Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-12-02

one do not want (. {. .'..ck to the old
poetic times of { ming wheel
DO not wish my " e. - wear her we'd
ding rousseau. colup lsed of one or two
dresses ana II shawl. made so strong
that they will last fnr twenty. thirty.
forty. fifty years. aud then have her
will them 20 her children and grand
children as family relies For my part,
| thank God for the comforts Of mod
crn dress. thank God that for a
mere song the sewing machine and the
big factory can give me light garments
for summer aud heavy garments for
winter and brighten my Easter sery-
sc 20: ca!y "!.h the acwe.s 90 the
field. but with new spring garments
for both masculine and feminine
BENEFITS of improvements.
But. after discussing for n little while
the benefits which machinery has Civ
cn 70 u In our eating and drinking
and our sanitation ana In our wearing
apparel. shall we stop there: Shall we
not ut least hint at the wonderful ben
eiits tina, have come TO us from tele
phone and telegraph ana the modern
newspapers and the lights by which
we read IN the evening hours. and
from the typewriter which has so lift
cd the oncrons burdens Of professional
and mercantile life. and the electric
ears which for = cents make IL posi-
bic for u business man 10 he In his Of
flee nj half past : In the morning and
yet take his evening meal In subur-
ban home surrounded 10y flowers and
grass growl yard. as well as by wife
and children: Shall we not thank God
for the wonderful inventions OF the
biologists laboratory. for the micro
scope. the I,oentgcn rays and all the
wonderful Means by which disease Is
being halted IN its onward march and
driven blcl, and by which the crooked
limbs are made straight: Shall we not
thank God for the wonderful system
of street lamps we have. which makes
midnight in a large city almost as
bright as midday anu which light Is
the greatest of all crime prcycnters?
AMI. above MI. shall we not thank God
for our library shelves filled with
books, cheap books, yet books ready
to serve u; when we stretch out our
hands for them:
We are living In a wonderful age.
How wonderful it is not one of us can
truly grasp was never more i'm
pressed with the rapid advancement of
material blessings and of inventions
than when reading recently synopsis
of II lecture delivered 10y the late Bish-
op Clark Of Rhode Island In lSJd. At
that time there were no bicycles. no
automobiles. no typewriting machines.
no telephones. no Atlantic cables. no
transcontinental railroad. no great
steamship lines rs we conceive them,
no successful airsh.p'. no sleeping ears
no large Office buildings. with their ole
vatorS. and no electric ears. The title
of this lecture was THE Next Fifty
Years" These are some of the prophe-
cics Bishop Clark then made: We have
made wonderful progress IN travelling
facilities curing the last half century.
bui do You think improvement Is going
TO stop there; Nay. Postcrty will not
be- content 10 travel nj the slow rate of
only thirty miles an hour seated in
these narrow ears. stiiicd with bad air
and dirt II costs no great effort to
imagine fifty years hence Il splendid
locomotive. with hotel. spacious par
i,t,t Il .eis..
moving gently rs the bird flies over a
road carpcicd by turf and bordcred by
shade trees and sweet shrubs from
Boston To san Francisco in four days"
Have not the good bishops prophecies
almost literally come true? Shall we
not soon leap the continent from the
Atlantic to the Pacific in less than four
days: Then Bishop Clark goes on and
prophcSicS some of the wonderful in
vcniions that have come 10 pass in the
electric world. "Thc electric battery
which now IN some of our cities strikes
the midnight hour. may be made ut
evening 10 light all of our street lamps
nj one flash. secure perfect uniformity
of time in our public clocks and kindle
Il beacon on these drcary rocks in the
sea. where human beings now endure
Il melancholy and dangerous solitude"
Bishop Clark from the celestial heights
might see those electric lights shining
today. Speak out. W lonely islanders
now in touch with mankind. Speak
out.
Then the good bishop goes on and de-
scribcs the wonderful invention of the
modern Typewriter. 10 me one OF the
greatest labor saving machines in the
world. He continues: There Is an
other invention which for one would
hail with exceeding joy. II may seem
absurd 10 predict that the time may
come when II will not be customary
10 teach our children how 10 write. II
would have been thought just rs alb
surl fifty wears ago 10 have forctold
that the boys Of this generation would
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