Show THE PROGRESS the new york tork journal calls atten tion to how low fast and on what nhat FL a garan tie alc scale history la Is being made nowadays that china stood secure while greece rome home and all european na nations eions climp up tip from barbarism that Is 19 quite true Ilar marathon athon and salamis Sala fit ded dedica leatIon alon 0 of tho the great temple in jerusalem tile retreat of xenophon and the life and death of 0 socrates socrate 9 till all belong to a time that represents china modern rather than her ancient history tho the worlds roll in cycles vo wonder it if this Is not true with mith civilization it began lit in tile the mast mister louo last bast by slow alow approaches pro aches it made its way through asia and across acroca europe Eur tipe it like an old tree died in where here it was first nurtured and it 11 was nina beginning to die in lathrope I 1 when ithen tile the discovery 0 of america aroused its energies once more and gave it the courage to lo live it hm hav compia d out our continent and now the nations are arc on different lines beginning again to give it mastery in tile tho hailds where it nourished flourished in a crude state long lone before the first leaf ot of history was written this has been a wonderful century this ono one just closing the ernt evangel to come to take up in earnest mans burdens and to bear them was stearn steam its first respirations were heard upon the land then upon the rivers then with bolder heart it took up its ita work ark upon the h sell sea a signal that commerce was wa to have leave a new genie to carry its burdens anu and that tho the nations were to bo be bravn closer together then a new messenger came from out the air a new cew ider cury that in jig ls rut put the legging lagging hours to and discounted even tile the sunlight in its fleet neb aces at alist it merely attracted men by its flight but a closer study revealed that it held within itself the very agent which the infinite appealed to when nhen the coin mand was given liet let there be light and as aa though a second command had been given from the samo same divine source the world was again filled a new light ahert more study developed that this agent like contained within itself unmeasured power and cars began to move borno borne along by a current borrowed from st it and in the work workshops shIps of 0 men it became the agent of 0 both light and power invention in this century has performed tn ten thousand miracles and the minds of men sharpened by the progress around them have in every held scientific intellectual practical in all directions made such progress as was never dreamed of before they hive bave caught the blessed medicine that kills pain one by one they are seeking out cut the antidotes to kill the poisons ot of disease they have unearthed a thousand my mysteries mystery sterl on the lie earth and dis coverer thousands of 0 new stars in the heavens the precious metals those vitalizing fluids ot of commerce have hame liten been produced in marvelous quantities tho the pathway of enlightenment has been opened on our continent irom front sea eca to sea the be dark continent has been explored and appropriated and now the work of 0 conquest has begun beyond the pacific and Is striking at the beatt ot of the ahe oldest government under the sun lit in this century took too slavery lias has been pretty well banished arox from n the wol id about the only thing thine that remains as ai it mas as Is the tru truth lit that character acler nations nation s are ar n reckoned by character char and that 1 neither either rivers ot of gold nor tile the conquests of 0 armed men can give character to a people and the fact remains today just as pertinent ag aa at the dawn darl ot of tho the century that the rarest creation of this greal world la Is atter after all the man v hose has intellect Is good I 1 v hose integrity and courage and patriotism and sense of at justice are arc abao rt rc |