The Newtown bee., 1905-09-01

R ~ 1nari g. AGREES 90 p; nr.
harnton, N. Y. When Home Of swamp-Root.
writing mention this paper and dom
make any mistake, but remember tn
name, DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, ans
the address, Binghamton, N. Y.
we'll knew what they were taking upor
them; they knew that liberty must
| win or they must die. One of theil
number hit the point when he said
"And now we must all hang together
or else we shall all hang separately
But did one of those tifty-six give his
life for his convictions? Not one
They all died peacefully. How many
of that Pilgrim band, tell me, persisted
during that first bitter winter? Over
come by struggles and weakened by
privation for half the number the
driven snow became their winding.
sheet and the winds bowling through
the naked pines sang their funeral
dirge; and, as it always is, the suffer
ing came harder upon the women than
upon the men. 1t was not so much
the wild beasts of the forest that
howled about the door; it was not so
much the Indian who often proved
terrible treacherouS and cruel: it was
not so much these things that made
the heart sick and made life in the
pioneer wilderness prolonged round
of heroic endurance, as the utter lone
illness and exile of those who had left
the best in life across the stretch of
waves. The stars of the winters
night looked down upon them, but
they we're so cold and far away. The
winds Of the forest murmured low
whisperings about their dwellings, but
they were SO gloomy and chill. The
waves of the tossing sea talked in
hoarse cadence as they listened, but
they gave forth no syllable OF love and
echoed no sympathetic tone. Our lux
urieS have brought us into effeminacy
and love of ease; we delight in soft
things; we do not dare to mount the
sleeps. We wish tue way marked
clearly out before us. If this age is
to leave an impress upon all time such
as the Puritan has done, if it is to take
THE sTRO NC CHARACTERISTICS OF
THOSE DAYS
and hold them steady and true in the
swirl of currents setting all the other
way, we must get back to the grit that
brooked no obstacle, and to the pluck
that carried victory in the very doing
The characteristic, however, which,
above all.others, strikes us as belonging
to this pioneer age is the love Of home
The PuritanS we're hOme-makerS and
mpire-fOunders. God first made wom-
IN because it was found that man
could not get along without her, and
woman only reaches her completeness
when the union of the strong and the
gentle qualities is made in the estab
iShment of a home. No nation has |
ever yet endured which has neglected |
ibis God-given institutions; and this |
latiOn has so far led in the march of |
lime because its foundation pillars |
we're three-fold, the church, the school |
house and the home.
Did you ever study into the history |
If our two leading colonies, the one |
ounded at Jamestown and the other |
m Plymouth Bay? The Virginia COL
my came within one Of being an utter
allure. Die you ever look into the
'eason why? The Jamestown colony
efJ out the thought of home. 1t was
me hundred and two old bachelors
Who came over here and settled upon
he river James and had it not been
who is said to have saved the
;olony by supplying them with provis,
ons, and had it not been that twelve
ears after they landed here their mis-
AXE was discovered and 100 beautiful
'Oung women were sent over from
England to make wives for these COL
mics, the whole settlement would have
zone down in total collapse. A whole
;olony Of bachelors! What on earth
AN you do with them? 1t is bad
enough to have one or two scattered
throughout an entire community but
When it comes to a whole colony of
hem what then? OF course you tell
ne that some of the greatest and best
anne in the line of that colony in the
Did Dominion. There were Patrick
denry, the fiery orator of the Revolu-
ion, George Washington, the Father
# his Country, and Thomas Jefferson,
he penman of the immortal Declara-
ion, and James Madison, who wrote
'ur nations constitution; all this is
rue but still [ say without fear of con-
that had it not been for
his voyage Of England's 100 fair wom-
n to these shores, the history of this
)art OF our nation, at least, would
lave taken quite another turn. In the
passenger list of the Maytlower there
we're nineteen wives and seven daugh-
;ers, the foremothers of so many of
jhese homes which have blessed the
New England wales and made this lit
lie corner of Gods footstool great. 1t
S beautiful tradition which has been
handed down to US that the first one
% set foot upon stern old Plymouth
Rock was the first maiden, Mary Chill
ion, and the last one of the Plymouth |
oand to survive was Mary Allerton,
living to see twelve out of the thirteen |
colonies established which
THE NUCLEUS OF THIS GREAT
NATION.
Would you like to know little more
tbout some of these sturdy women OF
hose early days who were true home
makers and who, by strength of mind |
Ind muscle, were noble helpmeets to
heir Stdlwart sireS? There was Miss
Eliza beth Zane, who ran the gauntlet |
If the Indians fire in order to secure a
<eg OF powder, and by nerve and hero
SIN saved the whole settlement from
massacre. There was Mrs Hendree, of
Royalton, VT, who rescued fifteen cap
jured children from the Indians at the |
'isk of her own life. There was Han
lah Duston, who dispatched with a
jOmahaWk a whole camp of Indians
md secured her own safety. This
heroic deed, as recorded by Bancroft,
IS perhaps the most thrilling of all !