Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-11-30

eether under the chorus Of thousand
American hammers. She shall start amid
great national hurrah and move far out
at sea as though an island had been un-
anchored with its forests Of mastS. or as
if some one had said in Scripture phrase
unto mountain, BE thou cast into the
sea- The volcano in her heart will
sprinkle on the sea baptism Of fire, and
as she goes up the channel Of st. George.
among the shipyards OF the old world and
among the wheels Of Liverpool and Man
chester shall be announced the skill and
the glory Of the American hammer.
Now 1 come to speak OF the conques3s
of the pen. This is the symbol Of all in-
tellectuality. The painters pencil and
the sculptor's chisel and the philosophers
laboratory are all brothers 10 the pen,
and therefore this may be used as a symI
boil Of intellectual advancement. There
are those disposed to decrY every thinG'
American. Having seen Melrose ann
Glastonbury by moonlight they never be
hold among us an impressive structure;
or, having strolled through the picture
galleries of the Louvre aud the Luxem
bourg, they are disgusted with our acad
emies Of art. 1t makes NE sick to hear
these people who have been to Europe
come home talking with foreign accent
and aping foreign customs aud talking Of
moonlight on castles by the sea think
he biggest fool in the country is the tray
eled fool.
Advance in Literature.
Considering the youth u our nation
and the fact that comparatively few per-
sons devote themselves entirely 10 lit
erature. think We have great reason to
thank God for the progress ot our Amer /
lean literature. As historians have we
not had in the past such men as Bancroft
and Prescott, as essaylsts Irving and
Emerson, as jurists Story aud Marshall
and Kent as thcologians Edwards and
Hodge. as poets Piierrep0nt and Sprague
and Longfel0w and Bryant rs sculptors
Powers and Crawford aud Palmer as
painters such men aS West aud Cole ami
lnmNn and Kensett? And among the
living Americans what galaxies Of intel
lectuai spiendor and power Edward Es-
gleston and VIII Carleton aud Mark
Twain and John Kendrlck Bangs aud
Marion Harland and Margaret Sangster
and Stockton and Churchill aud uopkin-
son Smith and Irving Bachelor and Julia
Ward Howe and Amelia Barr and
Brander Matthews and Thomas Nelson
Page and Elizabeth Stuart phelps AMI
William Dean Ilowelis lud score Of
others. some OF them fixed STARS aud some
metCors.
AS the pen has advanced our colleges
and universities and laboratories have
followed the waving of it's plume. Our
literature is of two kinds that on foot
and that on the wing BY the former
mean the firm and substantial WORKS
which will 70 down through the centu-
ries. When, on the other hand, l speak
OF literature on the wing, | mean the
newspapers of the land They hy swiftly
and vanish, but leave permanent results
upon the public mind. They fan noise
lessly rs "A snowflake. but with the
strength Of an Alpine glacier This IN
paralleled multiplication Of intelligence
will either make or break u.s. Every
morning and evening our telegraph Of
| fees, with huge wire rakes, gather up the
news of the nation and OF the whole
world, and men write to some purpose
when they make pen Que % i thunder
/
! and perseverance for a man 10 be ignor-
ant in this country to-day. Ii seems 10
! me that il requires more effort for him
to keep out knowledge than TO let it in
| The mailhags at the smallest postofiices
| disgorEe large packages Of Intelligence
! for the people. Academies with maps.
globes and philosophle apparatus have
| been taking the places Of those institu-
| tons where thirty or forty years ago you
were put to the torture Men selected
! for their qualifications are intrusted with
the education of our youth instead Of
those teachers who formerly with a dro-
ver's shout and goad compelled the Young
generations up the hill Of science. Happy
childhood.
Some Marvellous Change.
How things have maryelously changed!
We used to cry because we had 10 go to
school. Now children cry If they cannot
so. Many Of them can intalHgeaily dis
cusS political topics long before they have
seen q ballot box or. leased by some POI
etc muse, can compose articles for the
newspapers. Philosophy AMI astronomy
and chemistry have been so improved
that he must he u genius as illnc>s who
knows nothing about them. On one shelf
Of poor mans library is moro practical
knowledge than in the 100000 volumes
Of ancient Alexandria, aud education is
possible for the most ndigenr. and 10
Legislature or Congress far The last Gfty
years has assembled which has not had in
it rail splitters and farmers and droycrs
or men who have been accustomed TO toll
ing with the hand and the foot
The Glorious Prospects.
The grain6eds have passed their har-
vests above the veto of drought and Jol-
uge The freight ears ara nor large
enough 10 bring down the grain 10 the
scaboard. The cana'oodts ar. crowded
with breadstuffs Hark 20 the rushing
Of the wheat through the great Chicago
corn elevators! Hayk to the rolling Of
The hogshcads of the Cincinnati po,k
packers, Enough to cat Enough 10
wear. II some have and some have not.
then may God help those who have 10