Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-11-29


adorned with California gold and tho
table is agieam with Nevada silver.
and the feast is warmed with the fire
CRATES heaped mp with Pennsylvania
coal The hall is spread with carpets
from Lowell mills. and at night the
lights will fash from bronzed brackets
of Philadelphia manufacture. The fin
gers of Mas achuset:s girls have hing
the embroidery, the music is the
drumming of ten thousand mills. ac-
cOmpanied by the shout of children let
loose for play. and the gladness of the
harvesters driving BARNARD the loads
of sheaves. and the thanksgivngs OF
the nation which crowd the celestial
gates with doxologies until the Oldest
harper of heaven cannot tell where
the terrestrial song ends and the celes-
tial song begins.
The Victories of Peace.
For two years and half this nation
has been celebrating the triumph of
sword and gun and battery We have
sung martial airs and cheered return
ing heroes and sounded the requiem
for the slain in battle. Methinks it
will be a heaithful change if on this
years Thanksgiving in church and
homestead we celebrate the victories
of the plow, the hammer. and the pen;
for nothing was done at Santiago or
Manila that was OF more Importance
than that which in the last year has
been done in farmers field and me-
chanic's shop and authors study by
those who never wore an epaulet or
shot Spaniard or went a hundred
miles from their own doorsiil. Come
up farmers, and mechanics and literary
men, and get your dues as far as
can pay them.
Things have marvelously changed.
Time was when the stern edict OF gov
eminent forbade re igious assemblages.
Those who dared TO be SO unloyal to
their king as TO acknowledge loyalty
to the Head of the Universe were pun
ished. Churches awfully silent in
worship suddenly heard their doors
swung open and down upon the church
aisle a score of muskets thumped as
the leaders babe them Ground arms."
This custom of having the fathers, the
husbands, the sons and brothers at
the entrance of the pew is custom
which came down from olden time,
when it was absolutely necessary that
the father or brother should sit at the
end of the church pew fully armed to
defend the helpless portion of the fam
lily. But now how changed, Severe
penalties are threatened against any
one who shall interrupt religious SER
vices. and annually. at the command Of
the highest official in the United
States. we gather together for thanks
giving and holy worship. Today |
would stir your souls to joyful thanks
giving while / speak of the mercies of
God and in unconventional way re-
count the conquests of the pillow, the
hammer and the pen.
Gold Not the Best Product.
Piltheus. the king, found some rich
gold mines in his province, SO he
turned all the population to digging
the mines. Tillage was neglected. and
there came a great famine. One day
the wife of the king invited him to a
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 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
suggestively, and then they went back
to the tillage.
To get an appreciation of what the
American plow has accomplished |
take you into the western wilderness
Here in the dense forests | find a col
lection of Indian wigwams. With
belts OF wampum the men laziIy sit
on the skins Of deer, smoking their
feathered calumets or, driven forth
by hunger, l track their moccasins
Tar away as they make the forest
echoes crazy with their wild hallOo or
nsh in the waters of the still lake.
Now tribes challenge and council fires
blaze and warwhOops ring and chiefs
HIT the tomahawks for battle After
awhile wagons from the Atlantic coast
come to those forests. By day trees
are felled and by night bonfires keep
on 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 bu~~sd 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