The Penn's Grove record., 1899-12-01

parting OF the nber and the seed.
Teeth on cylinders; brushes on cylinders,
wheels on wheels. South Carolina gave
him $50, 900 for his invention, and, instead
OF n man taking a whole day to prepare
a pound OF cotton for the market, now hi
may prepare three hundredweight, and the
South is enriched. and the commerce Of
the world Is revoiutionized, and over 81
900 900 bales OF cotton were prepared this
year, enough to keep at WORK In this coun.
try IL, 300, 900 spindles. employing 40. 900
hands and eniistlng S281. 400. 900 OF capital.
Thank you. Ell Whitney, and 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. 1 look to see what the wheel has
done for the travelling world. No one can
tell how many noble and self sacrificing
inventors have been crushed BET ween the
coach wheel and the modern locomotive,
between the paddle and the ocean steamer,
l will not enter into the controversy as
to whether John Fitch or Robert Fulton
or Thomas Somerset was the fnven.
tor OF the steamboat. They all suf-
fered and were martyrs OF the wheel, and
they shall be honored. John Fitch wrote:
1.-The 21st OF January, 1913. was the fatal
time Of bringing me into existence. know
OF nothing so perplexipg AND vexatious to
u man OF feeling as a turbulent wife and
steamboat building. I experienced the
former aud quit In season, and had l been
in my right senses | should undoubtedly
have treated the latter in the same man.
ner; but, for one man to be leased with
both, he must be looked upon as the most
unfortunate man In the world
-sfSureiy John Fitch was in a bad predica-
lnent. II the steamboat boiler did not blow
him up. his wife would. In all ages there
are those to prophesy the failure OF any
useful Invention. You do not know what
the inventors OF the day suffer. When 1t
was proposed to light London with gas. Sir
Hnmphry Dayy. the great philosopher,
said Tint he should az soon think OF cutting
a slice from the moon and setting 1t upon a
pole to light the city. Through all abuse
and c~arIcature Fitch and Fulton went until
yonder the whesl Is in motion, and tho
the North River, running the distance
hold your breath while tell you-from
New York to Albany In thirty-two hours.
But the steamboat wheel multiplied Its
velocities until the Lucania Of the Cunard
line and the Majestic OF the White
Star line aud the New York Of the AmerI-
can line and the Kaiser Wilhelm OF the
North German Lloyd lima cross the Allan
tic ocean IN six days or less, communication
between the two countries being so rapid
and 50 constant that whereas once those
who had been to Europe took on airs for
the rest OF their mortal llyes-and to me
for many years the most disagreeable man
I could meet was the man who had been to
Europe, despising all American pictures
and American music and American society
because he had seen European pictures
and heard European music ari mingled in
European society-now a transatlantic
oyage Is so common that a sensible mar
would no more boast of 1t than II he had
been to New York or Boston.
See the train move out of n OF our
great depots for a t~housand-mile jour
neyl All aboard Tickets clipped and
baggage checked and porters attentive to
every want, under tunnels dripping with
dampness that never saw the light; along
Lodges where an inch of the track would
be the difference between a hundred men
living and a hundred dead, full head of
steam and two men in the locomotive
charged with all the responsibility OF
whistle and Westinghouse broke. OIanki
clnnkI go the wheels. ClanS! ciaEki echo
the rocks. small villages only hear the
thundor and see the whiriwind as the train
sheets past, q city on the wing. Thrilling,
startling, sublime, magnificent spectacle
a rail train In lightning procession.
While the world has been rolling on the
eight wheels OF the rail car or the fou
wheels OF the carriage or the two wheels,
OF the gig 1t was not until 1875. at the Cen
Exposition at Philadelphia that
the miracle OF the nineteenth century
rolled in--the bicycle.
The world could not behave its own eyes,
and not until quite far on In the eighties
were the continents enchanted with the
whirling, flashing, dominating spectacle oil
a machine that was to do so much for the
pleasure, the business, the health and the
profit OF nations. The world had needed 1t
TOR 6,000 years.
Fourthly, I look into the literary world
. = - xrlrrt Aha ,vIoal lae anoor.pJfeha1
I am more astounded with this than any
thing that has preceded. Behold the al
most miraculous printing pressl Do you
not feel the ground shake with the ma
chinery OF the New York Brooklyn, Boston,
Philadelphia, Washington, and Western
daiIies? Some OF us remember when the
hand ink roller was run over the cylinder,
newspaper were issued In n day and no
lives lost. But invention has crowded in
vention and wheel jostled wheel, stereo-
tipping. electrotyping, taking their places,
benjamin Franklin's press giving way to
tho Lord Stanhope press, and the Wash.
ington press and the Victory press and the
Hoe perfectfng press have been set up.
Together with the newspapers comes the
publication Of innumerable books OF hts
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
stuff, but the good predominates. Turn
on with wider sweep n greater velocity,
o wheel-wheel OF light, wheel OF c~tvlliza-
tion, wheel Of Christianity, wheel OF divine
momentum
On those four wheels--that OF the sewing
machine, that OF the reaper, that of the
railroad locomotive. that of the printing
press-the world has moved up to its pres
emit prosperity.
And now l gather on an imaginary plat
form, as l literally did when l preached In
Brooklyn, specimens OF our American
products.
Here Is corn from the West. n foretaste
OF the great harvest that is to come down
TO our %seaboard, enough for ourselves and
the South, never q more beautiful product
grown on he planet, mingline the gold
and green.
Here are two sheaves, a sheaf OF North
ern wheat and a sheaf OF Southern rice,
bound together. May the band never
break Here is cotton, the waalthiest
product OF America. Here is sugar cane,
enough to sweeten the beverages Of an en-
pire. Who would think that out OF such II
humble stalk there would come such a
luscious product?
Here are palmetto trees that a In
their pulses the warmth OF southern elimes.
Here Is the cactus OF the South, so beauti-
luz NM ~ ttinRttAk - ~ okuiCds
Here are the products OF American mines.
This Is iron, this il coal, the iron repee-
seniing a vast yield. our country sending
forth one year 500 600 tons OF 1t, the coal
representing 100, 900 square miles of 1t, the
iron prylng out the conl, the coal smelling
the iron.
Iloek around me on this imaginary plat
form, and 1t seems us II the wave OF agri-
cultural. meteorological, pomological wealth
dash to the platform. and there are four
beautiful beings that walk in. and they are
all garlanded.
One IL garianded with wheat and bios
SONS Of snow. and / find The Is the North.
Another comes In. and hsr brow Is gar
landed with rice and blossoms Of magnolia,
and / ind she Is the South.
Another comes in, and I ind she Is gar
landed with seaweed and blossoms Of
spray, and / find she Is the East.
Another comes In, and l ind sha Is gar
landed with silk OF corn and radiant with
California gold, and I flnd she Is the West.
Coming face to face. they take of their
garlands, and they twist them together
into something that looks like a wreath,
but 1t Is a wheel, the wheel OF national
prosperity. and ! say III an outburst OF
thanksgiving Joy for what God has lone
for thB North an the South and the East
and the West, "Oh wheeIi'
At different times In Europe they have
tried to get q congress Of kings at Berlin