. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . Light of Other Days — Travelling inthe Olden Time — Personal Experiences — Three Miles an Hour—IMust Take a Pill —My Rule on tlie First Railroad Built in America —The Electric Telegraph — Reminiscences of My Boyhood — The Tele-phone — The Fire Cart— An Old Couples [dea of Telegraphing — ANegros Description — The Puir Whales — Jonathan Hulls — I m theNineteenth Century. OW and then is a term oftenused to signify occasion-ally,* once in a while, etc.,but there are thoughts, ]><t-haps, worthy of utterance,suggested by its higher andb
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . Light of Other Days — Travelling inthe Olden Time — Personal Experiences — Three Miles an Hour—IMust Take a Pill —My Rule on tlie First Railroad Built in America —The Electric Telegraph — Reminiscences of My Boyhood — The Tele-phone — The Fire Cart— An Old Couples [dea of Telegraphing — ANegros Description — The Puir Whales — Jonathan Hulls — I m theNineteenth Century. OW and then is a term oftenused to signify occasion-ally,* once in a while, etc.,but there are thoughts, ]><t-haps, worthy of utterance,suggested by its higher andbroader significance, as westand in the now that is, and con-template the then that was, andlook into the future that will that I might announce, Thoughtson the Past, Present, and we reap the fruit of the workers of the past, andin the by-and-by another generation shall garner the by the workers of to-day. To-day we can reckon ourgains from the past, and it is well to acknowledge the debt. 377. 378 nOW THE REVOLUTION WAS BEGUN. As a nation we have celebrated the events of one hundredyears ago, and commemorated the birthday of our nation,—a pn • republic, that has been solving the problem of government by the people for a century, — and now shall wenot call up the past, the far-off then, and refresh our mindsby a brief review of the scenes fraught with such mighty re-sults to us to-day? One hundred years ago the people of the good city ofBoston were in great perplexity about a bundle .if paper,—where to put it, what to do with it. They could not receiveit, for that would be to admit the right of Great Britain totax them. Then came burnings in effigy, processions, nings, and preparations for a struggle, till the stamp act wasrepealed. But that stamped paper carried more value thanall the notes of the banks. Then came more oppression, and the citizens pledgedthemselves not to import or use more British goods. Recr
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