Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-03-01
LETTERS FROM The PEOPLE


To the Editor OF the EVENING JOURNAL.
SIR. last thy bread upon the waters
for thou shalt find IL after many days,
was the language OF the good men Of old
About The year 1880 missionary So
clety was formed In Sweden, on the north
side Of the Baltic sea. Soon after a com
pany Of Swedish people was called to-
gether Tor the purpose Of making a COLONY
Ia America aud the place selected was
the shores Of the river which had been
discovered by Sir Thomas West, Lord
be la Ware In 1910 About the month OF
October the small colony Of some sixty
people embarked in two small ships, the
Key of Kalmar and Griffin. They set sail
from Stockholm ON the north side Of the
Baltic after passing through the Cattegat
aud Scager Rack out into the North sea,
then continuing out into the Atlantic,
continued their westerly course until
they sighted the Capes Of the Delaware,
about the middle OF the month Of May.
Sailing up the bay and river
until they came 20 the mouth OF the
river, which they gave the name Of
Christians. after the young Queen Of
sweden. After sailing up the river to
End place 10 land, which they found
ust abreast Of the present old Lutheran
Church near The Rocks where
they made the centre Of their settlement
aud church parish, and like good Christian
people used the native Indian In a
brotherly and friendly manner and went
about the country and selected their
future homes, buying their lands from
the wild men OF the forest until the
boundaries Of their lands extended along
the west shores OF the Delaware from
Cancresa or lower end Of Bombay Hook
up TO the Neshamony, large strip over
on the Jersey shore. and from the Sus-
quehannA TO the Schuylkill and up north
10 the forteith degree OF north latitude,
which tract Of land, after 1854, when the
English took possession Of the land. was
known as Delaware
For years after the Swedes came they
had mills established 30 grind the rye ard
thick-skinned wheat which they had first
brought with them to SOW.
At first and for long time they did
not separate the bran from the meal, but
made bread from the bran and meal TO-
gether. Very wholesome but coarse and
dark bread was the result. But all the
life giving qualities as the Creator In.
tended for it, were there When vii.
liam Penn got to be the proprietor OF
of brotherly love-" or Philadelphia, IN
| 1892 the people had TO depend on the old
/ swedish mills In Delaware, on the
BrRndywine, Christiana aud their trlbu.
taries, TO get their grain ground and
hoated. by tide. TO market. 80 for over
one hundred end fifty years Philadelphia
WAS fed, In a great measure. by the wheat
aud corn wheat that was grown
on the fertile fields OF Delaware and
ground in Delaware mills, PHILADELPHIA
has grown large and rich, far out-strid-
ing the mother that fed her 80 tenderly
with nourishing meal and four for %
many years and, | am sincerely glad thai
the good spirit has so stirred up her com.
monwealth TO open their money bags anc
buy a cargo Of -four and meal and Other
good and substantial food to send TO
foreign nation whose many poor people
are very much In need.
After the lapse Of some 254 years
seems that the Casting the bread on th,
waters, is being gathered, not by thu
Swedes, but by people just across thu
Baltic sea about $50 miles apart, and thi
good ship Indiana, with her noble captain
and crew and blessed freight Of 3. 300 ton
Is now on her easterly course an,
nearing her journeys end. Il is tru'
that Whining on Is but small town, bu
certainly there are well-to-do peopl
enough Ia the state TO send few barrel
'of -four aud meal TO the suffering peopl
of Russia III my memory serves M
right, when the famine took place In Ire
land about lS47, the people o. Whining
ton aud the Brandywine millers loaded
ship with Sour and meal to send TO th
| suffering people In that country and
person alopg with Il to teech the peopl
how 10 cook corn bread A. c BRINTON.
Wilmington, Del, February %, 1899.