The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-04-13


ing their patients and the silversmiths
made him plate their wares. But still
some wise men were sure that he was
able to do many more useful things
They were certain that, if they could
only invent the right sort of road and
make the great giant travel from place to
place, carrying the news
" Ah," said the wise men, 81 he Is just
the one to carry the news; he is so strong,
so tireless, so swift. so secret-just the
one, if we can only make him do it."
So they worried their wise heads night
and day ;for many a year they devised
plans aud invented machines But the
old giant laughed their plans to scorn;
he broke in pieces their machines he
shocked and stunned the wise heads
themselves. He pranced away from them
and danced in the air.
cha! ha - he would shout. Do you
think you can harness me and set me to
work am free; all the earth is my
home and my hiding place. What are
you, man, that should serve you !?
You cannot see me, you cannot hold me,
you cannot measure ME, you cannot di
rect AMI govern me, My Creator has
sent me bonds aud laws | obey Him
and them.
Then he wise men made answer with
Reverence and faith sublime:
"Sons and heirs Of God, your Creator
are we. All the subtle forces and great
powers Of nature are made for us, and
shall minister unto US. Our heritage
waits till we, through wisdom, shall enter
into it and possess it. You shall yet
serve us, proud Force according to your
own laws, you shall work out our will"
You remember, in olden times, that a
small pebble stone slew the great Goliath
OF Gath. SOFT happened, quarter of
century ago, that small thought entered
into wise mans head, and dwelt there
until it worked itself out into life and
action III the shape OF Morse's Telegraph.
And the old giant knew, as soon as he
saw this machine, that he was caught and
harnessed, and must 60 to work. He
knew he was mastered, so he never
WINGED or flinched The least bit he set
tied himself in the traces the harness
fitted so well he could not keep from
working in it, the road suited his tastes
far better than the old ragged, zigzag
route he used to engineer out for him
self
All over the round world, to-day, the
track Of the giant IS cleaning in crystal
and steel; from north to south, from
east to west, in the heavens above, in the
earth beneath, and in the waters under
the earth, he ceases not to toll for man.
Silent omnipresent sleepless and tireless,
this grand ally of civilization, with his
heart of fire and his sinews of steel, keeps
the deep pulses Of humanity throbblng
with the same beat, rejoicing for the
same joy, mourning for the same sorrow
So the giant works joyfllly in the ser
vice Of mankind: he works according to
his own nature, he obeys the laws that
were set for him from the creation of the
world when the mind Of a man conquer
ed these laws, it conquered him.
The earth is great storehouse Of oc-
cult forces; the strong men and wise men
of the future shall draw the bolts, and
turn the rusted keys, and bring forth its
hidden treasure to enrich and exalt the
whole human race. Boys and girls;
knowledge and thought are the keys
grasp them surely, use them skilfully,
enter upon the heritage secured TO you
from the beginning of time Chitdren's
Hour