Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-11-30
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GIN 10 throw their branches in the pain
of the conquering white man. Farms are
cleared Stumps, the monuments OF
slain forests, crumble and are burned.
Villages appear, with smiths at the bel
lows, masOns ON the wall, carpenters on
the housetop. Churches rise in honor of
the Great Spirit whom the red men ig-
norantly worship. Steamers on the lake
convey merchandise 10 her wharf and
carry east the uncoupted 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 the wilderness hath re-
treated and the plow hath conquered.
Within our time the presidential cabi-
net has added seeretaryship of agricul-
ture. Societies are constantly being es.
tsblished for the education of the piow.
Journals devoted to this department are
circulated through all the country Farm
ers, through such culture, have learned
the attributes OF soils and found out that
almost every field has its peculiar prefer
enees. Lands have their choice as 10
which product they will bear. Marshy
iowlsnds touched by the pillow rise and
wiring out their Wet locks in the trenches.
Islands born down ON the coast of Peru
and Bolivia are transported TO our fields
and make our vegetation leap. High
ways by this plow, are changed from
hoggy sloughs into roads like the Roman
Appian way. Fields 20 through bloodess
revolutions until there the farm house
stands. In summer honeysuckles Chamber
over the trellises. On one side there
stands garden, which is only farm
condensed. On the other side there is a
stretch Of meadow land with thick grass,
and, as the wind breathes over it, il looks
like the deep green ocean waves. There
goes a brook. tarrying long in its wind
ings, as if loath to leave the spot where
the reeds sing. and the cattle stand az
MONDAY under the shadow OF the weep
ing willows. In winter the sled comes
through the cracking snow, with huge
logs fro.h the woods, and the barn floor
quakes under the Jhumpngs of the fiail
or the deafening buzz of the thrashng
machine. Horses stand beneath NOW
poles bending under loads of hay and
whinny to the wcll-hlled oat bins. Com
fort 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 excess of what have ever
before been gathered, while higher prices
will help make mp for any decreased sup
ply. Sure sign OF agricultural 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. Twenty million swine slaugh-
tered this last year, and yet so many hogs
! left. Enormous paying off OF farm mort
cages has spoiled the old speeches OF the
calamity howlers. IL the ancients in
| their festivals presented their rejoicings
before Ceres, the goddess OF corn and till
age. shall we neglect to rejoice in the
presence of the great God now? From
Atlantic 10 Pacific let the American ma
ton celebrate the victories of the plow.
! | come next to speak of the conquests
Of the American hammer. Its iron arm
| has fought its way down from the begin
ming to the present. Under its swing the
| city of Enoch rose and the foundry Of
| Tubal Cain resoupded and the ark float
cd on the delugc. At its cang ancient
| temples spread their magnifcencc and
| chariots rushed out fit for the battle Its
| iron fist smote the marble Of Paros, and
| it rose in sculptured Minervas and struck
, the pentclican mines until from them
| ParthenOn was reared whittier than a pal
| ace of ice and pure as angels dream.
| Damascus and Jerusalem and Rome, and
| Venice and Paris and London and Phila-
| delphia and New York and Washington
| are but the long prOtraCted echoes Of the
| hammer. Under the hammer everywhere
| dwellings have gone up. ornate and lux
urious. School houses lyccums, hospitals
and asylums have added additional glary
| to the enterprise as well as the benef-
ceI.ce of the American people. Vast pub
| lie works have been constructed. bridges
! have been built over rivers and tunnels
| dug under our mountains, and churches Of
matchless beauty have gone up for him
who had not whore to lag bis head, and
the old theory is exploded that because
Christ was born in manger we must al
ways worship him in II barn.
Growth Of Nation.l Industry.
Railroads Of fabulous length have been
| completed. over which western trains
rush past the swift footed deer making
| the frightened birds to dart into the hcay-
ems at the cough Of the smoke pipes and
the savage yell Of the steam whistle. In
hot haste our national industry advances.
her breath the air Of ten thousand fur
naces. her song the voice Of uncountcd
| factories, her footsteps the flash Of wheel
! buckets and the tread Of he shaft and
the stamp Of foundrics. Talk about ante
! diluvian longevity. | think the average
Of human life is more now than il ever
was. Through mechanical facilities men
work so much faster and accomplish so
much more in lifetime that man can
afford to die now at forty as well as one
of old at 900. | think the average Of
human life in point of accomplishment
is now equivalent to about 500 years. IS
near as | can calculate it. In all our oc-
| equations and professions we feel the
effect OF crippled or enlarged mechan-
ical enterprise. We ali have stock in
every house that is builded and in every
public conveyance that is constructed and