The Dillon tribune., 1882-01-28
EDITORS
What They Don't Know Isn't Worth
Knowing.
New York Daily Stock Reporter.


Editors have always been too little ap-
,reciated. They are the only class of
virtue. They are always giving the best
Of advice. And presistently advocating
reform. Editors can always tell just what
to be done, from the movement Of an army
to the most intricnate question OF State
craft It is singular that our Presidents
and Cabinets have not been more largely
composed Of this unerring class.
They are great on accidents ard disas.
tiers, can tell how they could have been
prevented, and what is necessary to be
done in the future. Were there editors
enough to 20 around to run steamers and
railroads there would be no more coils.
ions or boiler explosion.
Mining editors are really the most aw.
fully virtuous class. Just think! Nolmore
bold, bad companies ifthey we're allowed
to supervise their organizations and
participate in the Boards Of Direction.
In fact the advantage Of having every.
thing Of any consequence run by editors
must b. apparent 10 the dullest compre.
hcnsion.
Unless editors are bourn, not made, It
would seem as though our Vanderbilts
should devise money for the erection OF
public institutions throughout the country
to increase class who would bring the
country to as near a state of perfection as
anything short Of the millennium.
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Chewing Gum.
Forty thousand dollars worth Of chew.
ing gum is gathered in the State OF Maine
every year. In Oxford county Is man
who makes it his business to collect
spruce gum. Every year he buys from
seven to nine tons. The ..u,n is found
chiefly in the region about Umbagog Lake
and about the Rangelv lakes. A number
Of men do nothing else in the winter sea
son except collect gum. With snowshoes,
ax and sheboyg;.o. ON which they pack
the gum, they spend days and nights in
the woods. The clear, pure humps Of gum
are sold in their native state, the best
bringing one dollar per pound. Gum not
Immediately merchantable is refined by a
peculiar process. Sievelike boxes are
covered with spruce boughs, on which is
placed the gum. Steam is introduced I'm.
dcrneath. The gum is melted, is strained
BY the boughs, and then passes into warm
waiter, where it is kept from hardening
until the packer takes it out, draws it into
sticks, and wraps it in tissue paper, when it
is ready for market.
The gum meets with ready sale.
There is not village, town, or city in
Maine where it is not in demand One
dealer last year sold fourteen hundred
dollars worth. In the large mill cities
gum has free sale. In Biddcford, Lewis
ton, Lawrence and Lowell, the factory
girls con sumo large quantities. 1t is said
that In the lumber camps gum is used as a
means Of extending hospitality. After
meal time the host fills his own black clay
pipe and hands it to his guest. Later,
clear Jumps OF spruce gum are placed be-
fore the visitor, and he is asked to take a
chew. Maine produces forty thousand
dollars worth Of gum in a year some OF
which finds its way to this market, from
which it is distributed to the various out.
lying factory villages, where, as stated
before, it in good demand. Spuce gum is
aaultcrated, and those who adulterate take
the trouble to fashion the pieces Of gum
to appear like thost. taken in a pure state
from the trees. The ingredient Of adults
ration is supposed to be the gum Of tn.
pine tree Providence Journal
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A citizen of Detroit entered Michigan
avenue grocery the other day and said hi
wanted private word with the proprietor
When they had retired to the desk he te
gan:
II want to make confession and repar
alton. DO you remember my buying >u
gar here two or three days ago!
II do"
'We'l, in paving for it worked oft
counterfeit quarter on the clerk. 1t was
mean trick, and came to tender you goo'
money"
oh, dom, mention it, replied the gro
Ger.
But want to make it right"
"its all right-all right. We knew VIII
passed the quarter on .s, and that after
noon when your wife sent dow" do'l'
bill ana wanted can OF sardincs CAV
hr that bad quarter with her chang
Dom, let your conscience trouble .vo" i;
;'l-it's all right"
notwithstanding woman carei"ll
handed the >tamp-clerk ut the post office
i*'ter marked lin haste and inquired
there vas any extra charge for writing tn;
on;
Oh, none at ALL"