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Show DH i f fjY' II WATT'S INVENTION. V li ! II ill f 1 Ifc Is saId that Mr CarneSl0 is writing a life of B II illl I I James Watt, the Scotchman, who made the first K' if 111 1 I practical steam engine. If he does the work jus- BB III Ui I I tice that wiI1 be wortn nalf a d0ZQn libraries, for NB1 : III 111 I James Watt was a magician in his way. Because HH II III' i i of him, the nineteenth century made more advances HH 'hi i than had been made in the previous fifteen. He H i I ' by his work practically said: "Universe, attention! Hflj j 1 1 Nations, forward, march." His thought revolu- B: : II ! tionlged the world's industries; it drew the na- IHa If , 8 I BH IS . , tions together; -it advanced civilzation more than HRb, ' l : I j all the preceding riges had it, with the pi'iuiing flHj J I 1 press and magnetic telegraph, and we may add HHij 'J I I I the telephone and electric light and power, were HHg," I I I the miracles of the century just closed. Watt's WjijA I 'J J, ! I invention was a little prior to the birth of the HB , .j!'' ; century, but its great work did not begin until HH ! Ml the first locomotive and first steamboat were BBS ' III heard on land and water. HKi ill I 111 If ne loves to trV to iniagine what the dispas- JJHk; iff I ijll ' sionate old Scotchman's sensations must have BB ' ill ' UU been when he heard the first natural resparation HBP IP!i' mm ie first scam engine. Not more thrilled Hftr lill h8S could the fabled artist have been when his love IBr I HI Hi called the statue which he had toiled so long upon BHr if II H! into SlopIous 1Ife- Ibk i I 1 I R ' He Jmd put a bridle uPn that Invisible iluid BB' i 1 I I If i which was known as steam, bridled it and re- H II I i 1 1 duced it to man's service. The fabled Genii ami IKBJl Iff iP 'f Jinn of the ancients were outdone. What before f 'I H l had lived only in dreams, what men age after age SB til I 'II or sev0ntGen centuries had been seeking to ac- fiBi -f IM 'I? complish, was achieved. The black slave was DHL 1 Si i f before him; though it hissed at the restraint DKjji i fi I placed upon it, still it obeyed. It took up the HH! , 1 li! I I white man's burden and with increasing power has borne it ever since. Its strong arms by land and sea are carrying those burdens. Over continents, con-tinents, over valleys, rivers and mountains It takes its way; the fickle winds are no longer either depended upon or dreaded on the sea. Its breath is heard on the mountain tops hoisting ore, in the valley turning the machinery of factories; fac-tories; cities depend upon it to bring them food, even to war it has become' on land and sea the right arm. We wonder if Mr. Carnegie has Imagination enough to call up a vivid picture of the man who wrought this great modern miracle. We hope he has. Indeed, all his mind and heart should be enlisted in the work, for without this invention even Mr. Carnegie would probably be runlng a little foundry somewhere in Pennsylvania and de-ponding de-ponding upon a single county for patronage. |