Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1904-09-15
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Numerous but Striking Review by
Congrcasman ]. Adam Bede.

Humorous but striking Review by
Congressman ]. Adam Bede.
Congressman ]. Adam Bede of Min.
nesota Is an optimlst and a humorlst.
He takes a cheerful view of life and
radiates sunshine by his quaint Ian.
guage. In a recent speech on Modern
Methods he said:
When was boy In Ohio they used
to have a shoemaker st every cross
roads. used to have him make my
boots. because shoes at that time were
considered effeminate. II that shoe
maker is living to-day he is In a fac,
tory. The world has changed, The big
factory has come. We used to use
fail for threshing, but to-day In the
bright lexicon Of youth. there Is no
such word as fail. Now we have q
steam thresher. And attached to this
is blower which blows out the dust.
and even the straw Is stacked by hot
air, just as we run the business down
at Washington by hot air. My good
mother used to put the milk in pans
and set them on the shelf to allow the
cream to rise. Now we have the sepa.
rator everywhere. Some Yankee figured
out that he was losing the interest on
his Investment while the cream was
rising, So he invented machine TO
jerk II out at once, and carried the
milk to the pigs as a hy-product.
can remember when a boy that hens
used TO set on eggs; but the incubator
does that and the hen goes right on
with the real business now. We used
to keep bees on the farm. and before
they made honey the bees had first to
make the comb. Now we extract the
honey and use the comb over again
while the bee goes on buzzing like a
laborlng man under prosperity. My
good old mother. who Is now 50 years
old, was born on the shores OF Lake
Erie before the time of railroads. tele-
graphs and telephones. She has seen
more than half the progress of the
world and is yet living. We have in
troduced new methods and these make
new problems to solve. There is a
woman living in Chicago who can re.
member when there was no railroad
there In 1858 1t cost one dollar to
take bushel Of grain from Chicago to
Liverpool; to-day 1t can be done for
from II to Is cents.
They used to have street cars out
West, little dinky bob cars drawn by
mules. When they tried to run them
in the winter and the mules faced a
blizzard, they would turn around and
put their heads inside the door OF the
car and hold a joint debate with the
conductor or take a lunch of the cush-
ions. Now they have large cars pro-
PEELED by electricity, Rural free de-
livery OF mails has come, and the farm.
er on a rural free delivery route is
better informed on public affairs, polIt-
lcal and scientific, than the business
men OF the cities.
When Lee surrendered to Grant the
price of products went up In England
for two weeks, because the cable was
broken and Europe did not know for
two weeks what had occurred. In 1898,
when Dewey sank the fleets In Manila.
the news went around the world and
was heard in the White House In just
IS minutes. 1t would almost seem as
II the world was a naw creation, with
the electric wires its nervous system.
The great world has been coming along
most rapidly. The only reason why
we cannot at once solve all problems is
that we can't quite keep up with the
procession.