The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13
BEHOLD OUR
TEEMING VALLEYS

TEEMING VALLEYS
Behold the Sun as it throws ont its
beams and makes glad the earth.
The scientists tell us about the con-
servation of energy, that nothing is
lost, but tha. the imponderable forces
of the physical universe go on
changing the forms of things and that
by transmutation the power once let
loose is gathered up, stored, and
again betimes let loose to do the work
assigned 1t In the economy of nature.
They say all energy except the ebb
and the flow of the tidal wave comes
20 us originally from these sun
beams and that the falling dew, the
rushing waters, the winds which
sweep the fields OF grain in success
sive billows. the growing crops the
coal which has lain dormant with
opwer for centuries, the food which is
Gurned up in our bodies to create
fuel for the living organism-these
and all others are only the transmut-
led sunbeams. Strange and wondrous
story that, more thrilling, marvellous
and interesting to the thoughtful per-
SON than any song or story of the
sagas and folk OF any land or cline
for 1t Is an intimation of the plan and
destiny of this Great Ship on which
we sail through the bright cerulean
seas. But-we intended to write
about corn and wheat and clover and
garden sass" and the near advent
of apple-dumplings, blackberry cob
piers, sweet-potatoes and roasting
ears They're coming in batallons. The
country never looked SO fine. The mag
nificient saltwater and Miami-river
valleys are rolling in the wealth of the
fields and gardens and orchards. They
far surpass the removed Willamette
valley in everything save fruits and
rainbow trout and probably are not
excelled by the historic valley of the
Nile-famous for its wealth of agri-
culture from the very twilight of civ
ilization. 1t is great thing to live
here in the seat of the worlds life-in
the very heari OF her productive forces
And especially SO this year for there
certainly never was in our history the
promise of such crops. See those
fields of corn, so green they look dark
and the stalks jumping about four
inches a day, promising now from 60
to 100 bushels to the acre. And the
oats-it will fill up all the granaries
when harvested. The clover and tim
othy and alfalfa and tobacco and pota-
toes--all seem to be coming along
magnifcently. II there should fall a
couple good rains when the corn
shoots there will be grown hundred
Dushel corn this year with the price
promising to keep we'll up. Now II
this corn and clover and wheat and
tobacco and stuff is all transmitted
sunbeams the boys and girls who are
getting clipper and smart i'm their
Nsciontfo studies may ask why it is
that there is so much difference in
seasons and that the rain seems 10
bring out the crops and hurry them
along while long dry spell has a
retarding influence. Well, to tell the
truth about 1t, blamed II we know.
Possibly these sunbeams need to be
changed and reorganized with a
larger substitution of hydrogen in the
reaction but the problem will have to
go to the chemist or physicist or some
other doctor. A printer just deals
with the facts OF the external world
and leaves the whyness of things to
the speculations of the philosophers or
the experimentation of the chemists