The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-11-29

/. ! Iftfuets were not a. DOlntli4l as l-Ltli
, others far in excess OF what have ever De-
fore been gathered. while higher prices
viii ne!p make up for any decreased sup
| Ply. sure sign OF agricultural prosperity
we have IN the fact that cattle and horses
and sheep and swine and all farm animals
nave during the last two years increased
IN value. Twenty million SWINE slauzht-
cred this last year, and yet 20 many hogs
left.
| i come next % speak Of the conquests
Of the American hammer. It's iron arm
has fought its way down from the begin
ning 70 the present. Under its SWING the
| city OF Enoch rose. and the foundry OF
| Iubal Cain resOunded, and the ark foated
on the deluge. At its clang ancient tenn
pies spread their magnihcence and char
lots rushed out ~ for the battle. Its iron
fist smOte the marble Of Paros, and II rose
! an scUlptured Minervas and struck the
| Penteican mines until from them Par
| thenon was reared whittier than a palace
| 0! ice and pure az an angels dream.
| Damascus and Jerusalem and Rome and
Venice and Paris and London and Pnia-
| celphia end New York and Washington
! are but tne long protracted echoes OF the
| hammer. Under the hammer everywhere
| dwellings have gone up, ornate and luxu-
| rious. Schoolhouses, lyceu1s, hospitals
| and asyiums have added additiC lal glory
| 70 the enterprise as well as the bene.
| ficence OF the American people.
| Vast public works have heen construct
| ed, bridges have been Quilt over rivers
| and tunnels dug under mountains and
| churches of matchless beauty have gone
| up for Him who had not where 20 lay
| HIS head, and the old theory is exploded
! that because Christ was corn n a manger
we must always worship Him in a barn.
| on shall yet see American labor rising
| up with a stronger arm and a stouter
| heart and a S -arthier frame. New cities
| viii he built. Commerce on the lakes will
| take new wings. Where now stand unbro-
| ken forests great capitals of business and
| aftiuence viii rise and streams that have
| id'ed away G000 years will be harnesssed
10 ponderous machinery and compelled to
toll and sweat like the Chettahoochee and
| tie MCrrmac At one of our great dry
docks wc shall vet build the model ocean
| steamship. II will come together under
| the chorus OF a thousand American ham
neTs. She shall start amid a great ma
tional hurTah and move far out at sea az
though an island had been unanchored
with its forests OF mGsts or as If some che
had SAID IN Scripture phrase unto q
mountain, "Be thou cast into the sea"
But. considering the youth Of our nation
and the fact that comparatively few per-
sons devote themselves entirely TO litera-
tuTp. ] think we have great reason TO
thank God for the progress of our Ameri-
can literature. As historians have we not
had in the past such men az Bancroft and
Prescott, as essayists Irving and Emerson,
as jurists Story and Marshall and Kent,
as theologians Edwards and Hodge, as
poets Pierrepont and Spraguc and Long
fellow and Bryan, a. scu,ptors Powers
and Crawford and Palmer. "a painters
such men as West and Co,e and Inman
and Kensett? And amolc the living
Americans what gala2ies OF intellectual
snlendor and power!
Edward Eggestcn and VIII Carleton
4 f4Vt~ IN af,l Ighp Il Il RIO l.
Bangs and Marion Harlan1 and Margaret
Sargster and Stockton and Churchill and
IIopl,inson Smith and Irving Bacheller and
Julia Ward Howe and Amelia Barr and
Brandcr Matthews and Thomas Nelson
Page and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and
William Dean Hcwells and a score Of 9th
ers, some OF them fixed 'ctars and come
uete3rs.
As the ren has ndva1cel our colleges
and universities and obse.vatories have
followed the waving o. Its plume. Our lit
eraturc is Of two kinds-thGt or foot and
that on the wing. by tie former | mean
the firm and substantial works which will
20 down through the centuries. When, on
the other hand. | peak of literature on
the wing. 7 mean the newspapers OF the
land. They fv swiftly and vanish, but
leave permanent results upon the public
mind. They fl'l noise,cssy as q snow
fake but with the strength OF an Alpine
r,acie-.
Tbs unparalleled multiplication Of intel
l.goncc VIII either make or break US.
Every morniac and evening cur telegraph
offices, with huge wire ral,es. gather up
tie rews Of the nation and of the whole
world, and Len write to some purpose
whea they make pen out OF thunder
bolt.
J. needs great energy and decision and
perseverance for a man to be ignorant IN
this country to-day. j. seems TO me that
il REQUIRES more effort for hil to keep out
knowledge than 20 x, il =. T'e NAL
bcys at the smallest postoftices dissorge
large packages of intelligence for the pee
pic. Acedemies with maps, globes and
Dhiiosophic> apparatus have been taking
the places OF these Institutions wherr thir-
~ or forty years ago you were put 70 the
torture. Men selected fer their oua'iicc.
tions are intrusted with the education of
our youth instead OF those teachers who
| formerly with drovcr's shout md goad
/ compelled the young generations uD the
| hill OF science. Happy childhood! What
With broken tons and torn kites and the
| t,-ial Of l-s.ng the best marble and stump
ing your fcCc against q stone and come
body sticking n pin ilto you 70 see wheth-
er YOU will jump and examination day,
| with four or ive wise men LOCKING over
| their syectaces 20 see If YOU can parse the
! first page IN NouaC'J Might Thoughts"
until verbs and conlunctlons and partlci-
| pics aai propositions get into grand riot
How things have marvelously changed!
| We used TO crv because we had to 60 to
schco'. Now children cry if they cannot
60. Many of them can iltelligently dis
| Cuss political topics long be ore they have
| seen q ballot boz CT, tcased by some poetic
| muse. car COMPOSE articles for The news
papers. Philosophy and astronomy and
| chemistry have been so improved that he
! must be a genius at dullness who knows
| nothing about them.
On one shelf Of 4 poor mans library is
| more practical knowledge than ,n the 400.
coo volrmes of ancient Alexandra. and
| education Is possib.e for the most INDECENT,
| end no legislature or congress for the last
! fifty wears has assembled which has not
! had Il il rail sp:tters and farmers and
| drovers or men who have been accustomed
to toilinc with the hand and the foot.
| The pen which Moses dipped in tic
| light cf tie first morning, and jeremiah
| iilel with tears. and Ezekiel thrus. in vis-
ions oi FIRE. and Matthew touched with
| the blood Of g cross. and 81. John dipped
in the sp,endors Of beatifc ciory-that pen
has wrought rnarvels for all classes OF our
| people To-day our Libraries and colleges
and schools and publishing houses and
| churches celebrate the ever growing con-
| quests OF TIE American pen. and cur pros
| poets are all the time Frightening.
| Lift up your eyes, g nation OF Cod $
, right hand. az the glorious prospects
Build larger yoIr barns fo- the harvests
| dis deCuer the watts for the spoil OF the
| VINEYARDS: enlarge the warehouses for the
| merchar disc; mu.tiDly galleries ca art Tor
| the -ictures and statues. Advance. y ma
ticn Of Gods right hand, but remember
that national wealth. l. unsalctsfed, IS
| sumptuous waste. Is moral ruin. Is riagnil.
c-nt woe. i sp'endid ro;tenaess. ia gi.ded