The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-05

lips were about to touch hers something
came swiftly through the air and felled
them to the floor.
Camille had fallen over the bannis.
tiers. Chicago Tribune.
Old.Fash;oned Massachusetts.
This is an expensive age. Our richest
men began with mere nothing but their
brains and hands, and with little edu-
cation. Chester w. Chaplin, one Of the
richest men in Massachusetts, when
he was twenty-one years old let himself
out to work twelve to fourteen hours
day for SIP a month, farming and team
ing from the arimorv to the boats on
the Connecticut River; but he laid his
money up. Now you would insult a
young STRIPPING of eighteen years to
offer him such wages. He was the Tax
Collector in 1922 for the town of Spring.
field. His fees were $50 for collecting
$8,0O0-the who'e taxes for that town.
He pays more taxes now than the whole
town did then. 1t cost more time and
travel to collect them then than now.
The people were SO scattering and they
were so afraid of d Tax Collector, he
said. some would run and hide up stairs
or down cellar when they saw him
coming, and in some instances he
hunted them up Id their municipalities
after their family said they 'swasn't
there" After finding the delinquent
he would get part Of the tax money
and 60 again for the rest or pay it him
self. He has paid in this way hundreds
Of dollars, finding it easier 20 earn the
money than to collect it. Money was
scarce and worth something then.
recollect in 1926 or '26, in our town
meeting, the proposition was to raise
for the coming year $4,000 for the
town of Springfield, Oliver B. Morris
arose and objected by saying: ''What
arc we coming TOP It is astonishing
that pride and ambition, or fashion
should demand such a tax" But they
overruled the old man, and he lived to
see pride. fashion and ambition rise
much higher. A great change surely.
The fashion in those days recollect.
When my mother was going to get a
new dress, or gown, as it was called
then, the woman that was engaged to
come to the house to cut and make it
told her she was so tall and large she
must get six yards for it. Five yards
was common pattern, and fifty cents
for cutting and making and dinner
found. What a change from that day
to this! The cloth cost ST. and the
making fifty cents, and the dress was
worn to meeting. The fashion and pay
of the preachers has changed. The
first Methodist preacher in our town got
800 for one year salary, and if he had
present of pair Of socks he must re-
port it. The second preacher had q
wife, and got $3.50. The third preacher
had wife and three children, and S35
was added for each child. Bishop He'd
ding in our time got less than $75 a
year. Also Priest Clough and Lorenzo
Dow less than either. Our old Meth
odist preachers worked for living and
for God, instead of reputation and a
salary.
was thinking about the fashions in
domestic affairs, say music. fifty-iive
years ago. Governor Trask and I met
at Monson for Thanksgiving, with the
family where he got his WHEAT old
Uncle Saul Squires', uncle to us both.
Their house music was, for treble, the
fax spinning-wbe played or run by
one of the girls; for the tenor, the large
spinning-wheel. played by another girl;
for bass, the old lady whacking away at
the oldloom. all working to make their
music profitable and healthy. The
fashion of those days was to have a
good, healthy family of from eight to
ten children, all learnt to work for a
living What a change! Instead of a
good, healthy family now, all up in the
morning early to work, we see from one
to three little pimping children, with a
sickly mother, not able to take care of
two as easily as our mothers would ten,
fifty years ago, without a hired girl.
The children now must be in fashion
be in. bed until eight or nine in the
morning, no appetite, little vitality.
They play on some kind of instrument,
and 90 to school to be crowded with
mere kinds of lessons than our old
school teachers ever knew. But this is
the fashion and pretended improvement
of the age. Perhaps this generation
does not look at these thin IS as do.
but think that health, economy and
morality are not improved by getting
high wages or fashionable education.
This generation will spend what its
fathers have earned. Generally it ID
watching the pulse of the man who has
property, longing for the time to come
when it will come in possession of what
It has not earned. It is a known fact
that the rising generation are spend
thrifts.
Another great change is in the mode
of travelling. Fifty years ago we had to
90 through the country by stages, at
the fast speed of seven miles an hour.
This was much faster than the common
farmers travelled. 1t was considered a
great treat to take the stage at old
Jeremy WARMERS tavern-start at four
o'clock in the morning and get to Bos-
ton at nine in the evening, if the going
was good. When the fare was reduced
to five dollars, two of us worked two
weeks to get money enough to pay our
fare to Boston, lightweight miles. The
young men in these days earn enough
in one day to pay their fare. and go in
three hours instead of seventeen. Our
conductors get for driving their team
through to Boston SO or 81, and the old
stage-drivers got $12 month. This
was Chester w. Chapin's standard price
in those days. Connecticut River
steamboats,, started by Blanchard, fifty
five years ago, cut down the fare to
Hartford to 81, which enabled us all to
90 to Hartford and back in one day for
So and stay four hours in Hartford.
This was another great treat for So,
costing us i've days work. Now young
men can earn enough in half a day, and
90 and back in the other hall. H
hunger, in Springfield (Mass.) Repub-
NcGn.
Kindness to Animals.
Not only are the Japanese exception
ally kind to their children, but they are
gentle in their treatment of birds and
animals. NY attention was called to
the very important service performed