I'OVKHTY.
1'ai'IV am! lute tlnoiiuli ihe weary )eura,
Ayr, willi mi nnxiuun brain;
. XVlul rlir tun comes up and the stars go
down
Om- tnd o'er nsnin;
FitnjeTs nil knotted nnd eyes grown dims
Sh.oliler thftt earthward bow;
illysical eharactpra wrought by Cars
Wnakle the slirunken brow.
1EaTfj' and lute in the busy whirl
(la through the darkness grope
Spirit tlint deep in the sunken breast
, Blows nt the spark of hope;
.Early and late nt the grinding toil,
Honing to see a i;v
Tnto the workaday blackness burst
Out of the clouds of gray.
'Early and late while the years go by,
Frwstin.j the aehing head.
K"t?':m; nut work in your narrow world
Work nnd a crust of bread;
'Early and late but the time must come
Out of the hand of Fate;
JFrovicfencc cares for the poor at last;
You've only to work and wait.
-I.owell O. Reese, in San Francisco Bul-
. lctin;
LOVE WINS
our.
LY J. NORMAN.
HIgli tip on trie 'Salter" she sat,
throned on a granite boulder, with
the Golden Hod flaming nil around
ier and upon her ffiir young head.
And Erie Lei f son, the bold, tall youth,
Who had dared to risk his every hope
of happiness in a stumbling declara
tion of devotion, stared up at her iu
Joyful amazement.
"You love me," he cried, "you love
itie, a poor struggling Norwegian
larmer, and you the daughter of n
millionaire and the most beautiful
girl in the world?" "Ye."," she an
swered in her deep, sweet voice, "J
love yovi," and smiling a little at his
lover-like praise, she added wiiimsl
tally, "'Won't you believe me, Eric?"
He sprang to his feet and took bur
tioldly in his arms.
"Oil, Mar.'oric, it seems too good to
Tie true," he whispered. "I cou'd not
help spoaking, but I never dared even
In my wildest dreams to hope fur
this. '
Csnll releasing herself she looked
at her watch.
"Co'r.e, it is time Tor me to return,"
he said. "Father is always angry if
I kesn him waiting for his breakfast."
"Oh, 1 am afraid I hrd forgotten
four father," he said, blankly.
There w.-s very little doubt as to
what Mar.!o:ie's father who knew
nothing of these early meetings on
the "Salter" while ho was asleep in
bed would ray when Eric formally
requested permission to marry his
enly child. It came home suddenly
In the young man how preposterous
such a proposal would seem to the
father of his love. His beautiful Mar
Jorie, heiress to thousands of acres
t rich California pasture and over a
million sheep, married to an insig
nificant Norwegian farmer, who had
11 his worU cat out to make both
nds meet. Why, of course, the
American would promptly kick him
cut.
"Good-by," said Eric, disconsolate
ly, as they came near the little inn
which had the honor of sheltering
Jfarjorle and her weaithy father.
"I'll come and see your father direct
ly after breakfast."
. "Good-by," she answered. "I'll do
11 I can to win him over first. And
I'll make the coffee myself, so that it
hall be just as he likes it, and see
that the eggs are not boiled as hard
as they were yesterday. When dad
Is in gcod humor, there is always
lope."
The scene was certainly not an In
spiring one, the lover thought, as he
tood upon the threshold of the little
bin. The prevailing note was a mel
ancholy gray, grey sky, grey granite
and grey hills tinged with steamy
tet and the famous "Grey Wethers"
f Siddnl Fjord a group of boulders
Which, seen from a distance, bear a
marvelous resemblance- to a flock of
grazing sheep looked more aston
ishingly like real grey wethers than
ver.
However, he pulled himself to
gether and boldly asked to see Mr.
Edward Petersen.
The millionaire was awaiting him,
walking up and down in the garden
lack, of the Inn.
"Marjorie hai told me why yon
come," he said brusquely by way of
greeting.
"Look here, Mr. Petersen," he said
onctliatingly, "I know it must bu
rather presumptuous to you, but I
an't help it really I can't. I lovo
Marjorie and she loves me. And we
can't help that now, can we?"
"You may be lacking In money, but
you are not lacking in cheek," he said
ssurtly.
. "The question," Eric continued. Ig
noring the sneer, "is what are you
going to do about it? Are you going
to forbid the match, or are you going
to let love have its way?"
"I am going to forbid the match."
replied Mr. Petersen, clenching his
la's csternnnsdly.
".3ni why-?" Erie asked, in the most
Innocen.', surprised tone in t'te world
"I low: our daughter and she loves
"me. Why thould J"oj refuse us per
mission to marry?
"Confound you!" cried the Ameri
can angrily, 'you cannot possibly
keep her in the style she has been ac
customed to." "
"I can make a living. I shan't
starve her. Wholesome food not
your rich, Indigestible messes and
a little work won't hurt her."
Then the storm broke.
"Get put!" thundered the ml'illon-
slre. "Get out before you are hurt,
I never heard such impudence In all
my life."
"Why should I get out?" Erie
asked quletlv, "I am your equal:
there la hoUinj outrageous In my
wanting to marry your daughter." '
"My equal, are you? Do you know
young than, I could buy you up a
hundred times and never feel it?
Why you conceited young jackass, I
have over a million sheep out there."
"I have a few of them myself up
there," replied the young man, wav
ing his hand In the direction of the
"Snlters "
"Pooh, you have not enough to
feed my hands for a day," he cried;
"six hundredkronerwould buy them."
"I will take four hundred for the
lot, spot cash," said Eric, quickly.
"You said four hundred. I will
give you three hundred and fifty."
"Done," Eric cried.
"Come on, let's go and have a look
at them," said the American.
But Eric laughed.
"Afraid of your bargain?" he
asked.
The American flushed angrily and
glanced tip the hillside again. The
Grey Wethers looked healthily
enough feeding there patiently in the
mist, and he fancied himself both as
a bargainer and a man with an in
stinctive eye for sheep.
Without a word he marched In
doors nnd wrote out a check, which
he handed to Eric with the remark:
"If you have anything else to sell be
fore you go, let me know, and I will
make you an oilier."
Eric folded the check and put It
in bi3 pocket. "I knew somehow this
interview would end in a deal," ho
observed carelessly.
"What do you mean?
"Come and see."
"Have you done me?
"Come nnd see."
Together they climbed the hill, the
older man puzzled nnd suspicious, the
younger frankly triumphant, nnd at
last they came to the famous Grey
Wethers which Mr. Petersen had
bought for three hunderd and fifty
kroner.
He looked at the stones, nnd first
ho swore and then he laughed.
"You have got me, young man,"
he cried, "to think that I a man
with a million sheep of my own I
should not know the difference be
tween a flock of sheep and a lot of
rocks. You are pretty smart, my lad.
I reckon you would be a good man
about my ranch."
"I am sure I should," replied the
incorrigible Eric. "It is not many
men who have done you so thorough
ly, is it?"
"You are the first, sir," said the
American proudly.
"Heavens, how they will laugh at
me when the story conies out."
"It is sure to be cabled ncross.
Can't yon see the headlines, Mr. Pet
ersen?" Eric laughed.
The millionaire laughed too, and
slapped him on the shoulder.
"Look here, young man," he said,
kindly, "do you really and truly love
my girl?"
"I do, sir.'
"Then you had better go back and
tell her that her hard hearted father
has given in. You can have her, you
rascal, and you may bring her up here
to see her poor swindled father, look
ing regretfully at his latest pur
chase." He held out his hand and Eric
shook it heartily.
"We will make It a bargain, sir,"
he said jokingly. "Iu consideration
of your giving me your daughter I'll
keep my mouth shut about this little
deal of ours and give you back your
check."
He handed It over as he spoke, and
the millionaire looked at It long and
earnestly.
"I shall keep this In my desk," he
said, "and whenever I am feeling
rather pleased with myself I shall
just take It out and look at it." Tew
York Journal.
A New Promise of Reform
By R. L. BRIDGMAX.
A new promise of success has coma
to the reformers of municipal govern
ments. It has come through a new
application of statistics, and Its po
tency lies in the application of per
centage of result to expense in the
different cities, whereby comparison
between different departments be
comes possible, down to small details.
It has come in local form, but the
idea is national and it is a fair pre
sumption that the idea will speedily
have national standing. Its local ap
plication has manifested itself in two
States only Ohio and Massachu
setts. This advance does not concern the
scheme of government at all. It does
not involve any charter amendments.
It has nothing to do with the various
theories- of one chamber or two, with
more or less power and responsibility
for the mayor, schoot-committee and
heads of departments. It has noth
ing to do with the suffrage, with sys
tems of balloting or any phase of
election laws. It does not touch the
ories of taxation or sanitation, or ed
ucation, or labor and capital, or any
other side upon which the problem ot
municipal maladministration 1b at
tacked. It is simply a matter of re
ducing finances to a form favorable
for comparison, and letting the sys
tem have Its perfect work. It does
not seem, perhaps, at first glance, as
if much relief could come from such
an unpromising source. But a study
of the case shows that It has large
and substantial promise, and it is
quite possible that the evils ot our
notorious city government will be re
lieved from an unsuspected quarter,
But It must not be forgotten that it
takes men to reform. Figures will
never do it of themselves. AtlanUi
Monthly.
AID BUT NOT CHARITY
How Switzerland Helps the Unemployed
Without Humiliating Them. -: :-:
The problem of the unemployed
has become a political issue and a
nightmare In most civilized countries,
How to reduce the grist of paupers
turned out by the industrial machine
In normal times and to satisfy the
threatening army of the jobless re
cruited In seasons of periodic depres
sion is recognized to-day as one of
society's vital concerns, a Sphinx's
riddle which must be answered on
pain of final consequences.
Switzerland is tackling the uni
versal problem in a rather different
way from most nations, according to
Edith Sellers, in The NInteenth Cen
tury. The crude methods of other
lands are not known in the little
mountain republic, which combines
ancient experience with lessons of
latter dny industrialism in dealing
with the unemployed.
Begging and vagrancy are crimes
In Switzerland, "and in some cantons
the police receive a special fee for
every beggar or vagrant they arrest.
If a man is out of work there he must
try to find work, for if he does not
the authorities of the district where
he has a settlement will find it for
Mm, and ot a kind, perhaps, not at all
to his taste tiring and badly paid.
He cannot refuse to do it, for if bo
does ho may be packed off straight
to a penal workhouse, an institution
where military discipline prevails,
and where every inmate is made to
work to the full extent of his
strength, receiving In return board
and lodging, with wages of from a
penny to threepence a day.
'"And when once he is there, there
he must stay until the authorities de
cree that he shall depart.
No matter how long his sojourn lasts,
however, it does not cost the com
munity a single penny, for in Switzer
land these penal institutions are self
supporting. "In Switzerland," says the writer
in The NInteenth Century, "there Is
no classing of the unemployed by
casualty or misfortune with the un
employed by laziness or misconduct;
no meting out to them of the same
measure. The man who is
out ot work through his own fault,
and because he does not wish to be
in work, Is treated as a criminal and
Eent as a prisoner to a penal Insti
tution, while the man who is out of
work In spite of his earnest endeavor
to be in work is helped without be
ing subjected to any humiliation
whatever. It is much more easy
there, however, than it Is here, it
must be admitted, to distinguish be
tween employed and unemployed,
as there every workingman has his
'papers,' documents which are given
to him by the authorities of the dis
trict where he has his settlement, and
which contain full information as to
where and by whom he has been em
ployed In the course of his life.
"In most districts in Switzerland
there is a special fund out of which
grants are made to. respectable per
sons who are temporarily in distress
owing to lack of employment, and
these grants entail neither the dis
grace nor yet the disabilities entailed
by poor relief. In most districts, too,
the authorities make it part of their
business to try to provide lucrative
work for persons who cannot pro
vide It for themselves. They pay
them regular wages, but lower wages
than a private employer would pay
them for Btmtlar work, and sometimes
Instead of paying them money they
pay them in kind.
"Then relief-in-kind stations
that is, casual wards organized on
philanthropic lines are now main
tained In every part of industrial
Switzerland for the exclusive use of
the respectable unemployed, and
drunkards, criminals and loafers are
Soap and Democracy. !
By PROFESSOR E. A. ROSS.
Soap and water are befriending
democracy. Of the personal habits ot
the masses down to the middle of the
last century, the less said the better.
The followers of Jack Cade and
Rienzl were, literally, "the Great Un
washed." A gentleman hUd'some ex
cuse for crying "Faugh!" and hold
ing his civet-scented handkerchief to
his nose. The common people lost
quickly the respect of those of their
number who had won through to
cleanliness and refinement. "Good
breeding" referred to baths rather
than to manners. When, sixty years
ago, street cars were Introduced, It
was predicted that no gentleman
could endure to ride in them.
How is it now? The street car Is
so popular with all classes that the
cab can hardly find a foothold. Be
sides the triumphant progress of the
private bathtub thanks to cheap
city water the cities have been in
stalling municipal baths. Last year
thirty-four American cities supplied
more than eighteen million free
baths. And the movement is In Its
Infancy, it we consider what England
and Germany are doing. The effect
will be the narrowing of the esthetle
space between those with social posi
tion and those without Class dis
tinctions will count for less when they
turn merely oh whether you have an
automobile, or keep a servant, or
dress for dinner. Everybody's,
The exports of cashew nuts from
India during 1907 was 8507 hundred
weight, valued at about $66,666.
Bombay and Madras were the princi
pal ports ot export.
never allowed to cross the threshold
ot these places. No one Is admitted
to a Swiss rellet-lu-klnd Btatlon un
less his papers show that he has been
In regular work within the previous
three months and out of work for at
least five days; unless they show,
also, that neither the police nor his
own district authorities have any
reason for looking on him askance.
He who is admitted, however, Is made
welcome, and is treated with consid
eration as a respectable man whom
misfortune has befallen."
Apparently the station Is a sort of
wayside inn, where the accredited
guest gets a night's lodging and a
meal or two, nnd is aided to find a
job. He may not tarry at the station
nor pay a return visit to It within six
months.
"These stations are a semi-private
institution; they were organized and
are mnnaged by local non-official com
mittees, which have formed themselves
into an inter-cahtoninl unlcn, and all
work together. They are supported
partly by voluntary contributions nnd
partly by State, munlclpnl and com
munal grants. The poor law author
ities have nothing whatever to do
with them. For respectable
work seekers a reliet-in-kind station
is a real boon, for they can go there
not only without losing their self-respect,
but without running any risk
of being pauperized."
Several cities also contain "home
Inns, whero workingmen, if without
lodgings, may stay with their wives
nnd children for a time at very small
expense, or even in some cases gratis.
There are also In the chief Industrial
centres wnrmstuben (warm rooms),
provided either by the authorities or
by some private society, where the
unemployed may pass their days
while waiting for work."
In 1891 the city of Berne started
a municipal bureau for Insurance
against unemployment, the first of
its kind in the world. This was a
voluntary organization, open to any
man who wished to pay dues of eight
cents a month nnd get an unemploy
ment benefit of twenty cents a day
for-sixty days when he needed it.
The bureau is now joined to the
Berne municipal labor bureau and the
insurance dues are fourteen cents a
month, with slightly increased ben
efits in unemployment. Men unable
to work, above sixty years of age, or
who are on strike, may not be in
sured. Members of the insurance bu
reau are allowed to travel on all the
State railroads at half fares when
looking for jobs. The city authori
ties, moreover, givo preference to the
insured on municipal work, and try to
have all public works conducted In
the winter months, when there is the
greatest need of employment. About
600 persons were Insured last year,
of whom something less than halt
asked aid, while the labor bureau ob
tained jobs for S365 out of 15,509
applicants.
As long range attempts to remedy
unemployment, which is Been to affect
unskilled labor especially, there are
compulsory courses In handicrafts In
most ot the public schools, and labor
bureaus "arrange for the apprentice
ship of boys whose parents cannot be
trusted to arrange for It wisely. Mas
ters are directly responsible to the
local authorities for the technical
training ot their apprentices." One'
tenth of the State revenue from the
liquor monopoly 1b devoted to tem
perance work for the benefit of the
working class, which is held to In
clude comfortable housing and cheap,
wholesome food. The Bundesrath re
cently prohibited the manufacture of
absinthe and Is considering measures
to prevent its Importation.
Our Inanimate Masters.
By S. M. CROTIIERS.
When it comes to moral questions
we are still dominated by the Idea
of the fatalistic power of Inanimate
things. We cannot think It possible
to be just or good, not to speak ot
being cheerful, without looking at
some physical fact, and saying humbly
"By your leave." We personify our
tools and machines, and the occult
symbols of trade, and then as abject
Idolaters we bow down before the
work of our own hands. We are awe
struck at their power, and magnify
the mystery ot their existence. We
only pray that they may not turn us
out of house and home, because ot
some blunder in our ritup.l observ
ance. That they will make It very
uncomfortable for us, we take for
granted. We have resigned ourselves
to that long ago. They are so very
complicated that they will make no
allowance for us, and will not permit
us to live simply as we would like.
We are really very plain people, and
easily flurried and worried by super
fluities. We could get along very
nicely and, we are sure, quite health
fully, if it were not for our things,
They set the pace for us, and we have
to keep up. Atlantic.
American Girls Arriving.
The Civil Hospital is the scene ot
great rejoicing, and the number ot
American girls in the Philippines is
rapidly Increasing. Three baby girls
were born there last Tuesday. The
happy mothers are Mrs. Thompson,
MrB. Flaherty and Mrs. Burke
Man'ii '"'lues.
MILLIONS WASTED
EN PULP MILLS.
4,500,000 Cords of Slabs De
troy.d In the Refuaa Burners
Yearly Throughout Country
Government experts have been col
lecting statistics which show thai
there are great possibilities in the
field of invention for the relief of the
drain on the wood pulp forest of the
country by devising means for utiliz
ing saw-mill waste.
It is estimated that there are 4,-
500,000 cords of Blabs destroyed In
refuse burners of the lumber mills
of the country each year. The wood
used for pulp last year amounted to
approximately four million cords,
ftbout a quarter of which had to b9
imported. The mill waste estimate
Is based on a recent canvass of some
of the larger mills of the country by
the United States Forest Service,
which established the Interesting fact
that mills having an aggregate cut
of 5,440,000,000 board feet had a
final waste of 1,870,000 cords of
slabs after the best had been tispd
for lath. Assuming these mills to
be representative. It Is seen thnt there
is still considerable waste in forest
products at the mill even after the
earnest efforts of lumbermen during
the last ten years to bring about a
closer utilization of the whole tree.
These figures made It look as if
American inventors, who are per
forming wonderful feats In other
fields, should get down to the con
sideration of methods to make these
waste slabs available for the pulp
makers. Work along these lines
would also be likely to show the vrny
for utilization of thousands of tons
of sawdust which is now wasted each
year.
It 19 true that some utilization Is
being made of mill waste at present,
but In most cases It Is only the Urger
nnd more modern plants that aro even
making any attempts In this line.
Then, as it Is, the plants which use
the Bawdust waste the slabs. The
slab residue from the lumber cut of
the country is estimated to amount
to about 14,000.000 cords, of which
about 6,000,000, with an average
value of $1.40 a cord, Is sold for fuel.
3,500,000 burned in the mills for fuel
and 4,500,000 sent to the refuse
burners. This last figure shows the
enormous quantity of forest produvt
that Is pure waste.
The Iron furnace s'ag heaps have
been seized upon by the brick maker
and the screening dumps of the coal
mines has become a valuable source
of raw material for the briquette
manufacturer. Experts say thnt it
may prove possible to make just as
good use of the waste of the lumber
mills If slabs and sawdust con be
converted Into pulp. New York
Herald.
SUNDAY COMIC SUPPLEMENTS.
Foster Deceit, Cunning nnd Disrespect
For Gray Hairs.
At the annual congress of the Piny
ground Association of America, held
in New York, Miss Maud Summers,
of CIncinnnati, in an address assailed
the comic supplement. Miss Sum
mers was conducting a special con
ference on "Story Telling In the Play
ground." She attacked the makers
of pictures in the comic supplement
as persons who were exerting an evil
influence on the young.
She said that the pictures Intended
to entertain children, in the papers,
fostered deceit, cunning and a disre
pect for gray hairs. Instead of cult!
vating admirable traits In the child's
character, the up-to-date pictures, Bhe
Bald, taught the young that "it is cun
nlng to throw water from an upper
window upon an old person and to
outwit an infirm old man." She said
also:
"Humor has Its place In the litera
ture ot childhood, and it would be
well if gifted writers for children
could be found cnpable ot substituting
genuine fun for the coarse, vulgar
type now so prominent. It Is of the
utmost Importance that the picture or
story' for children shall have at Its
heart a spiritual truth, or, In other
words, that It Bhall have 'a right mo
tive. This truth may be any one of
the many virtues, such as generosity,
kindness, hospitality, courage, hero
ism, chivalry, etc. It should be
worked out In terms of cause and
effect, according to the immutable
law of literature, the law of compen
sation, which rewards the good, and
of retributive justice, whleh punishes
the bad." '
The reason given for objection to
the supplements Is that the nature ot
their contents and the silliness ot
some of the pictures "tend to de
moralize our youth and fill the child
ish mind with wrong impressions."
The Hated Autobus.
The residents of the Rue de Doual
are celebrating with all the joyous
ness suggestive of a great event. Il
luminations, lanterns and other festal
paraphernalia adorn that; thorough
fare from the Rue Fontaine to the
Rue Vintlmille, all In honor.of the
temporary removal ot the autobus
while the street is being paved with
wood. Signs were posted the night
before last denouncing the autobus
as a noisy institution, and expressing
joy over the relief, which will last
twenty days.' Business men ot the
district have adopted resolutions in
favor of smaller and less noisy vehi
cles and an improved running sched
ule that will eliminate the passing ot
several machines through the same
street at the same moment. From
Figaro.
City government costs London
$10.50 a head.
New York's transient hotel popu
lation Is 250,000.
There are almost nine farmers to
every professional man in this coun
try.
There are said to be more than a
million users of the universal lan
guage, Esperanto.
Citing the Bible as authority, a
plumbers' journal says Solomon in
vented the bathtub.
In 1907, 7561 short tons of crude
magnesite, worth $3 a ton, were pro
duced In the United States.
According to the market records
the consumption of eggs In New York
City annually Is 622 for each inhab
itant. New York City hotels are now en
tertaining eighteen per cent, more
customers than they were one year
ago.
i
As Serajevo, Bosnia, has equal
numbers of Christians, Jews and Mo
hammedans, It rests every Friday,
Saturday and Sunday.
Grant Worley, of Ycrk, Pa., says
he killed a black snake seven feet
long, inside of the body of which was
a squirrel not quite dead.
The Automobile Club of France has
offered a prize of $9000 for a new
fuel, which must be cheaper than gas
olene and give as good results.
Kansas has this year more than
800,000 acres in alfalfa, an area ex
ceeding the land surface of the whole
of the State of Rhode Island.
Just 3,902,660 fords of wood were
used in the United States in the man
ufacture of paper pulp last year, twice
as much as was used in 1S99.
When It comes to founding newspa
pers Daniel Frederick Shrlner, of
Dayton, Ohio, has a record probably
unequalled by any other man in the
country. During his seventy-one
years he has established thirty-sit
newspapers, thirty-two of which still
survive.
Probably the oldest nnd biggest
Cottonwood tree In Kansas stands on
the farm of J. J. Russell, two miles
southwest of Oneida. The old pa
triarch towers high above all the
other trees thereabouts and measures
twenty feet and ten inches in circum'
ference and about seven feet in dia
meter. J. J. Russell wanted to cut it
down and saw it up Into boards be
cause of the enormous amount of
lumber In it some time ago, but could
not get a saw long enough to saw It
in two.
SONG OF THE SAWMILL SAWS.
Different by Dny and Night, Old Lum
bermen Declare.
Does a stream furnish energy for
sawing more lumber on the sawmill
night shift than on the day shift?
The first impulse would be to anjwer
in the negative. Scores of old mill
men, some of whom have worked in
Penobscot River sawmills for nearly
half a century and can remember
when all the mills were run by water
power, make reply in an emphatld
yes.
Not only do the mill operatives de
clare that water will accomplish a
greater amount of work at night than
in the daytime, but they cite records
of actual performances, giving names,
of mills and dates where tests have
been made.
In sawing deals and other standard
lumber from spruce ot average size,
the exact variation in performance be
tween night and day depends slightly
upon weather conditions, more being
sawed in dark and drizzly weather
than when it fs fair, but on an aver
age a modern band saw that will turn
out 18,000 feet in ten hours of day
light can saw 20,000 feet or more in
ten hours of darkness.
Not only has this assertion been
proved many times in mills that were
run by water power, but it has been
demonstrated through elimination
from the fact that mills using steam
power never present so large a varia
tion. The mlllmen will declare that the
saws make a widely different sound
when dashing through spruce knots
by night than they do by day, so that
it a skilled mlllman who was blind
were to visit a strange mill, he could
distinguish whether it was night or
day by the songs of the saws.
By daylight nothing but classical
music comes from the most reckless
among the small saws. As soon as
the restraint of daylight has passed
the reckless saws forget their dignity
and begin to sing and hum ragtime
and coon songs, chewing up lumber
and manufacturing deals at a great
rate.
Mill owners and foremen of exper
ience who have listened to the delate
for years agree with the hands, and
some, of them add the explanation
that the water is heavier by night
than by day, though nobody seems to
have taken pains to weigh the water
at the two periods for the purpose et
comparing results. Orono (Me.)
Correspondence of the New York Sun.