Smyrna times., 1875-08-11
The Pilgrims Progress.
l62O-lS75.

1923. Proclaims a fast day.
lG2S. Cuts down May pole at Merry
Mount as a rcbuke to vain recreations.
1875. Is crowded for accommodations
and stakes out new farm at Connecticut
1857. Makes war on the Antinomians
and Pequot Indians, and whips BOTH
1898. Starts Il college, and
1910. Sets up printing press.
lG43. Goes into a confederacy-the first
colonial congress.
1G4S. Lays down the Cambridge plat
form. Hangs a WITCH
lG49. Sets his face against the unchris-
tian custom Of wearing long hair, " thing
uncivil and uncomcly.
1861. Is rcbuked for " intolerablc excess
and bravery of apparel" and is forbidden
to wear gold and silver lace or other such
gew-gaws.
1862. Coins pinc-trec shillings-and
makes the business profitable.
1868. Prints a Bible for the Indians
1850. Buys hangup" clock, and &C.
casionally carries a silver watch that helps
him guess the time of day. About this
period learns to use forks at table-a new
fashion
1862. Is scared by witches again, at
Salem; but gets the better of them.
1902. Pounds another college, which at
last settles down at New Haven.
l704. Prints his first newspaper, at
! Boston.
l705. Tastes coffee, as luxury, and at
his own table.
l10S. Constructs another platfolm-this
time at Saybrook.
1909. Begins to sip tea-vcly sparingly.
1t does not come into family use until five
and twenty years after.
l7l0. Puts letter in his first post
office.
I720. Eats potato, and takes one home
to plant i'll his garden as q curiosity.
lI2l. Is inoculated for the smallpox
not without grave rcmonstrances from his
conservative neighboIs.
1870. Begins to sing by note on Sun
days, thereby cncountering much opposi-
| y
l7+0. Manufactured timed ware, and
starts the first tim peddler on his travels.
l742. Sees Faneuil Hall built. The
cradle of liberty is ready to be rocked
I74j. Builds an organ but does not
permit it to bo played in the meeting
house.
1850. Buys bushcl Of potatoes for win
ter uSc-all his friends wondering what he
will do with so many.
l7jj. Puts up a Franklin stove in the
best room, and tries one Of the newly-in-
vented tightening rods.
1860. About this time begins to wear q
collar to his shirt When he can afford
it, takes his wife to meeting in a chaise
instead Of on pillion as heretofore.
l765. Shows his dislike to stamped pa
: per, and joins the /" Sons of Liberty"
f 1868. Tries his hand at type,foundin,
0 not yet successfully-in Connecticut
ITO Buys homemade wooden clock
1913. Waters his tea in Boston harboT
r Plants Liberty trees wherever he finds gooc
v soil.
a iii. Lights Boston streets with oi
,. lamps; a novelty Though "new lights
!, have been plenty for some years.)
|. l776. Brother Jonathan--as he begin
to be called in the family-declares hin
If self free and Independent.
if 1880 Buys an umbrillo for Sundays
is and whenever he shows it is laughed at fC
G. his effcminacy.
IL 1871. Starts a cotton spinning factor,
Or 1892. Has been raising silk worms
5. Connecticut; and now gives his ministC
of mot his wife) a homemade silk gowl
h, Buys a carpet for the middle of the parlc
Ill floor
or 1898. Invents the cotton gin, and ther
ct by trcbles the value of southern plant
ii. tons.
is. 179j-lS0O. Wears pantaloons occasio
,ir ally, but not when in full dress. Begins
od use plants on the breakfast and tea table
,is 1902. Has the boys and girls vaccnate
hc 1906. Tries to burn piece of hard &C
ror from Philadelphia A failure.
he 1907. Sees boat 20 by steam on t
in. Hudson.
ito 1918. Holds little convention at Ha
Int ford, but doesn't propose to dissolve t
re. Union. Buys one of Perry's patent I" sh
ler Clocks" for $50, and regulates his watch
cir it.
g." 1917. Sets up stove in the meeti
il house and builds fire in it fer Sunda
me an innovation which is stoutly resisted
it many.
10 1918. Begins to run a steamboat
the Long Island Sound, and-after making
on. will-takes passage on it for New York.
1919. Growing bolder, he crosses
Atlantic in a steamship.
of 1922. Lights gas in Boston. At ID
ual learns how to make hard coal burn, a
'ral sets CRATE in his parlor. Buys a steel /
lty. lone of Gillots sold at 1888 per gross.) !
gle, his everyday shirt made without rufiles.
the 1925. About this time puts percuss
Re. lock on his old musket.
the 1926. Buys his wife a pair of que
Die? shaped India rubber overshoes. Puts
:. his first false collar.