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UNDER ONE FLAG.
"And through thee I believe In the noble and great, who are gone." "Yes! I believe that there lived Others like thee in the past.
Not like the men of the crowd.
Who all around me to-day, Bluster, or cringe, and make life Hideous, and arid, and vile, But souls temper'd with fire, Fervent, heroic, and good; Helpers, and friends of mankind." -- ARNOLD.
"Our armor now may rust, our idle scimitars Hang by our sides for ornament, not use.
Children shall beat our atabals and drums; And all the noisy trades of war no more Shall wake the peaceful morn." -- DRYDEN.
As the years go on they bring many changes--changes that come as naturally as the seasons--that tend as naturally to anticipated growth and decay--that scarcely startle the subjects of them, till a lengthened-out period of time discloses their vitality and extent.
Between the ages of twenty and thirty, ten years do not seem very destructive to life.

The woman at eighteen, and twenty-eight, if changed, is usually ripened and improved; the man at thirty, finer and more mature than he was at twenty.

But when this same period is placed to women and men who are either approaching fifty, or have passed it, the change is distinctly felt.
It was even confessed by the Senora one exquisite morning in the beginning of March, though the sun was shining warmly, and the flowers blooming, and the birds singing, and all nature rejoicing, as though it was the first season of creation.
"I am far from being as gay and strong as I wish to be, Roberto," she, said; "and today, consider what a company there is coming! And if General Houston is to be added to it, I shall be as weary as I shall be happy." "He is the simplest of men; a cup of coffee, a bit of steak--" "SAN BLAS! That is how you talk! But is, it possible to receive him like a common mortal?
He is a hero, and, besides that, among hidalgos de casa Solar" (gentlemen of known property)-- "Well, then, you have servants, Maria, my dear one." "Servants! Bah! Of what use are they, Roberto, since they also have got hold of American ideas ?" "Isabel and Antonia will be here." "Let me only enumerate to you, Roberto.

Thomas and his wife and four children arrived last night.