The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1901-01-19

| have Russia, we also "e4coihe ~ :,
our money markets Give us good c0i!al-
era1 Meanwhile Denmark. will You please
accent our offer Of 100000 for the island
~ s. Thomas Nv hearers, there is no
nation on earth with such healthy condi-
ion of finances. We wickedly waste an
awful amount of money in this country,
but some one has said it is easier to man
age A surplus than deficit.
Besides all this. not a disturbance from
! St. Lawrence River to Key West or from
! Highlands of New Jersey to Golden Horn
Of the Pacific Sectional controversies
| ended The North and South brought
| into complete accord bv the Snanlsh war,
which put the Lees and the Grants on the
same side Nermonters and Ceorgans n
| the same brigade And since our Civil
War we are all mixed up Southern men
have married Northern wives. and North
crn men have married Southern wives.
and vour children are half MssisSlpp'"n
and hat New Enr,ander. and to MAKE a.
other division between the North A. the
South possible YOU would have to do with
Your child as solomon proposed with the
child brought before him for judgment
divide it with the sword. giving half to
the North and half to the South. No:
there il nothing so hard to split as era
de In other lands there is compulsory
marriage OF roval families some hr chit
nrincaes comnclled to marry some disa-
greeahe foreign dignitarv in order to keep
the balance Of political power in Europe.
the Unmatched pair fighting ont on
small scale that which would have been
an international contest. sometimes the
husband having the balance Of power and
sonnet mes the wife.
If there is anything that stir. my adj
mration it is man without any edura-
ton himself sending his sons to college,
and without any opportunity tor luxury
himself resolved that though he shall have
il hard all the DAYS OF his lie his children
shall have a good start
Ard I tell vou that though some Of our
people may have great commercial strrg-
-les there il going to he great opening
for tneir sons and daughters as they come
on to take their places in the world.
Continuing this international comparison
I 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
focs or the Russian ice blasts or the tv-
phus of Southern Europe or the Asatic
cholera. Epidcmics in America are e1..
ceptional very exceptional. Plenty OF
wood and coal to make a roaring fire mid
winter Easy access 70 seaheach or mount
ain top when tire ardors Of summer come
down Michigan wheat for the bread.
Long Island corn for the meal. Carolina
rice for the que, Of buildings, Louisiana
sugar to sweeten our beverage Georgla
cotton to keep rs warm. in our hand all
product. and all climates. Are your nerves
weak? Go north. Is yorr throat deicate'
Go south. Do you feel crowded and want
more room. Go west. ..
7 ho hoct try
all the world to live in. How do | know
it? / have $4,000 new reasons for saving
it: ESQ., 900 people in one year came from
the other side of the Atlantic to live in
America. and they came because it is the
verv 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
a scene which for calamity and grandeur
burning of the Smithsonian Institution.
1t was the pride of our country. In it art
had gathered rarest specimens from all
lands and countries.
It was one of those buildings which
seize you with enchantment as you enter
and all the rest of Y. UT life holds you
with charm. I happened to see the first
glow of the fires which on that cold day
looked ont from the windows of the costly
pile. | saw the angry elements roar and
rave. The shout Of afrighted workman
and the assault of fire engines only seemed
to madden the rage Of the monsters that
@l,k
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 a
minute with a wild glare and then darken.
as though fends 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 fame. 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 a coronet of flame
and staggered and fell, the sparks flying,
the iremen escaping, the terror accumulat-
ing.
Books, maps, rare correspondence, auto
graphs of kings costly diagrams burned to
cinder or scattered tor many a 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 j
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 bilowing fire heard the spirits of ruin
and desoation and woe clapping their
hands and shouting, "Aha. aha"
| 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, UNI
moved by the terrocs which that day bad
been kindied before it. No tremor in It's
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 commissions OF the
last earthquake. On what a contrast be-
tween the smoking ruin on the one hand
and that gorgeous white dream OF archi-
lecture on the other. Well, the day snceds
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