Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-05-18

lance, and instead Of combining our knowl-
edge to their canals and their volcanoes
they Will signal all styles of intelligence To
us, and we will signal all styles of intelli-
gcnce TO them. Coming times viii class
our boastcd nineteenth century with the
dark ages. Under the power Of gUspeliza-
tion the world Is going to be so improved
that the sword and the musket Of our
time will be kept in museums as now we
look at thumb screws and ancient instru-
ments of torture. Oh, what opportunities
you are going TO have, young men all the
world over, under 30. How thankful you
ought 10 b. that you were not born any
sooneri Blessed are the cradles that are
being rocked now. Blessed are the stu
dents in the freshman class. Blessed those
who will yet he young men when the new
century comes in in five or six years from
now. This world was hardly fit TO live In
In the eighteenth century. / do not sec
how the old folks stood It, During this
nineteenth century the world has by Chris
tianizing and educational influences been
fixed up until it does very well for tempo
rary residence.
A Look Ahead.
But the twentieth century, All, that
will be the time TO see great sights and do
great deedsl oh, young men, get ready
for the rolling in OF that mighticst and
grandcst and most glorious century that
the world has ever scent Only five sum-
mers more, five autumns more, five win
tiers more, five springs more, and then the
clock OF time will strike the death Of the
old century and the birth of the new.
do not know what sort of December
night 1t will be when this century lies
a f@ x.-fNr -
tempcstuous; whether the SHOWS will be
drAsting or the soft winds will breathe
upon the pillow of the expiring centena-
rian- But millions will mourn its going,
for many have received from it kindnesses
innumerablc and they will kiss farewell
the aged brow wrinkled with so many
yicissitudcs. Old nineteenth century OF
weddings and burials, of defeats and VIC
tories, of nations born and nations dead,
thy pulses growing feeblcr now, will soon
stop on that 31st night of December. But
right beside il will be the infant century,
held up for baptism. Its smooth brow
will glow with bright expectations. The
then more than l, 200, 900, 900 inhabitants
of the earth will hail its birth and pray
for its prosperity. Its reign will be for
100 years, and the most Of your life think
will be under the sway Of its scepter. Get
ready for 1t. Have your heart right; your
nerves right; your brain right; your d.
gcstion right. We will hand over to you
our commerce, our mechanism, our arts
and sciences, our professions, our pulpits,
our inheritance. We believe in you. We
trust you. We pray for you. We bless you.
And though by the time you get into the
thickeSt of the fight for God and right
eousncss we may have disappeared from
earthly scenes, we will not lose our inter
est in your struggle, and II the dear Lord
will excuse us for little while from the
temple service and the house OF many
mansions we will come out on the battle
mcnts of jasper and cheer you, and per-
haps If that night Of this world be very
quiet you may hear our voices dropping
from afar as we cry, BE thou faithful
unto death, and thou shalt have n crownr'
Origin Of Coal.
The formation of coal, according to DIR.
Homer Grccnes cosmical theory, was due
to the solar orb bringing forth, millions OF
years ago, when it was larger and hotter
than today, a wonderfully luxuriant vcge-
tation, including plants of strange kinds,
moses rs large as forest trees and ferns 80
feet in height, growing up richly from the
Siosts soiA anu AoEiiiliiS uciiSc JuuglcS III
the vast Marshes the latter covering great
areas of the earth's surface, these ferns,
MOSES and the leaves, branches and trunks
of trees in time falling and dccaying where
they grew, only TO render the soil more fer
tile and the next growth more luxuriant,
year after year, century after century, this
process of growth and decay going ON, un.
til the beds Of vegetable matter thus de-
posted became of great thickness. The
carth's body, however, still continued TO
shrink, in consequence OF which her crust
at times contracted and fell in The land
then sinking throughout vast areas, the
beds of vegetable matter going down and
the water sweeping again over the great
marshes, sand and mud and gravel were
laid down anew over tho deposits and the
claycy soil from which the next rich growth
would spring was spread out on the sur
face, this process being repeated again and
again, rs often indeed as seams of coal In
any coal bed.
In this way, according TO DR.. Greene.
the conditions for the formation of coal
were made complete, atmospheric air being
entirely excluded while the vegetable beds
underwent the processes OF decomposition,
SO that in some beds OF coal whole trees
have been found, with roots, branches,
leaves and seeds complete and all convert
ed into the same kind of coal rs that by
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