The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-12-04

cess G. c2EE So1 II!s2e, eGaI va ne
cicst 10 -tjoica IL the presence Of the
gcsa: ca ooE? Ftom Atlantis to
Pso:a: Isl the American nation Gale.
hate :hs victories tf the plov.
/ oone next to speak of the conqaests
Of the Aueriosa hammer. rs iron arm
2as fought is way down from the be-
girli4g to tbs present. Uador is
sWi2g tie city Of E1ooh r1sa s1d the
foundry 0f Ta1aj Usin Ge:ouoaad AID
the arr f,sced Oh the delugo. A: It's
cians s-eieus temples spread their
.~again9aocc aad chsriots rn7aea cut
fs tcr .hs bst.ie. It's iron hss smoie
the -na-s's os Pzc>s, and j: rose 10
sca;p,ursd Gii2erSas scd struck the
Perlolc.n uiccs uatil fem them
Pa,thsEoa Tss roared w1ster thsr \
%a;a?e cf ice aad pure IS an augel's
dream. Damascus and Jerusssen sa2
R,Ie and Eeoica aoa Paris and l,n
COZ $40 Pniis1e!phia AID NsW York
g1G Washington are but the long sro
;Isc.36 c2a3ss OF the hammer, UadeE
he namme. aver;w!sce dwellings have
yooe up, create apd ltZusious. Sohcoi
&cusss, lyoeuns hospitals snd as5iums
aave sG1ec &3ditio1ai glory TO tie en-.
,~rgci.e as well IS sho Denei 5eDca Ct
tne American reople. Fast public
works Laga baen Constructed, bridges
ravo besn bU;.t ever rivers AID tuo
res &Iz u@&sr our nouotaios, zpo
churches o. ssohiess beauty have gone
uo for Kim vec hsd not where to lay
his lead, eaa re cid theory IS exploded
sha: because christ Tss born Il MAI
ger re nuss s!Tsys worship him IN q
ban,
Railroads. Of fabulous length hare
baen completed, o7sr which western
trsigs rush past the swift footed daer,
mskiog the frightened birds 10 dart into
tie heavens at the cough Of the smoke
rings sd the savage yell Of ths steam
whistles. n hos haste cur national
industry s67soces, her breath tie air
o. ten thcussnd fucnacss, her song the
voice CT u cou1tld factories, her foot
step the assh Of wheels buckle and
he tread Of the shaft and the stamp Of
foundc:a5, talk shout antediiuVian ion
gevity. I ahiak the average of human
life is more nov thar it ever was.
Through meohaaical facilities men work
50 much faster snd accomplish 90
much mora in a lifetime that msn csa
af5ri 20 die now at forty as veil SIS one
OF old at 900. ! thiak the ayersse Of
hunao life in point Of accomplishment
is nov equivalent to about 800 years,
SIS near as I can calculate it. Ia all
cur occupations and professions re feel
the efact Of a crippled or enlarged
mechanical enterprise. We sll have
stock in every house that is bu.lded
snd in every public conveyance thai
is constructed and in every ship that is
sailed. When We see the hardworking
men Of the land living in comfortable
sbcdes, with luxuIies upon their tsbles
that once even kings could not sford,
having the advantage Of thorough educs
ton, Of accomplishment and are, We
all ready at this season to uaite With
them in praise to God fcE his goodness.
You ahsll yet see American labor ris-
ing up With stronger arm and stout
er heart arc sRa1thier frame. New
cities will be built. Commerce on the
lakes viii take new wings. Where nov
stands urbroke2 forests great capitals
Of business and sHuencs will rise AID
STREAMS that have idled swsy 5000
years S;il BE- harnessed to ponderous
:nsoairery sid compelled to toll md
s9eat like the Chastahoochee and the
Msrriuac. At one Of cur drydccks We
ehali yet build the model ocean steam
snip. l. will como together undsc the
chorus Of thousand American ham
me1s. She shall START amid great na
:ioaal hurrah and move far ous st sea
as though So island hsd been unachored
with its forests Of mssts, OF IS if some
CTS had said in Scripture phrase unto
mountain, Be thou cast into the
sss." The volcano in her heart will
sprinkle on the sss baptism Of IRE,
srd IS ste gees uo the channel OF ST.
George, smoag the shipysrds Of the Old
world and ancng tie wheels Of Liver
pcol and Manchester shall be announced
the akili and the glory Of the American
hammer.
Now come to speak Of the conquests
CT tie pen. This is the symbol Of al
intellectually. The painters pencil
ard the sculptor's chisel and the phi'o
soohe-'s laboratory are sill b1oshers to
the pen, and therefore this may be used
as 3 symbol Of intellectual advance
nent. Tha:e are those disposed to de-
cry everything American. Having
seen Melrose sad Glastonbury by moon.
light they re7er behold among Us al
IN pressi7e structure; o-, having stro!led
through the piosurs galleries of the
Louvre and the Luxembourg: they are
d;sgustc5 with our academies Of srt.
It makes ne sick to hear thsse people
w6o have been to Europe coma home
tsiking with foreign socent and aping
fo1eisr customs and talking OF mooa-
light OF castles by the ses. l think the
biegest fcol in the country is the traV-
eled fool.
But, considering the youth Of our "a
tion and tie fact that comparatively
few persons devote themselves entirely
to lirera:ure, think re have great res.
son 20 thank God for the progress Of
ouv American literature. As histolisns
have We not had in the past such men
as Bancroft sad Prescott, as ess"yisss
Ir7!rg and Enmsrson, as jurists Story
sn6 Marshall and kant, as theolog:sns
Edwards aGd Hodge, SIS poe:s Pierre:
ront snd Sprsgue and Longfsllos and
Bryant, a. scuigto1s Powers and Cra8-
ford and pslmer, as painters such men
IS West aad Ccle and Innan and Ran.
seit? And among the living Americans
Whist gaIax;es CT intellectual spleadoc
and power! Edward Eggle'ton s2c
Viii Carleton snd Marx Twain sod