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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June
+1922,  Volume 6, Number 4, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
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+
+Title: Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June 1922,  Volume 6, Number 4
+       A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of Southeastern Massachusetts
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: February 8, 2005 [EBook #14979]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAPE COD MAGAZINE ***
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+Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Robert Prince and the PG Online
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+
+CAPE COD
+and ALL the
+PILGRIM LAND
+
+A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of
+Southeastern Massachusetts
+
+
+Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at
+HYANNIS, MASS.
+
+
+JUNE 1922
+Volume 6, Number 4
+
+
+PUBLISHED BY
+THE CAPE COD PUBLISHING CO., Inc.
+HYANNIS, MASS
+
+Lemuel C. Hall, Editor    Charles L Gifford, Business Mgr
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration: Frontispiece--DANCING ON THE SANDS]
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+FROM THE PUBLISHER'S DESK
+
+FRONTISPIECE--Dancing on the Sands
+
+THE PORTAL OF THE CAPE--L.C. Hall
+
+WHERE SHALL I SPEND MY VACATION
+
+WELLFLEET--Edward L. Smith
+
+A SQUEAK FOR A LIFE--P.T. Chamberlain
+
+CAPE TROUT STREAMS.
+
+OCEAN TRAVELS--Emma M. Pray
+
+EDITORIALS
+
+"CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE"--E.M. Chase
+
+"BY HEART"--Lillian E. Andrews.
+
+"BY TELEPHONE"--E.M. Chase.
+
+FALMOUTH INNER HARBOR
+
+"BASS RIVER"--Arethusa
+
+CAPE COD NOTES
+
+A DELAYED LETTER
+
+A MILLION QUARTS OF STRAWBERRIES
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+FOR AUTO TOURISTS
+
+
+The following tourist routes from Boston to points in Pilgrim Land
+will be found useful to autoists:
+
+
+BOSTON TO BUZZARDS BAY VIA BROCKTON
+
+0.0  Park Square, westerly on Boylston Street, bearing left on
+Huntington Avenue at Copley Square.
+
+1.1 Turn right on Massachusetts Avenue and bear left on Westland
+Avenue.
+
+1.4 Pass through entrance to Fenway, curving left and bearing right
+at Y.
+
+1.6 Y, after crossing stone bridge, keep left.
+
+1.9 Y, bear left across stone bridge; turning right and crossing
+Brookline Avenue.
+
+2.9 Y, bear slightly left, crossing Brookline Avenue.
+
+3.3 Cross Huntington Avenue and enter Jamaica Way.
+
+4.4 Jamaica Pond on right; bear right on Pond Street, but at Y keep
+left on Jamaica Way.
+
+5.9 After passing Arnold Arboretum on right, jog right and left into
+Morton Street, passing under railroad and continuing on Morton Street,
+to
+
+6.3 Y, keep right on Morton Street.
+
+7.9 Turn right on Blue Hill Avenue and follow trolley to
+
+9.1  Mattapan Square. Straight ahead over bridge, bearing left on
+Blue Hills Parkway.
+
+9.5 Y, turn left and follow trolley on Brook Road.
+
+10.2 Junction of five roads, turn right on White Street.
+
+10.5 Through five corners, running into Reedsdale Road.
+
+11.1 Four corners, turn right on Randolph Avenue, with trolleys.
+
+17.4  Randolph, five corners, bear right with trolley.
+
+19.5  Avon. Pass monument on left, follow trolley.
+
+23.4  Brockton. Straight ahead on Main Street.
+
+27.8  W. Bridgewater. Turn left at monument, following trolley.
+
+30.5  Bridgewater. Straight through.
+
+39.1  Middleboro. Turn left with trolley.
+
+50.6  Tremont. Follow trolley.
+
+54.4  Wareham. Straight ahead, turn left with trolley over bridge.
+
+57.1  E. Wareham. Turn right at garage; cross railroad at Onset
+Junction; follow trolley.
+
+58.4  Onset. Follow trolley.
+
+61.1  Buzzards Bay.
+
+
+BUZZARDS BAY TO PROVINCETOWN
+
+0.0  Buzzards Bay  station on right; straight ahead, avoiding left-hand
+roads.
+
+5.4 Three corners, turn right over canal bridge.
+
+5.7  Sagamore. Straight ahead, turning left at end of road.
+
+8.0  Sandwich. Curve left.
+
+19.4  Barnstable. Straight ahead.
+
+22.9  Yarmouthport. Straight ahead.
+
+27.4  Dennis. Straight ahead.
+
+32.8  Brewster. Straight ahead.
+
+39.7  Orleans. Straight ahead.
+
+43.5  Eastham. Straight ahead.
+
+52.7  Wellfleet. Straight ahead around curves.
+
+57.6  Truro. Straight ahead.
+
+67.5  Provincetown.
+
+
+BUZZARDS BAY TO PROVINCETOWN VIA FALMOUTH
+
+0.0  Buzzards Bay. Railroad station on right; go straight ahead.
+
+0.7 Turn right over bridge across canal; turn sharp right at store.
+
+3.5  Monument Beach. Turn left, passing railroad station; straight
+ahead.
+
+16.4  Falmouth. Turn left at park.
+
+26.2  Mashpee. Straight through.
+
+32.7  Marston Mills. Bear right up grade.
+
+34.0  For Cotuit, bear right.
+
+35.3  Osterville. Y, bear left through irregular four corners.
+
+37.1  Centerville. Straight ahead, but at end of road, turn left.
+
+42.0  Hyannis. Straight ahead.
+
+47.1  S. Yarmouth. Turn sharp right and cross bridge.
+
+48.5  W. Dennis. Straight ahead, bearing right at Y.
+
+51.0  W. Harwich. Straight ahead.
+
+53.8  Harwichport. Straight ahead.
+
+60.4  Chatham. Just before reaching village, turn left at white church.
+
+69.1  Orleans. Bear right at irregular four corners and follow macadam
+road to
+
+96.9  Provincetown.
+
+
+SAGAMORE TO PLYMOUTH
+
+Keep straight ahead after crossing canal bridge. Good road all the
+way to Plymouth.
+
+
+BOSTON TO PLYMOUTH
+
+0.0  Boston. Park Square. Follow route given above to Mattapan Square.
+
+9.1  Mattapan  Square. Straight ahead over bridge, bearing left on
+Blue Hills Parkway. Y, turn left and follow trolley on Brook Road,
+cross Central Avenue and bear left on Brook Road. End of Brook Road,
+curve left to Adams Street.
+
+12.4  E. Milton. Cross railroad and keep straight ahead.
+
+14.7  Quincy. Washington Square, curve left with trolley.
+
+21.1  Hingham. Railroad station on right; straight ahead with trolley
+to Y at top of grade, bear right on Summer Street, leaving trolley.
+
+26.1  Cohasset. Railroad station on right; four corner, straight ahead.
+
+27.9  N. Scituate. Cross railroad; straight on to
+
+38.2  Marshfield. Turn right on Moraine Street.
+
+46.8  Kingston. Cross railroad, follow trolley to
+
+51.2  Plymouth.
+
+"Y" means the fork of two roads.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+NOTE--The map plainly shows the routes that can be taken by
+automobiles on the Cape. The red lines show state highways and
+macadam roads. Any road marked in red can be safely taken. Patronize
+the garages, hotels and stores on this sheet. THEY ARE RELIABLE AND
+GOOD.
+
+[Transcriber's Note: Map missing from original text.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+FROM THE PUBLISHERS' DESK
+
+THE MAN WHO WANTS TO DO IT ALL
+
+
+You're to blame if your mind is wasting time. It does the work you
+select.
+
+Fill your head with trifles and there'll be no space for big things.
+Hack ideas occupy as much room as thoroughbred inspirations.
+Unimportant details frequently require as much attention as
+constructive plans.
+
+Proportion is the sixth sense and without it the other five are
+practically useless.
+
+Apply your days discreetly--don't do anything which you can hire
+somebody else to execute for you. Concentrate on paying propositions.
+Aside from the arts and fine crafts, nobody ever got far
+single-handed.
+
+Delegate the lesser duties to assistants. Let them make an occasional
+mistake. If you're saving your thoughts for the responsibility of
+management a few inaccuracies in the organization won't amount to
+much.
+
+Differentiate between incidents and issues.
+
+One can't lead and follow simultaneously.
+
+Rely on subordinates. You can't be the whole works.
+
+As the head of the concern, you're the highest priced employee.
+Figure your hour value and invest it accordingly. Triphammers may
+drive tacks, but not profitably. The operation is too expensive for
+the return.
+
+Thoroughness is an admirable quality when intelligently exercised,
+but a folly when the game isn't worth the candle.
+
+You're a good bargainer but you make bad deals despite the
+concessions secured if the final terms represent a reduction which
+does not cover the cost of your energy.
+
+You can hire folk to handle most interviews and satisfy the demands
+of the average caller.
+
+Correspondence clerks can read and answer the greater part of the
+mail.
+
+One letter in twenty deserves your consideration--the nineteen are
+merely routine communications which should never come under your
+notice.
+
+Study the future; observe the trend of events--weigh conditions.
+Success is the servant of forethought and you won't be able to
+measure possibilities except you have free moments to reflect and
+scheme.
+
+Get the dimes out of our eyes and find where the thousands are
+located.
+
+Engage experts to purchase supplies and run systems--reserve
+yourself for decisive matters; that's real economy.
+
+Hold the throttle--watch the gauge and signals or there will be a
+wreck and you'll be in it.
+
+Stick to your cab, keep the schedule. The engineer who tries to be
+fireman, conductor and brakeman as well, is headed for a smash.
+
+
+
+
+"THE PORTAL OF THE CAPE"
+
+L.C. HALL
+
+
+The present town of Bourne can claim many interesting facts about
+its early history although not for 200 years after the coming of the
+Pilgrims did it become a separate town. It was included within the
+limits of the town of Sandwich until the comparatively recent date of
+1884.
+
+In 1622 Governor Bradford visited the Indian village of Manomet, so
+called in their language, but which became corrupted into Monument,
+a name by which the place was long known. It is probable that the
+reason of the visit was partly for the purpose of establishing a
+short cut between Buzzards Bay and Plymouth, via the Manomet (or
+Monument) River.
+
+[Illustration: THE PORTAL OF THE CANAL]
+
+This river, now obliterated by the Cape Cod canal, had its origin in
+Great Herring Pond in the Plymouth woods and flowed by a rather
+circuitous route into Buzzards Bay at a point near the present
+railroad bridge over the canal.
+
+It was in 1627 that the colonists established a trading post on the
+banks of this river, the exact point being known and marked. It was
+on the south side of the river a short distance south of the Bourne
+bridge spanning the canal. This structure was built for the purpose
+of facilitating their intercourse with the Narragansett country, New
+Amsterdam (New York), and the shores of Long Island sound. By
+transporting their goods up the creek from Scusset harbor (Sandwich)
+and transferring them to what is now Bournedale by land, they
+reached the boatable waters of the Manomet (or Monument) river and
+the open waters of Buzzards Bay.
+
+Governor Bradford says; "For our greater convenience of trade, to
+discharge our engagements, and to maintain ourselves, we built a
+small pinnace at Manomet, a place on the sea, twenty miles to the
+south, to which by another creek on this side, we transport our
+goods by water within four or five miles and then carry them
+overland to the vessel; thereby avoiding the compassing of Cape Cod
+with those dangerous shoals, and make our voyage to the southward
+with far less time and hazzard. For the safety of our vessel and our
+goods we also there built a house and keep some servants, who plant
+corn, raise swine, and are always ready to go out with the bark--which
+takes good effect and turns to advantage."
+
+The first communication between the Plymouth colony and the Dutch at
+Fort Amsterdam was through this post. With a ship load of sugar,
+linen and food stuffs, De Razier, the noted merchant, arrived at
+Manomet in September, 1627, and Governor Bradford sent a boat to
+Scusset harbor to convey him to Plymouth. There the trading was done
+and the first merchandising venture of New England consummated.
+
+In 1635 a tidal wave swept over this part of the Cape on the 15th of
+August, destroying the trading post and partially filling the river
+with sand.
+
+When the white men came Bourne contained other Indian hamlets beside
+Manomet. At the south was Pokesit (Pocasset) and still to the south
+was Kitteaumut (Cataumet), while to the north of all these was
+Comasskumkanit, the home of the Herring pond Indians.
+
+Bourne is the first town reached when driving Capeward. After
+passing through Wareham from the west and nearing Buzzards Bay, Cape
+Cod and the town of Bourne is entered after passing over the new
+concrete bridge over Cohasset Narrows, the most northerly arm of
+Buzzards Bay. This fine concrete structure, completed last year at
+an expense of about a quarter of a million dollars, is really the
+"Portal of the Cape," although there is another way to reach it from
+the direction of Plymouth, also passing through the town of Bourne.
+
+[Illustration: YACHT RACE IN BUZZARD'S BAY]
+
+The village of Buzzards Bay is a railroad junction point and there
+the Cape Cod canal makes its exit into Buzzards Bay. Thence to
+Bourne proper is only about a mile. Bourne, the village, is
+intersected by the canal and is connected by the highway bridge over
+the canal. There are two main highways following the course of the
+canal. The one on the north side follows its course most of the way,
+passing the village of Bournedale, thence to Sagamore, by crossing
+over the easterly canal bridge. The other road is on the south side
+of the canal and the two join at Sagamore village, where a single
+main road runs to the Sandwich line and the central and lower Cape.
+
+Southerly the town extends toward Falmouth and along the line of the
+Woods Hole branch railroad lie the summer resort villages of
+Monument Beach, Pocasset and Cataumet. These resorts are popular
+from their sightly location along the shores of Buzzards Bay. The
+views are entrancing, the waters of the bay are suitable for warm
+sea bathing and boating is here a sport that is at its best. Back of
+these villages lie woodlands extending easterly to Sandwich and
+Mashpee.
+
+Among the pioneers of Bourne are recognized Ebenezer Nye, John Smith,
+Elisha Bourne, John Gibbs, Jr., Benjamin Gibbs and others who
+followed them. The land was purchased from the Indians and permanent
+homes were early established there.
+
+In 1717 a unique proposal was made in the General Court for the
+assessment of the towns on the Cape for the building and maintenance
+of a fence from Peaked Hill cliffs on the Massachusetts bay side to
+the head waters of Buzzards bay on the other side, to keep the
+wolves of Plymouth county from invading Barnstable county where they
+destroyed sheep and caused other destruction. Had the project gone
+through it would have been a practical fencing off of the entire
+Cape from the rest of the continent.
+
+Probably the thing of greatest interest to tourists today in the
+town of Bourne is the Cape Cod canal. It completely bisects the town
+along its eight mile course through the land and is of never failing
+interest to all strangers. Traffic passing through, consisting of
+tugs towing barges, colliers, of large and small tonnage, freight
+boats and occasional government craft can be seen at close view from
+the highways on either side and from the bridges that span the canal.
+The opening and closing of the two huge jack-knife bridges is seldom
+without interested spectators during daylight hours.
+
+At night the canal is brilliantly lighted along its banks and the
+passage through of the big New York boat is a sight that attracts a
+great many people. The value of the canal to the system of national
+defense was demonstrated during the war and a bill is now before
+Congress for the purchase of it and for its operation by the war
+department. Probabilities point to much greater development under
+government ownership when it will probably be widened and deepened
+and there is a possibility that locks will be installed to regulate
+the rushing current that now more or less hampers navigation.
+
+The people of Bourne foresee advantages to their town through these
+contemplated developments and hope for the establishment of a
+landing place which will provide terminal facilities for steamers
+handling passengers and freight.
+
+[Illustration: SCENE FROM "PAGEANT OF CAPE COD" HELD AT BOURNE]
+
+Aside from its extensive summer business along the shores of
+Buzzards bay and its popular colony at Sagamore Beach on Cape Cod bay,
+Bourne has comparatively little commercial activity. One large
+manufacturing plant exists at Sagamore where the Keith Car and
+Manufacturing Company is located and gives employment to a large
+number of men. There freight cars are built and repaired under the
+management of Eben S.S. Keith, a former member of the Governor's
+council and one of the leading citizens of the Cape.
+
+Bourne enjoys the distinction of being a former summer capital of
+the country. When Grover Cleveland was president of the United
+States he established his summer home at Gray Gables, near Buzzards
+Bay village, and there was transacted the government's business
+during his stay there. Gray Gables is still owned by his widow
+although it is no longer occupied by her.
+
+Another distinguished resident of Bourne was the late Joseph
+Jefferson, the veteran actor, whose palatial residence "Crows' Nest"
+on Buttermilk bay was one of the show places of the section. In a
+little cemetery, just over the town line in Sandwich his body now
+reposes, marked with a huge bowlder which he picked out during his
+life time to mark his grave. Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Jefferson were
+close and intimate friends and companions upon fishing trips about
+Cape Cod territory.
+
+Bourne, not "that bourne from whence no traveller returns," but
+Bourne, the "Portal to Cape Cod," is a large and interesting town.
+Within its limits abide many summer residents, occupying large and
+small cottages and estates of refinement and beauty. It has many
+drives of sylvan beauty, through shaded roads, by emerald ponds, and
+over hills and through vales, commanding views of placid and
+glimmering Buzzards bay and the broad reaches of Cape Cod bay on its
+northerly side. Like other Cape Cod towns, it has a history of
+maritime adventure behind it and a glorious future as a summer
+resting place before it. The possibilities of its shores have
+scarcely begun to be developed.
+
+We need not admonish all who visit Cape Cod to "see Bourne" for
+those who visit the Cape cannot possibly escape it unless they come
+by boat or flying machine. In order to reach the Cape, Bourne must
+necessarily be encountered and those who tarry there will find the
+time well spent.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+WHERE SHALL I SPEND MY VACATION
+
+
+Where shall I spend my vacation? This is the question that thousands
+of people are asking themselves today. Since half the fun of a
+vacation is the anticipation of it, the planning of it is something
+that needs to be given consideration.
+
+It might be asked, "why take a vacation?" and that question might be
+answered by asking, "Why sleep, and why eat?" for vacations are
+necessary parts of peoples' lives and those who have never known the
+joys of them have never truly lived.
+
+Vacations help to keep people young, they help to broaden their
+views and renew their bodily and mental vigor.
+
+[Illustration: SOME TYPICAL CAPE COD COTTAGES]
+
+A vacation does not necessarily have to be expensive. Any change of
+environment will do, but it is much more pleasurable to meet new
+scenes and breathe new atmospheres. Whether one depends upon the
+trains for transportation, or the boats, or automobiles and whether
+one stops at the hotels, at the boarding houses or camps, depends
+largely upon one's circumstances and inclination.
+
+Ideas of vacations vary. Some delight in visiting the most sumptuous
+hotels, to indulge in social intercourse and to enjoy complete
+relaxation. Others like to live the strenuous life, to rough it in
+camp and woods and field.
+
+No matter what the desires are all of them can be culminated upon
+Cape Cod.
+
+So the answer to the question of our caption is, "spend it on Cape
+Cod."
+
+In a little more detail it may be said that Cape Cod has all the
+attributes of an ideal vacation spot. It can be reached over smooth
+highways which present no difficulties to the motorist. It can be
+reached by train or boat, or even by flying machine if one so desires.
+When reached a variety of entertainment may be found to suit all
+tastes. There is Old Ocean everywhere, surging restlessly upon the
+shores or lying placid in the bays and inlets. Those who enjoy
+boating and bathing can indulge in those pleasures to their heart's
+content. If they enjoy beautiful scenery, green trees, blue waters,
+level spaces or hilly vistas, Cape Cod has them all.
+
+If they wish to stop in modern hotels, to receive service of the
+most exuberant kind, to be entertained royally, the hotels of Cape
+Cod will answer their purpose.
+
+If they like to fish, to camp, to live an out door life, indulge in
+golf, tennis, or other games, Cape Cod can furnish them with the
+opportunity.
+
+If they search for the quaint and curious they can find it; if they
+want to visit a section rich in Colonial history, to visit spots
+where the Pilgrim Fathers trod, Cape Cod is the only place where
+such can be found.
+
+To particularize as to the attractions of different parts of the
+Cape the following brief summary may serve to help solve the
+vacation problem.
+
+Provincetown--At the tip end of the Cape, except for a narrow
+strip of land entirely surrounded by water. It has all the
+attractions of an island and none of its disadvantages. The town is
+quaint in its architecture, unique in its surroundings and especially
+attractive to artists who form a large part of the summer colony
+there. It is the summer rendevouz of the North Atlantic fleet of the
+U.S. Navy and the home port of a large fishing fleet. It has excellent
+hotels, and rooms and board may be obtained in many private families.
+It may be reached by boat from Boston, by train or by automobile.
+
+Truro and Highland Light--Highland Light is located upon a high
+bluff overlooking the broad Atlantic in the town of Truro. The
+topography of Truro is distinctive and picturesque with sand dunes,
+rolling hills and salty marshes. Golf links and good fishing.
+
+Wellfleet--Wellfleet is a pretty village in which there are good
+hotels, a land locked harbor, and plenty of shell fish. Many summer
+residents have their homes there and it is a favorite camping place.
+
+Eastham--A town on the lower part of the Cape, quiet and pastoral.
+An ideal place for campers and cottagers.
+
+Orleans--By many considered one of the prettiest places on Cape
+Cod. Has hotels and can provide for many boarders in private families.
+A fine place for boating and picnics.
+
+[Illustration: WHARVES AT PROVINCETOWN]
+
+Brewster--A quiet and peaceful rural town bordering on the bay.
+Contains many beautiful ponds within its limits and provides
+excellent bathing and fishing.
+
+Chatham--A summer resort town of growing popularity. Has several
+first class hotels and numerous cottages. It is located at the elbow
+of the Cape, fronts on the Atlantic ocean and has many safe bays and
+inlets for boating and bathing. It is noted for its golf links and
+is destined to become the summer center for golfing enthusiasts.
+
+Harwich--Consists of numerous villages all of which are
+attractive for summer residence. It borders on Nantucket sound, has
+fine beaches, summer hotels and cottages. It has a community life in
+summer that is not surpassed anywhere.
+
+Dennis--This town reaches entirely across the Cape and is split
+up into several villages. On the south side it is bordered by
+Nantucket sound and on the north by Massachusetts bay. Has excellent
+summer hotels and good bathing and fishing.
+
+Yarmouth--A town with quiet and shady streets, sloping shores
+and many old residences. One of the historic towns of the regions
+and presents a variety of attractions.
+
+Barnstable--The county seat and largest town on the Cape.
+Attractions exceedingly varied. Noted for the excellence of its clams.
+
+ Hyannis--Known as the Metropolis of the Cape. It is a center for
+summer business. Here are to be found excellent hotels, good stores
+and attractive tea rooms. Its main street is lined with summer stores
+which are branches of New York and Boston's exclusive shops.
+Adjacent to it are Hyannisport, a summer colony of fine residences.
+Centerville, Craigville, said to have the finest beach in New England,
+Osterville (called the little Newport), and Cotuit, one of the
+prettiest spots along the shores of Vineyard Sound. This region is
+growing more and more popular every year as the summer home of
+people of wealth and refinement and presents all the attractions of
+resorts which cater to the diversion of vacationists.
+
+Falmouth--Falmouth is one of the larger villages on the Cape
+that draws a fine class of summer residents who populate its fine
+hotels and summer homes. It has varied scenery as it lies between
+Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound. Its hotels are among the best and
+for attractiveness cannot be rivalled anywhere. At Woods Hole, a
+part of Falmouth, is found another settlement of exclusive character.
+Falmouth has several other villages, all with fine hotels, golf
+links and boat harbors.
+
+Sandwich--This town on the North side of the Cape is one of the
+old and original settlements and is on the banks of the Cape Cod
+canal. It has extensive woodlands dotted with well stocked ponds and
+is very attractive to campers.
+
+Bourne--Sagamore Beach, within the confines of the town of Bourne,
+is on the north shore and is a pretentious cottage colony with two
+excellent hotels. Golf links are adjacent and it has its own water
+system, community house and tennis courts. Cataumet and Pocasset are
+parts of Bourne which border on Buzzards Bay as well as Monument
+Beach and the village of Buzzards Bay, itself. These are typical
+bayside resorts where boating, bathing, fishing and golf are
+extensively indulged in. The town is intersected by the Cape Cod
+canal and the traffic that flows through it passes in front of the
+summer colonies.
+
+Martha's Vineyard--This is an off-shore island reached by a
+half-hour's boat ride from Woods Hole. A poet has said of it,
+"a little bit of Heaven dropped from out the sky one day" which
+aptly describes it. Oak Bluffs, Edgartown. Vineyard Haven, Tisbury,
+Chilmark and Gay Head are its principal villages. The island
+presents all the best features of an ideal summer vacation spot away
+from the mainland, yet possessing all the essential features which
+go to make life comfortable. Its hotels are many and excellent.
+
+ Nantucket--Further at sea, a two and a half hours' steamboat
+ride from Woods Hole. Unique is a word that inadequately describes it.
+All over the United States there are people who assert that there is
+no place like Nantucket on the face of the globe. It has a large
+summer population and tourists are adequately cared for. It has the
+most regular climate of any place along the New England coast, the
+temperature averaging 76 degrees during the summer months. It is
+cooled by the Atlantic breezes.
+
+ Onset--This is a busy and thriving summer resort located in a
+beautiful spot on upper Buzzards Bay. It attracts many thousands of
+people during the summer months, who come to spend a few weeks, days,
+or the season there. It is a cottage colony supplemented by hotels
+and boarding houses that fit the purses of all classes.
+
+At some of these places, either on Cape Cod itself or the islands,
+every person can find conditions suited to his or her individual
+taste.
+
+
+
+
+WELLFLEET
+
+EDWARD L. SMITH
+
+
+Cape Cod has many fine distinctions that make it stand out from a
+commonplace world and Wellfleet, as a town name, marks the Cape with
+a place-name known all over the globe, but in no other locality than
+on the coast of Barnstable Bay. It is true that a misguided, homesick,
+and ill-advised denizen of the Cape, roaming the arid, inland sand
+wastes of Nebraska, foisted the name of "Wellfleet" on his townsite.
+But as it has to date remained "unwept, unhonored and unsung," so is
+it quite unknown to sailors or to the sea, being about fifteen
+hundred miles from salt water and an immeasurable distance from
+being appropriately named.
+
+The origin of the name "Wellfleet" has always been a source of
+lively interest to those who delight to delve to the roots of things
+historical. So many of our early towns in Massachusetts were named
+by the Englishmen who settled them for English towns familiar to
+them before they came oversea, that England is the natural source
+from whence such a Saxon-English name as Wellfleet might come.
+
+After forty years of desultory search by the writer, the problem is
+yet unsolved, though a good Yankee guess may not come very far out
+of the way.
+
+When that part of old Nawsett now Wellfleet was first settled it was
+noted for the abundance of shell fish in the harbor and creeks, or
+cricks as then called, and oysters were both especially plentiful
+and choice.
+
+In England, on the coast of Essex, and not far from the Thames, was
+a stretch of oyster beds noted in the sixteenth century for their
+production of oyster different from all other locations and revered
+by epicures of those far-away times to be the luscious complement
+necessary to their royal as well as more common plebeian feasts. But
+we had best let old John Norden, who in 1594 published the results
+of his life-long investigations into the history of Essex, tell the
+story, which here is given verbatim as it appears in his work,
+"SPECTLI BRITTANNIE PARS."
+
+    "Some part of the sea shore of Essex yealdeth the beste
+    oysters in England, which are called Walflete oysters: so
+    called of a place in the sea; but of which place in the sea
+    it is, hath been some disputation. And by the circumstances
+    that I have observed thereof in my travail, I take it to be
+    the shore which lieth betwene St. Peter's chappell and Crowch
+    the bredthe onlie of Denge hundred, through which upon the
+    verie shore, was erected a wall for the preservation of the
+    lande. And thereof St. Peter's on the wall. And all the sea
+    shore which beateth on the wall is called Walfleet. And upon
+    that shore on, and not elswher, but up in Crouche creeke, at
+    the ende of the wall, wher also is an ilande called commonlie
+    and corruptlie Walled (but I take it more trulie Wallflete)
+    Island, wher and about which ilande thys kinde of oyster
+    abonndeth. Ther is greate difference betwene theis oysters
+    and others which lie ypon other shores, for this oyster, that
+    in London and els wher carieth the name of Walflete is a
+    little full oyster with a verie greene finn. And like vnto
+    theis in quantetie and qualitie are none in this lande,
+    thowgh farr bigger, and for some mens diettes better."
+
+From the above we may understand that Wellfleet oysters, which have
+been celebrated in the English markets for between three and four
+hundred  years, might easily have led the settlers of Nawsett to
+believe that at Billinsgate, they had a new Wallfleet Oyster bed.
+The fact that Wallfleet oysters were marketed at Billinsgate,
+always the big fish market of the Londoners, and that our Wellfleet
+was at first known as Billingsgate, seems more than a mere
+coincidence.
+
+The difference in spelling between the names "Wallfleet" and
+"Wellfleet" is not material. Barnstable; town, county and bay, take
+their name from  Barnstaple  on the coast of Devon. Norden, who was
+a highly educated man of University breeding, and a polished writer,
+varied the spelling of some words even in the same paragraph as
+witness "Crowch" and "Crouche," also "Ilande" and "Island." The
+diversified spellings of many of our common names is so marked as to
+be beyond comment except to note their wide variety, due to attempts
+to follow the peculiar phonetics of untaught individuals. In the one
+particular of "Well," who of us has not heard that word pronounced
+"W-a-a-l." when used as an interjection? All of which makes it seem
+inescapable from the theory that Wellfleet on the Cape is named
+after WALLFLEET on the coast of Essex, England.
+
+
+
+
+A SQUEAK FOR A LIFE
+
+1850
+
+P.T. CHAMBERLAIN
+
+
+  "Whither bound?" said his wife to the captain one morn
+    As he stood, oars and fish lines in his hands,
+  "Outside Sandy Neck, to try fisherman's luck
+    For bluefish, or mackerel or clams."
+
+  "Good luck and good-bye," said his fond loving wife,
+    "The weather looks pleasant and fair,
+  You'll be back at the landing on the full of the tide,
+    And the children and I'll wait you there."
+
+  But when rounding Beach Point, with his good catch of fish,
+    The captain was caught in a squall,
+  Black clouds, wind and thunder, lightning and hail,
+    While the rain in torrents did fall.
+
+  Quick he lowered his sail, but the wind snapped his mast,
+    Away they went over the side.
+  One gunwale under water, the other in air,
+    Lifted high by the surging tide.
+
+  Then the captain braced himself as with sinews of steel,
+    A hand on each gunwale places he,
+  So he balanced and steadied his frail little craft,
+    Rolling there in the trough of the sea.
+
+  His wife from the window saw his peril in the storm.
+   And away to the landing she sped.
+  Tied her white linen apron to a handy boat book,
+    And waved it high o'er her head.
+
+  "Home, home for a lantern," to the laddie she cried.
+    Home, home for the lantern ran he,
+  Returning, he swung it, back and forth, to and fro,
+    That his brave sailor father might see.
+
+  Soaked to the skin with the rain and the spray,
+    His face as white as the foam,
+  "Must I drown in sight of my wife," he said,
+    "Must I die within reach of my home."
+
+  "For the sake of my helpless little ones,
+    For the sake of my faithful wife.
+  I pray Thee, O Lord, to forgive all my sins,
+   Give me this one chance for my life."
+
+  Still darker grew the storm, black and green looked the waves,
+    The shore line to the captain grew dim,
+  But he knew by the lantern and the waving white flag,
+    Where his loved ones were watching for him.
+
+  Three hours he struggled with the full flooding tide.
+    Now the Channel Rock danger is o'er.
+  One more stretch of water, some more dangerous rocks,
+    Then the gleaming surf, then the shore.
+
+  "A rope, bring a rope," the kind neighbors shout,
+    "A rope now the captain will save."
+  They coiled a stout rope and with powerful hand,
+    Flung it out o'er the turbulent wave.
+
+  Joy! Joy! he is saved! He clutches the rope,
+    With cold, bruised and stiffening hand,
+  A long pull, a strong' pull, and more dead than alive,
+    Through the surf they draw him to land.
+
+  "Home, home for hot coffee," to the lassie she cried,
+    Home, home for hot coffee, went she,
+  Returning, brought coffee, dry clothing, warm food,
+   A fleet-footed lassie was she.
+
+  But the kid, boylike, would investigate the boat,
+    And so he climbed over its side.
+  "Half full of water," he said, "not a bluefish or clam,
+    Must have all floated out on the tide."
+
+  With boat hook and lantern, the kids travelled home,
+    "Little sister, now what do you think,
+  Hadn't we said, 'Now I lay me,' to the Lord every night?
+    Would He let Pa and our dory sink?"
+
+  "No, no," said the lassie, "No, no, that ain't so,
+    Naughty children very often are we,
+  'Tis 'cause Ma puts a Bible in Pa's chest of clothes
+    Every time that he goes 'way to sea."
+
+  Gratitude profound, thanksgiving and joy
+    Filled the heart of the loving wife,
+  But the captain, a man of few words, only said,
+    "Yes, a pretty narrow squeak for a life."
+
+
+
+
+RICHES
+
+C.A. COTTRELL
+
+
+  If I can leave behind me, here and there
+    A friend or two to say when I am gone
+  That I have helped to make their pathways fair,
+  Had brought them smiles when they were bowed with care,
+    The riches of this world I'll carry on.
+  If only three or four shall pause to say
+    When I have passed beyond this earthly sphere,
+  That I brought gladness to them on a day
+  When bitterness was theirs, I'll take away
+    More riches than a billionaire leaves here.
+
+
+
+
+CAPE TROUT STREAMS
+
+
+The chronic trout fisherman is by nature secretive. He is loath to
+tell where he made his big catches and shrouds the location of the
+streams in mystery. If pinned down closely he will sometimes
+indicate a general locality but it is hard to get him to be more
+definite. The reason for this is obvious. He is zealous of his
+rights as a "discoverer" and feels that he is not obliged to share
+his knowledge with anybody. He won't take the risk of having the
+stream "fished out" by others than himself. The secrets of the
+location of gold strikes in the days of '49 were no more closely kept.
+
+When the 15th of April comes around each year there are certain wise
+men who proceed to load up their automobiles with their fishing
+tackle and in the early morning turn Capeward. They have experiences
+of previous years to guide them and know certain brooks and pools
+where the speckled beauties await them. The wise ones know just
+where to throw their lines and the kind of bait that is sure to lure
+the denizens of that particular spot. For fishing is a science, as
+well as a sport requiring skill and judgment. The born fisherman
+seems to have an uncanny sense of piscatorial thoughts and almost
+instinctively can determine just the right thing to do and the right
+time to do it, while the mere amateur fisherman who only wets a line
+occasionally guesses whether to use a fly or a worm.
+
+Yes, the Cape is a noted Mecca for trout fishermen, at least certain
+parts of the Cape. Within the confines of Bourne, Mashpee, Falmouth
+and Barnstable are many likely trout brooks and from them are
+annually taken many catches that gladden the hearts of the sportsmen.
+
+These brooks run into the ponds and the sea, they run through
+marshes and woods. They abound in trout, of the square-tail variety,
+and those who know them keep their secrets closely.
+
+Sometimes a fisherman exhibits a basket of fish that astonishes all
+beholders. Big speckled beauties they are and in quantity sufficient
+to satisfy any one.
+
+Some of the biggest of them may be "salters," fish caught near the
+mouths of the brooks that run into the sea and weighing all the way
+from a pound to two pounds or more. There is authentic information
+that trout weighing more than two and a half pounds have been taken
+from these Cape Cod streams.
+
+Unfortunately for the general public many of the brooks are
+"posted," but there are a lot of fishermen that "don't believe in
+signs" and when they see a sign of "no fishing here" they are apt to
+challenge the statement and some of them aver that there is very
+good fishing there indeed.
+
+It is a matter of history that the Pilgrims found trout in the Cape
+Cod streams. It is a matter of fact that many of the brooks have
+been stocked by private individuals and by the state. Every year the
+fish in these stocked brooks increase in size and the sophisticated
+fishermen keep track of them from year to year. The state keeps a
+record of the stocking of streams and that information can be
+obtained and made use of.
+
+At Sandwich the state maintains a trout hatchery where millions of
+eggs are secured. These eggs develop into fry and fingerlings and
+they are distributed throughout the state, the Cape getting its full
+share.
+
+A visit to this hatchery is interesting. It demonstrates how the
+state strives to increase sport for its residents. Science and
+experience are exercised and the result is that the fishing
+advantages of the state are steadily increasing.
+
+One of the chief drawbacks of having well stocked streams is the
+unsportsmanlike conduct of many fishermen. To them a trout is a
+trout regardless of its size and hundreds of small fish are taken
+from the streams that should be put back and allowed to grow for
+another year. There may be satisfaction for some in catching a large
+quantity of seven-inch fish, but there is a greater satisfaction in
+catching fewer in number and larger in size.
+
+Many of the streams are suitable for fly-casting and experienced
+fishermen delight in that method of filling their creel. To cast a
+gossamer silk line with an alluring fly into the deeper pools and to
+feel the thrill of a strike as the fly flits over the surface is a
+joy that far outweighs the less spectacular method of fishing with
+worm or grub and dragging the trout from the water by main strength.
+There is a skill in fly-casting that comes from long practice and
+the fisherman who is expert in this method cares to use no other.
+
+The trout is a shy fish and the blundering sportsman who goes
+stumbling through the underbrush, who allows his shadow to fall upon
+the pool, or who in other ways announces to the fish lurking under
+the bank that he is present with homicidal intent often wonders why
+it is that the results are so small for the amount of effort expended.
+He may aver that the stream is barren of fish when the fact is that
+his own clumsiness is responsible for his lack of success.
+
+In other words there are all kinds of fishermen; to the victor
+belongs the spoils and the greater the skill the greater the spoil.
+We are not asserting that Cape Cod trout streams are as prolific as
+are some in more remote regions, they are fished too frequently for
+that, but any one wanting a day's sport will not find them entirely
+lacking and very often will proudly exhibit catches that will by no
+means be insignificant, even to the most experienced and
+enthusiastic fisherman.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+"No sah, ah doan't neber ride on dem things," said an old coloured
+lady looking in on the merry-go-round.
+
+"Why, de other day I seen dat Rastus Johnson git on an' ride as much
+as a dollah's worth an' git off at the very same place he got on at,
+an' I sez to him: 'Rastus,' I sez, 'yo' spent yo' money, but whar
+yo' been?'"
+
+--Ladies Home Journal.
+
+
+
+
+OCEAN TRAVELS
+
+EMMA B. PRAY
+
+
+Not very long ago, in one of the newspapers, I read of a lady who
+had traveled some thirty thousand odd miles in her life time, and the
+item set me to thinking of the many times I had traveled with my
+husband some years ago when he commanded a clipper ship on Eastern
+voyages. For Curiosity's sake I looked over my journals and found
+that in the few voyages I had made I had covered two hundred
+forty-nine thousand two hundred sixteen miles--but how it all came
+about is a long story.
+
+When I was a young girl, if any one had told me that I should spend
+a certain number of years travelling about in Eastern countries,
+passing three or four months at a time on the ocean, I should have
+said, "What an idea! Here I am, born and brought up in a small New
+Hampshire town, in a family whose idea seems to be to keep as far
+away from the water as possible, and with no thought of ever
+crossing it, 'Unless,' as my father used to say, 'there should be a
+bridge built by which we could do so'."
+
+In fact my knowledge of a ship and its belongings was nearly equal
+to that of the young lady who was about to make her first trip
+across the ocean with her father. Seeing the sailors about to weigh
+anchor she inquired why they were working so hard. Her father replied,
+"They are weighing the anchor, my dear." "How absurd! If the Captain
+wants to know the weight of the anchor why doesn't he have it
+weighed beforehand and not wait until we get ready to start and then
+keep us waiting for the men to weigh it?"
+
+However, it is the unexpected that always happens, and one day I
+married a young sea captain from a seaport town. He was soon to sail
+for Australia, and to me such a trip was literally going to the ends
+of the earth. I feel sure that my parents never expected me to return.
+What preparations we made for that voyage! What pickles, preserves,
+cakes, and everything that would keep, were packed for me and sent
+aboard our ship which was lying in New York harbor!
+
+Our cabins were beautifully fitted up with every convenience and
+comfort that we could have on shore. The saloon, or after-cabin, was
+finished in bird's-eye maple and satin wood veneering. Wilton
+carpets and furnishings of raw silk made a homelike and attractive
+room. Our stateroom, with large double bed, and our own private bath
+opening from the stateroom, left us nothing to wish for in the line
+of comfort. The second cabin, or dining quarters for the Captain and
+First Officer, was finished like the after-cabin, while forward of
+the two was the mess room for the Second and petty officers.
+
+At last the day came on which we were to sail, and, realizing that I
+was not a born sailor, I made up my mind that I must make myself
+over into one, though the making over process proved to be nearly
+the death of me. For the first ten days I can recall but little
+outside of a promiscuous tumbling about of movable objects and,
+though urged strongly to go on deck I refused to do so, caring
+little whether I lived or died. However, one day I was literally
+taken up, carried on deck, and placed in a steamer chair, and from
+that time I recovered rapidly.
+
+So many people have asked me if the time at sea did not hang heavily
+on my hands. What did I do? Was I not lonesome, homesick, and
+innumerable other like questions to which I have honestly replied
+that I was not lonesome or homesick. We purchased books by the
+hundred before sailing, and with a piano and flute, passed many
+pleasant hours. So much fancy work was always on hand that I have
+cared but little for it since. Whenever the weather permitted I
+walked two or three miles up and down the quarter deck, so many
+times up and back making a mile. Occasionally we took with us as
+passenger some young man whom we knew very well and who wished to
+take such a voyage. At one time a brother of mine, also one of the
+Captain's were our companions; two other times, young men from our
+own state proved to be excellent company, and to this day we enjoy
+nothing more than talking over our odd experiences in the different
+countries to which we traveled. Though I was the only lady on board
+I did not feel the lack of companionship of other women. A queer
+life it was! No one to come and no one to go, with nothing but the
+sky and water to be seen.
+
+In two weeks time we had the N.E. Trade Winds and fairly flew along.
+Each day brought its own particular work aboard the ship, for a
+sailor is never idle. There is always something for him to do.
+Chafing gear, of which there is a large amount, is always being worn
+out and has to be renewed, sails made and repaired, work on rigging,
+tarring, painting, etc.
+
+Perhaps the most interesting part of each day was the marking off of
+the chart at noon. At that time the Captain would work out his
+latitude and longitude, mark our position for the last twenty-four
+hours, and shape our course for the next twenty-four. We often towed
+lines for dolphin, and it was curious to see their change of color
+as they were hauled in. We had them baked occasionally and found them
+very fair eating. On opening one, at one time, it was found to be
+packed with flying fish which had been swallowed whole and which
+some of the sailors took out and had cooked for themselves, though
+for my part I should have preferred having the first eating of them.
+The flying fish which came aboard were usually served to me as they
+were considered a great delicacy. We caught many jelly fish or
+Portuguese men of war as they are sometimes called, and they were
+very curious to look at. They are of a jelly-like substance, with
+apparently no eyes or mouth, and are bluish in color. They have a
+pink crest and when the wind strikes them, as they float on the water,
+they rock and sway like a boat. Dangling from the lower part are
+many small feelers, some of which are short and thick, and others of
+great length, which they turn and twist rapidly about.
+
+A shade of homesickness came over me as I saw the North Star for the
+last time but I was soon interested in the Southern Cross of which I
+had heard so much. I wish I could describe some of the beautiful
+colorings shown in the tropical sunsets. I missed the twilight
+effects as seen at home, for as quickly as the sun goes down,
+darkness closes in. As I was enjoying my evening walk with the
+Captain at one time, a small boy who had been sent to sea apparently
+with the idea of getting him out of the way, came to me and said,
+"Wouldn't you like some  Youth's Companions  to read? I have lots of
+them." At that time I had more of a juvenile than a matronly air and
+I presume he thought they would furnish me with appreciative reading
+matter. He had not then learned that he should not speak unless
+spoken to. One day on being told to make a rope fast he replied,
+"I did hitch it." An order to let go a brace was answered by the
+question, "Which string do you mean?" At one time he was placed on
+duty to open and close shutters during squally weather and the
+officer told him to use a good application of soap and water before
+coming aft. When the novelty of his new duty had worn off and he had
+rather forgotten why he had been placed there the officer called to
+him and said, "What did I tell you to do?" "Wash myself, sir," was
+the reply. It was a long while before he could obey an order without
+replying and at the same time to remember his "Sir" when a reply was
+necessary.
+
+As we approached the equator it could be seen that some special
+interest in the voyage was being taken among the sailors and we
+learned that three of them had never crossed the line before and
+that an initiation of so doing was about to take place. The crew
+assembled at the bow of the ship and at the blowing of a trumpet by
+one of their number, Neptune appeared inquiring the name of the ship,
+where she was bound, etc., and announced that he would like to pay
+her a visit. Before his apparent arrival a staysail had been
+fastened to the rigging and filled with water. A bucket had been
+filled with a mixture of lamp black and grease with a few other
+combinations, while a razor, a foot or more in length, had been made
+by the carpenter. As soon as Neptune and Amphitrite--two sailors
+fantastically dressed--appeared, the candidate for crossing the line
+was blindfolded and brought before them. A number of absurd questions
+were asked the candidate and he was finally ordered to be shaved,
+which was done by applying the mixture with an old paint brush and
+shaving it off with the razor. He was then thrown backwards into the
+sail of water and I was much surprised to see how good naturedly the
+men took so many surprises--for we had an excellent view from the
+quarter deck, of the whole entertainment. We heard afterwards that
+it was considered a great success, also that one of the men had been
+watching through a glass for the equator, seeming to think that a
+straight line passing through the center of the earth should
+certainly be seen. He thought he surely saw it when a hair was drawn
+tightly across a spy glass without his seeing it and the glass then
+given to him.
+
+In one of his rambles about the decks, on a moonlight night, one of
+our passengers told me of some of the tattooes he had seen on the
+arms of different sailors. One had his mother's gravestone, with a
+weeping willow over it; another had the Goddess of Liberty remarkably
+well done. The large number of different sketches was really quite an
+entertainment. That reminds me of an engraved whale's tooth which I
+have in my possession and which was given to my grandfather in
+Nantucket many years ago. A full rigged ship with every rope, even to
+the smallest one, is carved upon it, with the engraver's name and the
+name of the ship. It is now nearly a hundred years old and among my
+most prized possessions.
+
+We soon sighted the Island of Fernando Norouha which is a penal
+settlement for the convicts of Brazil. This island is about six miles
+in circumference and two thousand and twenty feet high. It had a
+rocky barren appearance with nothing to be seen but a few birds
+around it. About thirty miles from this island are the Martin Van
+Rocks, three hundred feet high. In the south Atlantic we sighted the
+group of Tristan Da Cunha Islands which had a very gloomy, foggy
+look. Tristan is inhabited by English people and I have been told
+that the women are particularly handsome there. In this region it is
+very chilly and damp and though the thermometer stood at fifty-five
+degrees it seemed much colder. At this time we began to prepare for
+the heavy weather of our Easting, as the run across the Indian Ocean
+is called. New sails were bent and everything battened down. The days
+were very short, the sun rising at about half past seven and setting
+at five o'clock. We usually made the run about forty degrees south in
+order to get better winds. What a dreary outlook it was! Nothing but
+sky and water with waves which were mountains high. The only bit of
+life outside of our ship's company was a number of birds of a
+different nature from any I had ever seen and they followed the ship
+day after day. Cape pigeons and albatross were in large numbers. We
+caught many of the latter and measured them. I remember one weighing
+thirty pounds and measuring fifteen feet from tip to tip of the
+wings. Cape hens about as large as good sized turkeys, ice birds, and
+many other small birds. I enjoyed feeding them and it was very funny
+to watch them tumble over each other in their efforts to get
+something to eat. Such a noise as they did make with their
+squabblings! Many sharks were caught and I never knew a sailor to
+have any compunctions about disposing of these man-eating creatures.
+A shark line was towed astern at different times and one day it took
+the combined efforts of five men to haul one in. Whales, all of
+ninety feet in length, stayed about the ship several days at a time.
+We saw many sun-fish which are a light gray in color. They have one
+large fin out of the water and are very hard to harpoon.
+
+Once in a while another ship would come in view and if near enough
+we always spoke to one another by our flag code. This was always an
+interesting event. Certain sentences given in the code book would be
+represented by certain flags, each flag representing a letter of the
+alphabet. The questions usually asked were, "Where are you from?"
+"Where bound?" "How many days out?" and then a wish for a pleasant
+passage. My experience in running down the Easting has always been
+the same and I have made the trip a number of times. I have heard of
+ships running across the Indian Ocean with royals set but whenever I
+have been, we have had a succession of heavy gales. In thirty-six
+degrees fifty minutes south and Lon. twenty-nine degrees fifty-nine
+minutes east a heavy gale sprung up which gradually turned into a
+hurricane. The barometer was falling fast when I retired and at
+eleven o'clock it stood at 28.50. I have merely to close my eyes now
+and I can hear the wind as it shrieked and roared about us. We ran
+before those mountainous seas with but one thought and that to keep
+them from breaking over the ship. All hands were on deck all night,
+each one lashed, with the exception of those who were between decks
+passing out oil cases which were broken open and thrown overboard by
+those on deck. Fifteen hundred cases were used that night with good
+effect. The seas were as high but the oil prevented them from
+breaking over the ship. During the worst of the gale one man was
+washed overboard but his loss was not discovered for nearly twenty
+minutes, and even if it had been, nothing could have been done to
+save him in such tremendous seas. Clark Russell says that the
+grandeur and sublimity of the ocean can be best seen on a yard arm
+during a gale of wind, but somehow I have not been able to make
+those words applicable to the gales through which I have passed.
+Through our ninety degrees of Easting I had but little exercise. The
+lee side of the cabin usually found me with my books, work and
+numerous small articles for ready use. I think the most exercise I
+had during those days was when I tried to dress, as it was almost
+impossible to stand in one spot any length of time on account of the
+rolling and pitching of the ship. With a firm stand I would place
+myself in front of my mirror, only to gradually slide away across
+the room to a lounge where I would sit down, then I would climb back,
+and with as much speed as possible do what I could before
+disappearing again. In a length of time I was able to make my toilet,
+and when made it was not changed during the day in those latitudes.
+
+They were certainly strenuous days, but we were well and had good
+appetites for the excellent meals which were served to us by our
+capable Chinese steward and cook. The doings and sayings of our
+cabin boy would fill a book, but he was trustworthy and attended
+faithfully to our wants. One night after I had retired, a heavy
+thunder storm came up which might have caused us considerable
+trouble had not our usual strict discipline been carried out. Having
+become so used to confused sounds on deck I did not realize that the
+ship had been struck by lightning, though I heard a sound which in
+my dozing condition I laid to something falling down in the bathroom.
+When the Captain came in to ask if I were all right I sleepily said,
+"Why not? I think something has fallen down." He did not tell me
+until morning that the ship had been struck and had caught fire aloft.
+By changing the course the sparks were made to fall overboard while
+men were sent aloft to cut away the blazing fragments. About ten
+minutes before the vessel was struck, a dozen men were aloft furling
+a sail just where the lightning struck us, and when the storm was
+over it seemed a special act of Providence that we still had these
+men with us.
+
+I have so often been asked what  could  we possibly have to eat that
+would be appetizing for such lengthy voyages. We always carried fowl
+in large numbers and it was very seldom that we did not have fresh
+eggs enough for our table during the voyage. Potatoes, onions, and
+lemons we always had in abundance and they were very important items
+of our food. The following is one of the menus served to us on quite
+a stormy day as we were running across the Indian Ocean. For
+breakfast: baked beans, fish balls, brown bread, hot biscuits, tea
+and coffee. For dinner: soup, roast chicken, cold tongue, boiled
+potatoes, squash, and onions, English pudding, hard sauce, and coffee.
+For supper: warm biscuit, cold chicken, cold tongue, fried potatoes,
+cake and tea. In fine weather our menus were more elaborate and I
+never knew any one to complain of being hungry aboard ship while I
+was going to sea.
+
+After eighty-seven days of such sea life I was aroused one morning
+to go on deck and see if I could see anything that looked like land
+and saw what at first seemed to me to be a small cloud in the
+distance about thirty miles away. As the morning wore on, the
+Australian coast gradually loomed up before us, the land first seen
+proving to be Cape Bridgewater. We sighted Cape Otway in the
+afternoon, the lighthouse being plainly seen in the evening, and
+such a beautiful evening as it was! Not a cloud in the sky! The
+stars shone like diamonds and the reflection on the water of the
+beautiful moon put a finish to the charm of a perfect night. The
+Southern Cross was almost directly over us, while in close proximity
+to the moon was the brilliant Venus. We remained on deck very late
+that night to enjoy our beautiful scene. During the evening a very
+pretty phenomenon took place when the sky became a brilliant red,
+like the reflection of a fire, forming an arc through which the
+stars could be plainly seen. It remained thus for some time, until
+it gradually changed into a white light, the Southern Lights or
+Aurora Australis as the change is called.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration: THE OLD TOWN CRIER]
+
+
+
+
+EDITORIAL
+
+
+PROSPERITY IS HERE
+
+
+Whatever may be the situation throughout the country, Cape Cod shows
+evidences of prosperity that cannot be overlooked. In fact, dull
+times on the Cape are a thing of the past and each year sees a
+steady growth, increasing land values and larger summer population.
+
+While the Cape has not increased very fast in permanent population
+it has shown a remarkable advancement in wealth and prosperity.
+Lands that a few years ago had little value have been developed,
+cottages and homes have been built, agricultural interests developed
+and all along the line the Cape has moved steadily forward.
+
+This year there has been a great many real estate changes, shore
+colonies are being opened up and builders are busy everywhere
+supplying the demand for more summer homes.
+
+All signs point to the fact that the Cape is at that stage in its
+development where it is becoming widely and favorably known as a
+summer resort region. Its business facilities are increasing, the
+quality of its stores improving and from a more or less provincial
+community it is developing into a region second to none in
+prosperity along the New England coast.
+
+It has been widely and extensively advertised and although it has
+not boomed as have some of the southern resorts its growth has been
+more steady and sane and it is devoid of those inflated values which
+are apt to be followed by a depression in so many cases. The Cape's
+growth has been a conservative one and therefore a permanent one.
+
+Again we wish to warn prospective lot buyers upon the Cape not to
+have dealings with real estate agents of the type known as "land
+sharks." The reputable agents are well known and can be depended
+upon to give a square deal, but there are get-rich-quick men who
+stand ready to take advantage of the unwary and sell them sand lots
+among the dunes and locations among the scrub oaks, remote from
+habitations and worthless for any purpose. Beautiful prospectus and
+misleading blue prints do not afford a sufficient basis for lot
+buying and personal investigation is as needful here as anywhere else.
+Cheap land is apt to be dear at any price and unless one personally
+investigates what is being offered it will be well to go slow.
+
+There are plenty of real seaside bargains left on the Cape. In the
+vicinity of the popular resorts land values are apt to be high, but
+there are numberless localities that have not yet been developed
+that present good possibilities and the seeker after a summer home
+can find such localities without much trouble and a very little
+money will buy land suitable for their purposes amid surroundings
+that are congenial, scenic and healthful.
+
+Among the hundreds of new cottages that are being built upon the
+Cape this season are those ranging from the simple cottage costing
+only a few hundred dollars and those which are destined to be
+pretentious summer homes, but whether hundreds of dollars are spent
+or thousands all are assured pleasant, healthful environments with
+opportunities for rest and recreation unsurpassed.
+
+We predict a brilliant future for our region. It is just beginning
+to be understood and appreciated. Its advantages are becoming known
+and its attractiveness understood.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+HABITS AND THE GAME
+
+
+Your habits will determine largely whether you give or take orders.
+
+Is it your habit to shirk responsibility--to "pass the buck"--whenever
+possible? If so, you will never be the "boss." One man has no one to
+whom he can pass the buck. That person is the chief. Accept and
+welcome responsibility. Have the courage to face the consequences of
+your acts and decisions.
+
+Develop self-confidence, not egotism. Let that confidence be founded
+on experience, study, common sense, and careful work.
+
+Indulge in retrospection. Examine decisions that you have made, in
+an attempt to develop the faculty for reaching conclusions on tenable
+grounds quickly, Quick decisions expedite the processes of business
+and inspire confidence in one's co-workers. The man who does not know
+his mind cannot guide efficiently the mental or physical energies of
+others.
+
+Are you careless? Do you permit to pass unquestioned points about
+which you are uncertain? Do you take it for granted that these
+things will "get by" or that they never will be noticed? Again you
+are shifting the burden, expecting that someone will do the work you
+should have done. That carelessness will militate against  you to
+prevent your elevation to an executive position. The boss cannot be
+careless and hold the respect of his associates or his position.
+
+Success comes to the one who plays the game. There is no royal road
+to it, or chance about it. It comes from eternally plugging at it,
+by study and concentration and an absence of the fear of making a
+mistake. A mistake is not such a frightful thing as many imagine. An
+honest mistake can be readily changed into a success many times. The
+fear of making mistakes frequently deters a weak man from going ahead
+where another will study well the situation, form a conclusion, and
+go ahead.
+
+Your own character and habits determine whether you are a leader or
+a follower.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+GET AFTER THE BILLBOARDS
+
+
+If your town has not yet taken action against the billboard nuisance
+it is time that it did. Have a strong town by-law passed and see that
+it is enforced. There is no question that public sentiment is against
+the billboard. They should be made outlaws upon the highways. State
+legislation has been enacted against them, but its effectiveness has
+been tempered by the timidity of those charged with the enforcement
+of the laws to destroy the "property values" that is claimed for
+them. Public sentiment, rightly used, can do more than laws.
+Offending billboard advertisers can be shown that such advertising is
+injudicious and in time they will voluntarily give it up.
+
+By law, billboards can be debarred from localities possessing unusual
+scenic beauty. The Mohawk Trail and Cape Ann are examples of the
+application of this principle. Cape Cod has just as great claims. Its
+scenic beauty is marred and destroyed by the glaring monstrosities
+that greet the traveler everywhere. Let them be removed and an
+irritating offense against the nerves and asthetic senses will be
+removed.
+
+The only way to get rid of the billboards is to act.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+HELP THE CAUSE
+
+
+In certain ways the whole community can be helped by concerted
+action. The interest of the whole is the interest of all. Anything
+that tends to help others will help you. Just now a question of
+importance is the further development of Cape Cod by the
+establishment of terminal facilities on the Cape Cod canal. This will
+cost money, but it will be money well expended. If we wait for
+someone to do the developing for us we will have to wait a long time.
+The state is ready to do its share, but it wants the locality itself
+to do a part. A canal terminal is the one thing needful to make the
+canal of local advantage. We have the opportunity and we should grasp
+it. It is a case where local conservatism should be forgotten and
+every community should help bear the burden of an expense that will
+assist in the development of Cape Cod as a whole.
+
+
+
+
+CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE
+
+E.M. Chase
+
+
+"Willie."
+
+"What."
+
+"Is that the way to answer your mother?"
+
+"Yesum, I mean nomum."
+
+"I want you to stay out in the front yard where you can watch my
+flower garden this afternoon. I have planted some flower seeds out
+there and I want you to keep the neighbors' hens way. Your father is
+going to put a wire netting around the garden as soon as he can get
+a chance."
+
+"Why not ask the neighbors to keep their hens at home?" mildly
+inquired Mr. Brown.
+
+"I have told them time and time again, but the Bakers say it must be
+the Jones' hens and the Joneses say it is the Bakers' hens. As a
+matter of fact all their hens come over, but I don't want to make a
+fuss, I can't afford to lose the only two neighbors I have."
+
+"But ma, I promised Ned I'd go fishing with him."
+
+"You had no business to promise anything of the kind, now go out
+there and say no more about it."
+
+It was a warm spring day, just the right kind of weather to go
+fishing or rambling through the woods or playing marbles with the
+other boys or to do almost anything except stay in the front yard and
+watch neighbors' hens. Willie thought himself much abused and cast
+about for a means of escape. He dared not run away; he had tried
+that before and the memory of the results was rather painful. A
+shrill whistle interrupted his bitter thought and a moment later Ned
+came in view carrying a fishing rod, basket, and can of bait.
+
+"Hello, Bill, ain't yer ready yet?"
+
+"Can't go."
+
+"Tough luck, what's the trouble?"
+
+"I gotta stay here and keep the hens out of ma's garden."
+
+"Why don't yer cut it, you can stay away from home until late then
+your ma will get worried and be so glad when you show up she won't
+whip yer."
+
+"Not on your life, I did once. I never got home 'til long after dark.
+Mother licked me good for running away then pa whoppoped me for
+scaring ma, nope, I've learned my lesson."
+
+"Gee, Bill, it's dirt mean, but I'll tell you what I will do, I'll
+come back and play marbles with yer if the fish don't bite good."
+
+"I wish the old hens was in Tophet. Say, Ned, ain't got a book yer
+could let a feller have, have yer?"
+
+"Sure, one of the latest. I just finished it and it's a corker. I
+promised Joe Hykes he could take it next but you will have time to
+read it this afternoon and Joe is off playin' ball."
+
+Willie grabbed the book eagerly. It had an alluring cover, the
+design was worked out in bright red, brilliant yellow and poisonous
+green and it represented a man in the act of killing a young and
+presumably beautiful woman. It was of the dime novel variety
+entitled "Conclusive Evidence," just the thing to appeal to the
+imaginative Willie. Soon all thought of hens slipped from Willie's
+mind, his heart beat rapidly, he breathlessly followed the hero's
+thrilling adventures, he almost shed tears when the girl who had
+helped the hero outwit the villain was found mysteriously murdered.
+With keen interest he watched the authorities carry the hero to jail.
+He was first in the audience at the trial, he drew a long breath
+when only circumstantial evidence could be brought out, his heart
+sank when the villain rushed into the court room and cried out that
+he had conclusive evidence, his hopes went down, a sharp pain
+assailed him in the shoulder, he thought the villain had grabbed him,
+he jumped up and--in place of the court room, prisoner, judge, jury,
+witnesses, interested onlookers, etc., he saw his mother standing
+beside him and--horrors--a dozen or more hens blissfully digging in
+the loosened earth of the garden.
+
+"Where did you get that book, Willie?"
+
+"It was lent to me, ma, don't tear it ma, don't tear it, it ain't
+mine, ma--"
+
+"That will do, Willie, it is not fit for you or any other boy to read,
+now you come in the house and go to bed."
+
+"But ma, it is only four o'clock and I'm hungry and I won't let 'em
+in the garden again, ma, please can't I stay out here, ma?"
+
+"You do as I told you without further delay."
+
+All alone in his room, confined to his bed by the stern mandates of
+his mother, with everything out of doors calling him, Willie could
+not sleep and then when darkness fell hunger gnawed at his vitals and
+sleep refused to put an end to his misery. He counted to a thousand
+then half drifted into the land of dreams. A wicked little green imp
+whispered in his ear. "Conclusive Evidence," whispered it so loudly
+Willie awoke, then he thought, or tried to think of some plan of
+revenge on his heartless mother. He could think of none that would
+not return to himself fourfold, then he reasoned that after all it
+was not so much his mother's fault as the neighbors for keeping hens
+that would not stay at home. Perhaps the little green imp came and
+whispered into his ear again, I don't know, but how else account for
+Willie's queer actions?
+
+He slipped quietly out of bed, paused to listen at the door of his
+mother's room but heard no sound. Reassured, he crept noiselessly
+down the back stairs into the kitchen, out through the rough room
+into the shed where the corn was kept. He filled the pockets with
+hen corn, the bright moonlight shining in through the window gave
+him all the light he needed, until his pajamas looked as though they
+had the bubonic plague. Still moving with extreme caution, he went
+into the kitchen again, secured a pan into which he put his corn; he
+then proceeded to fill the pan nearly full of water. He listened but
+all was quiet, so he ventured even into the pantry where his mother
+kept the cookie crock. He again filled his pockets, this time with
+cookies. His night work over he carried the pan containing the corn
+and water to his room, put the pan as far under the bed as possible
+to avoid discovery, then seated himself by the open window to enjoy
+his lunch. His father, who never seemed to get around to things, had
+not mended the screen that belonged in Willie's window so Willie sat
+with his head as far out of doors as the size of his body would
+permit and ate his cookies. He was wise enough not to leave
+tell-tale crumbs.
+
+Willie slept well and soundly after his midnight adventures and in
+the morning appeared at the breakfast table promptly. He ate enough
+to make up for what he had missed the night before, then enough to
+last until noon time. When he finished his mother said:
+
+"Now Willie, go out and watch the garden again, your father did not
+get around to putting up the netting yesterday, and mind, if I catch
+you reading another book you will not get off as easily as you did
+yesterday."
+
+"Yesum."
+
+Willie first made a trip to his room, then to the sewing room.
+
+"What are you doing, Willie?" came the maternal voice.
+
+"Nuthin', just lookin' for my cap, I'm going out now."
+
+Once more out where he could watch the hens, Willie proceeded to
+unload his pockets. He brought to light some sheets of paper, a
+pencil, a large needle, a spool of black linen thread and all of the
+soaked corn he had been able to put in his pockets.
+
+He tore the paper in strips about an inch wide and three inches long.
+On each slip he wrote, "Please keep us home." On the other side,
+"Conclusive Evidence."
+
+He cut pieces of string, linen thread, about six inches long, some
+longer. With the aid of the needle he threaded a piece of corn on
+one end of each string, on the other end he tied one of the slips of
+paper. When all were finished he scattered them broadcast over and
+about the garden.
+
+"Willie, come to dinner."
+
+No Willie appeared on the scene.
+
+"Willie, dinner is ready."
+
+Still no sign of the lad and his mother started after him with a
+queer look in her eye.
+
+Strange was the sight her eyes beheld as she came around the corner
+into the front yard. Hens fled before her approach but such funny
+looking hens; they all had more or less tags flying from their bills.
+They had swallowed the corn but the strings and tags were beyond
+their ability to masticate and they blew out defiantly in the breeze.
+One tag had become loosened and Mrs. Brown picked it up and read the
+scribbled words. While she was thinking just what she ought to do to
+Willie, Mrs. Baker came across the yard, bristling like a frightened
+porcupine.
+
+"What have you been doing to my hens?" she demanded.
+
+Mrs. Brown, like the efficient woman she was, saw her opportunity
+and rose to the occasion.
+
+"Your hens, Mrs. Baker, why nothing. I have been in the kitchen all
+the morning until I just came out to call Willie to dinner. Willie
+has been keeping the hens out of my garden, not your hens, you know
+you have assured me your hens never come over here."
+
+Thinking discretion the better part of valor Mrs. Baker suddenly
+remembered something that needed immediate attention and she
+hastened to attend to it.
+
+Mrs. Brown watched her out of sight, smiling in appreciation of the
+genius she had raised, then she turned and confronted Mrs. Jones,
+coldly angry.
+
+"What do you mean, Mrs. Brown, by tagging my hens until they look
+like a mark down sale?"
+
+"What are you talking about, Mrs. Jones? Your hens couldn't have
+been over here could they? I am sure neither Willie nor I have been
+out of the yard."
+
+"I smell something burning."
+
+In spite of the fact that the Jones homestead was quite a distance
+and the wind in the direction to blow all odors in the opposite
+direction Mrs. Brown did not try to detain her. Neither did she
+punish Willie, in fact she gave him an extra piece of pie for dinner.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Browns, Joneses and Bakers are still on the best of terms, but
+Mr. Brown never put the wire netting up and yet Mrs. Brown plants
+her garden with never a thought of neighbors' hens.
+
+Incidentally Willie and Ned have developed into first class fishermen.
+
+
+
+
+BY HEART
+
+LILLIAN E. ANDREWS
+
+
+Captain Enoch Burgess went down Mapleville's main street at a rate
+of speed that threatened to break all records. The tails of his
+linen coat stood out like the sails of a Gloucester fisherman
+homeward bound with a "full bin fare." He stamped up Abner Crowell's
+walk, and slammed the kitchen door.
+
+Abner was weeding onions. He stared after the captain curiously.
+"Looks like squally weather," he commented. "I wonder what's sent
+Enoch on his beam ends like that."
+
+As Abner bent with a grunt to his task, his wife came hurrying
+toward him, her apron strings flying like distress signals.
+
+"Abner," she demanded excitedly, "did you ever hear of Captain
+Enoch's havin' fits?"
+
+"No, I dunno's I ever did," replied Abner, twitching up an
+enterprising wild mustard.
+
+"Well, he's havin' one now," insisted Mrs. Crowell. "He come trampin'
+in an' says, 'Git right out o' my way, Mis' Crowell,' an' now he's a
+pacin' up an' down his room like a caged hyeny. You leave them
+onions, an' go an see what under the canopy ails him. I'll stand at
+the foot of the stairs ready to run for help, if he should be
+dangerous."
+
+Abner groaned. Reluctantly he brushed the dirt from his knees, and
+went into the house. Captain Enoch's heavy steps jarred the floor of
+his little room. Three times Abner knocked. Growing wrathful at
+being ignored, he applied his lips to the key-hole.
+
+"Hey, there," he bellowed. "You gone clean crazy, Enoch? It's only
+me--Abner--open the door!"
+
+Captain Enoch opened the door so suddenly Abner nearly fell over the
+threshold.
+
+"I didn't hear you," apologized Captain Enoch. "I dunno's I'd heard
+a fog horn. I'm going loony, I guess."
+
+Despondency suddenly overcame him. He sat down abruptly. "I'm afraid
+I'm love cracked," he groaned despairingly.
+
+"Love cracked!" repeated Abner in blank astonishment. "Wall, I snum!
+Love cracked!"
+
+Captain Enoch glared at him ferociously. "Stop that parrotin'," he
+commanded. "If you dare to grin, I'll larnbast you good an' plenty."
+
+As Abner appeared properly subdued, he went on explanatorily.
+
+"I've be'n callin' on M'lissy Macy reg'lar whenever I've be'n ashore
+for the last ten years. M'lissy makes the best doughnuts I ever e't,
+an' I calculated we'd be married sometime, though I ain't never
+mentioned it special. But when I went to call on M'lissy this
+afternoon, there set Tom Peters in the big rockin' chair holdin'
+M'lissy's yeller cat an' lookin' as cheerful as a rat in a shipload
+of cheese. It come over me all at once what a marryin' critter he is.
+The old punkin'-head's had two wives already, ain't he?"
+
+"Three," corrected Abner. "He's be'n a widower once an' a grass
+widower twice. Mebbe he's gittin' lonesome again. You'll have to git
+up your spunk and do some courtin'. Why don't you pop the question?
+It hadn't orter be so awful hard after you be'n goin' to see M'lissy
+ten years."
+
+"You talk like a nincompoop," snapped Captain Enoch. "I never asked
+a woman to marry me in my life. How be I goin' to know what to say?
+S'pose you tell me how you asked Mis' Crowell."
+
+Abner's face turned as red as Captain Enoch's. "Wall, I--er--er," he
+stammered.
+
+"That's about what I expected," said the captain sarcastically.
+"I s'pose Mis' Crowell did the askin' and you didn't dare to say 'No.'"
+
+Abner glanced toward the door where a board had creaked faintly.
+"She--she didn't really ask," he remarked hastily, "but she was
+pretty good at understandin' what I was thinkin' about."
+
+"If M'lissy understands, she's careful not to let me know it," said
+Captain Enoch sadly. "Mebbe she's afraid of being bold. Just to
+think of proposin' makes me feel as if somebody was pourin' cold
+water down the back of my neck."
+
+Abner had a sudden flash of memory. "Why don't you learn a regular
+proposal that nobody can find any fault with an' say it right off
+like sayin' a piece?" he asked. "Pegleg Brierly used to have a book
+in his dunnage that had all kinds of proposals printed in it. 'Guide
+to Courtship and Matrimony' was the name of it. Pegleg said he
+didn't have any notion of fallin' in love, but if he should happen to,
+he didn't cal'late to be caught nappin'. He's livin' down on the
+back road now, and he's still an old bach. If he's kept the book,
+mebbe he'd sell it, or lend it to you."
+
+The change from despair to hope brought the captain to his feet.
+"Abner, if you'll git me that book, I'll give you twenty-five dollars,"
+he promised earnestly. "But mind you don't tell what you want it for."
+
+"I won't tell anybody that don't know about it already," declared
+Abner with perfect truthfulness. "I'll have to be awful di-plo-mat-ic,"
+he went on, "or Pegleg will be sure to suspect something. And I pity
+you an' M'lissy if he got hold of the real reason why you wanted it.
+Pegleg can scatter news faster than a pea dropper can drop peas."
+
+With his clam hoe and bucket under his arm, Abner appeared at the
+door of Pegleg's shanty the next afternoon.
+
+"Thought I'd dig a mess o' clams for supper," he explained casually,
+"an' seeing's I was passin', I dropped in. Some time since you an'
+me crossed the line on the old Almeda, ain't it?"
+
+"A matter of twenty year," agreed Pegleg.
+
+"Them was great days," reminiscenced Abner. "Do you remember how we
+used to read your 'Guide to Courtship and Matrimony'? I was thinkin'
+about it only yesterday."
+
+Pegleg grinned. "I paid fifty cents for that book," he remarked.
+"An' I ain't never had any real use for it. I've got it now in my
+old dunnage bag."
+
+"I'd kind o' like to see it, if it's handy," suggested Abner.
+"The tide's risin', but I guess I've got a few minutes to spare."
+
+Pegleg disappeared into the shanty and returned after some time with
+a dog-eared volume, minus a portion of its pages, and with the edges
+of the remainder strangely scalloped.
+
+"Th' pesky rats has be'n chewin' it," he complained loudly.
+"They've clean e't up the first chapter."
+
+Abner drew a secret breath of relief. The "How to Propose" chapter
+was not the first one. Eagerly he turned the battered volume over.
+
+"If you 'll sell it, I'd like to have it," he remarked carelessly.
+"Half of the pages is e't up, so I s'pose you'll sell it for half
+price."
+
+"Make it thirty-five cents an' you can have it," bargained Pegleg.
+"The rats ain't gnawed into the readin' so awful bad, only in the
+first chapter."
+
+"Wall, thirty-five then, as you're an old shipmate," conceded Abner.
+
+Pegleg looked at him shrewdly, as he laid down three dimes and a
+nickel.
+
+"I didn't know but mebbe you was buyin' it for Captain Burgess," he
+hazarded. "He's boardin' to your house, an' folks say he's courtin'
+M'lissy Macy."
+
+"Folks is always sayin' things," responded Abner. "Mebbe Enoch might
+know a 'Guide to Courtship and Matrimony' from a last year's pill
+almanac, if somebody showed him."
+
+Once around the corner of the beach from Pegleg's shanty, Abner
+danced a hornpipe, shocking a flock of gulls.
+
+"Thirty-five cents from twenty-five dollars leaves twenty-four
+dollars and sixty-five cents," he calculated swiftly. "And I'll get
+a mess of clams beside. The papers will be mentionin' me as a
+financier pretty soon."
+
+"Did Pegleg suspect anything?" was Captain Enoch's first question
+when Abner returned in triumph.
+
+"Oh, he suspected," replied Abner jubilantly. "He wouldn't be Pegleg
+if he didn't. But I didn't help him any, and he looked dreadful
+disappointed. You can eat your chowder in peace, if you ain't so
+love sick you've lost your appetite."
+
+"It ain't hurt my appetite a mite," retorted the Captain. "And I
+ain't goin' to let it. Let's see that book. I want to find out how
+much I've be'n cheated."
+
+With trembling fingers Captain Enoch turned to the chapter of
+proposals. "'How to Propose to a Fat Lady,'" he read. "Humph!
+M'lissy ain't fat. 'How to Propose to a Lady of Dignity and
+Refinement. 'That sounds more like it. But the big words are thicker
+than a school of mummychogs."
+
+"Read it out loud," urged Abner.
+
+Captain Enoch put a long forefinger on the first line and cleared
+his throat.
+
+"'Dear and esteemed lady,'" he began, "'it is with deep respect that
+I venture to introduce the subject of matrimony in your presence.
+You are my ideal of womanhood and your smile is more precious to me
+than the Kohinoor.' What's the Kohinoor?" he asked, pausing.
+
+"Skip it," suggested Abner. "I ain't no 'cyclopedia. Go on."
+
+"'It is with painful trep-trep-trepidation that I bring my suit
+before you.'"
+
+Captain Enoch paused again. "'Suit?'" he repeated. "I don't see how
+that fits in. What's a suit got to do with a proposal?"
+
+"Mebbe it's a hint that you might want your clo's mended after you
+was married," decided Abner. "Anyway, it sounds all right the way
+it's wrote. Stop a stoppin'. You never'll git it read, if you don't
+keep goin'."
+
+Thus adjured the captain proceeded. "'Oh, dear one, beloved lady of
+my dreams, my own--' There's a blank place. It says under it, 'name
+of lady.'"
+
+"Wall, say M'lissy," interjected Abner.
+
+Captain Enoch's bronzed countenance was the color of a tomato on a
+tin can, but he went on valiantly, "'My own M'lissy, come to my arms,
+and fill my measure of happiness to overflowing by promising to
+become my wife, and I will shield and protect you from all the
+storms of life.' It ends like an advertisement for umbrellas," he
+complained.
+
+"It don't do no such thing," contended Abner vigorously. "It's a
+real high-toned proposal and any woman ought to be satisfied with it.
+The man that wrote that must have known an awful lot about women.
+Now you go ahead and learn that proposal and there you be all ready
+for the parson."
+
+"Yes, 'there I be,'" mimicked the captain ungratefully. "It would
+take a college professor to say them words fast, and I'm only a
+plain sailor man."
+
+But in spite of his sarcasm the captain attacked his self-appointed
+task with the grim determination that had made him respected in
+every port wherever the big deep water tramp, of which he was the
+proud master, had dropped her huge mudhook.
+
+The steamer was laid up at Boston, having a splendid collection of
+tropical barnacles scraped from her stout hull. If it had not been
+for the barnacles, the captain would not have been ashore.
+
+For a week the captain studied strenuously, hardly allowing himself
+time to sleep. Abner offered to assist him at rehearsals and every
+afternoon he drilled Captain Enoch diligently. He was a firm
+disciplinarian and insisted upon his pupil's being letter perfect.
+Book in hand, he corrected the captain vigorously.
+
+"It's 'es-teemed lady'" he admonished the captain. "You said 'steamed.'
+M'lissy ain't cooked. An' you stutter yet when you come to that word
+right after painful. Can't you say it plainer?"
+
+"'Trep-trep-trepidation,'" stammered the captain again.  "Say it
+yourself," he dared Abner.  "I'll bet you can't do no better."
+
+"I ain't tryin' to say it," Abner reminded him with dignity.
+"If I was I'd make it out someway. I wouldn't be beat by any word
+ever put in a dictionary. You're doin' better," he complimented the
+captain, after the sixth recital. "Mebbe you'll git it after awhile."
+
+But when Captain Enoch felt that his monitor was most needed and had
+begun to look hopefully forward to a one hundred per cent rehearsal,
+Abner took a sudden notion to go sword fishing.
+
+"The time to go sword fishin' is when sword fish are due," he
+insisted with Solomonic wisdom. "I'm going to be off Nantucket
+shoals by daybreak to-morrow."
+
+"But how be I goin' to git along without you to boost me on that
+proposal?" demanded the captain. "If you had any feelin' at all, you
+wouldn't leave me just when I need you most."
+
+Abner considered the situation for some moments.
+
+"I got it," he declared joyfully. "Buy a phonygraft an' some blank
+records an' keep sayin' that proposal just the same as you do to me.
+You can hear yourself poppin' as plain as you can hear a bell buoy
+ring-in'. It takes me to plan things," he added with becoming pride.
+
+Captain Enoch went to Boston and visited his vessel, as he told
+Mrs. Crowell when he returned. Also, he visited the "phonygraft man,"
+a circumstance he failed to relate.
+
+When Mapleville's express agent delivered at the Crowell home a
+large bundle addressed to Captain Enoch Burgess, the captain
+smuggled it surreptitiously upstairs, closed the windows of his room
+and stuffed the key hole with a wad of paper.
+
+It was some hours before he succeeded in mastering the various
+adjustments of the phonograph, and ventured to hear himself
+"pop." Listening with critical intentness, he discovered that two
+sentences were missing. Grimly he tried again. The word that had
+been so long his stumbling block suddenly showed its vindictiveness
+once more.
+
+"'It is with painful trep-trep-' darn it!" repeated the phonograph
+with startling distinctness.
+
+Wrathfully the captain snatched the record and hurled it under the
+bed. A number of others soon kept it company. The next day the
+captain went to Boston again. This time even the phonograph dealer
+was astonished at the number of blank records Captain Enoch demanded.
+
+With reckless abandon the captain proceeded to use the new supply of
+records. Dripping with perspiration from the heat of his
+closely-shut room and from his strenuous mental exertion, he finally
+came to the last one, and word by word and sentence by sentence
+heard himself make an absolutely correct and flawless proposal to
+Miss Macy.
+
+Solemnly the captain wiped his brow. "I declare I wish Abner could
+hear it," he remarked proudly. "There ain't a single mistake, big
+words an' all. It ought to please M'lissy, if anything will."
+
+At the thought of Melissa Captain Enoch's honest heart began to beat
+faster. He threw open his window with all the eagerness of a lover,
+and looked over toward Melissa's old-fashioned house with its
+comfortable veranda and wide chimney.
+
+His bronzed face turned suddenly white and he gripped the window
+sill with all the strength of his powerful hands. Two men were
+turning in at Melissa's gate. The short fat man was Thomas Peters,
+the tall thin one the village clergyman. To Captain Enoch the fact
+that Peters and the minister were calling upon Melissa together
+could mean but one thing. Hours and years of the captain's life
+seemed to pass, as he watched the two men go slowly up Melissa's
+gravel walk. When the door closed behind them, he turned about,
+dazed and trembling. He was breathing hard like a man at the end of
+a race. Half an hour later he had packed his bag and paid his board
+bill, leaving Mrs. Crowell in a state of bewilderment and curiosity
+that was sufficient to disturb her peace of mind for many a day.
+
+From Boston the tramp had wallowed her way around the Horn to San
+Francisco and back again as far as Rio Janiero when Captain Enoch
+received his first mail from home. A travel-stained letter, bearing
+Abner Crowell's cramped handwriting, threw the captain into a sudden
+panic.
+
+"I don't know whether to open it, or not," he debated nervously.
+"I want to know what's in it, an' I'm scared to find out. I'm a good
+mind to throw it overboard and forget I ever got it."
+
+Curiosity finally overcame his dread. The letter was encouragingly
+brief.
+
+"'Dere Enoch,'" he read. "'I'd like to know what you blowed up an'
+went off the way you did for. Abner Crowell." "P.S. Mrs. Crowell
+sends her respecks, and Miss Melissa Macy her regards, if you want
+'em. A.C." "P.S. Number two. All you need, Enoch Burgess, is about
+ten inches more on your ears. A.C.'"
+
+"'Miss Melissa Macy,'" repeated Captain Enoch. "He would have said
+Mrs. Peters, if she was married."
+
+The captain leaped to his feet and rushed on deck. A boat was just
+leaving the steamer's side, the mate sitting placidly under an awning.
+
+"Hey, wait," roared the captain wildly. "I'm goin' to git our
+clearance papers," he shouted, as the astonished mate ordered the
+boat back. "I ain't goin' to hang around here waitin' for a lazy
+planter to git a cargo of coffee aboard. I don't care if there ain't
+any more coffee in the world; folks can drink tea. I'm goin' home as
+quick as steam can take me."
+
+Lights were beginning to shine in the homes of Mapleville when the
+captain came to the end of his long journey. A shining path
+stretched temptingly from Melissa's windows to the gate and the
+captain followed it eagerly.
+
+Back of the crimson geraniums and the canary's cage he could see
+Melissa sitting at a low table. The yellow cat occupied the big
+rocker. It was all so pleasant and home-like a lump rose in the
+captain's throat. He decided to steal quietly in and surprise Melissa.
+But at the door he stopped as suddenly as if he had been shot. A
+deep bass voice was uttering words that sounded strangely familiar.
+
+"'Dear and esteemed lady,'" he heard. Cautiously he tip-toed across
+the hall. A phonograph was on the table in front of Melissa. As he
+bent forward the proposal "to a dignified and refined lady" came to
+an end. Tenderly Melissa put both arms about the shining horn of the
+phonograph and kissed it!
+
+The sight was too much for the captain. With one bound, he cleared
+the threshold and entered the cosy sitting room.
+
+"M'lissy Macy," he declared boldly, "I ain't goin' to have you
+wastin' kisses on an old phonograph when I'm right here. Where'd you
+find that record, M'lissy?" he asked at last.
+
+Melissa blushed delightfully. "Mis' Crowell heard you and told me
+you was practisin' how to propose and, after you went away, I went
+and got every single one of them records," confessed Melissa.
+"I've played 'em over and over, even the 'darn it!' one. I know that
+proposal by heart."
+
+"So do I," responded Captain Enoch grimly, as he salvaged another
+kiss. "I've be'n a reg'lar old putty-head," he admitted with
+unsparing honesty, "but if you'll promise to teach me, I'd like to
+learn a whole lot more by heart."
+
+"I'll do my best," promised Melissa mischievously.
+
+
+
+
+BY TELEPHONE
+
+E.M. CHASE
+
+
+Time--Very recently.
+
+Place--A flat in Back Bay.
+
+"Bessie Lane, where in the world did you drop from?"
+
+"The station just now and I'm famished."
+
+"I haven't a thing for lunch but you take off your wraps while I
+attend to things."
+
+"There, I've ordered a delicious lunch and it will be here in
+fifteen or twenty minutes. What a handy thing a telephone is."
+
+"Oh, yes, very handy indeed."
+
+"Why the sarcasm, my dear Bessie?"
+
+"You seem to forget that I live in the country."
+
+"But not out of reach of 'phones, Bessie."
+
+"No, but we are on a sixteen-party line with eighteen other
+subscribers. Not long ago I went to the dentist and had a tooth
+treated. The next morning I awoke with a toothache. About the middle
+of the forenoon, nine-thirty to be exact, I thought I would call up
+the dentist to find out if the treatment ought to make my tooth ache.
+I gave the bell a vigorous ring--"
+
+"Why should you ring a bell to telephone?"
+
+"My dear citified Annie, we do not run our universe by electricity
+as you do in the city, and it is our only means of attracting
+'central.' I rang the bell, put the receiver to my ear and heard, 'I
+am using the line.'
+
+"I mumbled an apology, waited a few minutes and tried again. It is
+unpleasant to have the bell ring in your ear, so out of courtesy to
+the other subscribers I gently lifted off the receiver, put it to my
+ear and heard, 'That cottage by the shore will suit--'
+
+"Fifteen minutes later I tried again and please remember my tooth
+was paining all the time. I listened, the line was quiet, I called
+central and asked 'One nine ring two four please.'
+
+"'That line is busy.'
+
+"Well, I thanked my lucky stars that I have a good supply of patience.
+After five minutes I tried again. I listened to see if the line was
+busy and heard, 'Killed by an automobile, all mangled to pieces.' Too
+horror stricken to realize I was listening to conversation not
+intended for my ears I listened on. The details fairly made my blood
+run cold and the unknown speaker had the most tragic voice I ever
+heard. She continued, 'It was terrible, I almost fainted, it was one
+of my best roosters, too!'
+
+"Just then a neighbor brought in my mail and I spent a few minutes
+reading letters and looking over the morning  Post  but the
+persistent tooth reminded me and I tried again. Wonder of wonders I
+got the dentist's office and asked if the dentist was there. 'No, he
+is not here just now but he will be back in a few minutes, shall I
+tell him to call you?'
+
+"'If you will, please, this is--'
+
+"'I knew your voice instantly, Bessie, and I'll tell him.'
+
+"I waited and waited, then waited some more, then I tried again.
+'Get off the line, somebody else wants a chance to use it. You there,
+Jim?'
+
+"I was almost in despair. When I was sure my snappy friend had had
+time enough to transact all the affairs of the Nation I made another
+attempt but I listened once more, rather than butt in again,
+listened and heard, 'Just the sweetest shade of green, you know--'
+Trials of Job, I was getting out of patience, to put it mildly. I
+gave the crank a vicious turn but the same party was still talking,
+she said sweetly, 'I guess someone wants the line.' I assured her I
+did, it was a case of life and death. 'Someone dead, oh dear, is it
+any one I know?'
+
+"Thoroughly exasperated I called central and demanded, 'one nine
+ring two four.'
+
+"'Line busy.'
+
+"I made up my mind never to use a 'phone again, or try to when my
+own number rang. I grabbed the receiver off the hook and thought my
+trial was over, for of course I knew it was the dentist at last. 'Is
+this you, Bessie? Did you know Jennie Knowles has broken her ankle?'
+
+"'No, I didn't, and I don't care if she has broken her neck, I want
+the line.'
+
+"Of course my rudeness lost me a friend for a while, until I saw her
+and made ample apologies, but I made my last attempt and was
+connected with the dentist. I told him about the toothache; it took
+some time as I had to explain three times that I was using the line
+but I did it. 'Does it ache very badly? Can't you stand it until
+to-morrow? Then the treatment will desensitize it sufficiently and I
+can work on it without hurting you at all.'
+
+"'Oh, no, it doesn't ache at all, I called you up to hear your voice,
+certainly I can stand it, I've stood much worse trials.' I slammed
+up the receiver, looked at the clock and it was two-fifteen. Too late
+to attend the lecture in the library so I went out and called on
+Alice, yes, indeed, I repeat, telephones are very handy and save
+lots of time."
+
+"Here is our lunch, we're in the city now, come on, Bessie."
+
+
+
+
+FALMOUTH INNER HARBOR
+
+
+Twelve years ago on May 11, 1910, the H.W. Miller, the first
+two-masted schooner came into the harbor, then known as Deacon's Pond,
+now Falmouth Inner Harbor. Other smaller vessels had been in, but
+this was the first which marked the commercial use of the basin.
+
+A harbor in this place had been talked about for several years, but
+the first legal action was taken in the February town meeting of 1906,
+when a committee of five men: Geo. W. Jones, Charles S. Burgess, Asa
+L. Pattee, Nathan S. Ellis and Charles A. Robinson were appointed to
+look into the matter and carry out the wishes of the town.
+
+Joseph Walsh was our representative in Boston, and presided at the
+meeting, acting as moderator.
+
+Heman A. Harding, then senator from the Cape district, acted as
+legal adviser for the State.
+
+There were many meetings of the committee and interested citizens,
+and among the latter A.W. Goodness, A.B. Clough and W.E.A. Clough
+were untiring in their efforts and were largely responsible for the
+success of the project.
+
+On January 20, 1907, the Harbor and Land Commissioners called for a
+hearing "for building jetties and dredging to make a boat harbor at
+Deacon's Pond, Falmouth."
+
+The first plan was drawn by Frank W. Hodgdon in September, 1907.
+
+The first appropriation made for the cost was $25,000 from the State
+and $10,000 from the Town.
+
+The lower part of the land dredged was purchased on July 13, 1804,
+from Abram and Lois Bowerman by Watson Jenkins, Joseph Mayhew,
+Stephen Davis, Consider Hatch and Joseph Davis, Jr., and used as a
+site for salt works by the whole or part of them. On August 1, 1805,
+the same Abram and Lois Bowerman deeded additional land to Joseph
+Davis, Jr., and on June 17, 1816, the same parties sold more land to
+Nymphas Davis, the son of Joseph, Jr.
+
+As Joseph Davis, Sr., the father of Joseph, Jr., was then a deacon
+in the Congregational church, the name was gradually changed from
+the old name of "Bowerman's Pond" to "the deacon's pond" and it
+finally became Deacon's Pond. Later, when the name did not locate
+the harbor sufficiently, it was officially changed to "Falmouth
+Inner Harbor."
+
+There were formerly two outlets from the pond into Vineyard Sound,
+and some of the old deeds refer to the East and West rivers. There
+was also a ditch across the marsh, probably through the land now
+owned by Edward Gallagher.
+
+In 1870-1 the land about the pond and also "Great Hill" was sold by
+George H. Davis, the son of Nymphas Davis, to the Falmouth Land and
+Wharf Company, and remained in its possession several years, later
+becoming the property of G. Edward Smith, the president of the
+company.
+
+In 1888 Mr. Smith sold the beach, extending from the line of the
+Falmouth Wharf Company west to the land now covered by the harbor,
+to George H. Davis.
+
+One of the old rivers had long since been filled and the other
+changed its course so often through the beach that the town was
+obliged to set stone posts to define the middle line and establish a
+definite boundary.
+
+When the land was finally acquired by the State, the channel was cut
+through the land of the widow of George H. Davis on the eastern side
+and a small triangular piece on the western side belonging to
+Henrietta F. Goodnow.
+
+On February, 18, 1909, the harbor and Land Commissioners advertised
+another hearing in regard to the "Improvement of Deacon's Pond Harbor"
+and still another on February 24, 1910.
+
+After these hearings had been held and improvements made, the
+channel was wide and deep enough to permit schooners to enter.
+
+However, the sand drifted in and on March 11, 1911, there was
+another hearing called in regard to removing a "shoal at the
+entrance to the harbor" and about 32,000 cubic feet of earth was
+then removed.
+
+Since then other deepenings have been made until now, during the
+summer season, it is a common sight to see some sixty boats of all
+descriptions lying in the water.
+
+In 1921 the harbor was further improved by extending the jetty on
+the west side about 200 feet into Vineyard Sound.
+
+
+
+
+BASS RIVER
+
+
+  There's a gently flowing river,
+    Bordered by whispering trees,
+  That ebbs and flows in Nobscussett
+    And winds through Mattacheese.
+
+  Surely the Indian loved it
+    In the ages so dim and gray,
+  River beloved of the Pale Face
+    Who dwell near its banks today.
+
+  Lovely it lies in the moonlight,
+    A silver scroll unrolled,
+  And glorious when the sunset
+    Turns it to molten gold.
+
+  Yet we love it when the mist clouds
+    Hang over it like a pall;
+  No less when the hand of the Frost King
+    Holds it in icy thrall.
+
+  In all of its moods and changes
+    We joy in its billows salt,
+  With the deep strong love of a lover
+    Blinded to every fault.
+
+  Always its gleaming beauty
+    Raises our thoughts from the clod;
+  Up, up to the crystal river,
+    That flows from the Throne of God.
+
+  They pass on,--the generations,--
+    Thou stayest, while men depart;
+  They go with thy lovely changes
+    Shrined in each failing heart.
+
+  Beautiful old Bass River!
+    Girt round with murmuring trees;
+  Long wilt thou flow in Nobscussett.
+    And wander through Mattacheese.
+
+  ARETHUSA.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+A CORRECTION
+
+The article in our May issue, "Automobile Tour of Cape Cod," was
+written before the advent of automobiles to Nantucket, and therefore
+did not take account of the fact that autos are now not only allowed
+but plentiful there. The fact that the article was not up to date
+escaped the attention of the editor.
+
+
+
+
+CAPE CODE NOTES
+
+ The Harwich Independent  says: Indications are that the coming
+summer will be another record breaker along our shores. A big
+building boom is on in cottages now under construction, and we are
+to have new comers from New York, Boston, and other places. Cottages
+for rental are being rapidly taken.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Artist George Elmer Browne left America for France the first of May
+with a class of 40 pupils. Mrs. Browne and Miss Hallett will
+accompany him for the summer. Provincetown will miss the Brownes
+this summer, but wishes them a pleasant and successful season abroad.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Charles A. Atwood, night operator in the Sagamore telephone exchange,
+has been awarded a Theodore N. Vail medal for his services on the
+occasion of a night fire in the building where the exchange is
+located, March 27, 1921, when he made his way through the smoke to
+the switchboard and gave the alarm first to the Keith Car Works and
+next to the local fire chief. After that he was overcome by the smoke,
+and the staircase was on fire when he was revived. He got back into
+the operating room after that and remained on duty the rest of the
+night.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+William Ellis and his son George were hunting driftwood along the
+beach in the neighborhood of Peaked Hill bars, at the Provincetown
+end and came on a sack lying in the tidewash, which was found to
+contain 200 pounds of gamboge. It is thought their find came from
+the wreck of the ship Peruvian, which met its fate on those shoals
+Dec. 26, 1872, as no other vessel has since been wrecked there which
+had gamboge as a part of its cargo. The gamboge was said to be in
+perfect condition, in spite of its long immersion in the sea water.
+Gamboge is a resin, orange red in color, but yellow when in powder
+form. It was used in medicine as an emetic and artists, especially
+those using water colors will recall it as a yellow pigment.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Dr. B.D. Eldredge of Harwich passed his 90th birthday on Monday, May
+1st. This extreme age has dealt very lightly with the Doctor whose
+general appearance is much the same as when many years younger, but
+his step and carriage show some infirmity. He is destined to add
+another decade of life, and the many congratulatory greetings
+extended to him by friends voiced that prediction. Doctor Eldredge
+is still in professional practice.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The "Emperor Jones," Eugene G. O'Neill's, of Provincetown, drama, has
+been produced in Boston. The Provincetown players may be said to have
+done themselves well by presenting as a maiden effort in Boston, this
+play by O'Neill in which Charles Gilpin plays the leading role. "The
+Emperor Jones" is O'Neill's first offering to Boston theatre world
+although he learned his trade at Prof. Baker's Harvard 47 Workshop.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In a stock judging contest at the Massachusetts Agricultural College,
+Amherst, recently, Lawrence High School of Falmouth won second place,
+scoring 1100 out of a possible 1200 points. Eight teams competed in
+the contest, with 54 competitors for individual prizes. The team from
+the Lawrence High School was composed of Arthur Briggs, Edward Briggs
+and Harold Dushane, and these young men are to be congratulated upon
+their ability as judges of live stock. They deserve special credit
+for the reason that the other teams competing were selected from much
+larger schools than Lawrence High. Mr. Williams, who is taking the
+place of Mr. Hawkes as agricultural instructor, accompanied the boys
+to Amherst, the party making the trip by auto.
+
+
+
+
+A DELAYED LETTER
+
+
+In looking over some old manuscripts the other day the editor came
+across the following letter which is so full of longing for the
+country of the writer's ancestry that we publish it herewith, just
+as it was written in 1918:
+
+Denver, Colorado.
+
+"A state of Maine man, Mr. Dana, has just handed me a copy of your
+magazine of December, 1917. Because I am a Cape Codder marooned in
+the Rocky Mountains for 40 years, though I started to run away to sea
+when I was 8 years old--man proposes, God disposes. I read it through
+from stem to gudgeon including the poetry and the advertisements. My
+ancestor, Thomas Baxter, Yarmouth, Mass., married the daughter of
+Capt. John Gorham, Temperance Gorham Sturgis, widow of Edmund
+Sturgis, Jr., Jan. 26, 1879. He was a lieutenant under Capt. John
+Gorham in the great swamp fight, King Philip's war, and that part of
+Maine (then Massachusetts) called Gorham, was set off to them for
+services against the Narragansett Indians.
+
+"With such ancestry, followed by worthy descendants, don't you think
+I have a love for Cape Cod sand? Capt. Gorham's wife was Desire
+Howland, daughter of John Howland of the Mayflower and the first son
+of Thomas, John Baxter, married Desire Gorham, June 11, 1706, and
+with his two brothers built the old mill at Hyannis of which it is
+sung:
+
+  "The Baxter boys they built a mill,
+  And when it went, it never stood still.
+  And when it went it made no noise,
+  Because 'twas built by Baxter's boys."
+
+"I hope to pass my last years in my cottage in South Dennis and to
+quote from Edna Howes' poem on page 23, entitled 'Who's Worrin'?'
+
+  "Cod and haddock, boned and white,
+  A drying on their flakes,
+  There's none can beat the cod fish balls
+  That mother only makes.
+  And clams and quahogs, scallops, too,
+  A layin' close at hand
+  A waitin' and a longin'
+  To be dug from out the sand."
+
+"My word, Edna, you make my mouth water!
+
+"On page 11 you say that no Canadian lynx or wild cat has been seen
+on the Cape for 100 years. Make it about 50 years instead, because
+there was a catamount in South Yarmouth woods in 1867 and I think I
+saw it--and I could prove it if George Thatcher was alive and had
+his memory with him.
+
+"How I would enjoy being out in a cat boat off Hyannis, or Dennisport,
+or North Dennis. Say! if the bluefish haven't been all caught by the
+time I get there I will certainly try my luck. I would rather catch
+rock cod, or perch, or tautog, than fill a creel with brook trout,
+under any conditions, any day in the year; but then you don't care,
+and I don't care if you don't--but I do."
+
+                        Yours truly,
+                            JOHN N. BAXTER.
+
+
+
+
+A MILLION QUARTS OF STRAWBERRIES
+
+
+Cape Cod strawberries are destined to become as famous as her
+cranberries, her fishing, and her renown as a summer resort. One
+million quarts of them left her fields the past season! And the
+industry is still growing!
+
+Cape Cod leads New England in the magnitude of this industry and
+Falmouth holds the honor of being the home of the Cape Cod
+strawberry.
+
+There are in Falmouth something over two hundred acres in
+strawberries, and these acres extend over an area of between six and
+seven square miles. The berries for the most part are grown on land
+cleared from woods within the past fifteen years. New land is being
+cleared each season and the territory is becoming more and more
+extensive, the industry expanding and Falmouth as a specialized
+farming center more and more prominent.
+
+The sturdy pioneers of this industry in Falmouth are Portuguese
+people who drifted to the section from nearby industrial centers
+like New Bedford and Fall River and who later persuaded their
+friends and relatives from across the sea to join them in this land
+of plenty. They are splendid people, hard working, thrifty and
+industrious, and make most excellent citizens. Although but few have
+had the opportunity to attend school, they are most intelligent
+farmers, ready and willing to adopt methods that will financially
+improve their business. The majority are, however, limited in land
+area and many times are obliged to crop their small farms to excess,
+for strawberries are the main cash crop, and very few who have more
+recently come here have the necessary funds to acquire much land or
+equipment. The acreage in berries will vary from one-half an acre to
+four acres. Cultural methods are practically all hand work. The land
+is cleared by hand, plants set and runners placed by hand, fertilizer
+applied by hand, hand hoed, hand weeded and naturally hand picked.
+
+The rows are set 4-1/2 to 5 feet apart, plants 14 to 15 inches in the
+row. The matted row system is used, but instead of allowing runners
+to set at will, each one is placed. The beds are raised six inches,
+rows when fully set are from 3-1/2 to 4 feet wide. Pine needles are
+used for a mulch mainly because they were handy at first, clean of
+weeds and easy to apply, but the pine needle is getting more and
+more obsolete, like the tallow candle, and unless the grower changes
+his method of mulching or else uses a motor truck and goes a long
+distance he is out of luck in the future.
+
+The industry has seen hard times and about six years ago it was
+doubtful if it could survive. Growers were working as individuals
+and selling their berries and buying their fertilizer, crates and
+baskets. It was not uncommon for one grower to ship his season's
+crop to as many as seven or eight different commission houses. This
+all led to confusion. The commission man could not depend on a
+steady and sure supply. By splitting up a crop in this way the
+grower actually competed with himself. Finally, by necessity, he was
+forced to combine with his neighbor and pool a common interest. The
+growers were guided into a co-operative association, to a large
+degree, by the assistance of Mr. Wilfrid Wheeler, then Secretary of
+the State Board of Agriculture.
+
+Mr. George C. Lillie was employed as manager, and right from the
+start the association rallied and has been gaining ground ever since.
+At present this association, known as the Cape Cod Strawberry
+Growers' Association, numbers ninety-eight men. They are
+incorporated, hold shares in the association, and sell their berries
+through one commission house instead of seven or eight.
+
+There are two grades of berries sold, only one of which carries the
+association stamp. Each member has a number which is placed on his
+crate and about 80 per cent of the crop is shipped under the stamp
+of the association. The members are paid on Wednesdays and Saturdays
+during the shipping season. They also pool their fertilizer order of
+over 200 tons, as well as that for crates and baskets. Payment for
+these commodities are deducted from returns on the berries. Last
+season the association shipped about seventy carloads of berries.
+This is probably over two-thirds of the entire output for Falmouth.
+Each car holds about 170 80-quart crates, and practically half are
+shipped in iced cars. The berries leave Falmouth at 9 p.m. and
+arrive in Boston at 6 a.m. They are there distributed to various
+points, some going, we understand, as far north as Bangor, Maine.
+
+The varieties grown are Echo, Howard 17, Abington and King Edward.
+The first named are more common, but indications point to a rapid
+change to the Howard 17. The Echo berry has proved a splendid variety
+for this section, as it stands up so well under shipment. The Howard
+17 is nearly as good a shipper, but considered a better quality berry
+and does nicely on our Cape soils. The picking season is from three
+to four weeks. Pickers are usually paid 2 cents a quart, and a good
+picker will make from $3 to $4 a day. Five thousand quarts is
+considered a fair yield per acre for the section.
+
+The members of the association do not put all their eggs in one
+basket, however. They grow besides strawberries, turnips, corn,
+potatoes, carrots and raspberries for cash crops. Turnips follow
+strawberries in volume and last fall the members shipped about
+twenty-five carloads.--_Falmouth Enterprise_.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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