Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-11-25

/ come rext to spsak of the conQuests
Of the American hammer. Its iron arm
has fought its way down from the be-
ginning to the present. Under its
swing the city of Enoch rose. and the
foundry of Tubal Cain resounued. and
the ark hCated on the deluge. At its
clang ancient temples spread their
magnificence and chariots rushed out
fit for the battle. Its iron fist smote
the marble of Paros. and it rose in
sc%ulptured Minervas and struck the
PenteIican mines until from them a
Parthenon was reared whittier than n
palace of ice and pure as an angels
dream. Damascus and Jerusalem and
Rome and Venice and Paris and Lon
don and Philadelphia and New York
and Washington are but the long pro
tracted echoes of the hammer. Under
the hammer everywhere dwellings
have gone up. ornate and luxurious.
S~chOOlhOuses, lyGeums, hospitals and
asylums have added additional glory
to the enterprise as well as the benefi-
cence of the American people. Vast
public works have been constructed,
bridges have been built over rivers and
tunnels dug under mountains and
CHURCHES VI L1IlCLISSS OCduly nave
gone up for him who had not where to
lay his head. and the old theory is ex-
ploded tha because Christ was born in
q manger we must always worship
him in q barn.
of God.
Railroads of fabulous length have
been completed, over which western
trains rush past the swift footed deer,
making the frightened birds to dart
into the heavens at the cough of the
smoke pipes and the savage yell of b
steam whistle. In hot haste our ma
tional industry advances, her breath
the air of 10000 furnaces, her song the
voice of ~uncOunted factories, her foot
step the fash of wheel buckets and the
tread of the shaft and the stamp of
fOundrieS. Talk about a~ntediluvian
longevity! 1 think the average of hu-
man life is more now than it ever was.
Through mechanical facilities men
work so much faster and accomplish
so much more in u lifetime that a man
can afford to die now at forty years as
we'll as one of old at 900. l think the
average of human life in point of ac-
c~omplishment is now equivalent to
about COO years., dS l1odI DIS l. Cdu Cd1Cu-
late. In all our occupations and pro-
LESSONS we feel the effect of a crippled
or enlarged mechanical enterprise. We
all have stock in every house that is
builded and in every public conveyance
that is constructed and in every ship
that is sailed. When we see the hard
working men of the land living in ON
Portable abodes, with %luxuries upon
their table that one even kings could
not afford, having the advantage Of
thorough education, of accomplishment
and art, we are all ready at this sea-
son to unite with them in praise to God
for his goodness.
You shall yet see American labor ris-
ing up with a stronger arm and a stout
or heart and a SWarthier frame. New
cities will be built. Commerce on the
lakes will a new wings. Where now
stand unbroken forests great capitals
of business and affiuence will rise, II
streams that have idled away 5000
years will be harnessed to pOnderous
machinery and compelled to toll n
sweat like the ~ChattahOOchee and the
Merrimac. At one of our great dry
docks we shall yet build the model
ocean steamship. 1t will come together
under the chorus of a thousand Ameri-
can hammers. She shall start amid a
great national hurrah and move far
out at sea as though an island had
been unanchored with it's forests of
masts or as if some one had said in
Scripture phrase into a mountain, BE
thou cast into the sea-" The volcano III
her heart will sprinkle on the sea Il
he nticp of fro and &c chn COOS IN the |
channel of St. George among the ship
yards of the old world and among the
wheels of Liverpool and Manchester
shall be announced the skill and the
glory of the American hammer.
~CoRauests of the Pen.
Now [ come to speak of the conquests |
of the pen. This is the symbol of all
intellectually. The painters pencil and
the sculptor's chisel and the philoso-
piers laboratory are all brothers to
the pen, and therefore this may be used
as Il symbol of intellectual advance
ment. There are those disposed to de-
cry everything American. Having seen
Melrose and Glastonbury by moonlight,
they never behold among us an impress
sive structure, or, having StrOlled
through the picture galleries of the
Louvre and the Luxembourg, they are
disguised with our academies of art
1t makes me sick to hear these people
who have been to Europe come home
talking with a foreign accent and ap-
ing foreign customs and talking Of
moonlight on castles by the sea. |
think the biggest fool in the country is
the travelled fool.
But, considering the youth Of u ma
ton and the fact hat comparatively
few persons devote themselves entirely
TO literature. think we have great