The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1879-07-02

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an earnest search after truth, which
had met its just reward, In the
place of astrology we have the
truths of astronomy. Schools o.
learning have taken the place of the
wild dreams; laws of science now
supercede lamentations. The solar
system is now deUonstrable fact
and that beyond all discovered are
fields that ever widen, until by com
parison we know that all we can see
is but an atom, and our earth but ar
atom of the vast whole already
known.
The sons Of genius have patiently
turned the pages of Natures book
have explored the seven great vol
umes, and the knowledge thus CLEAN
ed only increases his anxiety to know
more, to east the rlummet ofthought
into unexplored and deeper seas Of
knowledge, and within the human
form there lives the greatest wonder
of all, the soul, that spark that trans
cends all physical worlds, that out
lasts time, change or condition.
Miss Brownell's production no,
only showed study and thought, but
an admirable command of language
and ready flow of thought aud
sentiment.
A fine piece efinstrumental music
followed, Mrs. Beokwith at the or.
gan and the Messrs. Bigelows &C
eompanying with horns.
NATURES BANQUET,
| by Miss Susie Rouse, was somewhat
of departure from the usual order
of essays upon such occasions. She
had accepted an invitation Of some
druid or goddess who proposed to
set up grand banquet in a grand
and beautiful cave expressly prepar-
ed for the purpose. Here came the
children of nature, iodine, carbolic
acid, carbon, sulphur, gold, silver,
mercury, iron, tin, oxygen and many
others all came and were arrayed
and pictured out each in their beauti-
tul and appropriate colors and garbs
Of course caloric was chief cook, and
all went merrily until sulphureted by.
drogen stalked in. He had no affini-
ty for any of the guests present and
they turned up their noses in 8 trice,
ard the whole broke up in a general
row, oxygen and nitrogen accompany
ing the fair writer home where she
found herself unframed. The handling
showed some originality of thought
and some research to obtain facts,
and was we'll received.
A MIsNoMER
brought Frank Lyle to the front.
Politics are of vital Importance TO
this Republic, to US as people. The
science of government is of much
importance. Our safety has much
! to do with it. In contrast to these
self-evident facts, we have all the
wrangles Of party politics. A leg
islating congress, public officers feed
ing at the public crib, mere party
men who belied the name of politics,
as their public acts do the knowl-
edge of the science of goyernuent-
Yet parties will rise and fall, and
from the ruins new ones will be re-
constructed. The cloud now arising
on the political horizon seemed the
Soeialistie party, and this is the alb.
surd of absurdities. Would it be re.
form to sweep away all presen,
forms? Gold and silver are only
symbols of wealth. Labor is the
only true source of wealth, and to i,
should return all such blatberskites
as Dennis Kearney and his ilk.
Many of the acts of legislation are
wrong and arbitrary. Such acts keep
the country unsettled. Taxes check
the wheels ofindustry. Other nations
predict our fall and ruin. Our escape
is in returning to principles of puri
ty. How shall this be effected?
Incorporate new element into the
body polite. Give woman the bal.
lot. Shall she bear oil the burdens
of life, keep herself pure and unspot
ted, and see the loafer go reeling by
to exercise the right of suffrage, to
administer laws for her and hers
while she is denied the privilege:
Politics will then be no evil, but the
temple will be reared on purity and
patriotism.
If Frank was fishing for bouquets
he had cast his line in the right spo,
and the ladies showed their appre
citation in thus having their rights sc
ably championed.
sIMoN's CALL,
by Miss Cora Wheelock, was anoth
or rich, original conception. Every
month is not the harvest month
Time has his circles. All things have
their seasons. Every wave rises in
it's power, rolls on in its majesty
then suscumbs. Human life never
! attains it's sublimest grandeur in the
continual sun of prosperity. Such
natures know little. of themselves
less of others. Life is a mixture
from poverty to wealth, ever il
fortunes wheel turning. 1t is the
shifting from Simon's call, from
'thumbs up" to thumbs down."
Simon gropes in politics. Parties
wax powerful, statesmen look upon
their constituency as portion OF
their personal property, but Simon
calls, thumbs down" and all is
changed. The rich man goes at the
vesper hour, to his palatial home
He prides himself on his riches, on
this worlds goods, and lies down to
the sleep of selfish ease. During the
still watches Of the night, Simon has