The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-11-17
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greater than any other nation
but the end of both coal and iron
is in sight. By the year 1887.
all the iron will have been exhaus
ted. He also drew attention to
the fact that there was time
when Uncle Sam was rich enough
to give US all a farm. Anybody
could settle IN the west and after
living on 1t five years and proving
up his claim, the land was his,
but today Uncle Sam is no longer
able to give US a farm. All the
land IN the United States has
been taken up except that which
must be drained or irrigated.
Have you ever pictured the con
dltions of us, when all the sup.
plies of fuel have been exhausted.
In Iceland nothing grows bigger
than a birch, but a birch will
grow wherever boy will grow.
Now in Iceland where the condi.
tlons are so hard, the human race
does not obtain It's usual height;
but when those lcelanders are
transported to Minnesota, they
grow as large as any other boy
and yet Iceland has attained a
very high degree of culture that
has gained the admiration of the
world and it has solved some pro
biems of Government that we are
still struggling with.
81 recall my University days at
Leipsic and Berlin when my stove
was a big porcelain one In the
corner of the room which was
heated about eleven o'clock so
that 1t would be warm on my re-
turn from the lectures. Many a
time have / seen the servant girl,
in the kitchen, with her knuckles
blue with cold because she could
not afford to have the stove heat.
ed during the cold winter eve
nings.
Now, what will be the condition
of the American people when our
supply of fuel Is gone? What is
it that will make Pittsburg wane
a century from now? They say
that the soft coal will begin
to give out IN about one hundred
years, but the supply of soft coal
may last longer, hut at the rate
we are using them, they will give
out some time in the next cen.
tury.
"Do you not see that the door
of hope to the future opens
through the school-room, and
that it is our business to fit the
boys for the problem of the fu-
ture? If [ should carry a bucket
of water to the top of this build
ing and pour 1T to the ground, I
would Iiberate as much energy as
1t took force to carry 1t up there.
The sun is drawing water up In
the sky where it is condensed
and deposited on the earth which
feeds our streams. Some one
has said that rain enough falls on
the Garth every year to form ten
Mississippi rivers. In the past
ten years, the possibilities of Mis-
souri, have been diminishing, but
north of st. LOUIS, they are now
building dam which, when fin.
ished, will make st. Louis one of
the great manufacturing centers
of the United States. The elec
tricity which will be generated at
the dam will be sent to st. Louis
and then formed into new centers
of industry.
"lf you ever get to Nlagra
Falls, visit the factory where
shredded biscuit Is made, the
cleanest factory on the earth. and
you will see how the Falls are
helping to feed this great multi
tude. Some one has said that it
would take all of the coal mined
in the earth IN one year to fur
nish enough power to draw back
the water which falls over the
Falls IN one day, and that the cars
to draw this coal would reach "a
times around the earth at the
Equator. The time is coming
that the farm will be most yalua
BILE that has a stream OF water
upon it, and 1 understand that
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