Show the Step honson centenary Con within the last centary cont Brytha the world hit has made strides toward civilization and fatora perfection which no other hundred years jeara can show the question of the possibility of a republic among the of the earth an and d the question of cf that republic vh irbon a a civil war threatened its disruption are two problems whose buis tion might well have bard occupied the active mindi of any nj century punt pilot and till remained unknown the tha political hanges changes great as they have boon are ro oot not surpassed nr passed by the scientific relations which the tow few past pait cecii havo have produced and without pausing to ta specify them silica they ure ura already known we may bo be assured that thal no department of science over ever opine J 0 investigation vesti gation can the amount ol 01 du do by that of tho the steam motor one hundred handrea years ago george stephenson was born at that time the question of employing employ inK steam partially utilized as ail a motor in the capacity of a had to but a scant few of the millions of civilized men but of that law few not dot one had bad succeeded in making a practical application of the idu idea men alea of high education Oila cation commanding the double advantages ot of wealth anil and position after investigation and experiment had pronounced the plan an absurdity and given it over as a an aa adlo dream george stephenson a poor ool collier lier with oo 00 a education but what he had acquired under the greatest disadvantages with DO a mae beside his two oh illings a day and his young undaunted mind end and muscle camo came to the front bud and claimed the attention of the leading men of his bia day to his invention which ho he considered the beginning of the settlement of the transportation question ila ha received ro together with ilia big plans the most moat galling criticism and ridicule and had it 2 d not his hia employer had cc denoo in his hia ability to believe that be know knew whereof he ha spoke tue the locomotive would have boon left to a later age for development 16 was constructed undo a uj or his patronage and pla plans fill and proved to banot ba not a failure it t was not a i a either oi thir for all tho the crude and apparently uno unconquerable on qu erable with will u boat of unanswerable questions centered in the little machine bat the start had bail been made and the work began was waa contin nod gathering strength with every step till theme who had denied the possibility of il willingly confessed that the I 1 young 0 U da 1 visionary whom they had bad laughed 1 hed to scorn builder wiser than they knew from the time that his experiment peri ment began to give earnest of success Buoo oat Stephen stephensons sous career was a successful one anti anil hia bia success continues loue to live through the succeeding years yeara in the mighty railroad system of the present prea ent stephensons lire life from beginning to end shows what per big sigment tent sad and well directed effort may do in overcoming rooming ove adman alverso it was hia big ambition to be it a man while yet Y at a boy the natural re of his hia mind and gave him the strength of character and the force of will that led him still higher when this thin object was waa attained and finally came to its ita consummation in the orea area ia tion ion and perfection of the greatest aid I 1 to me modern dern civilization in the railroad of today to day stephenson worked tor for himself anil and he be in reaching the goal to which hia big bolter better manhood rap attired I 1 i red but we fifty bears eara alter after ste phenious phen soBs sous success anti and all the generations to come will realize unceasingly c cea singly the berle benetti film which from his bis lifes Is labors bore hawkeye Hawke jo |