Then comes the time when a new form of industry is added to the old.

Strange shapes of machinery are seen near the farm-buildings, giant caldrons, mighty wheels, and huge pipes, while the grinding and turning of the engines goes on ceaselessly by day and night.

A noble industry, this! It springs from the energies of the soil, and increases them a hundred-fold.

When the fruits of his own ground are devoted to the factory, the ancient plow without, the new steam-engine within, unite in perfect harmony to make their owner richer, stronger, and wiser.

His life is linked by many ties to men of other callings, and strangers rejoice to hold out their hands to him, and unite their efforts with his.