Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-12-11

the noted Chicago drainage canal,
built ut the expense of many millions
of dollars. My fayorite walk when
student upon the banks of the Hudson
was over the noted Croton aqueduct.
through which the water was brought
from over thirty miles away to quench
the thirst of the 100000 inhabitants
of the metropolis. But, after all, the
excavations for the New York UNI
foreground railroad impressed me more
than all the engineering feats / ever
saw. As / looked down into those big
subways / always felt as though l
were in an operating room and seeing
the surgeons knife cutting its way.
Those excavations were to me a vast
laparotomic operation upon the great
city of New York
There / could see hundreds of pipes
running in every direction. Water
pipes, sewer pipes, gas pipes We're all
there exposed to view Those different
pipes seemed to resemble the blood
vessels and the alimentary canal Of
the human Zane They seemed more
they seemed like the great long stems
of lilies lifting their heads above the
foul water of a pond These stems go
down, down, down. until they grapple
their anchorages in the mud and draw
sustenance from the earth below. And
50 could see these pipes, the sewer
pipes and the fresh water pipes, rum
ming through the soil and rock on
which the city is built. They reached
out until at last, as scavengers, they
emptied their refuse into the depths of
the sea, or they reached out until, like
the stems of the lilies, they gathered
up life giving strength from the far
away Croton hills. On this Thanksgiy-
ing day let us one and all thank God
for scientific drainage and sewerage
and for pipes which bring to us pure
water. Thank God for water with
which we can cook, for pure water
which we can drink and for pure wa
ter in which we can battle our bodies
and cleanse our garments and our
homes. Water, water, pure water
thank God for the drinking water of
the Thanksgiving table!
ervoirs and the aqueducts and the pipe
lines which bring to us pure water and
the waste pipes which carry away the
disease breeding refuse, shall we not
thank him also for the marvellous ma
chinery which puts upon our tables the
best viands that the harvest fields and
the orchards afford? And when l
speak of this machinery l am not only
abiding to the reapers and the plowS
and the seed scattererS which we saw
exhibited at the st. Louis and Portland
worlds fairs, but l also allude to the
wonderful freight cars and the huge
Atlantic and Pacific steamers, with
their refrigerators and cold storage
| plants, that bring to us the rarest and
| the choicest of fruits and vegetables
and animal meats and fish and bird
| meats and molluSks, no matter where
they may grow or breathe the breath
of life
Some people marvel at the mechan-
ism which makes it possible for the
farmer to SOW and reap fields of wheat
| hundreds and thousands of acres wide
where their ancestors had only a few
acres to a farm. IT'S true, we must
| gaze in awe at the wonderful POSSIBLE
tiles of the modern farm through the
miracles of modern machinery. Last
summer while riding through the coun-
! try l saw great machine going over
| the prairie where once the farmer
| went swinging his scythe. This mar
velous machine was called "a COM
| bined harvester 1t was drawn by
| thirty-tWo horses, driven chariot-lke,
four abreast. That machine cut the
wheat. thrashed the wheat, gathered
the clean kernels into bags, sewed up
the bags. threw them to one side and
tossed the straw into heaps. All this
i happened while the farmer was out
| taking his pleasure ride behind his
thirty-two horses. Marvellous, marvel
Gus. wonderful, wonderful combined
harvester But the benefits which
x come to our table from "a combined
harvester are as nothing compared t.
those that come from the freight cal
and from the steamer.
Sources of Food.
Have you ever stopped to consider
| from how many various sources oul
food comes? / am nearing the coast Of
Sydney, Australia. l see alongside thu
railroad track great numbers of rab
bits strung up. There are thousands
and tens of thousands of them. set
the hillsides of New South Wales GOV
} cred with sheep. l go to the wharfs
and there find the great steamers be
/ ing loaded with them. "What is thu
good of taking these thousands of sheer
and rabbits to Londonp | say to thu
captain. 1t will take you at least three
or four weeks to sail there. That mea
will then be malodorous and stenchfu
and sickening'' mo, no." answers thu
captain. 'That meat is being stored
in refrigerators. By running liquid
ammonia through the pipes and letting
it evaporate sve can make our own ic'
on shipboard That meat will be SOLD
in London markets as fresh as it Ii
! today Blythe wonderful cold storage
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