The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-11-30

and the Chinese and the Phoenician
so particularly extolled husbandry Q
that Cincinnatus went from the cor
sulship to the pillow or that Noah was
farmer before he became a shipbuilde
or that Elisha was in the field plowin
with ~ yoke Of oxen when the mantl
fell on him or that the Egyptians il
their paganism worshiped the OK as
tiller of their lands.
Riltheus, the king, found some ricl
| gold mines in his province, so h
turned all the population to digging ii
the mines. Tillage was neglected, an,
there came great famine. One day
the, wife of the king invited him to ,
great banquet, and he came in and sa'
down, and there were pieces of golt
in the shape of bread, and pieces o.
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: II cannot eat this" "NeitheI
can the people," said his wife most sug.
gestively, and then they went back to
the tillage.
Within our time the presidential
cabinet has added secretaryship 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
such culture, have learned the (at-
tributes of soils and found out that
almost every field has it's 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 Boz
livia are transported to our fields and
make our vegetables leap. Highways,
by this pillow, 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 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
like the deep green ocean waves.
There goes a brook, tarrying long in
its windings, as il 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
Horses stand beneath NOW
poles bending under loads of hay and
whinny to the well-filled .oat bins.
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
,erity we have in the fact that cat
lie and horses and sheep and swine
md all farm animals have during the
asst two years increased in value.
twenty million swine slaughtered
his last year, and yet so many hogs
eft. Enormous paying off of farm
mortgages have spoiled the old
peeches of the calamity howlers. If
he ancients in their festivals pre-
ented their rejoicings before Ceres,
he goddess of corn and tillage, shall
We neglect to rejoice in the pres
nee of the great God now? From
atlantic to Pacific let the American
alton celebrate the victories of the |
low.
/ come next to speak of the con-
uests of the American hammer. It's |
ron arm has fought its way down
rom the beginning to the present.
Inder its swing the city of Enoch |
ose and the foundry of Tubal Cain |
esounded and the ark floated on the
eluge. At it's clang ancient tenn
les spread their magnificence and
lie. Its iron fist smote the marble
I Paros, and it rose in sculptured
iinervas and struck the Pentelican
hines until from them Parthenon
vas reared whittier than n palace of
,e and pure as an angels dream.
damascus and Jerusalem and Rome |
nd Venice and Paris and London
nd Philadelphia and New York and |
are but the long pro-
racted echoes of the hammer. I'm |
err the hammer everywhere dwell
,gs have gone up, ornate and lux
rious. Schoolhouses, lyceums, hos
itals and asylums have added addi-
onal glory to the enterprise as well
$ the beneficence of the American
eople. Vast public works have been
bridges have been built
yer rivers and tunnels dug under
ur mountains, and churches of
,atchless beauty have gone up for
i'm who had not where to lay His
cad, and the old theory is exploded
hat because Christ was born in a
ranger we must always worship
i'm in q barn.
Railroads of fabulous length have
cen completed, over which western
rains rush past the swift-footed deer,
,aking the frightened birds to dart
ito the heavens at the cough of the
moke pipes and the savage yell of
he steam whistle In hot haste our /