. History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township. his fact, the commonsnow are gone, having been transform-ed into the busy marts of trade;the hills have been changed some-what by the thrift and ingenuity ofman: the old canal has passed intooblivion; but these old mountains,save for the rocks and timbers thatare being taken from their bosom,remain the same; each autumn seesthsm clothed in gold and each spring-time covered with living green. Likethe great Sphinx of Egypt, these oldmountains, could they speak, wouldunfold the message of the might tell us of the great fl
. History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township. his fact, the commonsnow are gone, having been transform-ed into the busy marts of trade;the hills have been changed some-what by the thrift and ingenuity ofman: the old canal has passed intooblivion; but these old mountains,save for the rocks and timbers thatare being taken from their bosom,remain the same; each autumn seesthsm clothed in gold and each spring-time covered with living green. Likethe great Sphinx of Egypt, these oldmountains, could they speak, wouldunfold the message of the might tell us of the great floodthat was, or of some geologic or se-ismic intereference which gave themshape and strew their crest withrocks and foliage. You cannot for-get Mount Union if you have spentyour youth hero, or if this is yournative town, for these memories ofthe past will live in pleasant retro-spect. Time may silver your locks,but as the years press hard upon you,you will think the more of old MountUnion, and the memories of the pastwill come back to you often—at night-. Jacks Spring as it used to be. 102 fall perhaps, when you steal awhileawaj from every cumbering care,or as the poet put it, when you wrapthe drapery of your couch about youand lie down to pleasant dreams. IN THE RETROSPECT William Penn, the founder of Penn-sylvania, was devoted to the best in-terests of his colony and did all inhis power to secure the continuedfriendship of the Indians to whom ofright the soil belonged—the woods andthe streams—though according to thecustom of conquest, and in conformityto the practices of the Whites of Eu-rope, a contrary principle had gen-erally, if not universally, religious principles forbadehim to wrest the soil of Pennsylvaniaby force from ths people to whomGod and nature gave it. In his inter-course with the Indians he was gov-erned by principles of jus-tice which everywhere and for allpurposes must be regarded as funda-mental if human exertions are to b
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