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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1880)
January, 1880. u 9 THE WEST SHORE. 1 gueu 'twooldn't happen io agin in a thousand yean I" " 'Twon't be in our time then;" and Zachcus liad good aenae enough to atop right there. It happened that he went to the atom that very day it was about the beginning of the new year and when ho same home be brought a new almanac. " -iwMJUy, ue ,aiU( "We n see what the weather a goin' to be this year." "I should think you wore old enough to uuw l too aimanou can I alters tell about the weather," was the rather discouraging reply. "I ain't so old aa you be, by three years, ye know, Rhody." "It's fortunit, perhaps, that you ain't; for it uoes seem a u me older you grow lbs less you know." "That's all owin' to the pork, Rhody ; I wou't lay that up against ye. If 't had only been in the new of the moon, you know, 'twould been all right." Without saying more, he took Rhody's shears and out open the leaves of the new almanac. Then, to have it all ready for hanging up, he went and took down the old ono, to get tho leather string that had alternated with other Btrings in doing the same sort of service for many years. He had somo difficulty in untying the knot in the string, and while at work on it, he suddenly stopped, and garad silently at the ligures on the cover. After awhile he oncned the almanac and looked inside, and after anotber while he looked at Rhody. "Rhody," he said at last, in a low, fearful sort of voice, "d'ye know what year 'tis!" "You ain't lost all yer sonsos, havo ye. 7-1 V ' UMIOIIBI "I dunno; but jest come hero." With a curiously alarmed look, Rhody went iowarus mm. "iiero, Knody, said lie, "what tiggers be these?" She looked at thorn. Then she took off hor spectacles and wiped them, and looked again. It was quite a minute before aho seemed fully satisfied that what she saw was real. "There. Zaoheus !" she then said, giving him a gentle slap on the shoulder, "this is the oUl almanac, nil I pnt away the new one instead; I shouldn't wonder if 'tuxu in the new of the moon, artor all. "Of course 'twaa, Rhody; of courso 'twas; that accounts for it; and I'm real glad, for your sake." To be rare that it was, Rhoily went and brought out the almanac that she laid away by mistake, and they found it waa even as Sim hail said, "the moon changed yesterday." It waa fortunate for both of them; for their uvea were becoming miserable, just liecause they thought they had killed their pork in the old of the moon. Neto England Fnrmrr. WOMKN ON SCHOOL BOA MM Inckn hi ,i:y Silks. The danger of spontane ous combustion, to which weighted silks are liable, daring transportation, has lately been forcibly demonstrated in the case of the steam ship SI owl, which mysteriously took fire re cently in mill-ocean. The tiro waa fortunately discovered and extinguished. On reaching her destination, a carefnl investigation afforded un mistakable evidence that the fire had originated spontaneously in certain silk goods that had formed part of her cargo. Samples of the silk, finder the microscope, presented a remarkable appearance. The fibers ran very irregularly, and were partly covered with scales of a Me tallic luster, while on other fibers, heavy, sponge-like knots of a dark onlorwere observed. A chemical examination revealed the following remarkable results: One hundred parts of the ilk were composed of pore silk fiber, 21.344 ; oxide of iron, 13.45 ; moisture, 9.16; fatty oils, 1.85 ; organic dye-stuffs and coloring matters, 60.90; mineral matters not de termined, 3.30. For each part of silk fiber, therefore, it waa shown, 0.76 part of oxide of iron and 2.60 part of coloring matters were A Boston dispatch to the Now York Tribune says: Tho fact that at least s few women voted in eaoh of these 13 oities for members of school boards voted for the first time nndor legists tive act of laat spring gave the elections an in- wise have had In Cambridge, where 217 women were registered aa voters, two out of live members chosen on the school oominittee are women. In Somervillo the oitir.ons' caucuses in two of the four warda were attended by women, who assisted in making the school board nominations; women nisirmutod bllots in ono ward on elec tion dav. and worn not. tnuwli.M illfcS .li I : the exeroise of their rights; the one woman msumbi ior a piaee on ine sonool committee waa defeated by about a dozen votes. In Chol soa, women acted as ballot-distributors at the polls of one wanl; two of the four new mombers on the school board are women; it is stated that overy one of the lit. romstnred woman .,.-,r...l and voted. Tho U3 womon who registered in Newton were accorded one of tho four school cnmmitteo. Their attend mow nt fhn .wills said to havo kept many of the usual ward-room uuugen wy. ran mver elected tour mom bors of the school committee, two of whom were given to tho 78 women voters. Lawrence regis tered only 22 women, and nominated no one of them on the school board, but their votes saved one of tho Republican nomiuoes from defeat 1 do not learn that any women were nominated in the other cities, vis. : New Bedford, Tauutun, Gloucester. Haverhill I-', I , ,, SI.,.;... .11. .1.1 ........... , , .1 u , and Holyoko. Thus it apieared that in five uiusa seven women anil uiiuuu men W ere elected to the supervision of schools. ACTIVE LABOR AN EVIDENCE l'ROSl'EKITV. 01 When the laborers are receiving a fair rato of wagos, and are constantly employed, it may lie regarded as a sure evidence of prosperity. Labor, intelligently applied, is ever productive. Men cannot work with the determination of succeed ing in their exertions without produoing some thing which has advanced the value of the crude material employed in their work. When the flat waa uttered that man should earn his bread by the swoat of his brow, it was not given forth in opposition to tho groat principle of the value or utility of labor. It was uttered in full accord ance with the law that work is productive, ami that just compensation is consequently due to thu workor. As society is now constituted, it is incnmlwnt upon sll to be produoers. Those who fail in this duty, beoome a dead weight upon the pro gress of the age. If they are willing idlers, they must, and do, suffer tho penalties which sloth fulness entails upon its adherents. If they are unwilling idlers idle liecause no man giveth them work to do still the pains and penalties of inertia are attendant upon them. Man must work, or must suffer because he does not. If he la a voluntary idler, though possessed of tuf llcent means of support, nature intliota upon him loaa of energy, a failure of health, and, In f general, moroseness of disposition, which em itters his existence. If an invnlunUry idler, he suffers from the privation which his unstip plied wants create. The law that man shall work is an inexorable one. It is imperative that he shall find occu pation. He cannot eaeaie from its imperious necessity. His own vitality is well ss the vitslity and welfare of others depends upon his fulfilling the necessities of his destiny to work, Thou limit earn thy bread, was tho dictum of Omnipotence. There waa no leniency in the strong nreree or justice, rue mandate waa In dexible. It must be obeyed. Still it was not harsh, ft waa tempered with mercy. It waa commingled with hlessinm. and adorned with good. It was replete with bene fits and overflowing with advantages. Promi nent among the benefits is the prosperity at tondant upon active labor, and the healthy condition of the worker. These two leading blessings of tho human race would not and on 1.1 not exist without labor. The nations that have held the largest corps of laborera have always beeu the moat power- .......... turn moat suuoessiui, 1 tiey Have lived up to the requirements of the laws of cause and effect, and have fulfilled the exigencies needed for produotiou. Their labor baa been material iied into solid wealth. Their wealth has given them power, Their power has produced sta bility. It la incumlient therefore upon all gov ornmenta to foster and sustain the cause of labor, for it is the basio stratum of their exist, once, WolfDIM or Tin Til ti -Hon a, ( 'apt. John ICCroer, IT. 8, A., shows how the flight of projectiles can be measured by tho telephone, aa follow ii: Hitherto the accurate determina tion of the time of (light of small-arm projec tiles has been praotio&lly impossible at long ranges, owing to our Inability to see them strike, even when tiring over water. The .lis oovory of the telephone baa opened np to us a simple aa well as novel means of ob taining the time desired, ami has also afforded us the means of verifying the formulas by which these1 times were formerly deduced. In these exieriinents two telephones provided with Blake transmitters (a form of Edison's oai'lsm t otophone i were used. One was placed within a few feet of the gun and left open to receive and trauamit the sound of the discharge. The other waa iu the shelter -proof, which was about thirty feet in front of ine right edge ol tho target. A stop watch, beating fourths of a second, was used in connection with li The telephone boilig at the ear, the instant the sound of the discharge was received at the tar get tho watch waa started, and, on the ballet striking, was stopped. A mean of a large num. Iter of observe! inns, which rarely differed mere than a quarter to half of a second from each other, gave the time of Might. The velocity of sound may lie readily obtained with tin. tele- phono In the same manner. OBUs, thu Mtnui. QiriMN. The kingly pre rogatives of cotton were stoutly asserted 20 to 30 years ago. Mis domination of foreign si. changes was generally acknowledged, and every other export ol the farm was frowned upon as plebeian and trivial. When, M years ago, $20, 000,000 in cotton gave the nation credit abroad, the foreign shipments of grain were worth only one-fourth as much. In i860 ootton exports nan rescued a value oi almost V',tHSI,(MSI, while breadstuff's, at a slower rato of inorease, represented only $13,600,000. In ton years more cotton, gmwn imnerial in his manors. swollen with the importance of $102,000,000 in oroign osenange, loosed contemptuously upon the slow and rare ail van oe of lireadetulh to the paltry sum of $24,000,000. How stands now the race of the agricultural hare and tortoise ? Cotton has not declined, for the average value of its einorts for ten vaara nasi meed, ska less ted revenue of I MM), but tho grain sports of the fiscal year Is70 make the princely sum of $VIO,336,52H, greater by $48,061,27$ than the value of ootton sx ported in the same time. All hail to Ceres the Queen I --AT. Y TrUmm. MoNslKH III ai iiss or (Ihai'Sm. The London Fanner saya: At the meeting: of the Hovel Horticultural Society, held on Tuesday last, the Countess of Charlsviile, of Charlevllle forest, iiiiisinore, mounted, through her gardener, Mr. Itob.-rts two boo, shea ;,. ., ill. ....... grapes, cut from one vine, and which together rLJ ... J m. i . T. igrien n ponnos. i nis same vine is rather a notorious one fnr lirodllolitf. UfM. liMMMka ItM. r 1 e , ing a year or two ago borne one bunch which wngnwi i,i pounds u ounces; anil In lour ses. sons hss produced seven bunches of the aggrt, gate weight of 120 pounds 1 1 ounces.