The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-01

wheels of Liverpool and Manchester shaii be announced the skill and the glory Of the American hammer
 Conquests of the Pen.
 Now come to speak Of the conquests of the pen. This is the symbol or a al, the sculptors chisel and. the phtloso- phers laboratory arc all brothers to the pen, and therefore this may be used as a symbol of intellectual advance ment There are those disposed to de- crv everything American. Having seen Melrose and Glastonbury by moonlight they never behold among us an impres. sine through 'ftSeu tSe picture % galleries of tSe Louvre and the Luxembourg, they are disgusted with our academies or art It makes me sick to hear these people who iaave been to Europe come home talking with a foreign accent and aplng foreign customs and talking of moon light on castles by the sea. think the biggest fool in the coutnry IS the raV- eled fool.
 But, considering the youth of our na- tion and the fact that comparatively few persons devote themselves entirely to literature. l think we have great reason son American literature As historians have we not had in the past such men as Bancroft and Prescott, as essayists lrv, ing and Emerson, as jurlsts Story and Marshall and Kent, as theologians Ed wards and Hodge, as poets Pierrepont md Sprague and Longfellow and Bryant, as sculptors Powers and Crawford and Palmer as painters such men as West and Cole and Inman and Kensett? And among the living Americans what gall axies of intellectual splendor and power! Edward Eggleston and VIII Carieton and Mark Twain and John kendriok Bangs and Marion Harland and Marga- ret Sangster and Stockton and Church i'll and Hopkinson Smith and Irving Bacheler and Julia Ward Howe an9 Amelia Barr and Brander Matthews ana Thomas Nelson Page and Elizabeth stuart Phelps and William Dean Howells and a score of others, some of them iXed stars and some meteors.
 and universities and observatories have followed the waving of its plume. Our literature is of two kinds-that on foot and that on the wing. By the former l which will go down through the 'centu- rIes. When. on the other hand. l speak of literature on the wing, l mean the newspapers of the land. They fly swift iy and vanish. but leave permanent re- suits upon the public mind. They fall noiseIy as a snowflake, but with the strength of an Alpine glacier. This un- paralleled multiplication of intelligence will either make or break us. Every morning and evening our telegraph oI- fices, 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 a pen out of thunder
 Progress of Education.
 It needs great energy and decision ana perseyerance for a man to be ignorant in this country today, It seems to to me 1n tnsn tnse out Knowledge than to let 1t in. The mailbags at the smallest postoftices dis gorge large packages of intelligence, ,ofor for the people. Academies wlth @ maps, oeg gi39ss tseS Ing the places of those institutions where thirtv or forty years ago you were put to to- the torture. Men selected for F,d thai. Dd 9aa.inr of our youth instead of those Teachers who formerly with a drover's sho,,t and goad compelled the young Generations up the hill of science. Happy