The Russellville Democrat., 1880-07-01

bnman liberty extended and human comfort and onience more cnhanced within the last century two ban in any thousand years before the standard of inel nce and morality has been raised and manhood and 1onhood have been gloriousy asserted and ennobled
 And think you brethren and friends that the grand march of discovery and improvement IS ended tell you cntal moral and material development attainment and bieyeneu the bodes wing human inagnaiion-aye inc songest pnon of radiant archangeas yet scaled ond God Omnscent and Omnipotent alone oreee what ranscenent triuph in science art and sociology in store the highly favored eyes and of who are now before What the lurchng wind-drven lugger or scow hundred ago is to the magnificent steamship day what the clumsy creaking otng old tagecoach of then is the flying palace train now will be our proudest steamers and fastest trains nared with the mighty air-shps which will ceave the blue ethereal vault and ousped the eagles of half hundred years to come What the sow-going ward old unenveIoped and waeed letters of century agone to magical telegraph and telephone will be all marve of swift communication beside the miracles of mechanism which will enable and hold free and from Arkansas to Chna from Dakota to Timbuctoo, half hundred years What the rcke.y old harpsichod on which Mozart strumed his divine sonatas ia the glorious and Stenway Chckering of our parlor and halls will be all organs and grand pianos in comparison with the majestic orcheston whose subime entrancing stransnow louder than the thnnders below along the Alleghene misty slopes now softer and weeer than the carrolng of birds the warbng of Eolan lyreshe very angels in their flight shall pause quverng wings, to listen, wondering and de Eghed scarce half hundred years come What the m. uth pot metal blow and sickle of fifty or hundred years to the patent suky ycuvaor and fourhorse reaper and of today will be all yaunt- ed agricultural devices beside the peerless ganteombna
 
 to come will be turned loose in section of wild orest the morning. and in the evening will have the land cleared the timber all piled up u accurately measured cord wood the umps gubbed on and the broad fields fenced plowed narrowed and and in another day harvest tme will reap bind hrsh grind and sack barrel the whole haul to the electric packet and take home the returns from commission merchant the other side of the world in evening" What the antquated turnspit and claering skets of gandmothers the modern stove and patent cooking will be all our kitchen godsends com pared with the masterpiece of culinary ingenuity which half generation to will in hour by cockwork hand h.{a and pe chase down chicken n the yard kill, dress and bo it. pick peas and gooseberes, the table, wash shes and spank the bad babies while throws Ap old boot at stray yellow dog snaches ten pounds of butter from hafpint of chalk and water in vesecond churn. What the rude bows and arrows of barbarian ancestors before riar Bacon revononzed the warfare of the world by mix ing charcoal and nre into gunpowder breech loading rifles and hundred Whitwortb guns will be all most formidable artillery compared with the terrible enginery of death and destruction which, by the utilization of lightning galvansu, dynamite and nrogycerne will perhaps within half hundred years to come, by enabling child in moment to annhilate whole armies and cities and blow the mghtiest Gbraltars into flinders only fit to macadamize country roads, forever put end to and of and usher in the glad era of universal peace and brotherhood.
 In that Wonder Time come, Arkansas ladies will go shopping in Paris London in the morning, lunch and tend matnees New York in the afternoon and take tea with friends i'll St. Louis their way home in the evening Fruits from the Indies and Brazil will be served fresh and luscious for dessert late dinners in Chicago and Boston and the bell o the Esquimaux ice will jingle the gates of the Brazilian and Bengaec merchant before the morning has dspeled the heavy dews of the tropics
 
 stood and utilized forces of nature than gayanism is day Diamonds will be common glass beads palaverng candidates now because every child with few bits of charcoal bowppe and vial of cheap chemical will be able to make them by the peck Apples big pumpkins and tempting pomegranaes of gold in pictures of silver will dange from the boughs of Dew-ound trees, and thousand delicious fruits and vegetables unknown will lie every market sta New worlds and systems worlds will have been revealed by telescopes whose mighty sweep will give to longing mortal eyes dim, transporting gmrses of the tinted lights that flash from the jasper and sapphire walls of the Beautiful City, whose maker and builder is God Natures imitabe pharmacopeia will be explored and every disease will have found it's remedy every wound its balm ill that flesh heir to it's antdoe and soace Human life will be prolonged and rendered happier Man, made little lower than angels will have almost obt ratd the inequality of creation and become the peer of the oes roentate that blazes in the full glory of light and majesty divine The radiance of the glad miennia day mayhap will flush with hues the orient mountain tops, and all the universe resound with noble deeds and notes of praise
 Think you that these but the dreams of fantastic imagination the uopan pictures of visionary and enhu- aast! Far, far from it they ali more probable than thousand wonders of to day would have been hundred even half hundred years ago. And, my brethren ot the Aladdin magic quill, upon you, the edi- tors o the country and the world will devove the glorious ork Of bringing many of them to pass turning many of thee upendous deaes into grand and hissnl realities, ana preparing the way for thousands We live in the um twilight of the coming dawn; you, gentlemen of the onpoent Press the blessed Phnbuses who shall drive