The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-01-10


ct has added a Secretaryship Of Agricul.
ture. Societies are constantly being es-
tablished for the education of the pillow.
Journals devoted 10 this department are
circulated through all the country Farm.
ers through such culture have learned the
attributes Of soils and found out that al
most every field has is peculiar prefer
ences. Lands have their choice as TO
which product they viii bear Marshv
lowlands 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. Highways
by this pillow are changed from Doggy
sloughs into roads like the Roman Appian
way. Fields 60 through boodless revolu-
tons until there the farmhouse stands.
In summer honeysuckles Chamber over the
trellises. On one side there stands gar
den, which Is only a farm condensed. on
the other side there Is a stretch Of meadow
land with thick grass, and as the wind
breathes over 1t 1t looks like the deem
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 win
ter the sled comes through the cracking
snow with huge logs from the woods. and
the barn floor qualles under the thumpinQs
OF the. HAIL or the deafening buzz OF the
t9rashing machine. Horses stand beneath
NOW poles bending under loads of hay
and whinny TO the well filed oat bins.
Comfort 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 yearl Some Of
them injured by drought OF insects or
freshets were not as bOuntiful as usual
others far IN excess of what have ever be-
fore been gathered, while higher prices
will help make up for any decreased sun.
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 slaught-
ered this last year, and yet so many hogs
If the ancients in their festivals present
ed their rejoicings before Ceres, the god
dess of corn and tillage, shall we neglect
to rejoice in the presence of the great
God now? From Atlantic to Pacific let
the American nation celebrate the victories
of the pillow.
/ 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 its swing the
city OF Enoch rose, and the foundry of
Iubal Cain resounded, and the ark hoated
on the deluge. At its clang ancient tenn
pies spread their magnihcence and char
lots rushed out fit for the battle. It's len
hist smote the marble of Paros, and it rose
IN sculptured Minervas and struck the
Pentelican mines until from them Par
thenon was reared winter than a palace
OF ice and pure as an angels dream.
Damascus and Jerusalem and Rome and
Venice and Paris and London and PhiIa-
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 luxu-
rlous. SchoolhOuses, lyceums, hospitals
and asylums have added additional glory
70 the enterprise as well as the bene.
hcence of the American people.
Vast public works have been construct
ed, bridges have been built over rivers
and tunnels dug under mountains and
churches OF matchless beauty have gone
up for Him who had not where to Law
His head, and the old theory is exploded
that because Christ was born in a manger
we must always worship Him in barn
Edward Eggleston and Will Carleton
and Mark Twain and John Kendrick
Bangs and Marion Harland and Margaret
AuAAEobGI anu DbuCkIOu ana OnuICnlll ana
Hopkinson Smith and Irving Bachelor and
Julia Ward Howe and Amelia Barr and
Brander Matthews and Thomas Nelson
Page and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and
William Dean Howells and score of 9TH
ers, some of them fixed stars and some
meteors.
As the pen has advanced our colleges
and universities and observatories have
followed the waving of its plume. Our lit.
erature is of two kinds-that on foot and
that on the wing. By the former mean
the firm and substantial works which will
20 down through the centuries When on
the other hand, speak of literature on
the wing, l mean the newspapers of the
land. They fly swiftly and vanish, but
leave permanent results upon the public
mind. They fall noiselessly as a snow
flake, but with the strength of an Alpine
glacier.
This unparalleled multiplication of intel
llgence will either make OF break us.
Every morning and evening our telegraph
offices, with huge wire rakes, gather up
the news Of the nation and of the whole
world, and men write to some purpose
when they make pen out of a thunder
bolt.
1t nSeds great energy and decision and
perseverance for a man to be ignorant in
this country to-day 1t seems to me that
it requires more effort for him to keep out
knowledge than to let it in. The mail
bags at the smallest postoffices disgorge
large packages of intelligence for the peo-
pie; Academies with maps, globes and
philosophic apparatus have been taking
the places of those institutions where thir-
ty or forty years ago you were put to the
torture. Men selected for their qualifca-
lions are intrusted with the education of
our youth instead of those teachers who
formerly with a drover's shout and goad
compelled the young generations up the
hill of science. Happy childhood What
with Broken tops and torn kites and the
trial of losing the best marble and stump
ing. your foot against stone and some
body sticking pin into you to see wheth-
er you will jump and examination day,
with four or FIVE wise men looking over
their u spectacles to see if you can parse the