The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-06-11

ING"
buys me piece of iohnnycalie aud
couple of fried sausages when the flesh
is weak and demands sustenance My
one sole object in life is to make the
world brighter and better, and when
have left town behind me with its
people singing new songs of gladuess
| feel amply repaid for any sacrifices
have made.
Il see before me seven men and nine
women with sober serious faces There
have been mighty changes in the world
mentally and physically since You were
young 1t is one of those menta!
changes | am going to speak of to-
night In our desire for something
new, in our leaving Old things behind
rus. in our ambition to improve on the
ways OF our forefatnerS, we nave com
mitted a griey0us error We have left
old fashioned love behind us and adopt
ed something that is a combination of
business and formality. Today we love
and marry by machinery. There is lit
tie more sentiment about it than in
buying Il brickyarti or trading horses.
lie that mentions love among the sen
timents is sneered at The man that
loves or thinks he loves is an object
of ridcule. The change has been grad
ual but it has been sure. 1t has done
more than any one other thing to make
the world hard hearted and wicked and
TO bring those sentiments that follow
love into diSrepute.
Alexander the Great was rich
enough to have made the greatest cor
ner in corn this world ever saw and
hrainy enough TO have organized
trust and jumped the price of -four 100
per cent. He did nothing of the kind.
He loved He loved in The old fashion
ed way, and there was no room cor
speculation in his mind. He courted
Mrs. Alexander in the way the Lord
intended I'LL men to court for all time
to come. He didn't love her for the
herd of cattle and the cash in bank
her father had but for her own sweet
self. She was in his mind day and
night He could scarcely wait for his
sparkling nights to come.
"And the girl was actuated by love
alone She wasn't marrying him for
the rhino or place in society She
blushed when she heard his footsteps
She was shy and coy when they sat
down together on some chair The
thought never came TO her that he
might be great some day and that the
name of Mrs Alex the Great might
be engraved on her visiting cards
just love-juSt old fashioned Iove And
it was that love that made him great.
that made him a cOnqueror. Love was
with him when he went into battle.
and it was love that helped to lick the
other fellow ont Of his boots.
Franklin and Love.
Does any one in this audience imag-
inc that Benjamin Franklin would
have amounted to what he did without
old fashioned love behind him? Up to
the time he met the girl who later be-
came his wife he was simply sloshing
around. He had done no playing with
lightning and he had not written one
of the good things I'm Poor Richards
Almanack. He was thinking Of open
ing grocery when he fell in love. He
didn't sit down in cold blood and fig
ure out how much cash that girl was
going to bring him. He was simply
filed, up TO the chin with love He
WHISPERED il to the trees of the forest.
and he sang ii TO the babbling brooks
When the day came that she called
him Ben and he called her Polly they
were the happcSt couple in the state
that Gray afterward camn to carry
around in his vest pocket, They drank
buttermilk ont Of the same glass. They
ate Strawberries and cream with the
same spoon. They were not ashamed
OF their love.
And what did the result Of ,hnt love