The Penn's Grove record., 1901-11-29
~sional way recount the eonquests
W. the hammer and the pen.


q Bseh Eaaerseded By modern inven-
tions, but the plow has never lost its
reign. 1t has furrowed its way through
all the ages. Its victories have been waved
by the barley Of Palestine, the wheat OF
Persia, the fax of Germany the rieestalks
Of China, the rich grasses OF Italy. 1t has
turned up the mammoth OF Siberia, the
mastadon of Egypt and the pine groves OF
Thessaly. Its iron foot hath marched
where Moses wrote and Homer sang and
Aristotle taught and Alexander mounted
his war charger. 1t hath wrung its Golfer
on Norwegian wilds and ripped out the
stumps of the American forest, pushing
its way through the ~savannahs OF the Gar
olinas and trembling in the grasp OF the
New Hampshire yeomanry; Amerltan a
civilization hath kept step with the rattie
of its c~levises, and on its beam hath rid
den thrift and national plenty. i,
do not wonder that the japanese ana
the Chinese and the Phoenicians so par
ticularly extolled husbandry or that On
cinnatus went from the eonsulshlp to the
pillow or that Noah was a farmer before
he became a s~hipbuiider or that f.hsna was
in the field blowing with twelve yoke, OF
x when the mantle fell on him or that
the Egyptians in their paganism wor-
shjped the OK as a tiller of their lands.
10 get an appreciation of what the
American pillow has accomplished take
Won into the western wilderness, Here IN
the dense forest ] find a collection OF IN
dian wiegams. With belts of wampum
tie men lazily sit on the skins OF deer,
smoking their feathered ealumets, or, drlv-
en- forth by hunger, | track their mecca
sins. far away as they make the forest
echoes crazy with their wild halloo or tsh
in the waters of the still lake. Now tribes
challenge and council fires blaze, and war
whoops ring, and chiefs hit, the toma-
hawks for battle. After awnlie "aSSons
from the Atlantic coast come to those
forests. 7, day trees are felied, and oy
night bonfires keep off the wolves. Log
cabins rise. and the great trees begin 10
throw their branches in the path OF the
concuering white man. Farms are cleared
Stumps, the monuments OF slam forests
crumble and are burned. Villages appear,
with smiths at the bellows, masohs on sne ~
wall. carpenters on the housetop: Churehes
rise in honor of the Great Spirit whom
the red men ignorantly worship. Steamers
On the lake convey merchandise to her
wharf and carry east the amounted bush
els that nave come to the market. Bring
hither wreaths of wheat and crowns OF
rye. and let the mills and the machinery
ehrate the triumph, for the wilderness
hath retreated and the pillow hath con
Within our time the Presidential Cabin
of has added a Secretaryship o. Agrieui'
ture. Societies are constantly BENG es
tahlished for the education OF the piow,
Journals devoted to this department are
ers through such culture have learned the
attributes of soils and found out that al
most every field has its peculiar prefer
ences. Lands rave their choice as 70
which product they will bear, Marshy
lowlands touched by the pillow rise and
wiring out their wet locks IN the trenches
Islands born down on the coast oil feIu
anS Rolivia are transported to our fields
and make our vegetation leap, Highways
by this pillow are changed from DOGGY
siourhs into roads like the Roman Applan
way Fields go through bloodless revolu'
tions until there the farmhouse stands'
In summer honeysuckles Chamber over tne
t~rellises. On one side there stands a gar
den. which is only a farm condensed. I'm
Inc other side there is a stretch OF meadow
land with thick grass, and as the wlnd
breathes over it it looks like the deer
area, ocean waves. There goes a brook
arrvino long in its ~windings, as if loath
to leave the spot where the reeds sing,
and the cattle stand at MONDAY under the
shadow of the weeping willows. In WIN
fer the sled comes through the cracking
snow with huge logs from the woods, and
ire harm floor uuakes under the thumpings
az the fail or the d%eafening buzz OF the
thrashing machine. Horses stand beneath
NOW poles bending under loads OF hay
and whinny to the well filed oat BINS
Comfort laughs at the wine, rafting ne
sashes and clicking the ieicies IRON the
Praise God for the great barvests that
have been reaped this last year.! Some OF
them injured by drought or insects o.
freshets were not as bountiful as usual,
others far in. excess of what nave ever be
fore been gathered, while higher prices
win help make mp for any decreased sup
We have in the fact that cattle and horses
and sheep and swine and all farm animal;
have during the last two years increased
in value. Twenty million swine siaught
cred this last year, and yet so many hogs
left.
II the a~ncients in their festivals present,
ed their rejoieings before Ceres. the goa