The sun., 1904-07-17
BRITISH INVADE Us ANEW.
THEY'RE TAKING UP THE FARMS
ABANDONED ON LONG ISLAND.
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ing and Making New Prosperity In
the Old Colonial Houses Where tho
FlintlOeks Used At Lexington Hung.

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the Old Colonial Houses Where thu
FlintlOeks Used At Lexington Hung
The last campaign Of the Revolutionary
War Is being fought. The battlefield u
the eastern end OF Long Island. Sad to say
the odds are about to on British VIC
tory.
The British General is parson. the Rev
George j. Newton. The Americans have
no leader They are the same old mob OF
unorganized but determined farmers who
started the unpleasantness on Concord
Cammon something over i2s years ago.
Nowhere in the United States has the old
Revolutionary anti British feeling fingered
a. it has on Long Island. The original
Inhabitants came over from Connecticut
long before CORVALLIS threw up the sponge
at Yorktown. Some Of these old settlers
bore arms in the Revolution. They brought
along the fierce family hatred of the old
enemy which was the handspring OF Am
erican diplomacy and American politics in
the first half century Of the Republic On
Long Island they set up their colonial houses
and hung over the fireplaces the old flint
locks which had done duty at Saratoga,
on the Brandywine and at Stony Point.
The colonial houses, the .fintloeks and
the prejudice are mostly there yet. No
community in America sticks tighter to old
tradition. The generation Of the Revolution
and Of 1912 taught 1t to the generation that
voted against jackson and to the generation
Of the civil war. They say yet on the island
that the boys who went out TO be shot in
the Wilderness or to die in the fever swamps
OF Virginia enlisted not so much because they
loved the Union or because they wanted to
free the slaves, as because they thought
that England had hand In the Confederacy
somewhere. The next generation would
have cherished the same feeling, IL there
had been any next generation OF the old
families left in that corner Of Long Island.
But there isn't any present generation.
There's where the British victory begins
Nowhere in the United States have the
young men been more reluctant to stay
with the farms than In this particular corner
OF Long Island. The movement OF farmer
boys to the cities which has kept coon
pmists puzzling for whole generation, has
been almost stampede In these parts. As
coon as an American farmer boy got old
enough to chew hay and energetic enough
to wear paper collar he would get lob on
the railroad, The railroad leads to the CITY.
and the city to the wide world; and the next
time the little town by the farm heard OF
the boy he would be running store in Penn
sylvania or clerklng in Chicago or railroad
Ing IN Texas or prospecting in Colorado.
Then the old folks-they OF the OWL
wsr eeneration-would die, like as not,
Tbs sons would come home to the funeral.
try TO lease the place, and failing, decide
10 hold 1t until land came to be worth
something' and-go back to the railroad
or the mine or store.
There are dotted all over that part Of
Long Island now the ghosts Of past that
was not ingiorious In its way. Drive out
dovn any Of the country roads that branch.
srpm Analogue or Wading River OF Batting
Asi'ow' and you run across them First