The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-01-28

d enc man taxing u WuOlo uoy ~ PAoP~,
a pound of cotton for the market, now ne
may prepare three hundredweight, and the
South is enriched, and the commerce OF
the world Is revolutionized, and over o.
000, 900 bales OF cotton lwere prepared TINS
year, enough to keep at work In TINS coun,
try IA, SOC. 600 spindles, employing 27oVuo
hands and enllsting $2S1, AGO, 600 Oh caplta,.
Thank you, Eli Whitney, and L.. .: Onl-
chester, OF New York. his successor. ABOVE
all, thank God for their inventive genius,
that has done 20 much for the prosperity
OF the world.
Thirdly. / 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 ocea" steamer:
lwill not enter into the controversy as
to whether John Fitch or Robert Fulton
or Thomas Somerset WAS the 1nvea-
tor of the ateamboat They all SUI.
fered and were martyrs Of the wheel, and
thew shall be honored. John Fitch wrote:
"The 21st of January, 1743, was the fatal
time Of bringing me into existence. know
of nothing so perplexiDg md vexatious TO
a man of feeling as turbulent wife ana
steamboat building. I experienced the
former and quit In season, and had Deeh
in nv right senses 1 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"
See the train move out OF one OF our
great depots for thousand-mile jour
neyi Ali aboard Tickets clipped and
| baggage checked and porters attentive to
every want. under tunnels dripping wits
dampness that never saw the light; along
| lodges where an inch of the track would
| be the difference between hundred men
| living and q hundred dead, full head OF
steam and two men In the locomotive
| charged with all the responsibility OF
| whistle and Westinghouse broke. Clanki
clanki go the wheels. Clankl clanki echo
| the rocks. Small villages only hear the
| thunder and see the whirlwind as the train
shoots past, city on the wing. Thrilling,
| startling, sublime, magnificent spectacle
| rail train In lightning procession.
While the world has been rolling onths
eight wheels OF the rail car or the four
| wheels Of the carriage or the two wheels
OF the gig 1t was not until 1876, at the Cen.
| tennial Exposition at Philadelphia that
the miracle OF the nineteenth century
rolled in-the bicycle.
The world could not believe Its own eyes,
and not until quito far on In the eighties
were tho continents enchanted with the
whirling, flashing, dominating spectacle OF
a machine that was to do SO much for the
pleasure, TUG puSlucsS, tuC uOdtth ohu lily
profit OF nations. The world had needed II
for 5000 years.
Fourthly, I look into the literary world
and see what the wheel has accom- plished
| am more astounded with this than any.
| thing that has preceded. Behold thef al.
most miraculous printing pressl Doyou
| not feel the ground shake with the ma
chinery OF the New York Brooklyn, Boston
| Philadelphia, Washington, and Western
1s.gl NJ 4
hand ink roller was run over the cylinder
| and by great haste 800 copies Of the village
| newspaper were issued in one day and nc
| lives lost. But invention has crowded In
| vention and wheel iostled wheel, stereo
tipping, electrotypiDg, taking their places
Benjamin Franklin's press giving way to
the Lord Stanhope press, and the Wash
Hoe perfecting press have been set up
| Together with the newspapers comes thu
| publication of innumerable books OF his
tory, of poetry, OF romance, OF art, o.
travel, OF biography, OF religion, diction
hrles, encyclopedias and Bibles. Some o
these presses send forth the most accursec
stuff. but the good predominates. TURF
| on with wider sweep and greater velocity
| o wheel-wheel OF light, wheel OF ctvlliza.
ton, 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 i.s pres
ent prosperity.
form, as literally did when preached In
Brooklyn, specimens OF our American
products. ..ss;e.
Here Is corn from the West, foretaste
| Of the great harvest that Is to come dowr
to our seaboard, enough for ourselves and
| for foreign shipment. Here Is rice from
the South, never more beautiful product
grown on the planet, mingling the gol(
and green.
Hero are two sheaves, q sheaf OF North
ern wheat aud q sheaf OF Southern rice
breaki Here Is cotton, the wealthiest
| product OF America. Here is sugar cane
enough to sweeten the beverages of an en-
| pire. Who would think that out OF such I
humble stalk there would come such ,
luscious product?
Here are palmetto trees that have II
their pulses the warmth OF southern climes
Here is the cactus of the South, so beauti
| full and so tempting 1t must go armed
Here are the products OF American mines
This Is iron, this IS coal, the iron repre-
senting vast yield, our country sending
| forth one year SOC. 900 tons of 1t, the Goa
| representing 100, 900 square miles Of it, thu
iron prying out the coal, the coal smelling
the iron.
This is silver, silver from Colorado ant
| Nevada, those places able yet to yielc
| silver napkin rings and silver knives an(
silver casters and silver platters for all ou
people.
Here Is mica from the ouarri.s ~ EA'
| Hampshire. rhow beaullrui II iovxs IN rp
| sunlight! Hero Is copper from Lake Su
| perior, so heavy dare not lift 1t. Here II
gold from Virginia and Georgia.