Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-11-30

this emancipation and shy, What better
exercise can she have than broom or n
buster or n churn or rocking cradle or
running up and down stairs or walk to
church with prayer book under her
armT' And they rather rejoice to find
her disabled with broken pedal or pune
tuvcd tire half way out to Chevy Chase
or Concy Island. But all sensible people
who know the tonic of fresh air and the
health in deep respiration and the awHk-
cning of disuSed muscles and the CXhil-
araton of velocity will rejoice that wife
and mother and daughter may have this
new recreation Indeed life to so many
is so hard n grind that | am glad at the
arrival of any new mode Of healthful
recreation. We need have no anxiety
about this invasion of the worlds stu
pidity by the vivacious and laughing and
jubilant wheel, except that we always
want it to roll in the right direction, to-
ward place of business, toward good
recreation, toward philanthropy, toward
usefulness, toward places Of divine wor
ship and never toward immortality or
Sabbath dissertation. My friend VIII
Carleton, the poet, said what like when
he wrote
We claim great utility that daily must increase;
We claim from inactivity sensible release;
A constant mental, physical and moral help we
feel,
That bids us turn enthusiasts and cry, God bless
the wheel
Never yet having mounted one of those
rolling wonders, | stand by the wayside
far enough off to avoid being run over,
and in amazemcnt and congra tulation
cry out, in Ezekicls phraseology of the
text 80 wheclr'
The Printing Press.
Fourthly, | look into the literary world
and sec what the wheel has accomplish
| ed. ] am more astoun1ed with this than
anything that has preceded. Behold the
almost miraculous printing press Do
you not feel the ground shake with the
machinery of the New York. Brooklyn,
Boston, Philadelphia Washington and
western papers? Some Of MS remember
when the hand ink roller was run over
the cylinder and by great haste 500
copies of the village newspaper were is
sued in one day and no lives lost. But
invention has crowded invention, and
wheel jostled wheel, stcreotyping, cleo
trotyping, taking their places. Bcnja-
min Frsnklin's press giving way to the
Lord Stanhopc press, and the Washing
ton press and the Victory press and the
Hoe pcrfecting press have been set up.
Together with the newspapers comes
the publication of innumerable books of
history, 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 ac-
cursed stuff, but the good predomnates.
Turn on with wider sweep and greater
velocity. o wheel-wheel OF light, wheel
of civilization, wheel of Christianity,
wheel of divine momentum.
On those four wheels-that OF the sew
ing machine, that of the reaper, that of
the railroad locomotive, that OF the print
ing press-the world has moved up to its
present prosperity. l call on you to thank
God for the trumphs OF machinery as
seen in our home comforts and added
national grandeur.
And now | gather on an imaginary
platform, as l literally did when
preached in Brooklyn, specimens OF oul
American products.
Here is corn from the west, a fore
taste of the great harvest that is to come
down to our seaboard, enough for our
selves and for foreign shipment. Here
is rice from the south, never n more
beautiful product grown on the planet
lnlnSHHE the ROlu anu green. here are
two sheaves, q sheaf of northern wheat
and a sheaf of southern rice, bound to
gether. May the band never break
Here is cotton, the wealthiest product OF
America. Here is sugar cane, enough tC
sweeten the beverages of an empire
Who would think that out Of such
humble stalk there would come such
luscious product? Here are palmetto
trees that have in their pulses the
warmth OF southern cimes. Here is tn,
cactus of the south so beautiful and S,
tempting it must go armed, Here arr
the products OF American mines.
Products of the Mines.
This is iron, this is COAL the iron rep
rescnting vast yield our country sending
forth one year 500, 900 tons of il, the Goa
representing 100, 900 square miles Of il, tn,
iron prying out the coal the coal smelt
Ing the iron. This is silver silver from
Colorado and Nevada, those places abb,
yet to yield silver napkin rings and silve
knives and silver casters and silver plat
tiers for all our people. Here is mic;
from the quarries of New Hampshire
How beautiful it looks in the sunlight
Here is copper from Lake Superior, $,
heavy | dare not lift it, Hero is golc
from Virginia and Georgia, Here ar
apples, making you think Of the loni
winter nights Of your boyhood. when tn
neighbors came in, and you had apple
and hickory nuts and cider Here i
corn from New Jersey, state Of Theo
: dore Frclinghuysen and William l.. Day
ton and Samuel l.. Southard-the stat
Of New Jersey. sometimes caricatured b,
!, people who are mad because they wcr
not fortunate enough to have been borl
there. Here are lemons and oranges
Here are bananas from Florida. VIVA
a magnificent growth this is. What
leaf. implying shadow. comfort and ref
ugc!
| look around me on the imaginar
1 platform, and 1t seems as il the waves o
3 agricultural, meteorological, pomologcG
D wealth dash to the platform, and Their
!, are four beautiful beings that walk il
= and they are all garlanded, and one
4 garlanded with wheat and blossoms o
l snow, and find she is the north. An
t another comes in, and her brow is gal
e landed with rice and blossoms of magnC
: liza, and | find she is the south, and ar
A other comes in. and | find she is gal
e landed with seaweed and blossoms q
G spray, and lind she is the east and ar
i other comes in. and find she is garlant
f ed with silk OF corn and radiant wit
f California gold. and ] find she is tn
e west, and coming face to face. they tax
$ off their garands, and they twist theI
n together into something that looks like