Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-12-06

cause tney cOuI0 NOT make any living out
Of this product. One pound Of green seed
cotton was all that man could prepare in
one day, but Eli Whitney, Massachusetts,
Yankee, woke up, got handful OF cotton
and went to constructing wheel for the
parting Of the fiber and the seed.
Teeth on cylinders, brushes on cylinders,
wheels on wheels. South Carolina gave
him ESQ, 900 for his invention. and, instead
Of one man taking q whole day to prepare
pound OF cotton for the market, now he
may prepare three hundredweight, and the
South is enriched. and the commerce OF
the world Is revolutionized, and over g.
BOO 900 bales Of cotton were prepared this
year, enough to keep at work In this coun-
try II. 800 900 spindles, employing 270. 900
hands and enlisting s2sl .4o0. 900 Of capital.
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 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-
fered and were martyrs OF the wheel. and
they shall be honored. John Fitch wrote:
"The 2lst OF January, 1743, was the fatal
time OF bringing me into existence. know
OF nothing so perplexiDg and vexatious to
a man OF feeling as turbulent wife and
, steamboat building. 1 experienced the
| former and quit in season, and had I been
In my right senses l should undoubtedly
have treated the latter in the same man
ner; but, for one man to be teased with
unfortunate man in the world
See the train move out OF one OF our
great depots for thousand-mile jour
neyl All aboard Tickets clipped and
every want, under tunnels dripping with
dampness that never saw the light; along
lodges where an inch off 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. Clank!
clank! go the wheels. Clanki clankl echo
the rocks. Small villages only hear the
thunder and see the whirlwind as the train
shoots past, a 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 -four
wheels Of the carriage or the two wheels
OF the gig it was not until 1876. at the Cen
tennial Exposition at Philadelphia that
the miracle Of the nineteenth century
rolled in-the bicycle.
Inc world could not Delleve It's own eyes,
and not until quite far on in the eighties
were the continents enchanted with the
whirliDg, flashing, dominating spectacle OF
q 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 5000 years.
Fourthly, look into the literary world
and see what the wheel has accomplished.
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
, dailies? Some of US remember when the
hand ink roller was run over the cylinder,
and by great haste 800 copies of the village
newspaper were issued in one day and no
| lives lost. But invention has crowded in
vention and wheel iestled wheel. stereo-
typing, electrotyping, taking their places,
Benjamin Franklin's press giving way to
| the Lord Stanhope press, and the Wash
4, ington press and the Victory press and the
Hoe perfecting press have been set up.
/ Together with the newspapers COM
/, pus" zion Of innumerable books
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