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RECONCILIATION.
O robin, calling to your mate 0 robin, calling clear and low,
(O robin, she lias bid me Roll, (0 robin, mine was all the blame),
Why sing so loud and sing so late? You sing as if with flowers ablow
Thu days of song were long ago. And fields ablaze the autumn came.
The thrush waits till the spring has come You sing as if the dying year
To sing the song he sang of yore; Had vet a year of joy to live.
Chill autumn strikes his rapture dumb As if the world were never drear
)0 robin, we shall meet no more). (0 robin, she will not forgive!).
0 robin, calling from the oak 0 robin, calling, calling still
(O robin, she was all to nm!), ( O robin, she has smiled on mo!).
Gray mists like moveless pall of smoke Trill, trill and call, and call and trill,
Hide all the woodland and the lea. Fill full the air with melody.
I hear the dead leaves pattering, The roses never bloomed so fair,
I hear the whisper of the rain. ■lune never wore so dear a grace
But most I hear the songs you sing /O robin, calling everywhere,
(0 robin, I must lovo in vain!). ' Sho meets me at tlie trysting-place!).
The Governor’s story.
i 4 St poor,” mother Governor, were said and very “my the 1.
AYe lived in a
r ' little cabin
on
General Linton’s
farm, and saw a
hard time. My
father had died
wlien I was sixteen years old, leaving
us nothing but an honest reputation,
•and, although I was stout and healthy,
my wages wore very low, and I had to
toil late and early to provide the
necessaries of life. But I suppose I
would have been happy and contented
enough; that is, as much as we un
satisfied mortals usually are, if it had
n’t been for a woman. I don’t know
why it was that Helen Linton made
such, an impression on me, for she had
by no means those great and noble
qualities by which men as a general
thing are attracted toward the opposite
sex. On the contrary, she was proud,
arrogant and overbearing, and I was
confident if she thought of me at all,
it was with feelings of contempt and
disdain alone.
Hot on account of my personal ap
pearance, it is true, for though I was
rough aud uncultigated, aud my hands
were hard with excessive toil, and my
face browned by exposure to the sun,
still I Lad wonderful strength and great
agility, and my hair and eyes were as
dark as midnight, find many said that
I was handsome. But I was poor and
she was wealthy. I was General Lin
ton’s hired hand and she was General
Linton’s daughter, and it was the old,
old story. It must have been her be¬
wildering beauty that drew me more
and more toward her, for she was a
■queenly-looking girl, with flashing
■eyes aud magnificent dark brown hair,
and a form tall and stately. But,
whatever it might have been, I am
certain of one thing, and that is, that
I learned to love her with a madden¬
ing, painful, consuming passion that
seemed about to devour my whole be¬
ing. I tried very hard to smother it
and to drive her image from my heart.
I knew I might as well think of pluck¬
ing down the moon or the stars as to
have dared to aspire to her hand.
But it was all of no avail; the more
T struggled the more I became en¬
tangled. In the morning, noon and
might there was hut one face that I
4aw, aud hut one voice that I heard,
and that was the face aud voice of
Helen Linton. What was worst of
*11, to me, in soma way she discovered
my secret. How, I can hardly tell.
They say murder will out, and the
same can most assuredly be said about
love. I had never spoken about it to
any one—not even to my mother—and
as to Helen, I had scarcely ever
spoken to her on any subject. It is
true that sometimes she would give
me instructions in regard to the flower
garden, which General Linton had se¬
lected me to manage, having, as he
said, more opinion of my taste in such
matters than any of the rest of his
workmen, hut she never condescend¬
ed further. I worshiped her like a
star from afar off, and knew the dis¬
tance between us to be as wide and as
impassable.
One day she came into the garden
when I was at work there, and im¬
pelled by some unknown power, as it
were, chpice leathered bouquet and of presented flowers; to and her
a
feh«fther it was from my guilty looks
Bit she then discovered all, and de
Pwmino.l to check me in the begin¬
ning, or whether she had already
probed to the depths of my heart and
thought I was presumptuous, I know
not; hut certain it is she never spoke
to me after that. She had been in the
habit of giving me a nod of recogni¬
tion whenever she met me before this,
hut after this she passed me by with¬
out even a glance; disdain within her
haughty eye, and contempt upon her
scornful lip. You may know that my
life was as wretched as it could well
be. I used to sit down by the fire in
our little cabin, after my hard day’s
work was done, and curse my wretch¬
ed fate, and call God unjust in what I
considered the distinctions He made
in the human race, hut I little knew
then what the sequel would be.
Crowds of company, gay ladies and
gentlemen, came every summer from
the city to spend the season at Linton
Hall, and it so happened that one sum¬
mer came among the rest a young gen¬
tleman named Arthur St. John. He
was reported to be wealthy, and hand¬
some he certainly was, and it was not
very long before he commenced pay¬
ing attention to General Linton’s
“To thine own self be true,and it will follow, as night the thou cans't not then be false to any man.”
LINCOLNTON, GA.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 20.18118
daughter; and it was easy enough
see that she was a3 infatuated as
was. They used to ride by our
cottage on the bright summer
lags, on the Forest road, as it
called, on their prancing horses, he
bending fondly above ber,
words of love and tenderness, and
listening to them with a flush on
cheek and a smile upon her lip. I
member one evening that I
watching them as they rode
from the Wild Glen, bathed in
golden halo that the gorgeous fires
the sunset threw upon the scene,
the summer zephyr, loaded with
perfume of wild flowers, blew hack
massive hair from her queenly
until the scene seemed to he celestial,
and she an inhabitant of celestial
gious. Just then she caught sight
me, as I looked at her almost cn
tranced, and spoke something in a
tone to her companion. What it
I never knew, hut they both looked
me an instant, and then the air
with their laughter, and I heard
say something about presumption and
impudence, aud I guessed what it was.
Ik "’as hard to he thus tortured simply
for no other reason than because
a heart aud could not control its im
pulses, and when I look back on that
lime it seems to me like some terrible
dream.
Misfortunes, they say, never come
singly, and they always come, too,
when we least expect them. My mother
suddenly sickened and died, and I was
thus left alone a wretched outcast on
the earth. As I stood over her grave
it seemed to me that I had buried
every hope. I determined to leave
that spot where I had seen so much
misery. I cared very little where I
went. Anywhere far away from there.
General Linton paid me what little he
owed me, and I struck out for the far
West, llailroads and steamboats were
not half as numerous then as they are
now, and even if they had been I was
too poor to avail myself of their ad¬
vantage I walked therefore, many a
weary mile, until after several days of
travel I found myself at the outskirts
of a growing city. Here I stopped be¬
cause I thought Ihad gone far enough,
and for the best of all reasons, because
my money had given out. I had to
do something. A large mansion with
beautiful grounds stood before me. I
applied to the owner for labor. He
said he was very much in need of a
gardener, hat did not like to employ
me without references.
After hesitating for a while, how¬
ever, he concluded to engage me for a
month, and if lie liked me he would
engage me permanently, he said, I
found out in a short time that he was
a lawyer of extensive practice,immense¬
ly wealthy, and lived at his ease. I
followed out the rule I had adopted
through life to he honest aud industri¬
ous under all ciieumstanees, and at
the end of the aonth my employer,
whose name was Parker, sent for me,
he said, to pay me my month’s wages.
He then surprised me by asking me if
I could read and write. I told him I
could, thanks to indefatigable energy
and perseverance at the little cabin on
General Linton’s farm, during the
long winter evenings when the labors
of the day were over. I had required
the rudiments of a first-rate English
education. My employer then told
me that during the past month he had
observed me closely, and that he be¬
lieved me to he an honest man. “I
will tell you something more,” said
he, “that I have discovered. You are
a young man of extraordinary intelli¬
gence. Gardening is not your proper
avocation. I am doing an extensive
practice of the law-, and I need some
one to stay in my office. I know of
no one who is better suited than
you. With your application and in¬
dustry, within one year from now you
may he admitted to the bar. You mus t
consent to become my student.”
I didn’t know exactly how it was, but
suddenly Judge Parker and 1lie table
seemed to become inverted, and the
room went whirling around, aud then
we all seemed flying off through the
air, like Aladdin’s castle, end the
next thing I knew I was sobbing, with
my head upon the table.
He didn’t say anything until I had
regained my composure, and then I
told him all. What a hard time I had
had through life, and how this had
been the only light that had ever
"shown on my dark pathway. Tears
sprang into the old/man’s eyes as I
told hinf, but he spld I must never de¬
spair, and he .was certain I would
come out victqnous.
X went iKto Judge Parker’s office,
and I studied hard, and at the end o!
the year, as he predicted, I obtained
my license to practice law. He then
asked me what I intended doing. I
told him that I intended to go oft to
rf»i«S Dl*o. *n<l grow „p with it,
aud if 1 ever do anything,’ said I,
“remember that you are the man that
matle me.”
TT He said that I should ,■!■■ do no such ,
thing. Ho was getting old, he said,
and was unable to attend properly to
a gr.at tleal of kb
wanted me to stay and assist lum.
“You must he my partner,” said he,
Again the room seemed turning
around and around, but this time 1
managed to retain my feelings, and
nnlv u f mini- ««iH
“May heaven thank you, for 1
can’t.”.
Well, it wasn’t long before the peo
pie seemed to take an interest in
and they elected me to the Slate Leg
islatnre, and then, after a while, tc
Congress, and I always continued, in
the same honest, industrious course
until they had made me their Gov
ernor.
I had heard hut very little in all
teat time from Linton Hall. I had
heard that General Linton had died,
Arthur St. John and Helen had mar
lor. Many a time, amid the thunders
of applause that had surrounded me,
fair hands had thrown me beautiful
flowers, and ruby lips had smiled,
and bright eyes had glistened when I
was near; but I thought of ‘-cold,
cruel, haughty Helen Linton, and bail
judged them all alike and had turned
T One winter • , evening, . shortly . , after .. I
hacl been elected Governor, when the
withm, wondering
less wretch were out in that storm, to
ushered in a lady. It was something
unusual; but I spoke to her aspo
litelyas I could, and offered her a
seat, when the light fell upon her
features and notwithstanding the
sunken eye and hollow cheeks, to my
consternation I recognized the face of
Helen Linton.
To -mv relief, however, I found
she had failed to recognize m*.
she would as soon have looked for a
form from the tomb as have looked lor
me at that place.
fehe had come she said, on painful
business. Her lather had been a very
wealthy man, and left her a large
property, but her husband had been
thi-mi-lf'wito inwait it all 1 fiudiitg the
iamilv in an unluchv "erv moment
had Ld committed a foi anf tor guX wdiich
he ne naa been neen tried t lea ana found oundg i v,
and she had come to me to plead for
his pai don. She told me all this
amid sobs and tears, and nnally
eluded by prostrating herself at my
feet
Great God! r , . ™ This . woman, who , once
thought me not good enough to wipe
her shoes upon, kneeling and grovel-,
ing at my feet! !
I liegged her to rise and Reseated,
and I then inquired her father’s name,
She said it was John Linton. I then
asked lier if slie remembered the old
widow and her son, that Oce lived
in the cabin on tho Forest road, near ,
Liuton Hall.
She replied, with somo surprise,
that she did.
Then I stood up.
“That boy,” said T, “wretched,
homeless outcast that ho once was,
now stands before you.” |
She turned aslien white, arose and
■staggered toward the door. I told
her to stop, I had something to say to
her.
“Let me go,” said _ she; “I showed
no mercy to you, and I expect none.”
Then my heart was touched. j
“Mrs. St John,” I said, I will
pardon your husband, hut on one con
s w-ax -y- ?rT m'
will guard them against its wicked
and nefarious influences through life,
aud that your husband will likewise
reclaim and lead a different life.”
She readily assented to my require
roeiits, and in a few moments more
she was on her way home, bearing
the joyful tidings to her little chil
d ren .
The lesson that I taught her I hope
may he a benefit to them through
life. I
She and her husband moved to a
distant city, where he reformed, ami
became a useful and respectable
citizen, and often speaks of me, I un
derstand, with profound gratitude.
I am a bachelor yet, and there is
but one woman to whose memory I
ever drop a tear. of
And that is to the memory my
mother.
Five Little Tisrs Sold For SllSO.
That the prices of live stock are
rapidly increasing in Iowa is shown
& y the records of some Poland China
a ig sales recently. E. M. Metzgar
sold one pig to S. E. Shellenberger,
of Camden, Ohio, for $883. A litter
of five pigs born in February last
brought $1150. Iu all forty-one pigs
were sold, getting $3900.—New York
Sun.
IF.
If ftli all our lives were one broad glare
Of sunlight, clear, unclouded;
If all our paths wore smooth and fair,
’S.jjXtlXSj* By no deep gloom enshrouded
And pray, perhaps, for storms and showers
To break tho constant gladness.
if none were slek and none were sad,
What service could we render?
I think if we were always glad
Wo hardly could be tender,
Did our beloved never need
,ad« a .
its finest consolation.
If sorrow never smote the heart
And life be disenchanted,
And if in heaven is no more night,
In heaven is no more sorrow,
Such unimagined, pure delight
Fresh worth from pain would borrow.
PITH AND POINT.
There are people who think that if
a girl has studied in Europe she can
sing—Washington Democrat,
The Missionary—“My friend, what
would you do if you expected the end
of the world in ten days?” The Tramp
— “Wait for it.”—Puck.
Geraldine—“I wouldn’t marry you
if you lived to he a hundred year old. ”
(Jerald—“Well, you’ve got sixty years
to change your m .d.”—Truth.
^ m f «P ; ” Gentleman (gallantly)
(fc 1 tow J 011 ’ Jailing. >-tan
™ rd "
Class in natural history-“Name
« anirnHs note 1 especially for their
ferocity. Two oats tied acrost a
elo’ea line, ma’am.’’—Chicago Tn
bune.
“Thev ?•iv that the to' Italian count
she she mauied mamed turned tmnml out out to be oe an an or or
gan-gruu or. e a-auyiae, e
IjnLi’r “ °
Etliel (aged sis)—“I -wonilar from.” .km
ill the clergymen come
choir-hoysigrow up into mmnners. —
Harper’s Bazar.
“L, e mau dat won’ he saterfy wif
auffiu hut a sof’ snap,’ said Uncle
1-jben, “is ginerally de one dat does de
caos’ talkin’ ’bout halul times.”—
Washington Star.
Raggs—“I wouder why a dog at
Sliafl8 ar0U art three times before
dffwn?” Jaggs—“Probably he
ttlinka that one good turn deserves
ino ther.”—Chicago News.
Flora (who has aspirations)—“Don’t
thiak wolnen can do a great deal
elevats the stase? » Ed.—“It
woulda>t be necessary if they’d ?. lower
^ hats .^Harper’s BaZa
Belle-“What makes that Miss
Sprocket so proud?” Bertha-“Why,
didn’t you hear? She advertised her
bicycle for sale, and they got it in this
«ay,„A - v beautiful beantuul ladv’s lady bicycle bicycle for
■
Mr. Blmkins- Ion know tne old
proverb, Tne host is tne cheapest?
Mrs. Blinking—'“Oh, you are mistaken!
g* The best test is is the U ^dealest dearest ^ I know, for
L 'Ve^Kij. . d “ pn ° eS- '
“The fact is,” said Dawson, “I mar
ried because I was lonely. To put it
tersely, I married for sympathy. ’
“Well, old man,” replied his friend
Haley, you certainly have mine/’—
Chicago News.
“It hardly seems meet,” said the
Cornfed Philosopher, “yet it is un
loubtedly true, that many with a young her
woman is willing to trust butchers
heart a young man that no
will trust for a pound of liver.”—In
dianapolis Journal.
“H ow old are you?” was asked of a
| itt j Q English girl who is visiting in
Allegheny. “I am six.” And liow old
j S y0 ur cousin?” “He is six, too, but
he has been so longer than I.” The
f was a few months the older.—
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
E nthusiast-“The game of golf
iu tting ^ the halls over the
^ s a!lesfc possib l e num
w ••
The
F
Queer Tilings in the City of Jle xii-o.
Donkeys are a largo part of the
qity’s capital. ’With their drivers they
i„re everywhere. They will take yoa
across a muchly street for a small fee,
or take your bundles home or take
you home. The flowers are wonder
i'ul Marguerite and plumbago bushes
grow ifito trees. So do many other
small flowering shrubs of our hot
houses. The City of Mexico has the
most wonderful gardens in the world,
It has the most wonderful gambling
place in the world—Tacubayj, a sub
urb. At Monte Carlo the player can
" bet ' only ■ $1300. — At ‘ 1 Tacubaya r " •----**— there is
absolutely no limit. One dollar or
$50,000 is all the same to the impas
sivelgpler. In the cemeteries the
dead of the wealthiest families have
iron monuments. A Mexican will
point with uncontrollable pride to a
huge, ugly, rusted slab lying over the
hones of his grandfather. Iron Iron is is the the
most expensive thing they can buy
Beautiful marbles and wonderful
onyxes are too cheap.—Chicago Iimes
Herald.__
The wheat crop of New South
Wales was estimated at 9,343,000
bushels.
WATCH YOUR WORDS.
Keep watch on your - words, my darling*.
For words are wonderful things;
They are sweet, like bees’ fresh honey—
Like bees, they have terrible stings,
They can bless. Tike tho warm, glad sun¬
shine.
And brighten a lonely life;
They can cut in the hitter contest,
Like an open, two-edged knife.
Let them pass through the lips unchal¬
lenged,
If their errand is true and kind—
If they come to support the weary,
To comfort and help tho blind;
If a bitter, revengeful spirit
Prompt the words, let them he unsaid;
They may Hash through a brain like light¬
ning
Or fall on a heart like lead.
Keep them back if they’re cold or cruel,
Under bar and lock and seal;
The wounds they make, my durlings,
May Are always slow to heal.
peace guard your lives, and ever
Front tho time of your early youth,
Hay the words that you daily utter
lie tho words of beautiful truth.
HUMOROUS.
The closer money is the harder it ii
to get hold of it.
It is easy to find fault, hut it’s hard
to tell what to do with it.
“How does your new belt suit you,
Jane?” “Oh, middling.” '
No wouder the ocean waves get
an g ry when the wind is continually
blowing them up.
The average man never fully real
izes at midnigllt how very s i e e p y bs
i s going to be at 7 o’clock the next
mornin „
Miss Miss Charmvno-e Lharmjng© Don’t Don t von you think tilin'
T 1 was meant for business woman?
a
j ac ) t Hustler—No, I don’t. I think
yon were me ant for a business man.
‘ ‘Isabel k» n,v„ k. in
threatened “{> with it once, “V»i but a *>■« bottle
'
Did know that tr English -■ , colonial , - ,
you
women many more titled Englishmen
ga* W J»“en <lo.- ^
" o.oym explain tt. I \hmk
they must bidhighei.
. “Dees your wife object to your stay
ing out, so late of nights.- A. little;
hut wlmt really raises her wrath is tor
to c °“ e home so quietly that she
doesn t know when I got in.
Husband—I’ve some had news for
yon, my dear; that old bachelor broth
w of mine has failed—lost his entire
fortune. Wife—Oh, John, how dread
full And just as we had named the
baby after him.
“At no time,” said the cornfed
philosopher, “is a man so willing to
take the burden from the weak shoul
dors of frail woman as when she is
harassed with the care of a large and
property.”
“The trorble with thvsician vonr wife Mr
bpudds, sa d the physician ‘is m lack lack
ot exercise.” “What can I do for it?”
“I would J put in a telephone, and then
^ delivering mes
sages o for the neighborhood.” &
“Mrs Toddler doesn t trust her
husband to wheel the baby buggy any
more. Why not ‘He s one of
those scorchers, and the other night
lie nearly killed the baby trying to
keep up with a man on a bicycle,
Air.Dearborn—How are you getting
along with your new wife? Mr. Wa
bash—Oh, there’s trouble already,
“What’s wrong?” “Why, she insists
on having a new wheel, and I think
the one my last wife had is good
enough.”
“I’m not going to that female hat
her shop again." There’s a deuced
rudh girl there, don’t you know?”
“What did she say?” “Why, she
looked at my mustawsh and asked me
if I would have it sponged off or
rubbed in.”
“Yes, I always let people know that
my wife is a Republican and I’m a
Democrat. It saves me lots of ex
planations. “In what way? “Why,
when people hear us raising merry
turmoil, they thiak, of course, it is
only a party dispute.
Sympathetic Citizen—You ^ are not
going to arrest that boy for stealing a
few apples, are you? Remember you
were a hoy yourself, once. Store
keeper Yes, I remembei it, ana
that s jiist why I m going to anest
him. They pulled me m a dozen
times when I was a kid.
First Western Farmer (at railroad
station)—You’re a farmer, too, eh?
Second Western Farmer—Yes; been
farmin’ a good many years. First
Farmer—That so? Glad to meet ye.
Where is your farm located—in the
flood district, the drought section, the
regi n, or the cyclone
Unit? belt?
Tlie Tree Clock.
A Glasgow man has in his garden
what he calls a “tree clock.” Fir
trees are planted in such positions
that one of them will shade a portion
of the house at every hour of sunlight,
For example,at i) o’clock in the morn
ing the “9 o’clock tree” shades the
dining room r while, as the sunlight
changes, th © “10 o’clock tree” shades
the room above or the room adjoining
- it, and so on through the day. On n
‘ sunny day this “tree clock” insares a
j succession of shady places around th*
houso,
NO. 33.
GEORGIA RAILROAD,
—A. iv r>~
Connections.
For Information as to Routes, Soiled
—ules and Rates, Both—
Passenger and Freight
Write to either of tho undersigned.
You will receive prompt reply
reliable information.
JOE. W. WHITE, A. G-. JACKSON.
t. r. a. a r. a.
gViiHfiistn^ (fa.
3. W. WILKES, H. K. NICHOLSON, F
C. P. & P. A. G. A.
Atlanta. Athens
W. W. HARDWICK, S. E. MAGILE,
S. A. C. F. A.
Macon. Macon.
M. R. HUDSON, F. W. COFFIN,
S. F. A. S. F. & P- A.
Miliedgeville. Augusts.
CHILDREN AND WHEELS.
Danger that the Violently. Young Will Exercise f
Too
It is a curious fact that of all sports
men bicyclers seem to be the most sen
tltive to criticism from a hygienic point
view. This is possibly because they
p* ainly with the ST1 !^ crl full !™ of : warning
air so
* nd admonition, adults may n
mostly to their own discretion.^ And
ret ’ *" tIie face ° f llle se0l ’ c lel s
leranation, we must summon our coui
* and in the interest of the very,
, roim<r "if „ ss< , tt tlnt tUe „ rest . n t recfcless
JSert aess not checked will result in a
e ^ '^ 5”°«|'S‘£maw Ind
„ q nrlv ho cou v those
-once f^d in it by the young should be
about “ 0 * with " many / precautions. ‘
, t bat) , v as
beneticial to children as, to their elders,
^ ^ ^ m>odf|lU sincc the young.
especially bovs seldom suffer for, glviusd want
of oxe rcise. their outdoor games
as a r ' u lf, all Uiey need..
agi ,,., f ,......... ...
. ln tbe , vhc(i , urisil ^w, ■„. .
ness of children to compete with
—to ride too long, too fast and too far.
Wheeling resembles stair-climbing !*;
its nature and effects. No mother would
allow- her child to run up the steps of
the Washington monument two or
times a day. yet she will let him take);
his bicycle and race over country roadaff
for miles, his little heart pumping on*.;
hundred and fifty or two hundred times
a minute and fondly thinks it is do.ng .
him good.
the It is just here strained, that overstrained; the danger ^ it isi
heart Is
dilated and then enlarged; it work* eoi
unu °usiy «> “S ra* u 1 suengin , ,,, ., xviri
■
aI * force, and by t l> ,
011 res °rvc - ■
child has become a man the hear «
permanently tired and may uose.hr
stop short some day without warning,
ChiMren need not be forbidden the
use of the pi e y C i e> i nlt parents should
see to ft that they have properly con
s t ruc t e d saddles, and that they do not
*« scorc i lf ” C u m b steep hills, ride against •
high winds, or ride at all more than a
f ew mi i es at a stretch. Unfortunately
p j s tliese very feats that they are
often incited by their elders to perform,
There are few more piteous sights, to
0Jle w - ho has seen the consequences of
fcuch folly, than that of a tiny child, on
ft tiny wheel, struggling up a hill after
ft six-foot father and a seasoned mo-th
er.
Much surprise hns been expressed
that while tho prlco of first-class bi¬
cycles has fallen from $100 to $05 ot
$75 tho prlco of typewriters remain}
the same. In first hands a $100 type¬
writer still costs $100. The quesflos
possesses practical Interest, because
there 0 ht t0 be a corresponding de
crease ln tUe prlce of articles rnffuff
f ueturec ] uu( j er similar circumstances
Actually the same machinery Is used
) s producing a large portion of th«
i frameivork, the wire parts and some ot
1 the movements of both machines
Within a year or two typewriter man
ufaeturies have been turned Into hi
, cycle factories with but little expense^
the bicycle demand fell off and tht
j j typewriter tones demand changed increased back to the the origi. fao
were
nal plan. The same might be said ot
; the price of watch movements, tht
| cost of which constitutes the principal
j cost of a watch. The be adapted machinery little in s
1 watch factory can at
cost to the manufacture of either bh
cycles or typewriters. The cost ot
j Watch movements has decreased m
that one of the best of watches can b«
bought now for one-half what it wouli|
have cost ten years ago. An intelll.
gent person explains why the price ot
j the writing machines is as high now
as ever, if not higher, as to equal
grades. It is the everlasting trust and
combination of interests among nianu>
1 faeturers that keeps up the price of
typewriters. TIie trust markets all th«
standard machines and controls tht
'
trade. The trust must pay
dividends. That is why the cost 4
typewriters Is maintained at tho to m
.
: notch of prices, notwithstanding th
I great reduction in the cost of man
‘ facture. ™