Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1894-12-04
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great student, and Detore ms eye
sight became bad. for he cannot now
see to read OF, write, 1t was his pleas
ure to put on paper the thoughts
that entered his mind. Now that he
has been afflicted with the almost to-
tai loss of his eyesight, he dictates TO
his secretary much of that which he
formerly wrote with his own hand
An extract from his writings will
serve TO show that he is a man of
great depth of thought, The follow
ing is entitled A Dream. .
." In the dreamland of the wild
flight of fancy, in the agony of mala-
ria, lingering near the great gates,
between time and eternity, this writer
stood ON Broadway in 1881. The
children of this generation had been
swept away by unsparing time.
Where once stood the Metropolitan,
theve now lowered q colossal glass and
steel concern, 81 stories high, with
i've underground. The proprietors,
Winchester and Duane, built and
owned $50 departments and 2OOmen.
Their sales ran to 500, 600, 900, and
their terms. cash before delivery.
King credit had long slept in oblivion.
Aerial navigation had nearly
starved the iron horse, and electricity
ma the motor Of heaven and earth.
Four intense dazzling suns illumi-
mated the city as If it were midday.
A factory in 18th ST, away beyond
Spuyten Duyyil, 452 feet high, COW
cred six acres; q grain elevator at
He'll Gate 800 and the observatory at
Rockaway, upon the Isaack's estate,
all solid steel, WAS 1900 feet or
nearly a quarter of a mile. The old
five and six stories of iron and brown
stone had been swept away from the
track of relentless and resistIess sci
ence. Manners and languages and
people had changed, and everything
was grand, massive, and stupendous.
{" Wall st. had long ago gone to
Union Square, and the new City
Hall, costing $50, 900, 900, occupying
the entire square, its flag floating
], 900 feet above in the blue azure of
heaven. Far Rockaway was the cas-
tern limit of the city, Mount Vernon
the northern, Paterson the western,
and population 10000, 900. a pneu-
matte car whirled to these parts every
three minutes, transit time, 75 sec
onds.
Z" Briefly to the citizens of 1881
(supposed to have long ago gone by
to rest beneath the shadows of the
old Cowpen Morgan monument in
Virginia (the proprietor spoke of the
coming age Of the 21st century, when
these pyramids of grandeur and lofty
magnifcence would disappear be-
fore the paragons Of perfection in
the gigantic future.
Vast and sweeping changes had
altered the face of the World. A
1-cent stamp carried letter to the
end Of the earth; cable message
around the world for one penny a
word. Spain had followed Italy in
the abolition of monorchy in 1901
England and Russia were the last on
the continent to give way to the de-
mands of the age of progress. The
American language was the universal
and only one. From New York to
London and Paris, the daily mail
outstripped the storm time So hours.
San Francisco lad 100000 and
Chicago had reached nearly 2,OOO,-
600, but was going backwards.
Powerful rivals in the northwest had
crippled and outranked her. Ma
tional disputes were settled by the
Worlds Congress, and not an armed
soldier stood upon the earth nor an
armed vessel hoated the sea.
"There was not a bond of the
United States in existence, and there
was 81, OOO, 900. 900 in the treasures.
The United States, including Canada,
Mexico and South America, num-
bered 100000, 900, and was called
America. Navies, armies, debts,
credits, gas and steam had gone by
forever and belonged to ancient his
tory, and the Indian and Mormon,
the Ethiop and the Chinese, and the
Teuton, and the Irish, all condensed
into the Miscfgen, ran the Republic
can ticket, and the native born the |
Democratic American.
1.-The celebrated Prof. LOOMS
whispered in the ear Of his patient
that the crises had passed, and in the
moment was back in the semi civil |
ization of the 18th century."-11om-
as Dorsey BedH in Nev York SUNDAY
Ne,us.
Mr.. George w. Hoffman. Of the
vicinity of Kearneysville, and Miss
Byrle n. McQuiIkin, daughter of |
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. T.. McOuilkin.
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