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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-08

1Sear1y every night during all those years of changing, for even faithful ness has its tides, put the snudbox under my pillow, and Mime. de Fer, rier's key spoke to my eaH would say to myself: "The one love gave me this key. Did ever. sit beside her on ledge df stone overlooking sunk en garden, so near that I might have touched her? Does she ever think of thA dauphin Louis? Where is sh0I Does she know that Lagarre has be- come Eleazar Williams2"
 The pastors house was fronted with huge white duted pillars of wood, up- holding porch roof which shaded the second floor windows. The doors in that house had short waisted effect with little panels above and long pan els below. I had chamber so clean and small that I called it in ny mind the monks cell, nearly filled With the high posted bed, the austere table and chairs. The whttewashed walls were bare of pictures, except a painted DOT trait. of Stephen Williams, pastor of Longmeadow from 171S to 17S3. Daily. his laughing eyes watched me as if he found my pretentions a great joke. He had a long nose and high forehead. His black hair crinkled, and a merry crease drew its half circle from one cheek around under his chin to the other.
 Longmeadow did not receive me without much question and debate. There were Williamses in every direc- tion; disguised, perhaps, for that gen. eration, under the names of Cooley, Stebbins, Golfer, Ely, Hole, and so on. A stately Sarah Williams, as Mrs. Storrs, sat at the head of the pastors table. Her disapproval was a force, though it never manifested itself ex- cept in withdrawal. If Mrs. Storrs had drawn back from me while lived un- der her roof, should have felt an out cast indeed. The subtle refinement of those Longmeadow women was like the hinted sweetness of arbutus flow CT. Breeding passed from generation to generation. They had not mixed their blood with the blood of any out Siders, and their forbears were English yeomen.
 I threw myself into books as had done during my first months at De Chaumonts before grew to think of Mime. de Terrier. One of those seven years spent at Dartmouth. But the greater part of my knowledge owe to Pastor Storrs. Greek and Hebrew he gave me to add to the languages I was beginning to own, and he unlocked all his accumulsttons of learning. It was a monks life that I lived; austere and without incident, but bracing as the air of the hills. The whole system was monastic, though abomination alighted on that word in Longmeadow. I took the discipline into my blood. It will go down to those after me.
 There man had to walk with God whether he wanted to or nat.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-08

ness to preserve, if any ruling elders were willing to accept their appoint ment- The pastor once went to the next town to enjoy argument with 8 scientific doctor. When he mounted his horse to ride home before nightfall the two friends kept up their debate. The doctor stood by the horse, or walked a few steps as the horse moved. Present ly both men noticed a fire in the east and it was sunrise. They had argued all night
 In Longmeadow man could not help practicing argument. also prac- ticed oratory. and all the time prac- ticed the Iroquois tongue as well as English and French, and began the translation of books into the language of the nation hoped to build. That Indians rnada unatab1s ma4eE1al for
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-08
RY FAREWELL cATHERWOoD

Plugging my old dream to myself, feeling my heart leap toward that western empire which must fascinate a young man as long as there remain any western lands to possess, told him intended to educate our Iroquois as soon as I could prepare myself to do it, and settle them where they could grow into a greater nation.
 The man of God kindled in the face. He was a dark eyed, square browed, serious man, with black hair falling below his white band. His mouth had a sweet, benign expression even when he quizzed me about my dauphinhood. 4 New England pastor was a flame that burned for the enlightenment of the nations. From that hour it was settled that should be his pupil and go with him to Longmeadow to finish my education. ..
 When we landed he helped me to sell my Babylonish clothes, except the white court dress, to which I chung with tenacity displeasing to him, and garb myself in more befitting raiment. By Skenedonk's hand I sent some of the remaining gold coins to my mother mdr1annes ana the cl1eL when ne ES" joined the tribe and went to pass the winter at St. Regis, And by no means did forget to tell him to bring me let ters from De Chaumont's manor in the spring if any arrived there for me.
 How near to heaven the New Eng land village seemed, with Mount Tom on the horizon glorious as Mount Zion. the mighty sweep of meadow land, the Connecticut river flowing in great peace, the broad street of elms like some gigantic cathedral nave and in it's very midst shrine, the meeting house, double decked with fan topped windows!
 Religion and education were the mainsprings of it's life. Pastor Storrs worked in his study nearly nine hours a day and spent the remaining hours in what he called visitation of his flock
 This being lifted out of Paris and plunged into Longmeadow was tlle pouring of white hot metal into chill molds. It cast me- With aeething and roar of loosened forces the boy passed to the. man
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-08
CHAPTER xx.

VEN when year had passed I
 said of my escape from the
 Tuileries: "It was a dream.
 How could 1t have happen edI" for the adventures of my wan dering fell from me like a garment, leaving the one changeless passion.
 skenedonk and met on the ship New England minister, who looked upon and considered us from day to day. I used to sit in the stern, the miles stretching me as a rack stretches flesh and tendons. The minister re- garded me as prostrated by the spider bite of that wicked Paris, out of which he learned had come by talking to my Oneida.
 The Indian and were queer pair that interested him, and when he dis covered that bore the name of Elea- gar Williams his friendship was sealed 9a, us Eunice Williams of Deerfeld, She grandmother of Thomas Williams, evas traditional brand never snatched from the burning in the minister's town of Longmeadow. where nearly every fnhabitant was descended from or espoused to Williams. Though he himself was born Storrs, his wife was born Williams, and could have lain at his feet andacried, so open was the heart of this good man to a wanderer rebounding from a family that dis owned the pretender. He was my well come back to America. The breath of eastern pines and the resinous sweet ness of western plains I had not yet seen, but which drew me so that could scarcely wait to land, came to nc with that man. Before the voyage endod ' had told him my whole history as far as knew it, except the story of Mime. de Terrier, and the beginning of 1t was by no means new to him. The New England Williamses kept pray erful eye on that branch descending through the Iroquois. This transplant ed Briton returning from his one mem orabIe visit to the England of his fore fathers despised my Bourbon claims and even the French contraction of my name.
 "What are you going to do now, 1sleazarY he innuired
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-08
Learn TO Dance.

at Miss Nellye q. Reeds Dancfne Academy, 108 Bank street, second floor Jones & Morgan's building. Tuesday evenings advanced class. Beginners classes always forming. Thuraday and Friday evenings. Terms, 12 class les sons, $4; private and 6 class, $5; b private. $5; single private lesson. s1
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-08
WHAT DO YOU TRUNK i?

Christmas is most here and so is winter Keep your hens out of the snow and feed them BUFFALO POULTRY FOOD. You will not lose anything by it. We want to call pas1r attention to the fact that we have nice line of SALT for table use, also SALT BRICKS and MINERAL SALT for horses. HAY SALT for stock, and "TURK'S ISLAND SALT'' for pork.
 BLATCHFORD'S CALF MEAL.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-05-20

Tell your children Of IL, and let
your children tell their children. and
their children another generation" is
IN injunction honorcd by age. but
which every true New Highlander Is
prompted to obey on each anniversary
OF the memorable battle Of the open.
ing Of the revolution.
A glimpse at the battle map gives
the reader some intimation OF the ter.
ritory stirred to action and from
which came the cmbattlcd farmers,
n suggests the spirit of gratitude
shown In bronze and granite set mp
by those who now consider that sig.
niicant uprising in connection with
It's consequences TO the entire world.
Although years have passed, evidence
OF the yeomen's determination con.
tinue TO accumulate. or all the towns
that responded to the Lexington
alarm. none has u grandcr record than
the town of Acton, and from the old
Robbins garrett in that territory has
come this very spring a yellow manu-.
script which reads as follows:
I'VE. the subscribers. do solcmnly
agree and promise that We will OBJ
serve and conform To the association
OF the continental congress. and do
hereby make IL u own particular act
and covenant until we obtain an
ample redress OF our grievances. as Is
specified in the said association. as
witness II hand this fifth day Of
December. 177i."
or the twcnty.scven signatures 10
this paper, m autograph most i'm.
pressive is that of Isaac Davis. who
fell at Old North bridge on the 9th OF
April.
The alarm sounded by Paul Revere
vas carried On by courier to the Dor.
ders OF the county and beyond, while
Ebenezer Dow, who left Boston about
the anne hour, disguised as a country.
man on a marketing trip, gave the
alarm TO the towns in other directions.
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by the house Of correction IL the tab
let that tells Of the fact.
On Burial hill. Charlestown. are
gravestones broken by the bullets Of
the enemy on that day.
Newton, the southern extreme Of
Middlesex county, e n out 218 men.
A veteran Of 76 years, Noah WiswaI.
was in the company. He went, he
said. to see what his three sons and
sOn.in-law were doing. He was wound
ed in the hand. but bound It up with
his handkerchief and went home with
a gun captured from the enemy.
There were four companies from the
towns Of Groton and Pepperell. The
women were on duty at home, under
command of Mrs. David Wright. They
captured Capt. Leonard Whiting. Of
Hollis, a friend of the enemy, who was
bearing reasonable dispatches from
Canada to Boston.
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8 Old Bay State Towns Whose Citizens
Won First Battle of the Revolution.


with others from a distance h q
arrived. entered a walled Enclosure
and piled up bundles Of shingles for
a breastwork, but It proved to be
their pen OF slaughter. The retreat
ing enemy came down the main road
and the watchers were surprised by
a fianking party Of irritated British.
| who wreaked their vengeance on the
~provincials.
Not less than 90 Americans fell on
that April afternoon In Men0tOmy
Cambridge. and fully twice rs many
OF the enemy persisted. Many Of the
dead we're carried back TO the towns
whence they zane In the early morn
ing. SO urgent were their country's
needs that the villagers had no time
for funeral rites and the carpenters
were too busy to make the collins, ~
that these martyrs were committed Va
a common grave with their clothes for
shrouds.
Lynn. in Essex county, responded
with a will. Many men went I'm hot
haste in answer to the early warning.
Four were killed, as the immortal
scroll bears testimony. One, Abed-
ueco Ramsdell. ran In his stocking
feet from the marsh, where he was
cunning. all the way to Saugus, got to
Lexington at noon, faced the British
in the middle OF the road. fired once
and fell riddled with bullets. No more
%pretentious monument Ia needed than
the simple %gravestone set up to Town
sends memory.
Charlestown. although only across
the river Charles. saw none OF tho
fighting until the return OF the enemy.
yet her men were out in pursuit of
the British, with whom they were ia
miliar. James Miller was killed and
n son Of Capt. william Barber, IL
years old, lost his life. II was ut
Phipps' farm, Cambridge. that the en-
envy landed I'm the morning when
starting on their excursion, and there
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American Press Founded at Boston
April. 1904. Spans Two Hundred Years.


crease Mather, in which the Courant
was denounced as "a wicked libel"
and the wrath Of God vas called down
upon the head Of its editor.
About this time James Franklin in
timated In his paper that the Massa.
chusetts government was dilatory in
sending an armed vessel in search OF
pirates who we're then infesting the
coast. and for this he was put in Jail.
where he remained about four weeks.
On the imprisonment OF James
Franklin the editorial management Of
the Courant fell to Benjamin Frank
lin. who, since the papers first issue,
had been devil" in the office. and had
distributed the edition to subscribers
on publication days. lie had been
fired with a desire TO write, and his
communications to the editor. written
secretly and put under the Office door
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carried In an OK cart to the burial
grave. Lincoln has erected a memo
rial stone over the resting place Of the
unknown foes.
Chelmsford, a mother town, was in
corporated in 1855, and at the time the
provinces shook off the yoke OF OPP
preston included the present city Of
Lowell, then East Chelmsford. There
were brave, determined men here from
the days of King Philips war, and
there was bold action here in 1875.
They agreed upon a great stone near
the center of the town as the rallying
point, and when the news from Con-
cord reached them they made haste to
the place of duty.
The Westford men were among the
first at the bridge. The company
reached Concord just as the firing be-
gan, and Joined in the pursuit. Capt.
Bates was mortally wounded.
The old town of Billerica had a
score TO settle against the kings
troops, for during the winter of 1774'5
| one OF the men of the town had been
| seized in Boston and treated to a coat
of tar and feathers. Hence they had
sharpened their %bayonets and loaded
their muskets to be ready at q mo-
ment's notice. They received word by
way of Woburn and the Minute men
we're at Lexington ready to balance
accounts with the regulars as they
| ~retreated. The militia company inter
copied the enemy at Merriam's corner,
under Col. William Thompson. Ma
thaniel Wyman was killed. Although
| claimed by Billerica he is recorded in
Lexington. John. Nicklen and limo
thy Blanchard Of Billerica were
wounded.
In Arlington, once Cambridge
| stands a stone on which is the follow
ing:
At this spot. April ~. l75.
The old men of Menotomy
| Captured a convoy of eighteen soldier!
with supplies on its way TO Join
The British at Lexington.
This was the first concerted actor
on the part of the Cambridge men anC
by those who were too old to do full
duty. They were headed by Rev. Mr.
Pason, Of Chelsea, IL is thought, an,
David Lamson, OF Cambridge, took
leading part. The fight was about
in the afternoon. The Cambridge men
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other since the appearance of the
Newsletter, April "a. 1894. have
been set adrift upon the uncertain
seas Of popular approval.
The first English newspaper printed
in America was issued from a Boston
press in 1890. 1t was a little sheet,
7xl1 inches, printed on three pages.
with the fourth blank. entitled Pub.
lick Occurrences, both Foreign and
Domestick."
The proprietor stated 1t would be
issued monthly, and give a "faithful
relation" of all happenings. Four
days after its appearance the legisla'
turc decreed that Occurrences was an
unlawful enterprise, and should not
again appear without license from the
government-something its publisher
never succeeded in getting.
In the week of April 1924. 1904,
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QueWHAns |

after the appearance of the News.Let-
ter developed only slowly.
In 1883 there were but forty.three
newspapers in the United States; in
1901 there were 200 weekly and sever
teen daily journals. In 1880, $50 news
papers were published $50 dailies) !;
il 1910, 1881; in 1850, 2,526: in 1860,
4.O51: in 1870, ssh; in 1900, $50
daily, 9.71S weekly and 1,075 other
newspapers and periodicals; in 1908
the number Of newspapers published
in the United and Canada was 81 ,451.
In the early days of the press in
Boston the printer and the editor
we're often the same. There were
few editors for the first fifty years
Of American newspapers who were not
able to set type and work a press.
In mechanical equipment there was
no great change in the principles N
newspaper printing for a century aftd
ahe establishment OF the Boston New
Letter.
The invention of the cylinder pres
1S14-1S27, the application Of mechai
ical power to presses in 1885, the ID
vention Of stereotyping in 1861, wen
the most important steps toward TIL
great mechanical equipments of to-day
that enable a city newspaper to tur
OF an edition OF 300, 600 copies OF
paper containing sixty-four pages. 1
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at night, had been unsuspectingly
printed by his brother.
When the editorial toga fell on the
shoulders Of Benjamin Franklin, his
ambition for the moment IA real
lied. He ably edited the paper while
his brother was in Jail, and, owing to
the irresponsible character Of James,
the name of Benjamin Franklin in
February. 1928. was given as the Cou,
rants publisher. .
Much and perhaps undue glory was
reflected on the history Of the Cou.
ran by the association with II of the
great philosophers name; but it earn
ed at least the the title to the first OF
the free lances in Boston journalism.
One Boston weekly above all Others
deserves to be especially mentioned,
the oftentimes unfortunate and al
ways misunderstood Liberator of vii
liam Lloyd Garrison, which, from its
very inception down almost to its
death, manfully stemmed the curren,
of a strong and prejudiced public opin
ion. Sometimes its Office was demol
ished. Once its editor was dragged
through the streets of Boston with the
rope ready for execution about his
neck. He was subjected at all times
to the ridicule and denunciatiOns Of
his professional contemporaries. Il
l strong words from the leading pulpits
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Hence 1t is that more than thirty
towns are found represented on the
roll of honor Of April 10. 1875.
Lexington vas on the line Of march
Of the kings army, hence here oc-
Cured the first clash OF arms. Here,
too, were peacefully sleeping in the
parsonage John Hancock and Samuel
Adams. whose capture was greatly de.
sired by the enemy. and whose doom
was fixed. Other guests at Parson
Clark's that night were Nine. Lydia
Hancock, aunt Of the patriot, and
Dorothy Quincy, his betrothed.
The alarm brought to Concord by
DR.. Samuel Prescott, who had been
at Lexington paying court to his loved
one, was quickly passed along TO Ac.
ton. A horseman galloped to the
home OF Capt. Joseph Robbins and
without dismounting at the house,
cried out: Capt. Robbins! Capt,
Robbins; the regulars are coming"
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when on the retreat. Here companies
from more distant towns met the m
envy and gave fight. Ten of the Brit.
ish fell and several OF the Americans
were engaged near Fish's hill.
The kings forces were so holly pur.
I'll the next day, when the bodies of
the enemy were given Christian burial
by the people of Lincoln. Three found
graves by the side Of the kings high
way. and two in a field near where
they died. Five were taken up and
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Another Contemporary
AIU6eMpNtD
NaNfWR

the same time that would have bee
required to turn out 800 copies of II
Boston Newsletter.
The development of newspapers ar
the means of printing them has bed
one of the most interesting and re-
markable phases of the advancement
of civilization in America in the 200
years that has passed since the
American newspaper press was estab-
lished in Boston, in the month of
April, 1904.
The Worcester antiquarian society,
which possesses the most nearly com
plete file of American newspapers,
gives a list, in its catalogue, of 1856
Boston publications, monthlies, week
lies, semi.weeklies and dailies, living
and dead. which at one time and an
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Yy0@l0s6

of New England, and to satire and
venom alike from speakers upon the
public forums. But G%arrison's Il will
be heard" prevailed, and the Liberia
tors editor had the satisfaction of see
ing the principles for which he so
stoutly %contended through long years
of persecution and suffering become
incorporated in the law of the land.
About the earliest religious weekly
was the old Boston Recorder, started
in 1916, afterward changed to the Con
gregationalist. Unbroken files OF both
papers have been preserved. The old
literary or story weeklies, such as the
Yankee Blade, the Star Spangled Ban
ner, and the True Flag, abound in de-
lightful memories to the readers of an
older generation.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-05-20

TWO hundred years ago. with the
appearance of the Boston News.Let.
ter in the week Of April 1924, the
American press was founded.
Before that time but one paper had
appeared in the colonies. and that
but once. The Newsletter came to
stay and for fifteen years was the
only newspaper on this side of the
Atlantic. Philadelphia was the sec.
ono American city to establish a
paper, in 17l9, and New York was
third, in 1926.
BY that time Boston had three
newspapers, and on one of them. the
Courant, there worked a youth whose
name has ever spread luster on the
craft Of printing in America. Ben,
jamin Franklin.
The American newspaper press for
the first three.quarters of a century
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there appeared Boston's first pe.ma-
nent paper, The Boston Newsletter. 1t
was printed by Bartholomew Green
and edited by John Campbell, post.
master, being modelled on the news
letters that the postmaster Of Boston
had been in the habit Of preparing and
sending to the governors of the other
New England colonies.
In 1719 Editor Campbell lost the
Boston postofice, and his successor,
following the custom Of the time,
founded a newspaper organ Of his
own, the first Boston Gazette, the
new postmaster and new editor, Will
lam Brooker. making his editorial bow
Dec. 81, 17l9.
During the twenty-five years that
this original Boston Gazette existed
Boston had five ~postmosters, and each
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and hogan its career by attacking the
Newsletter, calling 1t "a dull We
hicle."
brother began I'd pitch into the gov.
eminent and criticise the clergy. His
differences with the clergy had to do
with vaccination, IA practice which
Franklin opposed by argument and by
ridicule. The Mathers. father and
son, were lampooned with a virulence
seldom witnessed inI the press of the
present day, and THE result was an
Address to the Publick" by DR.. In,
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took place before the engagement: II
haven't a man that's afraid To 60"
and the Acton minute mcn were in the
front in the opening fight.
Capt. Davis and Abner Hosmer
were killed and Ezekiel Davis was
wounded While pursuing the enemy.
and at Fisk's hill James Hayward was
MORALLY wounded.
The heaviest fighting Of the day
was on Lincoln soil in the afternoon
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The Acton companies were not long
In assembling and were soon on the
road to Old North Bridge, leaving the
ONE to prepare food which the
boys were to bring on when ready.
The minute men took up the line OF
march to the stirring notes Of the
white Cockade," Luther Blanchard
was fifer, and Francis Barker drum
mer.
Both companies from Acton were
at the bridge and had a prominent
place in the engagement. Capt. Davis
had said in the hasty discussion that
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The men OF Shirley we're equally
determined. Old will, the Miller"
who was bowed and crippled from
age, declared he would go when the
company started off for Concord, say.
ing: True, l cannot handle a musket,
but | will fight the redcoats with my
two canes" which he ~brandished IL
the air.
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Appendicitis Is Contagious.
DIR. G. G. Sheldon, of the lead
ing physicians of Wisconsin, MAIN
tains that appendicitis is contagious