The west shore., January 01, 1880, Page 17, Image 17

January, 1880.
THE WEST SHORE.
NOBILITY OF LABOR.
It hu long been a disgrace to the intelligence
of the age, that a stigma should be attached to
labor. It is the souroe of national and individ
ual wealth. It is the
comfort and convenience. It has raised man
from the lower grade of an animal prowling for
his food to the higher plane of an intellectual
being, possessed of reason, thoughtfulnosa, fore,
sight and inventive faculties. It hu given man
a clear insight into the laws of nature, and has
brought him into close companionship with the
Creator. It has made him a creator, not of
matter, but of new forms of its adjustment He
has made the iron and the wood his docile
slaves, and caused them to perform work wliioh,
without their aid, be oould never have accom
plished. By labor he has sunk his mines deep
into the earth and extracted therefrom earth's
most valuable treasures. By labor ho has made
the fields to yield abundant harvests, and
gathered from them the world's supply of food.
By labor he has built his ships, whose sails bear
them to all portions of the world ami sustain
his fellow-men. It is a false and ignoble pride
that has engendered this prejudice against
labor. It is the direct action of evil against
positive good.
For all these benellts whioh it has conferred
upon mankind, it should roueivo the gratitude
of all. The pride that iroui its mole-mil emi
nence endeavors to look down with coutempt
upon labor, oould never have attained its ephem
eral exletenoe or its insignificant elevation, had
it not been for the labor performed hy others.
The most utile nobility among men is the self
sustaining nobility of labor,
HANGING HOCK.
Upon this page we give an engraving that
will at once be recognised by evoryone who has
orossed the continent upon the overland rail
road. It is Hanging Rook, Koho canyon, and is
one of the most prominent objects of interest
upon the U. P. R. K. to the tourist aud trav-ler.
'I'm. Arabs Ciiuhnimi.- One of the speakers
at tlio recent dairy fair in Now York rulated
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SERMON FROM A PAIR OF BOOTS.
There livod, forty years ago, in Berlin, a shoe
maker who had a habit of speaking harshly of
all his neighbor who did not feel exactly as he
did about religion. 1 lie old pastor oi the par
ish in which the shoemaker lived, heard of this
and felt that he must give him a lesson.
He did it in this way. He tent for the shoe
maker one morniug, and when ho came in, said
to him:
"Maator, take my measure for a pair of boots."
"With pleasure, your reverence, " answered
the shoemaker; "pleats take off your hoot."
The clergyman did so, ami the shoemaker
measured Ins foot from ton to heel, and over the
instop, noted all down in his poaket-book, anil,
then proiarod to leavo the room.
But, as he was putting up the measure, the
1 1 an tor said to him:
"Master, my ton also requires a pair of boots."
!l will make them with pleasure, your rtv.
erenoe. Can I take the young man's measure!"
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the mighty operations of oommerce. By labor
he hat constructed railroads which traverse con
tinents, and transport in their trains, not only
multitudes of human beings but alto the prod ucts
of the mines, the Uelds, tho factories and
the workshops. By labor he has run his tunnels
through mountains and under rivers, and ren
dered quickly accessible sections of country
which elte could only be reached by long and
tedious journeys. By labor he hat stretched
around the world the wires of the telegraph, and
hat given thereby to himself the (lod-like attri
bute of omnipresence. By labor he hat pro
duced the telescope which hss shown to him the
vastness of the Creator's detignt and works, in
the millions of worlds that are placed through
ont the realms of space. By labor he hat anal
ysed the compound forms of matter, and hat
found the constituent elements of their eompo
tition. By labor he hat closely emulated Deity,
for God worked in the creation of all worlds,
and in the production of all the living formt
that are found npon them.
With nob record labor should stand in the
highest niche of honor and of fame, ami the
man who it the most prominent in workt of
utility should reach the highest standard of
nobibty, and should be the most honored among
the following : I onoe taw two Arab women
twinging goat't milk in a hog tkin until it
turned to what they supjiosod to Ihi butter.
The old chief asked me if we ever made it that
way in America. When I replied, very em
phatically, "never," he taid, patronitingly,
" Oh ! yourt it a very new country yet." Pos
sibly a sight of all the multiform and wondrous
dairy machinery I have teen to-day might eon
vinoe the old obief that we are " getting on "
even in this new country. The Arab, ton, was
well Hxtd for the dairy business. It took only
one-third of hit wivct to run that churning.
Till Kakth'i Dav 1mm viimj In a reoent
lecture on "Kclipst Problems," Prof. Charles
A. Young, of Princeton, taid, with referenot to
the observed increase in the rapidity of the
moon's motion, that tht discovery led at first to
the opinion that tht moon's orbit was growing
shorter, and that ultimately tht moon would
come down upon us. Mot aoouratt oaloula
tion, however, thowt that there it no danger of
so disastrous a result. The moon is not ooov
ing nearer, but our day it growing longer, owing
to tht friction of the tides upon the earth's tnr
facs. Tht tides aet likt a brake, and alowly
diminish the speed of the earth's rotation.
"It it not necessary," said tht pastor) "the
lad is fourteen, hut you can makt Ins boots tnd
mine from tho same last."
"Yonr reroronoe, that will never do," said
the shoemaker with a smile of surprise.
"I tell you, sir, to make my sou's on the
same last."
"No, your rtvtrtnct, I cannot do It"
"It mutt lie - on tht same latt"
"But, your rtverenoe, it it not possible, if
the boots trt to lit" said the shoemaker, think
ing to himself that tho old pastor. Hit. wtrt
leaving him.
"Ah, tin ii, matttr thotmtker," said the pas
tor, "tvtry pair of boot! must be made on their
own latt. if they art to flit tnd ytt you think
that (Jod it to form all Christitnt eiactly ao
cordini! to voiir own lssL - nf ik mm st in, i.n i.
and growth in religion at yourself That will
ooi uo, miner.
Tht shoemaker wit abashed. Then he slid:
"I think your rtvtrenot for tins urmon, and
I will try to remember it, and judge my neigh-
Iwrs last harshly in tht future
DtlBIKll 1H7U the lin.luitt of iirxn fill A insilnti
west of tot Missouri river, including British
Columbia, was lo,8U6,l2l less than in 1871