The Arizona sentinel., 1897-09-18
YUMA ARIZONA SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER Is. 1897.

ihoVHChuOllIO Ildo Ol lOiSuG uOH dlIO vast areas of Territory, until now the American republic spans the continent from ocean to ocean, and stretches from the snow-capped mountains of Alaska to the orange groves of Florida.
 As we glance back over these four centuries, what @ fields of achievement what records of ad- venture, exploration, pioneering, progress, improvement and inven- tion are disclosed to view. What stories of brave, aggressive men, courageous, heroic and devoted women, are unfolded as we look down the long vista of these bygone years-stories of those who have swan and forded raging torrents, passed over the solitudes ot lonely desert and prairie, scaled the noun tain ranges, hewed trails through trackless forests, camped where the orgies of wild beasts made night hideous and lived in constant fear of the tomahawk and scalping knife-everywhere blazing the way for coming civilization to follow. Upon the pathway of the pioneer has come the locomotive whose scream now daily resounds over prairie and desert and reverberates among mountain crags and can yons, making no pause until the waters that lave the shores of the vast Pacific command halt; and now along the avenues of the iron rail surges in ceaseless tides rest less and ever advancing people, as numerous as the leaves in the forest.
 Scattered all over this broad land the spires and domes of. thou sands of cities and villages glisten under the light of the monday sun, and everywhere in forest and on prairie, by lake and by river, my rlads upon myriads of rura! homes are nestling today amid the most picturesque scenery that flag any where protects. The great lakes, those massive water gems which nature has set in the heart of the continent, the 'rivers that flow in majesty" the many e6turaries that indent the continent, the briny waters of either ocean, all today are bearing upon their bosoms the merchant marine of an ever in creasing commerce of great and powerful nation.
 Invention has touched with magic hand the mysteries of nature and great wonders have sprung forth. Many of the mysteries of that subtle and potent though terrible element. electricity, have
 been unveiled. It now conveys
 our messages, not only from city to
 city, across the continent, but nov
 ing with the speed of the lightning
 flash, down in the depths of the
 ocean it carries dispatches from
 nation to nation, and by the aid o.
 that other potent engine of civili-
 zation, the printing press, brings each morning to our doors tiding' of the remotest regions of the globe Invention has also supplied cleo tricity with an echoing tongue anC friends, though miles apart, speaf
 together, each readily recognizing
 the voice of the other. It has beer harnessed to do the bidding of mer and now drives machinery anC 3 propels transportation and it is no improbable that it will eventuall. supercede the use of steam as | motive power. Nor is this all in vention has purloined from electric | ity; it has purioined that wonderful
 and beautiful gift Of nature. light : and everyw here throughout christ tendon the shades Of evening brin ] the gleam of the electric light tha : converts night into day and dis r sipates gloom.
 S And what strides have we mad a in the science of navigationl Com f pare the awkward looking caravel |, of c olumbus with the great stet = railway ship of today, which, carry e ing clouds of canvass, plough tn oceans of the globe. Place tn e craft of Robert Fulton, which mad S the first steamboat trip, only ninet " oorc ooo down the Hudson, frOr