The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30

try IL 800 900 splndes, employing 300
hands and onllsting 5291, 400 900 OF capital.
Thank you, Ell whitney, aud l.. s. Chi.
chester, OF New York, his successor. Above
all, thank God for their inventive genius,
that has done so much for the prosperity
OF the world
Thirdly. l look to see what tho wheel has
done for the travelling world. No one can
tell how many noble and self sacrificing
inventors have been crushed between the
coach wheel and the modern locomotive,
between the paddle and the ocean steamer.
will not enter into the controversy as
to whether John Fitch or Robert Fulton
or Thomas Somerset was the inven-
tor OF the steamboat They all suf-
Tered and we're martyrs OF the wheel, and
they shall be honored. John Fitch wrote:
1.-The 21st OF January, 1743, was the fatal
time OF bringing me into existence. know
VI nothing so perplexlDg and vexatlous to
. man OF feeling as a turbulent wife and
steamboat building. 1 experienced the
former and quit In season, and had been
IN my right senses l should undoubtedly
wave treated the latter In the same man
yer; but, for one man to be tensed with
both, he must be looked upon rs the most
unfortunate man In the world"
See the train move out of one OF our
great depots for IL thousand-mlle jour
ueyl All aboardl Tickets clipped and
bnggage checked and porters attentive to
every want, under tunnels dripping with
dampness that never saw the light; along
ledges where an inch off the track would
be the difference between hundred men
living and hundred dead, full head OF
steam and two men In the locomotive
charged with all the responsibility OF
whistle and Westinghouse broke. Clankl
clankl go the wheels. Clankl clankl echo
the rocks. Small villages only hear the
thunder and see the whirlwind AS the train
oil 90 OH ltov vxrfV Iarll Inc
startling, sublime, magnificent spectacle
u rail train In lightning procession.
While the world has been rolling on the
eight wheels OF the rail eur or the four
wheels OF the carriage or the two wheels
OF the gig 1t was not until 1876, nt the Cen
tennial Exposition at Philadelphia that
the miracle OF the nineteenth century
rolled in-the bicycle.
The world could not believe its own eyes
and not until quito far on In the eighties
were the continents enchanted with the
whirling, flashing, dominating spectacle of
q machiue that was to do so much for the
pleasure, the business, the health and the
profit Of nations. The world had needed 1t
for 6,000 years.
Fourthly, look into the literary world
and see what the wheel has ccomplished
| am more nstounded with this than any
thing that has preceded. Behold the al
most miraculous printing press Do you
chinery OF the New York Brooklyn, Boston,
Philadelphia, Washington, and Western
dailies? Some OF us remember when tho
hand Ink roller was run over the cylinder
and by great haste 800 copies OF the village
newspaper we're issued In one day and no
lives lost. But invention has crowded in
ventlon and wheel josted wheel, st REQ
typing, eloctrotyping, taking their p aces,
Benjamin Frankins press giving way to
the Lord Stanhope press, and the WASH
ington press and the Victory press and the
Hoe perfecting press have been set up.
Together with the newspapers comes tho
publication OF innumerable books OF his
tory, OF poetry, OF romance, OF art, OF
travel, OF biography, OF religion, diction-
aries, encyclopedias and Bibles. Some OF
these presses send forth the most accursed
stuf, but the good predominates. Turn
on with wider sweep and greater velocity,
o wheel-wheel OF light, wheel OF civlliza-
tion, wheel of Christianity, wheel OF divine
momentum
On those four wheels-that OF the sewing
machine, that OF the reaper, that OF tho
railroad locomotive, that OF the printing
press-th' world has moved up to its pres
ent prosperity.
And now gather on an Imaginary plat
form, as l literally did WHEN preached In
Brooklyn, specimens OF our American
products.
u
OF the great harvest that Is to come down
to our seaboard, enough for ourselves and
for foreign shipment. Hers Is rice from
tho South, never more beautiful product
grown on the planet, mingllng the Kol'
and green.
Here are two sheaves, sheaf OF North
ern wheat and sheaf OF Southern rice,
bound together. May the band never
breakl Here Is cotton, the wealthesI
product OF America. Here is sugar cane,
enough to sweeten the. beverages OF an en-
'pire. Who would think that out OF such u
humble stalk there would come such a
luscious product2
Here are palmetto trees that have IN
their pulses the warmth OF southern climes.
Here Is the cactus of the South, so beauti-
full and so tempting 1t must go armed.
Here are the products OF American mines.
This is iron, this Is coal, the iron repre-
senting a vast yield, our country sending
forth one year 800, 900 tons OF 1t, the coal
representing 160, 900 square miles OF 1t, the
iron prylng out the coal, the coal smelling
the iron.
This is silvor, silver from Colorado and
Nevada, those places able yet to yield
silver napkin ring. and silver knives and
silver casters and silver platters for all our
people.
Here is mica fiom the quarrles OF New
Hampshire. How beautiful 1t looks In the
suhiRntl nero ~ copper lron Luke ou-
perior, so heavy dare not lift 1t. Here Is
gold from Virginia and Georgia.
l look around me on this imaginary plat
form, and 1t seems us II the waves OF agrl-
cultural ,mineraloglcal, pomologicalwealth
dash to tho platform, and there are four
beautiful beings that walk in and they are
oil garlanded.
One Is garlanded with wheat and blos-
SONS OF snow, and find she Is the North.
Another comes in, and her brow is gar
landed with rice and blossoms OF magnolia,
and find she is the South.
Another comes In, and find she is gar
landed with seaweed and blossoms of
Spray, and l find she is the East.
Another comes in, and find she is gar
landed with silk OF corn and radiant with
California gold, and find she is the West.
Coming face to face, they take Off their
garlands, and they twist them together
into something that looks like wreath.
but 1t is II wheel, the wheel OF national
prosperity, and 1 say In an outburst OF
Thanksgiving Joy for what God has done
for tho North and the South and the East
and the West, "0h wheell'
At different times In Europe they have
tried to get congress OF kings ut Berlin
or at Paris or at st. Petersburg, but 1t has
always been failure Only IL few kings
have come on.
But on this imaginary Platform that
kings-King Corn, King Cotton, King Rice,
King Wheat, King Oats, King Iron, King
| Goal, King ST. err King Gold-and they
all bow before the King OF kings, to whom
be all the glory OF tails years wonderful
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