Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-11-28
lnE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS: THURSDAY NOVEMBER 2s r

the men lazly sit on the skins Of deer
| smoking their feathered calumcts or,
driven forth by hunger, / track Shcir moe
| casins far away as they make the forest
| echoes crazy with their wild halloo or fish
in the waters of the still lake. Now tribes
| challenge and council fires blaze and
| warwhoops ring and chiefs lift the toma-
| hawks for battle. After awhile wagons
| from the Atlantic coast come to those for
| ests. BY day trees are fellcd and by
| night bon6rcs keep off the wolves. Log
| cabins rise and the great trees begin to
| throw their branches in the path Of the
| conqucrinn white man. Farms are clear
ed. Stumps, the monuments of slain for
| csts, crumble and are burned. Villages
| appear, with smiths at the bellows, ma
sons on the wall, carpenters on the house
! top. Churches rise in honor OF the Great
Spirit whom the red men ignorantly wor-
ship. Steamers on the lake convey mer-
chandse to her wharf and carry east the
uncountcd bushels that have como to the
market Bring hithcr wreaths Of wheat
and crowns of rye and let the mills aud
the machinery of barn and field unite
their voices to celebrate the triumph, for
the wilderness hath retreated and the
pillow hath conquered.
Within our time the presidential cahi-
net has added a secrctaryship cf agricul-
turc. Societies are constantly being cs-
tablished for the education Of the plow
Journals devoted to this department are
circulated through all the country. Farm
crs, through such culture have learned
the attributes Of soils and found out that
almost every field has its peculiar prefer
cnceS. Lands have their choice as w
which product they will bear. Marshy
lowlands touched by the pillow rise and
wiring out their wet locks in the trc-chcS.
Islands born down on the coast of Peru
and Bolivia are transported 10 our fields
and make our vegetation leap. High
ways, 10y this plow, are changed from
boggy sloughs into roads like the Roman
Appan way. Fields 60 through hloodlcss
revolutions until there the farmhouse
stands. In summer honeysuckles Chamber
over the trellises. On one side there
stands Il garden, which is only farm
condensed. On the other side there is 4
stretch Of meadow land with thick grass.
and as the wind breathcs over it, it looks
like the deep green ocean waves. There
goes brook, turrying long in its wind
incs, as if loath to leave the spot whore
the reeds sing and the cattle stand at
MONDAY under the shadow nf tho ,,oo,,i,,,
willows. In winter the alod comes
through the cracking snow, with huge
logs from the woods, and the barn foor
quakes under the thumpings Of the fail
or tho deafcning buzz Of the thrashing
machine. Horses stand beneath NOW
poles bending under loads Of hay and
whinny TO the well filled oat bins Com
fort laughs at the wind rafting the
sashcs and clicking the iciclcs from the
caves.
Parts Of our country, under industrious
tillage. have become an Eden Of fruitful
ness. in which religion stands rs the tree
Of life and educational advantages as the
tree OF knowledge cf good and evil. not
one Of them forbidden. We are ourselves
surrounded by wei! cultured farms They
were worked by your fathers. and per
hans your mothers helped spread the hav
in The field. On their headstoncs are the
names YOU bear. As. when YOU were bows.
in the sultry noon YOU sought for the
harvest field with refreshments for YOUR
fathers and found them taking their noon
spell sound asleep under the trees. so
peacefully now they sleep in some coun-
try churchyard No more fatigued. death
has plowed for them the deep furrow of
n grave.
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