The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-15
CHATS BY THE WAY.

one doesn't need in order TO admire
Colonel lngersoll's rhetoric, to be a be-
lever in Colonel Ingersolls philosophy.
His new lecture, "The Bible" ends in this
burst of eloquence which, as a specimen
OF word architecture is certainly wonder
ful: For thousands of years men have
been writing the real Bible, and it Is
beng written from day to day, and it will
never be finished while man has life. All
the facts that we know. all the truly re-
corded events. all the discoveries and IN
ventions, all the wonderful machines
whose wheels and levers seem to think,
all the poems, crystals from the brain,
flowers from the heart, all the songs of
love and joy, of smiles and tears. the
great dramas of 1magination's world, the
wondrous paintings miracles of form and
color, of light and shade, the marvellous
marbles that seem to live and breathe,
the secrets told by rock and star, by dust
and Hover, by rain and snow, by frost
and flame, by winding stream and desert
sand, by mountain range and billowed
sea, all the wisdom that lengthens and
ennobles life-all that avoids or cures dis
ease, or conquers pain-all just and per-
feet laws and rules that guide and shape
our lives, the music that transfgures
enraptures and enthrals, the victories of
heart and brain, the miracles that hands
wrought, the deft and cunning hands of
those who worked for wife and child, the
histories of noble deeds, of brave and use
full men, of faithful loving wives, If
quenchless mother-love, of conflicts for
the right, of sufferings for the truth, of
all the best that all men and women of the
world have said and thought and done
through all the years-these treasures of
the heart and brain-these are the Sacred
Scriptures of the human race"
An interesting lecture was delivered
by DR.. NJ. V. Bell at the Academy of Nat
ural Sciences in Philadelphia, the other
day, in elucidation of bacteriology. DR..
Ball told how Pasteur came to believe
that water and air were inhabited by ami
mated micro-organisms; and then, by aid
of a microscope, showed how these bacilli
move about. "The movement" he said,
was once thought to be due to hair-lilie
appendages, but it has been found that
some move which do not have the ap-
pendages. The motion is now believed
to be due to a contraction of protoplasm.
Some have a molecular motion, each re-
voving in circle around its own axis.
Heat, movement of the water and chem
ical action will also cause the organism TO
had an opportunity to gaze through Pro-
fessor Coles Electric Eye" at the baclll
inhabiting the human epidermis. He
would then discover that the cause of
their movement is nothing less than legs,
plain legs and lots of them. A helgramite
isn't anywhere for many-leggedness COM
pared to the average bacilla who cavorts
upon the surface of the human body. In
fact the latter Is more like centipede.
And such claws and jaws and horns!
All / can say is, you just ought to see EN-.
Colonel Henry Watterson, he of STAR
eyed renown, accepts the recent political
verdict amably and in philosophic mood.
politics." he declares, "ls not battle.
Parties are not guerrillas. There is in this
great land no war of races, of dynasties.
of religious systems. The people are the
masters; and things are not likely to go
to the dogs-even out here in Kentucky.
TO our friends, the enemy, therefore, We
have but this to say: Gentlemen, yester-
day it was our day. today 1t is your day;
tomorrow, who shall tell whose day 1t
may be? Because Hill is beaten in New
York, shall we rend Cleveland limb from
limb? Because the Dutch have captured
Holland, shall there be no more cakes and
ale? Occasional clean sweeps are not
without their Iedeeming features even
when the brooms are Republican brooms;
only, gentlemen, have a care that you
sweep clean and cautious because the
world has not come to an end just yet,
and we shall be upon you horse, foot and
dragons before you can say Jack Rob-
inson! Meanwhile, gentlemen, We salute
YOU, and wish you well and cry you
mercy, and may all of Us be here to see
this time come the first Tuesday of No
vember. 1896 And thus may it be, for
ever and aye; applaud us If we win; con-
sole us If we fail; but let us pass on-for
Gods sake !-let us pass on!'