New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1900-06-09

small bottle is TWO months treatment, anC
will cure any case above mentioned DR.
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500, St. Louis, Mo. Send for testimonials
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New Iberia, La, March II, lS99.-E
W. Hall, st. Louis, o.:-I am 60 years old
and have used number of preparations
for kidney and bladder troubles, but can
truthfully say that nothing has proved as
effective as your great discovery, which
can cheerfully recommend.
JOS. A. CARLrN, Rayne, La.
POSSIBILITIES. -
Grafton by Edward Terrell, Graduate New Iberia
High School, Glass of 1900.
The never halting march of time, with
its unnumbered magic cycles, has brought
to us new conditions; and the vast chang
ing eras of progress, each in turn follow
ing upon that which during its stay was
accounted the best the world had known,
have brought to us newer and greater pos
sibilities.
Each successive age, coming to US from
the dim illimitable future, laden with new
responsibilities, new duties and new needs,
has seemed to demand the entire strength
and power of man.
His energies have been taxed and strain
ed and every resource of body and mind
seemed required to meet the oncoming
wave and keep abreast of the spirit of
progress. Each age has seemed to de-
mand more than its predecessors, and
while mighty upheavals have at times been
necessary to arouse the people to earnest
ness and purpose each generation has sue
ceeded in solving the mighty question OF
growth and advancement to which it has
fallen heir.
Yet, notwithstanding the magnitude OF
these questions that they have been met
and solved by earnest men is proven by
the steady progress of the world through
the lapse of ages.
1t is true that each succeeding age pre-
sents more difficult questions for solution,
and it is also true that it prepares men to
meet them.
For whether we accept Darwin's theory
or not, we must recognize the truth that
brain power and mental strength increase
from generation to generation i'll direct
proportion to the amount of mental eXer-
else undergone by those who have gone
before.
Mental acumen is not the work of q
generation, nor of century, but of ages.
Man reached his full development by long
and rigid training.
To the young man of to-day there
stretches out grander and nobler possibili-
ties than have been presented to any for
mer generation, as we'll as stronger and
md for
meeting and making use of them.
Progress is the order of the age. 1t
should be! The youth of to-day has placed
before him in form condensed and perfect
ly arranged, the results Of all former re-
search in all lines of knowledge.
The discoveries and toll that have taken
thought and application for ages is his to
simply take from the printed page and ere
he reaches his majority with diligence he
may acquire the essentials Of truth, and
information of the aching brows of cen
turies past.
The 10th century youth may claim that
by Columbus and Drake he has been rob-
bed of great possibilities in the line Of dis
covery.
True, there may be no more Americas
to discover, but surely, along other lines
we have possibilities as grand, and goals
as inviting.
The modern physician is led on in his
study and inspired not by the fact that his
head contains the medical knowledge of
the universe, but by the truth that much
that has been given to the world by prac-
teal toll remains unmastered and that
science abounds with laws undiscovered
and truths uncomprehended.
Who shall give to the world cure for
consumption, or a system Of inocculation,
against it.
Whose shall be the beneficent hand
that shall teach suffering humanity the
cure for dreaded cholera, or the bubonic
plaguei These are among the possibili-
ties in this direction. Surely they are
worthy of thought. Not only is there a
broad inviting field of possibilities open
to the coming NJ. D. but some in the poll
tical and social world, the harvest is ripe
and the labors few. The conditions of
society are daily growing worse.
The growls of the wolf of want grow
more ominous.
Oppression and misery rear their suffer
ing face at every turn of life's winding
path. A kanker worm knaws at society 8
heart strings. Hoyels line the way to the
palaces. Poverty follows where progress
leads the way.
The bold peasantry, our country's pride.
which once destroyed can never be sup
piled is gradually fading. away. Every
passing year sees poverty stricken
mass of humanity knocking at the gates
of our large cities for admittance, to soon
loose itself in the whirlpool of sin and
crime.
A reformation is promised as destruc-
tive to life and property as that which
visited France. The visitation of Cox
with his worn and hungry army to our
National capital was but the thunder OF
the approaching storm. Already our ship
of state seems without a pilots guiding
hand tossed on ambitions turbulent waves,
rocked in an ocean of greed and gain. We
hear the pillows roll and break against q
rock bound coast. Shall we sail right on
knowing the dangers and not avoid them,
shall we hear the warning cry and heed il
mott Is there no possibility of rest in
the haven of liberty and justice which oul
fathers found SO safei When we view
the field Of labor ripe unto harvest, We
long to throw aside the toga vjrilis, and
don the toga the insignia Of citizen. Oul
hearts burn to enter the fight, to right tht
wrong and lift the fallen. Tho there il
vague possibilities of many Of III
reaching up and writing our names higt
in the affairs Of our country, tho few car
hope to win seat on the cold mountain
tops of fame by the side of Gladstone
Bismark and Jefferson, we can at leas
become honest, conscientious citizens ant
placing our young shoulders against th'
wheel Of reform push with all ou
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