The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-01


 produces mullein stalks and Canada thistles. There Is hardly a hillock be- tween the forests of Maine and the le- gpons of Florida, between the peach orr chards of New Jersey and the pines of Oregon. that has not sometimes shown its natural and total depravity.
 Praise God for the great harvests that have been Feaped this last yearl Some Ut them injured by drought or insects or freshets were not as bountiful as usual, others far in excess of what have ever before been gathered, while higher prices will help make up for any de- creased supply, Sure sign of agrieultu- ral prosperity we have in the fact that cattle and horses and sheep and swine and all farm animals have during the last two years increased In value. Twen- ty million swine slaughtered this last year, and yet go many hogs left Enor- ta :, spoiled the old speeches of the calamity howlers. If the anolents in their festi- yals presented their rejoicings before ehce of the great God now? From At lantic to Pacific let the American nation celebrate the victories of the blow.
 l come next to speak of the conquests of the American hammer. It's iron arm has fought its way down from the begin ming to the present. Under it's swing the city of Enocn rose, and the foundry Of Tuhal Cain Tesounded, ana the ark
  cient temples spread their magnificence and chariots rushed cut fit for the bat tie It's iron fst smote the marble or Paros, and 1t rose h seylptured Miner til from them < Parthenon was reared winter than a palace of ice and pure as an angels dream. Damascus and Jeru- salem and Rome and Venice s,ns; and Pas1s Ssn, Ycrk and Washington are but the long protracte6 echoes of the hammer. cn- der the hammer everywhere dwellings, have gone up; ornate ana iuXurlous; asylVms have added additional glory to the enterprise as we'll as the bepefoence of the American people vast pubic works have been constructed, pflogss have been built over rivers and tunneis dug under mountains and churches of maschless beauty have gone up for Him who had not where to lay his head, and the old theory Is exploded that becaust always worship him in q barn.
 Goodness of God.
 Railroads of fabulous length have been completed, over which Western trains rush past the swlft-foo.ed deer, making the frightened birds to dart into the heavens at the cough of the smoke pipes and the savage yell of the steam whistle. In hot haste our national industry ad- Vances, her breath the air or lO'oOO Iur- naces, her song the voice or uhcounted factories. her footstep, the nash or Whee, .a the stamp of foundries Talk about an- tediluVian longevity! think the aV' craze of human life Is more now than 1t ever was. Through meehahicai Iaeii- tiles, men work so much faster and ac- compllsh so much more in lifetime that man can afford to die now at tor- ty years as well as one Of old at SOO. IL think the average of human life in point of accomplishment is now equivalent to about 800 years, as near as l can cal culate. In all our occupations and pro fessions we feel the enect or crippled or enlarged mechanical enterprise We all have stock in every house that is huilded and in every public conveyance that is constructed and Tn every ship that is sailed. When we see the hard working men of the land living in com Portable abodes, with luxuries upon their tahle that once even kings could not af- ford having the advantage Of thorough education, of accomplishment and art, we are ali ready at this season to unite with them in praise to God for His You shall yet see American labor ris- ing up with stronger arm and stout CT heart and swathier fame. New citie will be built. Commerce on the lakes will take new wings. Where now stand unbroken forests great capitals of busi' ness and affiuence will rise, and streams that have idled away 5000 years wil be harnessed to ponderous machlner! and compelled to toll and sweat like thu Chattahoochee and the Merrimao. A one of our great dry-docks we shall ye build the model ocean steamship. will come together under the chorus O a thousand American hammers. She shal start amid a great national hurrah ant move far out at sea as though an islanS had been unanchored with it's forests O l masts or as if some one had said il Scripture phrase unto a mountain, 'B thou cast into the sea-" The volcano T. her heart will sprinkle on the sea channel of St. George among the ship yards of the Old World and among tn