The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-06-23

with which the glories of Rome's
universal" empire seem poor.
In the hearts and bodies of those
few and poor fishermen lay the
germ of two mighty empires, of
which it is true, that the sun never
sets upon either. The genius of
all that has been, thought or
dreamed or done by the mighty
Anglo-Saxon race, now possessing
a quarter of the habitable world,
and directly dominating more then
quarter of the human race.
Small enterprises, and small
races die, it is true, and die in
thousands, but it is still true that
no human effort is wholly lost.
The labors, and energies Of the un-
fortunate and the conquered, go to
swell the sum total of human ell
deavor, from which is deduced the
sum total of human results. No
man has lived whose deeds and
thoughts arc not impressed upon
the very material frame of the
world itself. The dreams of Spen-
Ger, and the thoughts of Pascal are
literally written upon the face of
nature. The page may be as yet
illegible to any but the Creators
eye, but not the less is the imprint
there, and none the less are we af-
fected by the fact. The universe
is but a phonograph on which is
recorded, every tone, every vibra-
ton, every hope, ever born in hu-
man souls, or human hearts.
Thus no man or woman has ever
lived or died for any cause utterly
in vain. The fruition of their
hopes, the fruit of the sacrifice may
not have come until the dlsappoint-
ed heart has long been dust, and
the very name of the martyr has
been forgotten. But none the less
has the hope been fulfilled. None
the less has the sacrifice been re-
warded. And to those who are
approaching middle life, who
know that much for which they
have hoped and labored can never
be realized for them, it is a com
fort and consolation to feel and
know, that their efforts though ap-
parently Improbable to them
selves, are not lost or profitless to
the universal brotherhood Of man.
One littlo enterprise here may be
blessed exceedingly to ourselves.
1t marks for us a step in advance,
and 1t may we'll be, that from what
we see here tonight may grow an
institution ministering to all the
Unsuitable demands of the human
mind for food. This may not be
in our time. Mayhap never here
But none the less, all the hopes
with which we have gathered here
tonight will be fulfilled, and the
efforts made and to be made, will
result in the highest good. We
are directly benefited by any un-
selfish effort for the common good.
The very effort brings its personal
reward to the laboring. soul. A
reward sufficient it would seem to
prompt the effort, were it known
that it were all.
We may labor on and hope, that
from the small beginning we have
now made we'll from something
which will keep pace with our
growing needs, at all events what
we have (the more valuable because
so long absent from the lives of
most Of us) will be of unmixed
benefit. For the first time in
White Oaks, we have a place of
resort from which are absent all
things which may DO abused, and
which none OF us can frequent with
out benefit.
VIC cannot more happily thank
the ladies to whom we chiefly owe
it than by supporting them with
our energies and means for the
time to come.