Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-04

people known as the Egyptians.
BY their fine arts, magnificent archi-
lecture, and literature, we see the
effect of their effort. Owing to their
great effort, they became, in con-
quests, education, and science, the
greatest among the nations of that
time.
Further on in history we find the
Phoenicians, who by copying the
customs of the Egyptians and by
their own effort made for themselves
a marked distinction in the pages of
history. We are to them indebted
for our alphabet.
Nations are like people they
have their youth in which their
strengths are developed, their mid
die age in which their strengths
are expended and their zenith
is reached and their old age
or their decline. BY reading history
previous to medieval, we see the rise
Of the ancient nations, their zenith
reached, their decline and fall, and
likewise their arts and custome /;
therefore we see with what the
medieval people had to contend
they had NO law to copy, no customs
to follow, nor a fixed language.
Therefore the greatness they attained
was the result of their own effort.
The Middle Ages was not a time of
decay but of preparation in the
feudal chaos previous to the rise of
this people. Thought was taking
shape, the nation moulding, and lam
guage forming to bear maknind to a
higher civilization and to a greatness
the world had never known. We
are indebted to the medieval people
for the poems of Chaucer and Dante,
theinvention of the printing press,
and the discovery of the country in,
which we now dwell-all of which
show a marked effort.
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Everything has its zenith We
have observed the rise of nations,
we have studied the growth of nan
kind, now we see the zenith of the
world being reached. If we could
look into the future of worlds history
we would see the perfection of every
thing and then slowly the decline,
but at this stage of the worlds, modern
history we see art, science, literature
approximately perfected, and all this
advancement is due wholly to effort.
What cannot effort do ?
Owing to effort, we have the tele-
graph by which we communicate
with the whole world, the steam IN
CINE by which we are transported to
most places known, the telescope by
which we may study the planets, and
of later inventions the Cathode raw
by which it is possible to photograph
through most of the Opaque bodies,
such as flesh and wood. 1t is also
possible by the \ ray to locate
metallic bodies imposed in the flesh,
also to more accurately reduce frac-
lures and dislocations OF the bones.
BY applying tito the microbes, it is
possible to destroy them, and the ray
is generally beneficial to science.
Owing to effort, we have our great
men, financially and mentally. FL
nancially, we have Gould, who when
entering manhood had little or prac-
tically no money, but owing to his
efforts amassed an immense fortune /;
we also have the Vanderbilts, who
are the wealthiest on this continent,
and the Rothcbilds, who are the
wealthiest in England and tae world.
1t is prevalent among people to be
hateful of such people as these, but
we should rather look up to them, as
wealth great or small shows a mark
ed effort on the part of the possessor.
La science, I'VE have Edison, who by
constant study and application in
vented most of the electrical
machines of today, has made it pos
sible for the largest cities to be
lighted, and is fast making it pos
sible for rapid transit to be made
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