Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-11-26

l fly reunions and it still brings thou sands of people from other parts of the country to visit their old homes ]! in those northeastern states
 1 It is probable indeed that Thanks giving Day will stand as permanent monument of the New England Yan- ment within few more years for the Yankee. He will be in need of a monument within few more years for the Yankee himself is pass ing away, disappearing before the in- 1 flux of foreign population that is talk ing place in the New England states
 and before changed conditions of liv- f in. Curiously enough Cape Cod, the | spot which first welcomed him to a
 new land and the scene of -the first
 Thanksgiving observance is proving to be also his last stronghold. Here
 in fact is about the only place where
 there are still to be found men of the i hardy type that made the American clipper ship famous, men like those
 who whipped England's boasted sea-
 fighters in the war of 1912 to the
 tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy.
 1 Not only is Cape Cod the oldest
 spot in the country so far as it's oc-
 cupation by English speaking per-
 sons is concerned, but it is almost the
 only one that looks it's true age. If l those foreign writers who record
 their impressions of America in books could visit the Cape they might qua!- ify their patronizipg statements about ,, the newness and the unfinished ap-
 pearance of everything in the United States. There is nothing new about
 the famous fish-hook curving out from the Massachusetts coast, resisting ths steady batterins of Atlantic pillows on one side and of Massachusetts Bay on the other. There is nothing new about the appearance of the in- habltants either. except some of the summer visitors who flock to this hundred mile long sand spit for theil. annual vacations.
 From BuzZard's Bay to Province
 town everything, except here and there a summer hotel brilliant in new paint has weather beaten settled
 look as much as to say We've been here long time and don't care who
 knows it. The houses, smuggling in- to hollows to escape the bleak win
 ter winds, the ancient captains" and their wives-captains are as numer- ons here as colonels are reputed 90
 be in Kentucky; even the gnarled
 and scattered apple trees leaning
 over at threatening angles from long
 resistance to heavy storms-all sug-
 gest that great many tides have ehbed and flowed since they were set down here.
 It is in the low roofed rambling dwellings of the little Cape Cod towns that We find the real Yankee of past
 generations, resisting the changes that time brings to the outside world
 in very much the same passive but
 effective way that his sandy home re- sists the assaults of old ocean. The
 ancient burial grounds standing clos
 to each village contai nthe homes of
 men who helped to lay the founda- tions Of the American nation and
 whose descendants are to be found l in every part of the country. Some
 of their headstones contain inscrin-
 tions that throw an interesting light
 on the conditions of life that these
 p:oLeer Americans had to contend
 with. For instance, in the long-un-
 used cemtery of the First Parish So-
 ciety of Eastman on the summit of a
 bare hill strewn with glacial bould-
 CTS and swept by the salt winds
 which blow in from the Atlantic on
 one side and Cape Cod Bay on the