THE WHEAT CULTUEIST. 



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the fathomless deeps of the ocean for the animal prod- 

 uct found among the rocky polyp-trees ; the miner 

 excayates the subterranean shaft for gold ; the artists 

 produce articles of the most exquisite workmanship, 

 and like a beast of burden, the porter tenders the seryices 

 of his physical strength in order to obtain a proportion 

 of the products of the wheat plant. All that we see or 

 hear, all that is done, all that is spoken, written, or 

 thought, is performed directly or indirectly on account 

 of the fruit of that plant, which introduced, deyeloped, 

 and to-day maintains ciyilization.'' 



Old CKEyECCEUK's Speech. 



"Wlien the aborigines of our country saw the refine- 

 ment of character, the spirit of philanthropy, which 

 possessed the hearts of their white neighbors, their ob- 

 serying chieftain, Creyecceur, of the now extinct tribe 

 of the Mississais, is said to haye addressed his people in 

 the following pathetic remarks : 



" Do you not see the whites liying upon seeds, while 

 we eat flesh? That flesh requires more than thirty 

 moons to grow up, and is then often scarce. Each 

 of the wonderful seeds they sow in the earth returns 

 them an hundred fold. The flesh on which we subsist 

 lias fom- legs to escape from us, while we haye but two 

 to pm'sue and captm-e it. The grain remains where the 

 white men sow it, and grows. With them winter is a 

 period of rest ; while with us, it is the time of laborious 

 hunting. For these reasons they haye so many chil- 

 dren, and liye longer than we do. I say, therefore, unto 

 eyery one that will hear me, that before the cedars of 

 our yillage shall haye died down with age, and the 



