Myles Standish By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HANKSGIVING approaches, and as our thoughts turn to the Pilgrim Fathers, none is more worthy of remem- brance than Capt. Myles Standish. For he was “the first military commander of our country and the greatest example of protection and prepared- ness that ever existed. The compact which he and his associates signed on board the Mayflower was the founda- tion of our form of government. The law-abiding, God-fearing Pilgrims could not have existed without the strong arm of Capt. Myles Standish.” Such was the tribute paid te him recently by Major Myrick, captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, in dedicating a simple boulder in Duxbury, Mass., which marks the site of Myles Stan- dish’s home. Associated with him in dedicating the memorial and decorat- ing the grave of the Pilgrim captain nearby were Myles Standish, eighth lineal descendant of the colonial lead- er, Winthrop Winslow, a direct de scendant of Captain Winslow, of the Pilgrims, and more than a hundred members of the artillery company. The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston was an offspring of the Honorable Artillery Company of London, organized in England Io 1537. It was founded in New Eng- land In 1638 by Robert Keayne, who had previously been a member of the London company. The only time In its history in which it engaged In war as a unit was in 1645, when it joined Myles Standish and his company in a campaign against the Indians, and today it is the only link which exists between the present United States army and the first colonial company which defended this country from the first Indian attacks. It is probable that most Americans, when they think of Capt. Myles Stan- dish at all, think of him in terms of Longfellow's famous poem, which is unfortunate for, as a recent writer has said “The poet Longfellow has set an example o: inaccuracy in dealing with our Pilgrim ancestors, which has been widely followed.” Among those inac- curacies are first of all the spelling of his name, which was “Myles” and not “Miles,” as Longfellow had it, and calling him a “Puritan leader.” There was a difference between the “Sep- aratists,” who called themselves “Pil- grims” and who founded the colony at Plymouth in 1620, and the “Puritans” who founded the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1630. More than that, Stan- dish was not a member of the Sepa- ratist faith, but he was “a dissenter from the dissenters.” But the princi- pal mistaken idea about the captain which the poet has given us is In his having Standish use young John Alden as his mouthpiece In wooing Priscilla Mullins. “There is not a scintilla of evidence that the fearless captain, who was small of stature and red- headed, but every inch a soldier, had any desire to win the affections of Priscilla Mullins,” cays the writer pre viously quoted. “It seems too bad that so brave and unselfish a man as Standish was should now be pa- raded before his descendants as a re- Jected suitor. He deserves a better fate.” There seems to be considerable mys- tery about the ancestry, religion and early life of Myles Standish. It is be- Heved that he was born about 1584, the scion of the Standish family of Duxbury hall In Lancashire, Eng. land. The name Is an ancient one and Froissart, describing the meet- ing between King Richard I and the rebel, Wat Tyler, at Smith- fleld in 1381, tells how the Ilat- ter was killed by a “squyer of the kynges called John Standysshe,” who was knighted for this act. This fur nishes some historical basis for the words put In Myles Standish’'s mouth by Longfellow that “One of my ances- tors ran his sword through the heart of Wat Tyler.” Standish Menument on Captair’s Hill, Duxbury, Mass. The association of the name of Dux. bury with that of Standish is based upon authenticated coples of deeds of the Fourteenth century which show that Ralph de Dokesbury made over his Lancashire estates to his lawyer, Ralph Stgndish, who took up the mort- guages and thereby dispossessed the Dokesbury or Dpxbury family. It is significant that one of the later Pil. grim settlements, which became the home of Myles Standish, was named Duxbury. Within the last year the sale of Duxbury hall near Chorley, Lancashire, recalled the fact that in 1846 descendants of Myles Standish in this country subscribed a large amount of money and sent an expert to trade the claim of their ancestor to this estate, of which it has been asserted, he was unjustly deprived when he emigrated from England to America. In his youth Myles Standish entered the English army and served in the wars on the continent, thus furnishing the authority for Longfellow's having him tell about “the sword of Damascus I fought with in Flanders” and the breastplate which once saved his life from a bullet “Fired point-blank at my heart by a Spanish arcabucero.” Just how Standish came to join the Pil- grims is not known. He apparently was serving in the Netherlands when the Separatists went there from Eng- land, and one historian asserts that the Merchant Adventurers, who financed the Pligrim emigration to Amerien, expecting them to settle in the region of Virginia, sent Standish as their salaried servant to defend them and teach them to defend them selves. At any rate, Standish joined the Pilgrims at Leyden and sailed with them from Plymouth, England, in the Mayflower on September 16, 1620. Myles Standish was one of the sign. ers of the Mayflower Compact on No. vember 11, 1620, for the government of the proposed colony, but his mill tary career did not begin until Novem- ber 21, when the Mayflower was an- chored In Cape Cod bay, and the cap- tain with 15 men went ashore. “When they had marched about the space of Grave, South. Duxbury, Mass. a mile by the sea side, they espled DO. or 6. persons with a dogg coming to- wards them, who were sajvages.” But the Indians “rane up Into the woods" and that night Standish and his men camped on the shore "& set out their sentinels.” On November 25, sixteen armed men, “everyone his Musket, Sword and Corslet, Under the magd of Captaine Myles Standish.” were sent ashore for a second explo ration. They marched through what Is now Provincetown, where they saw several Indians, followed their tracks about ten miles and spent the night in the weods, Three more expeditions were sent out later, and on the third near Nanskeket they were surprised by the Indians upon whom Standizh fired, but the skirmish was slight. In February, 1021, Standish was offi. cially made military captain. During that first terrible winter when disease wiped out half of the colony, among them his wife, Standish, who died on January 21, it was to the min istrations of this flery little fig! man and the gentle Elder Bre that many of the survivors owed their lives. But he was to prove his wort! to the colony In many other wavs, ane to Justify the statement that the * grims could not have esisted without the strong arm of Capt. Myles Stan- dish.” In 1622 the planting of a new settle ment at Weymouth angered the Mase sachusetts Indians, who f« com Rose ting ster wmed a plot to destroy not only these Englishmen but the members of the Plymouth el ony as well, The plot by Massasoit and Standish force of only eight men marched the relief of the settlement at Wes mouth, Standish chiefs, Pecksuot and Wituwanmat, and a half-brother of the latter int roomn where the Indians were killed after a desperate fight, marking first shedding of Indian blood hy Pligrims. A general with Indians followed but Standish and men routed the savages. The news of his battle spread terror among the Indians, and as a warning ngainst fur. ther depredations, the head of Win wamat was cut off and exposed on a pole in Plymouth. In 1635 Standish led an unsuccess ful expedition against the French whe had driven a party of Plymouth men away from Penobscot, Maine. In ad dition to being the military leader of every exploit of importance in the vol ony, Standish’'s counsel was often re quired in civil affairs. For many years he was treasurer of the colony, and in 1625, when the colony was in tron ble with its partners, the Merchant Ad venfurers, Standish was sent to Eng land to seek relief, bearing a letter from Governor Bradford te the coun cil of New England urging their inter vention in behalf of the Pilgrims. On account of the plague in London, how ever, Standish could accomplish noth- ing. After the death of his wife, Rose, the captain married her younger sis. ter, Barbara, and to them, were born four sons, Alexander, Myles, Josins and Charles, and a daughter, Lora. In 1632 Standish made his home at Duxbury on Captain's hill. There he died on October 3, 1658. Today a tall monument stands on Captain's hill. On top of it ia the statue of a military figure, looking eastward, Its right hand, holding the charter of the col- ony, is extended toward Plymouth, its left rests upon a sheathed sword. It is a fitting memorial to Capt. Myles Standish, the first military commander of our country and the protector and savior of the Pligrim Fathers, was betraved with =» to enticed the hostile battle Origin of Lacrosse Sa. @ game of lacrosse can trace its origh to the Algonquin Indians, and its name wns first uttered by the Frenchman, Charlevolx, according to Denald W. White, writing in the Sportsman, Boston, When the explorer was ascending the St. Lawrence he saw the game played by a tribe of Indians near Que bee. The stick used In the game ap- peared to him to be like a bishop's erosier, and the name “Ia crosse” was suggested, As played by the Indians, lacrosse was almost a part of their religion. Days of fasting preceded the games played by two teams of rival tribes, and the players subjected themselves to tortures of the severest kind, in flicted by the medicine men. EE———— Nation's Sweet Tooth The United States consumes more than 20 per cent of the world’s cane sugar, Success in Achievement The saying, “Nothing succeeds ike success” was used In reference to the first operation under ether performed by Dr. John Collinge Warren at the Massachusetts General hospital on Oc tober 10, 1840. Brazil's Official Language is the official lungunge of Brazil, It Is the only Latin Amer lean country In which that 1s the pre valling language.~I'uthfinder Auagn zine. CENTRE HALL. PA. 1 oo i WHY WE BEHAVE LIKE HUMAN BEINGS By GEORGE DORSEY, Ph. D., LL.D. “ The Truth About Vitamines {ji recently no one had ever seen a vitamine, nor had the chemical luboratory isolated one: six- teen years ago no one had ever heard of one. And yet a real science of food Is Impossible without a knowledge of vitumines, Without (or something just aus good) there Is no normal growth, health, reproduction, or living out the span of life. Scurvy was known to the ancient Greeks, and through th® centuries ravaged armies, crews of ships, and explorers cut off from fresh fruit and vegetables; seven years ago no one suspected the existence of the anti- scorbutic vitamine, Thousands of children have hobbled out a pitiable existence on a rickety frame: until recently no one suspected it was be- cause of lack of a specific mysteri. ous antirachitic vitamine now known to exist in certaln foods. About thir ty years ago It was known that chick- ens fed on polished rice developed berl-berl, and that the same chickens fed on whole rice recovered: but no one then suspected the existence of an antineuritic vitamine in the polish- ings of rice or In milk. Innumerable experiments have now proved the existence of four, and pos sibly five. vitamines, and their neces- sity for human life and the metabo. lism of all food. Because of thelr mi nute amounts, thelr close association with the complex food substances. their proneness to disappear under manipulation, and because good controls could be devised In testing. they defiled isolation. But, by relying on feeding and by huge Industry and patience, definite results have obtained — and civilization catches up with desiccated and canned progress. vitamines 10 the old vegetable garden the screenings. Fat-soluble A (because soluble ably first ani- mals, in Importance. All experimentally treated, is presumably for higher animal to be necessary life. It is necessary for growth, lack, among other vita- mine A. assume normal growth, of things, etx disappeared. sumably all animal fat and leituce. It cabbage destroyed by great heat, is found In eggs and has recently Isolated In has antineuritic Presumably it is vitamine B. Water solohle CC. lemons, tomatoes: in all and root vegetables, foods, scurvy. accelerate in also Oranges fruits, Without growth, Is probably Its molecule consists of five atoms of carbon, eleven of hydrogen, one normal growth in a young animal stunted by a diet which does not have proper vitamines. Vitamine X is the latest. been experimenting with rats. If they get no vitamine X, they become sterile. He has also proved that nat- ural foods contain a substance or sub. stances essential for the normal func. tioning of the mammary gland. But certain substances (for example, vege- table oils) which promote fecundity do not necessarily Improve lactation. In short, there are foods and foods: water, mineral salts, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamines. Is sunlight a "food" also? It depends. Children and hogs that play in the sun need no antirackitie vitamine; they do not develop rickets, Light is a marvelous oxidizing agent. Foolls with no known vitamine A can, by ultra-violet radia- tion, become possessed of antirachitic property. These same rays get into our skin and “sunburn” us; they will paralyze an ameba In a quarter of a second, or kill and tear its body like a bolt of lightning in three seconds. How much of this or how much of that is good or necessary or lethal for us is a kind of knowledge that did not seriously trouble our remote an- cestors, but which, with our increas- ing tendency to get away from cows, chickens, and gardens, and from nat. ural conditions in general, becomes of first-rate importance, There was a time when a cook was a cook, good or bad as the case might be; today a cook should be a first-class chemist, the kitchen a chemical laboratory, (© by George A. Dorsey.) Real Logic Teacher—If 1 had ten potatoes and wanted to divide them among three people, what would I do? T ‘em. # i ain! 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