Land of his love! with one glad voice
Let thy great sisterhood rejoice,

A century's suns o'er thee have risen and set,
And God be praised, we are one nation yet.

One people now, all doubt beyond,

His name shall be our Union bond;

We lift our hands to heaven and here and now
Take on our lips the old Centennial vow.

Then let the sovereign millions where
Our banner floats in sun and air,

From warm palm lands to Alaska's cold,
Repeat with us the pledge, a century old!

-John Greenleaf Whittier.

FLAG DRILL

BY EIGHT PUPILS

Enter, four on each side, from back side entrances, meet in couples at middle of back, first couple turns to right, second to left, and so on. Meet in fours at back of center, pass down center in four, one four goes right, one left. Meet at back and come down in eight. Form line across stage.

All this time flags have been held across right shoulder. The commands are to be executed during eight counts, each eighth count being first position, which is flag in front of right shoulder. 1. Salute. Right and forward. Position.

Repeat.

Out at side. Position.

2. Shoulder. Right hand placed on left shoulder, flags perpendicular 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Position.

3. Droop. Step obliquely forward with right foot, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, at same time holding flag staff horizontally out in front of body, with flag waving downward. Position.

4. Retreat. Walk backwards eight steps.

5. Break ranks. Each boy faces partner, 1, cross flags, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Position.

6. Forward. Eight steps forward.

7. Friendship. Cross flags with partner, all facing front.

8. Unfurl. Step obliquely forward placing right hand on left shoulder, 1; wave flag to right on 2, hold flag upon 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Position. 9. Peace. Let staff lay across right shoulder, 1; flag droops behind shoulder, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Position.

10. Present Arms. Fold staff with both hands in front of face during seven counts. Position.

11. Shoulder. Like 2.

12. Wave. Left 1, right 2, etc., to 7. Position.

13. Display. Bend hand so as to let staff lie horizontally from right shoulder to left, flag drooping down, 1; hold seven counts. Position. 14. Triumph. Step obliquely forward on 1; wave left and right 2, 3; hold last position 4, 5, 6, 7. Position.

15. Stack. Left four boys and right four boys each form small

circle, right hand extended toward middle, bringing flags in bunch, hold them high. Take three counts to get into position, hold three, and return to position on 7, 8.

16. Surrender. Hold flag in position 6 counts; on 7, open hand, letting flag fall; on 8 drop hand at side.

17. Recover. Stoop on 1, 2; take hold of and lift flag on 3, 4, 5. Position, 6, 7, 8.

18. Repeat from No. 2 through drill.

19. Salute. Like 1.

20. Four left hand boys face left, march around stage and off left back entrance; four right hand boys face and march right.

WASHINGTON MAXIMS

Undertake not what you can not perform; but be careful to keep your promise.

Vile words should not be used in jest or in earnest. although they give occasion.

Scoff at none

Haste not to relate news if you know not the truth thereof. In talking of things you have heard, name not your author always. A secret disclose not.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you value your reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Speak not when others speak, sit not when others stand, walk not when others stop.

Zealously strive to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Think before you speak; pronounce not imperfectly, nor bring out your words too hastily, but orderly and distinctly.

Example is more than precept; wherein you reprove another be unblamable yourself.

Be not forward, but friendly and courteous, the first to salute, hear and answer, and not pensive when it is time to converse.

When another speaks, be attentive yourself, and distrub not the audience.

Speak no evil of the absent; it is unjust.
Be cool, but determined.

orders from your officers.

Do not fire at a distance but wait for

Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties and properties will be secure.

Promote, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.

It will not be doubted that, with reference either to individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance.

Use no profane language against anyone; neither curse nor revile. Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of any. When you speak of God or His attributes, let it be seriously, in rever

ence.

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, that of an honest

man.

Humor, when good, makes one dish of meat a feast.

"TIS SPLENDID TO LIVE SO GRANDLY

'Tis splendid to live so grandly
That, long after you are gone,
Things you did are remembered,
And recounted under the sun;
To live so bravely and purely

That a nation stops on its way,
And once a year, with banner and drum,
Keep the thoughts of your natal day.

'Tis splendid to have a record,

So white and free from stain,

That, held to the light, it shows no blot,
Though tested and tried amain;

That age to age forever

Repeats its story of love,

And your birthday lives in a nation's heart
All other days above.

And this is Washington's glory,
A steadfast soul and true,

Who stood for his country's honor,
When his country's days were few.
And now when its days are many,
And its flags of stars are flung
To the breeze in defiant challenge,
His name is on every tongue.

Yes, it's splendid to live so bravely,
To be so great and strong,
That your memory is ever a tocsin

To rally the foes of the wrong;

To live so proudly and purely

That your people pause in their way,

And year by year, with banner and drum,
Keep the thought of your natal day.

-Margaret E. Sangster.

IN PRAISE OF WASHINGTON

First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.

Washington is the purest figure in human history.

-Henry Lee.

-Gladstone.

"No people can claim, no country can appropriate him; his fame is

eternity and his residence creation."

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

-Napoleon Bonaparte.

Just honor to Washington can only be rendered by observing his precepts and imitating his example. -Robert C. Winthrop.

Washington was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest concern. -Thomas Jefferson.

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington; if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.

-Daniel Webster.

LONGFELLOW DAY

FEBRUARY TWENTY-SEVENTH

QUOTATIONS FROM LONGFELLOW

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.

Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

Whene'er a noble deed is wrought,
Whene'er is spoken a noble thought,
Our hearts in glad surprise
To higher levels rise.

Labor with what zeal we will,
Something still remains undone;

Something uncompleted still

Waits the rising of the sun.

Act,-Act in the living Present
Heart within, and God o'erhead!

Not in the clamor of the crowded street,

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,

But in ourselves are triumph and defeat.

Man is unjust, but God is just, and finally justice triumphs.

All common things, each day's events,
That with the hours begin and end,

Our pleasures and our discontents,
Are rounds by which we may ascend.

We have not wings, we cannot soar;

But we have feet to scale and climb
By slow degrees, by more and more,
The cloudy summits of our time.

Softly the evening came. The sun from the Western horizon
Like a magician extended his golden wand o'er the landscape;
Twinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest

Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.