The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-01-28
TRIUMPHS OF SCIENCE.

the sea, winged by the tightening ant
guarded by the billow" In the com
paratively unostentatious closing o
the great enterprise is found one O.
the evidences of mans progress-st
great that the mightiest achievement.
are unattended by pomp, and, as mel
rush by, they simply nod an acknow
Judgement of the thing accomplished
and pass on and disappear in the dust
of the modern battle of gain and
greed.
The laying of the Atlantic cable
and the final accomplishing of Field
great work caused thrill to run
across the land from ocean, and not
only at the east but on the far Paci
| fic, remote from the scene of glory,
with hundreds and thousands of miles
of wilderness. mountain chains and
unspanned prairie between, there was
Joy so great as to be of itself prophetic
of the won ders yet to be. Today,
when just as great deed is done to-
ward the setting sun as was then done
towards the rising sun, there is no
huzzas on the Atlantic shore and lit
tie more on the Pacific, Then the
souls of men were responsive to the
trlumphs of science and homage to
her starry path came spontaneously,
perhaps because every step whispered
to their minds of what 1t meant to
this land and what it's civillzing in
fuence would do in bringing a vast
continent close together, dissipating
distance and the wilderness until the
whole nation was less vast to it's peo-
pie in their intercourse than was one
crude state in former times. Now.
perhaps because u new era, an era
OF accumulation, is upon men, or
perhaps because the starry brow of
science CLEANS everywhere and the
blessings of her prolific hand her
and comforts are so
common and greet us at every turn,
there is scarcely a ripple on the sur
face when thought leaders who
love their kind measure the depths
OF earth and the recesses of heaven
except as Commerce congratulates
itself that new facilities are added to
it's business. Il
When the cry of gold was woated
to the east from California it went
into the heart of eastern civilization
and the fever drew from the youth
there some of the best blood and
brain and manly power that the
country possessed-young men who
zane from fine intelligent ancestors
md were destined for the future
great statesmen of their country, and
t is not strange that in the Golden
state was conferred an unusual amount
II splendid intellectual power. Such
men as Baker. Broderick, Goodwin,
stewart and host of others, some
more some less celebrated. made
hat state as rich in mind as her soil in
METAL, and it was no wonder that
uch conquest as the Atlantic cable
hould wake chord of triumph on
he west coast louder than the suroes
II the Pacific sea, and that a MASTER
I'll orator OF the west should utter
he grandest music of all the throne
Sho paid tribute to the union of two
at the cable celebra-
ion in San Francisco, September 27,
85S, Col. E, d. Baker said:
leave to the gifted friend who will
blow me, in his peculiar department The
ppropriate description of the wonders
the deep seaway; of the silent shores ,
eneathi OF sunless caverns and subma-
me plains 1t is for others To descriha {
ne solitudes of the neither deem Vet ,
mo is there whose imagination does not
mole at the idea that every Thought {
men springs along the wires vibrates in .
lose palaces of the ocean where the
ght talis TO penetrate and the pillows 8
ever roll 4? "s
FROM those dark, unfathomed caves
he pearl that heaves upon the breast of a
eauty is dragged to the glare of day
mere the unburied dead lie waiting for
he resurrection morning, while above {
lem the winds wall their perpetual re- :,
uiem, there the lost treasures of India
40 eeru are forever hid; there the .
recks of the Armada and TrafaIgar are
,rever whelmed. are g
nat hags and what trophies are floating "
fraa 'fS'tihs