Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-09-13


MANCHESTER. Iowa. AS SECOND
And near the opposite end of the
brise there is another monumen
bearing this inscription:
SPY the rude bridge that arched the
flood,
Their flag to Aprils breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers
| stood,
And fired the shot heard round the
world"
And these "embattled farmers
were not content to simply hold the
British soldiers from crossing the
bridge. Exasperated by the killing of
their comrades at Lexington they
charged across the bridge and drove
the British soldiers in disorder back
through Lexington. Major Pitcairn
lost his horse and his pistol and
barely escaped with his life. His pis-
tol from which the first shot of the
| war was fired is now one of the
relics in the above mentioned
museum in Lexington. The timely
| arrival Of reinforcements from Bos-
| ton saved what was left OF the SOO
from annihilation. General Cages
forces retreated back to Boston and
before etsa..o,,a - : = : - glish
general 1 by
no less .olon-
lists, the gums Of his fleet alone saw
ing his army from destruction.
/, Of course, visited the battle field
of Breeds Hill and Bunker Hill and
went up BIG ten inch steps to the
top OF the Bunker Hill monument,
which is ON Breeds Hill. This bat
tie was fought about two months at
ter the battle at Concord and Lex
ington, and have already used aaI
the space can spare in telling
about how the war commenced with
out going further and telling about
more battles.
cannot, however, leave this trip
to Concord withou: speaking about
the houses by the side Of the road
that runs between that town and Lex
ingtod. AS stated before, this road
is only about six miles long. On
OUR way out we were first shown
Nathaniel Hawthorne's stately home
And a short distance further the
home OF Louisa NJ. Alcott. Then
the home Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
md the Old Manse built by Emer-
sons grandfather before the Revolu-
tionary War. In that Old Manse
Emerson wrote Nature, and Haw-
thorne wrote Moses from an Old
Manse.''' And the homes of Thoreal
and other notabQes whose names J
cannot recall We're pointed out to
rs along this six miles of country
road. Verify this was land tina.
developed mem and women OF COM
manding intellect as we'll as soldiers.
And we also saw close to this road
The: home OF the Concord grape, and
the original vine is said to be still
growing and prod ucimg.
,ss When passed the great buildings
os Harvard University on our way
gu. to Lexington, VI knew that in
lew days was going to attend re-
keption given by the president OF
that world renowned school, and try
every 50 hard could not escape iron
an uncomfortable feeling Of personal
insignificance. 1t was with me when
ever I thought of the place until the
lay Of the reception. Over the gate
through which we passed into the
university grounds were these words;
Enter. Increase in knowledge
This motto radiated the germs OF
encouragement It conceded the
possession OF knowledge to all who
entered The school only hoped to
increase that knowledge. And as
walked along through the big camp
US commenced to reason in This
way: The three or four hundred
teachers in this big school know a
great deal about mans conquests ov-
ar the material forces of nature but
there are a great many things they
know no more about than the ordl-
nary man or woman. The stalwart
Delaware county farmer knows as
much about patriotism as any schol'
ar that Harvard ever produced. And
the cherishing mothers OF Iowa
possess a knowledge Of love second
TO none inside or outside OF Harvard;
wallis of brick and stone and steel
And the Harvard scholar knows no
more about faith than many a num-
ble citizen. And as Thought along
those lines my mind grew holder, and
I commenced picturing Harvard
teachers as specialists, no one pos
.sessing a general knowledge OF all
the arts and sciences any more than
a we'll equipped lawyer. They were
each schooled in one particular lihe'
and so were the visiting lawyers, ana
in that way l regained my usual self
posses SION But, nevertheless, Har
ward is great university.
At President Lowell's reception
we met Viscount Uchida, the newly
appointed Japanese minister OF for-
eign affairs, and his beautiful young
wife who is a graduate OF am Amer-
can college. She spoke good English,
and seemed anxious to let everyone