The Newtown bee., 1892-08-26

The responsibility of the teachers is ac- cordingly great, for they touch not chord but that vibirates in eternity. They wake not tone but that is heard at the throne of God. What responsibil- tiles are these. What motive for lofty effort. Here, then, are spaces for labor wide as the world and high as Heaven. The lawyer of the days of the learned Blackstone, when to omit to cross t or dot an in his writ of attachment was fatal to it's validity when in court, may be said to be more technical in his prac- tice at the bar than useful in his profess sion. The whole practice of our profess ion to-day is to reach the truth of the matter in dispute and for the court to ad- minister the law regardless of all techni- calities.
 The doctors of to-day scarcely dare compound their own medicine, but send you to druggist with what they call a written prescription, which no modern scholar or professor of all the arts and sciences would even pretend to read and understand and, when the messenger re- turns with the medicine, all prepared, the sick and languishing patient is fortunate, indeed, if he lives long enough thereafter to take the second dose. Great advance ment has been made in surgery, in the past few years, so that now the brain may be exposed and portion sliced off, and the patient recover, while it is no un- common thing to find man robbed of ribs enough to make several women and still live and be happy. The loss of a leg, an arm or an eye can be restored by me- chanical genius inside of A hours, so as to complete the good appearance of the afflicted individual.
 Science and skill have done wonderful things for the comfort and convenience of mankind and are still developing and perfecting great advancements, all for the good of man. The telegraph long since substantially annihilated distance and, too, that more modern invention, the telephone, enables one to converse with others across the continent in as clear and satisfactory manner as though slCtlng Deslde you.
 The still more modern invention, the graphophone, enables one to speak into the machine, in low tone of voice and then forward by mail to any part of the world and there place in like machine, when, by slowly turning the crank, the human voice, in the exact tone and mod ulation of the remote speaker, will be heard and recognized as that, perhaps, of the dearest friend on earth, whose voice may be preserved forever.
 In the midst of all these wonderful inn provements, the agricultural department has fully kept pace with the rest and, to- day, the farmers all over the States are enabled to perform their farm work with greater ease and much less drudgery than in the days before the invention of the moving machine, the raker, the planter, and many other labor saving and useful ,all of which are in general use. The family sewing machine, too, takes | its place at the head of all household, la Dor saving inventions and will never go out of use, so long as silk, wool, cotton and other material are made to clothe the human family.
 cannot well close my address on this occasion without extending to the ladies present that tribute of respect due them from the best and most cultur-I ed civilization. As tribute to our New | England homes, trust l shall be par doned if I repeat what l said on another occasion, where many friends and neigh bors had assembled for social day | ssWhen men settle down to an honest and life, here in New England, in the midst of schools and churches and among men of moral. social and practical lives, where we are endowed, as it were, with the most favorable results, that come down to us for more than 200 years 1 of ecclesiastical training, family culture and State discipline, we candidly and sincerely believe that they will be more in their homes and families, happier in their lives, and even more prosperous in a financial way, than are i the great majority who forsake their an- cestral homes and set their faces toward l the setting sun. ! cannot regard him or