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Show lea was the old world when Europe, Asia and Africa were merely Islands that dotted the eastern seas? The deluge ' theory of Asia Minor is absurd. They cut a litt le channel in ancient times between Asia and Europe the Dardenelles-and elevated the Mediterranean by turning the Mark and Caspian seas, the water overflowed Syria and the ark grounded, but In our time Noah could not get command of. a one-horse gun boat, or a military prison. Stand hlifh up on the summit of thiscontiuent and you will see when the grand deluge cov-ored cov-ored the world. One w ave made the Kocky mountains and then the Alleghanles. leaving 1000 miles of live feet praliie soil to raise corn for the starving world. One portion of the water wound its way bv the Missouri and the Mississippi to the sea, and another by way of the St. Lawrence, the Atlantic ocean deposing depos-ing those inland seas of fresh water, Lakes Michigan, Huron. Superior, Ontario and Erie, along the road and making a plateau of boundless prairie, expressly for the track of of the great Union Pacific railway of America. One more stock Idea. As sure as the rainbow is the autograph of God. the union must and shall be preserved. Man has made these great Hues of railway to run east and west, but God. thinking man might blunder, was his own topographical enginesr, and took the precaution to build the mountains and the rivers north and south, and what, God has put together let no ambitions plebian in the north or relwl traitor in the south dare to tear asunder. All the prophecies of J'r. Train have been more than fullilled. Thcio are now five transcontinental railway routes. The grand results that have been accomplished in railway progress and the consequent development of thri country are largely due to the efforts of (Jeoi'ge Francis Train in behalf of the Union i'aeilic during its days of construction. con-struction. Thomas G. Duranl, who was the guiding star of the great enterprises en-terprises knew the value of Train anil engaged his serv ices in the interests of the gigantic undertaking. The Credit Mobilier, which furnished the money for the construction of the road, was the idea of Mr. Train. A special charter for a loan and trust company had been obtained under the laws of Pennsylvania, and it was owned bv Duff (Ireen. Train bought this charter for $500, ami sold it for $100,-000 $100,-000 to the Credit Mobilier company, which was organized subsequently by Durant, Bushnoll and others. Mr. Train is thus described by the late George D. Prentice: "A locomotive that has run off the track, turned upside up-side down with its cowcatcher buried in a stump and the wheels making a thousand revolutions a minute a kite in the air which has lost its tail a human novel without a hero a man who climbs a tree for a bird s nest out on the limb, and iu order to get it saws the limb off between himself and the live a ship without a rudder a clock without with-out hands n sermon that is all text a pantomime of words an arrow shot into the air the apolhi o.dsof talk the iuciii'iialiou of gab. Handsome, vivacious, viva-cious, versatile, muscular, as neat as a cat, clean to the marrow, a judge of the effect of clothes, frugal in food and regular reg-ular only in habits. A noonday mystery, mys-tery, a solved' conundrum a practical joke in earnest a cipher wanting a ligure to pass for something; with the brains of twenty men iu his head all pulling in different ways; not bad as to heart, but a man who has shaken hands with reverence." I ITIZKN TRAIN. (iourge Francis Train is once nioro attructiiijj! public attention. Ho is trav-elitij? trav-elitij? uitoss the continent .lo.Tticonia On li is hohio st re toll Id his rnco against limo around tli globe, ami will beat all previous records. JIo will make tho round trip in about- sixty-four (lays, be tting Jules' Verne's tinut by sixteen days. , .' Although tho vauo around the globe is a seeoiHl-lmml idea with Ml .Train, nevertheless nev-ertheless it was peculiarly appropriate for him to make it. lie wm one of the most important factorsln the biiildingof the first transcontinental railway tho Union racitio which rendered it possible pos-sible for it traveler to make the circuit of tho globe in less than eighty -days. It was on Decembers, 1 803, that ground wns uroKun ut uniuua lor tno union racitio. Among the prominent men present on that eventful occasion, was (runrgo Francis Train, who niado tho most brilliant spuoeli of tho day. It was remarkable by reason of its prophetic pro-phetic chiiractiH'. Ho opened his speech willi a reference to .tho- breaking of ground for the racitio railroad as "tho inauguration of tho grandest enterprise under God, the world has ever witnessed." witness-ed." He 'then said:"' , - America is the stage, the world Is the- audience audi-ence of today. While . ono act ot .the drama represents the booming of cannon ou the Rap. idau. the Cumberland and the Hlo Grande, sounding the death knell ot rebelliuus war, the next scone records the booming of cannon on both sides of the Missouri to celebrate the grandest work of peace that ever attracted the energies of man. r0l)r thousand years ago the pyramids were started but they simply represent the vanity of man. The Chinese wall was jti'iuut In conception, but built only to break tho tide of invasion. Tho imperial canal was gigantic, but how limited all t hese things appear in comparison com-parison to an enterprise that Joins together thirty-four states and a dozen territories. Before the tlrst century of Hie nation's birth, we may see in the New York depot some strange Pacini' railway notice. Kuropoan passengers for Japan will please take the night train. Passengers for China this way. African and Asiatic freight must be distinctly dis-tinctly marked : Kor Peldn via San Francisco. 'Krc ten years go by,' said one of the prime movers or this great undertaking, 'I intend to let the Kuropcan traveler get a ue- sensation by standing ou the ridge pole or the American nation and sliding off Into the sea.' Already late dates from the Chiuese waters reach the Knropean markets, via the Rocky mountains, ami In JSTu teas and silks will ftl". low Iu the same w ay. Kngland laughH t this. So she laughs at our rebellion. Kagliinri is not., never has been, and never win be the friend of America. Let Kngland remain a bully, hut Ood forbid that America continue to be a toady. Ainerlea 1 si uwigiVKa o( nulinns. Here are a few slock points with wlild, 1 h;ive alw ays Interlarded my Fourth of July Nieech : That America possesses the MegrM head ami the ttnest quant ity of brains iu the phreuoiojty of nations. That hnniiinity. a pithing babe in Asia, u lazy school boy in Europe, came to America tu air Its maenieccnt manhood. That Industry came nut of Kypt. then a tidal n ave of tlme-KivIns law from Itonie; move centuries, centur-ies, and ait sprtuKs from Frame: later lat-er commerce stills from Kuglaud, while America ji reserved to combine all the Roud of the past - ludustrv, law art commerce, with the iamler mission or reprc-wiitintf reprc-wiitintf the (irand I'a.-lllc railway idea of process. . While ueadv America possesses one-half the common sense three-fourths the euti-rprlse. and seven-oiKhths seven-oiKhths the bemty of the world ran anyone doubt, in looKinn at the "osraph-lial "osraph-lial iwsitlou ol the prairie land, that Amer- |