The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-06-09

so. many secrets, ludL even 14OH'
suc:, wonderful scientific
evemenJs and after so many re-
sable inventions as the last CEN
nv has yielded, We fail to appreciate
: thc. fullest extent the richness OF
the gift.
5 When Ga!vani observed the witch
ing the muscles Of a dead frog, ne
wSs led to invent the electro-chemicai
kattery. When Oersted observed the
deaection OF a delicately suspended
p1agnetic needle under the influence
of;an electric current that was pass
ing along a wire near it. ne caught
&ae first dim vision Of the magnetic
sfe,d, And finally. when the keen in
3elfet OF Faraday entered that field,
sme back bearing in triumph the
ern dynamo.
endered deaf by che sound Of
Gry by night" and confused amid
hum Of business by day, the
lghtless world moves on in the
old path of self and its sordld-
needless Of the student in his
et. and Of the scientist IN his work
30. But these men Of high purpose
Eh deep earnestness go on dreaming
&he realities Of the future, and listen
hg patiently for the soft whispers
HAT are to reveal to them the great
Of the greater cosmos. Like the
Fphets of old they dream dreams
see visions. We are inclined to
eRk askalce at the 444.n VINO creams
are accustomed to value the in
adual in the proportion IN Whlcn
has wrought out the tangible and
material. We look at Niagara
experience a feeling Of awe when
bserve the terrific force Of the
1gwaters and witness the exhibition
their titantic power as they lift vast
masses Of rock and toss them about
as If in sport of their helplessness.
We appreciate the tangible manifes-
nation Of physical force only. But the
Dreamer looks also, and in the same
A #kshirg waters he sees shy, subtle
Bbirit, the play-thing of the storm
Eloud. He entices this anne spirit forth
End sends it on so many missions of
usefulness, that We have learned to
exclaim the wonders Of electricity!
A few months ago I stood On great
prairie in Texas and saw a man leave
the earth on a monoplane, and fy
away as confidently as a bird. Rising
higher and higher in graceful curves,
he SCARED aloft till he became mere
speck on the clouds. Ten thousand
faces were turned upward as they
watched him sail into the great mass
OF .vapor and become lost to view.
Men as they looked became dumb. Di-
rectly the new bird of the air emerg-
ed from the clouds on Lle FARTHER edge.
He turned his course homeward, and
off his power, sWooped down
ward at terrific speed, in a glide as
graceful as ever the proud eagle made.
As the machine rested gently on the
earth, the aviator leaped to the ground
amid the wild shouts from ten thous-
and throats. Langley had dreamed
a dream. The Wrights had made it a
reality.
When by cutting the dykes and
flooding their country, the Dutch fore
ed the Spaniads to raise the siege of
Leyden, one would suppose that their
FIRST thoughts would have been direct
ed to the repairing of their fortunes
and the healing Of their wounds. In
stead, hardly had the booming Of the
hostile guns and the angry shouts Of
She Spanish soldiery died away, when
forgetful Of past suffering and pres
eck sorrow the burghers met and un-
animously resolved to found the uni
versity of Leyden. Such people is
invincible! We need not wonder that
Philip and Alva abandoned the at
tempt to perpetrate upon such a peo-
pie wrong so infamous.
The Dutch gave to the world the
spirit Of modern liberty. The Pilgrim
fathers brought from the Netherlands
to America that same spirit. It found
here a congeniel cline, ard here let
us hope it will ever remain. The es-
tablishment Of a system of education
and the founding of Harvard college
constitute almost an exact parallel to
the policy Of the Dutch. From these
humble beginnings the influence has
spread, until the United States has