The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-20

other DIVISION between the North and the
South possible YOU would have to do with
your child as Solomon proposed with the
child brought before him for Judgment
divide 1t with the sword giving half to
the North and half TO the South. No:
there is nothing so hard to split as a era
die. In other lands there is compulsory
marriage of roval families, some bright
princess compelled to marry some disa-
greeable foreign diGnitary in order to keep
the balance of political power in Europe.
the Unmatched pair fighting out on a
small scale that which would have been
an international contest. sometimes the
husband having the balance of power and
sometimes the wife.
II there is anything that stirs my ad-
miratlon 1t is man without any educa-
tion himself sending his sons to college.
and without any opportunity for luxury
himself resolved that though he shall have
1T hard all the days OF his life his children
shall have good start
Apd | tell you that though some Of our
people may have great commercial strug-
giles there If going to be a great opening
Tor their sons and daughters as they come
on to take their places in the world
Continuing this international comparison
! have to say to you that we have bet.
ter climate than is to be found in any
other nation. We do not suffer from any
thing like the Scotch mists or the English
logs or the Russian ice blasts or the ty-
phus OF Southern Europe or the Asiatic
cholera. Epidemcs in America are ex.
ceptional. very exceptional Plenty Of
wood and coal TO make roaring fire mid
winter. Easy access TO seabeach or mount.
am top when the ardors of summer come
down, Michigan wheat for the bread
Long Island corn for the meal, Carolina
rice for the quet of puddings, Louisiana
sugar to sweeten our beverages, Georgia
cotton to keep us warm. in our hand all
products and all climates Are your nerves
weak? Go north. is your throat delicate?
Go south DO you feel crowded and want
more room? Go west.
| declare it, this is the hest country in
al the world to live in. How do | know
It? ] have 650000 new reasons for saying
1t; $4,000 neople in one year came from
the other side of the Atlantic TO live in
America, and they came because il is the
very best country to live in.
While making this international COM
parison let us look forward to the time
which will surely come when all nations
will have as great advantages as our own.
As surely as the Bible is true the whole
earth is to be gardenized and set free.
Even the climates will change and the
heats be cooled and the frigidity warmed.
Many years ago in this city ] gazed upon
n scene which for calamity and grandeur
one seldom sees equalled | mean the
burning of the Smithsonian Institution.
II was the pride of our country. In it art
had gathered rarest specimens from all
lands and countries.
1t was one of those buildings which
seize YOU with enchantment as you enter
and all the rest of y,ur life holds you
with charm. | happened to see the first
glow of the fires which on that cold day
looked out from the windows of the costly
pile. / saw the angry elements roar and
rave. The shout of affrighted workman
and the assault of fire engines only seemed
to madden the rage of the monsters that
rose up to devour all that came within
reach of their chain.
Up along the walls and through the
doors were pushed hands that snatched
down all they could reach and hurled it
into the abyss of flame beneath The win
dows of the tower would light up for
minute with a wild glare and then darken.
as though iiends with streaming locks of
fire had come out to gaze on in laughing
mockery of all human attempts and then
sunk again into their native darkness.
The roofs began here and there to bios
som in wreaths and vines of flame Up
and down the pillars ran serpents of fire.
Out from the windows great arms and
fingers of flames were extended, as though
DESTROYED spirits were begging for deliver
ance. The tower put on coronet of flame
and staggered and fell the sparks flying,
the firemen escaping, the terror accumulat-
ing.
Books, maps, rare correspondence, auto
graphs OF kings, costly diagrams burned to
clnder or scattered tor many rood upon
the wild wind to be picked up by the ex-
cited multitude. Oh, it seemed like some
great funeral pile in which the wealth and
glory of our land had leaped to burn with
its consuming treasures. The heavens
were blackened with whirlwinds of smoke,
through which shot the long red shafts of
calamity.
Destruction waved its fiery banner from
the remaining towers, and in the thunder
of falling beams and in the roaring surge
of billowing fire | heard the spirits of ruin
and desolation and woe clappng their
hands and shouting, "Ahal ahah'
| turned and looked upon the white
dome of yonder capitol, which rose
through the frosty air as imposing as
though all the white marble of the earth
had come to resurrection and stood be-
fore us, reminding one of the great white
throne of heaven There it stood, un-
moved by the terrors which that day had
been kindled before it, No tremor in its
majestic columns, no flush OF excitement
in its veins of marble. Column and capital
and dome built to endure until the world
itself skaters in the convulsions Of the
last earthquake. Oh, what a contrast be-
tween the smoking ruin on the one hand
and that gorgeous white dream of archi-
lecture on the otherl Well the day speeds
on when the grandest achievement of man
will be consumed and the world will blaze
Down will go galleries of art and thrones
of royalty and the hurricane of Gods
power will scatter even the ashes of con.
sumed greatness and glory. Not one tower
left, not one city unconsumed, not one
scene of grandeur to relieve the desola-
ton. Forests dismasted, seas licked up,
continents sunk, hemispheres annihilated.
Oh, the roar and laundering crash of that
last conhagration! But from that ruin
of blazing earth we shall look up to see
the temple of liberty and justice rising
through the ages, white and pure and
grand, unscarred and unshaken. Founded
on the eternal rock and swelling into
domes of infinitude and glory in which the
nalleluliahs of heaven have their reverber-
alton. No flame of human hate shall
blacken its walls No thunder of Internal
wrath shall rock its foundations. BY the
upheld torches of burning worlds we shall
read it on column and architrave and
throne of eternal dominion. Heaven and
earth shall pass away, but truth and lib.
erty and justice shall never pass away"
LABOR WORLD.
The German Empire in 1890 had 1880