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 IN
dulging in some pleasant ''ante-bellum REM
iniscences of s'Woodbine, the Pines, Morgan
Chapel CARROLL &C., all of which he COM
pounds into one conglomeration, and 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, WdEe up.
CHESS thev heard that. and take heed. But
we would say that, when he left Woodbine-
Morgan Chapel Pines of Carroll, the sun went
down, as it had done often before, and all
the light may have gone with him out OF
s'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 thrusts
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 when
went down on his "Sleepy Hollow" when ne
left, rose again the next n. M, just as 1t dld
when he was there, and with its rise most oil
the people awoke; all, in fact, except those to
whom he simple said, ''Sleep no more, with,
out first calling aloud, "Wdke up AND
we think the light will still increase to full
orbed day in more respects than one. Inc
mines are fast giving place to fields OF lovely
green; the old school house that was, when ne
was about, has been replaced with q better;
handsome country homes overlook the rail
road and bestrew the county road northward
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-M1Tgan (thdpeG; near at
hand, and qll around the neighborhood, are
handsome residences and improved farms;
storehouses, shops and pretty dwellings clus-
ter around a new postoffice, 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 i1lu-
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 NAV 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, OF
We know much about that country, and
never saw land respond to the touch of lime
anywhere as quickly and to the extent that ii
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 oul
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 postoffice, or others to be, tc
dispense the ways and doings of the wide
wide world.
| As for the few sleepers which our Lisbor
sage could not wake, the few remaining, il
there be any, will soon be induced, like the
rest of the enlightened world, to wend theil
way to the pretty new church yard. And a
the end of another decade Sleepy Hollow will
class not one toto behind our Lisbon man.
HoIlolc, for we can see already elements o
the notwithstanding developing there, while
private research on the north of the Patapsct
with its midnight lamp, can see about on ;
level with some of the wide-awake collegiat,
literatti on the south. ID.