The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-03-19
FOOTPRINTS ON THE SANDS OF
TINE"

nunQreQ ana tWeiNe years oiui n@'S
been born in June 1866. Few people
really comprehend the vsstness OF the
time or the tremendous events that come
within the scope of those simple WORDS
zone hundred and twelve years old"
Everybody has seen seventeen men
gathered in a room and thought nothing
of it, but suppose that seventeen such
men SIS the subject of our correspondents
letter were in existence their combined
ages would stretch beyond the time that
the Prince of Peace was in msnger.
If seventeen men should attain so
advanced al age, and each should die
as his successor came into existence, the
first OF the line would have been twenty
four years cd before CHRIST was born,
and would have been an old man when
He died on the cross. He might have
gone fishing with the Apostles, or played
marbles with JOSEPH, the husband OF
MARY.
Four such lives would ds.e back be-
tore the discovery of America by CoLUM-
BUS. Indeed, the man would have been
almost ready TO die Of old age who stood
al the head of the four, for he would
have been sxty.one years of age when
COLUMBUS sailed from SPAN, and in his
sixty second yesr when the Genoese
knelt IN the hszy light of an October
morning and thanked COP for allowing
him TO discover the New World.
How much the world has grown and
changed in every way since DANIEL
CoLLEY was born. When he was lit
tie prattling child, three years old, an
obscure matron on the island of Corsica
gave birth to child, whom the French
army afterward called "the Little Cor
poral," who was Emperor of France, and
ut whose death, in 1921, the sovereigns
of Europe heaved q sigh OF relief and
said, "NAPoLEoN is dead; thank GoDP'
GEORGE WASHINGTON was thirty-tour
years of age in 1866, and was man
comparatively unknown, not even
dream of the future greatness
OF his native land or the
immortal fame that was to be attached TO
his name later in life.
All the stirring scenes of the war for in
dependence took place when Mr.. CoLLEY
was well-grown boy.
Turn back few pages in his life his
tory, and he will speak of the greatest
civil war the world has known, IN lS6l-5.
| Again turn back and the war with Mex
leo will be the theme of conversation.
Still further back he will chat OF the war
of ~; tell you of his boyish memories
of the spirit of 20, or Of his recolIections
a. a child of the barbarous Indian wars,
and the bloody battle of Point Pleasant;
he will tell you of the great chieftains,
CoRnsTALK, ELLINIPSEO and RED
HAWK, who swsyed the powerful
tribes that sought 20 beat back
the rapidly growing power of the whites
and of their deeds of proves and the
large numbers of their followers. II his
eyesight had not failed and he had read
REGISTER of few days since, he
would moraliZs on the shOlt telegram
which said that the last great war chief
of remarkable ability, SITTING BULL,
and his small band are starving to death
in the mour tains of the Pacific slope, and
desire to make peace with the govern
ment. Thus within the span of one
mans life, an entire race OF people has
almost passed away from among the
nations of mankind, and the chiefs who
used to scorn to yield to the whites, have
degen aratci into lot of drunken, thew
i'm ,.h,rds wbo live On oovcrnment
hornt, Tb;o s.mo Hfo ba. sean tive
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u,;,,o..od =, .:,,ieo c.l which .booL all
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when the rumblipgs OF discomfort and
rehs)l;on AGAINST British dominion were
low and slmos, ipdis,inct: heard the
voice of protest grow louder and more
determined. until they eliminated in the
declaration of independence. Saw the
s,rucole ho,ween the farmers in their
bomespun and the soldiers of
the crown in their CANDY uniforms
and :, tho surrerdor Of Cop.w,r1Is
Saw the infant repubhc of slow post
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