Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-06-20

ting by your side. In the midst of
the trackless ocena your ship may
founder but despair is not your lot.
You have but to touch a key and
the invisible air becomes your
servant and instantly there rad
iates in every direction as waves
radiate from d pebble thrown into
a pool, your cry for help and. it
is heard ten. twenty. fifty. a hun
dred, five hundred miles away by
other ships which hurry to your
rescue. You have even the wea-
Their anticipated for you, and you
may guard against the approaching
frost and storm. 1t is for you 20
look through walls of tissue into
the innermost part of tie human
body and there detect the cause
and effect of accident or disease
and it is for you to lie on a pain
less bed while the combined know
ledge of medicine and surgery,
which too is yours, o the
Trouble and makes you we'll again.
You may sit by your Preside on
a winters evening and listen to
the choir in old Trinity Church,
aye, even in st Peters, sing the
hymn which for centuries have
stirred mems thoughts to higher
and better things or you may listen
to Grand Opera as heard in New
York, Paris or Berlin or the voices
of the great orators and states
men of the world as they utter the
thoughts which direct the destiny
of nations. You have but to cross
the street to see in perfect repro
duction an Emperor or a Car OBJ
serving the maneuvers of his vast
army; or the mighty Eavies of
England or of your own country
passing in review: you may see the
armies of and Bulgaria and Turkey
marching TO battle: yea, you may
see in the wilds of Africa the king
of beasts in his native lair. At
your breakfast table is laid at your
hand the record of the worlds
events of the day before. The cry
of distress from some terrible
calamity suddenly befallen your
fellows upon the other side of the
world is almost instantly conveyed
to you and with equal dispatch
some banking Institution twelve
thousand miles away is paying out
the money your generosity has be-
slowed upon the sufferers and what
you have done for them they may
do for you.
Oh, what a wonderful age il is in
which you live! What a heritage
is yours if you will but apply your
selves to receive il! Much Of it is
yours without any effort on your
part much you cannot fully enjoy
without a contest to obtain it.
Many of the things | have mem
toned and many more that | have
not referred to. which you have a
right to inherit if you will, arc
locked in golden casket and the keys
are hung high upon a stone wall
reached only by the ladder Of
effort which you must climb round
by round before you nay reach and
grasp them and unlock the casEcts
and appropriate to yourselves the
treasures that lie within.
How much greater is your herit-
age than that of your fathers and
mothers or of their fathers and
mothers How much the last two
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the worlds great reservoir Of
knowledge from the inexhausti5le
supply of which you may freely
draw.
Now comes to all Of you the de-
cision of a momentous question in
your lives. Are you going to stop
where you are and content our
selves with enjoying the gifts
which thus far have been placed
in your hands or are you going TO
set your heart upon unlocking some
one or more of the golden caskets
which are now beyond your reach?
If | do not misjudge you, you have
made up your minds to open IN
some of those caskets that lie be-
You'd that the knowledge which
others have acquired you are going
to acquire and when acquired you
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