Lane County leader., April 01, 1904, Image 6

fécond Cousin §5arah
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“ A M I E JL’DtoE. S P I N S T E R . " " LITTLE BATE RIR BT
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C H A P T E R X V II.—(Cootioued.)
Mary Holland rose and stood l>e*ide
her. H er hand fell upon Sarah Eastbell’s
in n , and once more the clear look in the
eyes seemed beyond all deceit.
“ Sarah, leave me with my miserable
little secret for a while— it will be ex­
plained sooner than you think, although
I dare not say a word now, for all our
sakes. Have I been so false a friend
that you cannot trust me in a time of
common peril T §
“ I f I could understand— if— why did
you write to Reuben Culwick?" she said,
very suddenly and sharply— “ why did you
let me go to London in ignorance of his
address?"
“ It was his wish that you should not
see him at his worst, I knew," she said,
answering the latter question first; “ and
I wrote to him because those two men
had arrived here."
“ Reuben had not opened your letter."
“ That was unfortunate."
“ H e will come himself now." said
Sarah eagerly, " i f he thinks we are not
safe here. And yet he has thought < f us
so little: he has kept away so long, we
have all died away so surely from his in­
terest that----- "
Sarah stopped, and her hands were
pressed quickly to her breast to still its
sudden leaping, while
Mary
Holland
clasped the other’s arm, as a sudden
knocking at the outer door, followed by
a ringing of the bell, announced a late
l rebellious and angry; " I will not have
this jugglery, grandmother— I will not
have this done."
“ Good gracious!" cried the old lady,
“ are you here, too?
Why don’t you
shriek a little louder, or tire a blunder­
buss off in my ears, or something, Sally?
O f all the aggravating people in the
uorld I think you are the worst, playing
at shuttlecock with my money, and not
letting me have a word to say about it for
myself. I ’ll die without a will now— see
if I don’t! And here goes, too!"
Mrs. Eastbell flopped wildly over in
bed, and turned her back upon them.
“ See what your obstinacy has done!"
A W I m O ld M u s k r a t.
said Sarah angrily to her cousin.
When a boy, and still barbarian
“ One moment," said Reuben; “ this is enough to delight In trapping, partly
an idea, Mrs. Eastbell, by which a large
amount o f legacy duty is saved. You can from a love o f the chase that was born
In me and partly to put money Into a
trust Sarah— so can I."
“ Yes, but how’s it to end?" said Mrs. boy's empty pocket, 1 once caught a
muskrat In a steel trap that slid off
Eastbell.
“ Only in one way, and that I submit to Into deep water at the first pull, and
your kind consideration. Aunt," he said so drowned the creature mercifully,
in an earnest tone, "before I leave Sedge ¿nls was due to the careful Instruc­
H ill I shall ask your permission to pay tions o f N atty Dingle, at whose feet
my addresses to my Second-cousin Sarah.
I sat to learn woodcraft, and who used
I am not worthy of her— ahe knows that!
— but I have learned to love her very the method to save all bis pelts. For
much within the last four-and-twenty often an animal, when caught in a
trap, w ill snap the bone by a tw ist o f
hours."
There was a long silence before Mrs. hia body, and then cut the leg off
Eastbell said in a husky voice:
with his teeth, and so escape, leaving
“ You don’t mean to say, Reuben, that his foot In the trap’ s jaw s. This Is
you have been thinking o f my Sally? common enough among fur-bearing an­
That would make thia business very
imals to excite no comment; and it la
straight and square, and as Sally’s fond
sad now to remember that sometimes
of you------"
“ Oh, grandmamma! I never said so," 1 would find animals drowned In my
murmured Sarah Eastbell, without lower­ traps that had previously suffered at
ing her hands from her face.
the hands o f other trappers.
"W h a t a horrible story-teller you are!"
I remember especially one big mus­
cried her grundmother.
quash that I was going to shoot near
“ It is a mercenary match," said Reu­
one o f my traps when I stopped short
ben; “ I offer myself, without a penny in
the world, to a rich young heiress, who at noticing some queer thing about
could do much better for herself, and him. The trap was set In shallow w a­
who is far above me in every respect— ter where a path made by muskrats
who is even too young for me, consider­ came up out o f the river Into the
ing what an old fogy I have grown of late grass. Juat over the trap was a turnip
days."
on a pointed stick to draw the crea­
"Y o u ’re no great catch for Sally, cer­ ture's attention and give him some­
tainly," observed Mrs. Eastbell, "but if
thing to anticipate until he should put
Sally says she’ll have you, it ends the
bother of the money in a proper sort of his foot on the deadly pan beneath.
But the old musquash avoided the path
way.”
" A ll your money to Sarah Eastbell, as If he had suffered In such places be­
it being privately understood that Sarah fore. Instead, he came out at another
is not to forget her brother Tom, or— her spot behind the trap, and I saw with
second-cousin Reuben," said our hero, horrible regret that he had cut off both
taking up the pen.
his forelegs, probably
at
different
“ Yes, Tom and you can both trubfc
times, when he had been tw ice caught
Sarah," Mrs. Eastbell replied.
Sarah Eastbell was even now scarcely In man’s abominable Inventions. When
satisfied with the drawing up o f the will he came up out o f the stream he rose
in her favor— it was not what she had on his hind legs and waddled through
wished— had she been less confused, less the grass like a bear or a monkey, for
happy, she might have suggested fresh be had no forefeet to rest upon.
He
additions and conditions; but she stood ou climbed a tussock beside the halt with
the threshold o f a new world, with the immense caution, pulled In the turnip
man who was the herd of her life in the with hia poor stumps o f forearms, ate
foreground o f its brightness. She seemed
it where he was, and slipped back Into
to hesitate ns her hands were lowered
from her face, and Reuben said mean the stream again; while the boy
watched with a new wonder In the
in fly:
‘And Sarah Eastbell can trust me, I tw ilight, and forgot all about the gun
hope?"
he had brought with him to shoot
‘Yes," she answered to his appeal, muskrats as he tended his traps.
“ but the will should say----- ”
It does not belong with my story,
“ The will must say neither more nor
but that night the traps came in, and
less than that you are sole legatee— I
will not have my name in connection with never w ent out again; and I can never
this money,” he said very firmly; “ and I pass a trap now anyw here without
prefer," he added in a different and poking a stick Into It to save some
softer tone, “ to be wholly at the mercy poor Innocent leg.— W illiam J. Long.
of my second-cousin."
In Outlook.
Sarah said no more in argument. I f
B e Tidy.
there were a man to be trusted in ths
Robert J. Burdette w rote the follo w ­
world, it was Reuben Culwick; or if there
were a man less likely to be moved from ing characteristic Introduction to the
his position, It was surely he also. She chapter on neatness In W illiam P.
slipped quietly from the room, leaving Pearce's "Stepping-Stones to Man­
Reuben with her grandmother, and went hood:’ ’
downstairs into the drawing room.
You can make yourself look an Inch
She took her place before the fire, fast
dying out with neglect, and thought of taller by a neat, well-fitting dress.
the end of all anxiety and uncertainty, You can actually make yourself taller
nnd o f the beginning o f her happiness, by an erect, manly carriage. Sloven­
with Reuben’s love growing stronger ev­ liness Is contagious. It communicates
ery day, and Reuben’s troubles at an end Itself from the dress to tne character.
forever.
The boy who slouches and slumps In
(To be continued.)
figure and ga it la dangerously apt to
slump morally. The dust and grime
HER " Y A R B ’’ TEA.
on yonr clothes Is liable to get Into
landing stage from which the head of
his old sunt had appeared, hs came to a
full stop in hia surprise at discovering
that Second-cousin Sarah waa following
him.
“ So you are here at last, young fellow
— you have swallowed your pride, and
come to see me," were the first words o f
Mrs. Eastbell from the bed into which
she had been assisted, and before which
he sat down.
" I have swallowed my pride, aunt, and
come to see you," he said in her own
words.
“ Lucky for you," she answered, “ for,
though I didn’t tell Sally so, I whs not
going to be slighted by a bit of a boy
like you."
The door was closed, and they were
together in secret conference, Reuben
and his aunt, with his second-cousin like
a fate, shadowy and still and vigilant.
There was a small table drawn close to
the bedhead, with writing materials upon
it. and a little reading lamp. Sarah was
right.
A t a strange hour, and in
strange fashion, which hia coming oad
suggested, the old woman lying there
had thought of her last duty to the liv
ing, and was now in eager haste to com­
plete It.
“ You have not shaken hands with me,
Reuben,” she said, and the shriveled hand
stole forth with the old difficulty from the
bed, and he took it in his own, and felt
it cling to bia own and detain ie. “ I f I
v is it o r to f l t d f t H il l.
have robbed you of your birthright, Reu­
“ Can it be?" both young women whis­ ben— and Sally says I have— I hope you
pered, ns they went across the drawing bear me no ill will.”
room toward the marble-chequered hall,
“ Heaven forbid!" was the quick an
friends again in their suspense, and with swer.
the new distrust forgotten for a time. In
“ Your father’s money has not done me
the hall stood a servant, with a hand any good— and thia big, cold place is as
upon the door, and in the corridor were dark and dull and empty as the old alms­
Thomas Eusthell and Captain Peterson; house was— only not so warm, and Sally
the former with a waxen cast o f counte­ not always at my side now. Sally never
nance, like a man seized with a strange slighted me at St. Oswald’s, mind you,
fear.
that’s the curious part o f it. I don’t see
The chain before the door was lower­ what is to become of her, exactly, when
ed. the door was opened, and a tall man I am not here to look after her," said the
came with quick strides into his father’s blind woman quaintly. “ I ’ m as unset
house.
tied about her as I was when you came
“ H e has come— oh! he has come," cried to me at Worcester, for she’s an unset
Sarah Eastbell joyfully, and forgetting tied kind of child, and does strange
all sense of decorum in her delight at things. I did not want her to meet you,
seeing him— forgetting that he was only but she would run away at last. You
her second-cousin!— she ran toward him, know my grandson Tom has come to see
nnd «¿ast her arms about his neck, to his me ?’ ’
surprise, and ip her warmth of welcome.
“ Oh, yes."
Here was one frieud at least whom she
“ I have Tom to think of, too. H e’s a
could tfrust.
good lad.
H e hasn’t forgotten me— I
“ I am so glad that you have come," hate people to forget me, Reuben. Still,
she cried; then she shrank away from his Sally’s right, and neither she nor I — nor
arms in her second impulse, and went Tom, for that matter— has any business
with crimson-dyed cheeks to M ary H ol­ with your father's money. I didn’ t see it
land's side again. He smiled— und it was quite so clearly a little while ago— half
the old bright look gleaming from bis an hour since— as I do now."
full brown eyes. The welcome pleased
“ But----- "
him— it was so strange a contrast to his
“ There you go," said the old woman,
lust reception in that house.
querulously; “ what’s the use o f interrupt­
ing p€*opIe while they are talking? When
C H A P T E R X V III.
I got rich, Reuben, I grew greedy, some­
The wondering, scowling faces in the how— as if riches, after all, were any
shadow of the corridor receded slowly, good to me! Wasn’t I a happy woman at
and then the door of the picture gallery St. Oswald’s? I haven’ t been happy since
was closed, as though Reuben Culwick’s then. When my foolish brother left me
presence could not be tolerated at that money, he left me trouble, too, and I was
juncture. Reuben glnnced along the cor­ too old for trouble. Now about my Sally
ridor, and then turned to M ary Holland. — a willful girl enough, but true as steel,
"T h ey are in the gallery?" he inquired. Reuben."
“ And the old lady is asleep, ami well
“ What of her?" said Reuben, looking
watched? You should have telegraphed across at Sarah, who sat with her arms
to me, and not have lout time by the crossed, and her face bent very low, like a
woman asleep.
post," he said.
“ I dare not leave the house, and there
“ I think that I can trust you to see
was no one whom I cared to intrust with after my family, if I leave you all my
• message."
money, as she wishes. You are not likely
Sarah looked from one to the other cu­ to turn your back upon Sarah or Tom.
riously, and Reuben Culwick smiled.
because It is Sarah’s wish that I give up
“ See what a couple of conspirators we every penny of my own free w ill."
are, Sarah," he said; “ but the fact is,
“ Sarah is rash,” muttered Reuben Cul­
your brother Tom and his acquaintances wick, “ very rash."
have been disturbing my mind of late
“ I think it is overdoing it myself," said
days. 1 have feared that this day would the old lady very calmly; "but what peace S h e W e e N o t C o r e d b , t h e Y o o n « D o c ­
t o r ’ , P r e s c r ip tio n A ft e r A ll.
come, and that you might be powerless shall I have until it’s done? Has my
Dr. Chase has not long had the p riv­
and need help— although Tom may be a maid put pens, and ink. and paper on
very good fellow when one is thoroughly that table? You are a scholar— write out ilege o f w ritin g “ St. D ." after his name,
acquainted with him."
my will, Reuben, in half a dozen lines. which may account for his belief in the
“ You know what he is," said S s uh, But It all down to yourself— freehold, correctness o f his own theories. H e Is
very moodily.
leasehold, money, pictures, plate— the old fond o f experim enting with new drugs,
“ Hence, one day,” he continued, “ I woman gives it all."
und has a sturdy faith in his own meth-
wrote in confidence to Miss Holland, nnd
“ At her granddaughter’s wish?”
>ds and his own prescriptions. H e bad
asked her to warn me when a crisis of
“ And at her own— in common fairness, been working assiduously on a grip
this kind occurred— which it has, you Reu, to my dead brother’s son. There,
remedy, says the Chicago News, and
see. You were Tom’s sister, and Tom’s write, and let me sign it."
sister’s feelings had to be respected. Re­
Reuben looked across at Sarah again. was eager to prove Ita virtues to tw o
sides," he added, “ I was afraid of you." From the shadowy background she made skeptical colleagues. A t length his op­
“ A fraid!” echoed Sarah Eastbell. “ Of a gesture o f assent, earnest, imperative, portunity came.
what r
and supplicatory.
Old Mrs. I.uther, who had never been
“ O f your turning up In iny Drury Lana
“ And this strange idea is my second
known to em ploy a doctor, sent for
den and offering me your compassion, and cousin’s?" Reuben said, still looking at him. She undoubtedly had the grip.
aggravating me by your assistance. I her. “ She trusts me so much, knowing The doctor called tw ice a day, and
was a sour-tempered beast, Sarah, and so little o f me. In a foggy dream o f resti­
watched closely the etTect o f his treat­
afraid of the softening influence o f sec- tution. She thinks o f my wrongs, at a
oud-cousin ism."
time when I am learning to forget them. ment. H e reported the symptoms to his
“ I don't understand you, Mr. Culwick," She accepts dependence, she risks pov­ tw o friends, the other doctors, and
said Sarah, very coldly now; “ but I never erty and privation, and puts herself en­ told them how sure he felt o f v ic­
did, for the matter of that. You are sus­ tirely in my power."
tory. T h e old lady did. indeed, begin
picious of me— that’s all I perceive at
“ Entirely." replied the old woman; to mend. F in ally the day came when
present."
“ isn’t it safe?”
the disease was undoubtedly checked.
“ W ell, your visit to me this morning
“ It is romance, not reality.
A wild Then the young doctor called In hia
did me a great deal of good," he conde­ folly, and not the common prudence that
scended to explain still further— "assured should regulate all lives.
I will have friends.
’ N o w just tell these doctors, Mrs.
me that you were a genuine young wom­ nothing to do with it. Resides, he who
he began,
afTably,
“ how
an. ami tlint I was an old fool; that you writes a will in which he is interested, Luther,”
understood the world, and I didn’t. And nnd by which he is to profit, does it at his pleasantly the medicine has affected
without M isa Holland's danger signal, 1 own risk—-n very great one in the eyes you. and all about It.”
should have come in good time to Sedge of the law. aunt,’ ’ continued Reuben,
The old lad y fingered the bedquilt
H ill."
“ and after all the document may not be nervously, and finally said. “ W ell, the
“ Would you?" ahe cried, half laughing worth the paper on which it is * ritten.
truth Is, doctor. I took only one dose o f
and half crying now.
Hence your will would get into Chancery,
“ Misa Eastbell hardly knows what or Mrs. Eastbell. depend upon it. I ’ ll give your medicine. W hen my old man gets
In whom to believe, Mr. Culwick," said you my idea, if you’ ll keep quiet for five sick I have an a w fu l tim e getting him
to sw allow the yarb tea I make, and
Mary Holland at this juncture, "and her minutes.''
friends and enemies are hopelessly inter­
“ I don't think much of your ideas." when I tasted that medicine o f yours
mixed.’’
said Mrs. Eastbell, candidly, “ hut go on." and found It so nice and sweet I says
“ I think that yon must be ray friend,"
Reuben tok up a pen. dipped it into the to m yself, "Now the old man would
said Sarah, extending her hand to her at ink. and commenced writing very rapidly.
take this without a bit o f trouble. I'll
once. "F orgive me if I have been hard The old woman lay back and listen^l to
to-night."
the scratching of hia pen upon the piper, save It till he needs It some time, and
'll go on drinking my yarb tea. It's
Her hand waa on the drawing room and Sarah Eastbell, intensely curious,
door, when a shrill voice, unmistakable, advanced on toptoe toward him. and re­ only fa ir If I have the doctor that he
and startling at that hour, echoed through garded him defiantly as h® curved his should have the medicine.' And I ’ve
the house:
hand before his work and looked hard at got along pretty well, doctor, now
“ Reuben Culwick, is that you?"
her, with his mouth twitching at the cor­ haln’t i r
The two young women and the big ners, as if his old aggravating smile
The young man joined,
although
bearded man between them paused and were difficult to repress. When he had
rather lamely. In the laugh that fo llo w ­
looked at each other. Sarah Eastbell finished writing, he said:
whispered:
“ Now, listen. *1, Sarah Eastbell. of ed.
“ Grandmother!**
Sedge H ill, in ths County o f Worcester
S o m e w h a t D iffe r e n t.
“ Yea. it la I,** answered Reuben.
shire, relict o f----- ' "
N ell— W ould you m a r r y ’a man Just
“ Come upstairs directly, and don’ t
“ Never mind that rnbblah," interrupted
bring anybody with you;“ and then the Mrs. Eastbell; “ what does It mean when because he happened to be rich?
Bess— O f course not.
But then I
head o f Mrs. Eastbell appeared over the you have got through it all?"
first line o f balusters ia the well stair­
"T h is," replied her nephew, looking at would try a w fu lly hard to get him to
case.
his second-cousin again, “ that yon leave marry me.
"O o to her," said Sarah anxiously. all your property to your granddaughter,
Modesty seldom reside* In a -breast
“ She would make amends for being in Sarah."
jrour father’s house. Dep’t thwart her."
"N o — n o!" cried Sarah, taken off her that Is not enriched w ith nobler vir­
When Reuben Culwick had reached the guard, and coming Into the foreground. tues.—Goldsmith.
P ««» of nonthorn Colton Planter«
l l « s K f f n r l a t lt a - 1 a t a r m i n a t i o .
F o r some time past W . D. Hunt!
boll w eevil expert In the service of
Agricultural Department, has
veoUgating the habits o f the pest a
a v iew to devising meant for Its M
pation. In a report Juat Issued » ,
em ergency bulletin he aaya the w
o f tala division for several years “I
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demonstrated that there Is not er*
remote probability that the boll wee
your brain. The dirt under your fin­ ever w ill be exterm in ated." The bnl
ger-nails la likely to work Into your tin adds:
Although the very U rge
thoughts, Grease spots down the front
_ _ yield*
___
o f your coat will destroy self-respect | cotton o f form er times may no ion,
almost as quickly as a habit o f lying. 1 » possible. It la. nevertheless, entli
Tidiness Is one o f the cheapest lux- ly feasible to produce cotton at a mi
urles In the world. It Is also one o f gin o f profit that w ill compare fayo,
the most comfortable.
When you bly with that Involved In the prodi
know when you are "dead sure" that tlon o f moat o f the staple crops of t
you are Just right— "perfectly correct" , United States by follow in g what ha
— from hat to shoe-tie. the king o f Eng- become known generally as the ci
land couldn't stare you out o f counte- tured methods, Involving changes ai
nance, he couldn't embarrass you. and modifications o f the system o f cott
raising made necessary by the weev
he wouldn't If be could.
They w ere origin ally suggested b y l
careful study o f the life history of t i
p est «n d naturally any im provem erl
that may eventually be made will
the result o f the continuation o f th>7
study. T h ey have now been testis
successfully on a large scale by the r,1
vision o f entomology as well as teA
many planters during tw o very u n fF
vorable seasons.
O f greatest adva]
tage Is the reducing o f the number T
the w eevils by the destruction of t(j_
plants In the fall. T h e advantage tb S
gained la follow ed up by bending evefl
effort tow ard procuring an early e rg
Said William Wantsome: "Quite certaia the follow in g season.”
I am
The changes In the cotton-ralslnta
That you can’t, without help, get through system urgently recommended anul
that pot of jam.”
Early planting with seed from ss fit
Said Christopher Keeps: "O f that notion
north as possible; thorough cultlrstlq
be rid,
n
o f the fields, which Influences the i
For 1 esn, much obliged all the same.
stant grow th and consequent early i
And he did!
turlng o f the crop; planting the roij
A T o n n e T e le g r a p h e r .
as fa r apart as feasible and thoroui
Robert T. Baird, aged 11 years, the thinning out o f the plants In the roe
son o f Robert L. Baird, o f Grovanla, destruction, by plow in g up. wtndroJ
Ga., holds a unique place among the lng and burning o f all the cotton stall
bright youths o f Georgia. He la a In the fields as soon as the weevil
fast and accurate telegraph operator, become so numerous that practical!
and has already done regular work all the fru it is being punctured, t h f
In Western Union otfices. At one time destroying the very great proportion 1
he was in charge of the office at Vi­ weevils developing late In the autum]
enna as day operator. Young Baird and extensive use o f fertilizers, so i
seems to have taken to the key by to procure earlier crops.
Instinct. When only 7 he could sit
at the Instrument and send before his
father knew he wss acquainted with
the alphabet. At 9 he could receive,
and now he Is considered a competent
operator.
Little Stories aad
Incideats that Will
Interest and Enter­
tain Young Readers
W h e n C h ild r e n P la y .
Sometimes the children piny outside
From early until late,
Then blank and still the nursery lies;
The whole house seems to wait.
But when the children come Indoors
They race upstairs and shout,
They tramp across the nursery floor
And pull the things about.
Then all the house seems full of life,
The nursery, stairs and hall;
And on the playground out-of-doors
The blackness seems to fall.
— Good Housekeeping.
B a s e b a ll In P o r t a Hico.
The San Juan News says that
Americans have virtually made base­
ball the national outdoor sport o f
Porto Hleo. Tennis tournaments are
also held, and football, cycling and
otfler pastimes have been tried to
monument, ii
some exten t When a Northerner la
bayonet, was erected in Seoul,
acclimated. It Is said, he enjoys the
to the memory o f .Japanese soldiei the
various forms of outdoor exercise
who were killed*in the w a r with ( ’b id H
much as ue does In the North.
It is reproduced from the I»n do^^H
Graphic.
8ec
THREE ARMS OF THE JAPANESE SERVICE.
A D e fe rre d R es titu tio n .
■
A pig belonging to a w id ow naml
Murphy m ysteriously vanished
night, and Fat Hennessy, a ne'er-d^k*“
well, was suspected o f having lu|
something to do with Its dlsapiiea
auce. He denied all know ledge of tfl
pig. however, and as there was no e^
denee against him he w as allowed
go free; but at Mrs. M urphy's Instil
tlon. the priest w ent to see him.
"P a t,” said the priest, “ If you’ve i
fear o f the law in this world, at leal
give a thought to the hereafter. W h ^ ^
you're before the Judgment Seat,
are you going to say about that plgv
“ Shure, 1 duuno,’’ replied Pat. "WlJ
they be after askin’ about th’ pig II
Purgatory, yer R iverin ce?”
’ T h e y will,” said the priest.
“ W ill Mrs. M urphy be there, ytj
Riverince?”
“ Yes, P a t ”
‘‘A n ’ the pig?”
"Yes, Pat.”
“ Shure. I ’ll w a it an’ g iv e It to
thin, yer Riverince.” — W om an's Hon
Companion.
I n fla n t M a r r i a g e s .
According to recent census
148 boys and 187 girls under one yi
o f age w ere m arried in In dia during
single year.
T h e record during
same year for m arriages o f chib
W H E R E T H E P IL G R IM S LA N D E D . I tie here, as It was beyond the Jurisdlc- under flve J M ™ was 2.297 fo r boys si
tlon o f the London company. They 3,534 for
A * * consequence
I m m i g r a n t ! P l r s t C a m e t o S h o r e la
turned their prow southward, but en- t t l * state o f
there were, at tl
C a p e Cod B a r .
countering perilous shoals and a stiff Ume the <'»nsus was taken, twent;
Plym outh Rock has never been con­
sidered the first place where the pil­ head wind they desisted and sought tw0 w idowera and tw enty-seven v*-
grims landed. The M ayflower reached shelter In Cape Cod Bay. On the 11th o w * les* ,han a year old- and 8ome
Cape Cod Bay on Nov. 9, 1620, and two they decided to find some place o f |les* than flT* years old’
days later the voyagers were roaming abode in this neighborhood, antlelpa-1
N o t in S u c h C o l d W e a t h e r .
over the country trying to find a place ting no difficulty in getting a patent I Bridget— T h e butcher’ s wagon’s
to settle, says the Boston Transcript. from the Plymouth company, w h ich 1
was anxious tV o h tiin
Authorities differ as to the exact date
Mrs. Housekeep— A h ! has
when the landing was made at Prov- 'weeks they stayed In the ship while pigs' feet?
lncetown. but It waa not later than little parties were eiplorin g the
and deciding upon the best" site
! Br' dSa«— H o w kin Oi tell, mum I
Nov. 11, 1620. John Flake. In his "T h e
town.
It w a s Durelv
* sh >'r-. '« ■ too cold fu r him to be ml
Beginnings o f N ew England." says:
•T h e foul weather prevented any ac­ that the spot which they choee h id a l* ' l,flr,‘ fo<>ted thla w eather.— Philadelph
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curate calculation o f latitude and longi­ ready received from John Smith the I
Ahout »11 the difference between
tude. and they were so fa r out In their name o f Plymouth, the beautiful port
reckoning that when they caught sight In Devonshire from which the Mar- IDiest from N ew Y o rk and one
Smith's Cross Roads is that the f o r »
o f land on the 9th o f November It was flower had sailed."
refers to the servant girl as s
to Cape Cod that they had come. Their
good and the latter wants to sit in
pataat ga ve them no suthortty to set-¡ . x l m p l « " . ^ ^ ^ ^ " *
I kitchen and visit w ith her.