The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-14

= s'aihuiehts Will always be magnlh-
cent OASIS ana Important legacy; the relics
~ = o.ner men viii greatly help you as u
une estate, out Individual application, per-
sonai study, is
thA piAr THAT PRODUCES EMINENT ENcKL-
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70 all departments, and which is never
iouhu by any short cuts or by.paths some
simes so ioolishly sought by the youthful
iancy. And care not how gifted, how in.
,eluctaal, how cultured any of you may
DC, close, vigorous, analytic thought, dill
sehce, perseverance, resolution, are the av-
enues through which you will find the
EySan Fields are reached, On the mus.
cies ef your limbs, on the mechanism OF
your whole body, is written the lesson to
labor. Without these requisites all your
natural advantages" will run to reckless
rankness. We are told that on the banks
OF Inc Guadalquiver river in Spain, where
is seen the richest soil that was ever fur
rowed, and where once 1000 villages
tourished. there are now but 500, and
these are full of beggars. The natural lad
vantages" of the place was their absolute
rum: In this connection you may recall
the liable OF the old farmer who on his death
bed gathered his sons about him and said:
my sons. there lies great treasure bu-
ried in my farm which | leave to YOU -
The old man gasped. "Where is il?" ex-
claimed the boys in breath. 81 am about
to tell you; you will have to dig"-but ere
he could finish the sentence he expired
they dug up the entire farm in
seaich for II. ln the meanwhile they SOW
ed as they dug, and behold in the spring
time The several acres spread out bounti-
iul banquet. Only then they began TO COM
| prehend the real meaning of the old mans
on 10 xx,,, tkx
held you are to work in.
And ! say to you, further, You may
build high your Lofty piles of literary lore,
but unless you convert your acquisitions
into the assimilative, and the practically
available, they will serve only as embalm-
ed mouldering mummies of antiquity, as
useless as the pyramids OF Egypt md as
unsatisfactory as their hieroglyphics. An
armory OF weapons unused and unusable
in time of active war could not be more
farclcal. Ifyou find yourselves burdened
and handicapped with delaying accoutre.
ments in the race, then follow Hamlet
advice, throw away the worser part and
keep the better" Be neither too convex
nor too concave, but find the correct focal
distance within the actual
| HORIZON OF DAILY PRACTICAL LIFE.
| be not forever plunging too deep nor yet
/ ohutilS VII VIZ oulluCt. We
comprehend clearly that we live in an age,
amongst people and under government
whose intelligence affords the widest scope
to individuality and freedom of thought,
expression and action; and where the
highest honors are accorded to him who by
discovery, invention, or some other benefits
TO his fellows, improves their condition up.
der this reign of peace. And we may con-
| graduate ourselves upon the changed con-
uilions existing to-day as against those
prevailing few hundred years since. Then
England and France. the most advanced OF
the nations, boosted for the best of their
houses only wood structures daubed with
clay and thai ched with straw. And these
were without windows or wood floors; rude
stone, or clay, or leaves, being the substi
tute. Hence, the luxury Of q
carpet was unknown The smoke found iii
escape through hole in the roof. The
finest beds were made of bags OF dried
grass, while covered wooden log served
for pillow. As consequence persona
cleanliness was at a discount so great tha
even dignitaries as high as the Arch
bishop OF Canterbury swarmed with yer
min. The streets were without sewers o
any sort. There were no payements an(
no lamps. Drinking carousals, day ant
night, was the general pursuit-all the re
suit of the illiteracy of the people, nobility
and peasantry. Before the work of educa
ton set in, it was an era tatooed all owe
with the darkest spots of the direst dis
grace; an era when superstition held I'm
challenged sway; when voodoOism witt
tiger tails and snake skins and humal
bones close interviewer for necklaces, wer
used as champion charms against ever,
+ evil, when maglcians' m racles, shrine cures
| a;nIr al;,e
remedies were in vogue. 1t was an era
WHEN MEN WERE MARTYRED
by every process of ingenious device, an,
unolfenuing animals solemnly slain to pro
ptiate some fabulous deity, or even tn
God of Goodness himself, after those views
i, IL was an era when to be charged was to b.
, convicted; when men had to appeal to tn
, charity of heaven to escape from the cruel
, ties of earth; when every air was full O
shadows and every wall had prying eye
and ears and tell.tale tongues. And W
! must equally appreciate that we live in al
+ ago so distinctive from that OF only four o
five generations back, when new and CRANE
truths were branded as intidel errors ant
', their promulgators denounced as coadju
, tors of his satanic majesty. Even then, II
dirty dungeon, was hero shut out iron
= the light OF this world by those to whom h
: compensation for his discovery. Even the
! was roasted at the stake the broad-browe,
,, Bruno, who stood amongst the feebler phil
. osophers of his day like Yosemite pin
above its fellows, for exposing the fashion
, able but. false philosophy of the time, and re
= tusing to deny truth us was so different
q done at the fireside in the hall OF Caipha
y when the cock crew. And with almost a
. severe penalties was Copernious treated 70
y insisting on the old Pythagorean system c
'. the spheericity and the revolutions OF tn
:. earth, And Calico, who at three.scor
u wears and ten, was forced by q merclless II
QUESTION to recant on Bonded knees tn
doctrine that the world moved. And s
10 with Kepler, who was communicated wit
all that that implied, because OF his opln
c. ions on the subject OF Observation-Disclosures
D. and whose aged mother therefor was col
,r demned to be burned as a witch.
,e Yes, we may indeed rejoice that we mo,
Ii in day OF pure democratic dominanc.
" that Is sweeping as though with mnlstrol
Q. malevolence, these cobwebs, barnacles an
,e criminalities, from off the body politi
is tbeologic and social, proclaiming truth an
N Justice to be superior to personality, cree
policy or power. For the present Is
v AN AGE OF FEARLESS INQUIRY,
re the real object of the many, the ayowt
ie object OF ali, when custom cannot contr
IN acauiescence, antiquity reverence, into,
rs Gated power obedience to error, nor u
ed brutum iulmen hurl hurttul anathem
n. against the diffusion OF light from the to-
i'd ers of truth. 1t is an age when the stea
mt engine, the telegraph, the telescope, u
he telephone, the mariners improved col
N. pass, the spinning jenny, the sewii
| machine and hundreds of other civillze
ds are lessening the labors and increasing u
m. Intelligence of world whose denize
or il is bringing closer and closer
es rether under relations of intima
yn in,erdependence. Aud II Is an q
ID. when the true schoomaster is abroad VI
ps, his systematic classihcstions and arianl
mt menis of the various forms OF all usei
knowledge as materials and aids for iutu
Improvement, generating at ,approprla
res seasons and by approx rate methods an eq
ty anle. uniform, healthy growth, intelec,t
in and moral, of all the faculties, so mat IN
we may NAV ait in Joint council with even'balanc
nj. .eIfcon,roi as the supreme eNecn'l'
nv There abide with us also the. court OF inc
lis rumble Justice, surgical science and SIX
nd. happy homes, personal cleanliness ana
NJ, manner MANN of comforts. And last, but !
IN. least, we possess the printing press ana