Litchfield enquirer., 1865-09-28
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opens before them. .ofa boundless desert stretch- EiDg toward the horizon, where the Resy San,- | iel, the wind of Death-4fages inb theirs sight, tossing pillows of sand like the ocean waves amid quivering lightning and jarriig thunder. To go forward, or return seems alike impossi- ble.e Despair has seized the man, and, raising the half inaDimate form of his wife iri his arms he thinks to hide her in some cleft of the rock, and go apart to die alone. v-s; eS,
 Moving forward, with that wild purpose, suddenly his step is arrested by vision of en. Echantment bursting on his aching eyes. sTf,o a broad, bright water lies beneath him, it's tiny wavelets toying with an emerald shore, there | tall palms beckon to him with their long Rtsce. ltul branches Is it an illusion like the mirage that has so often cruelty mocked their agony? NO for the breeze Is moist, and the air is vocal
 with the song of ibirdsl He shouts for ioy.
 Hope adds new vgor to all their dying frames.
 They hasten through rayine to the plain be- low" They fly across the intervening fields, they rush into the stream, they. drink, they bathe, they pluck with eager hands the. heavy ears of rice, they gather dates from the shore and there, reposing after so many sorrows, the
 once rebels of Babel, give thanks with grati- tude to their fathers God. ylhiaYes8
 l Na They who had thus reached that happy land
 would never wish to wander more, they or SniutCu, UT tnelr cnIur0u B .CnuQfe0. And there where harvests are perennial they
 would find it easier to SOW and reat, than to follow the' unceftainschase. a3 Thus before long apalm thatched cottage beside field of wheat
 stood there by the Nile. "A little thing seem tingly yet for this result of old before the Pies iosaums and the Neegathefium had left their
 bones in the petrifying soil, the solidrib of the world had been uphesved; and from this small beginning sprang along that rivers templesjthe wonder of the world, and pyramids that rdeiy
 the elements and thus went forth an influence
 that has filled the earth with governments and laws, instead of Savage warfare, an influence
 that shall progress until men everywhere serv- ing God in liberty shall beat their swords into plough share, their spears into pruning hooks. and learn war no more, ,o,,, ,i ta,; 5ost. | In this nursery of the. hnsbandman, nature imposed an easier task on her first farmer, than she demands of the more patient successors in our land. Fair crops rewarded Ather toil of simply scattering the seed on the. soft ooze left by the receeding rain, This was at first, 1probably,all that! was ldone..5 Later after a
 field was sown, swine were turned on and
 driven back and forthto tread the seed in.
 Then Q bush was drawn across the sufface.-
 the first attempt at ploughing. Then a hoe
 came into use, uniting the principles both of
 our hoe and spade. Then finally the plough was invented, an instrument much like our own
 minus the share-athe same that Eastern na- ltions borrowing from them have continued to
 use until the present day. All these processes are made familiar to us by sculptures and pain. I tings on Egyptian temples and tombs. Ssl Could one of those that now lie on sxlsihp tion in museums of antiquities wake from his sleep. f4000 years, walk about, converse with
 us. he would recognize in many of aour com
 men tools supplements, familiar to him in those
 earliest ages0 The sickle still usedtins Europe he would tell you, was an Egyptian invention. | The; well sweep once 30 common eini our farm yards his fathers used to draw water from the Nile! He would at once recognize the fail
 now heard everywhere beating in our barns,
 and wonder why we had never tried inc hetch-
 el to strip the grain from the, straw. n You
 would answer by taking him to the patent of-
 fee, where model would show him the at
 tempt of; a yankee to revive the same ancient
 mode of thrashing. Then too,r if you, show
 him plan for cloda crushing machine that
 claims to be 2a modern improvement, he would
 smile and say it was in use by them who built
 the pyramids sa6mslg 2 0i gr.i8 e biss
 The wheat field would seem familiar to him
 until he came near enough to see that, our
 wheat has not some heads or ears like the
 Egyptian. He would think it strange too,
 that you do not cut the ears off from the stalks
 first, as he did and carry them to the thrashing
 machines reserving the straw to be cut or
 pulled by the roots afterwards. This straw
 they were wont to chop fine and fead, mixed
 with clover to their stall fed oxen. For both
 grazing and stall l-feeding were practiced in l Egypt.-a fact that explains that passage in
 Exodus in which murrain is said, first to have IdistroYed all the cattle, and afterwards all the l cattle api1 tn hoxo hoon diukrnvaA hv, hoi
 also, save. such as were driven to shelter The
 murrain fell on the enormous herds yarded and
 housed to be- fattened by feeding, while the
 hail reached the droyes grazing on the plains. In Egypt patience and, kindness rendered
 oxen so dccile that the whip was never carried. I And not only oxen were thus broken, but an .
 telopes, deer, hyenas, wild fowl and even fish. l The lion too was reduced to a state of servi- I tude and used in the chase. The niinutest
 care was everywhere visible in their treatment
 of stock, going SO far even as to feed by hand
 in the dairy, the stable and the hennery,s Hens
 were not allowed to set but T kept laying, and
 their eggsIhatched by artificial. heat ino ovens
 It was wise chicken in Egypt that know it's own mother, a.
 l s .a I had thought of speaking Of the Egyptian
 metalllrgy and perhaps in chemistry they seem tyoSy4" yAN1itSW iA EMBARRASSMENT UUsb uiVueru
 nationss But time forbids, lo.t. 'i sJ,
 to Suffice it to- say that this the frat of sgrcul-
 tpral nations, was not destitute of certain strik ping simiarities to our own. the last. They were
 an inteligentg active Inventive race, deterred dfron noIundertakings because of it's apparent bnagnitude Confined however, to one locality
 by the very means that first athems tilers
 of the soil, they establishedsasformg ofl govern.
 mept that favored bigotry and checked all lib. teral ideas Our better lot has been cast in land where all men are inevitably expansive in dI their notions. There is indeed danger lest they become falsely so. Real progress demands
 a substantial basis There is no .propriety in the idea that seems to possess young men in ll New England that, to- beb enviably sucsessful, they must desert the farm and get into sbus- l nessis snI have endeavored for the sake Of such to show, how, to produce alh the business in
 the world, aproyidence had first to mako men l farmers.5 And to day, as in the earliest ares of the world, the nation illprogress substan.
 tialIy only as its agriculture improves W hoso-
 ever, just beginning life, is wise en0uQh to see
 that the sigps of the times point to the scientif. ic liberal minded farmer as the lcomihR man.
 wiif in the course of an ordinary lite tines reach
 a position of honor, such as the embryo law yer, doctor, theofogian and politician, com. mence too late iii the worlds progfesst to gain. f fo K T e3- se~es-4-a4A-l.a-aw
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