Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-10-24
,reator of labor; and the average wages

creator of labor; and the average wages
of the persons directly or indirectly
employed by the sewing machine is
doubtless four or five times that of the
old time sewers.
II Is but little while since a metro.
pOlitsn psIer of high rank pointed to
the shoe business as furnishing forci.
BILE illustration of the disastrous com.
petition of machinery with men. The
truth is that while within 20 years,
not less than S5 per cent of the work
done on factory boots and shoes hss
been turned over to machinery, there
are to-day more men at work in shoe
factories than then, and more than
would be employed except for machi'
merry. 1t Is but another illustration of
the old industrial paradox. During
these years of rapid progress in inven'
ton, the cost of materials has advan.
ced, wages have nearly doubled, and
the quality of factory boots and shoes
has been improved 25 per cent; yet the
cost Of manufacture has been so much
reduced by new aud improved machi'
merry that American shoes have not
only excluded the foreign made from
our market, but have successfully in
Vic MUS VI ILO MIlOl0
As natural consequence, many more
shops are required not only in New
England, but throughout the Middle
States and the West; more workmen
are employed in shoe factories; higher
wages are paid; and great multitude
of other men are furnished with en-
plOyment in tanning the additional
leather used in packing and transport
ing and selling the additional product,
and in making additional shoe makers
machinery and implements.-JAMEs
RICHARDSON; Scribner for November.
CHoATE'S IRoNY.-Nobody at the
bar ever equalled him in paying iron
ical compliments to the judges who
blocked his way to the hearts and
understandings Ofjuries. Judge Shaw
was specially noted for the gruff way
In which he iDterpOsed such obstacles,
and Shaw'5 depth of legal learning
Was not more conspicuous than his
force OF character. "Tisn't so, Mr..
.GhOate," was a frequent interruption,
when Shaw was on the bench and
Choate was arguing Case before him.
ChOate's side remarks on the Judge
have passed into the stereOtyped Jokes
of the bar, and are now somewhat ven-I
cradle. One is, think, not commonly
stated In the exact words. Il always
approach Judge Shaw" he said, 'as q
savage approaches his fetich, knowing
that he Is ugly, but feeling that he IS
great" or Judge Story he once re-
marked, Il never heard him pronounce
d judgment in which he did not argue
the case better than the counsel on
either side; and for which," he added,
with twinkle in his eye "he might
very properly have been impeached."
He delighted in gravely joking with q
judge. Thus he once asked that case
might be postponed, owing to his en-
gagement in another court. The Judge
replied that the case was one In which
be might write out his argument.
With mock sOlemnity, which 1t al
ways seemed to me no other human
countenence could 80 readily assume,
he replied, II write well, your Honor,
but StO0Ly." As his hand writing re-
sembled the tracks of Wild-cat-, with
their claws dipped in ink, m~dly DASH
ing over the surface of folio SHEET af
white paper, the assembled bar could
not restrain their laughter. Indeed, it
is affirmed that he could not Gpcipher
his own hand writing after case WIS
concluded, and bad to call In experts
to explain il 10 himself. He congratu-
lated himself on the fact that if he fail
ed to get living at the bar, he cuuld
still go to China and support himself
by his pen; that L., by decorating tea
chests.-Edwin p. Whipplp, in Har-
per'S Magazine for November.