Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-07-18

/ hound Gelert. Take, a. another e.
+. ample showing the same thing, the well
known story Of the tyrant Gessler's com
, pelliue william Tell to shoot with hI
, bow and arrow an apple on his boy
. head, and Of Tells subsequently liberat
Ing Switzerland from its Austrian yokl
by shooting and killing Gessler himself
! which story called forth the highcs
powers Of the poet Schiller and Of thu
, celebrated musical composer R0ssini
and which Is Familiarity known through
out the entire world. This tale II utter.
~ destitute OF truth, Tell, Tells boy
and Gessler all being mere creatures OF
the fancy,--and yet Tell chapel stands
on the. site, near Burglen, Of the intrepid
archer's alleged birthplace, another Tell
chapel stands on the spot, on the shore
OF Lake Uri, where Tell IL said to have
sprung out Of Gessler's boat, and still
another chapel OF the same name stands
on the spot, near kussnacht, where Tell
Is said TO have slain Gessler, while In the
market-plsce at Altdorf fountain marks
the site Of lime-tree to which Tells
boy Ia alleged to have been bound when
the apple was shot from his head, on the
take aim IL statue Of him, and In the
arsenal st Zurich ID preserved one OF the
many cross-bows which have been claim.
cd as having belonged to Tell. The
Testimony, however, Of all these imper-
sonal witnesses ESQ to call them) to the
truth OF this Tell tradition Is utterly de-
void OF validity as tending 10 show that
the tradition Ii the embodiment Of veri-
table history, for they all date from =
time when the tradition was fully de-
veloped. In like manner the various guns
OF which each Ia claimed to be the one
with v hich Chamberlain slew Psugus
are utterly devoid OF weight as evidence
Of the truth Of Elijah Russell's story OF
such staying, for there is nothing to
show that the claims respectively put
forth In behalf OF these various guns did
not result from the publication Of Rus
sells story and are not therefore In effect
but mere repetitions Of that story.
During portion Of Chamberlain's life
he hsd . saw-mill at Groton, and In =
communication In the Boston Transcript
"A while ago Colonel Francis j. Parker Of
this city cited, In support Of the truth OF
this story Of the killing OF Paugus by
Chamberlain, the fact that one of the
streams which supplied Chsmberlain's
ssw-mill IL known ss "Paugus Brook"
Th~evidence which this name "Psugus
Brook" furnishes of the truth of the
story that Chamberlain killed Paugus Is
OF the same kind as that which Mr..
Holden advances as proof OF the authen-
| ticity OF the story when he offers as such
| proof an old gun alleged TO be- the one
with which Chamberlain killed the ln-
dian chief. This name "Psugus Brook"
as borne BY the Grotou stream. Ike the
old gun mentioned by Mr.. Holden, adds
absolutely nothing TO the evidence which
Elijah Russell's book furnishes OF the
truth Of this Observation-Disclosures story
unless II can be shown that the name
"Paugus Brook" was given IN the
Groton stream before this story WAS
heralded TO the world In the hodgepOdge
OF truth and untruth which Russell pub
iished as q history of Lovewell's Fight.
Not ouly, however. Ia IL impossible TO
show that the stream was known by this
name "Paugus Brook" before the publi-
cation of Russell's book, but, on the
contrary, II can be conclusiyely shown
that the stream did not receive this nsme
till mt least forty-nine years after Rus
sells book was issued. On page ITO OF
Caleb Buffers History Of fGrotop, Butler
speaks Of the stream now known as
"Paugus Brook" but does so without
designating IL by any name. II being
thus indicated that the stresm had no
name st the time Of the publication OF
Buffers volume; and that the stream
had no name at that time Il further
shown by that part Of Buffers volume
which treats of the Typographical feat
ures OF Groton, where pages At245)
James's Brook, Sandy Brook, Cowpond
Brook, Walnut Run, Haw-tree Brook
and UnQueteuassett (or Uucutenorsett)
Brook are mentioned by name and de-
scribed, and where Butler also describes
some small streams which evidently then
had no names, as he describes them with
out uslng names with reference 70 them.
One OF the small streams which Butler
thus describes without calling 1t by any
name Is the small stream now known as
"Paugus Brook" II thus being a second
time shown In Buffers volume that the
stream now called "Paugus Brook" did
not have this or any other name at the
time Of the publication OF Buffers
volume, but that II must have received
this name subsequently TO the publica-
tion of that volume. Buffers work was
Issued In lS4S, or forty-nine years after
Russell had proclaimed Chamberlain TO
the world "a the man who killed Paugus,
and yet this name "Paugus Brook"
which it Is thus seen was not applied to
the Groton stream till at least forty-nine
years after Elijah Russel's book con-
talning the story of the killing OF Psugus
By Chamberlain WAS published, or, 10
other words. not till at least one hundred
aud twenty-three wars after the alleged
killing of Paugus By the Grotonian
Achilles took sce,--furnlshes just as.
valid evidence In confirmation OF Rus
sells story Of such killing as Is furnish
ed by a gun known as the one with
which Chamberlain did the killing unless
evidence Is given to show thst the time
when the gun began to be so known was
not after Russell's book containing the
story of this alleged episode Of Love-
wells Fight made Its appearance. In
1894 the name "Paugus" was given to q
post-ofiice in Pepperell, Mass.,--a town
which was formerly part OF Groton,-
and the name "Paugus" which was thus
given to this post-0ffice in Pepperell
ninety-dve years after Russell published
to the world the story OF the staying OF
Paugus by Chamberlain might be added
to the evidence which the alleged
Chamberlain gun at Fryeburg and
the name "PauRus Brook as ap-
piled to stream In Groton furnish Of
the truth OF Russells story OF such 8
slaying. II may be that In the course OF
time Groton will have "Paugus Park"
q "Paugus Street Railway Company
"Paueus Hotel" or "Paugus Soap
Fsct0ry,"-with our fences and land
scapes, perchance, inscribed with the
Injunction to "Use Paugus Soap for
Chapped Hands, and then there will DO
more evidence Of the same kind as that
which Ia furnished by the alleged Cham
berlain gun at Fryeburg and the name
"Paugus Brook" as borne by stream
at GrOton that Russell's story Of the
killing Of Paugus by Chamberlain ls
true. In defending desperate cause
resort must be had TO desperate expedi-
ents, but desperate indeed must be q
cause In behalf Of which resort must be
had to such alleged evidence In It's sup
port % IL furnished In favor Of the truth
| OF this hsmberlain-P Paugus story by the
name "Paugus Brook" as used to desig-
nate stream at Gr0t0n and By the old
gun which Mr.. Holden has seen ct Frye
burg. The fact that those who hold that
this story IL true can render no better
reasons to justify their belief In 1t, the
fact that those who essay the task Of
vindicatlng the story are obliged to have
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