The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1905-05-05
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his store Of wisdom. She lifts the |
commonplace to higher level,
beauties the homely, and turns
the prosaic into the poetic; lin
short, her work has been to idcalize
life In all lie phases.
Yesterday the traveller desirous
OF seeing foreign lands badc his
friends farewell, looked a last time
on his home, and began his years
of hardships and dangers. Today
the hopeful tourist is whirlcd over
the lands In palace cars, and car
ricd over the seas In the royal
apartments Of modern stenm-
ship; and ere the earth has courscd
Its orbit he stands on. his own
threshold. having trod lands OF
every cline.
No longer are roadways limited
by Nature's barriers, but they are
carried nigh above the rivers roll
Ing waters and through.thc heart Of
the granite peaks.
When the electrical dieplnys
blaze aud crash Ia terrible mp p'osty,
when the stars shower from the
hcavcns, when the sun dark ems at
midday Ia n cloudless sky, man
no longer secs In these tn, man
fcstsiion Of the wrath OF divinity
but the mysterious aud unyltying
forces Of Nature.
with the present system OF
communication by telegraph, tclc-
phone and cable even the remotcst
parts OF the earth need not bc iso-
lated. Even before the smokc-
clouds raise from the battle field.
the tidings OF victory are borne to
the iarthcst hamlet and the whole
world halls the victor.
Now surgery need not be regard
ed as n growsomc art, for science
has dispcllcd its horrors through
the Introduction OF an anaesthetic;
and the tomb OF Morton, the dis
covcrer, bears this lifting epitaph:
before whom, In all time, surg
| cry was agony. Since whom,
science has control OF the pain.
Human strength Is limited.
Long ago man found his physical
power inadequate to supply even
the necessities OF life. Thercupon
science reveals to him Natures
inexhaustable storchouse; and to-
day the Corliss Hercules prcforms
the labors Of "A hundred thousand
men.
Yesterday the withering blasts
whirled the desert sand, aud the
blistering rays of the sun fell with
terrific heat on the drcary waste.
Science views this scene Of steril-
ity with q frown of displcasurc,
With massive dams she collects
the rivers waters, and In canals OF
"a million branches she carries
them over the surface Of the plain.
And 10! this morn she smiles on
the green fields and growing cities
of q transformed land.
Science has confined her labors
not alone to economic questions,
but they are extended to the study
OF the heavens, the origin OF man,
and the problems of life. BY means
OF spectrum-annalysis she has
disclosed the constitution OF the
most distant heavenly bodies,
their degree OF heat, the speed and
direction OF their motion. The
origin OF the race of man has been
studies by the master minds Of the
past century, and these thinkers
have produced theories so logical,
so amply proved by investigation
and study, that they have stood
the menacing fires of criticism.
All these victories have not been
won without cost. The pages OF
history record no nobler sacrifices
than those made by scientists.
The higher type of unseltishncss IL
embodied in these men who ignor-
ing bodily wants, seek to reveal
truths which may bless posterity.
Archimedes cared not for wars
dissolution or the pillagins OF the
bands of Marcellus. He only en-
treated: "Do not disturb my
circles" Where Is martyrdom
sublimer or devotion nobler than
that Of Gehlen, who sank down
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