The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-11-28

Tho1ghtfully Discussed For Careful
Readers.

Tho1ghtfully Discussed For Careful
Readers.
One of the most comforting things
one can read on day like this is
that other men are exercising their
brains to some purpose in providing
fuel to supply the place of gas. just
recently the long talked Of scheme to
utilize oil for that purpose seems to
promise most This morning, with
fingers stiffened with cold, / should
be glad of an old, dusty, sooty coal
fire. if only it would bring about a
comfortable warmth in my room. In
fact, l feel that should thoroughly
enjoy a shower of ashes provided
they were warm. One would not 60
back to the troublesome coal fires
for anything in the world when the
balmy breezes are blowing Int when
the ground is hard frozen, he wind
impertinently knocking at the win
dows and coming in without an in
vitation, and the gas low and giving
indications of departure, then bed
of glowing Goals has an inviting look
even if one does remember there were
ashes below them, and frequently
ashes above and ali around, on man
tel piece, pictures and bric-a-brac.
At least there was warm atmos-
phere in which to live, move and have
our being, and the only condition es-
sential to maintaining il was expen
diture of physical strength sufficient
to carry in the coal and carry out the
ashes. There was nothing capricious
about tiff we failed to keep warm
il was our own fault Now, it is no
longer my fault il | freeze, and real.
ly there is nothing comforting in the
thought. tits responsibility very
much long to be responsible for. /
might get Ont and enjoy brisk walk
in the Frosty air, and get warm by
exercise, but want to write this
letter, and the prospect is not favor
able for any more heat in the very
near futdre don't believe it is very
good for the brain TO have it SO con
tinually occupied with schemes for
making fires. An unscientific mind
like mine is apt to wander over the
beaten track, and when it's full of
one thing it cau't hold anything else.
The beaten track monopolizes it, and
it is conscious of the monopoly, and
the impossibility of avoiding the con
sequent stupidity.
Monopolies are not always nourish-
ers OF stupidity. Oh, no! But they
usually are unless there is some diff.
ticulty about maintaining them, and
these ideas about the uncomfortable
ness of living at the freezing point
are not meeting even entertaining
opposition in the occupancy of my
mind.
Speaking of unscientiiic minds re-
minds me, by contrast, of Mr. Edison.
he seems to me the most deeply i'm
pressed prominent man in the United
States with the Importance of the
Worlds Fair. He has innumerable
experiments under way, all of which,
if successful, win add greatly to our
comfort and convenience, and will
enable us to crowd great deal more
Of life into our allotted three score
years and ten. He is a favorite vic
tim for interviewers, and each Sun
day some enterprising paper announ-
ces the result of its efforts with him,
and always we are told of some won
derful thing that has worked with
entire satisfaction, and that it will
be in operation in time for the Worlds
Fair.
I'm glad that Mr.. Gibson has such
an abiding interest ia making the
Worlds Fair startling success, but
I'm getting rather jealous of it.
Those of us who can originate things
want the privilege of understanding
what other people originate just as
soon as we can get it, and we want
to know and enjoy all we can, and a
good many of us won't be able TO at
tend the Worlds Fair, and some Of
us will not be living then, Some ir
reverent person will remind me that
it doesn't matter to these last men
toned, but then it does They want
to know everything they can before
going away, so that they may have
the better start in learning what
will be opened to them in the school
of the Hereafter
~
At any rate, if we are going TO
travel at the rate of one hundred
miles an hour, | want to get used to
it before the Worlds Fair opens.
have an idea that otherwise / should
reach my destination a trifle dis
turseA Especially would this be
the case if the Baltimore and Ohio
adopt this means Of rapid transit