The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-10-31

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the heart OF man 70 conceive what God hath I
forgetting the things that are behind !" /
the badness and danger If the night, the |
strange and weird ploughing through its
Of sfi shs nsS.l Es.s
in the midst Of the country's conscious si- |
lencs and safety --or, again, the heat and
blackness and tire Of the summers day
look to the coming time whom The engineer,
In gentlemsnly attire viii sit In grace amid
bis strong iron and FURNISHED BRASS 20 beau
bfa noE, Cd reves@hced thp, with 1he deep
ssnse Ii his lsouF that 10 isa imAstsr Of tie
law Of space and a leader and guide OF men.
The first condition Of character ID the
consciousness Of, il This CONSEQUENCES Of
character must become asssrtivs in our me-
chanicaI industries. The engineers vocation
is peculiarly intellectual, for il is peculiarly
the creation Of science and invention. Ii is
uot 40 much whether works. Of che hand or
brain, but the real question is, bow much
brair IL put into che work. The lAborer
with spade and pickaxe, who leads the way
Of the engine, vail give hia blood 70 the YES
sells Of better brains in his ofsprings, aud
his educated son in the same manual toll
will invent q wiser way of work-mcre
blasting and less muscle, better Wagons,
spade aud axe, but infinitely above these
will be the new discoveries in man himself
Education will make these. A higher quail
ity Of nature--a finer fibre Of soul will be
begosten 10 the man, and the working gang,
the virtual pioneers Of civilization, will not
be the coarse, unlettered, animalized beings
whose souls centres in the shanty, whose
LEISURE and life is In whisky, blackened
cards. and foul air, but thosghtful, serious,
sober men, whose eight hours done, swiftly
and strongly, will 60 to the cabin by the
side Of the projected road for pleasurable
conversation and Instructive reading SO
that in the next edition Of the Habits Of
Good Society, the chapters telling Of flip
peries aud follies Of show and shoddy, will
be left out, and we will be fsiriy told how
educated and honest farmers, boat builders
ann railroad men, conduct themselves when
in their homes with well-to-do wives and
schooi-going childr n, and how they seem
on the Prairie's acres, in the shipyards and
on tbs trains. The artizans and mechanics
are to make themselves respectable, and
''their works will follow"
bud Dudley uses pit coal to mel iron
successfully, takes out patent, finally,
during the civil outbreak joins the royalists
and rises to be general of artillery.
Andrew Yarranton begins with work in
/ iron, then manufactures tin-plate, and final
" publishes bis wonderful book, called
'EagldaFs Improvement By Land and Sea"
The Hlndoos were skilful in converting
iron into steel, and doubtless the Egyptians
used steel tools in covering their obelisks
and temples of porphYry with hisroglyphics,
but old Benjamin Huntsman, first knowing
the need Of steel possessing greater cohe-
sion and closeness of grain, 1t the same time
greater tenacity and fiexibiity, unites with
his pigIron little oxygen and carbon in an
elastic state, and we have the cast steel,
which invocation advanced the manufactures
Of Yorkshire 10 the first rank and made firm
the foundations Of the industrial supremacy
Of Great Britain. | must not forget to re-
mind you that Matthew Murray was APP
prenticed as a blacksmith, married before
his term was out, set out for Leeds with his
bundle on his back, seeking work to send
the means of buying bread back to bis young
wife whom he left behind; entered Mr..
Marshales factory, suggested at once i'm
provements in the machinery-got on his
feet right off, sent for bis wife, took house,
and then, when Benkinsop, in 1912, was
working the Middleton cOlliery, near Leeds,
Murray built for him the first locomotive
that regularly worked upon any railway.
The names Of the Stephensons are held in
as just appreciation as the name Of Luther
or Locke.
Locomotive engineers, singularly, more
than any other class of our best aDd most
serviceable men, must eon.oIm their habits
to principles Of absolute sobriety. They
must be constantly aware OF the response
bllity Of their duty. Thousands OF lives de-
pendent upon their integrity as well as skill,
they should uniformly be men of serious
soul and mean. AtA A-41
The best. and in every wise the most use
full lives are those in the warp and wool ot
which is most of the coloring of sacrifice
The passenger in the luxurious coach retires
forgetful, it may be, that in all weathers
through the dreary watches Of the night bis
life, under God, is in the keeping Of the en-
gineer. Sacrifice has no wages. We pay
toll by its hours. Sacrifice is sDirit-one
Of heavens angels. When we offer 1t gold
it fits BY US, for gold bears down its wings
to earth. and strikes it with death. But the
engineer must never be forgetful Of the
sleeping and forgetful passenger. Ne dissi-
patton or idleness must be his tempting devil
when the life of fellow mortal is at stake.
Your indnstryiis thus moral, vefiit, religious.
But each in his day and after his own
fashion-you are called by the inward apti-
tude that God gave you to your sphere and
service, to mine-he WHO sews welt Or
planes knot, to his. -
A quaint old writer says: The basest
of aDimalcules, she spider itself, has a
spinning jenny and warping mill and
power looms within its head"
/ That which makes any toll a Joy and
blessing is the love and meaning that the
toiler puts into it.
he who loves his seat upon the fiery
power that ieads the train like returning
conqueror, loves the appIaudngs about bis
chariot-the man who plumes his engine for
the holiday --polishes 1t as q pride--pets ii
as lovs--boasts Of its speed and strength,
swell as OF its grace and bsauty--leaps 70
his place knowing Is IL one. Of blessing or
bane, puts dextefity into his hand and OAre-
fulness into his heart, he ID a,tras man, real
and genuine.
l: is beyond conception, certainty cOmpu-
tation, the value of thousand human lives.
There is much that 10 fearful in the Respon-
sibiIity OF al engineer. or all men he shoald
tremble TO sllght the aid and providence Of
God. or an men he should be morally
palsisd, should he tempt bis hand to the
deed Of death by personal inebriation. The
souls murdered bv sneh sin should send back