The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-06-11

Lament Of Am Old Milfvright How the
Milestone nas Bssn Rssrgstc,i Oat Of
use.
A number Of heavy white mill
stones were piled up on one Of the
signed to some ixsterior town forty or
fiity miles from the city, and were of
the style, make, nnd finish So long in
use. An old man, with slouciled has
pulled down so far over his fase' that
his small, fast-blinkisg eyes were al
most hid from view. stood littleway
back ON the wharf and talked 30 a
young man whom he had halted and
asked for match. "Nillstones hive
pretty neatly gone out of date" said
he, with half mournfu5 Air, "and with
them have gone the occupation hes'e
followed fos thirty years. See here"
and the old rnan crowded his hat over
on to the back part Of Has head an
Lifted his faoe for the first time intsl
plain sight. 1t was pitted adj over With
numberless upay dimples, Expressions,
and cuts, and looked as il he might
some day have had the smallpox.
"Do you know how that was done?"
he asked The young man. did not
know. by picking millstonss,' was
the quickly volunteered Inflammation.
"No' one who has ever followed the
business of giving those stones that
keen, cut texture that enables hem to
crush and grind grain can escass those
cuts aod scars. Why, my face IL liter
ally flied with THO little particles of
steel and stone, an@l.my eyes have sea-
sons oifpaining me. terribly. But the
profession has about run its rase. In
ten years the dictionsry-maker will put
the ste,eotyped wo@i 'obsoletef alter
the nom 'millstone.y Modern inven-
tons have relegated the time-h1nered
millstonc TO obliviona New processes
have been discoveredsH0r extracting the
wheat FINN flour, beside which, the
millstors has no shoR"
The young man began to grow nGer-
ested. He drew hifs companion into
the doorway of little switch shanty,
secured permission for the two "a. sit
down q moment before the fire. and
asked hin to continue.
Nowadays" said the old nan,
wheat is=erushed beneath roller1ssnd
the flour produced is much superior tO
the old nsake. Then, so9. the bran that
was oncEtAought tooe almost WORTH
less is now sifted by naw process.ard
n quality of -four is separated that. is
worth fosty or fifty cents more per
sack thaall she common variety. Hsu
have head that the hest part of apo
tato lay jlst beneath tie skin. Rsesns
scientific experiments have shown that
1t is true Of all vegessSles, espe tally
of wheat This suggested the oan-
struction Of sieve tIatwould sepaSnse
the httioeparticles ofsthe kerne' thaS
cling to the shuck when it has been
broken ,p' and groynd 10 pieces i.
was successful, and the -four secured
in this wax. while s1nll in quaatity,
is of superb quality ,phis latter rvae-
ess, was sonly made, possible bYvtase
new met16d of grinding wheat tia tihas
been generally adopted. by all the large
mills in shgcountry. Bnt in the mean
time my occupation Aas' been gradually
undermined Once n q. while L haue'a
call to So somewhere. into the GENTRY
and dress o. stone, butlit - very 9AoEn
Most OF the milstoaes, IN use ias tiars
country are Of French, bnrr, "A sslicipzs
rock, containing 2 amy small, -Dlgh
cavities, and requiring less prep .xati0n
than e4perfectly Flain stone. 1t Is
quarrieA RI the geological district
known as The PARIS BASIN p quarry
has been worked f6nmany yeaIsin the
valley of the Savannah Riyen about
one hundred miles 2bsrs the cihyof Sa-
vannsh,. and the quality of ssones Sc
cured il said to be almoetequsl to,tkose
prod 1ced in France The lower stone
has generally smooth grinding sur
face. The moving stone is followed
tow aatl the center tai allow 5he mate
rial ground to fioM freely be 1xeen the
grin ding surfaces. The face OF both
sto1as have to he cut with straight
grooves in direction inclined radii
Thar edges of the grooves, are thus
/ gisen n cuttings action sorSasghat re-
sesMblmg scisso tblades, an6 % tendency
tcd0ree the grain outward toward tho
circumference Is secured, taiis hcceler
aiing the feeding and avoid ING choking /,
Ia.do this weak properly requires az
enormous araSant of pra siee, and "a
apprentice AUST serve femr or fyb
wears on chap stones tssfore he is ~
lilewed to toush the most Teluable onss,
4 Machines were once inve aied to do the
cutting. batg they were, rot succAss
It was hard business tSelearn, ana in
its day was, very profitable. Moiern
Innovations, however, lave no sysata-
thy for warkingmen, nd in ten Years
it is doabtful if there will be mill
stone in ass in this country. "--<I&ue-
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