The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-11
OLD PLACES IN NEW ENGLAND. IFrom the Aberdeen (Scotland) Daily
 Free Press.
I,--NeW Haven.


 from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and which are identified with the names Of Jonathan Edwards, Emerson, Longfel- low, Bushnell, Lowell and Holmes-such region has some claim upon the worlds attention The name New Eng land is applied to an area Of not more than sixty-five thousand square miles, and embraces the six eastern states or the Union-Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode lsland and Connecticut. New Haven IS the seat of the celebrated Yale university and once the semi-capital of the last-men- tioned state
 Here I am in New England for the first time in my life and l am very much at home in it. l have often read and dreamt about it, for it's early hls- tory and native literature have been among my favorite studies; but While have been as near as New York on former visit to America, never before did I breathe the air of the veritable Yankeeland Yet it is sometimes dltfl- cult for me to realize that l am so Tar from home. When in the rural parts more especially, I am conscious or linship with the people. Speaking or the characteristics of it's inhabitants rather than it's natural scenery, it may be said there are no two parts on the face of the earth which resemble each other so much as New England and Scotland The Bible and a considerable amount of dry-nursing in the earlier stages of the development of both na- lions may partly account for what they have in common. Be that as it may, the grit of New England is uncommon 1y like the grit of Old Scotland. The two countries are to each other as cousins, if not sisters, and the sturdy eelf-reliance, shrewdness, plainness, along with singular blend of serious ness and humor, irresistibly and al most with comical effect suggest saving the ascent-the ways and spirit of persons I have met, say, in Aber- deenshire. ,...lI
 The peculiar conditions under which the New Englanders began thelr ca reer, from Plymouth Rock onWards' have succeeded in marking them off from other races, even from the Scotch in some particulars, such as smartness, keenness and certain flavor Of Wit; and a distinct type of character has been produced, which has enriched the gallery of human portraits. rearing God so much that they did not fear the face of man, thrown upon their own resources, having ever to keep watch against an enemy-sometimes Indian and as often English-and toll hard to gain a bare subsistence, they became a sort of peasant princes or saints-men who had an open and a clear eye to see and f1Em hand to grasp the things of both heaven and earth. Hard, se- were, gnarled they might be, but they were ever brave. upright, deVout. we recognize the type i'll the lnlmltable ..Bigelow Papers," Hawthornes Scar let Letter" and in countless stories Of New England life.
 But in some respects New England, particularly in it's rural parts, is the light of other days. It is not now the chosen arena of the characteristic American-alert, strenuous, pushing and intent upon making the best of life's opportunities. Westward Elo! is the cry It is scarcely 10 be expected that Yankee should allow sentiment to stand in the way of progress; so the yeomen of New England tired of cul-
 
 erous in it's fertility and has had the strength taken out of it by more than two hundred years crop bearing, have in large numbers sold their farms to Irish and French Canadian settlers and are now doing for the virgin soil of the far west what their fathers did for the land of which we are writing. Modern America, with the best of it's charac- teristic energy in so far as it goes into a agricultural and commercial channels, is therefore not now to be found in the east. but at points far west Of Chicago, where there are new openings ana quick returns.
 New Haven, ''the City of Elms." has a population a little less than that of Aberdeen, but as is the case with most American towns, is stretched out on a Youch wider surface. It is one of the oldest towns in New England, and IS fragrant with Puritan memories, Which if cherishes with an honorable pride. yrhe colony of New Haven was found- ed in 163S. under the leadership of John Davenport, a clergyman, and Theophl- Jus Eaton merchant. Its govern 1nent for years was an obsolute theo- cracy. church membership being an ln- disnensable condition of cltlzenshlp. New Haven was at first an attempt to introduce the Kingdom of Heaven upon the earth by enactment. The Bible was the statute-book of the original settlers, and the choice of magistrates, 1egislation, rights of inheritance, etc., were decided according to the teaching of the Old Testament.
 Such identification of the church ana +he world was soon seen to be Utoplan, or at least premature, even where there was comparative uniformity of creed, and is seen to be ridiculously impracti- cable in the present day, when it is stated that it has within it's borders ten thousand Italians and twelve thousand Russian Jews, not to speak Of negroes, French Canadians. Irish, SWedes and inportatlons from almost every quar- ter of the globe, not excepting China. What strange blending process of race and blood is going on in these American cities. America is the melt ine-pot of the world, and it is marvel ous to seehowinage neration or two the various races flow into the Yankee mould as if that were a part of the eternal constitution of things. l met a Raptist minister here who told me that in his blood was a representation Of half a dozen races, including English,
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