The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-07-07

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land. which is on OF the most charm
inc placed in the w,:rll, stop At Ports
IN ,uth. and make them take YOU around
to s.r the traces OF old lite there.
These are not ruins they are the fine
old palaces that the prinrrly merchants
Of other DAYS lived in, and YOU will
wish tIat YOU might die in one of them
Yourself Go down to the navy yard,
and they will show ,\"u where Paul
Jones ship OF the lire WAS built, which
by misfortune was given to King
Louis XVI. from whom the English
clptured it aitrrwarl. Better than
this. if you are looking for antiquities,
make somebody take YOU to kittery
Point. and see the old council chamber
0" the New Hampshire Governors. If
YOU are an autograph hunter, you will
find autographs tha, will make your
hair stand on end.
Then YOU may come down the coast
to Massachusetts. The best way to
travel under such circumstances is. as
| have often said to use friend S
yacht when he is disposed to take you.
Failing that, the trolley will carry you
almost anywhere now. for rather less
than cent mile. Above Newbury-
port, on the Mcrrmac. you have as
charming a river sail as you can find
anywhere. on brisk little steamboat,
with an intelligent captain who will
show YOU where the Alliance was
| built. and in later times where " hit
tier lived and died In Newburyport
itself, again YOU will determine to pur-
chase 4 house. with twcnty-Seven rooms
in it. where you shall spend the re-
mainder o: your days, where your
books shall not hr crowded, and where
each of YOUR children can have sep
arate pIayroom.
In Salem they will show You the
actual pins with which the devils
| pricked the witches. or the witches
prickcd the dcvils-I forgot which.
And you shall see Giles Coreys auto
graph.
In Boston we have five buildings
which preserve the memory of the
Revolution. Go into the Old South
Meeting House, and dilate with the
right emotion as you 90 up into the
stecplc, where D'Anville's storm
"Tolled the bell in the tower
AS it tolls at funerals
BY the way, that ballad of Longtel-
low is the best he ever wrote. You
had better buy copy of it IN the mu-
scum of the Meeting House, and carry
it home with you.
Plymouth Rock is not in ruins, but
it is in two pieces all the same. And
here is story which at Plymouth it.
self they are not apt to tell you.
When the Revolution was coming on,
the Sons of Liberty at Plymouth
wanted to do something with their
organization, and they agreed that
they would move the Rock so that it
should not he covered by the tide ut
every flood, and would carry it into
the middle Of the town. SO they ap-
piled their derrickS, and turned to it
with a will, rs the SONS of seamen
could. and 10, the rock split in two!
The prophets saw i'll this separation an
omen of the separation of the British
Empire which followed three or four
years afterward Plymouth is itself
a monument As Mr.. Rufus Choate
said on the spot. YOU do not have to
build monuments in Plymouth. But
rial Hill. and the brook, and the
beach, and the Rock. are wcll-nigh III
the same to-day that they were in the
year when half the cmigrants died
there.
you can get anybody to carry
you from Boston up into New lIamp-
shire in his coach with four horses
accept that hospitality. If not, pay
| two dollars to the Boston and Maine
Railroad and 90 up to the Wrirs. Ii
you choose the right route YOU can
see statue of Hannah Dustin in the
act of killing her Indian captor; and
this is on the spot where that seven,
teenth century Judith slew that lIo,.
ofcrnes of her day. At Wcirs you will
find what is, think the oldest monu
ment, SO called, erected by our fore
fathers. 1t is the stone which the
Massachusetts commission set up in
1888 to show the northern point of the
Mcrrmac River. Their charter gave
them rights three miles north of the
I VI rrimac River; but unfortunately
one OF Charles lis courts denied them
the h,nndary which they claimed, and
they subsequently gave up to the gov.
crnmcnt of the United States thciI
", stern claims. But tor this Massa
chuscttS would hra State running from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, with 4
width of a hundred and twenty-five
miles.
When You are once up in this region
you may AS we'll pass 10y some pictur
esquc route TO Lake Clamlllin. Here
YOU are in the midst of seventeenth
and eighteenth century reminders
Perhaps the most picturesque of what
| am tempted to call the New England
ruins-thoueh We are now ust outside