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Show THE WORLD'S RUSH. This is surely the age of science and money. The great industries, under the competition which has come since time and space have almost been annihilated by steam and electricity, which makes the Turk and the Chinaman near neighbors, have called to their aid all that there is in inventive and mechanical skill. Hence the 20,000 ton ships, the 150 ton locomotives, the 90 pound steel rail, the genius that in our work shops makes electricity run the looms and the trip hammers; the handling of crude and raw material in masses never dreamed of before, and with the fewest possible number of human hands; the carrying of cargoes in a single ship that would have required fifty Roman wheat ships or twenty-five of the grandest ships of Venice, when Venice was the greatest shipping power; the horse discarded because the automobile automo-bile is so much swifter and the object behind to make money faster; surely the impelling forces that are driving men on never before had half the present activity or power. In the purely scientific realm there seems to be just as much activity. Had the group of skilled surgeons and physicians who watched over President Pres-ident Garfield in his last journey down to the grave, suddenly fallen asleep and had not awakened until yesterday, and had they then been taken to a first-class hospital to watch what was going on, they would have been more surprised than was Rip Van Winkle when he came back to the world; the advance has been so marvelous. In California a patient worker is producing new fruits and giving new blooms to flowers. Twenty-five Twenty-five years ago the cotton seed in the south was a nuisance to the planter. Now it is converted into by-products which pay the expenses of raising rais-ing the crop. Food products have been immensely multiplied. Common Indian corn is now converted into more than thirty different valuable articles of commerce. The cyanide process was a greater discovery than the discovery of gold in California, for it made possible the working of low-grade gold ore at a profit, and the whole world is its field. More new stars have been found in the last ! three years than in the two previous decades. The telephone saves millions of miles of travel every day, and expedites business more than any ' other modern invention. The telegraph 3tops wars, and arrests thieves. A little charged copper wire has killed all the car horses in all the cities, ' JW and does their work vastly better and swifter. i The same little charged wire is enough to swing j1 the derricks and run the cranes in smelters, found- f Jm ries and ship yards, and hoist the ammunition j to the guns on battleships. - But no more Shakespeares or Byrons or Victor Hugos seem to be in evidence. The mod- ! em race of scholars in their literature are like j classical music; it cannot be criticised, but it some- I how lacks melody. That wisdom which comes of J study and meditation, and which, when set to words, is anthem-like in rhythm and power is lacking and probably will be through this and the next generation. The hearts of mothers are too much stirred by the world's and society's exalta- j tions to transmit to their offspring the calm out f of which the highest intellectual triumphs emerge. |