St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-22

human knowledge, and whose achievements
have become the property of the world in
common will be forever held in grateful
memory by the enlightened nations
of the world. The practical good
which MAURY wrought for mankind will
give his name secure place among the i'm
mortal ones. 1t is therefore with addi-
tional interest we will now read the impress
sions made upon the mind of the great mas
ter of the physical sciencesson the occasion
of his visit to the Northwest nearly
thirty years ago. If he saw the touch OF
magic in the conditions which existed then,
what would he say if he could return to
earth and stand on the same spot to-day and
look around him and see what was then
comparative wild expanded into the proper
lions of an imperial domain? The following
is the address:
You have Just witnessed. ladies and gen.
tlemen, one of the most interesting ceremo-
MES in which it has been my good fortune to
participate. The corner stone of the hall of
the Minnesota Historical society is laid to-day.
Upon it noble pile, 100x150 feet, is to rise up
an ornament to your city and an honor to this
territory. 1t is glorious undertaking. Your
society dates back to the first legislative as
sembly of the territory. 1t was incorporated
then, and its growth has been quite equal to
that of the city, marvellous and wonderful
and magic-like though it be. What noble
and ennobling spectacle is now presented
for our contemplation and admiration!
A people in the rough-and-tumble of new
country, amidst the hardships and privations
incident thereto; people from whose hear
ing the yell of the savage had not yet died
away preparing to lay on the spot VIII ere
many of them have seen the Indian plant his
wigwam the corner stone of a temple, ded-
Gated not to history alone but to science, lit
erature and art, to everything that elevates
the man and adorns the mind. When l think
of such things and see men around me plan
ming and setting on foot such an enterprise
under such circumstances, and see them
pushing it forward and rushing it through"
in spite of difficulties my heart is in my
mouth and my cap in the air with hurrah
on my lips. When 1 see the good
works like this I feel as the gallant
yeoman of Ivanhoe did, and like
him arse ever ready to add my halloo to
good deed, a good shot or gallant blow, come
whence it may. The times, the place, the Cir
cumstances, all combine to make this scene
one of rare interest. To witness it have left
my home and business beyond the mountains
more than thousand miles away, and have
deemed the heat and dust, and the smoke by
the way, Of no moment, in comparison with
the qualification which this occasion affords
Where are we and what are we doing? L find
it difficult to realize the fact that l am not
among enchanted spirits at work upon things
of magic in some fairy land, for here and on
my way here, have in the great valley of the
West realized things, facts and merits which,
could they have been foretold i'll
our fathers hearing, would have been
considered by them too extravagant and
highly wrought even for a nursery tale. in
which COLLINS and witches and fairies and
magic are allowed to figure.
There was once in dreamland youth who,
the romancers tell US, possessed himself of a
charm by which he could summon to his pos
sessions the most powerful genii and have
them do his will ''Get for me, said he to the
genii, 'jewels of silver and gold and caskets of
rubies and diamonds and precious stones,
and 10! riches and wealth stood in great heaps
before him. ''Buld me-" said he, before the
morning sun shall gid the East, palace
more gorgeous and splendid than the king s
let it in grandeur surpass all other palaces
that were ever built and in the morning,
there it was, to the amazement and wonder of
the king, his daughter, his princes and
his mobiles. We have all read these
tales of entertainment in the nursery,
and in the simplicity of childhood
wondered if they were true sure enough.
But here in this Western world, in, this blessed
land of liberty, under this glorious Union,
there is people who have a charm by which
they can call up, and have called up and are
every day calling up, genii far more powerful
than any that ALADDIN, with his wonderful
lamp, ever dreamed of. Give us, they say
in their spirit of indomitable enterprise and
energy, give US not caskets of stones, but the
clements of greatness, of human prosp Gritty
and happiness, and make us mighty and
great; and 10! as If the wand of the great
magician had touched the country, the savage
and the wild beast disappear, tall trees bow
their heads, and the forests fall to the ground
and in their places we behold the school
house. the church with its tall taper spire
pointing heavenward, and broad fields of
yellow grain waving to the breeze and max
ing the very hills to smile and leap
with plenty-making glad the hearts of free
men. They say to it, the creation of palace
in night is not enough for US; we want
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science, and halls of learning, and splendid
charities; and lol they stand where the
wilderness was but yesterday, and they rise
up as if from the green bosom of your smiling
prairies. Suppose that when our fathers
were coming their nursery rhymes, and
listening to fairy tales, and reading their
little story books, some PETER FARLEY or
other friend of childhood had hid from them
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lamp, and slipped into their hands, in it's
stead, story book that should have told
them that their children should live in world
like this-that steam should be harnessed,
the lightning bridled and many pow
ers and principles and agents of ma
ture, then unknown but now understood,
should be brought into mans use and en-
ployed as they now are-what would they have
story teller, their reply, "Kaw, Iagoo, we
don't believe your
In the days of my youth-and am not old
Il drank of the springs of the mighty Missis-
sippi us they came gushing forth from the
hills of Tennessee, bubbling and rip
ping and dancing to meet the laughing waters
of your smiling prairie, and about this sea-
son of the year, annually, used to see gangs
of boatmen trudging on foot through the mud,
bound from New Orleans back to their homes
in the upper country. Steam then had not
fairly come into use, and it took a person
season to perform the trip to New Orleans
and back. Indeed, those who went down
with their produce in the fall,
after arriving in New Orleans, selling
boat and cargo, and walking back, found
themselves too late at home to put in a crop
that year. The rule was one wear to make q
crop, and another year to take it to market.
The Importance of telling and recording for
our children the agencies, influences and
reasons by which such changes have been
brought about cannot be overestimated.
Whatox-ar thaxr he thaIr hnIra their oririI, it,