The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-09-16

the lot to . fall of water, where she
SIT down and encouraged her father
20 stay his grief, IS she Was prepared
for death. if that was =, hand. She Was
conveyed in carriage to the house,
sni on the way sang the beautiful
hymn. There's land that is fa'r-r
than day By the time she arrived
At the house the surgeon Was there
and the stumps were ampussted and
dressed. She never uttered word
of complaint, and, up to this writing,
has been as cheerful and resigned as
mortal can be. The surgeons this
morning report the wound in favor
able condition, vet it is quite uneer-
tain whether she will recover or not.
She NAV die, and oil the harvests 81 d
all the reaping machines IN Story
county are not worth such brave
life as that.
If railroad company should build
all IT'S locomotives with the engine.
drivers seat so unprotected that
suiien Jar would hurl him out Of j,
under the po0ierous wheels 10 horn.
ble naiilsrion or certain death. such
bowl Il indignation wo..ld 60 up all
over this county as would block every
wheel on that railroad until the lives
uf eEauloyes were better projected.
II steamboats, we're SO constructed
that everv time one Of them Jared
xsxins. the bank the pilo. Was drown
ed. the stesmboa's would rot a. the
whsrves unless be criminal error Vas
remefsesi. And il would be right
that public indignation should r1se NJ
against s0ch criminal carelsssnes>.
But men build respe-s, not = glide
On . srnoa b. level. iron railway, such
a. i built Tor the locon tive. nor for
the clear gliding channel Of the raser.
bu; 10 run over rough feds. where
s ones and stumps are hidden from
the visilsnt eve OF the driver bs the
thick standing grain. aud where the
sudden shocks and jars are liable 81
snv ulomen 30 throw the driver from
his seat 10 death. AID We fherv IS no
,rovis;on made for hss salty. II
proportion n The number 81 rs
made by he rsilssy engineers and
the drivers Of the reapers, the hsrses
held a.s killed more men IN Iowa
this summer than the railroad, have
this whole wear. Ceres has been de-
,hroned and either her gloomy son-in
ID. ar Mars has usarpei her p ace,
and reigns over our smiling harvest
field. 50 Destructive has Improved
farming machinery b-en N the farm
ing community that the State L gts-
h.ture las already been compelled 20
interfere. IN order TO preyeat the de-
cimation Of oar rural population, aud
the strong arm of me law int-rp >e,
between the Granger and the detth-
dealing -tum plingrod" All there
viii soon Dc necessity for leg'sl fiof
against reaptng machines that arr so
arranged that the driver who fills
from bis insecure seat. has no choice
bat 10 fall into The knives Of the sick
lie. Sure ' il Isl simple thing FIR the
inventive mind. that have revolut ion-
izpd the system of gathering the hsr-
vests 10 80 c1nsfru Z seat tnat H1an,
nov OF giri can sit in it without fear
OF tiIiing at everv obstruction. 1t
cannot be very Difficult, thing to
make a reaper that will be at least
less destructive than a Cutting gun.
Laws are enacted for the projection
Of miners, for The protection If engin
GERS, and avs have been passed for
the protection Of farmers against
threshing machines, and If the death
rates in the harvest fields keep in
creasing, the farmers will find il not
onlv their right. but their duty to cry
out for isw that will protect them
against the resping machines -B,vl,
nqtoa ifn,-k- Eye.