Show gold and corn the following beautiful contrast between the gold of california and the god gold of agriculture is f froni rom nom the speech of th the e hon hoh EDW EVERET everett tat at the national agricultural fair boston button october the he grains of the california gold are dead inorganic masses how they cot pot into the crave grave cravel gravel between what mountain millstones whirled by elemental storm winds on the boom of oceanic torrents the auriferous ledges were ground to powder by what titanic hands the coveted grains were own sown broadcast in the placer human ence can but faintly conjecture we ure only know that those grains have within them no principle of growth or rt reproduction production add and that when that crop was to be put in chaos must have broken up the soil how different the grains of our atlantic gold sown by bv the prudent hand of man in the kindly alternation of seedtime seed time and harvest each curiously mysteriously organized hard hard bard horny seeming lifeless on the outside but wrap wrapping jR 11 tip up in the interior a seminal germ a u living principle drop a grain pf af california god gold into the ground and there it will lied unchanged to the erd of time the clods on which it falls not more cold and lifeless drop a grain of our gold of our dur blessed gold in the he ground and lol iol lo 10 a mystery in a few days it softens it swells it shoots upwards it is a livin living thing it is yellow itself but it sends ap up a delicate spire which comes peeping emerald dren u green through the s sav it t expands expand R to a vi vigorous r Q a revels in the air and sunshine suns nine ne it arrays itself more glorious than solomon in its b broad at 1 fluttering leafy robes whose sounds as be the west zt wind ivind whispers through them hem falls as pleasa pleasantly rillY on ear as the rustie rustle of the sweethearts garment stilt still towers aloft js its verdant skeins of vegetable flosa floss displays its dancing tes theis sels seig surcharged with feital izing dust aust and at lat last ripens into two or three magnificent batons like this an ear of indian corn each bachof of which is studded with hundreds of grai gral grains n s of gold every one pos possessing the same woride wonderful rf III ili properties 4 as the parent grain every one instinct pith with kith theace tepron reproductive act ive lve powers there arp seven hundred and arid 1 wenty grains on the ear car wincil which I 1 hold in my h hand and and now I 1 sav say sir of this transcendent transcend trans cerid ant gold of ours the yield thi year will be beat at least tenor tenon ten or luteen fifteen times that of california I 1 but it will be urged perhaps sir sit sir sin in in bp behalf half of california gold by some miserly old fegy foey who thit thir thinks ks there bispo music in the world equal to the chink chirik of 01 his guineas guinea that though one crop roii roli only of gold can be gathered from spot yet once gal gathered meted it lasts lasis to the end of time while he be will maintain our vegetable gold is produced only tobb toi be consumed and when consumed fi IN gone forever er but this thi mr alt president would be a most error both ways it is true the california gold will wilt last forever unc unchanged hinged if its own owner er chooses but while it so als lasts it i s 0 of rno no use no not hot so much as its value in pig iron which I 1 makes the best rf of bail ball ballast act whereas gold while it t is oid old is good for it thle ihle itlear or nothing you can betner eat it nor hor drink it nor smoke it you can ri either elther wear weah it nor burn it as fuel nor build a house bouse with it it is really useless fill till you change exchange if for consumable perishable goods and the more plentiful it is the less it its s exchangeable value apar the case casewitz with our alian Allan atlantic gold it does doel lica perish when consumed bler alchemy chah that of is tram transmit mit led in consumption to 9 hig hieber her lite life PH sh in in did fhe he old miser say tho thou fool that which thou lowest is not quickened except it if lie die th ohp burning pen nen of inspiration dangim ranging keaven weaven heaven and earth for a stint similitude ia attile to convey to our poor minds some not inadequate idea of the malv doctrine of the resurrection resurrect ion jon can find gin fin d rio tio no jinbo inbok 0 eo o expressive as bare grain rain it may 1 ance anceo c f wh wheat elt eat or some other crain vain today to td today day a insel useless e Q 9 plant fo morrow it is human bane and arid muscle vein and artey artsy sinew and nerve beat beating irig pulse ruise heaving lundi toiling to iline al am sometime sometimes ov over oven ej m toiling brain laft last la jone june it sucked from the col coi egid cold ut breast of the earth lie he watery its ita distending dis dib fending tending sap vessels and anti now it t clothes the manly I 1 form foito with warm cardial iesh flesh and I 1 thrills tills vilh the fivefold five fold mystery of nse msp purveys 9 and ministers to the hiezer haher of thought heaped couf gra neris iv ceic henert it will strike in the stam stan stalwart vant vann i arnn arrn rin ani anu ana elow fow low in th ohp alushin bl capek and beam inge ingae e till ti I 1 we leam learn at last to rea Hz that izat the slender stalk which we have seen ban brn bandin bo din rn in the tha corn fiehl fields under tha tho tb vellow yellow of lieve It invest at ii it indeed the staff of if life which since the world bean began haa has support supported fd the thili kilinar oi linar anz and bein of humanity on the mighty Yer pir sir ir the allegory abe aUe gory sory and to speak with out ont a fidure ti zire sire it is 3 th thois noble agriculture forthe on of which this great comma is a alem ateno bem lem blad from io many ny parts of the union unini which fei lei humar human race and arel all the humbler humblen older ower af ni abed kattire dependant on man wap the exception of ehst is yielded by the fisheries and the cha e 1 l limited though certainly not 0 an insignificant source of if supply agriculture is fh sieward steward which spreads the apil tail table of mankind niah kind tid twenty enty arven ven millions of human be in imps by accurate computation awoke this very morning morningto I 1 jo tp stales all requiring thet y r dally daliy c daily bread whether iviry they had fiad the me t p pray for jt or not and ilder providence lall rail look io ing to f 0 the he agriculture of the he country for far that daily brealand brea bread dand and ibe the food ot othe otho the tho domestic depending on them dinan aa a das daa great perhaps wr a heir 1 own awn mt mr c it i your tour banners fan ners to gigantic ag yg antic appetite the mouths of these hungry millions of fh he star I 1 ving millions I 1 by any catastrophe the he supplying eral erel cut pooi pool foe a ar few days day baythe the i life of the country i and brute would be extinct |