Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-07

| ACdlACICd CdIuACtS, QIlNSA lOILu
by hunger, I track their moccasins
| 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 tomahawks for battle. After
awhile wagons from the Atlantic coast
| come to those forests. BY day trees
are fe1led and by night bonfires keep
off the wolves. Log cabins rise and
| the great trees begin to throw their
| branches in the path of the conquering
! white man. Farms are cleared.
| Stumps, the monuments of slain for
| ests, crumble and are burned. Villages
| appear, with smiths at the bellows,
| masons on the wall, carpenters on the
housetop. Churches rise in honor of
the Great Spirit whom the red man ig-
norantly worship. Steamers on the
lake convey merchandise to her
wharf and carry east the uncounted
bushels that have come to the market.
Bring hither wreaths of wheat and
crowns of rye and let the mills and the
machinery of barn and field unite their
voices to celebrate the triumph, for
the wilderness hath retreated and the
plow hath conquered.
Religion the Tree of Life.
Although most OF us have nothing
directly to do with the tillage of the
soil, yet in all our occupations we feel
the effect of successful or blighted in
dustry. We must. in all our occupa-
tiOnS, rejoice over the victories of the
plow today. The earth was once cursed
for mans sake, and occasionally the
soil revenges itself on us by refusing
bountiful harvest. 1 suppose that
but for sin the earth would be pro-
ducing wheat and corn and sweet fruits
as naturally as now it produces null
lein stalks and Canada thistles. There
is hardly a hillock between the forests
Of Maine and the lagoons of Florida,
between the peach orchards of New
Jersey and the pines of Oregon, that
has not sometimes shown it's natural
and total depravity. The thorn and
thistle seem to have usurped the soil,
and nothing but the rebellion of the
p1ow can uproot the evil supremacy.
But God is good. Now. if one of our
| seasons partially proves a failure, the
earth seems to repent of it the next
summer in more munificent supply.
Praise God for the great harvests
that have been reaped this last year,
| Some of them, injured by drought or
| insects or freshets, were not as boun-
| tiful as usual, others, far in excess of
what have ever before been gathered,
while higher prices will help make up
| for any decreased supply. Sure sign of
| agricultural prosperity we have in the
| fact that cattle and horses and sheep
| and swine and all farm animals have
! during the last two years increased in
value. Twenty million swine siaugh-
| tered this last year, and yet so many
| hogs left. Enormous paying off of
| farm mortgages has spoiled the old
| speeches of the calamity howlers. If
the ancients in their festivals present
ed their rejoicings before Ceres, the
| goddess Of corn and tillage, shall we
neglect to rejoice in the present of
the great God now? From Atlantic to
Pacific let the American nation cele-
brate the victories of the plow.
Growth of National Industry.
| Railroads of fabulous, length have
| been completed, over which western
| trains rush past the swift footed deer,
making the frightened birds to dart
into the heavens at the cough of the
smoke pipes and the savage yell of
| the steam whistle. In hot haste our
national industry advances, her breath
| the air of ten thousand furnaces, her
! song the song of uncounted factories,
| her footstep the flash of wheel buck
! cts and the tread of the shaft and
| the stamp of foundries. Talk about
antediluvian longevity. I think the
average of human life is more now
| than it ever was. Through mechani-
| cal facilities men work so much faster
| and accomplish so mush more in a life
| time that man can afford to die now
at forty as well as one of old at 900.
I think the average of human life in
point of accomplishment is now equiv
alent to about 500 years, as near as i
tions and professions we feel the eff
| feet of a crippled or enlarged me-
| chanical enterprise. We all have stock
| in every house that is builded and in
| every public conveyance that is con-
| structed and in every ship that is
sailed. When we see the hardworking
men of the land living in comfortable
abodes, with 1uxuries upon their tables
| that once even kings could not afford
| having the advantage of thorough ed
ucation, of accomplishment and art
we are all ready at this season to unite
with them in praise to God for his
| goodness
| You shall yet see American labor
rising up with a stronger arm and a
stouter heart and a swarthier frame.
New cities will be built Commerce