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Bi p6wLER g c P C: l WboleMW Retail Dealer III DRY GOODS and SHOES jf FOVLER g CO m m VICTORIES OF PEACE. i THANKSGIVING THE SUBJECT OF DR. I TALM AGE'S SERMON. Urn CsnnerfttM Manr of tbe Dl J lnffa Ftor TVbleb We Sltowld D ! Tliankfnl 3Ltt chin err Ha LleliteB DnrIen Cod Seat tbe Wheel. Copyriiht, Loul Klopach. 1300.J Wa&uingtox, Not. 2a This dis courso of Dr. Talmage la a sermon of 'preparation for the national observ ance of this week and In an unusual jway calls for the gratitude of the peo ple; the text, Ezekiel x, 13. "As for the jwhcela, It was cried unto them In my hearing, O'wheelP i Kext Thursday will, by proclamation tof president and governors, be ob served In thanksgiving for temporal mercies. With what spirit shalf we !cnter upon It? For nearly a year and a half this nation has been celebrating the triumph of the sword and gun and battery. We have sung martial airs 'and cheered returning heroes and sounded the requiem for the slain In battle. Methlnks it will be a healthful jchange If this Thanksgiving week. In church and homestead, we celebrate the victories of peace, for nothing was done at Santiago or Manila that was of 'more Importance than that which In the last year has been done In farmer's "field and mechanic's shop and author's study by thoso who never wore an epaulet or shot a Spaniard or went a hundred miles from their own doorsllL And now I call your attention to the wheel of the text. Man, a small speck In tbe universe, was set down In a big world, high mountains rising before him, deep seas arresting hU pathway and wild beasts capable of hl3 destruction, yet he was to conquer. It could not be by physical force, for compare his arm with the ox'a horn and the elep'hanf s tusk, and how weak he 1st It could not bo by physical speed, for compare hlin to the antelope's foot and ptarmigan's wing, 'and how slow be Is! It could not bo by physical capacity to soar or plunge, for the condor beats him In one direction and the porpoise In the other. Yet he Hras to conquer the world. Two eyes, two hands and two feet were Insuffi cient. He must be re-enforced, so God 'sent the whecL J Twenty-two times Is the wheel men tioned In the Bible, sometimes, as In Ezekiel, Illustrating providential move ment; sometimes, as In the Psalms, 'crushing the bad; sometimes, a3 In judges, representing God's charioted progress. The wheel that started In Tlxodus rolls on through Troverbs, Ithrough Isaiah, through Jeremiah, thronirh Daniel. through Nahum, jthrough the centuries, all the time leathering momentum and splendor, iuntll, seeing what It has done for the orld'a Drocress and happiness, we elan our hands In thanksgiving and '.employ the apostrophe of the text, 'crying, "O wheel r I Triumphs of Machinery. I I call on you In this Thanksgiving 'week to praise God for the triumphs of 'machinery, which have revolutionized tho world and multiplied Its attrac tions. Even paradise, though very pic turesque, must have been comparative ly dull, hardly anything-going on, no agriculture needed, for the harvest was spontaneous; no architecture required, for they slept under the trees; no man ufacturer's loom necessary for the weaving of apparel, for the fashions were exceedingly simple. To dress the 'garden could not havo requIrJ ten minutes a day. Ilavlng nothing to do, they got Into mischief and ruined themselves and the race. It was a sad thing to be turned out of paradise, but, once turn ed out, a beneficent thing to be com 'pelled to work. To help man up and 'on God Bent the wheel. If turned 'ahead, the race advances; If turned back, the race retreats. To arouse your 'gratitude and exalt your praise I would 'show you what the.wheel has done for .the domestic world, for the agricultural 'world, for tho traveling world, for tho literary, world. "As for the wheels, it "was cried unto them In my hearing, O wheel r In domestic lifo the wheel has "wrought revolution. Behold the sew ing machine I It has shattered the housewife's bondage and prolonged Svoman's life and added Immeasurable 'advantages. The needle for ages had 'punctured the eyes and pierced the side and made terrible massacre. To prepare the garments of a whole house hold In the spring for summer and In the autumn for winter was an ex hausting process. "Stitch, stitch, stitch r Thomas Hood set It to poetry, but mil lions of persons have found It agonlz .Ing prose. ! Slain by tho sword, we burled the hero with "Dead March" In -Saul" and 'flags at half mast Slain by the needle, no one knew It but the household that Svatched her health giving way. The 'winter, after that the children were 'ragged and cold and hungry or In the Almshouse. The band that wielded (the needle had forgotten Its cuunlng. Boul and body had parted at the seam. The thimble had dropped from the palsied finger. The thread of life had snapped and let a suffering human life "drop into the grave. The spool was all unwound. Iler sepulcher was digged not " with sexton's spade, t but with a sharper ard shorter Implement a needle. Federal and Confederate dead have "ornamented graves at Arlington Heights and Richmond and Gettysburg, thousands by thousands, but It will take the archangel's trumpet to find 'the million graves of the vaster army of women needle Blaln. Besides all the sewing done for tbe 'household at home, there are hundreds pf thousands of sewing women. The tragedy of the needle Is the tragedy ol hunger and cold and Insult and home sickness apd suicide five acts. A Cheerful Slave. " But 1 hear tbe rush of a wbeeL Wom an puts on the band and adjusts tlx Instrument, nuts her foot ou the treadle and begins. Before the whir and rattle pleurisies, consumptions, headaches, backaches, heartaches, are routed. The needle, once an oppress ive tyrant, becomes a cheerful slave roll and rumble and roar until the fam ily wardrobe Is gathered, and winter Is defied, and summer la welcomed, and the ardors and severities of the seasons are overcome; winding the bobbin, threading the shuttle, tucking, quilting, ruffling, cording, embroidering, under braiding set to music; lock stitch, twist ed loop Btltch, crocket stitch, a fasci nating ingenuity. No wonder that at some of the learn ed Institutions, like the New Jersey State Normal school, and Rutgers Fe male institute, and Elmlra Female col lege, acquaintance with the sewing ma chine is a requisition, a young lady not being considered educated until she understands It, Winter is coming on, and the household must be warmly clad. -The Last Rose of Summer" will sound better played on a sewing ma chine than on a piano. Roll -on, O wheel of the sewing machine, until the last shackled woman of toll shall be emancipated! Roll on I Secondly, I look Into the agricultural world to see what the wheel has ac complished. . Look at the stalks of wheat and oats, the one bread for man, the other bread for horses. Coat off and with a cradle made out of five or six fingers of wood and one of sharp steel, the harvester went across the field, stroke after stroke, perspiration rolling down forehead and cheek and chest, head blistered by the consuming 6un and lip parched by the merciless August air, at noon the workmen lying half dead under the trees. One of my most painful boyhood memories Is that of my father In harvest time reeling from exhaustion over the doorstep, too tired to eat, pale and fainting as he sat down. The grain brought to the barn, tho sheaves were unbound and spread on a thrashing floor, and two men with flails stood opposite each other, hour after hour and day after day, pounding the wheat out of, the stalk. Two strokes, and then a cessa tion of sound. Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump I Pounded once and then turned over to be pounded again, slow, very slow. The hens cackled and clucked by the door and picked up the loose grains and the horses half asleep and dozing over the mangers where the hay had been. Wheel of the Reaper. But hark to the buzz of wheels In the distance I The farmer has taken his throne on a reaper. He once walk ed; now he rides; once worked with arm of flesh, now with arm of Iron. He starts at the end of the wheatfield, heads his horses to the opposite end of the field, rides on. At the stroke of his Iron chariot the gold of the grain Is surrendered, the machine rolling this way and rolling that, this way and that, until the work which would have been accomplished In many days Is ac complished in a few hours, the grain field prostrate before the harvesters. Can you Imagine anything more beautiful than the sea Island cotton? I take up the unmelted snow In my hand. How beautiful it Is I But do you know by what painstaking and tedious toll it passed Into anything like practicality? If you examined that cotton, you would find It full of seeds. It was a severe process by which the seed was to be extracted from the fiber. Vast populations were -leaving the south because they could not make any living out of thia product. One pound of green seed cotton was all that a man could prepare In one day, but Ell Whitney, a Massachusetts Yankee, woke up, got a handful of cotton and went to constructing a wheel for the parting of the fiber and the seed.- Teeth on cylinders, brushes on cylin ders, wheels on wheels. South Caro lina gave him $50,000 for his Inven tion, and, Instead of one man taking a whole day to prepare a pound of cot ton for the market, now he may pre pare three hundredweight, and the south Is enriched, and the commerce of the world Is - revolutionized, and oyer 8,000,000 bales of cotton were prepar ed this year, enough to keep at work In this country 14,300,000 spindles, em ploying 270,000 . bands and enlisting f 2S1.400.000 of capital. Thank you. Ell Whitney, and L. S. Chichester of New York, his successor. Above all, thank God for their Invent ive genius, that has done so much for the prosperity of the world. ' Cause For Thanks. Thirdly, I look to see what the wheel has done for the traveling world. No one can tell how many noble and self sacrificing Inventors have been crush ed between the coach wheel and the modern locomotive, between the pad dle and the ocean steamer. I will not enter Into the controversy as to whether John Fitch or Robert Fulton or Thomas Somerset was the Inventor of the steamboat They all suffered and were martyrs of the wheel, and they shall be honored. John Fitch wrote: Th list of Jautjary, l?t3, was tbe fatal time of bringing me Into existence. I know of nothing ao perplexing and vexations to a, man of feeling as a turbulent wife and steamboat building. I experi enced tbe former and quit In season, and bad X been in mjr right senses I should undoubtedly hare treated tbe latter In tbe same manner; but, for one man to be teased with both, be must be looked upon as the most unfortunate man in the world. Surely John Fitch "was In a bad pre dicament If the steamboat boiler did not blow him up, his wife would. In all ages there are those to prophesy the failure of any useful Invention. You do not know what the Inventors of the day suffer. When It was proposed to light London with gas. Sir Hum phry Davy, the great philosopher, said that be should as soon think of cutting a slice from the moon and setting It upon a pole to light the city. Through all abuse and caricature .Fitch and Fulton went until yonder the wheel la in motion, and the Clermont the first steamboat Is going up the North river, running the distance bold your breath"" while I tell yori-rbm New York to Albany in 32 Hours, isux tne steamboat wheel multiplied Its veloci ties until the Lucanla of the Cunard line and the Majestic of the White Star line and the New York of the American line and the Kaiser Wllbelm of the North German Lloyd line cross the Atlantic ocean In six days or less, communication between the two coun tries so rapid and so constant that whereas once those who had been to Europe took on airs for the rest of their mortal lives and to me for many years the most disagreeable man I could meet was the man who had been to Europe, despising all American pic tures and American music and Ameri can society because they had seen Eu ropean pictures and heard European music and mingled In European so ciety oow a transatlantic voyage Is so common that a sensible man would no more boast of It than If be had been to New York or Boston; Landmarks of rroarress. What a difference between John Fitch's steamboat CO feet long, and the Oceanic, 704 feet long I The ocean wheel turns swifter and swifter, filling np the distance between the hemis pheres and hastening the time spoken of In the book of Revelation when there shall be no more sea. While this has been doing on the water James Watt's wheel has done as much on the land. How well I re member Sanderson's stagecoach, run ning from New Brunswick to Easton, as he drove through Somerville, N. J., turning up to the postoffice and drop ping the mall bags with ten letters and two or three newspapers, Sander son himself on the box, C feet 2 Inches and well proportioned, long lash whip In his hand, the reins of six horses In the other, the "leaders" lathered along the line of the traces, foam dripping from the bits! It was the event of the day when the stage came. It was our highest ambition to become a stage driver. Some of the boys climbed on the great leathern boot of the stage, and those of us who could not get on shouted, -Cut behind r I saw the old stage driver not long ago, and I expressed to him my surprise that- one around whose head I had seen a halo of glory In my boyhood time was only a man like the rest of us. Between Sander son's stagecoach and a Chicago express train what a difference, all the great cities of the nation strung on an iron thread of railways I At Doncaster, England, I saw George Stephenson's first locomotive. If In good repair, It could run yet but be cause of its make and size It would be the burlesque of all railroaders. Be tween that rude machine, crawling down the Iron track, followed by a clumsy and bouncing train, and one of our Rocky mountain locomotives, with a village of palace cars, becoming drawing rooms by day and princely dormitories by night what bewitching progress l Modern Wonders. See the train move out of one of our great depots for a thousand mile jour ney! All aboard I Tickets clipped and baggage checked and porters attentive to every want under tunnels dripping with dampness that never saw the light; along ledges where an Inch off the track would be the difference be tween a hundred men living and a hundred dead, full head of steam and m0n in the locomotive charged with all the responsibility of whistle and Westlnghouse brake. Clank! clank! go the wheels. Clank! clank! echo the rocks. Small villages only hear the thunder and see the whirl wind as the train shoots past a city on the wing. Thrilling, startling, sublime, magnificent spectacle a rail train In lightning procession. When years ago the railroad men struck for wages, our country was threatened with annihilation, and we realized what the railroad wheel had done for this country over one hun dred and eighty thousand miles of rail road in the United States; In one year over a billion dollars received from passengers and freight; White moun tains, Alleghany mountains. Rocky mountains, Sierra Nevadas, bowing to the Iron yoke; all tbe rolling stock of New York Central, Erie, Pennsylvania, Michigan Central, Georgia, Great Southern, Union Pacific and all the other wheels of the tens of thousands of freight cars, wrecking cars, ca booses, drawing room cars, sleeping cars, passenger cars, of all the accom modation, express and special trains, started by the wheel of the grotesque locomotive that I saw at Doncaster. For what it has done for all Christen dom I ejaculate In the language of the text "O wheel r While the world has been rolling on the eight wheels of the rail car or the four wheels of the carriage or the two wheels of the gig It was not until 187G, at the Centennial exposition at Phila delphia, that the miracle of the nine teenth century rolled In the bicycle. The world could not believe Its own eyes, and not until quite far on In the eighties were the continents enchanted with the whirling, flashing, dominat ing spectacle of a machine that was to do so much for the pleasure, tbe busi ness, the health and the profit of na tions. Tbe world had needed It tor 6,000 years. Man's slowness of loco motion was a mystery. Was it of more Importance that the reindeer or the eagle rapidly exchanged Jungles or crags than that man should get swift ly from place to place? Was the busi ness of the bird or the roebuck, more argent ihan that of tbe Incarnated Im mortal? No. At last we have the obliteration of distances by pneumatic Ure. At last we have wings. And what has this Invention done for, wo man? Tho cynics and constitutional growlers would deny her this eman cipation and say. "What better exer cise can she have than a broom or ft duster cr a churn or rocking a cradle or running up and down stairs or a walk to church with a prayer book un der her ana?" And they "rather "re joice to find her disabled with broken pedal or punctured tire half way out to Chevy Chase or Coney Island. But all sensible people who! know the tonic of fresh air and the health In deep respiration and the awakening of dis used muscles and the exhilaration of velocity will rejoice that wife and mother' and daughter may have this new recreation. Indeed life to so many Is so hard a grind that I am glad at the arrival of any new mode of health ful recreation. We need have no anx iety about this Invasion of the world's stupidity by the vivacious and laugh ing and Jubilant wheel, except that wo always want it to roll in the right di rection, toward place of business, to ward good recreation, toward philan thropy, toward usefulness, toward places of divine worship, and never to ward Immortality or Sabbath desecra tion. My friend Will Carteton, the poet said what I like when he wrote: tTe claim a great utility that dally roust increase; We claim from inactivity a sensible release A constant mental, physical and moral help we feel, " That bids us turn enthusiasts and cry, Ood bices the wheel!-. Never yet having mounted one of those rolling wonders, I stand by tho wayside, far enough' off to avoid be ing run over, and in amazement and congratulation cry out In Ezeklel's phraseology of the text "O wheeir Mlrncnloas Printing Tress. Fourthly, I look Into the literary world and see what the wheel has ac complished. I am more astounded with this than anything that has pre ceded. Behold the almost miraculous printing press! Do you not feel the ground shake with the machinery of the New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Phil adelphia, Washington and western dailies? Some of us remember when the hand ink roller was run over the cylinder, and by great haste 800 copies of the village newspaper were Issued In one day and, no lives lost But In vention has crowded invention and wheel Jostled whecL stereotyping, electrotyping, taking their places, Ben jamin Franklin's press giving way, to the Lord Stanhope press, and the Washington press and the Victory press and the Hoe perfecting press have been set up." Together with the newspapers comes tho publication of Innumerable books of history, of poetry, of romance, of art, of .travel, of bioarranhy. of religion, dictionaries, en cyclopedias and Bibles. Some of these presses "send forth the most accursed stuff, but the good predominates. Turn on with wider s weep and greater veloc ity, O wheel wheel of light wheel of civilization, wheel of Christianity, wheel of divine momentum! i On those four wheels that of the sewing machine, that of the reaper, that of the railroad locomotive, that of the printing press the world has mov ed up to Its present prosperity. And now I gather on an imaginary platform, as I literally ' did when I preached In Brooklyn, specimens of our American products. Dountifnl Harvests.; Here Is corn from the west n fore taste of the great harvest that Is to come down to our seaboard, enough for ourselves and for foreign shipment Here is rice from the south, never a more beautiful product grown on the planet mingling the gold and green. Here are two sheaves, a sheaf of north ern wheat and a sheaf of southern riee, bound together. May the buna never break l Here Is cotton, the wealthiest product of America. Here Is sugar cane, enough to sweeten the beverages of an empire. Who would think that ont nf such a humble stalk there would come such a luscious product? Here are palmetto trees that have, in tneir pulses the warmth of southern climes. Here is the cactus of the south, so bountiful and so tempting It must go armed. Here are the products of American mines. This Is Iron, this is coaL the Iron representing a vast yield, nnr oountrv 'sending forth one year 800,000 tons of It the coal representing 1G0.000 square miles of it the iron prying out the coaL the coal smelting the iron. This Is silver, silver from Colorado and Nevada, those places able yet to yield . silver napkin rings and silver knives and silver casters and silver platters forall our people. Here Is mica from-the quarries of New Hampshire. How beautiful it looks In the sunllgLt! Here is copper from Lake Superior, so heavy I dare not lift it Here Is gold, from Virginia and Georgia. . I look around me on thl3 imaginary platform, and It seems as If the waves of agricultural, mineralogical, pomo logical wealth dash to the platform, an.l there '. are four beautiful beings that walk In, -and they are all gar lau'lfd, and , one Js garlanded with wheat and blossoms of snow, and I find she U the north, and another comes In, and her brow is garlanded with rice and -blossoms of magnolia, and I find she Is the south, and another comes In, nun I Cndshe Is earlanded with sea weed and blossoms of spray, and I find Rhft la the east and another comes in. and I find she Is . garlanded With silk of corn and radiant with caurornia gold, and I find she Is the west and, coming face to face, they take off their garlands, and.they twist them together into something that looks;; like a wreath, but it 13 i wheel, the wheel of national;- prosperity, and I say In an outburst ot Thanksgiving Joy for whdt God has done for the' north and the south and the east tand "the west "O wheeir w..: 'Sh '"Z: At different times In Europe they have tried, to get a congress of . kings at Berlin or at Paris or at St Peters-v bnrg, but it has always been a failure. Oniv a few kings, have come. : But on this Imaginary, platform that I have rrint we have a convention of all the kings Klng'Corn, Kfng Cotton, King Rice, King ' Wheat King oats, lung Iron. King CoaL King Silver, King Gold and they all bow before the King I KmgS,,T,0.wnom oe tut uie tjiury va this year's wonderful production! The InqnlsltlTe Tongue. The curiosity of the tongue docs cot tause the human being o much trou-' ble as the curiosity of the eye. But tho tongue, within Its limits. Is tho most curious of all. Let the dentist make a change In the mouth, let hha remove a tooth or re place with his admirable-artifice one that has long beeu absent, c him change the form of a tooth by round ing off a corner or building rp a cavity and sctf what the tongue will do. It will search out that place, taking caro ful and ml note account of the change. Then If xrlll linger near the place. If It Is called to other duties. It come back as soou as theyarc discharged and feels the changed place all over again, as If It had not .explored-and rummaged there already. It makes no difference that these re peated Investigations presently car. annoyance to Its supposed master, ti e man. Tho tongue in nolMn more than In this matter proves that It. Is an unruly member and will not be cot trolled. It seems to have an original will and consciousness of Its own. and nothing will serve It except the fullest satisfac tion of Its curiosity. It will wear Itself out perhaps, but It will find out. all about the strange change. Boston Transcript The Moon's Atmosphere. The recent concluslous of the French .dentists, MM. Loewy and Puiscux, n to the possible presence of some gas eous envelope 'on tho moon's surface are of very general Interest After giving reasons for concluding that tho formidable volcanic eruptions of which tho moon has lnvn the. theater belong to a recent time In the history of our satellite, they point out that these erup tions must have set at liberty great quantities of gas or vapor, while tho diffusion of cinders on the lunar sur face to great distances Infers a gasoou envelope of a certain density. lias the time, thoy ask, which has elapsed since the great eruptions suf ficed to, bring .''about the total dlai pearance of this gaseous 'envelope? Considering that the already solidified lunar surface could only have absorb ed tho gnses slowly and with dllllculty. they conclude that from their exami nation of. the lunar surface there aro serious grounds for believing that theTe exists at the present time a residue of atmosphere of which the de tection, surrounded as It Is with great dllHculties, may. yet bo realized. When Jay Gould "Wrestled. ' John Burroughs, the writer, was in his boyhood days a schoolmate of Jay Gould. To Theodore Drelsqr, who tclla the story in The Now Voice, Mr. Bur roughs gavo this anecdote of Gould: He was shrewd, but not a bad fel low at all. - I remember that ouce wo had a wrestling mutch. As wo were about even In strength, wo agreed to abide by certain rules,-taking what we called "holts" la the beginning und not breaking them until one or tiro other was thrown. I kept, to this when we began wrestling, but when Jay realized that he was In danger of losing ho broke "holts" and threw mo. When I said he had broken Ids ogreo- mont ho onlv laughed and said, "I threw you, didn't IT' That Irritated me. and I kept arguing the original nolnt but he only laughed the more and covered my taunts with the same answer. He had won, and it pleased him. though I often wondered how he could take any .satisfaction in It Do not think for a single moment that consumption will ever strike you a sudden blow. It does not come that way. It creeps its way along. First, you think it 1$ a littlo cold; nothing but a little hack ing cough; then a little loss In weight: then a harder cough; then the fever and the night sweats. The suddenness comes when hovA n hemnrrhflpe. tSetter Stop tnc aicac wute It is yet creeping. iou can ao ii wiu Yah flrst notice that VOU MMh teas. The pressure on the chest Is lifted. That feeling of suffocation Is removed. A cure is hastened by placing one of Dr. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Plaster over the Chest. A Coclz Free It Is on the Diseases of the Throat and Lungs. it to hsrs sny romflarnt wfcatrcr ard OMlr US bw meuical aieo you can powlblT rcife, writs the doctor f i coly. You will reeelrs a prompt reply , L w.tiiont cost. AddreM. mtf Hocfc-
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Dec. 1, 1899, edition 1
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