The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-07-25

reaching our your hand you can touch any one
of these 1000 men, however far along the line
they may stand i n
The mystery Of this is far beyond the power
Of Aladdin's lamp, marvellous as it was reported
to be. BY its aid you can spend an hour or
day with anyone of the thousand. To do it you
must go into library and reach out your hand
for the printers invention called a book. Said
Mrs Hale:
"a blessing on the printers art
Books are the mentors of the heart"
Carlyle said in Heroes and Hero Worship"
"All that mankind has done. thought, gained
been; it is the lying in magic preservation in
the pages of books. They are the chosen pos
session of men,
Put your thinking cap and you may re-
call, you look in a book, and find that
Gen. Artemus Ward was the only New England
considered for cCmmander-in- chief of the
American revolutionary forces, but the Adamses
thought that Virginia, the most populous state,
entitled to the honor and they used their
influence for Washington otherwise Washington
would probably not have been the Father of His
Country" Ward was made the ranking gen
eral. You may recall the fact learn from a
book that Congressman from Indiana by the
name OIL BOrum introduced ana urged against
strong opposition the bill to help Morse to build
the first telegraph line and his constituents re-
fused to return him because he wasted public
money; that deaf Frenchman-Joseph Sauveur
laid the foundations for the science of acous-
tics and that blind Swiss-Francis Huber
made the first practical study of bees and is still
authority. Columns of facts could be noted
of things enjoyed by the world, and the
authors
in books
In a book you come into touch with Homer,
Job, Moses, David, Solomon, Aristotle, Herodo-
tus, Zoroaster and Confucius Open the covers
of a book and you hear the sayings of Socrates
just if you were dead to the world today and
alive in Egypt, Greece, Persia or China, $500
years ago. You can hear the laments of jeremiah,
the fables of Aesop the songs of Sappho, and
ponder over the wisdom of Plato and Solomon
and the parallels of The Christ, and the marvel
does not end with the thousand. The invention of
the German printer gives us chance to tarry
with multitude not included in the preferred
class. This invention which enables you to read
closely antedates the discovery of America, gives
amazing opportunity to travel down the
wonderful line Just by wishing it, we can reach
any spot in the line at moments notice. We
can go at once to any part of the globe if we
call for the books of the traveller and explorer,
fly off to the moon and sun and stars, speed
along with the comets, or plunge into the milky
Sit in your chair and the best works of Epic
tetus, Marcus, Aurelius, Dante, Shakespeare, Mil
ton and Emerson can be repeated to you. Any
way, by calling for the books of the astronomer.
person time within reason is yours How
many of really know this? Most of US do not
know how rich We and not knowing it we too
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just as well live glorious lives and sing Instead
of tramping along this endless line, visit the
book shelves and talk with few of the thou
sand and try and find out how they got into the
exclusive class. 1t may help you.