The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-12-13

Yankee, woke mp, got q handful Of cotton
and went to constructing wheel foS tna
parting Of the fber and the seed.
Teeth on cylinders, brushes on cylinders,
wheels on wheels. South Carolina gayes
him csc, 900 for his invention. and, tnstead5
OF one man taking n whole day to prepare
pound OF cotton for the market, now .ne 1
South is enriched. and the commerce sof:
the world is revoutionized, and over o
00O, 900 bales Of cotton were prepared this
year, enough to keep at wosk IN this coun.s
try IA, 800, 900 spindles, employing 2D OQ04
hands and enlisting 82sl, ,4o0. 600 oflcapltai.
Thank you, Ell Whitney, and T.. 8. Chisss,
chester, OF New York, his successor. Abovez
all, thank God FOL. their inventive genius
that has done 80 much for the prosperity
Of the world. 4 y. u S ssss5S
Thirdly. look to see what the wheel has
done for the travelling world. No one can z
tell how many noble and self sAcridc cling
Inventors have been crushed between the
coach wheel and the modern locomotive,
between the paddle and the ocean steamer
to whether John Fitch or Robert Fulton,
or Thomas Somerset was the fnven-ss
tor OF the sreamb boat. They all suf-
fered and were martyrs OF the wheel, and
they shall be honored. John Fitch wroee:;
"The 21st OF January, 174S, was the fatal.
time OF bringing me into existence. know
OF nothing 30 perplexipg and vexattous to
man OF feeling as a turbulent wife and
steamboat building. experienced the
former and Quit In season, aud, had I been
in my right senses should undoubtedly
have treated the latter In the same man
nef; but, for one man to be teased with
both, he must be looked upon as the most
unfortunate man In the world" q, e
ifSurely John Fitch was In bad predtca-s
ment. II the steamboat boiler did NOT blow &
him up. his wife would. In all ages theys Y
are those to propbesy the failure Of any
useful invention. You do not know Whist J,
the inventors OF the day suffer. When u 4
was proposed to light London with gas. Sir q
Humphry Davyp the f,reat phiiosopher,
said that he should as soon think Of cutting
slice from the moon and setting IT upOn g.:
pole to light the. city. Through all abuse !;
and earicature Fitch and Fulton went until
yonder tho wheel Is in motion, and the
Clermont, the FIRST steamboat, s going up
the North Efver, running the distance
hold your breath whiis tell you-srom
But the steamboat wheel multiplied tts
veloeities until the Lucanta OF the Cunard
line and the Majestic Of the White I:
Star line and the New YORK OF th6 Amext s.
can line and the Kaiser Wilhelm o. the
North German Lloyd lire cross the Atlan-S
tic ocean fn SIX days or less, communication
between the two ,countries being 80 rapid
and 30 constant that whereas once those
who had been to Europe took on ain Tor 3
the rest OF their mortal l,ves--and tome
for many years the, most disagreeabia man /.
I could meet was the man who had been 10
Europe, despfsfng Hh American pie Tres
and American nnusicand American society
because he had seen European pictures
and heard European music and mingled IN
European society--now 2 transatlantie
voyage Is so common that sensible man
would no more boast OF It than X ne ma
beent New York or Boston
great depots Tor . thousand.mile jour-
neyl All aboardl Ttcketg clipped ana
baggage checked and portefs attentive " Il
every, want, under tunnels drtppipRi WITH
dawpness that never saw the Light along
ledges where an inch Oh the track wogld ;,
be the difference between 9 hundred men q
living and o hundred dead, full he6d 40f
steam and two men In the locomotive
charged With all the responsibility OF
clank! 20 the wheels. tClanki ciAnki echo
the rocks. Small villages only shear Tho
thunder and see the whiriwind a. the trAfns
shoots past, city on the wing. Thrilling,
startling. s,ibIime. MAGNIFICENT spectacle u
a rail train In lightning procession. ,S
While the world has been rolling on the
eight wheels of the rsil car or the fonrS
wheels Of the carriage or the two wheels 4
of the gig It mas not until 1878, at the Cen1
tenniai' Exposition at Philadelphia that
the miracle OF the nineteenth centufyS
rolled in-the bicyete, -. h. 3. y y
The world could not believe its own eyes,,
and not until quite far on In the eighties
were the continents enchanted with the q
Whirline, flashing, dominating spectacle Of 9
machine that was to do 30 much for the 4
pleasure. the business, the 5besitn and the ]
profit of nations The world had needed its S5
for A ono years. -: "A
Fonrthiv I Iook into the literary world Z
and see whaf theI wheel has Accomplished.
au ~, suv u.o,a sstsnnGed with t,is than afiy.
thfn. thet bs. nracedad J b Rabojd tha si-
most miracufous printine pressi Doyou
nnt ,aai the uround shase WITH the ma.
Philadelphia. Washington, and western
dsIIiesS Some Of ma remember whom the
hand Jnt roilsr was rnn ovar the cylinder.
and hv oreaf hasta am comics of the VILLAGE
newsnaoerwsre issued in one day and no !.
lives LOST. But' Invention has crowded IN
vsnt,nn soe e and Wheel iostied Wheel. stereo-a
tvnino alectrotypine. taking their places.
Beniantn Franfiin's press giving way TO z
tbe f,ord stsnhope press. and the WASH.
ington press and, the Victory press and the |.
Hna narfaNtfn0 nr64S nave D66Hf 80S tuOs
Tooether With the nevspapers comes the
notification OF innum cradle books OF his
tory. of poetry. of romance, OF art, OF
traye, NJ biooranhv, soi RELIGION. dfction.
arIes encvclonadfas and Bibles. Some,H
thsss nres.es send forth the most accursed
stnfr bnt the GOOD nrsdominates. Turn
on With wider sweep and greater velocity, ].
O wheel-wheel of light. wheel OF civiliza-
zion wheel Of Christianity. wheel OF divine (
momentum, i - 81
On those four wheels-that OF the sewing
machine. that of the reaper, that OF the !
railroad Iocon notiva that of the r)rIntin0 y