The Iola register., 1901-11-29

lllIdIlpn nHln hepL Sbtp WIN tht Idt-
lie Of its clevises, and on it's beam hath
ridden thrift and national plenty
do not wonder that the Japanese
and the Chinese and the Phoenicians
SO particularly extolled husbandry or
that Cincnnatus went from the CON
sulship TO the pillow or that Noah was
farmer before he became a shipbuilder
or that Elisha was in the field plowing
with 10 yoke of oxen when the mantle
fell on him or that the Egyptians in
their paganism worshiped the OK as a
tiller of their lands.
Piltheus the king, found some rich
gold mines in his province, so he
turned all the population to digging in
the mines, Nllage was neglected, and
there came a great famine. One day
the wife of he king invited him to
great banquet, and he came in and sat
down, and there were pieces Of gold
in the shape of bread, and pieces of
gold in the shape of biscuits, and pieces
of gold in the shape of joints of meat,
and the king was disguised, and he
said: IL cannot eat this" Neither
can the people" said his wife most sug-
gestively. and then they went back to
the tilloge.
Within our time the presidential
cabinet has added sccretaryship OF
agriculture. Societies are constantly
being established for the education
of the plow. Journals devoted to this
department are circulated through
all the country. Farmers. through
rnch culture, have learned the at
tributes of soils and found out that
almost every field has its peculiar
preferences. Lands have their
choice as to which product they will
bear. Marshy lowlands touched by
the plow rise and wiring out their wet
locks in the trenches. Islands born
down on the coast Of Peru and Boz
liyia are transported to our fields and
make our vegetables leap. Highways.
by this plow. are changed from boggy
Sloughs into roads like the Roman
Appian way. Fields go through
bloOdlcss revolutions until there the
farmhouse stands. In summer honey
sucllles Chamber over the trcllises. On
one side there stands garden, which
is only farm condensed. On the
other side there is - stretch of mead
ow land with thick grass, and. as
the wind breathcs over il. it looks
like the deep green ocean waves.
There goes brook, tarrying long in
its windiugs, as if loath to leave the
spot where the reeds sing and the
cattle stand at Roonday under the
shadow of the weeping willows. I'm
winter the sled comes through the
cracking snow. with huge logs from
the woods, and the barn floor quakes
under the thumpngs of the fail or
the dcafening buzz of the thrashing
machine. Horses stand beneath NOW
poles bending under loads Of hay and
whinny to the well-flled oat bins.
Praise God for the great hnrvests
that have been rcaped this last yearl
Some of them, injured by drought
or insects or freshets, were not as
bountiful as usual. others for in rN-
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
pcrity 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 vet 80 many hogs
! left. Enormous paying of of farm
mortgages have spoiled the old
| speeches Of the calamity huwlers. II
| the ancicnts in their festivals pre-
sented their re eioicings before Ceres.
the goddess Of corn and tillagc, shall
we neglect 10 rejoice in the pres
| ence of the great God now? From
| Atlantic 10 Pacific let the American
nation celebrate the victories of the
| plow.
l come next to speak of the con
| quests Of the American hammer. Its
iron arm has fought its wny down
| from the beginning to the present.
| Under its swing the city of Enoch
rose and the foundry of Tubal Cain
resounded and the ark tioated on the
deluge. Al its clang ancient tenn
pies spread their magniticcnce and
chariots rushed out ii for the bat
tie. Its iron fist smote the marble
of Paros, and it rose in sculpturcd
4hlIltlN uS anu NAIlNk lilt ItHltlltAD
mines until from them Parthenon
was reared whittier than palace of
ice and pure as an angels dream.
Damascus and Jerusalem and Rome
and Venice and Paris and London
and Philadelphia and New York and
Washington are but the long pro-
tracted echoes of the hammer. I'm
der the hammer everywhere dwell
ings have gone up, ornate and lux
urious. Schoolhouses, lyccums, hos
pitfalls and asylums have added add-
| tional glory 10 the enterprise as well
as the beuchccncc of the American
people. Vast public works have been
constructed, bridges have bcen built
over rivers and tunnels dug under
our mountains. and churches of
matchless beauty have gone up for
| Him who had not where to lay His
head, and the old theory is exploded
that because Christ was born in a
manger we must always Worship
l 10. hpr