The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-11

had t" say upon that topic. We babe
them imagine the noble fowl lying I'M.
f1ed:g,ed in the nest, crying continually
tor food which his ,til;yent parents hns-
tened to supply; and as they dropped
morsel after mursel into his c,pnciuus
month, he hurriedIy swallowed 1T and
renewed tho cry tor more. Gradually
he assumed shape and grew feathers,
and finally when sufficiently tiedged. is
driven from the nest by the mother bird.
We asked them to permit thsir active
fancies to follow him III. his short and
feeble flights of inf'mcy, and watch the
a!acrity and vo-acity with which he
pursued every stray beetle, frog, toad,
mouse, or young bird, which was unfor-
tunnte enough to attract his attention,
and made IL hurried meal Of them, anx-
!ous 10 be Oft again in pursuit of u few
more Of the same SORT.
Slowly his bulk increases, he wakes
stronger, his appetite becomes more ex-
acting. and he is emboldened to attnck
large: game. Of course, he il successful
and adds largely to the variety Of his
ailments by this augmentation Of his
RrowcsS and courage
At length he is full grown and in
dulses in frequent soarings, not for the
purpose ct admirins the prospect, but
strictly with an eve to business. He
wants to select the best locality for for
aging. In early life were taught that
the eagles object in ascending to such
wonderful heights was to. get Il good
look ut the sun, with view to outstar-
ing that etfulgent orb; but we don't be-
lieve this any more, having concluded
that the motives which induce him to
climb the giddy ladders of the air are
altogether and supremely selfish. That
| there is, in fact, neither sentiment nor
desire for scientific investigation con-
nected with the movements of the eagle,
but that he is impelled by a motive
strongly akin to that which operates
most powerfully upon all Of us-that is
the recognition Of IN urgent necessity
to labor for the acquisition Of his bread
and butter.
But, We admitted, that it We're 4
shame to allow the stern realities Of life
to destroy the beautiful frost-works Of
fancy, which have so long sufficed to in
tercst and amuse us. 70 do this in
wolves i sort Of vandalic iconoclasm
which it is our duty to resist, and, hence,
We will continue to regard the Ameri-
can eagle as Il grand old bird, richly en-
dowcd with the attributes Of nobility,
and continue to fancy him leaving his
perch on some lofty poplar and soaring
upward in circles Of diminishing Cir
conferences and increasing attitudes,
until he appears to the delighted spec.
tator but Il stationary speck in the ceru-
lean depth of the armament; and there, il
it pleased the audience, We proposed to
leave him, while we turned our atten.
ton to more important matters beneath
the moon.
We next called our hearers attention
to the extent of the old thirteen colo.
MES, and the circumstances under which
they were placed one hundred and one
years ago, when the white settlements
Of this country were confined to the
limited district between the Appalachian
mountain and the Atlantic ocean, hard
ly extending beyond three hundred
miles from tide water ut the place Of
greatest width. Crowded into this linn
tied space were English, Welsh, Scotch,
Irish, French, Spaniards, HOLLAND
Dutch, Germans, Swiss, Danes, Swedes
and Norsks and the settlers comprised
every variety Of social caste of all these
nat;onalities and the believers in every
creed. There were lordlings and peas
ants, merchants aud mechanics, homes
people and criminals,-a Heterogeneous
mass thrown together and made mutu
ally dependent upon each other by tn,
situations they respectively occupied
They were generally poor and the tool:
and implements they worked with were
of the rudest descript ion.
The farmer Of that day plowed his
ground with the old-fashioned wooder
moldboard barshear plow, and cultivated
his corn with i similar but smaller i'm
plement aided by the hoe. The grain
was threshed with a fail or possibly
trod out by horses, after being cut witt
a sickle or scythe and cradle. In near
ly every farm yard were !. fax breal
, and swinging board for dressing fax
and in most farm-houses were hackles
, wool cards, spinning wheels and looms
,, The farmer Of that day not only grew
his own fax, wool and cotton, but, will
the aid of his family, dressed, spun
wove and made into garments the fab
RIGS of his own production. Their
were then no large factories, turning
= out monthly their thousands Of yards 0
!. cotton, linen and wooden goods. Now
a-days the farmer rides to do his plow
,, ing. seeding, reaping and moving an,
wears store clothes every day. Onl,
think of the contrast. 1t seems hardl
possible that this rapid progress ca,
3 have been made in single century.
r In those days the people were decid
eddy old fogyish. They were generall