Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1858-05-06

WHAT DOES EDUCATION DO {

WHAT DOES EDUCATION DO
We will notice other capacities in
which educated men contribute materi-
ally to the good Of community. We
refer to those who apply the principles
ofscience to the perfection Of Inventions,
and thus test their value, This can
only be done BY an: acquaintance with
the laws Of nature, and an application
fherprinoiples, for purposes which they
were made to subserve. Let us refer
moment 70 the steam engine. The
discovery Of the expansive power Of
steam, 70 be sure, was merely casual.
The simp lest man in the world,
who had brains enough TO clear him
| from the congnomen Of ..idiot,' might
have discovered it, as well as Capt.
Slavery. But Science alone has. myesti-
gated the laws By which this tremendous
agent is governed, and tanned itlike a
docile servant boy. Science alone has
showed man how to harness steam, and
drive it out just as volition dictates.
When this mighty power is brought to
bear, is ready to do mans biding,
knowledge, skill and sagacity are abso-
lutely necessary to make it conduc,
properly in its various applications.
Did you ever stop to think Of the num-
erous offices which the steam engine
performs 7 1t dives; it scars; it flies
and man guides the wings. II reaches
its massive iron arms deep into the dark
earth. Its Briarean hands grapple price
less gems from the mines, and fetch
them upato glitter in bridal rings, in
crowns and sceptres. The mex, we see,
1t retires back and works almost with an
Omnipotent strength, obscured by the
deck of an ocean steamer. 1t breathes
stronger than the paintings Of Vulcan's
forge Ii seems nervous with vital en-
ergy and full of bounding terror. It's
sneczings blow forth sparks Of fire.
volumns of smoke roll from its nostrils,
as Egyptian darkness. Now swiftely
than the angel Of death when distributing
cholera to all whom the scourgc Of his
wings brushes, it flies over hill, plain
and valley, hurrying in its swift, rocket
like career, long train Of Gathering,
rafting cars, whose language is. yiriu-
aliv itifiH trfce. III coming I'nf here !,
I'm Off = The aid ofscience and scien-
titic men will even be needed. so long as
human. begins retain the idea that they
were made to 60 ahead. push onward.
and rival their predecessors. This
IS now the spirit Of the age. Man with
the world for his workshop, the heaving
oceanFand the green earthf for his parad-
ing highway. the shrill neighing iron
horse his every day steed, making three
hundred thousand pounds tonnage buzz
over the glis,ening rail az if magic spur
red it, and lightning beckoned it, with
~ Franklin ) fire bird - for its messenger,
which carries his heart throb through
ever zone before another palpitation be-
gins, with the suns ofa.thousand rolling
planets as his directors, when angling
out into infnify and untrayersed space,
he seems possessed Of ubiquity.
The full ground that science covers
we have not as yet glanced at. Can
man 60 no further !? Look at him who
spends his time, silently, in the labora-
tory, among crucibles, retorts, Glow
pipes, and furnaces. Yesterday morn
ing he told yauthe earth was composed
ofbnt forty elements--last night he said
a further analysis showed tffty---to-day
he convinces you there are fifty-nine.
Only shorttime since the farmer was in
the. dark about the nature and properties
of different soils and minerals, but Sir
Humphrey Dayey, Professors johnson
and sMapes have not worked for nothing
among the sulphates, the sulpherets, the
chiorides, the hy1ro-chlorides, the n.y.
drochlcrics, the magnesiates, the iodatcs
the iodies, and the siodins The agricul-
turist knows how much better now to till
his land and make his soil remunerative,
from the labors Of these chemists You.
who walk on fancy ingram carpets, and
catch the gaudy silks as they come flying
from the loem--you who gracefully
curve around the streets, with captiva.
ting hues streaming from finely knotted
cravats, Ayou, we say, were il not for
the lahore Of the chemist never could
thus have rohed yourselves in dazzling
splendor. Jas. N Esnion. /,
HARRY GlRL- All. she u a happy girl.
We know ~ by her fresh looks and
buoyant spirits Day in ard day out,
she has something to do, and she takes
hold Of her work al if'she did not fear 70
sill her hand or dirty her apron. Such
girls W. love and respect, where ever
We find them ia y palace Or in . hoyel.
Always pleasant and always kind, they