Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-25
THE sCHIFFs

sewing in a day than his wife could do by hand in a week. There was no odor of birthstone about it. It ate no hay or oats and occupied but a small space.
 Some of the other Schiffs and par ticularly the wives, backed him up, and old Moses found himself defied for the first time in his life. He put his foot down, but that didn't settle mat ters.
 Of course the news that Godfear Schiff had broken out" was passed around the country and the imme- diate result was to bring a swarm of sewing machine agents down on the Schiffs tribe.
 They had all the different brands, and they offered all sorts of terms and prices. They had sewing machines that would tuck, hem,, ruff1e, braid, embroider, patch, sew on buttons, rock the baby, chuFn the butter, feed the hens. sort over potatoes, build the fire all that, and they came and talked and talked
 Then the tin pedlars and parlor warrant his tin wash dishes for life, no matter if that life strung out for 100 years, and as for his milk pans they were simply a joy forever.
 The organ man called attention to the fact that he was offering his goods
 
 and yet his organ would play 100 tunes while the planter could play but one. Any child could run it; babes cried for it; it would soothe the kick ing COW and bring the prancing days back to the old horse.
 Moses Schiff saw the cloud no big ger than a mans hand and he called a gathering of his clan. He was heel ed with statistics to prove how great ly those inventions of satan had in creased the wickedness of the. world. Thousands of murders, burglaries, horse thefts, elopements and so on could be directly traced to them.
 Did they want to find themselves on the gallows? Did they want to know that their children were in state prison? In fact. did they sigh to meet satan face to face, and be caught up and sent down to the hot place by rapid transit?
 If they bought parlor organs and sewing machines, what next? Why, brass bedspreads, chinaWare, furs, new hats, corn shellers carpets and stuffed chairs would be sure to follow, and then farewell to the harmony of Harmony Corners.
 With tears in his eyes he beseught and wrestled but a number of the Schfffs had got started on the down ward road and wouldn't hold up It was only four days after the meeting lildC 0IG OL ln6tu b0uSAL an egg peat CT and the click of the spoon against the bowl would be heard in his family no more.
 Then came a $1 alarm clock, and this was followed by a set of caneseat chairs. Satan had got his grip.
 In one year from the visit of God fears to Pittsburgh the leaven was working overtime. The Schiffs were at odds; they were bringing law suits against each other they were putting down ingrain carpets in their parlors; they were buying patent churns; the men no longer went to church barefooted and in their shirt sleeves.
 Old Moses called another gathering and threatened and buIIdozed, but the cyclone had got started. and the only way out for him was to commit sui eide.
 Two years later half of Harmony Corners was owned by others than Schiffs, and the harmony of half a century was harmony no more And then it's name was changed to the one it bears today-Hardscrabb bbIe.-Ex- change