Daily Kennebec journal., 1889-04-29
SLATE QUARRIES.
Jay Ed Bee Describes Their Operation At
nOnS0n.
He Graphically Describes tho Dangers
OF tho QuarIymsn's Life.
Especial despatch TO the Kennebe Journal. \
MoSsoN, Mn., April ~, SO.

Especial despatch to the Kennebee Journal. \
MoSsoN, Mn., April ~, SO.
NJ, Editor
person may sit him or herself down
in Augusta, Hsllowell or any other lars,
town may read the pspcrs and be = regular
subscriber and patron Of first class library
pay regularly his monthly installmcnts on
any So sold Cyelopedis of useful knowledge
and still the old saying that ''one half Of
the world knows little Of how the other half
lives" is practically true.
The man that gets up in the morning
(some don't set up until latcr) and goes
leisarsly to his place of business fnd. IL
swept and busted and ready for customers.
knows how he lives and can make a pretty
fair calculation AS TO how his nearest neigh
Dor ~riggles through this valley half full
| of tcars.
The man that seeks glory by making two
| healthy grasses grow wher, but one little
pindling red.top grew b, forc-sows his seed
IN places that puzzles the birds of the air 10
make sure of the things of to day, let alone
those OF tomorro~, and experience. a late
irost IN the spring and an early one in the
autumn can tell you how he lives. If he's
fortunate enough to winter. Those that "go
down to the sea in ships" viii tell YOU thew
lived on self-junk and hard tack on ship
board. and ON shore you could see without
asking that they live more in one day than
the average man would In siX. under ordinary
circumstances. There is now and then \
class of men that live by the perspirstion
that oozes from under their front hair-and
this class is largely represented in this town,
Asa communit, they live by labor and that
of the hardest kind. A, half past sil bya
clock, sixty minutes in ad,ancc OF "stsudsrr'
a man takes his little dinner. pail or larg.
according To appetite and wcnds his way TO
one of the four OF Ave state Qusrries now in
operation Al seven he il supposed To be
ready for business.
The ledgenen step into a box, suspended
oN wire rope that runs over u pulley at the
END 81 an immense derrick and are swung out
over yawning abyss aud let go by the run
down two hundred fcct-whi1z.
Mr. Editor, did you ever have the lightning
strike within nine feet OF your Did you ever
experience the ponish feelings in the legs
that fcllowsasevere shock of an earthquakep
Did you ever have run Of the fever and
when con,aloscent try your pedestrian powers
three days too SOON II you have not come
up here aud take drop into u hr.t-clsss
M"n'on nlste quarry, and you'll have the
shove combination multiplied by two. Jump
IN tie b. wrh st"n Of other rubbish ~ Il b,
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good order and condition n. whom ,.L.n 1t
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