The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-02-09
For The Democratic Advocate.
Items for the Lisbon Correspondent.

The Lisbon correspondent seems to be m
dulging in some pleasant ''ante -bellum,' rem
iniscences of .tWoodbine, the Pines, Morgan
Chapel, Carroll, &C., all of which he COM
pounds into one conglomeraton, ana brings
out of it as a precipitate ''Sleepy Hollow,
and quietly speaks in their heavy ears, Sleep
no more and then calls to the inhabitants
to ''Wake up" He comes at them cart be.
fore the horse, bidding them "sleep no more,
which they could not hear, being ALREADY!
fast asleep; then he says, " axe up.
Guess they heard that, and take heed. But
we would say that, when he left Woodbine-
Morgan Chapel Pines of Carroll, the sun went 81,
down. as it had done often before, and all
the light may have gone with him out of
''Sleepy Hollow But he reminds us OF the os-
trich in its native wilds which, when fright
ened, does not take TO its wings, but ihrrsts
its head into the nearest thicket, and because
it sees nothing deems nothing can be seen.
And, as he does not see what is going on there,
and seems to believe that deep sleep has
brooded all this while upon them, we will Just
saw. for his especial benefit, that the sun which
went down on his "Sleepy Hollow" when ne
left, rose again the next a. m, just as 1t dld
when he was there, and with its rise most OF
the people awoke; all, in fact, except those 10
whom he simple said, Sleep no more, WIN,
out first calling aloud, "Wdke ~! ana
we think the light will still increase to full
orbed dan in more respects than one. The
mines are fast giving place to fields OF lovely
green: the old school house that was, when he
was about, has been replaced with better;
handsome country homes overlook the rali-
road and bestrew the county road northwardi
and where he used to see nothing but the
signing evergreen trees on the now lovely
summit adjoining his ''Sleepy Hollow, rises
a neat, new church-Moggan Chdpei; near at
hand, and pip around the neighborhood, are
handsome residences and improved farms;
storehouses, shops and pretty dwellings clus-
ter around new postoihce, which has been
received with an all hail of encouraged and
hopeful advancement from every one whom
he awoke from their SAUNDERS when he es-
teemed himself the leading spirit OF the Illu-
minatti of Sleepy Hollow, and some more
beside. And we do not think their heads
would swim and whirl amid the dizzy heights
of vanity, if they should chance to rise, even
to his sublime altitude.
1t may be that some of the sleepers that he
imagines he sees failed to wake up, not be-
cause really sightless, but that the Lisbon
correspondent did not dispense light enough
to convince them that they had eyes and could
use them. But no doubt he can find quite as
large percentage of that sort at home, or
any where else.
We know much about that country, and
never saw land respond to the touch of lime
anywhere as quickly and to the extent that it
does along the road from Woodbine to Win
field; and if there is any new place in the
world where we would like to set up our
earthly rest, it would be where the luxuriant
clover, wheat and corn fields bask in the sun
shine along the eastern slope of that road
with the new DOStoffice, or others to be, to
dispense the ways and doings of the wide,
wide world.
As for the few sleepers which our Lisbon
sage could not wake, the few remaining, if
there be any, will soon be induced, like the
rest of the enlightened world, to wend their
way to the pretty new church yard. And at
the end of another decade Sleepy Hollow will
class not one toto behind our Lisbon man
HOHo,o, for we can see already elements of
the notwithstanding developing there, while
private research on the north of the Patapsco
with its midnight lamp, can see about on a
level with some of the wide-awake collegiate
literatti on the south. ID.