Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-11-26

other, there is a small, weather worn slate slab which marks the resting place of Major John Freeman, who died in 1850 at the ripe age of 9S. Be- side it is another stone, that Of Mercy, his wife, daughter of Govern or Prince, one of the first rulers of Plymouth colony, whose farm was nearby and to whom was granted T tract of Cape Cod land nearly ten miles square.
 Lieutenant Freeman, the Majors son, is buried near his father. So also is the Rev. MT. Treat, first pastor i of the society, who for 45 years preached in the church beside the cemetery. Among other virtues tho quaint inscription tells of his Chris tian labors and travail among the salvages,' meaning of course the na- tive Indians in that vicinity.
 The Indians on Cape Cod were. as a general rule, peacefully inclined and dwe,t among their white neighbors in friendly intercourse. But those against whom Major John and the lieutenant, his son, went forth to bat tie in the service which earned for them their military titles, were of another breed entirely. For the Free mans fought in King Phillips War" and there is on record letter from the major in which he gives the names of two Eastman soldiers kill Cd this morning by ye salvages just outside outposts of guard"
 It was hard life that these early Americans led fighting the perils of the deep during the greater part of the year and combating the wiles of hostile savages and the hardships of pioneer life in the period while they were ashore. No doubt these condi- tions contributed to the development of the familiar traits of Yankee char actor. Trading around the world matching his wits against the trick jest dealers ill all the ports of all llte SeNtu SttiS uIdttc HluI Sul < WI bargainer while the severe conditions surrounding his life ashore forced him to be industrious, frugal and per- severing. It was a hard schooling but good one for people whose task was to be the turning of a wild erness into an industrial empire.
 i As long as Americans continued to share in the ocean trade the Cape CoI Yankee continued unchanged, but now the glory of our vanished merchant marine with it's swift clipper ships manned by Yankee crews and with Yankee captains in command, that could show clean pair of heels to anything carrying canvas, is only a memory. Even the fishing industry has practically disappeared from the Cape, the cradle Of Thanksgiving The sons and daughters of the old cap tains are tlocking to the cities or to western states and their places are being taken by foreigners, mostly Portuguese from the Azores. In an- other generation the Yankee as he existed On Cape Cod for nearly three centuries after the settlement of New England will live only in the pages books like "Capn. Whittaker's Place" and others hy Joe Lincoln, who has oeen called the novelist of Yankee dom, and in the observance of Thanksgiving. A Yankee himself and a Colder into the bargain the descen- ''Godder' into the bargain, the descen- dant of long line of sea captains and resident of the Cape during a good part of the year Mfr. Linioln is able to portray the old-time Yankee afioat and ashore with all his shrewl- ness, his peculiarities of speech and manner and his dry humor. record that aside from its entertaining fea- lures. will be of great value in enah- ling future generations to understand one of the most important clements