brick for it. The bell placed on this building and lived there until about court house is now on the Rouse House 1816 when he moved into his new house near Youngsville, and was the first on Market street, about where A. T. bell brought into Warren county. Mr Schofield’s house is now located, and Hodges erected a temporary building lived there until his death about 1872 about w'here the Hon. W. D, Brown’s ' at the age of ninety-three years and office is now located on Liberty street, 1 eight months. which was used as a court house until ‘•My earliest recollections of Warren the new building was finished. _ V are, that there was a block house on j The first jail was built of hewed logs, Water street where the house of Hon. was located about where Hon. W. M. R. P. King now stands, built by John Lindsey’s house now stands on Market Gilson, the father of Mr. King’s mother, jstreet, and had a yard adjoining it, sur¬ another block house some distance be¬ rounded by a palisade of oak logs set low, built by a Gilson, Daniel Tackson’s on end in the ground, sharpened at the house where the back part of the Citi¬ top and about twenty feet high. Capt. zens National Bank building now stands, Asa Winter and his son Elihu cut the Archibal Tanner’s ware house and store logs for the jail and palisade on Tan¬ built about 1816 lately purchased by ner’s hill and hauled them down with the Y. M. C. A. and occupied by Andrew oxen. Capt. Winter then owned and Ruhlman, my father’s house on Market occupied the farm this side of North street. Warren now owned by the Hon. L. D. The block house where I was born, Wetmore. the Holland Land Co.’s block house on Daniel Jackson was said to be the what is now called the mill race or pond first white settler in Warren county. a block house on the corner of Sixth When he first came here, he camped on and East Water streets where the : Jackson Run where he built his mill Riwa house is now located, and per¬ about 1794 or 1795. About the only haps others that I have forgotton ; and mill irons then used, were the end of outside of Warren the Daniel Jackson j the dog with a socket for a wooden mills located just back of the present bar, a very few light ones for the car¬ location of the North Warren refinery riage, and the saw, all other parts of on Jackson Run, the race of which can the mill were taken from the forest. still be traced upon the ground. The Jackson was a great hunter, lumoered . first school I recollect of, was kept in a good deal and ran lumber cut at his \ the block house on the corner of Sixth mill, down the river to Southern and East Water street, and the first | markets. As far back as I can recollect, . teacher Henry Eddy, my cousin, who John King, father of Hon. R. P. King, afterwards moved to the northw'est was lumbering and farming, and was territory, now Indiana, where he after¬ afterwards sheriff. John Gilson whose wards became a member of the In- descendants live in Sheffield, was a Idiana legislature. Henry Eddy pre¬ river man canoeing goods and provis¬ vious to 1822, w'hile teaching here, made ions up the river to Warren from Pitts¬ the first map of Warren borough, burg the nearest source of supplies, which was very accurate, and was pres¬ iJoseph Mead, father of Boon Mead, ent until lately among the papers of was farming Mead’s island and the my brother, Z. Eddy. Josiah Hall, af¬ !farna adjacent below Warren. About terwards Judge Hall, taught school af¬ |1818 or 1819 James Stuart and Robert ter Henry Eddy. About 1821 the first Arthur built a mill near where Bartch school house was built, a little west Bros, Wagon shop now stands, between and in front of the present court house Liberty and Market streets, and ran and is now a tenement housfe north of I the dam across the Conewango creek the cottage lately owned hy Sidney from that point to the island. I ran Wetmore in the avenue leading north across that dam many times, barefoot¬ from Fourth street, just east of Mar¬ ed, when a boy, while they were build¬ ket. The courts were held in this ing it and afterwards. Both Stuart !school house several years. The fitst and Arthur afterwards sold' out and other peoples business-than in their went to Illinois. Lathrop Gv .Parmlee' own avocations. In March -of 1821 or came to AVarren and -started^ a store in | thereabouts, Mr. Hook had been the bar room of a hotel kept In tliei brought to AA7arren as defendant in Daniel Jackson house where- the rear some frivolous litigation every day in part of the Citizen’s National Bank the week until Saturday, and a war¬ Building stands. Parmlee must havel rant was issued for his arrest on Sat- J been here very early for leaves from urday, on some far-fetched complaint!! the day book kept by him through thei so as to fill out the week. When the months of January and February, 1815,; officer went to Hook’s mill late on Sat¬ were lately found in the garret of Chas. urday, Hook not relishing the prospect Dinsmoore’s house by carpenters mak¬ of lying in jail over Sunday, said lie - ing repairs. Parmlee afterwards open-i would appear on Monday, but would ed a store below where the Garvei not go that night. Deputy Sheriff Asa7 House now stands. Lathrop G. Parmlee Scott summoned a posse to take him ; was the father of Hon. L. T. Parmlee^ Hook locked his door and threatened to and G. N. Parmlee. Archibold Tanner shoot them if they broke in. The was in business very early and built posse broke in the door; Scott being the store now occupied -by Andrew first, fell headlong when the door gave Ruhlman, for a ware house where sup¬ way. Hook fired a slug or bullet which plies from Pittsburgh were received passed above Scott, through Perry and stored for himself, and the public Sherman’s arm, and then through the generally until called for. body of Caleb Wallace,instantly killing In early days no attorneys lived in him. Hook was arrested, and tried for Warren, but came from Meadville to murder in a house on the corner of 5th attend Court here, finally two attor¬ and Market streets where the house of neys came to Warren, rented a little William Scott is now located. Several building where the Exchange Block other boys and myself took seats upon now stands, of John Hackney, and pre¬ the beams of the house over the heads, pared to practice law. To occupy their of the people attending the trial, and time they wrote for and edited a little were attentive spectators during the paper published here, and at one time whole trial. My father rode horseback in the paper reflected somewhat upon to Pittsburg to employ an attorney to - Archibold Tanner. A few nights after- defend Hook. He secured the service Iward a little canon heavily loaded wras of Henry Baldwin, afterwards Judge shot off next to their office, tearing Baldwin, and paid him three hundred away a good share of that side of the dollars in gold for attending the trial! office ; the next day the attorneys left The warrant was irregular, had no seal ! the town and the people were without after the magistrate’s name, and Plook legal counsel for some time. was acquitted. Public opinion was! Jacob Hook purchased a mill at an quite strongly in Hook’s favor. Judge early day at what is now called AVard- Jesse Moore presided at the trial with! well, enlarged it and put in five saws associates Connely of Brokensfraw, and and carriages, a remarkable enterprise Hackney of AVarren. grandfather of A. for those days. As early as lean recol-l T. Hackney, upon the bench.” lect, Jacob Hook was the most exten^ Perky D. Clark. A sive lumber manufacturer in this vicin-l ity. I pulled an oar on one of his rafts from his mill to Cincinnati in 1830. . j What is now the principal part of Cin¬ cinnati was then corn fields. Hook owned about all of the land along the river from AVarren to Corydon, includ¬ ing some of the finest of the Ivinzua flats. He was an energetic, able man, engrossed entirely in his business, but was continually annoyed by- a class of mischief loving practi-j cal jokers who exerted] themselves much more in attending to days each day being devoted to a period of years, or a quarter of a * nt'„v cele^'T.a mo.tl.on l)revailed for a .bree-dav

The committee then resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to form an or lSa i°fll'b0n motion a committee ,on- itine Hon o^A„Wig:£ns' E- T- Hazle- une, Hon. O. C. Allen, Hon. C. M' stone Mrs. James Brann and Mrs. M Waters uas appointed to determine a plan of ganization and suggest details. On May io THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO TOOK PART another meeting was held, at Which a re- Ipott was presented by the committee and the same adopted. The report, embodied if tlcIef of association, provisions for ■< • Success Crowned the Efforts of That Band • lan ,, i be assdciatioh, des'.gns efl (he] a 6 electe(1- together with their j of Wil ing Workers. idles, and was a comprehensive and in-1 phshed14 °Uthne 0t what miSht be accom- i’he officers selected were as follows- A Complete and Comprehensive Resume F'resident—Hon C. W. Stone. ’ First Vice Presidents—Hon. W. M Lind of all the Reading Features Down on the sey and W. W. Wilbur. Esq. Programme of This 100th Birthday Second Vice Presidents-Christian Sm'th ! Which Might Properly Be Called a Re- A. Davis, A. H. Lacy, William Zeigier I I union of the White and Red Men—What Anurew Hertzel, L. B. Hoffman, M D Waters, M. B. Dunham, John M. David Was Done From Tuesday Morning son Warren Brasington, A. T. Hacknev ! Until Thursday Night. ;,‘l ous Spaulding, John O’Hern, Joseph ‘ V alKerman, Chester Park, Martin Crib-i bins. O. W. Randall, Henry Knupp. M \ ulzgerald, Theopholus Messner, Benjamin i In introducing' to our readers the com¬ l. ilnams, James P. Lacy, L. Castater i prehensive report of the three-day cele¬ bhauncey Cobb, J. P. Nesmith, Hon p’ bration of Warren's centennial, a little his¬ Brown, M. Waters. A. Morck, Sr Hon ' D- Brown, J. J. Taylor, Hon. L d' 1 tory regarding the association which car¬ Wetmore, John Sill, Hon. E. B El 1 red' ried Hie movement on to Its Stupenduous Henry Cobham, Guy C. Irvin, F. A. Ran¬ success will not be amiss. dall, John F. McPherson, I. S. Alden. I. G Lacy. Dr. E. M. Pierce, John E. Siechrist It was In April, just 100 years ago, when James Clark. P. J. Trushell, L. A. Rogers’ Generals Irvine and Ellicott landed on the Gen. J. Y. James, Hon. R. P. King G N - spot where Warren now stands. Therefore Parmlee, S. H. Cogswell, D. M. Williams,’ some of the people of the town became im¬ b . H. Hunter, J. W. Wetmore, Erie, Pa.;' Hon. L. Rogers, Smethport, Pa.; Hon. bued with the idea that it would be most Junius R. Clark, Bradford, Pa • Hon unpatriotic to allow the centennary to George W. Allen, Denver, Col.;'j w’ pass without some due and fitting observa¬ Stearns, Jamestown, N. Y. ■ Geo A Walk tion. As the subject was broached to the er. Emporium, Pa.; Gen. Roy Stone,' Wash¬ ington. D. C.; Hon. I. H. Hiller, Frews- people they became enthusiastic. At last lnirg. N. Y.; Philip Gisselbrecht, Dr. Ches¬ Burgess Wiggins, with the tact to see ter W. Stranahan, Erie, Pa.: T J Clem that to accomplish anything beyond mere ons, Columbus, Pa.; John N. Schhur. Rus- seil, Pa.; Capt. John H. Mitchell, Hartford show of words, it would he,..necessary to <’onn.; Gen. Harrison Allen, Fargo, N. D.’ have concerted action, called a meeting Jerome Powers, Ridgway, Pa.; Albert of citizens til ascertain the Svttthtoent of Kirkberger, Wiesbaden, Germany Secretary—S. W. Waters. the people. This meeting was not largely Measurer Col. James O. Parmlee attended, but enough were present to en¬ Director-General—H. J. Muse. ' - courage the promoters to go on and ap¬ An executive committee consisting rtf point a committee to formulate plans for i*0"' C-W- Stone. Hon. C. H. Noyes. Hon O. C. Allen. Hon. W. M. Lindsay, W. W. the carrying out of the object in view. The Wilbur, Esq., H. A. Jamieson, Jas O original committee was constituted as fol¬ I Parmlee, Esq., S. W. Waters, H. J. Muse' lows: Judge C. H. Noyes, Burgess J. W. Esq., Burgess Wiggins, F. M. Knapp. Mrs’ F. H. Rockwell. Mrs. Myron Waters Mrs’ Wiggins, H. A. Jamison, E. T. Hazeltine, James Brann. Mrs. George Yates. Mrs. E. Colonel J. M. Seigfried, August Morck, Jr.,. M • Parsliall, Mrs. W. M. Lindsay and Mrs A. D. Wood, E. H. Boesehlin, W. D. Todd. O. W. Schofield was appointed, which Was F. A. S tuber, Prof. S. Reed Brown, Mrs. increased later by the addition of the heads of newly created departments. M. Waters, Mrs. O. C. Allen, Mrs. F. tl. The following committees not named in Rockwell, Mrs. James Brann and Mrs. A. other, portions of this report, also pariloj- J. Hazeltine. [pa ted: This committee reported at a meeting on , Indian—W. H. Allen, C. D. Crandall, W May fi to the effect that it was in favor of kA. Talbott. | a celebration, and Judge Noyes, as spokes¬ I Block House—L. R. Freeman. Theodore man. outlined the programme, suggesting Messner, Chas. Chase, George F. Yates. E. that, the celebration cover a period of four In. Smith, F. T. Parker, O. W. Beaty’ James Clark. The“Ball Opened. Continental Stage Coach—J. M. Sieg- At 10:30 o’clock promptly the regular frled, E. T. Hazeltine. W. H. Leffard, W. programme of the day was commenced C. Watson, A. T. Schofield. and carried out to the letter. The crowd Shooting Match and Town Ball—E. T. present on this first day was far in ad¬ Hazeltine, Frank Scott, S. E. Walker, Je¬ vance of what had been exriected, and pre¬ rome Reese. sented proof positive that on to-morrow First Court—Hon. C. H. Noyes, J. O. and the Fourth the capacity of the town Parmiee, D. I. Ball, C. C. Thompson. W. and fair grounds will be taxed to their E. Rice, J. H. Donley, Leon Ball, W. D. utmost. The grand stand and the inter¬ Hinckley, S. T. Neill. J. A. Schofield, Chas. vening benches placed in between that' A. Peterson, James W. Wiggins, Perry structure and the speaker's stand were Clark. comfortably filled when the opening ex¬ District School Spelling Class and Sing¬ ercises commenced. ing School—W. V. N. Yates, Dr. W. M. After a fine patriotic medley by the War-i Robertson. Miss Eilie Schofield, Mrs. W. ren cornet band, under the capable leader¬ D. Hinckley, Mrs. Ray Pickett, Dr. W. W. ship of Prof. Thad. Reig, and an eloquent Freeman, Henry Messenger, H. M. Put¬ prayer by Rev. Dr. Kihnear, of the M. E. nam, Mrs. S. T. Neill, Miss S. Daggett. church, President C. W. Stone, of the Relics of Wars of 1812 and Mexican—W. Centennial association, stepped to the 11, Copeland, August Morck. William Mc¬ front of the platform and spoke the fol¬ Cray, A. W. Jones, Fred E. Windsor, J. lowing eloquent words of welcome: I'TieHhart. Fred B. Jackson, J. W. Al¬ Horn. C. W. Stone’s Speech. brecht, .George Cornelius. Picture Collections—W. A. Greaves, Dr. Ladles and Gentlemen—Warren has ex¬ A. Cr Alt'Alpin. isted for a century. No one fof her citi¬ (Oil painting—Chairman. Mrs. H. Eddy; zens remains who can tell us of its birth, -tv. A. Greaves. and there are few even of the second gen¬ Trades—Chairman, Captain Alexander; eration to recite the incidents and events Eugene McLaren, W. L. MaeGowan, J. D. of its early existence. A hundred years Woodard and Harold Hazeltine. is a long period, longer than the life of Electricity—Chairman, Mr. fe. J. Frank¬ most individuals, longer than the life of lin. many nations. Not one independent na¬ Celebration department—Chairman. D. tion on the western continent except our. r. Arird: Dr. W. M. Baker and August own has existed a hundred years. The Morck, Jr. rounding out of a century is no common! Department of finance—Chairman. L. T. event, the retrospect of a hundred years, Boychctsecretary. Mrs. Dr. Richard B. no ordinary spectacle, and the close of Stewart, Messrs. S. W. M aters, J. D., century in the life of any nation or com¬ -Woodard. S. H. Davis. J. Wo Wiggins, munity has come to be regarded as an James Brant). J. P. Jefferson, W. D. Todd, event worthy of notice and commemora¬ A. J. Hazeltine. J. E. Blair, Theodore tion. Met-sner, A. W. Jones, 1.. M. Ridelsperger, When, a few years ago, the United C. M. Knapp, 0. M. Shawkey, J. Percy States celebrated her Centennial, that King, H. P. Hunter; Mesdames S. T. Neill, wonderful exhibition, extending through I L. B. Hoffman, O. W. Beaty, R. S. Hall, several months, was to the world a mar- J. O. Parmlee, E. E. Allen, A. W. Nickle, j velous revelations of the growth and great¬ E. A. Abbott and Henrietta Eddy. ness and riohness of the American repub¬ Commissaries Indian village—P. E. Fehl- lic. No one questioned .the propriety of man and Jerome Cogswell. the celebration of the century of the Na¬ Illumination of centennial grounds—W. tion’s birth, and nothing In her history, H. Filler, A. J. Hazeltine and S. J. Frank¬ save only the demonstration of her abil¬ lin. ity to suppress the most gigantic rebellion f On advertising—Chairman, W. D. Hinck¬ the world ever saw, lias so exalted the 1 ley: W. D. Todd. E. T. Hazeltine and standing of this people among the nd- James D. Woodard. tforts l|l’ the world or-So extended pur Trade i i On merchandise—C. M. Shawkey and W. and stimulated the development of our ‘ it. Pickett. marvelous resources as that celebration. ' On transportation—W. D. Todd, O. C. As an expression of sentiment, of patri¬ Allen and E. W. Parshall. otic pride, it was commendable. As a simple business enterprise it was wisely Wnrfen, Pa., July 2.—(Special.)—Never planned and rich in practical results. What was there a prettier sunrise with¬ is true of the Nation on a large scale is in the remembrance of Warren’s oldest in¬ true of the town on a smaller one. And the celebration to-day of the close of the habitant that greeted the early riser here first century of W'arren’s existence, while this morning. The people of the town primarily the outgrowth of sentiment, of were early astir, and long before the hands a sentimentality if you choose, not over of the handsome clock that graces the luxuriant of growth in American character and American life, an expression of pride tower of the Savings bank pointed to the and love we bear the place of our homes, hour of », the gaily bedecked streets were may yet in ultimate results demonstrate filled With a hustling and bustling multi¬ that in its conception, sentiment and pracj tude. all bent on business connected with bical worldly wisdom have been inter¬ the big celebration. woven like the warp and woof of the web. The early morning trains over (he P. & But X stop not to discuss this. The one E., W. N. Y. & P. and D.. A. V. & P. thought uppermost in all our minds to¬ brought loads of people from Grand Val¬ day undoubtedly is of the contrast existing , ley, Torpedo, Garland, Pittsfield, Youngs- between the conditions that surround us ! vilie, Irvlneton, Springcreek, Corry, Clar¬ now and those that existed a century ago. endon, Sheffield, Kinzua, Corrydon, and Standing a hundred years back, where we , all contributing towhs as far distant as sta.nd to-day we should have found our¬ Titusville and Oil City. selves surrounded by pathless and almost boundless primeval forests. Through them fie last savage war-whoop had hardly | rrasatl to reverberate. The gallant Wayne aid than lo retard suen progress, to lift j had just won thait memorable victory according to your strength than to rest a which really opened this region to white dead load on those who are lifting-, to ■ settlement. Where we now stand, or near j march in the van-guard of the column of I ' here, h'ad been an Indian village and here! progress than to straggle in its rear. ! the people of Cornplanter lived in pristine Fellow citizens of Warren, standing as ' simplicity. Across the river a band of we do on the threshold of a new centtiry, surveyors, protected by a company of sol¬ with all its opportunities and all its re- ! diers with their flint-lock muskets, were sponsibilities confronting us. with the vast laying out the town of Warren, yet unin¬ possibilities of individual lifeand individua' habited. No railway train or steamboat growth almost unlimited. I press home to had relieved the tiresomeness of their each one of you the thought and the journey over the mountains and up the solemn thought of the weight of respon¬ river. No telegraph existed, no postal sibility and duty we owe to each other communication connected them with even and jointly and severally to the town in the outposts of civilization. No steam which we dwell. No man lives to himself engine was known, no electric motor nor alone, and no man comprehends the spirit ! light, except as it illumined the stormy and scope of this matchless age of ours heavens. Petroleum was valued only as a who does not realize that the duty of the useful liniment. The very necessities of individual to the public in effort and ser¬ modern life were then unknown and unat¬ vice, is no less than of the public- to the tainable luxuries. The conditions that individual in protection and gttidlihce. To surrounded our fathers were rough and perform this duty he must be awake and rugged. Those conditions developed stur¬ alive and act now. He cannot listlessly dy frames and strong if not broad char¬ wait ’till next week or next year. This is acters, an age of action, of motion, no-t of rest of ! “To them was life a simple art the steam engine and the electric car not I Of duties to be done. ot the stage coach, of the telegraph .and ! ' A game where each man took his part, telephone, not of the postman and his sad. A race where all must run, dle-bags. Never before and nowhere else I A battle whose great scheme and scope. in the world’s history has human inteliec- They little cared to know, arid human’ingenuity reached such a state of intense activity and broad development Content, as men-at-arms, to cope as in this day and Nation, and never before Each with his fronting foe." and nowhere else have the rewards of 8b they met the requirements of daily energy and enterprise been so great or the life. So they surmounted the obstacles scope of man’s accomplishment been so that everywhere confronted them. So they broad. , leveled forests, reared homes, planted “In an age on ages telling fields and garnered up the fruits of their To be living is sublime,” toil. So they laid the foundations of the town 111 which we live, crudely, roughly, but the sublimity comes only with an in¬ awkwardly perhaps, but honestly and sub¬ telligent comprehension of the opportu¬ stantially. With them life was indeed “a nities presented" and the responsibilities race where all must run.” They had no involved. I cannot elaborate. I undertake place for the drone or the coward. What now to point out no path of individual they had and what they were to have duty. That can be easily found. When came to them only as the result of their found it will not be smooth, it is rugged, own effort and their own frugality. While but it lends up, not down, to glory not dis¬ they reared a town and builded fortunes honor, to life not death. I do, however, they builded character, and the town came say in brief that the best interests of to partake of the character of its founders. this town ought to lie near the It was not showy, it was not pretentious, heart of every citizen, and what¬ it was not sensational, it had no feverish ever makes for civilization, for refine¬ periods of abnormal growth, no chilly days ment, for progress, for growth, for en¬ of sickly decay. Slowly, steadily, firmjy it largement; not of territory only, not of moved forward, keeping fair pace with) the population simply, not of business merely, progress of modern life, until to-day it ! but of the great aggregate of mind and stands "beautiful for situation,” solid in ] heart and soul, whatever brings broader foundation, substantial of growth, the vision and higher aspiration, and more “gem of the Alleghenies,” our own loved generous and unselfish action, should .home. What it is. what it may be, I shall command the cordial co-operation of every citizen. not attempt to delineate, further than to say it is, and will be what, and only what Ladies and gentlemen, I will not detain its sons and daughters make it. It will you longer. In behalf of the citizens of not rise above and cannot fall below the Warren I bid you a hearty welcome to average level of the characters and attain- our celebration and invoke your cordial mints of its citizens. Each individual co-operation in its progress. We shad on-1 helps to give character to the town. As he deavor to give you some idea of whet raises himself and broadens his own char¬ Warren was and is. We may exaggerate acter and learns to look out beyond him¬ its beauties and charms, its achievements self and realize his relations and his duties and possibilities, but if so it is but. the to his fellow men, he will do his part to outgrowth of the love we bear our home, broaden and strengthen the growth of the for, “Be it ever so humble there (is no town in which he lives, as Ihe standard of place like home.” To that home we bid the life of the town as a whole is raised, as you cordial welcome. Lasr week It was civilizing and enlightening influences in its and next week It will be burs; this week midst are strengthened and multiplied, so it is yours. the tendency will be to raise the standard Then came.: the G-lee club, consisting of of the life of each individual. When the, a hundred vqices, led by Dr, W. W. Free¬ town as a whole moves up and forward, it carries with it all its citizens, even the man. The audience all joined in the sing¬ listless and Idle; but how much nobler to ing of the several good old songs of ye olden time. for celebrating with joy and festivity Burgess 'Wiggins’ Address, 100th year. One hundred years Is not a long period Following these vocal ^elections Burgess In human history; men! are within the James W. Wiggina was announced for a sound of my voice, som'ji whose years go few remarks. The gentleman made no back almost to the time; when Irwin and attempt at delivering a set speech. He Kllicott, with that sublime faith which said in substance that he had a remem¬ marks the Yankee race.'laid out lots and brance of 'a piece he used to read in his oid parks and streets and lanes, and sites for Fifth reader, entitled Rienzl’s Address to public buildings in the midst of the un¬ thr -Rimfowis lit whidh -the gerrl'kA.-ian re¬ trodden wilderness. Nor Is it anything re- • marked that he “came not here to talk” markable in this age of wonders that a and then went on and spoke for four or town of 8,000 or 9.000 inhabitants with such five five hours. The gentleman said that ■ buildings, such and such industries should he was not there to indulge In a long talk have grown up ill a century. After Chi¬ but rather to listen to others. After cago and Kansas City it does.not become touching briefly on various minor subjects US to be boastful on that score. But the pertaining to the centennial he said he evolution of the society of the 20th cen¬ was pleased to see the red man present tury is a wonder which will be forever in such large numbers, the ancestors of wonderful, and of this the growth of War¬ whom had inhabited these hills and val¬ ren IS a part. We may study it here as leys so many years ago. He hoped the well as at Chicago. Here, as there, the friendship between the white man and the progress has been from the wigwam to j Indian that had been formed during the the palace, the ox-cart to the Pullman and life of that grand and good old chief, Corn- bicycle, from buckskin and feathers to big- planter, the friend of Washington, would sleeves and—shall I say it—bloomers. It i always flourish and grow, if possible was the aim of the projectors of this ex- | stronger. He was glad to know that the hlbltion to illustrate the changes in life president and council of the Six Nations, a and manners during the! 100 years in a: confederacy that Was born and had its ex¬ variety of ways. This haabeen done more I istence long before the confederacy of the perfectly and expansively by the com- i American colonies was dreamed of, were to mittee in charge than any one dared at I be here during the centennial and said he the outset to even suggest. The Indian thought it was the first occasion of a like wigwam, which was designed to represent character that had taken place since its aboriginal life, has expanded intd a whole formation. village and a dally, airport hourly, ex¬ The past, present and future of Warren hibition of Indian life and manners. The was briefly touched on and incidentally a block house—the primitive settlers’ fort— little said regarding correct municipal has been executed as an actuality and not government, which, as he looked at it, merely as a scenic repijesentatiom “Jack-1 Should allow the town or city to own its son’s Tavern” has risdh from its ashes— own water works, electric light plants, etc. I with the help of Rian oni—and if you do He believed that the present occasion not get venison for dinner there it will be ' would prove of great benefit to the coming because Chief O’Bails loesn’t go out -with I generation and thought that the coming his young men after the deer. The old one hundred years would each feel the times will be further recalled by the in¬ effects of It in more ways than one. teresting exhibits in the Hall of Antiqui¬ In closing, his honor extended the free¬ ties and the old-time , polling and singing dom of the city to all visitors, adding by ; schools, the old foiks reunions and the way of appendix that he hoped on leaving ' quiltin', which is So life-like that one they would return It as there might be I would expect to meet his grandmother use for it in the future. He further said, ' there. Elsewhere you will find most inter¬ in jocose allusion to the presence of the esting exhibits recalling Warren in war Indians, that he hoped the visitors Would times, her women’s W irk at home as well carry as much of their hair home with as the sufferings of h V sons on the fiejd. them as they brought. Mr. Wiggins’ re- And still further some suggestion of the marks were well received and loudly ap¬ j condition of Warren OUr own times. To plauded. all this and the WohdorsjdeScrlbed on the President Judge C. H. Noyes. programme I join With *tbe president in giving you a cordial welcome. Hon. C. H. Noyes, chairman of the ex¬ Warren has not produced many men ecutive board, was the next speaker, who and women who have > attained to very spoke substantially as follows: wide notoriety, bu* many who were Wor¬ Mr. President—It has passed into a pro¬ thy to fill the highest places. I was not verb that he who dips his feet In the crys¬ here early enough to know the ancients, tal waters of the Allegheny is bound'to as we may call them, but I have known its banks for life. To these green hills ! them well and intimately at second-hand, I and fertile Valleys the hearts of the pll- 1 through the eloquent and living pictures grim and exiles turn with longing affec- drawn by such masters as Johnson, ; tlon, and hither they sooner or later re- Struthers and Brown, and especially Sco¬ | turn from the flat plains of the West or field, who, along wtfli his capacity for : the burning fields of the too sunny South, statesmanship, could' paint character and I to which the Yankee instinct for change deficit a scene to the life with a talent | Has removed them. If there are to-day equal to that of another Dickens had he among us strangers from a distance may chosen to so apply h. ! r not ask them to look upon these grace¬ I may not, in the tie,- allotted, venture fully swelling hills, clad in the green of i to speak of all the men who have made forest and field, upon yonder crescent river their marks upon the mges of W'arten’s lying like a silver sickle between its wil¬ history, but none ar.it/ ig them will be re¬ low-fringed banks, upon the town whose membered longer or more worthily than | spires and roofs loom above the waiving- [ the old war chief, whose young men hunt-j tree tops and upon this assemblage of its ed over this ground when the first white men. its women, its children—its strength j men came to survey it. In his veins flowed j its beauty and its hope, and tell me | a mingled stream drawn on file one hand I whether we have not cause to be proud of our country and our town, and reasorj from generations ofUMage chiefs, on the authority of the Commonwealth of Penn- i other from generaKitrs of Indomitable sylvania, a survey was made of certain ‘Dutchmen, from whortf we derived much territory within our view, and streets, Of the good In our lnsf tutions and learned squares and lots plotted thereon for a j the value Of liberty, Vhose country may future town, named In honor of a gallant ' well be called the mother of our own— hero of Revolutionary fame, whose pa-! for It was from Holland that he came. triotism, valor and heroic deeds in that j His life was noble according to its lights hard fought struggle for independence, the and wise beyond the age and people In success of which has crowned the world which he lived, He^tvas wls>*. brave, with priceless and enduring blessings, we truthful, faithful to fluty' at all times and should commemorate by a fitting tribute at any sacrifice. Of that white man more erected within the limits of the borough of than this can be said- T refer to Corn- Warren. The name of Joseph Warren, who planter. T^> him and william Penn it is yielded up his life in the cause of Colonial due that at this day the red nation flour¬ freedom at the historic battle of Bunker ishes in the heart of our civilization, i Hill, fires the American heart w ith love of [ changed but not annihilated—and still In I liberty, and kindles anew within the soul a measure independent and we welcome an unselfish devotion to our native land. them and their representatives among ns. It was at the close of that war waged What will the coming years bring forth? by Warren and his co-patriots for Na¬ More houses and finer, more factories and tional independence and freedom from larger, more population and the satisfac¬ British dominion and misrule, and after Its tion or dwelling In a larger town. X am not heroes, who had survived the sufferings unmindful of these things, but reflection and privations incident to insufficient food, has taught me not to over-value them. If clothing and shelter, the marches, sieges we have not multiplied as fast as our and the shock of battle, and seen the glori¬ neighbors, if our chimneys are not so high, ous termination of the unequal contest be¬ our population not yo dense, nor our tween (Ongland and her colonies, had re¬ Streets So busy X am glad that our people turned front the fields of carnage and glory are better housed, better fed and better to their firesides, that a spirit of emigra¬ paid, ivnd as I am glad to believe on the tion was kindled along the Atlantic coast, whole, happier and more contented. It is Westward over the Alleghenies, the march better that we should he happy than great, of civilization began. so may the century t.iat is coming bring Through dense and interminable forests, our children those things which work for along the course of friendly and con- rightousness and happiness rather than I venient streams, encountering and van¬ greatness. quishing savage men and beasts, courting and enduring hardships and privations, The Reservation Band. your ancestors came to the junction of the Then came a fine selection by Prof. Conewahgo creek with the Allegheny Leigh's band of Go ,vanda, N. Y. The or¬ river where they founded a town that for ganization is made up entirely of Indians a century has steadily grown and expanded 1 and the music th-v furnish is of a very into a community of 8.000 souls, with ' high character, Their effort was loudly j churches, schools, banks, public buildings applauded. j and edifices, private homes, railroads and Direct Genera! .dune was tl.pn in- ■ , a vast variety of Induct^-lal establishments j troduoed by President. Stone, in the course which entitle Warren to her far famed of his introductory remarks, he paid that reputations as a prosperous, contented and gentleman a very" hig compliment for the substantial community. efficiency he had displayed in bringing the With your productions of oil and gas, you j huge task in his hands to so successful an contribute to the light of the world; with j outcome. your productions of lumber, you build J cities and towns; through the skill, in- , The Director General’s Address. dustry and enterprise of your citizens j your manufactured products find ready | Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen—We i sale throughout the Union, and your ar- to-day celebrate the occurrences of events ! j that took place upon this ground a century tides of export, natural and manufactured contribute very materially to supply the ago, the participants in which have long j demands of foreign commerce. since passed from the earth; and this lat¬ Your educational institutions and the | ter fact makes more apparent the truth of that which at all times is impressed upon , natural intelligence, spirit and patriotism of the people have furnished the nation the minds of thoughtful persons, that man and the world with not a few notable ex¬ lives in the present; but his deeds are per¬ petuated after his physical existence has amples of wise statesmanship, herlosm terminated. It is natural and proper that and devotion to the cause of human liberty. at times men should call a halt in the speedy march of life’s absorbing and en¬ In the forward match of the world’s in- Jeliieence. and in_ the advancement of grossing events, and casting their thoughts thought, art. and in the forces that con¬ backward through the vista of years, sepa¬ tribute to the true welfare of humanity, rating the present from the distant past the women of Warren have ever furnish¬ review reflectively the results achieved; ed bright and worthy examples. Her and thereby acquire a safe and an instruc¬ daughters stand in the front rank of re- tive guide for the future. form and progressive movements, and in The present is indeed an auspicious oc¬ I the community, constitute the life and casion for the people of Warren to thus forceful power of Christian and benevolent mentally marshal their historical and ex¬ enterprises; tlfeir influence and energies perimental knowledge, of the occurrences often blaze the way, and lead In schemes fcf the past, and dwell with honest gratlfi- I calculated to improve and elevate the mor¬ Wtion upon the achievements of the first al tone of the public and establish thi- su¬ 1 ntury of the existence of their beautiful I vn. preme rule of “peace and good will.'* They are powerful for good, notwithstanding ipv'e may be pardoned if, in our reflections the exchange of the hoop-skirts of tb.r-ir Vv-nory stops not at thejime when, by the ! r - - s:- • grandmother’s day for the hiodern ballon sleeves. Warren point* with honest pride to her and aiflo Ireat record of thoffl-a !t centruy and to the fu¬ a.ted rain in the ids to poi ture With bright expectations. Because of and bring from it pplies. these InJpart hey citizens have conceived we ought to be t .niri'ul to our and arranged tlfis celebration commemo¬ in Heaven. For th¬ I speak at t rative, of the mighty and fruitful past, and ing. I am going to ay in behalf . to which we have been invited. In the dfans -that they are "she Common’s various departments will be found many the State of Pennsylvania. It seetnu umct articles of ancient use and amusement, the State of Pennsylvania and the govern¬ relics and antiquities, mute but unim¬ ment of the United States treat the * peachable witnesses of the manners and dians fairly and justly. We also uni customeS of our ancestors, illustrating stand that they act for the justice of . their life in war and in the happier pur¬ This is all I h'ave to say In behalf of l suits of peace. Indians.” You will here see illustrated the dan¬ President Stone’s Reply. gers and hardships which the early set¬ In reply to Chief OTIft.il Mr. Stone s tlers of this beautiful valley were subject¬ I substantially. as follows throughh the ii ed to by aboriginal tribes whose descend¬ \ preteir: ants, arrayed in their native costumes and war dress of the past, century will partici¬ Chieftain, Children of Cornplanter pate in mimic warfai'ii with the white.man People of the Iroquois Nation:—We as their forefathers Wjd in reality in the with you in homage to the Great Sl boundless forests of this region more than the omniscent power, I hat sends us one hundred years ago. Here will be seen . sunshine and the rain, and controls all our .mementoes of the past, reminders of the I ways. We know you were the first ln- life and death struggles of the Repuolic : habitants of the valleys and hunted ov with her foes foreign and domestic. Here these hills. You have been restricted too. can be viewed the fruits of peaceful I your hunting grounds, but have been and intelligent industry and toil. To all \ benefited by the opening to you of a higher these and much more that will both in¬ mode of living and a better knowledge of terest and instruct you, your attention will the Great Spirit, the Father of all. be invited after the conclusion of the open- are glad to meet you here to-day and i ing exercises of the day. welcome you as friends. The children an \ people of Cornplanter must be always o The Indian Ceremonies. friends. We honor his memory We At the conclusion of the director-gener- know he was brave and true. He was hon¬ I al’s speeoli the procession re-formed and est and without deceit. For more than a i headed by the bands, three in number, hundred harvests we have smoked the pipe f marched to the Indian village where a of peace with his people. We have grown | most interesting ceremony was gone strong and many as the leaves of the for- ! through. Seated on a platform erected ,The 13 fires have become 44. In our for that purpose in the center of the semi¬ own town many lodges now stand where circle of tepees were the leading represent- 100 years ago there were none. Our young ! Stives of the Cornplanter and Cattarau¬ men rejoice to be strong and our eld men gus tribes of the Seneca Nation, that are tarry long from the happy hunting now in camp. grounds. We have lighted our fires, wf ’The chiefs were seated on the front rows btoughti'rom our lodges many curi¬ of chairs, while the squaws occupied seats ous things. We have made ready to re¬ in the rear. These latter were bedecked joice and be happy. In this rejoicing we with all manner and kinds of brlg'ht col¬ ask the Iroquios Nation to join us @ We ored dresses and ribbons, the leading color bid you a cordial welcome to our celebra¬ betng red. The picture presented was, al¬ tion our centennial festival. We want though not exactly what might, be called >'ourselves and be happy now pretty, certainly a fascinating, attractive and at ail times, and to remember that the and the same time a somewhat formida¬ white men are your friends. I have done. ble one and it was noticed that the crowd The Afternoon Programme. was not possessed of any great desire to get too near the stand, but kept back at For iuesday afternoon’s wealth of novel a respectable distance. The somewhat cel¬ sights offered for the amusement of the ebrated (especially in Oil City) personage people, a large crowd congregated, on the known as Soloman O’Bail (but properly grounds, and by 2 o'clock the grounds A’B'dal), a grandson of Cornplanter, occu¬ were almost blocked with an expectant pied the centre of the first circle. He is throng of sightseers. The Indian village now' a man 80 years of age, and somewhat on?ve

Minimarlks for war. designs shown are, most original and This was followed In close order by the unique. There are some 12 or 13 elaborate frame of la crosse between the twelves arches erected at different points on the from the respective reservations of Cat¬ most prominent thoroughfares of the taraugus and Oornplanter. This game town, and these were the evolutions of was decidedly new to the spectators, many much planning and painstaking labor, and of whom had never been fortunate enough they as well form no small portion of the to w'itness a contest of this Canadian finest decorations. At the intersection of Indian game. A detailed description of ” ater and Second streets is to be seen the game would require too much space, a most handsome triple span arch in so it will be briefly summarized. There which evergreen and laurel are the body are 12 players on each side. The goals are while in the center of the middle span somewhat similar to those of foot-ball, be¬ there hang's a handsome transparency, the ing distant from each other about 100 w-ork of a local artist, typifying the pro¬ yards, though the posts are but eight feet gress of the town and county during the apart and about six feet in height. To re¬ past century, the main features being real¬ secure a score, the ball, a. rubber one istic reproductions of actual scenes in the about the size of those used in history of the town—the evolution of the tennis, must be forced between better class of homes, of the oil well, the these posts. The men are designated as refinery, of the railroad and the electric starters, of whom there is one on each street car, and showing- as in a panorama side, Who begin the play from the centre; the different phases of several decades. fielders to the number of ten on each side, This center span is illuminated by a large ■who are lined up lacing eaeli other in lines number of incandescent lights, which are reaching to each g’oal, at a distance of six placed within the transparency, rendering feet apart, and one back stop or goal pro the effect at night, with the two other tec tor for each team. The ball is put in Spans handsomely illuminated by natural Play in the centre, and then there is a wild gas, a most pleasing and tasty sight.. scramble with the long-handled buekthong Other arches of merit and beauty are lo¬ racquets, somewhat after the pattern of a cated as follows: Two at the city hall, on tennis racquet, but of much larger pro¬ Hickory and Third street fronts of the portions. The men on the Cattaraugus building; one in front of the office of the team seemed to be the most adept players, Pennsylvania Gas company’s office, with a and some of their interference and plays neat illumination at night of natural gas; were very adroit, ®.nd made envious the one in front of the office of the Warren & denizens of the Rugby gridiron, who saw Chautauqua Gas company’^ office, a beau¬ the contest. It required but 30 minutes tiful example of what can be evolved from for the Cattaraugus men to vanquish gas pipes and the green bough of the hem¬ their opponents, the score being 3 to 0. lock tree and leaves of laurel, -which also While the la crosse game was being fin¬ has e. profusion of natural ga.s for after¬ ished, the “old boys’ ” base ball game be- dark beautification. This afternoofi fherV gp-n. This wtas a contest of the base ball is also being ereoted at the north end of played -when our fathers were bovs and the Pleasant bridge another handsome is now known as “patchings,” that name arch. The hotels and business houses being derived from the fact that a base have made most commendable efforts to runner can be put ouit by being struck beautify their places, and their success is with the ball. Among the players, were the best possible criterion by which to noted . A. J. Hazleton, president of the judge the merit of the work. Notable Warren Savings bank, and his gyrations among the first to show decorations was in an attempt to avoid being patched J. D. Woodward, the clothier, wito had while running bases was very amusing to his store handsomely trimmed for the oc¬ the crowd watching the game. Others casion as early as Saturday last. Other pr/>minen,t in the game were M. B. Dun- places where beautiful work was shown heim, a well-known lumberman and bank are at the Carver house, the Strothers, director; E. T. Hazietine, famous for his the Revere, Moran’s hotel and the Ex¬ connection for many years with the Piso change. The Warren Savings bank build¬ manufactory; Charles Chase, an old-time ing was a mass of bunting and large flags, lumberman and an intimate friend of the and by many was pronounced the neatest late Hon. D. F. Watson; Sidney Wet- of any of the numerous buildings bedecked more, another gentleman who acquired for the great event. The merchants de¬ wealth in the palmy days w'hen lumber¬ veloped a decided penchant for unique and ing -was the principal vocation of the citi¬ sometimes startling displays in their win¬ zens of Warren county; A. Carroll, com¬ dows. Many and varied were the effects monly known as “Dad;” Robert Hender¬ presented to view. Private residences, too, son. a contractor and builder; John Da-J are not a jot behind the procession, and vidson, contracting mason; P. J, Mushed, very ornate in the displays of the National an Bast Side groceryman; Dr. John Kum- colors and bunting, and hardly a dwelling mer, pastor of the First M. E. church. house along the route proposed for Thurs¬ Who was the pitcher for one side, and was day’s elaborate parade will be devoid of immediately dubbed “Southpaw Kum- adornment in honor of thethe occasion. | mer,” owing !o the fact that he pitched The Block House Fight. left-handed; G. R. Starr, a well-known 1 horseman, and D. A. Samuelson, with The attack on the block house, itself a others, whose names could not be ascer¬ most realistic reproduction of the days tained, completed the teams. The score when settlers were fearful of losing their has not yet been made public. heads and hair unto the ancestors of the noble red man, who is this week being en¬ The Decorations. tertained in Warren, was a most true and I At no time in the history of Warren,has startling- reproduction of one of the many the town ever assumed such a festal ap¬ scenes so common in the days of the orig¬ pearance as Is now prominent on all sides. inal residents of the county. The block Flags, bunting, evergreen and laurel are house was erected specially for the pur¬ to be seen in profusion and many of the pose. In it were esconsed a number of men to impersonate the settlers. On the "Z*~* -- ■ 1.. — .k a score of Indians under the these enjoyable mm „,.-,nip of Old-Mari-Now-An-Indlan- oftener. Lrandal), lately known as Signor Cran- Charley Crandall #s the efficient dellii, alias Chas. Crandall, attacked the cine man of the Seqe^fe, tribe, while block house by sneaking up under cover to | Allen is the big medifcijie chief for the lr attempt an entrance that they might quoise braves. slaughter the poor unfortunates within, The old-time ball players, composed of who were shooting for dear life, using men of fifty years amd above, was a unique amunition sparingly. In the meantime attraction of the afternoon programme. Big-Horse-Man-Gardner, lately a con¬ The old-timers know how to play ball. vert to the Cornplanter tribe, familiarly j known to his associates in Warren as Col. A glance at the attractions in the va¬ rious departments presided over by. women I D. Gardner, the hustler, undertook a stragetie movement, leading another batch shows that the ladies have contributed | of dusky bucks, brilliant in war paint. their share to the success of the affair. ! Shots flew backward thick and fast, the Hon. R. B. 9tone came down from Brad¬ | women in the audience looked on with ford to see how to do it. Bradford W' I bated breath, children were somewhat have a centenary event in 197t>,j and i j frightened. It looked as though the machi- may he called on to take a leading) part. I nations of Gardner and Crandall and the De°rfoo't. the celebrated sprinter, ; Indians would succeed in obliterating the attended the pow-wow, is a well pi beseiged settlers, when on a double-quick man of 07 years. His qiiiie.t and ... came Captain Windsor with 25 men from manly deportment would do credit to Company I to the rescue of the now thor¬ minister of the gospel. oughly disheartened men in the block house. The gallant captain rushed eager¬ The ladies in charge of the various func¬ ly to the fray, the true-aimed shots of his tions were charmingly arrayed in the gar¬ trained men soon dispersing the blood¬ ments in vogue in our great-grandfathers thirsty red men and their white leaders. days, and to very many they were exceed-j Thus ended the attack on the block house, ingly becoming and gracefully worn. and the threatened settlers were released ! To-morrow’s program will exceed thati from their dangers. This was one of the of to-day in at hletic sports and interesting j most interesting numbers on the day's parts, but the great day of all. the one programme, and was thoroughly enjoyed which no patriotic citizen of Warren can by the large number of people present, ll afford to miss, is Thursday, the Glorious will be repeated to-morrow and Thursday, Fourth. as will the ha Crosse games by the In¬ The young men of the Seneca and Iro- dians. quotse tribes who coin.!ended for the mas¬ Well Wishers to Lycoming. tery in a prize game of lacrosse, surprised Lycoming county, in the central portion the spectators by their skill and dexterity. of the great Keystone State, is likewise They are tine specimens of humanity and celebrating her centennial anniversary trained athletes as well. this week v/lth great pomp and the burn¬ Among the mechanical exhibits,,of great ing of much red fire. To do honor to our interest to oil men is the original working friends on the West branch of the Susque¬ barrel used in the Drake well. It is the hanna, who are engaged in a like patriotic property of Levi Smith, made of copper. measure with the people of Warren, Hon. Compared with working barrels, now in Chas. W. Stone, president of the Warren use, it is a veritable curiosity, | centennial association, sent the following | telegram to Williamsport this afternoon: Deerfoot, the celebrated Indian sprinter, whose record has never been beaten, is an Warren. Pa.. Juty 2. interesting member of the Iroquois con¬ To the President of the Lycoming Cen¬ tingent. He is G7 years on earth, would; tennial Association: pass for a man of half his years. His The borough of War ren, commencing to¬ quiet deportment suggests a serene mind. day her centennial celebration, sends filial I greeting to the mother county of Lycom¬ Another dist 'nguisihed Indian is Sol. ing, and hopes full success will crown her O’B'ail, the sitting chief of the Senecas., celebration and that abundant prosperity Mr. O’Bail is the great-grandson of Corn- may be her portion during the coming cen¬ planter. Whom he distinctly remembers to , tury. Chas. W.. Stone. have seen. He is eighty, remarkably well) : JJresident Warren Centennial Ass'n. preserved, large frame, good face, strong In reply to the foregoing Mr. Stone laierr features, and claims to resemble bis fa.J received the following: mous ancestor in form and face. Williamsport, July 2, 1895. Sam Allen has—in fancy—been a barris¬ Hon. Chas. W. Stone: ter this many a year and regularly attends The mother of Warren reciprocates the court. Just now he is tending bar in Mr. kindly sentiments of her brilliant child, Jackson’s tavern, with some professional and wishes her continued prosperity and grace and assiduity. Siam is the right man happiness. in the right place, of whom it may be sakl, Henry C. Parsons, Vice-President. “I care not who drink ii\ only let me Lycoming County Centennial Ass’n. squeeze the lemon, and the house will get rich.” RANDOM NOTES. Artist Greaves, specimens of whose work Hon. O. C. Allen was one of the busiest greet the eye in many quarters, ought to of men and Willie Wilber, Esq., the hand¬ be the proudest man in Warren, and possi¬ somest in his class. bly he is. No man of any prominence has The landlord of Jackson’s tavern is a died in Warren county for a generation or gentleman of the old school, with an old more wild hasn’t beep brushed and bur¬ head on young shoulders. nished lino sflli ilfe" anff made'to appeal- better on the canvass than in the original The success of the first day's celebration flesh and blood. A pleasant half hour may is such as to almost induce the wish that be profitably spent examining his work. it was interesting to watch the move¬ Oapt. Windsor and his brave boys con¬ ments of this old women. Her excitement tributed in no small measure to the inter¬ was intence. She jumped and cavorted est and enjoyment of the afternoon’s en¬ around the stage with an intensity of pur¬ tertainment. Company I seemed to pos¬ pose that made the movements of .her sess a peculiar attraction for the young- younger sisters look like snail’s paces. ladies, who drank in the evolutions with The dance continued for about five min- hungry glances, and stood in the hot sun, lutes, and then seemed to stop from sheer exposed to the fierce glare of heat rays to lexbaustion of the dancers. Next came a look again on the boys in blue. And who icrowd of young bucks who went through can blame them? They are worth look- a wild and noisy dance that called out j , ing at. plaudits from the crowd and forced thorn \ Ool. Gardner, who led the Indian braves to repeat the exhibition. The squaws j | in the assault on the Block House, is a were lhen once more introduced and gave j ; typical soldier. Mr. Gardner served an another exhibition, and the show at the j juxnorabie apprenticeship in the trade of platform was brought to a close by. aj arms during the late war between the. fine exhibition of club swinging by Urn- i States, when he commanded a regiment of plre Kelley, w ho is a professional at the cavalry. The G. A. R. was well represent- business. I ed on both sides in the persons Who took The “Spellin’ Soule." part in to-day’s conflict. There are a round dozen of Indians who served in the The grandstand and benches in front of late war, and an equal number of whites the covered speakers’ stand were crowded ’to whom the music of battle is no lullaby. « + 9 o’clock when the old-f ’ erecte Jin K93 1 several Irishmen came here from Phila¬ nanv ThSed t0 tbe H ,and La!nd ohm- ; delphia. They came up the Susquehanna f.here were few -hite people he-e and Sinnemahoning rivers, penetrated the rn ‘T’ but maiW Delians. ! wilderness of McKean county. Reaching lieveJth by careful e*< im-L.es. it is be- Olean, they passed down the river and North *A^e Were about rA’'°°0 Indians in made the first settlement in the county. cenSi,a America. Accoi-.ing to the last' Their names were Robert Miles, John Rus¬ census there were 247>/3, or about half sell, John Frew, John and Hugh Marsh been I?rKnrber’ I might have i and Isaiah Jones. They settled in Pine and mT f b?tween th4 [ inn -of Columbus Grove and Sugar Grove townships. The tainh. n0L t!V has cer- I sum total of their cash was only three than' ish Ld hls °rn trf a greater extent dollars. This was the first settlement in fact that pop,,lar hfffief. But it is a Warren county. These names are familar. 1 in thii A lere ^re Trior’’‘ than a half less j In 1805 the county was annexed to Ve- Jn n tl(!n than there were 100 years : nango for judicial purposes. On the 16th was no A™eIated that Ht that time there of March, 1819, it was fully organized and that tribe north °r Mexico the seat of justice fixed at Warren. It dog Ford°mestlcated any animal but the ! containes 832 square miles. Warren itself increase yea''S there waB but slight ' has as great a population as the county or until , A tb0J'oPuIation of the town,! had irr 1830, viz: 9,229. 1 yntl1 atter the war of 1812. Warren Borough. population of this county in 18101 Warren has an existence by virtue of the Ii^lSS^thp2V ^ 18“° WaS than 2*000- hprf o '-own was made a borough and signature of Governor Mtffin in 1795. The hill passed April 18, 1895. The survey was theirie groxvfh'vlgiowth has101 !been °f ^slow Since but whichst°adv time it finished during the same summer (1895). This is 100 years afterward, and this is the^Conlw JUSt beIow thte influence of, what we are celebrating. Then, this was , Hv®er Th^ fg'° C1'eek and t!le Allegheny incorno! m # borough was a prospective city; to-day, it is one in I -ncoipoiated contamed about 300 acres of fact. We are realizing to some extent, that which the projectors had in mind. (Hand. Since its new aid^uisitionTf contains j Lstraw and one bri'Jackijdn run. In 18011 about 1,000 acres, its prosperity for a long I [J. M. and T. C. Jackson ran a small raft | number of years was^due principally to i I of boards down the river. The Meads, on I | the lumber business, and many of the for- | the Brokenstraw, also ran a small raft [ I tunes held by. the present generation were ! that year (1801). founded on the lumber business. Jackson was the first white man who I In 1813 the town had foul five houses. The took up a residence in Warren county.. He business of Warren varied with the sea¬ put up a small grist mill about this time [ sons. In the midst of winter Or -summer in which he g-round corn. No wheat was I the place was exceedingly dull, but with raised then. It took four days, to get al the breaking up of the i:-e in the spring sack of salt from Waterford, then Le - and during the subsequent floods the town Boeuff. The wilderness was traversed by ' and the whole country above, on the Cone- the direction of a pocket compass, no wango and Allegheny rivers was alive roads or blazed trees. To show the new¬ , with bustle and preparation among lum- ness of the country in 1801 there was but - ’ bermen. Large rafts c-ame down the river one white family in Warren, but one in and smaller ones down the Conewango. Mayville and not oneieven in Jamestown. « Coming into the Warren eddy, these rafts The oil development has been one source were coupled together into fleets of im¬ of profit, and many of ,the brick blocks mense area, 50.feet wide and 335 feet long, have been reared by men in the production in which shape they pursued their way to of oil. Pittsburg, Cincinnati and New Orleans. At about 1820 smdr 1*25 agricultural pur¬ Warren borough in 1840 had a population suits began. Necessity compelled this. of 737. History says the population at. Even the lumbermen entered the agricul¬ that time was not commensurate with its tural ranks. It was soon found that land original plan. It was supposed the town that produced such immense pine trees would have a faster growth. The court was rich enough to bear crops, and so it house and jail, situated something as now, proved. The lumber business began with were separated some distance from the the century, and is still the employment compact business street along the river, of a few. The 100 years passed has nearly and presented a lonely appearance. The consumed the pine and hemlock trees, and population had not grown up to anticipa¬ the lumber business at this day is of sec¬ tions. At that time (1810) there were but ondary consideration. There are many three churches—Presbyterian, Methodist things which should find a place here, but and German Methodisf. There were, how¬ time presses and we must hurry on. ever, a Baptist and 'German-Lutheran About 1830, some (Germans found then- congregation without houses for worship. way into the county. They have made So it will be noticed that our principal excellent citizens, intelligent, honest and growth has been since 1840. Our public industrious. buildings are no longer lonely or isolated. Within 100 years we- have grown from a They are elegant of themselves, of modern wilderness, inhabited, by wild beasts and architecture and surrounded by elega.nce. Indians -to a population of 9,000 white peo¬ In one thing we lack over the other time, ple, not a wild beast nor an Indian, except and that is our academy; which stood on for’ exhibition. We have progressed by what was known as the public square or steady approaches to the. present numbers diamond. The place is now occupied by and present intelligence, and stand abreast dwellings; but we hav« an academic de¬ with other places in progress in morals partment to our public school system and progressive thought. which gives an education to the growing C'orry, 27 miles west of us, appeared on minds in excess of that given by the old t-he scene by accident, and for a time academy, where our older citizens -were . , forged ahead and in a few years grew to educated. our number, to the number it has taken us Few have amassed fortunes in the mer¬ 1!,0 years to reach. But Oorry will be aj - cantile trade but our merchants through small town when Warren will have swelled ! j the years have been usually prosperous, to tens of thousands. This is said in view j careful business men. They have pre¬ of the different locations—surroundings. | served the credit of . the city and have Warren entertains no jealousies. She is, been just to their patrons as a general simply herself, proud she had a beginning, thing. Js; proud of her location, of the men who have: Guy C. Ij-v 1 •• »e: TVjM.• w ft S tt^.NSvC.vl- given her a financial standing throughout eon rj.mong "lumfafeimlem although he was the country. It lies -^ri'th the men of War¬ located a short distance below what ia ren to hold up this i credit. It is worth! known as Russell. His name was a. house¬ millions to us, and a man will be a craven | - hold word from western New York all who abuses this c red if. Our credit is good along the river to New Orleans. He own¬ because our business men always pay. It ed more pine lands and ran more lumber is the men of the past and present who than any other man on the Allegheny, have made this reputation, and it speaks and more than many combined. In 1836 more for their honor and intelligence than and 1838 he frequently sent to market any words of pra.ise I can award them in¬ 20.000,000 feet of boards in a season. 'The dividually. It is the business honor of the shore for a mile or two above Pittsburg the place which gives it a reputation. It was frequently lined with rafts waiting is not asked how many Sunday schools for a rise of the water. Orris Hall was have you, or how many churches, but what, another lumber manufacturer of note. is the credit of your business men. Do The first saw mill on the upper waters they pay their debts? Do they tell the of the Allegheny river to make lumber as truth? It is worth quite as much as an article of commerce was about 1799. wealth—give® credit to a town. Let young- A grist mill was built at Ceres in 1801. men who contemplate getting aliving eas¬ Lumber was first transported down the ily think this over. The easiest way to Jive river from above Olean in 1807. The first ieasy is to protect your credit, and thus raft floated down the Allegheny from near Warren was in 1801. There were two saw ■■■BHMilili vfsi -. ■■ mills in the county, one on the Broken- | benefi}. the city and your neighbors.’ /o it wao cv oil The First court house was built in 1827: a sedorid-hand boiler in wh the jail two years thereafter, 1829. Pre¬ j steam. It made a few vious to this the courts had been held in | tihe river a mile or two each .. _ «. house about where the Carver house I boiler burst, bdo-wing Shirley; t- now stands, and the jail near where John I the wheel, a hundred feet into the Sill, Esq., now lives. I killing him instantly and badly «; ihe time of the erection of the present ; Mr. Bell, and injuring several ot court house in 1876, the question arose as some extent. It n)ade no more trips. to what device should be placed in the ElfsV -Wheat. tower—whether a statue of General Jo¬ seph Warren, or the statue of Justice. The first wheat raised in this county Justice was decided upon, and there she \jn Pittsfield, by McQuay’. He winnowed stands with her eyes blindfolded and her the chaff from two bushels, put it in a scales evenly balanced. bag, put the bag over his shoulder and car¬ -Beneath that emblem, justice has been ried it through the forest to Meadville the rule. Human judgment is not always where it was ma.de into flour, and he exact, but the decisions reached in our brought the flour back. Do you compre¬ courts are usually in conformity with that hend the strength and endurance required symbolized by the figure. Our judges are to perform this act? Two bushels of, Purchasable commodities, wheat weigh 120 pounds—a good lift fi i The bridge over the river at this place most persons; and when carried a mi ■ "aS 1>uf up in and was located below will certainly weigh twice as much. T1 ! 'he Present bridge, the south approach be- distance to Meadville is 60 miles. Ht ; lng^ about where these fair grounds are much did the bag weigh before he took now located. from his shoulder in the mill at Meadvi! j s.°me time after my death there mav be Let the young men of this city figure I a free bridge where the beautiful Suspen- out. How many at this day have . | sion -toll bridge now hangs; but I can't strength and fortitude Air such an acct i.xeil_yQu just how long after; but it is plishment? And yet we talk about ha ! thought within the next hundred years I ships! ; a free bridge will span the river at this ■ There is a sap kettle in Pittsfield, point. Pleasant township will in after iron, weighing 75 pounds, which was ] time become a pari of Warren, and there chased in Pittsburg—the year is . will be no cross purposes as to what the known, which the purchaser carried f price of a free bridge shall be. Pittsburg to Pittsfield on his back, Tn.1809-10, Olean began to be a place of distance is about 200 miles. The kettle! embarkation for emigrants, and for a long Pittsfjtld now; and I would have it 1 period, in portions of each year, great, only I could not bring it. John Ford s numbers assembled there to take passage he is well acquainted with it. oown the Allegheny river in arks. There were giants In those day’s. ’ ja fe.'w years pending the completion There is a will on record in the reco ot the Erie canal, every spring the open¬ er’s office, made by Dr. Elias Doudinot, ing of navigation on the river counted to New Jersey, giving several thousand ac the number o.f thousands; said to have of land in Pittsfield township, which amounted to 3,000 in 1818. This created owned, for the amelioration of the Jea *reat scarcity' of food. Flour sold on such but there was never a Jew so poor as °?3 abowin® by actual demonstration that tory of the schools with their 11500 pupils hevTh3,T;Sin3Vieable as far aa Olean, and 39 teachers: of the W. C. TJ U.’s, the thau&ht the appropriation would be history of the many secret ; societies. forthcoming, but they had such a tedious Struthers Library building and the liber¬ gk by th« breaking of the steering ality of its donor would occupy much time apparatus, and the appropriation hot ma- to fully portray. Our fuel gas, our brick eriglizing, this project was given up. pavements, our Rouse hospital, our State beCA °,ther 9t6amers on the asylum for the insane, the IVoung Men’s mer, one succeeded in going down, but it Christian association, the priVate libraries, The la'te Captain a! and much else which go to make up the iJing-iey, of Brooklyn, ait one tiime a re^i sum total of one hundred yejrs of evolu¬ dent of Tidiou-te. and Warren, built % very tion from forest to a flourishing city. It fine steamer in about 1863 or 1865 Its would require a large book to contain the cost was $20,000: it was buiit to transport varied qualities of the men and women oil and passengers between Tid-ioute Ir who have made Warren famous. She has vine ton and Warren, it made a few trips' produced statesmen, jurists, and men and ivas finally sold and did service on standing high at the bar for learning and the Ohio river. There was another steam¬ eloquence, and who have thrilled audiences er here in the year 18—, owned by the late at home and abroad. Much would I like to individualize. f Someof the eminent jurists are dead, and some of the able attorneys, but the Academy Lands. pace is kept up, and we still have a par-. Warren borough, and its outlots, were ( donable pride in our statesmen, our reserved from the Holland purchase. April judges, attorneys and business men. In 10, 1799, the governor was authorized to the past there were no artists, of which direct the surveyor general to make a sur¬ any account has been given. Now there vey of the reserved tract, adjoining the are several; artistic talent is plentiful. town of Warren, which had not been laid There have been eminent physicians in out into town lots, and that 500 acres of I Warren and they are here now, some of the same be laid off for' the use of such | them. All departments have been supplied schools and academies as might thereafter | with good brains. Whether it is the air, be establisheu by law in said town. In the soil or the good but rather disagreeable 1829, as act was passed authorizing I he | Puritan stock that have produced these trustees to lease these lands for a period brains is not known, but it may be said of not to exceed 99 years, which was done that there is no place where so many peo¬ at a rental of not much over $100.00, fori ple are so well provided with skill and the whole; at that time the lands were ! ! knowledge as at this point on the Alle- not considered valuable, and it ha^ Irans- | | gheny river called Warren. Wherever pired the county was badly sold when the our men and women go as representatives, lands were rented. By an act of Legisla- j they represent, and make names for them¬ ture, February 13. 1832, the sum of $2,000 j selves and their place of habitation. Once ■was appropriated by the State to erect a,n j Franklin, our sister one hundred-year-old academy. (It is he>-e shown that the town, wras called the nursery of great men. State has always been a liberal patron of I So it was and is. But of late Warren has education.) This was followed by an Act I certainly taken the honors. Were we as April 8, 1833, which authorized the trustees good as great, the air would be filled with to erect a building for academic purposes i hallelujah songs the livelong day. How¬ on the grounds reserved at the laying out j ever, we are growing into better condi¬ of the town of Warren, for public build- j ings, and. directed that the sum of $2,000 ' tions and are now as good as our environ¬ already appropriated be used in the con- ments will permit. There are few crimi¬ struction. The balance of lue cost was nals in Warren. I made up by individual subscription. I would like to mention our railroads. The 5• who had served as vice'presi¬ number of merchants, eleven in number | dent of the United States and sought to of the city of Amsterdam, who through establish an empire in Mexico, as he de¬ their agents became large purchasers of clared, but his real purpose was to get lands in the years 1792, 1793, and 1794, and possession of Louisiana and other States, their surveys are found in nearly all the and form an independent government. counties into which this extenslve-domain [ In the year 1805. he passed down the_ Alle¬ has since been divided, both east and west gheny river, and remained part of two of the Allegheny river. days with James Morrison, on the island at Although these Dutch merchants had ! Xinzua. Burr failed to enlist any young but little knowledge of America, whose in- i men of this section to join him, and he ^ stitutions they knew but slightly, they i floated down the river in his boat to Blen- were far in advance of the prevailing sen¬ nerhassett Island, where he enlisted Blen- timent in Europe as to the meaning, suc¬ nerha.ssett and ruined him. There is a cess and permanency of the experiment tradition that Burr stopped off at Warren, of Free Government. but I do not state this as absolute his¬ Their creed should be carried along the tory. So it may be said that Warren has ages, and their memories be respected for | I had the honor of having one of (he their confidence in the stability of Ameri¬ ‘•wisest and meanest of mankind.” And it can institutions, and because they were 1 - fitting that he be given mention m these less grasping than later day corpora;'ons, ■ exercises. He undoubtedly stood upon the Warren was not a part of the Holland ground where we stand, and was a maker purchase. "of history The men who settled these lands were a ^ . sturdy race. They were hardy and brave. fcohgs' brest wild. We talk about bravery in war. Wellington Whither onr: variished'wif^ and child, i and Napoleon were fighting for empire. And heareth praying, this answer fell: These early settlers were settling an em¬ ‘Patience! That village ishalj hold you all.’” pire, and fought wild beasts and suffered privations and fatigues the average sol¬ A Glance Ahead. dier seldom experiences. I have no time The wild animals haye disappeared with¬ to tell of their bravery, endurance and in this hundred years. The Indians have) fortitude. They knew that few would live faded away to a remnant, andrwe see them to reap a great reward for their labors. here as curiosities; a new civilization has They were poor—none but the poor would come upon the scene. We are here as go into the wilderness to hew out a home. we are. Some of us probably, imagine us' I cannot talk of these men and women as the perfected fruit of the tree of know¬ I feel. They deserve our lasting gratitude ledge, thae we are the climax of common and sympathetic remembrance. thought and endeavor. A hundred years A Word to the Ladies. from now a race of beings will inhabit The women up to date have had no his¬ here as superior to us as we conceive our¬ tory in particular, although they shared selves superior to the Indians. We have uncomplainingly the hardships of a to go, or to be relegated back in -the rage. ioneer life. Men have been selfish. It The light from the nineteenth century. Is as the religion of the past that prevent¬ already casting its benigant light to us, ed them making history. A few have and we get a glimpse of that in store for shined brilliantly, notwithstanding, and by that other race of men and women. Wg their noble deeds their nanjes had to be can see into the illumined future, and remembered. Generally, they have been feel the quickening pulse of that nearby known as wives of men, but of themselves, time. Thought is quicker, consequently independent and alone, for what they were all things will move faster. Five years ol as individuals they have not been known. the next century will be equal to fifty The tide that has borne us along to this years of the middle of the century as we date has borne us to a new thought, and are about passing out of. In,times past, created a New Woman. She is assuming fifty years produced but little change In equality with men in politics, religion. method of thought. Our ancestors had no ; business and in the professions. They are time to think. They exhausted themselves known as mothers still, some of them; in materia] action, clearing their lands and they can speak in meeting now. In all raising their families. There has been these things they are coming—are here— more progress in the world during the last and, like the bicycles which they ride, fifty years than in the previous hundred! have come to stay—until something better years. •— i I comes to take their places. But a hundred years from now, there But there is one thing the women with will not only be a new woman ba,t e. cok,,. all their progressive qualities cannot do— paratively new- man; there will be new and make hair grow upon their faces. This faster methods ot travel. shows that she will never become mascu¬ The swiftly moving bicycles of this day line to any extent. On the other hand J will be superceded by a swifter vehicle, men have, these hundreds of years, been .* propelled by an electrical storage battery! shaving the hair from their faces to make instead of by foot power. There will be them like women, but without avail. Na¬ a free bridge over the river at this point, a ture understands her business. Of the hundred years from now. The creeds will smooth-shaved-faced man it is said; have passed out of the minds of educated "He is the fellow who would men and women, and knowledge will have Be a young lady if he could, Taken the place of mythological theology. But as he can’t, does all he can Then honest poverty will be no more out To show that he is not a man.” of place than criminal -wealth—poor and, The razor must go. "rich alike. We are safe as long as we have. The Cemetery. “Flag of the free heart’s hope and home,! While time is pressing, I have not By angel hands to valor given; jsp*ken of our Oakland cemetery, a beau¬ Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, tiful place on the Bill m this direction. Tt And all their hues were born in heaven. is a conception by the Odd Fellow, had the order never done other good, this alone Forever float that standard sheet. would embalm it in the memories of the Where breathes the foe, that falls be- present and future generations. To save I fore us; time I will give a portion of a poem by Have freedom soil beneath our feet, Bose Terry Cooke on the "Two Villages.’’ And Freedom's banner streaming o’er She must have visited Warren and writ¬ us.’’ ten her poem on this spot. "Over the river, on the hill, We have dwelt upon Warren and its Lieth a village white and still; surroundings. Let us reach out for a mo¬ A11 around tt the forest trees ment. Within- the last hundred ‘years we Shiver and whisper in the breeze. have experienced -wonderful changes in Over it, sailing shadows go, all departments ot life. We can on this Of soaring hawk and screaming crow; occasion only speak of individual effort And mountain grasses, low and sweet. and unfjoldmemt. .Van, inspired by ambi-l Grow in the middle of the street. tion of unseen ant| invisible intelligence ' , has achieved most wonderful results I | "In this village, under the hill, will cite Andrew film son, learning "the 4 When the night is starry and still, alphabet from his w|fe; afterward Presi-I i Many a weary soul in prayer dent of the United States. Abraham Lin-' ' Looks to the village, there. coin, who started fnm the lowest walks And, weeping and sighing, longs to go of life; twice Presdent of the United, l p to that home from this below; States, a martyr anc saviour of his coun¬ try. _lt. S. Grant, w o started out in lifel 27 of creative genius. It has been taught us as a laborer in a tanyard; afterward De¬ that man is a poor, sinful creature, un¬ fame the greatest soldier of the age and worthy of God’s care and protection. This President, tie made himself a name in new thought teaches differently. Man is history as that of warrior and a repre¬ not a worm of the dust, but the highest sentative of America, that will echo far achievement of the Divine command. into the corridors of time. Hereafter man will not bow himself in ab¬ As a boy, we see James A. Garfield a‘t ject humiliation before his Creator, but work, driving a canal boat, then Republi¬ stand up in his exhuberanf pride and glad- can leader of the House, then Senator, ness’that he was placed in these material then President, and finally the object of a eonditio'ns. Through ail earth’s adversi¬ weeping ’world. ties, with the knowledge he will have, he We see Daniel Webster ploughing on a will stand with his head above these ma¬ farm; afterward delighting the world with terial clouds, and see the light that is ever the magic of his voice. 'bright from that other shore. We have Benjamin Franklin, learning to ink type in his youth, and in his maturity we see him subduing and enslaving the lightning and teaching the world its prac¬ tical use. We see Eilihue Burrett learning his let¬ ters at noontime in. a blacksmith’s shop, and afterward conversing in 30 languages. We remember Salmon P. Chase, a poor Ohio boy, who became Governor, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and finally Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. We see Horace Greeley trudging across a State anxious to secure work for his board and clothes; later on, we see him in council with Presidents and known him to have been one of the greatest men of the times. We see in flaming characters the names of Washington a nd Tom Paine. We note James Gordon Bennett, the jibe of all the printers, because of his crooked eyes. Yet he died the owner of the greatest money- making newspaper in all newspaper his¬ tory, a journal which sends expeditions to Africa and sauardons to the North Pole, These men, by well directed energy, not only succeeded in life but have been of great benefit to mankind. They stand forth to-day a beautiful object lesson to the young men, especially of this date. Taking into consideration the wonderful achievement of individual effort, and that of national advancement In the arts and science during the last hundred years, what may we not expect during the next century? As a nation, the United States is last in war and first in peace. As a people they are politic in character, and possess the broad principles of thought and purpose, which makes them the most noble, wise, free and independent nation of the world. “Lives of great men all remind us. We may make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints in the sands of time.” God will have ceased to be a material being, and mankind will know instead of believing by faith. Faith has served a good purpose; but knowledge is better. The God of that other time will be greater than the conception of the Supreme at this day, is possible. Intelligence will have taken the place of heathen customs and thoughts. Then God will be looked up to as a loving—a loveable intelligence, rath¬ er than one of hatred and revenge. In that day it will be known that mart himself is greater than the present con¬ ception of himself. Man is greater than all else known. God is so great that we cannot know Him, and the man will be known as the highest exponent of per¬ sonal material creation. Science will be¬ come the great theologian. Then it will