The Monte Vista journal., 1898-02-26
:. Myror Reeds Sermon. :;

keep the nelghhoring wolves from de-
vouring the children.
In 1884 Virginia owned Michigan
and Wisconsin. Benjamin Franklin's
maxlms were in the air.
He who by the plough would thrive,
himself must either hold or drive"
Oh, no; get somebody else to do 1t.
The whole secret Of thrift is to work
! other people. Ben Franklin is not up
| to date.
EARLY to bed and early to rise.
makes n man healthy, wealthy and
WISE"
That is decidedly not so. Our smil-
ing friend, Chauncey Depew, is up late
and down late. l have slept in an In
diana farm house and have been ter
rlfied to hear the man boiler a; 4 o'clock
in the morning. Hannah, rush the
breakfast" Who wants to eat by
candle light and at that uncarthly time
go laundering around In the cold and
| the dark, falling over chairs? l never
knew n man who from choice got up
| very early who amounted 10 anything.
He is conceitcd all the forenoon and
| stupid all the afternoon. That is wha.
nils the children Of the east. They did
not have sleep enough when they were
little. like London. There is nothing
doing until about noon. Parliament
meets or did meet at o'clok in the
evening. About midnight things are
alive and moving. What is the use FOR
an Indiana farmer to extend his walk
ing hours thinking about his mortgage?
Why not dream that the thing is paid
| of?
Noah Webster was much in evidence
along In 1877. He was pounccd upon
for writing systematic" instead of
"systema,ical." He wanted to save
Ink. He has saved barrels of ink.
Into these times and to this kind of
men George Washington appears com
mandcr-in-chief of nm ill-fcd. ragged
| army of brave mcn-mcn from thir-
| teen Independent colonies that did not
pull together Some Were enlisted for
three months and six and nine. He had
such men 10 handle as Ethan Allen,
Anthony Wayne and Marion Arnold.
"Wecm's Life OF Marion is good
boys book. He invited British of
iicer TO dine with him-somc flag of
truce business. The table was n sub
stnntial log in the woods aud the din
ner was one course. swoc; potatoes. no
| sherry, no nuts, just n plain dinner.
Southern people never apologize. What
| is good enough for them is good enough
for theirs. Marion was kind OF
| Mosby and John Morgan. He hit the
enemy where 1t would hurt. He was
| free lance. But confederation Is not
| u nation. 1t Is dlSagrcrablp Just before
n battle 10 find that the soldiers time
Is out II Is Il standing mystery to me
how the colonies got through. Cuba
Is no, so desperate Il case. \ third
| OF the people had sncaklng liking for
n king. Boston. New York and Phila-
dclphia were infested with tories.
Our people did the proper thing with
them. Bundled them out Of The country.
In just revolution on jus, strike a
man has right to hc an Individual
Let him fall In or fall out. II he in
sisis ON being an individual let him go
or somewhere by himself. As read
history tory had nn unpleasant time.
| Their descendants inhahlt New Bruns-
wick and Novia Scotia. They are good
people. My friend and myself We're
ordered on the grass in the city of st.
John. Otherwise have nothing
agains, them. The only absolutely free
place Of any sort is ''l.oston Common"
There are several acres OF equal oppor
| tunity. Every year some corporation
tries to steal slice of Of II and every
l
Boston. Several good ones were born In
Ireland. John Boyl. o'lteillcy was as
good m American as ever lived. do
| not care where II man was born. l
care what he thinks. Garrihnldi IL n
good enough American. Pulaski and
Stcul,en viii do. Ny ancestors came
over In brig In lGi2, but had moth.
| Ing To do with that. Thomas Francis
Mcagher came over later and he had
something 10 do with that. ON the
whole he has the best of me.
The thing | like in Washington Is
the risk he took. Many of his men
Ind not much To lose. lie Inherited an
estate and negroes and married more
estate and more slaves. lie was better
fixed than any man In America. And
he was nn arls'orrat 10y race and taste.
lie must have had much temptation 10
stay out Of the racket. His kinsman,
Fairfax staid out. The chance OF he
Ing hanged and couiiscation of estate
might make man proud. but he threw
himself In with III" ragged. did his
great task and rclrcnicd more grace
fully than anybody. That Is n great
thing To take ones self on.
| Mount Vernon Is pleasant nnd com
for'nblc. You lcay" Washington ON III"
Potomac. nnd the last thing you So"
| Ii his monument aud the next m"mor'
able thing il Mount Vernon. With two
friends. one living here nnd one living
elsewhere. I visited the plantation n
few years ago According To all ne
| counts Washington was not supcrliu-
man. lie wns human. lie loved dogs
| and horses III. servants covered the
horses nt night with hour past" and In
the morning rubbed II on. nnd about n
o'clock Ia the morning the general
went over those horses will, u white
silk handkerchief. and II there was
| any stain Oh II there wns immediate
trouble In III" quarters. His father
was land poor. II" lived Ia n four
| room house. Ills mother cooked.
wrnycd. spun. made the clothes ~ III"
six children. All the stun In him was
from his mother. I am pleased Ia read
that his mother smoked n pipe. ~ did
mine. when Washington left for New
York to bc innurura'cd President h"
stopjsd 10 SEE his mother. khc Put on
u white cap md n rlcnn apron nnd
said. "rhcrc great folks expect some
thing extra" lie kept n journal. !
md thpt he lent n r"d.halrsSi brother
S3.OpO. lie gave his niece fin0 To fiN
her for her wedding, Her name was
IiHrriot-pot Harriet. hut 1iarriot. ~"
remembered nii his people IN his viii.
~. never attended school after he was
II cxcrnt the srhooj Of life, lie Cnlt,,l