, 1884-08-15
THE BO0BY'S SECRET.
Fortune and Fame for One, and for
Another Life-Time Beer.
The senior Robert Peeps Little cot-
ton Faetory-A stupid Work
mans Valuable Discovery
A Moral Somewhere.
[sneech ns1n Of Menden Phinipa. l

lSpeech ilsaD OF Wendell Phillips.l
Now. MS the clock strikes 0, I will tell
you a single story. Robert Peel. the
father of the great Sir Robert Peel, was q
comfortable English mechanic. who started
n cotton factory small in measure and
smaller still In profits, nj the commence.
ment Of the cotton enterprise. Robert at
that time was almost unable TO make his
enterprise pay him, and the profits fell SC
often behind the expenses that he some
times contemplated abandoning the move
ment The difficulty that beset him was
apparently "A trifie. but II undermined his
whole effort. The flaments of cotton
what we call the dust Of the product
gathered all over the machinery, 50 that
the bobbins and the tapes were covered
with il they refused TO move. Every six
or seven hour the workman WA obliged
10 stop work and clean his machine. and at
the end of the day be had a poor days work
TO show. and one that hardly enabled him
10 earn wages. The anxious master
sought the aid of science; he sent for Watt,
the great INVENTOR of the cotton machinery.
Watt exhausted his ingenuity, and was
foiled. He called upon London and the
engineering talent Of that great capital 10
help him and was equally unsuccessful.
Now il had been observed that there was
one man in the mill that never stopped.
but every day drew his full wages and his
machine was never encumbered. They
set men 10 watch him. but they could moi
detect the secret; and they set his fellow
workers to pump him, but they couldn't
find 1t out. Finally. In despair. Robert
Peel sent for him. A rude, awkward
BOBBY. Dick entered the c-ounting-room.
Like a sailor, he pulled his forelock with
one hand. npd scratched the o with the
heavy shoe OF his left foot TO make a bow.
Peel said 10 him: ~Dick, the overseeI
says your bobbins are always clean.
Aye. master. 1t beln AWell. Dick.
how Is If" Master, that's u secret.
and if l told you you would know
as much as L. Exactly so. said
Robert Peel: but won't you tell me1" Il
don't wait TO, master. " but. Dick, will
pay you If you tell me; what do you want
Tor your secretf" Dick looked down a
moment. Master. | will tell It fora quart
Of beer a day as long as | am in tho mill "
You shall rave II. " says Peel, and half
q gallon on Sunday. too" Shutting the
door cautiously. and creeping us near TO
Peel as he dared. Dick whispered In his
ear. Chalk the bobbins; chalk the bob
bins, Master Peel. " Peel saw it at a
glance. Unmatched. undetected. Dick
covered the bobbins and tapes with chalk.
II prevented the adherence Of the hlament
and his machine was Glenn, 10 that he did
u full days work and made money for his
employer.
Feel saw It at u glance, bought the Sc
cret. had machinery contrived that chAlked
the whole mill and rose suddenly into for.
tune. from Il common man he mounted
the topmost line Of the English gentry.
His family is among the FIRST in Europe
1t wields the destinies of states. He's got
20, 900, 900 pounds sterling. All that art
and leisure, and culture. and wealth and
oompanionship can do for him has been
done. His son he made king of England,
for the premier Of England Is its king. A
large share of that place and fortune aud
success he owed to that secret. The man
that tells the story says; Ale paid the man
well he gave him "A quart n beer a day.
and half a gallon on Sunday. $40 a week
rs long as he lived paid him handsomely. -
says the historian; and according TO your
civilization he did