The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-28

enabled US to use the good and avoid ths
| hurrful.
] 'Tney have given us mathematics IL
the higher forms, by means Of which We
measure the astronomical spaces, the
distance to stars. the velocity at whici
the heavenly bodies move. their density
| and weight, and by which the marins
navigaies the waste and trackless seas
They have given us all we have o.
knowledge all We nave of literature and
art. They have made life worth living
They have filed the world with convent.
ences, with comforts and luxuries.
'tAH this has been done by the worldly
| by those VINO are not called or set
apart or filled with the Holy Ghost OF
mad no claim to apostolic succession.
! TIE men VINO accomplished these things
weren OF inspired They mad no reve-
! lation-Do supernatural aid. They were
noa clad in sacred vestments and riaras
not even ordained.
WHOM TO THANK.
''Whom shall we thank? Standing
here al the close of the nineteenth cen
tury-amid the trophies of thought-t1e
triumpns OF genius-here under the flag
Of the great republic-knowing some
thing of the history Of man-lhere on this
day that has been set apart for thanks
giving, most reverently thank the good
men, the good women Of the past, I
thank the kind fathers, the loving mo-
thers OF the savage days. I thank the
father who spoke the first gentle word,
the mother who first smiled upon her
babe. 1 thank the first true friend. 1
thank the Savages who 1uned and fish
ed that their babes might live / thank
those who cultivated the ground and
changed the forests into farns-those
VINO built rude homes and watched the
faces Of their happy children in the glow
OF freside fiames-those who domesti-
Gated horses, cattle. and sheep-those
who invented wheels and looms and
taught us to spin and weave-those who
by cultivation changed wild grasses in
to wheat and corn, changed bitter things
to fruit and worthless weeds to flowers
that sowed within our souls the seeds
of art.
POETS, ARTISTS. SCIENTISTS.
81 thank the poets Of the dawn-the
tellers of legends-the makers OF myths
the singers of joy and grief, of hope
and love thank the artists who chisel-
ed forms In stone and wrought with
light and shade the face Of man. I
thank the philosophers, the thinkers,
VINO taught us how to use our minds in
the great searche for truth. I thank the
astronomers, who explored the heavens,
told us the secrets of stars the glories of
the castellations-the biologists, who
found the story of the world in fossil
forms, in memoranda kept in ancient
rocks, in lines written 10y waves, by
frost by fire-the anatomists, who
sought in muscle, nerve and bone for
all the mysteries of life-the chemists,
who unraveled natures work, that they
might learn her art. I thank the physi-
clans, who have laid the hand of science
on the brow of pain, theh and whose
magic touch restores. 1 thank the sur
geons, who have defeated natures self
and forced her to preserve the lives of
those she laoored to destroy.
THANKS GIVERS OF SLEEP.
81 thank the discoveries of chloroform
their beloved sleep and wrap THE throb-
bfng nerves of pain in the soft robes of
dreams. l thank the great inventors
those VINO gave us movable type and the
press, by reason of which great thoughts
and all discovered facts are made i'm
mortal. I thank the inventors Of en-
gines, Of the great ships, of the rail-
ways, the cables, the telegraphs.
thank the great mechanics, the workers
in iron and steel, in wood and stone. l
thank the inventors. I thank the max
ers of numberless things of use and lux
ury.
81 thank the industrious men. I
thank the loving mothers the useful
women thank the benefactors of our
race, and 1 say tonight the inventor of
pins did a thousand times more good
than all the popes and cardinals, the
and priests-than all the clergy
men and parsons, exhorterS and theo-
logians that ever lived. 1 say tonight
that the inventor of matches did more
for the comfort and convenience of man.
kind than all the founders of religions
and the makers of ell creeds-than all
ever lived.
MEN AND WOMEN.
ct thank the honest men; I thank wo- !
men who have expressed their sincere |
thoughts, and VINO have been true to |
themselves and have preserved the YER |
acity of their souls.
81 thank the thinkers OF Greece and |
Rome, 1 thank Zeno and Epicurus, l |
thank Cicero and Lucretius- / thank /
Bruno, the bravest, 1 thank Spinoza, the |
suotlest OF men. I thank Voltaire Zap |
p,2use), whose thought lighted flame in |
the brain Of man, unlocked the doors of |
cells, and gave liberty 10 /
many millions of his feHowmen.
Il thank the great poets-the drama
lists 1 thank Homer and Aeschylus.
and thank Shakespeare above them all. |
[ thank Burns for the heart-throbs ne
changed into songs, for his lyrics of
lame. I thank Shelley for his Sky
ark Keats Cor his 'Grecian Urn and
Byron for his Prisoner OF Chilon-' / !
hank the great novelis;s. 1 thank the
rreat sculpoors. I tI7ank the unknown
ran who molied and cniseled the Venus
ie Milo. l thank the great painters.
hank Rembrandt and Corot. I thank
II who have adorned. enriched, and en-
lo5led life-au who have created the
sreat, the noble, the heroic and artistic
deals.
THANKS THE STATESMEN.
'I thank the statesmen who have pre-
eyved the rights Of men, 1 thank
asine. whose genius sowei the seeds Of
Independence in the hearts OF &c. 1
hank Jefferson, whose mighty words for
liberty have made the circuit OF the
lobe. I thank the founders. the de-