The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-08-12
Three Hundred and Ninety-three

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Editor Herald:
The above number of years have
passed away since on the Sd day OF
August, 1892, Christopher Columbus,
with three small ships and crew OF
ninety men, set out on an expedition,
on the success of which depended the
existence or existence of the
greatest people that ever reared Itself
among the family of nations.
On that memorable morning as the
gallant men turned their backs upon
civilization and their faces TO untried
perils, little did they think they were
marking out the way TO the home OF
Freedoms millions yet to be. Sixty
days upon the bosom of the broad
Atlantic tossed 10y the merciless waves,
and then To find "A few small islands
inhabited by savages, Ia return with
the accounts of their discoveries that
set Europe ablaze with thoughts of a
new world, land the work il done.
one hundred and fifteen years are re-
CURED TO plant the first English colony
in what Is now the United States.
This, followed by others, increases
rapidly in population until one hun
dred aud seventy years more find the
greatest man in American history
struggling for the independence of this
his native land. This achieved faster
and faster pours the stream of power
and wealth into the coming nation OF
the West.
On and on, until to>day what a con-
tTast between this the Sd of August,
1855, and the 81 of August, 1892.
Then America was wilderness I'M
known to civilization. No fine city
lifted its spires toward the sky, no
steamboat plowed the gentle rivers, no
railroads crossed the wooded land; no
schools prepared men for time, nor
gospel blessed them for eternity. To-
day all these are found and more, as
patriotic a people as ever trod the
sands of time now live in peace among
the hills and wales of free America.
The broadcast fields of agriculi ure, the
richest veins of mineral wealth are
our own instead of savage battle fields,
mounds and caves. The highest piece
of architecture ia the world now
stands in our country, where but few
centuries ago perhaps wigwam stood
Where once the savage made his rude
implements of war, now exist manu-,
factories that rival those of the greatest
of earth's nations. Where once the
wind only sighed through the trees,
now electricity carries mems thought
with wonderful speed, and steam with
its power now doeth his will. To-day
the printing press scatters knowledge
broadcast over the land where ignor-
ance and superstition once bound
mems souls. The places that but once
knew the yell of the Indian or the
howl of the wolf, now know the scenes
of civilized life, with its busy toll, its
hopeful efforts, and grand achieve
ments.
As time passes, the contrast will be
greater until the sun in his orbit will
mark America as the garden-spot of
the world, and us the country whose
influence will be felt while the love OF
freedom burns on the altar of the
human heart. SCHooLBoY.
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directed since the 9Th of August and
have found 1t a specific for that much
dreaded and loathsome disease. For
ten years or more l have been a great
sufferer each year, from August 9th till
frost, and have tried many alleged
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to know of its efficacy.
+. II. AINswoRTH,
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