The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-06-09

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and sizes, on wheels and on sticks, with and
without monkeys, fill every available corner
grinding out noises more eiaborte and eXhilerat-
ing than the duiccs tones Of Of airst-class moth
cr-in.law,
as she cries through the halls
You can't have bread with -four fish balls"
or words TO that effect. 4 hand. organ always
makcs us think of pre.eXistence, an existence
in some wickeder, perhaps, but more humane
world than this; and once as the measures OF
"Rcle Mnhone-y" repeated for the lS,753,949
time, swelled out from behind the red blinds OF
the "ba.rcl,"a memory Of that pre.eXistcncc
flashes through us, ealing to mind how in that
other world we used to go out before breakfast
aud slaughter, for exc rcise, several thousand OF
the organ pc SIS, who were practicing their in
fcrnal arts for the torture of the second edition
Of humanity to occupy earth. In those days
jJckreddicll was the high.up grinder, the old
mogul himself, being the most stupid OF all stu
pldites-and ne can never be forced from that
position, 1t seems. The optimst may be right
in his conviction that all things work together
for good We hope some optimist convinced
the author Of MY Summer in Il Garden" OF good
the people of La Sale that their patcntinsidc
isn't edited By Il damphool. If this latter be
done we will begin to look kindly on the hand
organ and take our stand among optimists.
Nothing teaches man the vanity OF human am
bition like hand organ. All greatness gives
way before Il hand. organ-ond that is generally
all that IS given. XerXcs with his 5,OOo,OOo oil
soldiers couldn't make one; and 100000 Greeks
like those who stood upon the sands of Mara
thon couldn't have stopped it, if one had been
made A handorgan once made and set agrind,
ing is like the elements -indestructible.
"You may break, you may shattcr the box II
you will,
Bat the spirit of grind will hang round it
still"
The pest is unlimited now. Grinders are more
in number than the sands OF the sea.shorc-in
these parts. They are like the Aryan race, al
ways ION the 90 west" taking everything they
can lay their hands on from penny copper coins
to dilapidatcd ears and shattered minds as their
spells. Chicago having cleaned them out, they
settle down on the suburbs like crows on rooSt.
They seem TO come into town on the wings OF
the morning from the uttermost parts OF the
earth, or drop, like poly-wogs, from high heay'
en- in rain storm. They are nuisance that
ought to be abatcd, and an expense TO the state
They are not only not producers, but even in a
measure prevent productions London mathcmc-
tician having estimated the cost OF the increased
mental labor they had imposed upon him and
his clerks at sc ,eral thousand pounds worth OF
first. class work. Another gentleman remarks
that London organ grinders in the last 20 years
have done more to detract from the quality and
quantity of the highest kind of mental work
done by the nation than any two or three col.
leges at oxford have done TO increase 1t. The
idea Of charity is ridiculous. Where one dcserv-
ing is found, everyone knows they will find p
rcprobates, and that man who can carry 40.
pound organ, fully as heavy rs scissor grinder,
and has life enough 20 swear a blue streak for
his monkey to perform gymnastics on, ought to
receive aims Is prepostcrous.