The Democratic advocate., 1907-12-13
One Hundred Years Ago.


One hundred years ago wedding tours
were not fashionable.
One hundred years ago there were no
Pacific Railroad subsidies.
One hundred years ago the gin best
known was not the cotton gin.
One hundred years ago farmers did not
cut their legs off with moving machines.
One hundred years ago mothers did not
worry over disordered sewing machines.
One hundred years ago horses which
could trot mile in 214 were somewhat
scaret.
One hundred years ago there was no
fast mail train between Baltimore and
Chicago.
One hundred years ago false teeth were
considered preferable to the original grind
ers.
One hundred years ago the people did
not enjoy the inestimable pleasure of growl-
ing about gas bills.
One hundred years ago time and tide
waited for nobody, and now nobody waits
for time and tide
One hundred years ago every young
man was not an applicant for position as
clerk or book keeper.
One hundred years ago there were no
disputes about the impoliteness of street
car drivers.
One hundred years ago crooked
whiskey was not known. Our forefathers
took theirs straight.
One hundred years ago university boat
clubs were not entered at pool-sales like
fighting cocks in pit.
One hundred years ago kerosene lamps
did not explode and assist women to shuttle
off their mortal coils.
One hundred years ago men did not
commit suicide by going up in balloons and
coming down without them.
One hundred years ago there was no
steam on the canal-even the driver on the
tow path didn't steam up in those days
One hundred years ago there were no
Turkish harems at Salt Lake, and no Ann
Elias suing for the nineteenth part OF
divorce.
One hundred years ago England was
not very far behind the United States in
all that goes to make a nation powerful
and progressive.
One hundred years ago young lady
did not lose caste by getting her hands
wet in dish water or rubbing the skin off
her knuckles on a washboard.
One hundred years ago the physician
who could not draw every form of disease
from the system by tapping vein in the
arm, was not much of a doctor.
One hundred years ago the producer
carried his surplus produce to market on his
horse, the products placed in one end Of the
bag and the jug in the other end.
One hundred years ago our fathers did
not light their pipes with matches, but
carried fire in their pockets in the shape
of piece of punk, piece Of steel and
flint.
One hundred years ago public officer
or other citizen could not steal enough to
make the act respectable and insure the
| first circles.
One hundred years ago the condition
of the weather on the lst day of January
was not telegraphed all over the continent
on the evening of December 3lst. Things
have changed.
One hundred years ago people did not
worry about rapid transit and cheap trans
portation, but threw their bags of grain
across the back of their horses and un-
complainingly went to mill.
One hundred years ago every man cut
his coat according to his cloth-every man
was estimated at his real value-shoddy
was not known-nobody struck ile'-and
true merit and honest worth were the only
ground for promotion.
One hundred years ago, to tell the truth,
people generally died from natural causes
while in our day they step out through
steamboat explosions, railroad smashups,
hurricanes, circular saws, and in thou
sand other ways discovered since the birth
of the oldest inhabitant