The Press., 1897-04-15

many WnO were 1nnaoltantS or this town half century ago are among its inhabi- tants to-day? How many of it's inhabi- tants to-day were then unborn? During that period of time more than a genera tion of mankind have journeyed through | the joys and sorrows of this human life, leaving us as priceless legacy, the fruits of their heroic labors and struggles.
 But "In vain
 We call back the past again,
 The Past is deaf to our prayer;
 Out of the shadows of night,
 The world rolls into light;
 1t is daybreak everywhere."
 What wonderful advances have been made in the worlds progress during the | past fiji y years At the dawning of the nineteenth century there was not in all our land an asylum for the deaf and dumb, the lunatic, or the blind. The tel egraph and the telephone had not been invented. Electricity was an almost un- known quantity. Railroads were still in the future. Steam had not then been harnessed and made propelling power to do mans bidding. Anaesthetics to relieve suffering humanity from it's pain and agony, were undreamed of. Books were comparatively few and expensive. The illustrated book and magazine of to-day was then an absolute impossibil- ity. A daily newspaper was not con- sidered practicable. The idea of the moving machine, the threshing ma chine, and the reaper, was securely locked in the inventive brain of the future This century has witnessed more important in- ventions and discoveries than any other five centuries since the world began, and large share of them have been made during the closing half of the century. ''The world is very old
 And generations pass. as they have passed, A troop of shadows moving with the sun;
 The world belongs to those who come the last,
 They will find hope and strength as we have done."
 And SO, dear friends, we come on this beautiful day, when Nature in her spring. | time, having cast aside her winter cere- ments, is just ready to burst forth into bud and blossom, and silently recreate again that miracle of nature, perpetual, yet renewed forever;' to greet and con- gratulate you on this rounding out of half century of married life, and to express the hope that instead of being near the end of your earthly pilgrimage, when the | word "f1nis" shall be written in the Worlds Record Book against your names, youshall be for very many years to come 50 far as health and sunny, joyous happiness are concerned, still in the glorious spring time and summer of your lives. And, as you float peacefully adown the placid current of life's ever onflowing stream, may the rippling waters beneath, inspire you; the singing birds, lowering above on outspread pinions, cheer and encourage you, and the lotus blossoms, waving and nodding to you from the banks, beckon you ever onward, toward that blessed Lo- tus land, where 1t is always afternoon.
 IThe following is the poem by Mrs. Lucius s. Fuller]
 A GREETING.
 To host and hostess, present here,
 Congratulations we now give, | That fifty years of married life,
 God has permitted you to live.
 But few compared with all on earth,
 Do live their fifty years together,
 Fo1 lives are changeful as the wind, Or as the vane, in stormy weather. Some have been married with bright hopes Of happiness, and love. sincere; But soon deaths fatal arrow struck,
 And their fond hopes were blasted here. And some did so delay their choice,
 In taking to themselves wife, That long before the fifty years, Old age did come and close their life. And some who took the solemn VOWS,
 That till death part. they'd faithful be ]; Did soon regret their unwise choice, And wish again to be made free.
 Some have preferred single life,
 Without helpmeet, or a guide;
 Braving the storms of life alone, Whatever might to them betide. And now to you most worthy pair,
 Who here this Golden Wedding give, We wish much happiness and joy,
 And may you many more years live. You've lived very quiet life, Not caring much to idly roam, , For in this State you both were born, l 0OOA4 Death has not entered your abode, To break your household ties, so dear For husband, wife, and children, too, . And children's childIen, all, are here. 7 Should ten years more of welded life
 Be added to your married days,
 May you Diamond Wedding have,
 And unto God be all the praise. Again, kind friends, we wish you joy, On this, your Golden Wedding day, And may Heavens blessings on you rest Long as you here on earth shall stay. And may your lives be so we'll spent 2 In godliness, and deeds of love, B That when your days are ended here,
 You'll have home in Heaven above.
 RESPONSE OF GEN. OHAs. M. JOsLYN.
 Friends and aaetghbors:: In behalf O
 my good Father and Mother, and in be half of their children, ''even unto tht third generation" thank you, and witl r all earnestness and with all sincerity, fol your presence here to-day; for the kindl,
 words which you have spoken and fol the many and manifold other manifesto tions of your kindness and regard. Non,
 of these things will be forgotten, but the. will all be remembered and cherished ten ' derly as the years go by.
 And having said this, have said prac tically all that desire to say, all that ii
 becoming, perhaps, in me to say and, a
 any rate, all that dare trust myself t.
 say. For with this occasion there conn
 to my mind whole floods of memories o
 the years that are gone; of the lives ant '' the events in the lives of them who's '- anniversary this is; of my own life; o P the plaYmates of my childhood, and o