The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-06

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who have contributed to the enduring liter
ature and the true science Of the world were
thus disciplined. But for such course of
training the massive mind of Webster, the
gresping genius of a Chalmers, and the
science, and the lore, and the luster of a
thousand stars of the same great galaxy had
not been what they are; ard. with the ad-
vantages of such process of discipline,
many a gifted but unturtured mind might
have shone with steadier and clearer
brilliancy.
.'The results of study in the advancen.e Mt
of the arts that multiply the appliances of
human comfort and exalt and embellish civ
ilized society are incalculable. All comes
of studious thinking. And yet those who
esteem themselves the practical men are apt
to underrate the thinking men, the book
men, the producers, as they sometimes
call them. But this is sorry triumph of
narrow prejudice over sound reason. Your
educated, thinking men are often the most
valuable producers. The farmer, as he
turns the fertile glebewith the modern plough
with which science has replaced the clum-
sy implement of former times, must not for
get his obligations to the applied sciences
that expedite his labors and enhance their
results. Nor should he forget that chemis-
try has taught him to fertilize his glebe.--
The mass of practical men can scarcely es-
innate their obligations to mental labor, nor
the vast amount of physical toll that is fore
stalled by the results of study. Who made
our railroads, along which sweep with the
speed of winds, columns of passenger and
burden trains, now securing the plain, now
plunging through the tunnel, now waking
with their roar the mountain echoes! Did
the laborer mako it with his pick and spade !!
True, he did the delving, but ten thousand
diggers never could have brought the iron
horse along our valleys and over or beneath
our hills had not their toll been guided by
science discovered and applied by educated
mind! And the iron horse himself whose
creation is he! Did you book -despising
practical men, unaided by science, dig him
from the mine and forge him at the anvil :
No, again. The iron horse, with his fiery
bowels, and scalding breath, and terrible
scream, and thunder roll, and mammoth
strength, and amazing speed, is the creature
OF educated mind, the result of study. I'm
guided by science, all the artisans on earth
could not have built the clumsiest locomo-
tive. And who has taught us to awake the
slumbering lightning, and set itleaping from
hill to hill. and from city to city, the instant
herald of thought! Another triumph of
science, another result of study
THE WAY FORTUNE WAS MADE.-An
inventor, who has made fortune by pro-
perly bringing his productions before the
public, in a recent communication to
Philadelphia paper, says:
"This is an age of improvement, and so
rapid are the new and useful inventions,
that we have hardly time to utter astonish-
ment before another is brought forward.-
1t is, therefore, ncodful that all should be
made known. The public press should be
the first resource to accomplish the desired
object. Let everybody know what you
have done, and what you wish to do. 1t is
EXPENSIVE says one. What of this Is is
expensive to enjoy life. If you try TO live
without eating, it will save sixpcnce, but
bv the time you get learned it will be
the death of you. So will advertising ju
dciously done, it is only like learning-it
can never be lost to valuable inventor
PROGRESS OF RELIGION.--It appears
from recent reports, that the American, For
eign and Christian Union, has been very
successful since its organization. Conver-
sions from Roman Catholicismake especial
" noticed Twenty congregations of French,
German and Irish, have been formed from
members of the Romish communion (; more
converted in connection with the services
of the missionaries employed, and about
ten thousand -Romanish children and youth
have been gathered into Sabbath Schools.
The society is engaged in the erection of a
church edifice for the Americans in Paris,
which will be completed in less than year
from this time, and the chapel for Protest
ant whorship in Rome. is still continued.
ToRNADo.-We learn that a frightful
tornado passed through the upper portions
of this District some few days past. For
no lives were lost. though many
were imperiled. Considerable damage was
done to timber and fences. Fodder stacks
were literally torn to pieces, and their
fragments born in some instances two or
three miles from it original location. Some
few houses were blown down and their con-
tents pitilessly scattered about by the wind.
In one instance a carpet bag was taken up
by the wind and carried distance of one
mile before it touched the ground.--Mari-
On Star.
Anxious Father-'.Whata am to do with |
you, sir-wbat am to do with youl Do |
you know if you continue your present |
course of cruelty and cowardiee, you will |
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