Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-11-29
A SENSIBLE MOVEMENT.
'iade by the Eureka Lodge of Odd
Fellows.

Eureka Lodge Of Odd Fellows now ia.
votes a portion Of its regular meeting
nights to literary and other exercises cal
cnlated to interest and instruct its mem
bers. The movement is a good one. and
we are glad to know that it is meeting with
success. AT the last meeting, Captain
Rock delivered a short address on MEM
DRY" which we reproduce. He said:
l. unwittingly, some time since. said hat
az suitable tlrne, would deliver a short
lecture on Memory" showing how mncb
IL was the original model Of the telegram
and telephone, being fiattered bv some, and
riC1 uled by Others, for sci citing a subicct
SO a~bstruse, and called on so repeat div for
the speech, until 1t seems to be an old and
hackneyed subject, and, though but little
understood, perhaps we may be able to see
some interesting features in it, worthy Of q
lew moments consideration. 1t is a cues
uon, however, that is worthy to be
handled by the most learned in the ciences
especially IN anatomy and mechanics for
ne should not only possess a thorough
XII owledge OF the structure of man, but
should understand the telegraph and tele-
phone, and the means of operating them,
and be able to draw an intelligent com
parison.
First, then, l will speak Of man. Sole
mon says that 'sman is wonderfully and
fearfully made" God has SO constructed
the body as to make it a living, moving.
active machine. He has even done more.
he covered it with a network Of veins,
sinews and muscles, and through all which
run the nerves. He has made a grand CEN
ter, the brain. which we are taught
and believe is the seat of thought and rea-
son-the grand tablet Of memory. The
telegraph instrument of the body, upon
which all that we have heard, felt, seen,
and even thought, is indelibly engraved.
To this telegraph (the brain) is instantly
conveyed feelings from every part Of the
body, be it that of pleasure or pain that
which we see or hear; it records all thai
we do, be it good or bad, and much seems
neither good nor bad. God has endowed
man with the five human. senses, hearing,
feeling, seeing, tasting and smelling. With
out these We should be as the tree, or grass,
and incapable Of enjoying any of life's
pleasures, nor could We suffer pain. If
we could not hear. none of the endearing
expressions of friends would be known,
and the sweet sounds Of music would
never reach US to enchant and enrapture
us. Without feeling the body might be
burned or SAW asundor by piecemeal.
and yet we would be ignorant If deaths
work. Declared the sense Of seeing, and
all would be midnight darkness. We
could never know and realize the beauties
and wonders of the heavenly bodies. The
sur moon, stars and the heavens would
be to us unknown natures beauties to us
would be a blank. Without taste, what
could we know Of the delights Of a feast
OF good things? And last, though very
important, without the sense of smelling
we could not sniff the delicious perfumes
waited to us on the summer breeze from
natures flower garden. The brain is sit
uated in the head, and its frail constituent
parts are encased in a strong bone, no
doubt for its protection, SO thick in some
cases as TO make it almost impossible TO
make any good impression on it. Its con-
nection to the body seems slender indeed,
the neck being the wire extending from the
body to the mighty machine, the seat Of
all that is grand in man, and like the wire
that is now extending all over the world to
receive and convey TO the numerous tele-
graph machines all that transpires with the
people OF the earth. Morse and Edison
should have b en- ashamed to ask for let
tiers patent for their combinations, which
fall 70 short OF the great model prepared
by the Creator. 1t ST ems almost hlasphemy
to claim anything new, and but little was
new except the practical application Of
that which Is as old as man. The telegraph
receives and conducts news from every part
Of the world, the same as the nerves con-
duct any alarm to the brain. Tn scratch
Of a pin or a flea bite alike are instantly
sent to the brain 10 be recorded. The ships
at sea are able 10 communicate by seeing.
and the mighty noise and thunderings in
the heavens are heard and recorded, The
den,aphone has been made to convey
sound to the deaf by applying the machine
to the teeth. and now to complete the utili-
cation OF the senses practically. 1t only
remains to inventors to make machines to
convey tasting and smelling. SO as to en-
able us to enjoy a feast prepared thousands
Of miles away.
This Is Thanksgiving Day, and II IL APP
propriate that we should join in rendering
thanks for the numerous blessings We as
men and as Odd Fellows enjoy. Then let
us conclude this literary feature Of our
meeting by repeating the appropriate
lines
Praise God, from whom all blessings how;
Praise Him. sll creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye keayenly host;
nu.a.a IathAr GAn and Hn1r Ghnsf.