Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-10-04
\ Realization of Fables.


reunions ii is perhaps interesting for
one who has passed the half century
mark in life TO look back upon the inn
prOvementS and wonderful changes and
marvellous progress OF the country in
which he lives. which are within his
own personal remembrance KS boys
we read as the widest fables the tales
in the Arabian Nights, and yet our eX-
perience realizes the fulfillmt III of many
as marvellous things. Even the man of
fOrty-live remembers that it was con
sidered as one of the widest flights of
oratory when the imprisoned speaker
prophecied along in the ffties that
New York and the Pacific coast would
be united by railroad and that the Jour
ney which then took six or eight months
of tedious and weary travel would be
trayersed III the same number of days.
1t is therefore a matter of pride as well
as satisfaction to consider that within
our OWE remembrance we lave worked
out such miracles OF progress and such
an absolute humiliation e time and
space That we have outwitted ancient
prophecies and miracles and worked
out as facts the supposed preposterous
fables OF the ancientS. We Lave sub
dued the lightning and can talk with
our friends even across the almost
boundless ocean. Ne have exposed Che
secrets of the North Pole and opened
up the supposed unfathomable regions
of darkest Africa. We have seen the
rapid transit of people to all parts of
the world SO accomplished that il man
now SO desire to spend his three months
vacation he can in that time make a
tour around the known world. With
al this marvellous advance in the past
Fifty years is it TO be wondered at that
so-called imaginary and visionary men
are imagining and grasping after what
we suppose now to be absolutely intan-
gfble things? Is it any more ridiculous
fer us TO boast now that before The
close of the next century our great
great grand children VIII enjoy iheir
three months vacation in trip 10 the
moon. than il was for our ancestors who
lived all hundred years ago to have
ever dreamed or seen visions of the
people OF this country abOlishing noun
tains; preserving the sayings and hear
ing the words OF the dead members of
their families in then OWN voices, years
after they have been burie |, through
the photograph; Harvesting the thunder
bolts of the Almighty to drive machin-
cry and transfer lis from the Atlantic
to the Pacific at the rate of a hundred
miles an hour? The practical man
may say all such boastings are but the
mouthingS of the impracticable. But
the answer is that III science, i'll art, in
machinery, in politics, in everything
where human activity is displayed it is
and has been the SO called lmpracticable
men who have produced the practical
results. The abolitionists were tie
nounced as a most impractiCable set,
but they brought about the attainment
of their theory. DIR. Morse was snetred
at for years as visionary, but he
worked out his vision, and there is APP
parently no end to the practical results
Just as the practical DIR. Lardner said a
steamship could not cross the Atlantic
because she could not carry enough
coal, the lmpracticable and visionary
captain of a steamship sailed into New
\ DIRK harbor direct from Liverpool
Just as a practical scientist proved by
lOgarithms or comic sections or some
other practical demonstration that d
train could not go through along tunnel
without snlfocating all the passengers
al impractlcable engineer did Ct
( through with al the IA 5enge.s safe
ana comfortable. And SO 1t goes, and
SO it will ever be. There is no limit &c
the inventions of man, and whenever
anyone becomes terribly i'll earnest he
is likely to accomplish what he sets out
to accomplish, no matter how vision
AIRY and impracticable he may seem to d
sneering world. The man who is now
fifty years of age has seen and realized
more of the progress of the world than
did ten generations of those who pre-
ceded him. The man OF fifty III tins
la. ter part of the nineteenth century is
Older than Methuselah and ought to be
wiser and better.-P ekin lll.) Tribune
Accidentally Killed.
Louis SCHNEIDER, young man about
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