The Wingham Times, 1889-01-11, Page 7GREAT IS TODAY.
Qat on a world that% gond to wood!
The great tall corn is still strong in his sed:
algint bee breast with laughter, put song in your
toil,
The heart is still meat; in trio mother soil;
tittre's'sunshine end bird song, and red and white
clover,
bad love rivet yet, world under and over,
The light's white as ever, sow and believe:
Clearer dew did not glisten round Adam and Eve,
Vaver blur heavens nor greener Sod
$luso the round world rolled from the hand of
clod;
There's a sun to go down, to came up amain,
Then, aro pew moons to fill When the old moons
wane,
Js wit-dom dead since Plato's no torr
Who'll that babe bo, in yon cottage door?
While your Shakespeare, your Milton, takes his
pisco In the tomb,
ills brother is stirring In tho good mother womb:
There's glancing of daisies and running of brool. ,
A,y, life enough loft to write In the books,
The world's not all wisdom, nor poems, ror flow-
ers,
But each day has the same good twenty.four
hours,
Theeamo light, the sauno night.! For your Jacobs,
no tears;
'They see the ltachais at the end of tho years:
There's waving of wheat, and the tall, e;trongcorn,
Amdahl heart blood is water, that slttath forlorn.
--John Vance Cheney In Tho Century.
Wendell Phillips' Curious Career.
Wendell Phillips was a natural aristo-
Or4t. His father was the first mayor of
Boston, and the famous schools at Andover
soul Exeter recognize his family as their
founder. He was reared in aflluence, and
at school was au athlete as well as a
student. Ino laved to box, and to run and
to tow. He was the bitterest opponent
of the first temperance association formed
in Harvard college. In his early life ho
loved all the good things of tho world.
'He was fond of the physical as well as the
intellectual. Do loved the beautiful, and
' admired women above almost any young
man of his class. Yet his whole lifu
changed as he grew older. Ho married a
girl ou hor sick bed, who never got well,
and ho devoted his whole life to her care.
lie became an advocate of tompporauco,
dien.d when he saw William Lloyd Garrison
dragged through the streets in tho anti -
el avory agitation, he determined to devote
Ills life to redressing the wrongs of tho
black man. "Why don't tho mayor call
out the militia," of which he was ono, ho
Cried. Prom high class surroundings he with. You can't make them over into
then .moved into the lowly quarter that pantaloons. You can't sot them for eel
IM might carry out his ideas of protection traps. Alone, they won't answer for
to tho poor. What a curious career fol- scarecrows. So"millions of yards of cloth
;
o'tve&—P'os,1r A. Burr in Philadelphia are wasted yearly ib. tho making of vests.
:times. Pull down your vest. Pull it off and
The value of•Follr Songs. leavo it off.
It is a great luxury to arise in the
The
DRESS REFORM FOR MAID, Stories of Confederate money,
Simple Style at Dfadequet—The Vet
an Ineumbreuoe.
Wo can dress here in four pieces, to
wit: skirt, pants, shoes and hat. On
state occasions, seeks, In town you aro • Grimes, "a young man who lived in La
Congressman Grimes, who represents'
the Foul't71 Georgia district, told a couple
of stories very pertinent to the subject
and. which greatly amused his auditors:.
"In the latter part of 1863," said Mr,
commonly obliged to put on eleven pieces,
to wit: seers, shoes, drawors, pants,
shirt, undershirt, cxavat, collar, vest,
coat and hat. A. vast amount of time
and force is used up by myriads of civil.
ized beings In putting on those eleven
pieces. In hot Nvcather. A vast amount
of strongth is used up by simply wearing
them. Starch is misery on a sultry day.
Youalineu shirt is a straight jacket; your
lightly buttoned vest and four button
cutaway are two more straight jackets
over that. You put on four thicrneases
of cloth to conform to the demands of
Broadway, when nature calls out but for
ono, and a thin and very loose one at
that. When you have anything to do, or
you got to your oflico, you shuck your
coat and it in your shirt sleeves, or put
on a thin one.
You aro unconsciously a slave to this
idiocy of existent. To heighten this idiocy,
you put on the most clothing and the
tightest fits and the most starch in the
city, where it is hottest. When you go
to the country, where it is a little cooler
and there is more air to breathe and
purer air to breathe, and consequently
more strength to be got out of such air
to help you endure your load of tiA;ht fit.
ting cloth, you put on less clothing and
looser clothing. This is inconsistent. You
should wear your cumbersome starch and
tight fitting vestments where you have
the most strengl h to wear them.
Your vest is a useless incumbrance. It
is only the rudiment of tho old fashioned
"waist coat." That was a coat. It
reached to the hips 140 years ago. People
then worn in substance two coats—a back
coat and a front coat, now the waistcoat.
Tho waistcoat has been gradually grow-
ing shorter. In a sack suit it is of no
earthly use save to increase your
load in hot weather and • make
you hotter. It is 'simply another
short coat, which you wear because
your tenor says you must. It's
like wearing one hat inside the other.
Yon can't even wear it out. You know
you wear out out seven pairs of pants to
one waistcoat. You know that now your
closet is full of vests left over from worn
out snits that you don't know what to do
The value of folk songs and labor songs morning and dress by throe or four mo
or workers' songs is not easily over- tions in as many pieces, to stick your feet
estimated. In this country we have vory into a pair of slippers and bo shod with- to monis, who, having "tried our
little distinct literature of that class, ex- out tho tediousness of being up or but- valuableom leg would have no other." your
Copt what. wo gather from tho negroes. toning up your city boots. And four
mof those grace'ul men was pictured in the
ale Remus and negro myths, as given pieces can be made as becoming and grace- act of riding a bicycle. Another bore his
ts with the on andC. nes, to tl afamiliar
cow- fill—aye, and morose—than eleven pieces. whole weight on an artificial leg while
songsstoriesand four garments can bo changed plying a minor's pick at a masa of rock
pleamut them to make a low strata of life oftener and cleansed oftener. I be- over his head. Still another stood on his
iciieerful. The Nineteenth Ce}nary has liovo that dress should be neat, bo- sound leg and with the artificial leg drove
,eolleeted quite a motley group from other coming and as graceful as possible for a spade deep into the soil of a garden
• nources. Eurus' poems get flavor front every station or calling; and because a lot. Three were farmers following the
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association with the Scotch working 'man lives where there is no public or pblacksmiths shoeing horses and a
classes. The different departments of public opinion to look after him, Is ne plow,edetriawithout a nose—all with at
labor have t 11 developed songs peculiar to reason why he should live in rags or go least one artificial leg.
Grange, Oa., became possessed of the sum
of ee00 lir Confederate money. He was
of a thrifty turn and wanted to add to it.
With that purpose in view he invested his
money in a bar'l of whisky. This he sold
by the drink; and at the end of the week
had disposed of the whole barrel and had
,,11,200 in hand, a not profit of $;700. The
young span was highly elated. Ile sew
is way clear to a fortune in a short time,
"Of course he decided to buy more
whisky at wholesale and sell it by the
small measure, but he had not takon into
account the wear and tear which the
credit of the Confederacy had suffered
during the week which it bad taken him
to soli out his barrel. When he went to
invest in another supply he found that he
could not'make a purchase similar to his
first one for less than $1,500. The financial
fluctuations involved in the transaction
knocked him so completely out that he re-
tired permanently from commercial life
and hired himself out as an agriculturist."
When his hearers bad finished laughing
at this story, Mr. Grimes gave them the
other one. "It was in the same town
La Graugo—and in the latter part of
1864," he said. "One old gentleman therm
who had persisteutly predicted the failure
of the Confederacy was ono day deriding
the currency that was then so plentiful
and of such little value. Ile said that it
was so worthless that nobody would even
steal it or pick it up if found on the street.
He pulled out a $1,000 bill—Confederate
money, of course—and declared that he
could tack it with a pin to the fence
around the court house, leave it there five
hours, and that nobody would think
enough of It to put it in his pocket. His
offer was accepted. Tho note was pinned
to tho fence and at the end of five hours-
he
ourshe and the man to whom he had been talk-
ing went out to see what there was to be
seen." Mr. Grimes here paused.
"Well?" inquired Mr. Allen, of Missis-
sippi.
The 61,000 note was there," replied
Mr. Grimes, "and pinned beside it was an-
other Confederate bill, the denomination
of which was $2,000."—Atlanta Constitu-
tion.
Visit to a Itepairing Factory,
The place looked like a ghastly carica-
ture of a butcher shop in the laud of tho
cannibals, but it was only the inner sanc-
tum of a manufacturer of artificial limbs.
Arms, legs, hands, feet—what you will—
hung on walls, screened in glass cases or
laid about in heaps, greeted tho eye wher.
ever it rested. There were audacious
pictures of gentlemen in various active
the class of work. The dairy maids of
Greece and other old Aryan races wove
their work into music, and so gavo to it
an air and atmosphere of poetry. This
was specially true of hording and pastoral
labor of all sorts. Tho Russians have a
corn grinders' song. • Tho old chimney
sweepers' chant that was heard in our
streets fifty years ago has vanished, but
Stevedores and sailors perform work with
Chanting or intoning. Song lightens
labors, its office is a grand one.—Globe-
lemoerat.
Aluminum and Iron Ailey.
Tien per cent. of aluminum added to the
weak metal copper gives it tho strength
of steel. Ono stove making concern in
Michigan uses about one-tenth of 1 per
cent. of the metal in all its iron castings,
with the result of diminishing theshrink-
ago, making it fill the mold better, im-
proving the skin, rendering the grain
perfectly oven and preventing chilling,
oven turning white iron into gray. The
Addition of silicon to cast iron has been
shown to turn white ironinto gray also.
The experiments with. aluminum show
that while with successive remelting the
aluminum becomes deposited and the al -
toy loses its strength, it does so less than
iron of tho same kind without almmuia
eubjeeted to the same number of rem,elt-
ings under the same conditions. ` Tho
iron and aluminum alloy can be very
readily turned in the lathe, tho grain be-
ing fine and oven. Tho elasticity of the
items increased.=St. Louis Ilepuhll t.
Endurance of tho fllodoL
.6. great difficulty in a model's life is the
fatigue when being drawn or painted. It
depends solely upon herself, or her
strength, how long a time she is capable
of remaining stationary in the desired
posture. Some are unable to pose longer
than two or three minutes at a time,
whoa they must rest, whilo others can re-
nnin much longer quiet. I am fortunate
in this respect, and eau pose for an hour
with the greatest ease, and this enables
'the artist to completo his pioturo in. a
much shorter time than with broken sit-
tirr„s.--,Artists' Model in Globo -Democrat.
What Indians Rave Doro.
Indians in tho United States last year
cultivated 227,205 acres of livid, and raised
721,053 bushels of wheat, 004,472 bushels
of corn, 512,187 hushels of oats and bar-
ley, h24,010 buehols of vegetables and
and 101,828 tons of hay. They also owned
858.384 horses and mules, 111,407 head of
cattle, 40.471 swine and 1,117,273 aheop.
a -Chicago Herald.
Eigh{y '2ottr children belong to fora'
'Mothers of Mpole, Pa. Mrs. Samuel Field
Inas twenty -sight, Iles. Joseph Chandler
teem�� y -five, Mrs. James Parrett ail teun
and Airs. William Wright fifteen.
A Clydesdale colt has been sold for
,83,000, tho highest price ever pall for a
draught hero,
with uncombed hair. But the trouble is,
and you may see it proven every day in
tho city in thousands and thousands of
cases, people haven't time nor means to
wear their eleven pieces properly, and for
that reason dingy linen is far more com-
mon than that of snowy whiteness, and
a clean collar and cuffs aro not proof that
they are tucked to n clean shirt, and the
necktie in two cases out of three is a base
and often unclean subterfuge and imita-
tion of something intended for an'orna-
mont, slung on, stuck on, fired on any
way, only because custom says it must be
put on, and put on only to bo endured.
Dress reform for woman only? Man needs
it quite as much as she does.—Prentice
Mulford in New York Star.
"Carper of the Salmon.
When tho salmon is hatched ho is
known as a "fry," then ho becomes a
"parr," or "samlet," or "pink," or
"'branding." The next change makes
bi-n a "smolt;" then ho is transferred to
a "grilse," and finally develops iuto a
salmon, When leaving salt water he is
called a "white" salmon, and when gofng
back after spawning a "black" one or a
"kalt." Tho baby salmon is hatched
from 80 to 100 days after the eggs aro
laid in farrows in gravelly beds near the
head waters of clear, cold rivers. When
in tho "fay" stage he is about ono inch
long, with goggle oyes. When three
months old he becomes well shaped, with
carmine spots on the sides. Ho is then
so hungry and greedy ho will jump at
anything. , Many mistake them at this
ago for trout, and it is common for mar-
kets to offer them for sale as brook trout.
Only about one-half the hatch returns to
the sea; the rest remaining in fresh
water. This has been decided to be be-
cause some dovelop more rapidly than
,others, tho late ones going to salt water
in the second season. The arrangement
can be accepted as a wise provision of
nature against extermination by wholo-
sale destruction.—Globo-Democrat.
"Do they really do all that?" inquired
the reporter.
''Perhaps not quite as well as you'd
suppose from the cut, but it is true that
there are a good many thousand men with
artificial legs doing work that one would
think likely to require the aid of sound
limbs."
"Thon you come pretty nearly supply-
ing any natural loss?"
"Pretty nearly. The war gave a great
impetus to the manufacture of artificial
limbs, and we are still making limbs for
the veterans."
"How long does an artificial limb last?"
"That depends upon whether it is an
arm or a log and upon various other con-
siderations. I've known an artificial leg
to be in use twenty-five years, The more
elaborate attempts to counterfeit nature,
the more liable the member to get out of
Order and require renewal We make
arms and hands with which the 'wearer
writes, uses knife and fork at table and
performs many operations that ono might
think impossiblo."—Now York Telegram.
Lower the Neat 11111s.
Everybody has his or her way of living,.
and, if they would toll, the whole race
might bo benefited by it. But whatever
the theories may bo, whether ono xoacler
believes inea. moat diet and another docs -
not, it would be interesting to know how
each succeeded. The writer has often
hoard the remark: "1 wonder how a man
on $1.0 manages to live?" Yes, it may bo
a wonder, but hundreds of men do it, and
the writer knows, within the range of his
own experience at least, half a dozen men
who do it, and do it seemingly very nicely.
Their wives wear inexpensive bat neat
and attractive looking clothes, the chil-
dren who go to school look as clean and
as well dressed as the children of some
other men who earn morn, and the pi'e-
sumption is that each of these families
get enough to eat. At all events they
certainly look as if they,did.
Now, with a little study, the writer
taco in a II11 Country. does not hesitate to say many families
The province of Puri -Bion, China, is could save money.
.almost an unbroken stretch of hills and "Where?"
mountains, a charming country to lovers Right in tho house; right on top of tho
of wild scenery, but tedious to travel in, table, If a man can agora certain diebes
for the only carriages aro sedan chairs, and doesn't care whether ho will later bo
Except near the seaboitials tho streams aro troubled with dyspepsia, all right; but if
swift and rocky, rendering their aseeat he has not tho very necessary "where-
by boat vory slow. Ono might think that with" ho ought to knock off on some of
in such a ceunt +'rico could not bo staplo, his meat bills. Ily this means he would
yet on ever hill and mountain where have retro money to expend for clothing
hero is a spring and soil enough to work, and for a few of the things ho cannot now
thoro aro terraces for rice. They pone- enjoy and whie.i ho is forced to consider
trate into every nook and corner, so that as luxuriea.--Lorton Globe.
a map of the rico eout.:os of Full -Hien Percentage of Adultcratlons.
would bo a neap of its water courses. Tho
people who inhabit the valleys present The Massachusetts board of health 02 -
great varieties of character and speech. amined last year 4,870 s.`ttnples of food,
If you cress a divide which separates two including 0,080 of inilk. The percentage
main branches of thio river, you may find of adulterations, etc., in mill: was 33.83,
people living within a fow hours' walk of as against 83.0 in iti8J, wlion tho law first
each other who can scarcely convcrso to- went into operation. Drug adulterations
g�other; in fact, every village has its own. wero reduced to 2 . 7 per cent. The gen-
local brogue.—Rev. J. L. Walks*' lin' star percentage was ao,03.--Boston Bud-
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