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EWJ-1863-07-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Which no man names with blessing, though its work Is blest by all the world. Such days there are In the slow story of the growth of souls, And such a day was this for Isabel.
King John marries his fair Isabel literally sur le champ, and she sits, “a few days’ wife,” enthroned beside her ill-conditioned spouse, whose v... | 1 | 3,179 | 493 | 3,672 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Still kept an inner chamber, whose barred door She dared not open, but within there dwelt A memory and a name. As piece by piece, And hue by hue, the glories and the gifts Wherewith her blind belief had robed the King Were rent away, they passed within that door, | 1 | 3,949 | 67 | 4,016 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | And gathered round that name and memory, And were in their own place. She knew them there, But tried to keep the secret from herself, And would not look upon them."
In this frame of mind, little prophetic of future happiness, Queen Isabel comes over to her husband's country, where "The people loved To look on her grea... | 1 | 3,051 | 515 | 3,566 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Great darkness settled. First, the common air Groan'd with the death of Arthur. No man told The news before her, but it came to her Silently, like a breath of pestilence, | 1 | 4,203 | 45 | 4,248 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Sapping her life. She ask'd not, but she knew How it befell; and shudder'd when she took Her place beside her lord, and ever dream'd, 'Through all the senseless splendours of her Court, Of lonely cells, to which that news must come, Breaking brave hearts. Then tardily came up Vague notes of scatter'd sorrow from those ... | 1 | 2,923 | 568 | 3,491 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Trembling and silent she unlocks his chain. He wakes, rises, his | 1 | 3,825 | 18 | 3,843 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | loosened fetters dropping on the stone;—the door is open, and he instinctively strides towards it; then, seeing a pale striping with a lamp, he turns— “And, half ashamed of strange discourtesy, He said, ‘A captive soon forgets his manners;’ Pardon, I pray you. What’s your will with me?’ ‘Only to set you free.’ The murm... | 1 | 4,075 | 159 | 4,234 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | He said, ' but must I take no name with me For blessing in my prayers.' At this a wish Heaved in her troubled breast, and forced its way. ' It was the Queen,' she said, ' who sent me here.'
Then such a sudden light of tenderness Fill'd all his face, and glisten'd in his eyes, That she, resisting this, felt she was mad... | 1 | 3,755 | 483 | 4,238 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ... | 1 | 4,075 | 205 | 4,280 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Three years she kept her little “girl babe, unwelcome, yet beloved,” and lived in neglected peace, while England gradually grew in strength, and prepared itself for the struggle of Hunny-meade. Even Hugh de Lusignan joins himself “In peace to England, doing service for the King. ‘Was this for me?’ she thought; then bid... | 1 | 2,923 | 602 | 3,525 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | basely murdered by her husband's command, and his body placed in her chamber, even on her very bed, where her amazed and horrified eyes beheld on the pillow
" The dumb despair Of a familiar face without a soul, A loyal heart uncovered and transfixed, And under the close dagger hilt a stain Slow spreading while they ga... | 1 | 3,307 | 470 | 3,777 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "She did not ask To break the treaty; this was not a claim, It was a prayer. She would not keep her long, Nor seek her often. . . . Unconsciously The supplication strengthened to reproach Which she drew back, and said she was content, He must not think she murmured; she was glad To know her daughter in such noble hands... | 1 | 4,075 | 81 | 4,156 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 26 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | And so wavering, trembling, longing to recall her messenger and write her message anew, she sits and weeps while the ruthless hours rush on, until she hears a little voice say "Mother," and sees her little maid of nine years old looking at her with eyes that seem as if they were
"From a babe's face; remember'd eyes, T... | 1 | 2,923 | 553 | 3,476 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 26 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Thus ends this very beautiful story, which is rendered through- | 1 | 3,949 | 12 | 3,961 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | out with admirable simplicity and clearness. Almost the only remark that can be urged in the way of criticism is, that the manner is too like that of the “Idylls of the King,” though it is, perhaps, only the unconscious stamp of the most powerful poet of the day upon a younger mind by no means deficient in originality.... | 1 | 3,949 | 247 | 4,196 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | " What shall I do for thee? Thou hast my prayers, Ceaseless as stars around the great white throne; No passing angel but to heaven bears Thy name wreath'd round with some sweet orison: Yet evil on thy path may come and go, Taking deliberate aim to lay thee low, While I stand still, a looker on, to prove The penury and ... | 1 | 3,949 | 311 | 4,260 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "LOVE IN SORROW.
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EWJ-1863-07-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | To hide, too shyly, half the love I feel, Too roughly touch the wound I come to heal, Or even (O! pardon), wayward and unjust, To wrong thee by some moment of mistrust.
"Yet I would die for thee, and thou for me; We know this of each other, and forgive These tremblings of our faint humanity, So prompt to die, yet so a... | 1 | 4,139 | 275 | 4,414 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | All the first days of the month of April were wet and stormy, and we were obliged to put off from day to day our long-thought-of journey to Segeste.
But on the evening of the 9th, when we were drinking tea at the house of our friend, the Signora F—, the clouds cleared away, and the stars shone out so brightly, that we... | 1 | 4,075 | 172 | 4,247 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XLVIII.—JOURNAL OF AN EXCURSION FROM PALERMO TO ALCAMO AND SEGESTE. | 1 | 4,075 | 30 | 4,105 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | again with him in 1862; he never mentions his name without lifting his hat; he adores him more than any of the saints, he says, and teaches his little children to do the same. To hear Giuseppe relate the campaign of 1860, is worth coming to Palermo for; and it is doubly interesting if you hear it told as you are travel... | 1 | 2,987 | 617 | 3,604 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | There are thousands of young fellows hiding away in the mountains, who would all rush to join Garibaldi if he were to call | 1 | 3,949 | 26 | 3,975 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | them to his side. But to go as soldiers under V.E., that they won't.
Well, the consequences are as follows: the troops are sent out in search of them, and of course, rather than let themselves be taken, they fight; and as almost all of them are well armed, these skirmishes are often very bloody, and the soldiers espec... | 1 | 2,859 | 668 | 3,527 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | At almost the highest point of the ridge we passed near a Villa, which had been destroyed by fire—burnt in 1860 by the peasants, as was almost every house belonging either to the Bourbons or their supporters, and this had been a favourite shooting-box belonging to the king himself; and is now, from its lonely situation... | 1 | 3,947 | 491 | 4,438 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Partenico is a most uninviting place, like all the villages in Sicily; dirty, decayed, and ugly; so we left the carriage while the horses were resting, and walked on to find some shady place outside the town where we might eat our lunch. After rather a weary toil through the village, which proved much longer than we ha... | 1 | 4,075 | 211 | 4,286 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 32 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | regaled us with his conversation while we were waiting for the carriage.
However, the blacksmith, the shoemaker, and several others, attended us faithfully, and so we sat and talked in the garden. Commend me to a blacksmith for good company! A very intelligent man was this one, anxious for news from all parts of the w... | 1 | 2,859 | 668 | 3,527 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 33 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and then each takes possession of her separate corner, and does her best to sleep. The sufferings of one of our party that night are too sad to relate; but many were the enemies she slew, and many were the wounds she received in the combat, and most unbecoming were the scars when she rose next morning. But spite of all... | 1 | 3,371 | 589 | 3,960 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 33 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | So on we went again: the first view of the Temple standing on the top of a lonely cliff some four miles distant, and encircled with lofty mountains, made us all forget the heat and the weariness, and we went our way with increased spirit. The pathway now became shaded with olive trees, and the asphodel and other sweet ... | 1 | 4,203 | 101 | 4,304 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | ground, and in another half hour the Temple came again in sight, now straight before us, simple, majestic, and most solemn in its isolation. After standing a few minutes at this point, we went forward, and got down into the fosse that surrounds the Temple to take shelter from the wind, which at this height and in this ... | 1 | 2,987 | 596 | 3,583 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | As we scrambled up on our mules to the brow of the hill we passed evident remains of fortifications; which, however, are probably of Saracenic construction; but quite on the summit, are | 1 | 4,075 | 43 | 4,118 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the remains of a Roman house recently excavated; and half covered with the gigantic fennel, yellow squills, and tall orchids; are scattered columns and other bits of broken architecture. Descending a little on the northern side of the mountain you come upon the Theatre, which like all Greek Theatres stands in the most ... | 1 | 3,051 | 602 | 3,653 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | . . But I must not forget the serenade we received! Two large fiddles and one little one scraped out Garibaldi's hymn in an unearthly manner, and then the small fiddle boy shouted a love A A 2 | 1 | 4,075 | 52 | 4,127 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | song with such ferocity that we thought he would sing his very heart out. Whatever we may have thought of the harmony of these sounds, they gave the most complete satisfaction to all those that could get within hearing—the stairs, the kitchen, the passage, and little room next ours, were all crammed with old men, and y... | 1 | 3,051 | 651 | 3,702 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | ... Meantime I had the barbarity to beg two of the workmen to catch the white peacock, and get me some of his feathers; and after a considerable chase, they succeeded in this, and brought us a | 1 | 4,075 | 46 | 4,121 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | bunch of lovely feathers, tied up with a dandy little nosegay of scarlet and yellow flowers, a most strange and Arabian-night combination. Undoubtedly the Signora F—— and Janet were exceedingly lively as we walked down the garden, after visiting the Chapel and the olive-pressing rooms—oh, and the large chamber where th... | 1 | 2,987 | 619 | 3,606 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | BLANCHE sat by her open casement, Humming an air as she spinn'd; Ever and oft the burden came, Borne on the summer's wind.
'Twas an olden ditty she sang, She had caught from lips long dead; Lips now attuned to other songs, "To other songs," she said.
Round and round her spinning-wheel flew, Swiftly the long silken th... | 1 | 2,941 | 250 | 3,191 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | 'Twas night, and the angel was bending, Over Blanche as she lay on her bed; He whispered, "Her spinning is ended," "God only is Life !" he said.
SOPHIA MAY ECKLEY. | 1 | 2,113 | 51 | 2,164 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_38 |
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XLIX.—BLANCHE.
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EWJ-1863-07-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Two hundred years ago, the Pawtuckets, a powerful tribe of Indians, had their chief settlement at Wamesit, a tract of land at the confluence of the Merrimack and Concord rivers. The boundary of the old Indian “capital,” and the present “city of spindles,” vary but little. The Merrimack river on the North, and a trench,... | 1 | 3,179 | 599 | 3,778 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_39 |
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L. — LOWELL AND ITS OPERATIVES. | 1 | 3,949 | 20 | 3,969 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | in a happy hunting ground, where her Brave would pursue his game in deep forests, and speak his fish in running waters; but with no higher aspirations than to be the slave there, as here, of him who should take her to his wigwam to grind his corn and dress his game.
A hundred years later the artist would have found th... | 1 | 3,825 | 346 | 4,171 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | A century later, and the scene is again changed. In the same place, now Lowell, we see an American manufacturing city—a Yankee Venice, with the waters of the Merrimack divided and subdivided into canals, dispensing the moving power to the several corporations. The margin of the river bordered with large edifices five a... | 1 | 3,825 | 326 | 4,151 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the bodies of the first two soldiers killed in the present war. On the highlands around the city the elegant residences of gentlemen who have accumulated wealth—conspicuous among them, the mansion of Major-General Butler.
If we stand at either of the factory-gates when the bell rings the operatives from work, we see h... | 1 | 3,371 | 538 | 3,909 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - A short sketch will explain these progressive changes. The Indian capital was at the height of its prosperity when visited by the white settlers: it then contained a population of three thousand. John Eliot, “the Apostle to the Indians,” writes of excursions he made as early as 1658 to the Pawtucket Falls, to establi... | 1 | 4,075 | 102 | 4,177 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | laid out. At this place courts were annually held in the month of May, by an English magistrate assisted by Indian chiefs, to judge of difficulties between the two races. | 1 | 3,825 | 37 | 3,862 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the character. The most efficient guards were adopted in establishing boarding-houses, at the cost of the company, under the charge of respectable women, with every provision for religious worship. Under these circumstances, the daughters of respectable farmers were readily induced to come into these mills for a tempor... | 1 | 2,923 | 560 | 3,483 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | ... The water power of the Falls was purchased of the " Proprietors | 1 | 3,949 | 15 | 3,964 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | of the Locks and Canals on Merrimack River” for the sum of 60,000 dollars. Within three years, the farms at the place, embracing over four hundred acres of land, were bought at the average price of 100 dollars per acre. Total paid for water power and land was 100,000 dollars. A new joint stock company was formed, and a... | 1 | 4,075 | 296 | 4,371 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The company at Chelmsford, in 1822, appointed Messrs. Jackson and Boott a committee to build a suitable church; it was voted that it should be built of stone, and not to exceed a cost of 9,000 dollars. Mr. Boott, who was an Episcopalian, was desirous of trying the experiment whether that service could be sustained. The... | 1 | 4,075 | 410 | 4,485 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | surer at Waltham, and was for many years treasurer and director of mills at the new place. There is no man whose beneficial influence in establishing salutary regulation in relation to this manufacture was exceeded by that of Mr. John A. Lowell." In 1836 it was incorporated a city. In 1840, within the space of eighteen... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,264 | 6,982 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and should the writer now visit Lowell, he would find the change as great as any we have already noticed. For a view of the present we will begin with the | 1 | 4,075 | 35 | 4,110 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_46 |
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EWJ-1863-07-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | employed as a chemist, and through the superior skill and talent of Messrs. Boott, Prince, and Dana, the company was brought to a high degree of success. | 1 | 4,075 | 38 | 4,113 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | The factories are located on the banks of the rivers and canals, and are large edifices of brick, five or six stories in height. The buildings of each corporation are enclosed in separate yards, which are kept as neat as possible; these are covered with neatly shaven grass plots, intersected by hard gravelled avenues, ... | 1 | 3,115 | 574 | 3,689 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_47 |
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Month Day1 Day2 Day3 Day4 Day5 Day6 Day7 Day8 Day9 Day10 Day11 Day12 Day13 Day14 Day15 Day16 Day17 Day17 Day18 Day19 Day20 Day21 Day22 Day23 Day24 Day25 Day26 Day27 Day28 Day29 Day30 Day31
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EWJ-1863-07-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | machine itself gives notice by ringing a little bell, and stops at once with a decided refusal to do any more till the imperfection is repaired. In a large and lofty room, built expressly for them, these great looms perform their mechanical legerdemain. Beside each mechanical giant there stands a pretty young woman, wh... | 1 | 4,075 | 80 | 4,155 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | are the same on all the corporations. The working time throughout the year averages eleven hours per day, and is arranged by the following table.
From March 1st to October 31st, inclusive. Commence work at 6.30 A.M. Stop work at 6.30 P.M., except on Saturday evenings. Breakfast at 6 A.M. Dinner 12 M. Commence work aft... | 1 | 4,075 | 170 | 4,245 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 5 | From March 1st to October 31st, inclusive.
MORNING BELLS. First bell 4.30 A.M. Second, 5.30, Third, 6.20,
DINNER BELLS. Ring out 12 M. Ring in 12.35 P.M.
EVENING BELLS. Ring out 6.30 P.M. Except on Saturday evenings.
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MORNING BELLS. First bell 5 A.M. Second, 6 Third, ... | 1 | 4,075 | 179 | 4,254 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 8 | Yard gates are opened at the first stroke of the bells for entering or leaving the mills. Speed gates commence hoisting three minutes before commencing work. Probably but few, if any, of the girls work all the time the wheels run in the year. Absences for parts of days, and days, are granted for any reasonable excuse. ... | 1 | 4,075 | 76 | 4,151 | B0C1R8 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | HOURLS OF LABOUR.
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EWJ-1863-07-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | title | 4 | BELLS.
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EWJ-1863-07-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | title | 6 | SATURDAY EVENING BELLS. | 1 | 4,075 | 10 | 4,085 | B0C1R6 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | absences are obtained without loss of pay. There are from four to six holidays per year, when the mills do not run. | 1 | 4,075 | 27 | 4,102 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Learners receive from their commencement, one dollar per week, beside their board. The wages of job hands vary according to the amount of work done. Each is required to have charge of a certain number of machines, but at times some tend more for the increased pay. This is always voluntary. Some girls earn three and fou... | 1 | 4,075 | 199 | 4,274 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 5 | On entering the employment of either company, the person receives a printed copy of the following:—
**Regulations to be observed by all persons employed by ——— Manufacturing Company, in the Factories.**
1. Every Overseer is required to be punctual himself, and see that those employed under him are so.
2. The Oversee... | 1 | 4,075 | 404 | 4,479 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | .
WAGES.
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a | 1 | 4,075 | 6 | 4,081 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | title | 4 | .
REGULATIONS. | 1 | 4,075 | 6 | 4,081 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | 10. The time of the persons employed, and the amount of labour performed by them, will be made up to the Saturday preceding the 16th of every month, inclusive, and the sums due therefore, including board and wages, will be paid in the course of the following week.
11. Any one who shall take from the mills or the yard,... | 1 | 2,859 | 599 | 3,458 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the person's name is entered upon the record, and then sent to every counting-room; and there registered. No more employment will be given to that person at either of the factories. These rules, enforced from the beginning of operations, have helped to render the Lowell factory population remarkable for temperance and ... | 1 | 4,075 | 232 | 4,307 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | PLAIN-SPEAKING is both a difficult and an unthankful task, and even the hearing thereof is to the majority of people a sort of moral shower-bath, bracing, but disagreeable in the extreme. There are reasons in the nature of man why this shrinking is not wholly a matter of physical or moral cowardice. The cuticle of the ... | 1 | 4,075 | 251 | 4,326 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | (To be continued.)
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LI.—"CALLING A SPADE A SPADE." | 1 | 4,075 | 25 | 4,100 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | called a spade. Only very young people, who are ignorant of the bearings of all the facts, and, in common parlance, "don't know what they are talking about," set out upon the other tack, and recommend invariably holding up the spade to public opprobrium; and it is rarely long before they are pulled sharply up by some w... | 1 | 4,075 | 397 | 4,472 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Sitting one day last summer in a green field where every surrounding object recalled only that natural law of vegetable existence in which there is no moral responsibility, a friend of mine (alluding to the prevalent relaxation of public opinion in regard both to creeds and morals) observed sarcastically, “There are po... | 1 | 4,075 | 229 | 4,304 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and the unequal growths of A. or B.; and they likewise avoided any mention of crossroads and stakes, and referred to the inherent right of every man over his own fleshly coil. Now, sweeping right into the heart of all such opinions, tearing them assunder like cobwebs, and read out in full assembly every Sunday in every... | 1 | 3,115 | 549 | 3,664 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Our remarks are made in reference to two books recently published, and which have excited the deepest interest, and in some instances considerable animadversion—Mrs. Norton’s novel of “Lost and Saved,” and Mrs. Kemble’s “Journal of a Residence | 1 | 4,075 | 52 | 4,127 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | on a 'Georgian Plantation in 1838-9.' The one professes, in the shape of a fiction, to expose a crying sin in English fashionable life; the other jots down day by day the lives of female negro slaves as they came under the domestic observation of a married woman, the wife of their master. The plain-speaking in the firs... | 1 | 3,179 | 566 | 3,745 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Mrs. Norton then briefly analyses these plots. Don Giovanni, so well known that the name has “passed into a byeword for profligacy;” Norma, La Sonnambula, and La Favorita, all tuning on disgraceful stories; Lucrezia Borgia, based on a tale too shocking to be quoted in these pages; Rigoletto, and La Traviata, stories | 1 | 4,075 | 90 | 4,165 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | which would be considered intolerable in an English novelette. "Such are the subjects which twice or three times a week recreate the understanding of the higher classes of Great Britain." Mrs. Norton carefully avoids the insinuation that those who go to see these operas realise and absorb the poison. "Habit makes burde... | 1 | 4,203 | 435 | 4,638 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Mrs. Kemble's warrant for portraying cruelty pushed to disgust, and vice descending to the level of brute beasts, is to be sought in a kindred argument, and is even more to the purpose, for she can appeal to the majesty of Truth, and ask with justice if when a woman's pen refuses to record the untold anguish of her sis... | 1 | 4,203 | 250 | 4,453 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | host of other refined and thoughtful Americans are familiar contributors, appeared a story by Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, whose name stands as high as that of Mary Howitt in England; a name sans peur et sans reproche, and which one might have thought would suffice to carry any work of fiction which such a lady was likely t... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,320 | 7,038 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Lady Bountiful of an English village. She very naturally considered that the women and children fell to her especial responsibility, and was inclined to spare neither money, nor advice, nor personal trouble in remedying their griefs, curing their ailments, and persuading them to adopt better habits in their houses and ... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,750 | 7,468 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | dust, and full of vermin." But this was but a small sample of the miseries of an unfortunate "missis." Of course the black women, finding a compassionate female heart willing to listen to them— the mother, too, of little white children—came daily to her with all manner of afflictions. Sent to field labour three weeks a... | 1 | 3,371 | 592 | 3,963 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | And a similar shifitness appears to have reigned in neighbouring plantations:—as how should it be otherwise? There is a solidarity in human affairs which prevents the rich from wholly escaping the results of the condition of their dependents; and if, on the one hand, we find negro women driven like beasts, with less re... | 1 | 4,075 | 113 | 4,188 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | survivor cutting off the head of the “other party;” reflecting on all which, Mrs. Kemble, setting out to pay a morning call, “rode, not without trepidation, through Colonel H——’s grounds, and up to his house. Mr. W——’s head was not stuck upon a pole any where within sight, however, and as soon as I became pretty sure o... | 1 | 4,203 | 379 | 4,582 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | M. JEAN DOLLFUS has just read to the Industrial Society at Mulhouse, a most interesting report on the mortality of newly-born infants in that manufacturing district. This report includes a scientific question, instruction, and example to operatives, and under this threefold title appears worthy of particular notice. A ... | 1 | 4,203 | 294 | 4,497 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | LII.—THE CHILDREN OF MULHOUSE.*
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -... | 1 | 4,203 | 215 | 4,418 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | So fearful a disproportion has necessarily roused the anxiety of men whose life has been one continued struggle to overcome the evils incident to the lives of operatives. A searching investigation carried on among a sufficiently large number, has enabled it to be demonstrated that the mortality is very great among chil... | 1 | 2,987 | 633 | 3,620 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "In calculating, then, for the attainment of one year of age, there will be a mortality of only half that for the first three months, | 1 | 4,075 | 30 | 4,105 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | we ought to have 9 deaths to 68 births, or 15 per cent., that is to say, a difference of 21 per cent. The deaths have been 35 per cent. in the commune of Mulhouse during 1861 and 1862. Admitting that in 1,800 or 1,900 deliveries at Mulhouse, 600 are those of women who work in the factories—and the number is perhaps lar... | 1 | 3,563 | 527 | 4,090 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Objects for the Microscope. Price 3s. 6d., by S. Lane Clarke. Groombridge & Sons, 5, Paternoster Row.
Among the multitude of handbooks published upon the microscope, this little volume is distinguished by the unpretending style in which it is written, and for the amount of information it contains. Divesting the subjec... | 1 | 4,075 | 102 | 4,177 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | LIII.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
- | 1 | 4,075 | 11 | 4,086 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | as the means of increased acquaintance with the works of Nature, and of yet closer communion with the great Author of Creation. An extract from the preface will best explain the writer's intention.
"The chief end of this new plan of mine is to give a Handbook for the Microscope, to be used as handbooks are in the pres... | 1 | 2,859 | 650 | 3,509 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "One of the wonders of my childhood was the variety and strangeness of the hieroglyphics I found on bramble-leaves and rose-leaves, the white winding stem with a dark line waving through it; and after picking open several, and finding within the small green caterpillars, and after often gathering and keeping them only ... | 1 | 4,075 | 391 | 4,466 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | explains the meaning of the queer cabalistic-looking creatures scattered over the cover, and which we presume are intended to typify all that is aspish in these little torments of the Nile boat. The learned might carry the simile a step further, and giving them their true title, that of the genius of Upper and Lower Eg... | 1 | 4,075 | 315 | 4,390 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | necessities of Egyptian travel. The fitting out of the “Cairo was not effected by a touch of the magician’s wand; and though the party were singularly fortunate in their dragoman “Mahomed el Adleeh,” still they had their full share of worry, disappointment, and vexation. Very pretty must the vessel have been, for our a... | 1 | 3,819 | 712 | 4,531 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "We" had now spent ten days in the gallant ship, on the waters of the Nile; and how shall I tell of the beauty and interest of each new bend of this ever-winding river; the charming novelty of the new style of life; the deliciousness of the breezes; the clearness of the atmosphere; the lovely sunrise at about half-past... | 1 | 4,075 | 264 | 4,339 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | to the saloon from the burning rays, to obtain a little time to cool, before the next baking. The dark faces around appeared to us many shades lighter; the white ones had begun to peel. So accustomed was the eye becoming to bare-footed servants, that Thomas's shining patent leather shoes and white stockings began to lo... | 1 | 2,923 | 802 | 3,725 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | VOL. XI.
C C | 1 | 4,203 | 7 | 4,210 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | brief. Yet one passage we must transcribe, as our authoress, more honest than most travellers, calmly reviews the experiences of the journey and makes the following practical observations as to the advantages and disadvantages of persons in delicate health attempting a winter upon the Nile.
"The first evening on shore... | 1 | 3,883 | 566 | 4,449 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_66 |
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