Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-11-28

ooAAo w ShAS' why uoV Aunho ~ VIC
peroration of the nineteenth century?
Are we going to mako present to the
twentieth century of reeking hospitals
and dying armies and hemisphcrio
graveyards! Do you want the hoofs Of
other cavalry horses on the breasts Of
fallen men! Do you want other harvest
fields quilted with wheels of gun car
riages? Do you want the sky glnring
with Conflagration Of other homesteads?
Alb, this nineteenth century has seen
enough Of warl Make the determination
that no other century shall be blasted
with 1t.
During the first half of this century
we expended 50, 900, 900 to educate the
Indians and $500, 600, 900 to kill them.
According to reliable statistician, dur
ing this century we have had the Cri.
mean war, which slew 1856, 600 and cost
81, 100000, 900. and our American civil
war, which slew 100000 men. north
and south, and cost go, 900, 900, 900, dig.
ging u grave trench from Barnegat
lighthouse, New Jersey, to Lone Noun
tain cemetery at San Francisco. And
you must add to these the Zulu war, and
the Austro. Prussian war, and the Dam
ish war, and the Italian war, the
France Prussian war, Chino.Japanese
war, Napoleonic war, and the Amer
ico-Sranish war. What record for this
boosted nineteenth century! 1t makes
all pandemonium chuckle. 1t has called
out all the realms of diaholus in grand
parade, satan reviewing them from plat.
form of fire as the demons in companies
and regiments and brigades have passed
with banners of fire and riding Oh horses
Of fire, keeping step to the roll of the
grand march of hell. In the name of
the God of nations, let the scroll Of
blood be rolled up and put upon the
shelf never to be taken down. And by
the middle Of next century let the sword
and the carbine and the bombshell be-
come ouriosities in a museum, about
which your grandchildren shall ask
questions, wondering what those instru-
ments were ever used for, but let no one
dare tell them, but keep it from them
an everlasting secret, lest they too much
despise our nineteenth century and curse
the memory Of their ancestors.
The Dying Century.
Will it not be grand if on the first
day Of the twentieth century the last
will and testament of the nineteenth
century shall be opened and it shall be
found to read: "In the name Of God.
amen. I, the dying century, do make
this my last will and testament. give
and bequeath to my heir, the twentieth
century, peace Of nations; swords,
which l direct to be beaten into plow.
shares, and spears, which must be turn
ed into pruning hooks; armories, to be
changed into schoolhouses, and for
tressss, to be rebuilt into churches, and
! order that greater honors be put on
those who save life than upon those who
destroy it, and II, amid the universal
peace now attained, those two nations,
Spain and Turkey, do not stop their
cruelties, let the other nations, banded
together, extemporize police force to
wipo those countries off the map of ma
tions as wet sponge wipes from boys
slate at school hard sum in arithmetic.
This last will sign and seal and deliver
IN the 31st day Of December, in the
year of our Lord, 1900, all the civilized
nations of earth and all the glorified ns-
tions of heaven witnessing"
But what we do as individuals, as
churches, as nations as continents, we
mnst do very soon II we want the transi !.
qelRufhLi44fgo at e!lclosyl o. eufiyated lands
worthy transition, for hear the trum-
pets Of the approaching century and the
Gathering hoofs Of the host it leads on.
For historical Renaissance there is
no street in all the world like yonder
Pennsylvania avenue. Champs Elysees
of Paris ia more brilliant; Princess
street, Edinburgh, more picturesque
Inter den Linden, Berlin, more richly
foliaged; PiccadiIly street, London,
more populous; Nevsky Prospekt Of ST.
Petersburg stands for more years; the
Corso Of Rome is lined with more an.
Equities, but for an intelligent and
patriotic American yonder avenue has
no equal for suggestiveness. The other
night, while thinking Of this subject.
as to tho way In which we ought to
meet the new century. go near at hand,
I fell into a sort of dreamy state, IN
which the chronology of events seemed
obliterated, and saw on Pennsylvania
avenue two PROFESSIONS, which seemed
to meet each other as this century goes
out and another comes in. AS near as l
could tell in that dreamy state, it was
the last night of the century, and l saw
the spirits Of the mighties in American
history passing down the marble steps
of the capitol Oh yonder hill and NOV
ing through that memorable Pennsyl-
vania avenue. There they come, the de.
parted mem bers of the supreme court OF
our nation. led on by Chief Justice
Marshall. There come the distinguished
men of our national legislature, in
which are Webster and Clay and Ben.
ton and Calhoun and Preston and Cor.
win and Edward Everett and John
Quincy Adams and Samuel L. Southland
and Rufus Choate and others-some
great for craftsmanship, others great for
wit, others great for eloquence, others
great for courage. They pass on through
the avenue immortal for those who in
past times trod it. Yonder l see the
funeral pageants of senators and three
presidents! Banners draped in gloom,
tossing black plumes following tossing
black plumes. Catafalques, each drawn
by eight white horses, while minute
guns boom. Yonder nation in tears
follows the victims Of the exploded
Princeton, the slain secretaries OF state
and naVy