Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-02-29

children have been with her, and her
every want has been supplied; and
best of all Christ has been constantly
at her side, whom having not seen,
she hath yet learned to love.
Oh, wonderful life of full rounded
century, Can we begin to grasp it's
Perhaps if we connect
it with few of the leading events of
the century which it covered it will
help us. When Mrs. Keys first saw
the light of day, George Washington
had been dead four years: and
Thomas Jefferson, the third president
of the United States, was in the presi-
Dental chair. That very year in
which she was born was con-
summated, through the influence of
JEFF -rson, the purchase of Louisiana
(Which then included the larger part
of what is now our great west) from
France, for the sum of S11, $50 900.
thus changing the destiny of this
n 4tion and influencing to a marked
degree the future history of the world.
The French Revolution had run its
awful course of wild intoxication;
and the star of Napoleon, that man of
destiny who barely missed being con-
queror of the world, had just begun
to rise, when Mrs. Keys was born.
She was four years old when Fulton
sailed his steamboat up the Hudson,
to the utter establishment of the
people along it's banks, thus inaugu-
rating mode of travel which revo-
lutionized the ocean trade, and which
has been such an important factor in
the civilization of mankind. She
was nine years old at the beginning
of our war with England, the war
of 1912, which, if it settled no point in
dispute between the two countries,
yet demonstrated to the world that
the United States had quickly risen
to he power upon the ocean fit to
cope with any of the the great and
powerful nations of the Old World.
She was twelve years old when per-
haps the greatest battle in the history
of the world, was fought, the battle
of Waterloo, in which Napoleon re-
ceived his final quietus, and the world
decided to be it's own master, through
the gradual triumph of democracy in
all the governments of this earth
She was young lady of twenty six
years when the first engine pulled
into Manchester, England, hauling
the first train of cars ever run over a
railway track in the world And
thir for a moment what has been
accomplished for the triumph of
civilization throughout the world
through this one agency, and all in
the lifetime of this one woman. 1t
was when she was twenty nine. the
year of her marriage, that a dreadful
epidemic of Asiatic cholera visited
Great Britain, from which in single
year 60, 600 human beings were swept
into untimely graves. And it was
this same year, the year of her mar
rage, that the inventor, Morse, was
laughed at for saying in public
speech, 81 see no reason why thought
may not be transmitted by electricity"
It took Morse inst twelve years to
demonstrate to all the world that he
not talking nonsense for it was
when the subject of this sketch was
forty-one, that the first telegraph
message flashed over the wires,
ushering in yet another world trans
forming movement in the history of
humanity She was sixty five years
old when Cyrus Field successfully laid
the great Atlantic cable, which con-
nected continents separated for long
ages; and made possible the instant
transmission, as by fash of lightning,
of happenings in the most distant
parts of the earth.
But why go further? The invention
of the telephone, the trolley car, the
electric lights, the phonograph, the
X-rays, wireless telegraphy, and a
hundred other modern wonders, have
all come to pass in the very evening
of her life. Truly, when we review
. the past, and begin to count up what
a century has brought forth, we are
compelled to cry out in wonder; but
after all, is not the fact of life and
Immortality greater than all the
wonders of the universe beside?
think SO. And here we have a SOU
which has been fed by God and
nourished for, 10, these hundred
years, and has not grown old withal
but is even now just beginning tc
live.
Sister Keys, dear old saint of God
you stand to US as pledge and proc
of Immortality. Your life, evsn nov
while yet you linger with US, savorl
more of heaven than of earth. You
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