The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21


Ophir of Solomon. He thought he had
only opened a new way to old Asia.
Had he known what North and South
America were and are, and that he had
found a country 5000 miles wide, 10. 900
miles long. of 1900, 900 square miles,
and four times as large as Europe. the
happiness would have been too much
for mortal man to endure. He had no
idea that the time would come when a
nation of 6O,OOO,O0O people on this side
of the sea would be joined by all
the intelligent nations on the
other side the sea, for the most
part of year reciting his wonderful
deeds. 1t took centuries to reveal the
result of that one transatlantic voyage.
So it has always been. Could Paul. ON
that June day, when he was decapitated,
have had any idea of what effect his
letters and the account of his life would
have on Christendom? Could Martin
Luther have had any idea of the echoes
that would ring through the ages from
the bang of his hammer mailing the Latin
theses against church door at Witten-
berg? Could Eli Whitley have realized
the continents of wealth that would be
added to the south by the invention Of
his cotton gin? Could John Gutenberg,
toiling year after year, making type,
and laboriously setting them side by
side, and with presses changed now this
way and now that, and sued by John
Faust for money loaned, and many Of
the people trying to cheat Gutenberg
out of his invention, he toiling on until
he produced what is known as the
Mazarin Bible have any idea that, as
a result of his invention, there would
be libraries that placed side by side
would again and again engirtlle the
earth, or the showers of newspapers
that snow the world under? When
Manhattan island was sold to the Dutch
for s24. neither they who sold or bought
could have foreseen New York, the
commercial metropolis of America, that
now stands on it rr
While studying the life of this Italian
navigator, l am also reminded of the
fact that while we are diligently look
ing for one thing, we find another Co
lumbus started to find India, but found
America. Go on and do your duty dill
gently and prayerfully, and if you do
not find what you looked for, you will
find something better Saul was hunt
ing for the strayed animals of his faith
er's barnyard, but met Samuel, the
prophet, who gave him crown of do
minion. Nearly all the great inventions
and discoveries were made by men who
at the time were looking for something
else. Prof. Morse gone to Europe to
perfect himself in chemistry, on return
ing happens to take the packet ship
Sully from Havre, and while in CONVEX
sation with a passenger learns of soino
experiments in France, which suggest
to him the magnetic telegraphy. He
went to Europe to learn the wisdom Of
others and discovered the telegraph.
Hargreaves by the upsetting of a ma
chine, and the motion of its wheels while
upset, discovered the spinning jenny.
So, my friend, go on faithfully and
promptly with your work and if YOU do
not get the success you seek and your
plans upset you will get something just
as good and perhaps better.
Another look at the career of that adj
miral of the Santa Maria persuades me
that it is not to be expected that this
world win do its hard workers full JUS
tice. If any man ought to have been
treated well from first to last it was
Columbus. He had faults. Let others
depict them. But a greater soul the
centuries have not produced. This con-
tinent ought to have been Columbia,
after the hero who discovered it, or
Isabellina, after the queen who fur
nished the means for the expedition.
No. The world did not do him justice
while he was alive, and why should it
be expected to do him justice after
he was dead? Columbus in dungeonl
What a thought. Columbus in irons!
What spectacle. The wife of Robert
Murray, after whom Murray Hill, New
York, was named, never has received
proper credit for OBTAINING at very
rich luncheon the officers of the Oppos-
ing army until Washington and his ar
my could escape. How Mrs. Murray
saved American independence. How
the wrong men and the wrong women
got credit that does not belong to them,
while Gods heroes and Gods heroines
go ungarlanded!
And now, while am thinking of this
illustrious ship captain of Genoa, let
me bespeak higher appreciation for the
ship captains now in service, many Of
them this moment on the sea, the lives
of tens of thousands of passengers in
their keeping. What an awful respon-
sibility is theirsl They go out through
the NarrOws, or start from Queens
town, or Southampton, or Glasgow; not
knowing what cyclone, or collisions, or
midnight perils are waiting for them
It requires bravery to face an army OF
men, but far more bravery to face an
army of Atlantic surgeS led on by hur-
ricanes. \ more stupendous scene is
not to be witnessed than that of ship
captain walking the bridge of steamer
in the midst of a cyclone. Remember
those heroes in your prayers, and when
worn out in the service, and they have
to command inferior crssi: or return to
the land and 90 out of service, do them
full honor for what they once were.
Let the ship companies award them
pensions worthy of what they endured
until they start on their voyage
from this world to the next:
Aye, that voyage we must all
take. landsmen as well as sea-
farers. Let US be sure that we have
the right pilot, and the right chart. and
the right captain, and that we start in
the right direction It viii be to each
Of Us who love the Lord a voyage more
wonderful for discovery than that which
took, for, after all we have
heard about the other world, we know
not where it is or how it looks, and it