The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1901-12-06

OK the plow. Journals devoted to this
are circulated through |
all the country. Farmers, through
s',ch culture, have learned the at
tributes Of soils and found out that
slmost every field has its peculiar
preferences. Lands have their
choice as to 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 of Peru and Bo-
liyia are transported to our fields and
make our vegetables leap. Highways,
by this plow, are changed from Doggy
sloughs into roads like the Roman
Appian way. Fields go through
bloodless revolutions until there the
farmhouse stands. In summer honey
suckles Chamber over the trellises. On
one side there stands garden, which
is only q farm condensed On the
other side there is a stretch Of mead
ow land with thick grass, and, as
the wind breathes over it, it looks
There goes brook, tarrying 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
winter the sled comes through the
cracking snow, with huge logs from
the woods, and the barn floor quakes
under the thumpings Of the fail or
the deafening buzz of the thrashing
machine. Horses stand beneath NOW
poles bending under loads or nay and
whinny to the well-filled oat bins.
Comfort laughs at the wind rafting
the sashes and clicking the icicles
from the caves.
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
bountiful as usual, others far in ex-
cess of what have ever before been
gathered, while higher prices will
help make up for any decreased sup
ply. Sure signs of agricultural pros
| perity we have in the fact that cat
| tie and horses and sheep and swine
| and all farm animals have during the
/ last two years increased in value.
Twenty million swine slaughtered
this last year, and yet SO many hogs
left. Enormous paying off Of farm
mortgages have spoiled the old
1 speeches of the calamity howlers. Ii
the ancients in their festivals pre-
1 sented their rejoicings before Ceres,
/ the goddess of corn and tillage, shall
we neglect to rejoice in the pres
ence of the great God now? From
/ Atlantic to Pacific leS the American
4 nation celebrate the victories of the
plow-
/ / come next to speak of the con-
quests Of the American hammer. Its
iron arm has fought it's way down
from the beginning to the present
/ Under it's swing the city OF Enoch
rose and the foundry of Tubal Cair
4 resounded and the ark foated on the
deluge. At it's clang ancient tenn
pies spread their magnificence an6
chariots rushed out fit for the bat
tie. It's iron fist smote the marble
OF Paros, and it rose in sculpturee
Minervas and struck the PentelicaI
mines until from them a ParthenoI
was reared winter than a palace o.
ice and pure as an angels dream
Damascus and Jerusalem and Rome
and Venice and Paris and Londo1
and Philadelphia and New York ant
Washington are but the long pro
traeted echoes of the hammer. Un
der the hammer everywhere dwell
ings have gone up, ornate and lux
nrious. Schoolhouses, lyceums, hos
pitals and asylums have added add
tional glory to the enterprise as wei
as the beneficence OF the American
l,people. Vast public works have Deel
constructed, bridges have been bull
over rivers and tunnels dug unde
our mountains, and churches o
matchless beauty have gone up 10
Him who had not where to lay hi
head. and the old theory is explode
that because Christ was born IN
manager we must always worshi
Him in a barn.
Railroads of fabulous length hav
, been completed, over which wester
, trains rush past the swift-footed deel
! making the frightened birds to oar
;nto the heavens at the cough OF Tn
, smoke pipes and the savage yen Q
the steam whistle In hot haste GU
national industry advances, ne
! bre ath the air of 10000 furnaces, ne
: SONG the voice of uncounted fa'
tories. her footstep the flash
| wheel buckets and the tread OF tn
: shaft and the stamp OF founarie'
: - anf;deluvian longevity.