The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-20

shore. Small wonder, then, that we follow
the Tennysons. tie Longfellows, the Mac
CaulleYs, the Bancrofts, and others in soul
fellowship, even though never once met in
the flesh, through life, and down to the
river eternal as we do members of or
own family.
UNITED in life
And in death not separated
When a small bog " as outin tie woods
one day 18th my uncle when man by the
name of Shidner came up and said: well,
l s'pose Jackson's dead What more he
said have no recollection, but the words
above quoted, the pose Of the man, even
how my uncle received the intelligence
and all that are as fresh in memory as
though uttered yesterday. They were
photographed in memory and burned there.
At another time, and | was still quite a
small boy, word reached our home, Gen
eral Harrison is dead-has been poisoned.
How it electrified my being. The long
professions of log cabin and hard cider
enthusiasts had hardly passed from sight,
the triumphant shouts of
"Tippecanoe and Tyler, too
And with them we
Can beat any man,
Any man, any man OF your Polk
And Dallas Clan" &C.
And,
sIfI only had five dollars,
tell you what l would do,
I'd buy a barrel Of hard cider
And vote for old Tippecanoe-"
had scarcely died on the air until that
other great procession followed, bearing
the soldier President to his final resting
place.
| think it was in 1874 that the little
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having a celebration. That was a great
day with us little folks, the particulars of
which, however, | now remember but lit
tie. do remember, however, and remem-
Der WELL that great American flag (sus-
pended oil rope, fastened at either end to
tree,) was tied across its folds with
Grape, and otherwise drsped in black, and
when | asked Pastor Charles |. Downs
(the husband of Mrs. 5. ]. G. Downs, now
President of the New jersey ". c. I. L.
the meaning for it, he said: "Henry Clay
is dead" knew it all then. Father was
an enthusiastic shouter for Clay, the
sage of Ashland, and | knew more of
the life of Clay than did that of some of
my neighbors. In the front room, the
best room of the house, father had a Clay
and Frelinghnysen picture framed and
proudly hung against the wall. On the
side board lay finely ezibellished volume
in which everything good in the life Of the
''Mili boy of the slashes" was emphasized
with a big e OF course | knew all
heard school children, of about my own
age, sing
"Alas, poor Cooney Clay,
Alas, poor Gooney Clay;
The White House was never made for you,
80 ONE you'd better STAY
| never believed it, because father said he
was to be the next President. The child
rem at that time all seemed politicians, and
while some shouted
H.., Ia, ha, what nominee
Is Henry Clay of Kentucky
Others would respond,
ala, ha, ha, " hat Il nominee
l. james X. Polk OF Tennessee"
And so it went But am taking up too
much time and will have To hurry along.
Then came the death of Webster. What
big place the life of " ebster the sage
of Mansfield, filed in my boyisli memory
and bis death, it seems can almost hear
him now at the last repeating in his soulful
way ''Thy rod and thy staff" Then fol-
| flowed Zachery Taylor, Polk, Tyler, Scott,
johnson, Greedy, Simpson, Benton, Sum-
ner, Tilden, Mcclellan, Hancock, Gar
/ field, Grant, aud the hosts Of others in this
and other countries whom history has
made famous.
But It's not the great only that die. not
| only
.'fhe great, the tall
The reverend head,
shall lie as low : ours,
bat all mankind as well. The scriptures
4 say it is appointed unto all men to die, and
concludes with solemn emphasis '.and
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we may not exactly be able to say, after
all, who have made life failure, or how
little or how great the measure Of success
to be accorded the great men of earth, we
have this as supreme authority: ''fhe
righteous shall shine as stars in the frma-
ment, forever and forever" And again:
The memory Of the wicked shall rot