Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-09-21

| lundle DIS W nave COPIES VI lue Gull
plete program. In place of our
usual poem, comes the prologue,
which is supposed to be Plymouth
Rock speaking, and was given by
one unseen in a rich, powerful
voice:
l, the rock of Plymouth, speak to you,
| Americans.
| Here / rested in the ooze
From the ages primordial
| Men came and went: Norsemen,
| Seamen of England voyagers of
| France, Dutch Adventures,
over and round me.
| The Indians worked, played, lived.
was a rock of millions along the
| shore,
| Waiting for what?
came pestilence, sweeping the In
dams from the land.
Around me the cleared fields waiting,
| The bay swarming with fish,
The woods full of game, all waiting.
|. too, waiting, for what?
In England, growing, the spirit of
man,
Freed by his bible, read in his home,
Studied with passion.
Out of the Church of England-a
Puritan.
Out of the puritan, separatists-of
London.
OF Scroohy, of Sturton, of England,
Seeking freedom of thought of living
by truth.
Out of the separatists, driven from
England
The Pilgrim
England, stern mother, refuses him.
Holland, the foster mother, he leaves,
still searching his freedom,
Sails westward, and comes to me
BY chance, by choice, who knows?
To me the Pilgrims come, on me they
stand
AS one by one they land.
Here they will work out their saliva
ton.
For this have l been waiting, waiting,
OF me. the rock in the ooze, they have
made cornerstone of the
Republic.
In contrast with the dignity of
the above, from an old scrapbook
belonging to East" who suggested
the following might be of interest if
used in the column I give you
A NEW PILGRIMS PROGRESS.
Milestones in his journey from 1920 to
the present year-(Then probably
1850
1920 Lands on Plymouth Rock and
sets up for himself.
1621-keeps thanksgiving-in no
danger of overeating.
1922 Builds a meeting house
1923 Proclaims a Fast Day.
1928 Cuts down a May pole at Merry
Mount as a rebuke to vain
recreations.
1885 Stakes out a new farm in Con-
necticut.
1887 Makes war on the Indians and
whips them
1888 Starts a college.
1910 Sets up a printing press.
1643 First Colonial Congress.
164S Lays down the Cambridge plat
form. Hangs a witch.
1919 Sets his face against the wear
ing of long hair.
1851 Is forbidden to wear gold and
silver lace and gewgaws.
1852 Coins Pine Tree shillngs,
1868 Prints bible for Indians.
1850 Buys a "hangup clock" Learns
to use forks at table.
1892 Scared by witches again,
1902 Pounds another college at New
Haven.
1904 Prints his first newspaper in
Boston
1905 Tastes coffee as a luxury at his
own table.
1710 Begins to sip tea.
III Puts letter in his first post
office.
1920 Eats a potato and takes one
home to plant as a curiosity.
1740 Manufactures tin ware.
1742 Sees Faneuil Hall built.
1745 Builds an organ but does not
permit it to be played in a
meeting house.
1855 Puts up a Franklin stove in the
best room and tries the
I lightning rod.
| 1860 Takes his wife to meeting in a
chaise instead of on pillion
| 1870 Buys home made wooden
| clock
1873 Waters his tea in Boston Har-
| Dor.
| 1874 Lights streets of Boston with
oil lamps.
1875 Declares himself independent
1880 Buys an umbrella" for Sun
days.
1891 Starts cotton spinning
factory.
1892 Raising silk worms in Con.
| necticut.
1898 Invents the cotton gin.
1902 Has the boys and girls vacci-
| mated.
1906 Tries to burn piece of hard
coal from Philadelphia. A
failure.
1907 Sees boat go by steam on the
Hudson.
1915 Holds a convention at Hart
| ford.
1917 Sets up a stove in the meeting
| house
1919 Crosses the Atlantic in a
| steamer.
| 1922 Lights gas in Boston.
1925 Puts a percussion cap on his
| old musket.
1925 Buys his wife pair of queer
shaped India rubber over
| Shoes
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