expansion has not rent asunder work cemented with blood, with lives and with sacred honor. You impressionable youths whose brows already glow with the dawn of a new century, compare Washington as he finally sheathed his sword in March, 1784, with the lace-frilled fop, the English George, who in the same month of the same year attained his majority and celebrated it with pomp. Clothes and titles have their glamour; but glamour passes. The quiet, unobtrusive man whose sword was clean and heart also, is already more to the world than all the four Georges together. Our leader did not have a cometic career of splendid wickedness. His was a gray life beside such a one. Yet his told, tells, and will forever tell the value of moderation in all things and devotion to an ideal. In this is a moral for us all. Of his end he said, years in advance, Whether to-night or twenty years

who are over-enthusiastic and, perhaps, nervously constituted, the awakening to a sense of "individual responsibility to Almighty God," as Daniel Webster expressed it, tends to the attempt to do anything and everything that needs doing. Twenty things around us clamor for attention: There comes in the need for poise of character, preventing us from first an impetuous dash in this direction and then an ignominious retreat in another. "One thing I do," not "twenty things I dabble at." One fire in a noble heart may well serve to heat one iron-too many irons will put the fire out. Surely along such a line of thought Washington was a marvel of self-possession. He was not hasty in his acts and therefore not defeated; he was not swift as a sea-hawk in his decisions and therefore he was never out of sight of those who followed with him; he was not abnormal in his intellect and therefore not erratic; he was not a fierce partisan and therefore not dragged into the unseemly squabbles of his day. The grand old man of England, whose full life ended so gloriously and so recently-Gladstone-has said this of Washington: "I look upon Washington among great and good men, and one peculiarly good and great. He has been to me for more than forty years a light upon the path of life." It means that great hearts are greater than national

YANKEE DOODLE.

Father and I went down to camp,
Along with Captain Goodwin,
And there we saw the men and boys,
As thick as hasty puddin;

CHORUS

Yankee doodle keep it up,
Yankee doodle dandy,
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy.

And there was General Washington,
Upon a snow white charger,
He look'd as big as all out doors,
Some thought he was much larger.

And there they had a copper gun,
Big as a log of maple,
They tied it to a wooden cart,
A load for Father's cattle.

And there I see'd a little keg,

All bound around with leather, They beat it with two little sticks, To call the men together.

But I can't tell you half I see'd,
They kept up such a smother,
I took my hat off, made a bow,
And scamper'd home to mother.

12. SELECTION:

If we call Lincoln the emancipator, Washington should be called the great pre-visionary. In 1789 he wrote: "It is among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished." Again in 1797 he wrote: "I wish from my soul that the Legislature of the State could see the policy of a gradual abolition of slavery. It might prevent much future mischief." Alas, the mischief did come, the wine-press of a nation's blood was trodden in righting a wrong, and the abolition came when even those who benefited by it were agonized and dazed by the light of liberty around them. Washington's great dream and comparatively modest bequest was for an anti-sectional national university. This would have brought a better understanding where there should have been no misunderstanding.