The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-08

in the making of boots and shoes, in
one year 1t saved $1,000. 600.
PRACTICAL EDUCATION.
No wonder that at some of the learn
ed institutions, like the New Jersey
State Normal school, and Rutgers Fee
male institute, and Elmira Female
college, acquaintance with the sewing
machine Is a requisftion, a young lady
not being considered educated until
h understands IL. Winter is coming
on, and the household must be warmly
clad The Last Rose OF Summer
Will sound better played on a sewing
n Ef1- a piano. noH -. q
wheel Of the sewing machine. until the
last shackled woman Of toll shall be
emancipated, Roll on,
Secondly, / look into the agricultural
world to see what the wheel has ac-
complished. Look at the stalks of
wheat and cats. the one bread for man
the other bread for horses. Coat off
and with a cradle made " OF five or
six fingers of wood and one of sharp
steel, the harvester went across the
field, stroke after stroke. pe~rspiration
rolling down forehead and cheek and
chest, head blistered by the consuming
sun n lip parched by the merciless
August air. at Don the workmen ly-
ing half e under the trees. One Of
most painful boyhood memories is
that Of my father in harvest time reel
ing from exhaustion over the doorstep,
too tired to eat. pale and fainting as
he sat down. The grain brought to. the
barn, the sheaves were unbound and
spread on Thrashing floor, and two men
with fails stood opposite each other,
hour alter hou and day after day,
pounding the wheat out OF the stalk.
Two strokes, and then a cessation of
sound. Thump, thump. thump, thump,
thump, thump. Pounde once, and
turned over to be pounded again,
slow, very slow. The lens cackled
and clucked by the door and picked
up the loose grains and the horses half
asleep and doing over the mango
where the hay had been.
But hark to the buzz of wheels in the
diStancei The farmer has taken his
throne on a reaper. He once walked;
now he rides; once worked with arm
of flesh, now with arm of iron. He
starts at the end of the wheatfield.
heads his horses to the opposite end of
the field, rides on. At the stroke of
his iron chariot the gold of the grain
is surrendered, the machine rolling
this way n rolling that, this way
and that, until the work which would
have been accomplished in many days
is accomplished in a few hours, the
grainfield PROSTATE before the mar
VeSterS.
What quick, clean work the wheel of
the reaper does make! Soon after the
horses are fastened to the thrashing
machine back of the barn. The iron
cylinders are ready for their
prey. The horses start, the unbound
wheat is plunged into the vortex, and
the broken straw is in one place and
the pure ST. Louis wheat is in another
place. The driving wheel strapped,
the cylinder humming with terrible We
locity, the inexperienced warned off
for fear of accident the ground aquake
with the mighty revolution, 1 stand in
awe and thanksgiving at the agricul-
tural conquest and cry out with the
text, " o WHEEL"
Can you imagine anything more
beautiful than the sea island cotton?
L take up the unmelted snow in my
hand. How beautiful it isl But do
you know by wha painstaking and te-
dious toll it passed into anything like
practicality? If you examined thai
cotton, you would find 1T full of seeds.
seed was to be \ extracted from the
fiber. Vast populations were leaving
the south because they could not make
any living out of this product. One
pound Of green seed cotton was all that
a man could prepare in one day, but
Eli Whitney, a Massachusetts Yankee,
woke up, got a handful of cotton and
went to constructing a wheel for the
parting of the fiber and the seed.
BENEFITS OF INVENTIVE GENIUS
Teeth on cylinders, brushes on cylin-
derS, wheels on wheels. South Caro-
lima gave him $500 for his invention,
and instead of one man taking a whole
day ITO prepare a pound Of cotton for
the market now he may prepare three
hundred weight, and the south is en-
riched, and the m of the world
IL revolutioniZed, and over 5000, 900
bales of cotton were prepared this yea
enough to keep at work in this coun-
try 14,3O0, 900 spindles, employing go, 900
hands and enlisting 1891. 400, 900 of cap
ital.
Thank you, Eli Whitney, and L. s..
Chichester Of New York, his successor.
Above all. thank God for their inven-
tive genius, that has lone so much for
the prosperity Of the world.
When I see coming forth from his
cotton production and cotton manufac-
ture enough cloth ito cover the tables
of a nation, and enough spool thread
to sew every rent garment, and
enough hosiery ito warm the nations
feet, and enough cordage to fly the
sails of all the shipping and enough
SNPRy tS ooAo Va Oil tliC
sportsmen, and enough Irvine
to fly all the kites outside of Wall
street, and enough tape to tie up all
the briefs Of all the attorneys, and
enough fannels to blanket a slumber-
ing world. / thank God.
For the $50, 900 received for his cotton
gin Whitney gave a wealth that makes
the word millions" imbeeile. Strange
that n machine should work such
Have you noticed the con-
struction OF the cotton gin? On one
side of it I count three wheels, and on
another side I count three wheels,
while on the third side there is a wheel
on the top Of a wheel, and the saluta-
ton of the text bursts from my lips
while I cry in ecstasy and admiration
Of gratitude, 20 wheel!"
Thirdly, / look to see VIA the wheel
has n for the travelling world. No
one can tell how many noble and self
sacrificing inventors have been crush
ed between the coach wheel and tbs
locomotive. between the paddle
and the ocean steamer
l will not enter into the controversy
as to whether o Fitch or Robert
or Thomas Somerset was the
of the steamboat. They all