The Russellville Democrat., 1880-07-01

work from my address last year. His work, like womans
 ons religion history satiscs finance, railroads steam boats mprovements and simprovenents which are nova days largely m the ms nus saber and rascaes wherein embraced much ot the potcs of
 he has hrbs weddings and other
 aitics removals saes trades exchanges ana failures pre- emineny conspicuous among which come most o me states men and statesmanhip of these latter days lie has to write pufs of books and music puis ot new ex changes and advertisers puff of mudde speak barrooms and churches pus and ballads, bsh ops and pallets and pu of people that puff him he has rt descriptions of balls pcncs concerts revlyais and exavaganzas barecues rallies, reunions and mass meetings; dissertations on fashions essays on morality and criticisms the foes of the day and subscribers who do pay Daily and hourly he must run the whole gamut emotions and tear the last feeling and sentiment to taers He must be glad to hear ths and aned to hear that de- ghed to meet such one and distressed know of accident another overoyed at this arva ana sad to mention that departure pleased to state one tning ana greved another shocked th enraptured with
 that sympathizng here congratuating there mourning today rejoicing tomorrow grinding out an obituary full of and dismal doggerel and now ngng merry wedding strain He be every ready to entertain his elderly female constituents with information in regard to the prices of butter measles and chicken cholera the condition the heather and the prospects of charity fairs church festivals He must always be pre- pared like selfwinding, doubebaek-action, automatic hurdy gurdy to dash oH moments notice, in any tune key from congressional rotry and folly ana imported swine to supreme decisions, ruins o Egypt Greece, Rome Yankeedoode gubernatoria tickets and size of cabbages and pumpkins. And, more than a ne must at the bidding of any and every mob of nebrated arsans toad frogs and lesser venin into majestic lions of craft and transform stupid and thicvsh nonentes into colossal giants of wisdom learning eoquence and virtue Alas alas if there glow holy patriot fire upon his al tar of daily sacrifices if he be not umned and eonecraed with pure heroic ambition to advance the welfare of his country and people, if all his work exalted love of
 their sacred hao his labor s but paid thankess slavery and all his life weary, dreary failure.
 Work work work. Gentlemen, brethren of earth most potent and aveone noble craft there is work endless work in this world for each and all of you to dowork that b YOU faithful earnest employment of every flying moment o your God-eyen tme-wor that may be great and enduring glorious to yourselves and benecent your you will There infinite mines of thought to be opened up
 to be abolished diseases to be cured and to be aee innumeabe moral social and political problems to be solved, wrongs be ghted and rights to be establshed be removed and incalculabe in all mechanic and domestic to be made Think of it. In the vast store
 and gander wonders than have been discovered in the past and these discoveries will In the rato o boy or girl in my audience today knows things of which Washington and Queen Elizabeth, Cesar Cicero Plato and Virgil dreamed But hundred years there railroads steamboats powerpreses no cooking friction matches no pumps no see pen or postage stamps no n rod insurance agents Young America, no banged ha coalo lamps and not gasight or yard of calico ID the world Fifty years ago there were no car breechoading guns reapers and mow e canned oysters and fru fourhorse theshers base ball clubs and dog baby shows Only about forty years ago, Clay and Calhoun laughed in the senate at the idea of ever talking by lightning but Morse, with few wires glass as turned their rdcule into amazement and gdled the earth with the obedient hnnderbolts and the humbest telegraph operator of to-day ng thunder and
 lightning around style that would have astonished the great god of the ancients, Jupiter Tonans, Oympian Jove The march of science onward and It IS only within the last three that Edison with his telephone has shown how sweehearts kiss each other around the gobe and with his phonograph has taught us how the voice of grandmother and the sound of the ngng shnge No 19 slipper with which she impressed her low
 ing precepts juvenile understandings, may be pre- served and repeated bottled up and racked of were ad libiaml and ad iafnitan for centuries to come.
 Every department of human life and action is keeping step the double quick of the age Forward the word, and the whole line is advancing We live hundred of grandathers years in ten Many of my youngest auditors have more know more, enjoy more, and do than whole generation of their Youths yet out of their have all the world made door neghbo by telegraphs railroads steamers and thriving busting cities with their
 ing hives of population, their palaces and temples their noisy of trade their cang and rush and whr spring up, if by magic all the wilderness where but yesterday solitude deep the grave regned supreme They have factories universities and libraries rise where but few ago, the lonely wigwam stood and the wolf roamed undurbed They have the long trains of pa
 aa cars laden with precious freight fly laundering and