Annals of our ancestors; one hundred and fifty years of history in the ...

SCHOOL AND COLLEGE DAYS 167
ending of a life whose morning had portended naught but
brightness.
Together brother and I went about for the last time over
College Hill, just before we passed on our way. We discovered
that the old academy had been taken down; the lovely shade
trees of long ago had vanished; a church, no longer new, occupied
the old site. The landscape from this vantage ground
had always filled us with delight; so I found a good point of
observation, and while many old scenes were blotted out*, I
found that new cities had come to view. Looking south
there arose a line of encircling hills as a wall. In the days of
our youth we thought these hills a barrier which would hedge
forever the city of Cincinnati; but to my astonishment I saw
that it had boiled over, and on the north side of the hill there
stood out in bold relief a fair and beautiful city. It showed
well laid out streets, large factories, schools and churches, beside
great blocks of red brick buildmgs. Here too we saw the
large cemetery of the St. Bernard Catholic Church. The
declining sun shone upon its hundreds of white marble slabs,
and I could but recall the years when it was a much smaller
ground. I thought, too, of the destructive war which had
added so greatly to the extent of churchyard resting-places.
The hilly places, once thought to have no value, were covered
with the ever-toiling commerce of nations; thousands from
the Old World had, through long years of exhausting labor,
built this new city and peopled it with industrious and prosper-
ous inhabitants. As in many another place in our young land,
the toilers had laid the foundations for oncoming generations,
to make life easier for their children than theirs had been in
their early days.
As we were taking our last walk through the grounds of
Farmers' College Joe walked up to a citizen and asked him a
number of questions, and was much interested to find he was
talking with his old college chum, Ed Wild. Thus they met
after the laspe of a long lifetime, and but to part, never to
meet here again. We found the military school occupying
the old college building. Cannon were planted on the
campus; the grass had been covered with gravel for a parade