Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-12-05
4 Marvellous Age.


low candle the electric light. For tho
writings of the surgeons table God given
anasthctics. ard the whole physical organ
ism explored by sh.rpcst instrument, and
giving not So much pain rs the taking Of
a splinter from under child : finger nail.
|or the numbering sLlgccoach the limited
express train And there is the spectre
scope of Fnunhofcr. by which our mod
ern scientist feels the pulse of other worlds
throhbing with light. .Icnncr's arrest by
incubation OF one of the world worst
plagues. DR. Kcrlcys emancipation for
inebriety. Intiniatinn that the virus Of
maddened canine and cancer and consump-
ton are We: 10 he balkcd 10y magnificent
medical trea;m, At. The cyc>ight Of the
doctor sharpen'd till la o;in look through
thick flesh and find tn. hiding place Of the
bullet. What advancement in geology, or
the catechism nf the mountains; chcmis-
try, or the caiechism Of the elements; as
tronomy, or the catochism of tine stars;
electrulogy, or the catechsm of the light
nings. What advancement in music. At
the beginning of this century, combining
itself so far as the great masses Of the pco-
pie were concerned, To a few airs drawn
out on accordion or massIcred on church
bass iol, now enchantinely dropping from
thousands OF fingers in Handel's Concerto
In Is Flat, or Guilmant's sonata In ID
Minor" Thanks to YOU, o century, before
sou die, for the asylums Of mercy that you
have gounded-the blind seeing with their
fingers, the deaf hearing by the motion OF
your lips, the born imbecile by skillfuI OBJ
ject lesson lifted to tolcrable intelligence
Thanks Ia this century for the improved
rnndifiRn sf nufinng ftha
that Napoleon made such successful
sweep across Europe at the beginning .:
the century was that most of the thrones
Of Europe were occupied either by imbe-
Giles or profligates But most Of the
thrones Of Europe are today occupied by
kings and queens competent. France "a
republic, Switzerland republic, and about
80 free constitutions. am told, in Europe
Twenty million scrfs of Russia manumit-
ted On this western continent can call
the roll II many Mexico, Guatc-
mala. san Salvador. Costa Rica, Para
quay, Uruguay, Honduras, New Granada,
Venezuela. Peru Ecuador. Bolivia. Chile.
Argentine Republic Brazil The once
struggling village Of Washington 10 which
the Unite. STATES government moved, its
entire bags. 81, and equipment packed up
woods near this place. now the architcc.
tural glory ~ the continent and admira-
tion ~ the world
GPrious Century.
The money power 80 much denounced
and often justly criticised, has covered this
continent with universities and free libra
ries and asylums of mercy The newspaper
press, which at the beginning of the cen
fury was an ink roller, by hand moved over
one sheet II paper at "a time, has become the
miraculous manufacturer Of four OF five or
six hundred thousand sheets for one daily
newspapers issue Within your memory,
o dying century. has iecn the genesis #
nearly all the great institutions cvanRcl-
istic At London tavern. March :, 1902.
British and Foreign Bible society was born
In 1916 American Bible society was born
In 1924 American Sunday School union
was horn. In 1910 American board of
commissioners for foreign missions, which
has put its Swing hand on every nation Of
the round earth, was horn at haystack in
Massachusetts. The National Temperance
society. the Woman's Temperance society
and all the other temperance movements
were born in this century. Africa hidden to
other centuries, by exploration in this cen
fury has been put mt the feet 81 civilization
~ I've ocruuicd bv commerce and Christian