Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-11-27

to Chevy Chase or COney Island. But
| all sensible people who know the tonic
of fresh air and the health in deep
respiration and the awakening of dis
| used muscles and the exhilaration of
velocity will rejoice that wife and
mother and daughter may have this
new recreation. Indeed life to so many
Is so hard grind that l am glad at
the arrival Of any new mode Of health
full recreation. We need have no anx-
lety about this invasion Of the worlds
stupidity by the vivacious and laugh
ing and jubilant wheel, except that we
always want it to roll in the right d.
rection, toward place of business, to-
ward good recreation, toward philan-
thropy, toward usefulness, toward
places Of divine worship, and never to-
ward Immortality or Sabbath desecra-
ton. My friend Will Carleton, the
poet, said what like when he wrote:
We claim great utility that daily must increase;
We claim from inactivity a sensible release;
constant mental, physical and moral help
feel,
That bids US turn enthusiasts and cry, God bless
the wheel!
Never yet having mounted one Of
those rolling wonders, 1 stand by the
wayside, far enough off to avoid be-
Ing run over, and in amazement and
congratulation cry out, in EzekiePs
phraseology of the text, 80 wheel!'
Miraculous Printing Press.
Fourthly, look into the literary
world and see what the wheel has &C
complished. 1 am more astounded
with this than anything that has pre-
ceded. Behold the almost miraculous
printing press! Do you not feel the
ground shake with the machinery Of
the New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Phil
adelphia, 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 in
vention has crowded invention and
wheel jOstled wheel, Stereotyping,
electrotyping, taking their places, Ben
jamin Franklin's press giving way to
the Lord StanhOpe press, and the
Washington press and the Victory
press and the Hoe perfecting press
have been set up. Together with the
newspapers comes the publication of
poetry, of romance, of art, of travel Of
biography, of religion, dictionaries, en-
cyclopedias and Bibles Some of these
presses send forth the most accursed
stuff, but the good predominates. Turn
on with wider sweep and greater veloc-
ity, o wheel-wheel Of light, wheel cf
civilization, 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 NOV
ed up to it's present prosperity.
And now 1 gather on an imaginary
platform, as 1 literally did when 1
preached in Brooklyn, specimens of
our American products.
BountifuI Hnrvests.
Here is corn from the west, a fore
taste of the great harvest that is to
come down to our seaboard, enough for
ourselves and for foreign shipment.
Here is rice from the south, never a
more beautiful product grown on the
planet, mingling he gold and green.
Here are two sheaves, Sheaf of north
ern wheat and a sheaf of southern rice,
bound together. May the band never
break! Here is cotton, the wealthiest
product of America. Here is sugar
cane, enough to Sweeten the beverages
of an empire. Who would think that
out of such a humble stalk there would
come such a luscious product? Here
are palmetto trees that have in their
pulses the warmth of southern climes.
Here is the cactus of the south, SO
beautiful and SO tempting it must so
armed. Here are the products of
American mines. This is iron, this is
coal, the iron representing a vast yield,
our country sending forth one year
100000 tons of it, the coal representing
100000 square miles of it, the iron
prying out the coal, the coal smelling
the iron. This is silver, silver from
Colorado and Nevada, those places
able yet to yield silver napkin rings
and silver knives and silver casters
and silver platters for all our people.
Here is mica from the quarries of New
Hampshire. How beautiful it looks in
the sunlight! Here is copper from
Lake Superior, so heavy dare not lift
it. Here is gold from Virginia and
Georgia.
L look around me on this imaginary
platform, and it seems as if the waves
of agricultural, meteorological, pomo-
logical wealth dash to the platform,
and there are four beautiful beings
that walk in, and they are all gar
landed, and one is garlanded with
wheat and blossoms of snow, and find
she is the north, and another comes in,
and her brow is garlanded with rice |
and blossoms of magnolia, and 1 find |
she is the south, and another comes in,
and find she is garlanded with sea-
weed and blossoms of spray, and find |
she is the east, and another comes in, |
and I find she is garlanded with silk |