Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-12-21
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Tie foi6sssdg gsat dcatRS2fe. Was sad deessif'ssd si'sd
Cooper Institute, = New offk, fk, on s. {inley sd
inst, at meeting for the benefit off III
suffering Odd9FsI lows afi iof Ckicsaqgooi Ckisq s.! nio'i
10 The modern chemists has s ideeccfarcd f1a
there is no such thing as Il tey ithasifis on
Itlyathe eonlbis6ioaio ofitwod eaases, 81 mhicl
EheI P make upuours material .univeyse.--
AltoYever this nay pay be,Ione thing is sure
that tho sun, the chief source of our ligh
-ahd heat. Is an incandescent mass Of Gre
'eohsiimihg ahdsiluh9inaGng. and thatsti,
universe woald be anaenginelwithout force
if it lacked fire. Theliron, magnesia, sil
yer, and what of the chemists. terminolo
gy, WHICH burn burn IN waves of, stupendous
unrestfng, and fneffabfe brilfiahcy in oul
central orb, areGclosely akin to b the Hint
spark 5ly which the savage lights hislpipe
kor Yhich Is struck from, the iren7shoa hooi
of the horse upon the stone. Ice. itself. is
1ih someideggree but the absence Of fire.
PFhGJeternaf sifows OF Mont Blanc and the
Ienorrneussglscierslof Greenland,r > as we'll
as the EeleapecOf Vesuyius or the, geysers
Of California;, are instinct with fire.. The
belt OF Orion and the comet of Encke, the
ring of Saturn and the furthest star spin
nacled dim In the intense inane" of the
tinter- stellar spaces. are vital with that
mysterious force which, cooks for belmont
co and consumes Chicago. .g g.
The Stag, lava, and trap Of the volcano
buried HefcuIaneumS BY the same process
111byi wbichDthe' eindefsr are,Aheapcd iiuntler
your gnate 5l The power whichihas made
valleys and mountains, upheaved and de-
pressed our globe, is the same which hnrls
the lnetcroic bomb through the summer
fanight and makes the tea Kettle boil for
! Watts invention and Biddy' So delight
The s'rosy fingers of Aurora of which
Homer so often sings, are tinged with this
subtle fanre but it is thessaniea fame in
another form whichspaints the carnatioh,
adds hue toFthe yiolets gives color to the
ruby, makes the diamond shine on the
breast of Matilda Jane and. paints her
cheek with bushes when JOHN William
Henry iingles the door bell. - It. enables
the photographer to- cast the exacti fea-
lures Of the human form, divine or ugly;
and it enables the scientist to determine
by the spectrum the color which indicates
the passing of iron into steel in the big
Bessamer retort, and the nature of the
substances in the distant stars. By the
aid of the vapor it creates from water it
drives the steamer over oceans, tunnels
mountains. Mines for gold and silver
within the sunless chambers of the earth.
fires the mitrailleuse. and dives for the
relics of old wrecks and the wonders of
the sea. .- .., ..s,..-.Hr .s..l 80
But things are as we use them. 4
pouEd of beef-steak has enough prusic
acid in it to kill ten men. You may,
sweeten your tea with sugar drawn from
the bung of the vinegar barrel. Out of
the black muck the rose of Persia and the
lilies of Sharon grow. and Solomon mad no
apparel so inwoven with hue and slight
What blessing, what curse, is this ele-F
ment, whose ravages in the Prairie City
we come here tonight to mitigate.
"What drives that train?" said Ste
phenson, the inventorof the eloconrotKe.-i
"Well, is it not, one Of your bigo 1en-
gines?'' '.Aye. but what drives the en-,
gine % ..Oh, very likely canny New
castle driver. - .:What do you say to The
Fight of the sun % ''How ?" asked the
friend at is nothing else,' 'saidthe en-
gineer. .,Itis light bottled up in r. the
earth for tens of thousands,of years-Gght
absorbed by plants and vegetables, being
necessary for the condensation of carbon
during the process of their ls gro&theIaand
now after being buried inthe earth8for
long ages, in fields of coal, that, Latent
light is again brought forth. and liberated
by fire, to work as in that locomotive for
great human purposes" 'i ''So ss1H' .
! What marvellous recuperative power,
there is in this American race of ours.r |.
wassin the, Sierra Nevada last summer, at
the town of Truckee; or to be more, par
ticular, while there a Political meeting
I was held at night; i viii h6t hlentioS OF
what party Suffice itLtliht 1 was on a
platform. built over q big rbouldera which
was half cut of the ground. The orator
was in the act of sending up the Amerlcan
bird, when the cry of ''Fire p''7 dissolved
the meeting and startled the town. As
it.wSs theIthird ti6ie II had been burned
ihnnsemsxtheapop tbeir fate.
AT midnight i ,retrsated, to oDQnneF lakes
But returning next evening, i found aIs
ready some pitch pine stahties and "cdn=
vass-backs houses Balfe amid the hshes. -
Opnone there. was aosign ont toinj Gaasing
letters. lice cream feF sale" s5sm q, "a
Il So in Chicago, there is a similar spiriti
of rec r'eecuperation. It is the. offspring Of dur
Ame1rican institutions, an efactfcity VIII ich
suffers no disasseriteT Hepress itsc ceHter.
prize. 1t fights theuchabces of hfes and
the chances of time non, only, with. eour-s
age, but with heartiEess. 1t is called by
an English journal, the indifference, easi-
ness, iftfidity of being. peculiar to this
country, which, gifit does mott anrpuDt to
,ber6ism or stoicism. isyery near akin to-
it,, To sillustrateI When yellow cfeFersI
was decimating New Orleans, a, waiter at
the St. Charles Hotel rusiies' to the. office
and excEaihfss, tCofRh for e11 gin cock tail /
for,29a' CLERK csaG9cktailfor 26. zeDfin /
can eaaitti $50, ini Chicago q, MERCHANT \
hsstsgirgto bis h0ypss and h9pes mssstts,a meg
friend. "Wbat news? z" "HOuse burned
wife safe at fathers, babies all right i
.aAlfright, . responds Siren Ahlefieah man,
and he goes to work sebuildingmI bus az /
-. It is under this supreme q lawb8fo thes
American. mipd-call,it what you will
that the future and safer if not the better
Chica9o will rise. 1t viii rise aIlo the
more respfendent like the ablsdlcityi be- 1
cause of the music of the human heartsi
which throbs with it in sympathy Like
Montreal. which grew greater out of her
great FIRE, Ike New Y ork. in 1885, like
the London of 1866, twill rise more SUBJ
Fseantial and grander than ever.y sDes p
l .sni TT ~ s. Qo1I
New York State drinks nearly forty
million dollars worth of liquor annually