Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-20
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in the state as the rocks in the sheep pastures.
And, as the poet hath it
Fen in the City of Boston,
The home of the Bean and the Cod,
Now the Lowells have to talk to
Since the Cabots speak Yiddish, b'gad.
But the patriotic societies. of the old Bay state
let out roar of wrath and anguish. And when
the University of Rochester-New York and Mas
sachusetts always did have hard work to dwell to-
gether in amty-announced that Plymouth Rock
had come from Canada, the grand old Common
wealth got into action. Gov. Claiming III. Cox
was out of tie state, but Lieut. Coy. Alvan T.
Fuller, without waiting minute ordered an ex-
animation then and there Of Plymouth Rock. Ca
madam biologists are not the only ones who can
WELD the hammer and juggle the microscope!
What Lieutenant Governor Fullers geology
perts will fnd-or will report-can only be
guessed at this writing. Perhaps it is better sol
Anyway, Samuel Rice, who is custodian of
Plymouth Rock and its grand new portico and
Commonwealth Reservation, reports that ''some
relic hunter has stolen silver from the rock"
and points out what seems to be freshly broken
spot on the weather-worn surface close to which
are marks as If some one had been hammering.
Plymouth Rock was taken from the custody Of
the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth in 1920 by the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is now
ward of the state. 1t lies about eight feet below
the flooring of the portico which covers it and it
is possible to walk about three sides Of 1t. The
old canopy which covered the rock from 1867 to
1920 was provided with tall steel grill gates which
were locked nights SO .srelic hunters" had little
chance then.
AS to the Thanksgiving Eats" many good
Americans would doubtless be glad to see Massa-
soft more highly honQred on Thanksgiving day. 1t
was he who introduced the cranberry and the
'spunkin' to the American people through the Pill
grims. Massasoit may have been poor ignorant
savage and all that, but he and his people had
a delightfully."- simple and fairly efficient agricul-
tural system: Corn in the hill and climbing
bean; a pumpkin seed every five hills Massa-
soft showed the Pilgrims the cranberry growing
wild in the marshes and had no difficulty whatever
in demonstrating that roast turkey and cranberry
sauce was one heaven-born combination The
Pilgrims Of course, knew about turkeys, which
had been taken across seas from Mexico and had
become common on English farms before 1900.
But 1t was Massasoit who brought turkey, cram
berry and pumpkin together for the Pilgrims.
Massasoit evidently was what in these days
would be called "a good old scout" At the time
Of the arrival of the Pilgrims he was head chief
or sachem of the Wampanoags, whose territory ex-
tended from Cape Cod to Narragansett bay His
home town was on the site of Warren, r. /. He
was about forty years of age, "a portly man in
his best years, grave Of cOuntenance and spare OF
speech" Massasoit was good friend to the Pill
grims and the offensive and defensive treaty made
with them was kept by the chief to the day of his
death in 1861.
The sMayfower Compact" is of course of
the important documents Of our American history
1t was signed by the Al male Pilgrims in the cabin
Of the Mayaower before the landing on Plymouth
Rock. The agreement:
I'm Ye Name of God Amen-We Whole names
under-written, the loyal subjects of our dread
soveraigne Lord King James, by We grace of God
of Great Britaine, France & Ireland King, De-
fender Of the Faith, &C.
"Haveing undertaken for We glorie of God and