Never, never has one forgotten his pure, right-educating mother. On the blue mountains of our dim childhood, toward which we ever turn and look, stand the mothers, who marked out to us from thence our life; the most blessed age must be forgotten ere we can forget the warmest heart. You wish, O woman! to be ardently loved, and forever, even till death. Be, then, the mothers of your children.—Richter.
THE NAVY.
WHY IT SHOULD BE EFFICIENTLY MAINTAINED IN TIME OF PEACE.
By Lieutenant G. W. MENTZ, of the U. S. Navy.
Many intelligent people in our country know nothing whatever of the navy.
We are not a warlike nation, and our people are engaged in peaceful pursuits. The majority are so busied with matters which have no connection with nautical affairs that they have no time for reflection upon any such subject.
A great many of our fellow countrymen have never seen the ocean, have never seen anything in the shape of a ship except a river steamboat.