The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-07-18

We arc l1t1rHnE D great nauQn'
VIII venture 10 say the Wcailhlcsl nae
lion on The globe Tile Hunntinl Iu
ul1e or Tho country is fortunately not
IN our hands, but win be ia lle future
cliizens hnnds OF The United States.
We, this present generation. are only
feeding and Clothing ourselves and
plling pp Neallh from tie blossom
FROM the odtu ro1pings Of eoaland the
blnssoins hon the 81 and rus and
from iield OF grain and produce
laitd ne iotes Of tinsheT oii "a Aarge
scales Another eefltitry wilt hEillg
about great change There VIII he
great machinery lyeIited that Will
dip deep into the aatst and work ont
large fortunes III iich are hidden Id tisg
Large farms viii be cut M Into hye
land ten acre lots, purpose for pro:
ldace growing and ftuit growing.
Easily the greatest century so far
as material and industrial Develop
Iment Is concerned that whose first
years witnessed the invention Of the
steam locomotive and whose last
lyears Is only d few years back In this
greatest aldfm6st wondfous Of all the
centuries o. which history gives us
lrecord. No other one factor has con-
triblted so much to the making OF
that century so great as the iron
horse, the black giant Of commerce.
Truly has modern Titan been The great
lempire builder of this greatest CEN
fury and with all a mighty clyiliEer;.
Where to-day IS there a continent on
the face, Of the earth whose plains he
has not traYersed, whose valleys he
has not treaded, whose mountains he
has not pierced and whose wilderness
The has not made to blossom as a
rose2 He has welded the nations to-.
gether with bands Of steel; he has
laid down his own courses and actual
by hauled civilization by the train load
from land 10 land and from sea to
sea. He has made thousands and
thousands ot}happy homes to spring
lup as If by magic in every cline
where his blazing torches are seen;
he has founded towns, villages cities
and great metropolises where before
his coming was only desert wastes;
he has builded empires; he has civil.
cation. In the South he is winding
the cotton and weaving 1t into cotton
goods for all purposes, that cotton
goods may be used for in the acrth:5
he is winding the wool and wearing 1t
Iilto cloth for all purposes that cloth
may be used; in the West he is gain!
erihg the golden grain and carrying
it away to the large grtst mills and
grinding 1t into bread stuff to feed the
millions here; in the East he Is wind,
ing the coal from the mines and haul.
ing 1t away by the train loads all over
America for fuel for the millions OF
people. Advice to young man. There
are better advantages and oppOrtuni.
ties at this day and age OF the world.
than there we're in all the centuries
past and gone. We must plan our,
work and work our plans. Young man
remember we have to work wnelner
we handle pick or a pen, a wheel
barrow or a set Of books dig bitches
OF edit paper; ring an auction bell
or write funnythings. We must work.
If you look around you you will see
the men who are the most able to live
the rest Of their days without work
are the men who work the hardest.
DON'T be afraid of killing yolFselt
with oEer&ork 1t Is beyond your
| power. to do that on the sunny side Of
thirty. They die sometimes but It is
because they quit work at 6 p. III. ana
don't get home till 3 a. m. Ii Is the
Interval that kills them. The work
gives you an apeptite for your meals;
it lends solidity to your SAUNDERS; It
/ gives you a perfect and grateful ap-
probation Of holiday. There are
young men who do not work but the
world Is not proud Of them. II does
not know their names even; 1t sfm-
lply speaks OF them as @old So and Sos
boys" nobody likes them; the great
busy world doesn't know that they
lare there. So find out what you want
to be and do and take of your coad
land make adjust in the world. The
buster you are the less harm you are
l.apt to get into; the sweeter will be
l.your sleep; tile brighter and happier
your holidays, and the better salts
fled the world will be with you. Young
Imam II you want to succeed and pras-
per in this busy world you must be
l;true to your fellow man. As for my
Eself ] am not bound to win In every
tfhing that l am engaged in but am
bound to betrue. am not found to
succeed but .am bound to live up to
the right / have; / must stand with
Eanybody that stands right-stand with
him while he Is right and part with
him when he goes wrong.
We should set a high standing and
be careful not to lose our one stand.
ling. We should set our standing high
land live up to 1t. Our country is
llgrowing better, the world may say.
liIt took a hundred years 10 win mil
lion souls to Christ, now we are win
lining them a million a year but Chris
tian friends We should go to church
more regularlyand thereby becoming
better acquainted with each other and
be closer bound to each other by ties
Il tnf 1--we and frinndatfn Az 3-