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VOL. 4. OHOTEAÜ, TÉTON COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1893. NO. 32. • P E O F E S S I O N T A l T , < 3 - - R T T O R N E Y & C O U N S E L O R f i T L A W . J A M E S S U L G R O Y E , ATTORNEY AT LAW, OHOYEAU, • - MONT. • Admitted to pt atice in Land , Pension and Patent Claims before the Interior Derpartment. Land , Water , and Irrigation Rights a Speci- mlty. All Legal Papers and Collections given care ful and prompt attention. Attorney N. A. M. A. Co. Correspondents in every city in North America. Notary Public. COUNTY ATTORNEY , TETON COUNTY , T . JLAW YiEi-% FORT BENTON, MONT' ^ o , i d t t i f ’ if 1, Authorized to practice before the De partment of the Interior, the Land Office, and the Pension and other Bureaus. t ENSION CLAIMS SPECIALLY ATTENDED TO . for. Main and St. John Sts., Fort Benton. S. H. DRAKE, M.D- PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Office over Bank of Choteau. CHOTEAU, MONTANA. H. Beaupre, Dentist, Bas permanently located at Choteau. All classes of Dental Work artistically done, and fully ffuaranted as represented. Do not wait until your teeth begin to ache, but begin in time, thus insure a better job, ..... : AND. NO/BAIN^OR TROUBLE. NJEW ENGLAND B U K I 1 S.r'— ■-%. •: ’-.p -, .a 'O T n s r r r s r STT-jRi^iEisr'oiE?. Irrigation S c Land Surveying a ' specialty. C h o t e / u , : - M o n t a n a . A . G - W A R N E R ; NOTARY PUBLIC, U. S. COMMISSIONER, AUTHORIZED T O RECEIVE F il i n g s & F in a l P roofs on P ublic L a n d s . OHOTEAU, - - - - MONT. ¡Ear. X j\H \ 0 3 s r . I L s T o t a - i ^ r g p - a / b l l c DEEDS. MORTGAGES and all kinds of legal Pi6l<rument8 drawn up. CHOTEAU, - - - - MONT. E. C. GA R R E T T . A- C. WARNER. G f l - R R E T T & W Ï Ï R N E R , CONVEYANCES, REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE CHOTEAU, MONT. C h o t e a u L o d g e N o 44 -A.. IT1 & c A l , 2 s Æ. Holds its legular communications on the 1st and 3d Saturdays of each month. All visiting brethren cordially welcomed. D r . S. H. D rake , W. M. A.O.U.W. Columbia Lodge, No. 47, meets inK. of P. ball every Thursday at 7p.m. Visiting brethren cordially invited. O. W ADD ACE TAYD0R, M. W. T. W. L ett , Recorder. CHEVALIER LODGE, NO. 127^ KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Meets every Satur day night. Visiting brothers fraternally welcome. JULI US HIRSHBERG, C.C A. C WARNER, K. R.S. Alice Morse Earle’s .Record of Those W lio Gave Us Thanks giving- D a y . - — — s. If anybody wants to knows just what sort of folk they were who' gave America ajegular recurring Thanksgiving day, should read Alice Morse Earle’s book, “ Cus toms and Fashions in Old New England,” published by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Very early in the book the reader will wonder how it came about that these people were- re sponsible for an anniversary day when they so bitterly opposed let ting their poor little half-frozen, skinny children celebrate April Fool’s day. • The young ones of those days were beautifully clad in lin e n - goose fleshy thought—little, thin linen, „short-sleeved, low-necked shirts and bag-like dresses oi linen, drawn in around the neck with puckering strings. Then the Sunday alter they were born they were.carried ofl‘ to the meeting house to be baptized. There was no fire in those meeting houses and they .often had to break But 111e'-Puritans had-no monopo ily of such cruelty to children. The re brie of the Episcopalian prayer book says that parents must not defer baptism longer than the first or second Sunday after birth. One of the New England per sons believed in infant immersion and practiced it, too, till Ills own child nearly lost, its life by it. A f ter that he learned some sense. Judge Sewall writes Jan. 22, 1694: “ A very extraordinary Storm by reason of the falling and driving of the snow. Few women cduld get to meeting. A child named Alexander was baptised in the afternoon.” It is not surprising that con-* sumption struck so deep* into New Englaud, or that infant mortality was so great Remember, too. that in the bonks on- the rearing of children it was advised that their feet be.often dipped in cold water, and that they wear thin soled shoes, “ that the wet may come freely to them.” One doesn’t wonder, either, ,at the size of the families. Sir W il liam Pliips was one of twenty six children by the same mother; Printer Green had thirty children^ the Rev. John Sherman of Water* town had twenty six children by two wives—twenty by-vhis last. With death making so many sub- tractions, the Puritans had to do a little multiplication. It must have taken a good deal of scuffling with thé elements to provide bread and meat and clothes for a family like a small Sundae' school. They didn’t get enough to eat, it is plain, for the children were almost all rickety, and all had to take elaborate com pounds of baked snails, mashed earthworks, herbs, hartshorn and strong ale to cure them. But the children were smart- children, Pbebe Bartlett was pow erfully converted when she was four y‘ears old. Jane Turell could tell scripture stories before she. was two years old, and-before she was four she could say the greater part of her catechism, many of tin Psalms, read distinctly and make pertinent remarks on many things she read. She asked many aston ishing. questions about divine mysteries. Cotton Mather took his little daughter Katy, aged four, into his study and told her that he was to die shortly, and that she must remember all he said. Be set be fore her the sintul condition of her nature and charged her to pray in secret places every day’, ^ai id's o'Dnipwi t hv much\ more--\] ug brious matter of the-same sort. He lived thirty years after he scared poor little Katy so. That’s.the lively sort of time the Puritan children had. The poor little Puritan boys .were not allowed to go swimming ■ at all, and every tithingman was strictly enjoiued to keep them from it. Each tithingman had ten families under his charge, and if one may estimate that there were ten boys in each family, the chances are that o f a hot August •lay some one of those hundred young ones defied the law, its dread executor and the chances of going to a place where it is more than August a’l the year around, and no good swimming holes either. But the young ones danced and they had punch to drink. One little girl eight, years old wouldn’t slay at her grandmother’s house because she couldn’t have wine to drink at every meal, and her par ents upheld her in her conduct! They had candy andgingërbreap and oranges, and pictured story books, but, ala's! they were stories of the “ Conversion and Holy and Exemplary Lives of Several Young Children,” “ The life of Mary Paddock,, who'died at the âge of nine,” “ Praise Out. of Ihe Mounths of Babes,” an 1 the likes of them.. They went to school, and froze thei^e when they weren’t warmed up with “ lamming and with whip ping and such benefits of nature.” Besides, the teacher had devilish devices, such as a split branch, into whose cleft the bad child’s nose was put and pinched. They had leather paddles like Brock- way’s, and the.whole community didn’t rise up in ' horror at it, though little, children were blist ered—not grown-up young men. Bachelors and “ lone men” had the worst of it very decidedly. The tithingman kept his eye on them all the time. ’ In Hartford they had to pay- 20 shillings a week to the town for. living with- lout a wife. Widowers hardly' waited till their wives were good and cold-before they married again. The father and .mother of Gcv. Winslow had been .widower and widow seven and twelve weeks respectively when they were mar ried. The governor ot New Ham- shire married a woman who.se first husband was put in the grave just ten days before the wedding. A single woman was “ an ancient maid” at twenty-five years, and a spinster of thirty years was a ‘•thorn bank.” -Judge Sewall wrote-in-ihis;diary quite alongsiory of his various atlemps to r.emarry when his first wife died, leaving him a widower sixty six years old. He had a dreadful time of it, for he was close-fisted in the matter of settle ments; but finally he drove a bar gain. Being a woman, the author has not given very much information concerning the Puritan practice of “ bundling,” but she does tell about the courting stick, a wooden tube six or eight feet long through which lovers might whisper their sweet nothings unheard by the rest of the household, who cud dled around thé fire-place in the long winter evenings trying to get thawed out. In the early days of New Eng land almost everybody of dignity performed the marriage exept the . parson, and the whole jannpany of guests used to. invade the bridal chamber and-màké' long prayers there. Young-fellow's who were not invited to the wedding had the pleasing ' custom of stealing the bride after the marriage1 cere mony, carrying her off and releas ing her only when the bridegroom bought a,supper for them. ’ They had good things to eat, though, if two people did have to eat off the same plate. For in stance. one New England way to __ _ » * Continued on Third*Page.
