The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-07-07
UPPER MARLBOROUGH, FRIDAY. JULY r. 1890.

the boundary line of New England
is what is left of Ticondcroga. There
one government or another in the last
century spent millions. The cnurs. of
SO the fears. of different governments,
and the old and useless Fort Ticonde-
roga is now wearing away under the
frosts of every winter. But it is an
excellent place for the swapping of 4
camera or even the writing OF Il ballad.
One of the New York corrcspon-
dents of the !"d'pr"dc"t must give you
notes on Albany and Schenectady and
Fort L"c and Fort Washington-nay
even W bite Plains and the rest; and
there are plenty Of antIquarianS i'll
New York who know every inch of
the ground. think the critical battle
in which knowlton was killed was act
ually fought within the limits of the
Central Park remember that asked
Mr. Bancroft one day whether this
were not So He laughed and said,
I'VE may as we'll have it So" rs if it
would not he difficult to coax the dis
patches in that direction.
Now take Il steamer or a train to
New Haven. ul even To- Hartford. and
those Connecticut people will fight
their battles ovcragain for YOU. Please
to remember that ChastrllcuN says of
those people in those times that after
travelling six times backward and for
ward from Newport To Virginia he
might say that he had not met one
man of military age who had not serv
ed against George Ill. Think how
many reminders of the Revolution are
there. There is Nathan lIalcs school
house at New London. and another at
Haddam. which is to be consccratcd to
history this autumn. There is old
Governor Trumbull's workshop from
which ''Brothcr Jonathan :" letters to
George Washington were sent. There
is Parson Pitkins's home, where match
less hospitality is remembered in the
memoirs. There is the rock of the
Charter Oak at Hartford. There is no
town hundred and fifty years old
but has its story of battle or adven-
ture.
And in Rhode Island you can run
rs far back rs the points which the
Pilgrim Fathers first touched in their
negotiations with the Dutch. They
will show you, if you ride along the
coast. the bead necklaces which they
have found in the tombs Of the sach-
ems. And if YOU will work your way
,ar enough into the Narragansett res
| ervation, you shall find good speci-
mems of the Narragansetts ut work to-
day. They will be apt to be laying 4
stone wall. for which they have especial
| fitness.
Then YOU will come back to Boston.
And from Bocton you may start on
lust such a line of adventure again,
| this time to he your own guide, phi
| losophcr and friend. But in finishing
these memoranda. will say that
YOU are not the man | think you are
| if you do not pay five cents for 4 troll
lev ride to the end of City Point in
South Boston. and then walk acr 'Ss,
and under the Notifications Of Fort
Independence mediate on the past.
| This fort, also is now abandoned, thank
God, under the rcquisition of 4 Gospel
of peace. | think it is the seventh
fort which has been built on that spot
since the hard-pressed colony made
the beginning there, not quite sure
whether their guns might not be
trained on King Charles's vessels.
But as the reign Of peace comes on,
it has "happened'' as people like to
saw, that no one of the seven forts has
ever fired shot in anger.-E. E. HHe
IN tie Independent.