Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-02
1lN copVRoTr. 1889, er UNITED STATES eoon COMPANY
- ANO eUslSAeo 81 speoAL aRRaN6 eMsNr WIN TnEna

81 SPtSiAL ANNOUNCEMENT WITH ThEA
"Nothingl" Yes; 90 Bigotry, your jack
boots smell unsavory; enter Prelacy in
fine linen and perfumel Procul, 0 pro-
cul, Liberals! for. alas! English knees
bend to the kings mistress and English
voices swear. The king can do no
wrong" Boom sullenly, Great Tom OF
Lincoln, the dirge Of freedom.
Ring solemnly, Great Ton of Lincoln,
to Colonel Brothertoft the stern COM
mand revived. Syllable again along the
west wind the sentence Of exile.
Westward no? new home across the seas !,
Every day the nation cringed baser
and baSer. Every day the great bell,
from its station high above all the
land, shouted more vehemently TO the
lord of BrOthertOft manor TO shake the
dust from his feet aud withdraw him.
self from among a people grown utterly
bastard. His young hopes were per-
ished His old associates were slain or
silenced. He would go.
And just at that moment, when In
sixteen hundred aud sixty-fye all free
dom was dead In England, Winthrop,
of Connecticut, wrote to his friend at
Brothertoft manor: eve have con-
ouered the province of New Neither
lands. The land is goodlie, and there
is a great brave river running through
the midst Of It, Sell thy manor, bring
thy people aud come TO US. We need
thee and the like of thee in our new
communities. We have Drawn enow and
much gOdliness and singing OF psalms;
but gentlemen and gentlewomen be few
among US"
Farewell to England.
Colonel BrOthertoft was received
with due distinction by Governor Mich
oils and Mayor Willet. Old Peter Stuy-
vesant was almost coGsoled that Hol-
landers were sent 10 their Bouweries to
smoke and grow stolid, if such men as
this newcomer were to succeed them In
power.
The colonel explored that great
brave river" which Connecticut Win
throp had celebrated in his letter. Its
beautiful valley was "all before him,
where to choose" Dutch land patents
were plenteous in market as villa sites
after a modern panic. Crown grants
were TO be had from the new proprie-
tary almost for the asking.
The lord OF old Brothertoft manor Sc
lected his square leagues for the new
manor Of Brothertoft at the upper end
of Westchester county, bordering upon
the Highlands Of the Hudson. A few
pioneer Duchmen-De Wits, Van
Warts and Canadys-were already col
onized there. His Lincolnshire follow
ers soon found their places, but they
came from the fens, and did not love the
hills, and most OF them in time dis
perSed 70 the flatter country.
The new proprietor's wealth was con-
siderable for America. He somewhat
diminished it by reproducing, as well as
colonial wOrkmen could do, that corner
of the old manor house untouched by
the fire. It grew up strange exotic,
this fine mansion, in the beautiful will
derness. The ''curious fabrick" Of little
imported bricks, with it's peaked turret,
its quaint gables, its square bay window
and grand porch, showed anonymously
so first among the Stumps OF clearing.
And there the exiled gentleman tried
to live an exotic life. He bestowed about
him the furniture of old BrothertOft
manor. He hung his Vandyck on the
wall He laid his presentation copy OF
Mr.. John Millions new poem, paradise
Lost, s." on the table.
The founder OF BrothertOft manor
died, and a second Edwin, the young
Astyanax of Vandyke'S picture, became
the PATRON.
A third Edwin succeeded him, q
fourth followed, and in seventeen hun
dred and thirty-six the fifth Edwin
BrothertOft was born. He was an only
child, like each Of his fOreiathers.
The BrothertOft fortunes did not wax
on the new continent. Each gentle Ed
win transmitted TO his heir the manor
locked of few more square miles, the
mansion a little more dilapidated, the
furniture more worn and broken, the
name little less significantin the push
ing world OF the province.
But each Edwin, with the sword and
portrait OF the first American handed
d own the still more precious heirlooms
OF the family-honor unblemished,
Quick sympathies, tender heart, gen.
erous hand, refinement, cOurtesy--ln
short, all the qualities OF mind and per-
son that 90 "to grace gentleman"
1t became the Office Of each to be the
type gentleman Of his time.