Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
Can you imagine anything more beauti.

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1t was severe process by which the seed
was to be extracted from the fiber. Vast
populations were leaving the South be.
cause they could 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 Whitpey. Massachusetts
Yankee, woke up, got Is handful OF cotton
and went to constructing wheel for the
| parting of the fber 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 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.
600 600 bales OF cotton were prepared this
| year, enough to keep at work in this coun-
try 14,300,0 900 spindles, employing 270, coo
hands aud enlistng $251 400 900 OF capital.
Thank YOU Eli Whitney, and l.. g. 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 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:
| 1.-The 21st OF January. 1743, was the fatal
| time of bringing me into existence. know
| of nothing so perpleXiDg and vexatious to
man of feeling as n turbulent wife and
| steamboat building. l experienced the
| former and quit in season, and had been
| in my right senses | should undoubtedly
have treated the latter in the same man
ner; but, for one man to be teased with
both, he must be looked upon rs the most
| unfortunate man in the world"
| See the train move out of one OF our
great depots for Il thousand 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 n hundred men
living and n hundred dead, full head of
steam and two men in the locomotive
charged with all the responsibility of
whistle and Westinghouse broke. Clank!
ciank! go the wheels. Clank! clank! echo
the rocks, Small villages only hear the
thunder and see the whirwnd rs the train
| shoots past, n city on the wing. Thrilling,
startling, subiime, magnificent spectacle
rail train in lightning proct sion.
| 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 1t was not until 1876, Mt 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 quite far on in the eighties
were the continents enchanted with the
| whirling. flashing, dominating spectacle OF
machine that was TO do so much for the
! pleasure, the business, the health and the
profit OF nations. The world had needed it
| for 6,000 yeurs.
| 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 press! Do you
| not feel the ground shake with the ma
chinery OF the New York Brooklyn, Boston.
| Philadelphia, Washington, and Western
| dnilies? 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 iostled wheel, stereo-
| typing, electrotyping, taking their places,
benjamin Franklins press giving way to
| the Lord Stnnhope press, and the Wash
| ington press and the Victory press and the
Hoe perfecting press have been set up.
| Together with the newspapers comes tho
| publication OF innumerable books OF his
| 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 and greater velocity,
| o wheel-wheel OF light, wheel of ctvilizu-
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
ent prosperity.
Aud now gather on an imaginary plat
form, as l literally did when Preached In
Brooklyn, specimens of our American
| products.
Here is corn from the West foretaste
| OF the great harvest that is to come down
to our senbonrd, enough for ourselves aud
| for foreign shipment. Here Is rice from
the South, never more beautiful product
grown on the planet, mingling the gold
| and green.
Here are two sheaves, n sheaf OF North
ern wheat and 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 en-
| pire. Who would think that out Of such Il
| 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, 80 beauti-
| lul uuu 81 ltLuptlutS IL RO UEmcu
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 800 600 tons of IL, the coal
representing 100 900 square miles of it. the
iron prytng 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 1t looks In the
| sunlight Here is copper from Lake Su-
perior, so heavy dare not lift it. Here is
| gold from Virginia and Georgia.
| look around me on this imaginary plat
| form, and 1t seems rs IL the waves OF agri-
cultural ,mineralogical, omologicnl wealth
dash to the platform and there are four
beautiful beings that walk in, and they are
| all garlanded.
| One is garlanded with wheat and bios
SONS of snow, and l find she is the North.
| Another comes in, and her brow Is gar
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