Show no HARD HARDSHIPS ships snips the gallant the accomplished arid and mole luoie than ihan all that the golod good DI jor plop ham who departed this life not long ugo ago on oil the verge of a hinl hini bundled clied cited the last survive g member of it the family of washington of whom he lie was an oil aid ais cle de camp once made a remark to us which struck us wilh lift geat g eat force and which we shall never birget ft raft people talk said lie he 01 ol if hie tile hardships of the tile revolution revolutionary ay war sir there w were ere no hardships in it there was an at I 1 excitement an enthusiasm attending on the caud cau e in which we engaged which kept up tip our spirit spirits at aid ard d actual actually liv made toil foil alid and privation a pleasure but major you toll had hard work and hard odie odle aud and bir air hard all nil true but no hardship studio salin fallo falln falante te lab lad vou you know horace norace say sal says S ihm ibm iha al M jor a fine tine gentl genth man of lle ile the lie ol 01 I 1 chool school m was as great at quoting I 1 1 lilla the ancients and seldom failed lo 10 put a i ill t chii class I 1 point on a fine observation the tins in interest bequie d tile the toil no year of my life fled ed away amity inore ilore quickly aid ald aid pleasantly there was deep philosophy in those words word a we were when we me heard them thim bit bil B it sometime sometimes 3 a flue fine practical remark blonts tile tiie germ of a great truth in the mind which winch grows ull uil unfolds foldis and ripens willi with advancing years and arid gix six x ce it was as so with these words of the what we have seen of men and of the convinces corn coin luces inces us its that one of the first conditions of beij ri luz inz life is to have something to do something great enough to rouse ibe the mind and noble enough to satisfy the beart leier le irr and then to give our mind and heart our thought and toil and s to if i to labor for it in fit the fine words of robert neil with an ardor bordering an enthusiasm ma ard no matter mailer if now row and then it projects a little over the border br as a yet greater sage saga expresses it to do it with our might happily for ourselves most of us are compelled to labor the stern mandate of necessity delivers us from the misery of idleness but even those who are tire not so compelled may burely surely find a higher necessity in the noble impulses of patriotism or wa we are not now called upon like the brave old soldier we were speaking of to serve our country with lle ile lie ibe sword to trace our patriotic path r with the tile blood of our Id ld feet or 1 lo 10 I 1 leave our bonea bones to beach on ilia the battlefields battle fields af li berty liberty that phase of heroism lias has achieved its ts end honor to the memory of those who represented it and passed away but another has ed not the tho less real and effective emme effe clive because bebau e more pacific many nations have achieved liberty few have preserved it that is the work now dow devolving on american cit citizen izenE that is the type of bercum which befits our age |