New-York tribune., 1891-12-23

and all LEADING GROCERs have our brand
vas, or brass heroes on horse block who never did
leaning gun while the women folks did the CHORES
The Pilgrims were just ordinary common FOLKS for
the most part lean lanh ot ana rbosrn s
s d PTy aSS{h Roc % Se f
paS ,GsS one kssw or two P.icf G
here for The purpose Of establishing religion there
500 without including recent eleavages and new III
ventlons Taking broader and more elevated view, we
they knew 1t is not likely that they foresaw In their
widest dreams the filling In Of the Back Bay Had they
projected in their maginations that large body Of made
a an@ afe aPwn sd N woy fpy Ell RpSt o
cse one cannot mot help uqarns what would be-
como Of the secretary OF this socsty let Appisusie im
provemen there would be in the breeding and culture
the domestic dSs n s a e Bas er
but one variety OF dog and that OF so furtlve and
elusive character that the artist who photographed the
membership Of this Society was unable to any
thing but his bark which was on the sea-. sea. and is
teenth OF an inch from Plymouth Rock. daughter
To-day more than hundred varieties OF dogs OF on the
COmmOnwealth-ave. In Boston, attending 70 ther
several pursuits under the snperntennence OF e
OF the highest culture wearing spectacles tLaughter
ANOTHER SURPRISE FOR THEM.
Nor could the Pilgrims have ever dreamed that go
wears from the day Of their landing the members OF the
different trades and professions In Boston from retail
junk dealers mp would dine together every saturday
| and make speeches to and about each other OF the
most lofty and ennobng character.
Nor that the thirst for precise and accurate informa
tion concerning the entire universe would be absorb
ing rs to fill fremont Temple during the Joseph Cook
10 follow Joseph Oook like a sinking star beyond the
utmost bounds OF human though.
1t + mot He bTmny mat dGc Sv ISa conG fe hnSs re
seen the organization In les than 300 years OF a
session concerning the operation OF the narlf than nan
any candidate for once r can rooT oS%sT 0d IN ee
@onss po@s wSs Ss,OsS an ineHns Ge% 1q mind p''' " ~
They builded indeed, more than they knew and
differently from what they rp sGppSS,ed g, had hS % bSe
permitted 10 look with Prophet VISION down the ages
to in his minds eye the vast accumulation tG S
domec dog. the Irregular eruptlonS OF Back Bay art
the saturday dinners the Cook lectures and the Qpes
himself back in scIooby bnt he certainly would have
stood on his head in the Mavfower's cabin upset by
the prospect and torn With conflicting oions
In the palntlve warbe WITH which DR.. channcey
Depew broke his long silence on the occasion OF the
dinner OF the st. Nicholas Society at tho opening Of
the present season grcat laughter he Is reported 70
settled on this Island had historian, except Wash
ingon Irving, who had not treated the early Dutch
he thought they were at n disadvantage compared
with other coOnists whose stories had been told 10y
We can we'll understand how the accuracy Of Cotton
Mather and the vercity of samuel Peters would have
better suited the Doc ors anstere & taste @ thnp tine I0c
not without early educational advaniag,s, mu,t
Dutch instead Of marching with stately tread across
the historic page, 60 lmping over It. with wooden
Bradforts the rest intended to settle here
some point near the Hudson River, but the early
Dutch who were here before them brbed the pilot Of
the Maynower to tangle them up between Cape Cod
and n stern and rockbOund coast. Tint is the way
the carly Dutch lost all the good historians. uaugh
teri
SEEKING FOR PLYMOUTH ROCK.
Had not the early Dutch brbed the pilot of the May
flower the Pilgrim Fathers would have landed on Pot
Rock Instead Of Plymouth Rock, and Bradford or
Winslow or Winthrop or Cotton Mather would have
written Knclerbockcrs History Of New-York but
the Dutch would not have cut so much Of figure in
H. The stern and rockbound coast of Mrs. Iemans
would have been different. and the inestimable boon
shortly aterward conferred upon earths stricken opes
would have been known as lielsate ElAlr instead OF
New England Rum. Great lauShter)
The Pilgrim Fathers never lacked for. historians
They were not the Fletcher OF Saltoun sort OF men
who II they could but make the ballads of nation
cared not who made the laws they were rather OF
the type Of the modern newspaper man who cares not
wno tIrows the bomb IL he only gets the scoop"
daughter, They kept diaries. ard when they said
any thing definite about the designs Of Providence.
which fhev were always dong-sonebody made q
memorandum OF 1t; partly for the benefit OF the
historian but chiefly for the guidance OF Providence
Father Wien he had said anything final and conclu
.ive about election. predestinauon, forordlnauen or
wh perlng in meeting To 60 Immediately ana slt fOr
his pIctur, before he lost the expression. The re
sult was that the hist0rians-and the woods round
Massachusetts Bay have always been full OF them
not only had down fine what the Pilgrim Father SAID
hut a picture u him while he saying II. That j.
the reason why tho histories OF New inGland are so
full; also why they are chiefly c"nineh 70 WHAT nap
pened around Massachusetts, Hay There were other
localities in New England, to be sure. places where
persons who had migrated from round the Fay were
saving and doing things which tarne ont to be worth
nainter and Kept but few diaries. the materials for
their story are scanty and they have not figured
| so largely in spoken speeches or printed books.
Perhaps another reason why the attention OF the
world has been focused upon Massachusetts Is that
rs vowel sounds lend themselves so readily 10 the uses
II the orator and rhetorcian. There's such long AMI
| impressive roll to the words "The Commonwealth Of
that the citizen when he hears IT at the
end OF Thanksgiving proclamation stretches out at
| least two Inches longer In his pew, and thanks God
fr having been born there instead OF in Connecticut
or Rhode Island. Since Mr.. Webster. In burst OF
admiration the state which he adorned by his genius
said. There she stands Look at her' mankind has
been engaged in the contemplation q that tablean as
representing all there OF New England Only once
In awhile modest voice has spoken from the sstcrho01
| NJ New England s'stcs. saying, "Wo. too, are here
| daughter and spplausel
| ABsoLITE SUCCESS ACHIEVED.
The Plymouth and Massachusetts people started In,
as all know. to establish religious fre ,d0n. between
1870 and 1899 they had far succeeded that nobody
had any voice in the direction Of civil affairs except
church members. aud among these religious cedom had
found hrm footing that any person who believed
they did was at perfect liberty TO say 10. Great laugh