The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 / July 1906
By SIR WALTER SCOTT.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go, mark him well! For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim— Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.
Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto VI.
An Old Business Man Testifies to the Progress the World Has Made Since Seventy Years Ago—Lewis Carroll's Advice on Mental Nutrition—Rudyard Kipling Defines What Literature Is—Richard Mansfield Holds That All Men Are Actors—Professor Thomas Advances Reasons for Spelling-Reform—Helen Keller Pictures the Tragedy of Blindness—With Other Expressions of Opinion From Men of Light and Leading.
Compiled and edited for The Scrap Book.
Stephen A. Knight, an Aged Cotton Manufacturer, Tells of Work and Wages Seventy Years Ago.
The more deeply one looks into the conditions of life in the good old times the more likely is he to find reason for exclaiming, Thank Heaven, I live in the Now! Life held out comparatively little for the American working man three-quarters of a century ago. Wages were very small, education was exceedingly hard to obtain, and the comforts of life were few in comparison with the present time.
At the recent meeting of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, in Boston, Stephen A. Knight, of Providence, a former president of the association, gave his reminiscences of old-time mill work. Mr. Knight began as a bobbin boy in a mill at Coventry, Rhode Island, in 1835. After the lapse of seventy years he says:
My work was to put in the roving on a pair of mules containing two hundred and fifty-six spindles. It required three hands—a spinner, a fore side piecer, and a back boy—to keep that pair of mules in operation. The spinner who worked alongside of me died about two years ago at the age of one hundred and three, an evidence that all do not die young who spend their early life in a cotton-mill. I am hoping to go one better.
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THE SCRAP BOOK.
INSIDE FACTS ABOUT THE "GOOD OLD TIMES."
Old-Time Profit Makers.
More Opportunity To-Day.
GIVING THE MIND ITS THREE SQUARE MEALS.
KIPLING'S ANALYSIS OF TRUE LITERATURE.
Too Close to the Tellers.
Remote Chances of a Tale's Survival.
"MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS."
The Histrionic Napoleon.
ARE WE WORSHIPERS OF THE BIG DICTIONARY?
Language Has to Change.
The Tale of a Dog.
WHAT HAS BECOME OF OLD-TIME GENTLEMEN?
WHAT WE ARE DOING TO THE RED MAN.
MEN NOW LIVING FOR THE SAKE OF AN IDEA.
FROM THOSE WHO LIVE IN DARKNESS.
THE WEALTH OF ONE IS THE ASSET OF ALL.
WHAT A CHINESE SAYS ABOUT CHINA'S FUTURE.
China Learning Her Resources.
THE FIGHTING RACE.
CHANGED BY ARGUMENT.
PERSUASION BETTER THAN FORCE.
EDUCATED RATS.
SAGACIOUS DOGS.
RESIGNED TO THEIR FATE.
SCIENCE WAS FROST-BITTEN.
ROASTING FLYING GEESE.
Mastered Chemistry and Mathematics.
An Extraordinary Questioner.
Beggar Becomes a Student.
Some Distinguished Churchmen.
Sightless Poets.
"THE MORGAN OF JAPAN."
Assumed European Dress.
Helped Build First Railroad.
CRANE, MAN OF BUSINESS.
Crane First Enters Politics.
A LABOR LEADER'S RISE.
Mother Died Too Soon.
Noted for Physical Courage.
Becomes Labor Leader.
Burns Enters the Cabinet.
BELL AND THE TELEPHONE.
Thought Telephone a Toy.
THE VILLAGE SMITHY.
NOT A LENDER.
FISHIN'?
ABOUT BELLS AND MONEY.
WHEN PAW WAS A BOY.
TOO MANY LEGS.
THE GLORY OF FAILURE.
HER GUESS.
SCOTT ON WOMAN.
OVERDID IT A BIT.
WORDSWORTH ON WOMAN.
DIVIDED.
WHAT HE GOT OUT OF IT.
THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER.
'LIGE GOUDY'S CORN.
WITH COMPLIMENTS TO FAY.
HABITS OF THE CODFISH.
THE PLACIDITY OF BOSWELL.
IBSEN IN NEVADA.
PROFESSIONAL OBITUARY.
THE WIDOW'S GRATITUDE.
ALL OFF.
AN AGGRIEVED SUBSCRIBER.
1842
1843
1844
1845
1846
1847
1848
1849
1850
"Rounders" Described.
Threw Balls at Player.
The Pioneer Baseball Club.
Positions of the Players.
The Diamond Supplants the Square.
A Noteworthy Series.
"Fly Game" Voted Down.
Baseball Invades the West.
Enthusiasm in Massachusetts.
The Famous Silver Ball Series.
Harvard's Great Baseball Nine.
The Beginning of Professionalism.
Birth of the National Association.
The Eventful Season of 1874.
Formation of the National League.
The War of League and Brotherhood.
The Two Leagues of To-day.
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
THE FLAG GOES BY.
INDEPENDENCE BELL.
THE REPUBLIC.
A PREJUDICE.
MISS ADAMS'S INFANT ROLE.
Was Stronger Than the Play.
HACKETT'S EARLY DREAM.
THE ROAD TO "HAPPYLAND."
ORATORY STARTED CHAPIN.
WELFORD MIXED WRITS.
THE RIDDLE.
SOLUTION.