Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-11-28
THE DOMAIN OF SCIENCE.

thousand different audiences Mt .
| thousand different places. Our homes
are warmed, lighted AMI guarded by
electricity. BY lie our care, factories anu
shops are kept ruuuing. BY the iele.
pnoue we arc enabled 10 SIT IN AN Office
in ChlcRgo anu converse with friend
nr transact business In New YorR, 81.
Lnuis or Omahs.
In other departments of our domes.
tic economy Advancement Is not less
marked. Science waves her magic
wand over the field OF becis, ana al
mOet befoie the Gun has set they are
delivered BIT our door In sacks OF snowy
sugar. She brenthes on the forest and
her oiflRn mlnsters scatter celluluid In
Thousands Oi quaint and useful iGTms
among the homes OF the people. She
stamps her foot upon the earth and
from the coal deposits myIisu Of
hydrocarbons answer TO minister to
The increasing wants OF msn. She
speska and her servants from quarries,
mines, iorIestn aud factories respond
sud from the Ferris wheel we look
down upon city boasting OF tuch
triuinphs OF skill aud srt as
the Masonic Temple, or from
tho Brooklyn bridge glZs down
on two great cities by the light Of
LibeTty's Lamp. Science has plunged
into Niagsra's rushing waves, chained
tue mighty giants, led them captive
through tunnels, AMI ss the price OF
liberty hurled them through great
wheels back into the raging cataract
below, whose bostse mutterings are
almost lost In the sharper hum OF the
wheels OF industries kept running by
the escaping waters.
In mining and milling OF the
precious ores we have naue such re.
msrkable advancement by the aid Il
scientific Research, as almost to startle
the miner end metallurgist. BY the
use OF the many aujuDcis placed with.
In the reach Of the physiclsn and
surgeon they are enabled TO b, III die.
ease and perform most delicate opera.
tions where human lie hangs by but
u thread, AMI the result seems almost
Ike raising one from the dead. One
inttauce will Illustrate, that Is tie
taking OF healthy flesh and restoring,
by traDsplaniing, deceased meni.
Der, anu grating PARTICLES OF skin
from healthy subjects onto wounds
where sil skin has been destroyed,
aud restorings perfect surface. so in
all tue marts OF trade and in every
department OF Industry, science has
taken the crude material anu by her
masterfuI energies has wrought slmoit
mifacles. She has led the turbld
waters from their Rncient ways out
upon the waste places aud turned the
idle desert into fruitful fields and
blooming gardene. She has SPAWNED
the great highways OF commerce., and
made pathway OF ribbons OF steel
over the continents for the handling
OF the products Of industry. The time
Yves when war wasa contest OF brute
iorce anu hunters. To-Day war 10 a
ecience,snu more especially as regard,
The great navies OF maritime nations.
The modern battlesbipis an aggrsss.
ton OF engines OF destruction anu
machines and implements OF de.
Tense. Here again electricity 10
most potent factor Ia send.
Ing the dread torpedo noise.
lessly through the waters carry
lug destruction ana death to an un.
conscious enemy, unless perchance Its
presence is rsvesied by the powerful
eleotric search light aud the defens We
machinery OF the great ship ia in.
staDtly put In motion. The terrible
dynamite guns OF modern battIeships
are almps! beyond conception in tho
devastation ana death they may hurl
against an enemy, and especially
when you resliz, that against them
there Is no possible defense. A thous.
snd pound dynamite shell hurled
against az ordinary bAttleship would
simply sunihilste 1t, wipe 1t out OF
existence rs effectually as II swallowed
up by lurch OF the sea. War 10 bt L.
coming more terrible sni the dawn Of
the reign OF peace Is approaching.
Science by her willing servants ia com.
Ing 10 the AID OF the tOiliug millions,
llits the burdens from the weary
shoulders OF man ana does his bidding
tlreless!y. She annibilates space and
paints for him the stars, opens up for
MIN the treasures hidden from the
foundation OF the earth.
And in all these things we sec the
love ana wisdom OF tho great Creator,
who fillod the mills with silver anu
gold, iron anu copper; VINO hid away
the llghtnlngs and sIursi the rain In
the armament; who stretches out the
heavens and causes the stssODR 10
come In their appointed time, and by
all these are we bumonished to
$50 live that when our summons comes,
TO JOIN the InnumcrAble caravan,
Which mUyes to that mysterious realm,
Where each must tAEe his chamber" etc.
In the eilsnt halls OF death.
Thou go not like tho quarry slave, at night
scourged, to ms dungeon,
But soothed and susla ned by an unfalteTing
trust.
Approach thy grave like one VINO wraps The
drapery OF MS couch about hin.
Ana iIeth down to pleasant dreams.