The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-09-09

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new tangled. school of instruction
under the sun whose headquarters
are on an electric car in the city oi
Boston. and is composed Of inquis:
tive people from every State in the
Union and many from Foreign ports
who are bent on making an excur-
sion for information beyond the
range of their hereditary habits.
A trolley-ca crowded with hand
some. but artless and ansophisti
Gated folks. equipped with flying
banner above the trolley and lee
turer Of profound erudition in Bos-
tons historic care. laundering great
shots of knowledge into the ears of
his countrified passengers by the
means of megophone, is the huge
Joke of the town. The people of
the city along the route of our troll
ley car take this collection of unaf-
fected seekers after things both new
and old as a gang of rustics.
One of the rustics aboard this car
of research was known by the en-
phonious name of Rusticus whom
the megophone lecturer beckoned to
sit near the phone in order to secure
special revelations as he had noticed
Rusticus To be intent on gaining
trolley-car and megophone knowl-
edge. Rusticus bore himself quiet
ly, although he felt like shouting.
So elated was he over so rare an
opportunity offered of extending his
acquaintance with American auti-
quities.
One car loaded with its gang of
rustics set out on time from Park
Square where the British embarked
for Lexington Is April 1775. There
is Boston Common, where the Brit
ish mustered before Bunker Hill,
tract Of land containing about fifty
acres which was bought in 1854 by
Gov. Winthrop and was set apart
for common use as COW pasture
and training field. The Quakers
and Witches had anything else than
a dull time in this old Boston Com
mon. Rusticus felt chilly sensa-
ton.
Park street church is a few steps
from the Common which was built
in 1910 on the site Of the Granary
where sails of the frigate Constitu
ton were made. America" was
first sung in this church. Rusticus
was very near starting the tune so
deeply was he moved.
Bunker Hill monument caught
the sight of Rusticus and his fellow
rustics. The monument is granite
obelisk 22l feet high and contains a
winding stairway of 294 steps to the
top. 1t is said that when a rustic
is at the top Of the monument he
wishes he was on the surface. As
one car swept by. some idle folks
were at the top of this tapering shaft
Of granite looking down on the flag
floating over the heads of our gang
of rustics.
Rusticus was thrilled with pain
at the site of the riot which occurred
March 5, 1870 near the old State
House, between a mob Of townspeo-
pie and the British guard and az
We passed by the site Rusticus de-
clared he was glad he was not a
British subject on that day. The
riot is known as the Boston massa
ere, and is marked by circle in
the stone paving and by a tablet on
building.
Rusticus had no time to sit down
under the imaginary shadow Of the
famous old Liberty Tree which was
planted in 1646 and was cut down
by the British in 1775. Stamp act
meetings were held under this tree
and Tory leaders were hung in
efiigy. Rusticus thought he could
See the -tiigies dangling in the air.
The Boston Tea party" had at
fractions for Rnsticus AS the Mega
phone told the story of n body oi
about fifty Tories disguised ~ Mo
hawks. boarding the three British
tea-ships i'm the harIor and tumhled
342 chests ii Ira into the sea.
The Old North Church recalled
the memory 81 Paul Revere. Thi.
church was dedicated in 1923, and
from its steeple Paul Revere's 8 sig.
nal lanterns wore displayed on
April Is. 1875. Rnsticus reflected
on the place the church held il
those stirring tipes-
One car came near the wharf
where the friaate Constitution wa.
built by Edmund HART in 1874,
When it was propased to dismantle
the old ships and to tear her bat.
tered ensign down public indiena.