The herald., 1897-07-27

the finest fabrics. supplies true COM
| merce and consumption of the nations,
| fills our homes with plenty and elegance.
inspires us with confidence and cheer.
Is the grand monument brain power is
rearing for itself. Each age will add
its hammered layer until it pierces the
cloud and it's glorious cope-stone blazes
In the eyes of all the nations.
Brain power not only facilitates pro-
duction but creates new business Pull
at one idea and thousand cognate ones
come along with 1t. A failure to see this
inspires and keeps alive the hostility to
labor saving machinery. The false con-
cluson is. that all such machinery takes
the bread from the children's mouths
and money from the pocket. But 1T is
the testimony Of every inventor of
machine or process that the greatest OBJ
stacles men have to overcome arise from
those in the end who have been most
benefited They have uniformly in
creased the demand for labor. can re-
member when it was said that railroads
and now 1t Is bicycles, would ruin the
use Of horses.
Why, the martyrs Of machinery have
been almost as numerous as martyrs to
religion. Many have suffered the loss
of all things; have been in Affections, in
nece ssities, in troubles, in labors, in
watchings, in Hastings, as unknown and
yet we'll known as dying, and behold,
they live, as sorrowful yet Rejoicing, as
poor yet ma king many rich. H.a2aa
I 1t is one eonsola tion. that they will be
remembered when they are dead Brain
power lengthens and enhances life as
well as multiplies facilities. 1t is said
every generation grows weaker and
wiser. The latter adjective compen-
safes for the former even If it were true,
which it is not. Days are nothing. deeds
count. Why Methuselah, poor man,
died in his infancy. One man accom-
plished more in one year than he did in
nine hundred. 80. ,.o -ii1.
Men rise by brain power; this is the
timber of manhood. All men find their
level in the end. You cannot by labor
organizations nor by legislation make
lead swim.
The good time coming for any man or
set of men is the good time, by patience
and discipline, they make for them
selves.
When men, great or small, lay all
their supposed discoveries and theories
upon the altar of altruism and, anarch-
ism and sneer at all the revelation that
God has been pleased to make to men,
then brain power is at work to destroy
and not to build up. say to all laboring
men and women, become intelligent,
courtly, skilled; then. when the day
ushered in by cannon peal and ringing
of BELLS with music and merry making
the coronation day of intelligent labor
comes-brain power will act the high
priest, anoint the robust candidate, and
put the golden tiara on his brow, while
capital stands near by all ready to pay
the bills of the splendid jubilation.
r DR.. Lamar was the speaker of the
evening in his celebrated lecture on
Dixie before and after the war. His va
rious lectures on the old and new south
will be compiled in book form in the near
future and will become part of the
Chautauqua course of study. They are
copyrighted for that purpose ard at DR..
Lamar's request no report Is published.
This afternoon at o'clock there will
be a meeting of Chautauquans in the
chapel, for the purpose Of electing four
members of the board of directors, for
the coming year. The usual order Of
exercises WIFI De ODSSrNeu THIS morning
and the afternoon will be devoted to the
temperance question.
DR.. Stephen Bowers will present an
argument for prohibition and Hon.
Theodore D. 'Kanouse will talk on the
claims and methods of the anti-saloon
league After the usual musical prelude
Dr. Lamar will speak in the evening.
The musical prelude of the afternoon
was given by Miss Myrtle Webster, who
rendered with fine expression and fin
ished technique Moszkowskis Moment
Musicale" 1.-THE Flatterer," by Chami-
made, and gavotte.
There are now four special teachers
assisting Mrs. j. P. Rice in the chorus
class of 100 children, which she is con-
Quoting. The ladies' assisting are Miss
Kate Moore of FL Paso, Texas; Mrs.
Sweasy of Pasadena, Miss Brownlette,
Ann Arbor, Mich. and Mrs. higgins of
La Canyada.