The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1889-05-09

Writings ne Impressed Oh everybody the
value OF discipline and subordination to
rightful authority perfectly consistent with
American citizenship.
Men, horses and tho fundamental princi-
Piles of the military science remain the
same today as when Washington led and
taught his revolutionary army, the same
patient endurance CT the labor and hard
ships of war, the same submission to dis
ciplire and authority, the same patriotic
devotion 10 Onr country's honor and its flag
which is the symbol of all that is glorious
and good in our national character, but the
instruments OF war have changed, and are
still changing with Iapidity which cor
POUNDS the ancients, and calls for new and
younger men.
can with equal confidence speak of our
navy-for | claim to be somewhat oe a web
foot myself, having crossed the lire twice in
a man-of-wsr and have seen old Neptune
come over the side with his brusi, and
bucket. but in the presence OF the veterans
here / feel unslii:cd to the task assigned me,
because yield to them. yea 10 any mid
shipman who has graduated at our most
valuable naval academy at Annapolis, aud
who has done his first cruise at sea, better
knowledge of his profession than possess.
We are brothers in the same cause, follow
the same flag, and share the same destiny.
They have to combat not only the dangers
of war, but those of the shoals, storms and
tempes:s OF the sea.
Steel. steam, electricity, nitro-slycerine
have reyolutionizad the narics of the
world, have banished from the high seas
TIE majestic lile-of-bat,se ship, the hand
come frigate and speedy sloop. and in their
stead have substituted monitors and
steei-c,ads, real monsters of tie most un-
cauth patterns. SO that were Nelson and Col
Engwood, John Paul Jones. and Stewart
recalled to earth they would find theln-
selves strangers on their own decks. Tie
world will go aho9d, and | have abunI-
ant faith that the heroic youth OF our navy
will keep well abreast in these modern in
ventions, and, should the occasion arise,
they, too, will prove equal TO it. as they
have ever done in the past.
Therefore, let me conclude with what I
might have begun and finished with:
1.-The Army and Navy forever,
Three cheers for the red, white and blue"
II. Our Schools and Colleges. Charles
W. Eliot, president Of Harvard university.
Sentiment-"Establishe by the wisdom
and foresight of our nation, the support
and stay of civil and religious liberty, they
should be jealously guarded and fcstered as
the dispensers of virtue and intelligence,
on which depend the welfare and perpetu-
ity of our republican institutions.-Honryl
Drisler, acting president OF Columbia col
lege."
II. Our observation-disclosures Russell Lo.
well. Sentiment:
'The welfare of people, small or great,
Depends upon the state,
Whose ample laws they Justify, because
They help to shape those laws.
Their glory rests on letters, which create,
A more enduring state;
For what is best remembered among men,
Is not the sword, but pen.
-Richard Henry .Stodolard."
13 The United States of America. Ben |!
jamin Harrison, President of the United |
States. Sentiment:
"Sceptres and thrones the moruing realms |
have tried;
Earth for the people kept her sunset side
Arts, manners, creeds the teemiug Orien; |
gave;
Freedom. the gift that freights the rcfuent
wave,
Pays with one priceless pearl the guerton
due.
And leaves the old world debtor to the |
new.
Long as the watch-towers Of our crownless |
queen.
Front the broad oceans that she sits be-
tween,
May her proud sons their p!ighted faith |
maintain,
And guard unbroken unions lengthenine
chain,
Union, our peaceful sovereign she alone,
Can make or keep the western world Our
own"
-CGger Wendell Holmes
An Ohio Artillery Man Hurt-CrntiOn to
15rs. Cleveland
New YoRK. May 1.-As the Ohio troops
we're passing at O'Clock, just as the heavy
artillery battery reached the Astor house,
one OF the h0.ses lea, Growing the rider tc
the ground and severely injuring him. He
was carried into the As;or house. Name
not yet known.
When ex-Presidcnt Cleveland was driven
down Broadway from st. Paul's church to
the sub-treasury, he was enthusiastically
cheered. People yelled themselves hoarse
at him, and his appearance evoked as much
applause rs did the president.
At 4:10 the last of the procession passed
the Aston house.