Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1876-03-03

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trious examples of our patriots and he
roes. are gathered together to render
homage to the memrry Of Washington
How the hearts of the two old Common
wealths must pulsate with pride and
gladness, as they behold this gratitude
upon the part of their sons; how they
must throb with joy as the wild hosannas
make the welkin ring, which, uniting
the booming of the American cannon,
and overlapping every barrier, gathering
power and volume with its thundcrs, re-
verberating in the Businesses Of the Sierra
Nevadas, and onward. greeting the
American sailor, as he reefs his canvass
mid the music of the storms, stopping
not until its thunders break around the
crowned heads of Europe. proclaiming
that the American Republic lives, lives
in all the glory and splendor Of the Gen.
tcnuial, lives the peer of them all, and
able, if necessary, to bear her eagle in
triumph against the world lives in all
her National greatness, prosperity and
happiness lives the local centre of lib
erty, enlightenment and empire lives
to acknowledge allegiance to the will
of the people and God alone !; and
standing here between the two great
oceans, happy, mighty and free, she is
in her very being the demonstrated right
of mans charter to freedom. The path
Of duty is the path of honor; such in
deed does the history of the statesmen
and patriots of the two old States pro-
claim to the world, and let their exam
pie and influence be deeply engraven
upon the hearts of our growing manhood
In Rome, when Rome was free. in the
giddy height of her National greatness,
in the hours of her classic opulence and
splendor, nothing could have broken the
freedom Of her children but the degcnera-
cy of her sons. In this great and grow
ing country, With the pillows of progress
dashing mountain high, let us not, amid
the general rush, slumber in Indifference
only to be aroused by the crash of ruin,
but catching the spirit than animated the
fathers of the Republic, who formed its
being and gave it the splendor and pow
er Of united system, give US renewed
vigor and watchfulness Let us go on
expanding our National boundaries until
Canada on the North, and convulsiye
Mexico on the South, shall knock for adj
mission into this mighty Confederacy,
until Cuba, Panama. Nicaragua and the
Sandwich Islands shall become absorbed
in the march of empire, and myriads Of
emigrants. escaping from the thraldom
of tyranny and the shackles Of poverty
in the old world, shall find asylum, af-
fuence and serenity in this land Of prom
Use. Let us keep faith with the ashes Of
our dead, let the military only be called
into requisition in defence or our COM
mon rights, and let US pray, that sooner
than our now restored and happy coun-
try shall again become the the theatre Of
civil war, that the waves Of the Atlantic
and the Pacific shall mngle their waters
in high reyelry over our once happy
country.
DAMAGED MEN You can see any
day in the streets Of any city men who
look damaged too, of good, origi-
nal material, who started out 10 life with
generous aspirations. Once it was said
that they were bright, promising lads
once they looked happily into the faces
Of mothers, whose daily breath was a
prayer for their purity and peace. All
what if some of them have vowed their
souls away to confiding wives, who
silently wonder what can be the mean
ing Of this change---the cold, slow creep
ing shadow-that liz coming over the
house and heart Going to the bad
The spell of evil partnership; the
willingness to hold and use money not
honestly gained; the stealthy, seductive
plausible advice Of the appetite for strong
drink !; the treachcrous fascination Of
the gaming table the gradual loss Of
interest in business and in doings which
build man up, the rapid weakening
Of all noble purposes the decay Of man.
illness the recklessness and basphemy
against fate: the sullcn despair Of ever
breaking the chains Of evil habits. -
What victories Of shame and contempt
what harvest of hell have grown from
such seed as this
YEARS AND YEARS How long the
years seem when we are young IL
wait year, "a whole yer" for any
thing appears at fifteen like an inter-
minable probation. Looking back when
one is City, lifetime seems hardly
longer than twelve-month seemed in
youth. As we grow older, the years
between us and the great unknown
future" are so few that we can almost
see their moments slipping away from
us as the sand drops in an hourglass.--
Children have no idea Of economizing
time. Time and eternity look to them
all as one-there is plenty Of space in
which to fly kites and dress dolls. The
middle aged man flies his kite, also
fancics, dreams, speculations he calls
them and the middle aged woman
dresses her dolls. and is, perhaps, the
oayest doll of all herself; bat the mid
| die aged take their pleasure solemnly,
as the old Frenchman bad it--solemnly,
but none the less earnestly. The year
1875 went out. and 1876 came in. II
meant joy and froltc and hope TO one
half the world; to the other half of it
meant sadness and longing and memory
at the best. peace.
A man in indianapolis has invented a
new kind Of fine tooth comb, and the
citizens say such thing never entered
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