Year: 1872




and the feelings of community too


much to disturb a quiet neighbor-
hood; and they say the filing of your
saw was heard clear down to the
church, and it being a strange noise
for the Sabbath. and just as the text
was being announced, so diverted the
attention that many lost much of the
benefit of the sermon; and the
preacher in pursuing his subject left
out a connecting link, which so en-
barrassed him it came near being
failure.


SAW MILL-It is not my practice 10
run on that day; that was the first
time; but / had seen so much Sun
day travelling, teams passing each
way, loaded with great tin boxes, as
though they were going a distance,
and sometimes prominent members
of the church riding, talking and
laughing just as on other days; l
didn't know but the Sabbath had
"gone up" 1 was very sorry, for
think six days in week enough for
any work, but John said if he-eould
have the lumber Monday morning he
would pay cash down for it. sup
pose he would have paid it in reas-
enable time, but l wanted it them
What do they carry so much in those
tin boxes, and what do they do with
it?


c. Fit is milk, and they bring it
here and it is made into cheese.


s. M How do you keep it till
Monday?


G. F.-The engine warns it up a
little, and the rennet the girl puts in
turns it to curd, and then the press
keeps it. r.. -.


S. Ms the manufacture of cheese
so easy as that, or is it easier made on
Sunday than other days?


G.. F.-Well we have to attend to it
some stir the eurd, put 1t into the
press, in fact all about the same as on
other days, but it must be done to
make good cheese.


s. M.-How much help does it re-
quire to run the whole thing twice a
day?


c. F.-About six hands mere and
ten teams with drivers.


s. NJ. Wall wall! I should
think q camel of that size would
choke you to death without the gnat,
and am very sure it would, were it
not for the slime furnished by your
patrons. And you were so gTieped
when I employed only one hand on
one Sabbath, and that in a secluded
place where nearly all the travel is
your teams, which run all over town
twice a day, and you in a dense
neighbOThood. Is it work of neces-
sity and mercy?


c. F.-Well, not of mercy, exactly,
or necessity, either, but my Sunday
patrons say they can make more
money by sending it right along ev-
cry day, and If il is right for them to
send it, it is right for me to make
their cheese. They do slime over the
camel some; for men of high sound
ing professions, who publicly thank
the Lord for the institution of the
Sabbath, and pray for grace to keep it
holy, send their own teams Sabbath
morning before going to church, and
then again at night-it is q matter of
dollars and cents They say money
must be made, if they don't need it,
they tgdnt it. I would rather lay by
on that day, but most Of them are not
willing. Uncle Tim says it is easy
going with the current ; and suppose
most of them feel so; they talk it
over among themselves and are pretty
well agreed; but some have con-
science and independence enough to
keep their milk at home and not be
accessory to what they consider a
wholesale desecration of the Sabbath.
There comes one of my Sunday pat
rons who processes to believe in the
sanetity of the Sabbath. Talk to
him.


S. M have just been talking to
Cheese Factory about working on the
Sabbath. He lays it to his patrons,
and says you are one Sunday patron.
/ am. and think reproach from you
comes with an i'll grace, since what
you did the other day.


S. Mt was only once and 1 have
seen the wrong, and shall do il no
more. But do you justify running
cheese factories on Sunday2


S. Pit is the common practice,
and 1 think it is the best way and
most profitable it is our duty to
gather up the fragments that nothing
be lost, and it is GlIDdys right to do
good on the Sabbath dav.


S. M.-What would be the average
loss per Sabbath in your dairy through
the season, by keeping your milk at
home?


S. P.-Perhaps two dollars and fifty
centsi and if had pans and a good
place to set the milk, probably about
one dollar. But that would require
some work on Sabbath.


s. Mas to saving the fragments,
that nothing be lost. and doing good
on the Sabbath day, might have
better plea than you, for there is no
difference in the value of water and
milk, only, as they are made availa-
BILE, and l could realize double by
using the water that runs past me on
that day and is lost, than the whole
value of your milk for the same day,
but if you will examine the scriptures
you will see that the gathering up the
fragments had no reference to money
making; il was simply taking care of
what was left of q meal furnished by
a miracle, and doing good was spoken
with particular reference 70 healing
disease, and relieving the Immediate
wants of the animal.


s. Pit will make no difference
with G.. F., whether / send or not. 1t
will run; others will send enough to
keep il going. There is John Lucre,
who heated up his night milk in the
morning before skimming, to cheat
out a little more cream, las the Odor
indicated, and Timothy Graspall,
who kept back and skinned all the
milk he dare, las the tester showed,
will send theirs though the heavens
should fall, Ii. e.,) if they think they
can dodge. This cheating in milk
cheats us all, and despise t,-both of
those chaps wish TO be considered
honest, but If they are it is late
thing. ] send mine just according to |
instruction.


S. M.-So you had rather rob God |
than cheat man. You say If you had |
pans and a good place to set the milk |
the sale of one OF your cows would |
afford means sufficient to purchase
the necessary pans and construct a
good place to set the milk-you say |
that would require some work on the |
Sabbath, If we'll arranged and pans |
all ready, no more, nor as much as /
the milk away, mo tV0rkfng |
of cdns) and you would not be aces
sdrU to the employment of ten teams
and sirteen men and boys, most of the |
day, and a resort for LOdfers. You say /
If you don't, others will. The same |
NOV ha said of dy-lIyl ErTrd g110liuJ and /