The Hattiesburg news., 1916-12-06


it up We are not complaining But how can such
things be and overcome like cloud without ex
citing special wonder"
This is great age we live in The horseess carriage is
thing of recent years The telephone is not old MANY Of
remember when New York City had no electric street
the docie mule furnished the power on Broadway And
when he suppanted they said alas poor mule your day
done But he worth money now than he was then
And is the way with the horse the horseess carriage
alias the automobile has cheapened him bit he is still
doing business The growth of the country the answer
that
And that reminds of what the country is The coun
try is not country any 1t has been rescued from its
isolation the South has been rescued from the yellow fever
plague he in the country has pasabe roads now and
automobile and and go when he peases and not
be all day about it. And be under his own vine and
fig tree and hear Caruso and Scott and Mccormick sing And
he put his mouth close the and talk to friends
thousand miles away None of which blessings his father or
his mother had when he young, he getting old
And these are but Of the things in general use In
special lines the growth has been great There in this Of
hce newspaper press which small by comparison with 9TH
e but which the ingenuity of man had conceived Of forty
years ago There is in this office tye-setting and type
modng machine which revoutionized the printing business
since men this town learned how stick type If
you middleaged man you heard OF laundry
when you were boy II real sporty you
collars at two for nickel and threw them away when
they became soled Dont why they discard
ed, ourseves).
People who have the and know how to use it
listen the rumble of earthquake thousands Of miles
away and nearly locate it. The lightning has been chained
and from mdocean made obey mans command and send
his messages back loved the shore Ships hide from
danger beneath the friendly of the deep they plow
their way from shore shore Men eave the
sky fast eagle birds and look down from
their aerial perch upon frivolous things than the prophets
OF old dreamed Of Why people have been burned
the stake for less trivial things than talking mysterious
spirits wire And things happening every day
which, had they occurred without understanding century
ago. would have been called miracles The miracles read
of in the Bible conceivable the everyday things Of
life would be if we had no interpreter.
The world moving fast that one man in thou
sand has faint conception Of what doing
line of endeavor knows little nothing Of the improve
made and the tricks of trade in another branch Of bus
The machinery of today discarded tomorrow for
thing and better quickly do and discover
les tread upon the heels of each other
And the future if may make bold prophesy will be
greater still Following Il great upheavas the world makes
mighty stride forward after the Napoleonc 1t
after the French revolution after the
clash Of in Europe has been ended Out Of the travail Of
that great conflict, good will Nayhap will teach
the socaed rulers of the earth that there greater Ruler
than they Mayhap it will teach them remember that "a
soft answer urneth away wrath Mayhap they viii learn not
sco such trte sayings and to rely upon the prom
ises contained in Holy Writ For if they had this
could have been Because the Nation that goes to war;
rather the ruler of Nation that goes apostaszes from
the principles of the Christian religion That and the lesson
simple od-fashioned Christian doctrine which Europe and
many this country have orgottenthat We
shall ye also reap the great learned
this holocaust of and if learned well will large
for the havoc that has been wrought From
this riot disorder and carnage of blood may come the
sage of old the Lord hath broken the staff of the
and the scepter the rulers and then the peace that v
will be the peace Of an everlasting day
May the spirit Of the Master whose natal day we ceIe
brate abide every Hcmehovel or palaceths comm.
Christmas season, and may the changes vstaons of tn
New Year bring blessings upon them ALL the sincere
most friendly wish of IFt News,