| Show I 1 THE UNKNOWN LEADER I 1 A dramatic story of the war with king philip I 1 once upon a time as the fairy sto ries begin only this la is not a fairy story thoro there was a war in a country across the soa sea a long and cruel war i thoro thore wore were many battles fought find and thousands of men lost their lives and what do you suppose it was all about iphy 1 why so BO they might know whether the king was to rule with or without par diament li ament but a very Imp important orLan t principle was at stake and many honest men fought on the side of the abo parliament in the end the king aas was doca defeated ted and taken prisoner says a writer in in the philadelphia times no kb doubt you have road read about it in your history and know that this king s name was charles stuart charles 1 I of en I 1 n gland it if so you will remember that lie ho was out nut on trial for his ufa life rind and condemned to death do ith there were many good men on tho the parliaments sido side that wore were opposed to this but tho the majority were determined that ho he should die so one cold january day he was brought out and be headed on tower hill for a dozen years then thero there was no king in england they called it the commonwealth but I 1 thing F we might as well call it the reign of oliver cromwell when cromwell died most of the people had got tired of the commonwealth and they sont sent to frinces franca for the young prince charles stuart tho the son of the murdered king this was called the restoration ono one of the first things the now k king ing did was to order the arrest of all tho the men who had condemned condom ned his father to death there wore were forty of them and they wore were called regicide si that is the murderers of a kings king nearly all of them were taken and executed but three of them managed to escape these throe three men came to america which was then virtually a wilderness with a fow few villages scattered hero here and there among amon tho the forests fo resia they found various valou i refuses refuges though moy wore were pursued iron lime to time i by the age off eats ats of king charlos charles sometimes somei 1 they hid in caves sometimes an indian wigwam gave them hospitable 6 shelter holter and one of them for fifteen years was the secret guest of the good minister of hadley which was then a border town in the valley of the connecticut 1 during king phillips war a large force of indians attacked hadle hadley y it was on sunday and the sava savages tres surprised the hamlet while tho the people wore were assembled in the little church suddenly the war whoop sounded d and the indians clambered over the palis ades and rushed through the gateways the puritans grasped their fire firo locks which they carried to church with them in those fighting days and mustered upon the green almost can you see the scene glittering under the drowsy skies of june the savages in war ont bailit find and flad L il I 1 nourishing their murderous weapons the settlers with peaked hats and quilted doublets making as gallant a defense as they could the women and children kneeling behind them but the settlers were losing ground and tho the indian yells were growing fiercer and moro more triumphant they turned at last to floo just then a strange figure rushed in front of the whites no ono one know knew him or where he had come from IIO ho was an old man but tall and erect with long white hair and flowing board beard dressed like a ca valor lie ile brand dished a slender rapier which flashed as the spectators thought though with an unearthly light rally hero here men of hadley ho he cried in a store stern loud voice that had its effect even upon the indian too foe rally here for your lives ilis his military presence and his cheering words inspired tho the settlers sett lors to a heroic defense the tide of battle turned in a short timo time the savages fled and the little frontier town was saved dut but when tho the settlers sett lors turned to th thank an k their deliverer bo be had digap feared as mysteriously as aa he had acome come even very good people super ious in those days and as aa they I 1 could not account for it in any 0 thor othor way it began to be whispered among them that an angel of the lord had appeared in the their ir defense nor did athey they learn their mistake until the death of the ministers secret guest which happened several years afterwards then they know that tile the bangel 1 angel with the white hair must have been william golle golfe tho the regicide cido aseen in his place of concealment ho he had I 1 seen the peril of the whites and so had rushed out and saved the settlement i it you should chance to visit I 1 the dreamy little village on the connecticut you may stand upon the very ground where the tall warrior appeared with streaming white hair and board waving high the sword that had bad flashed and struck on Jd marston arston moor alcor and rallied tho the panic stricken settlers in that long ago year of grace 1676 |
