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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 373, 1 June 1889, Page 1

Poetry, etc.

THE OTHEU SIDE.

Should you hear a strange, uncanny tale, From the lips of a gossip bold— A tale of wrong, peihaps of shame, That fills you with, grief untold ; That makes you lose your faith in man, E'en the trusty and the tried — Don't take it too much to heart, raj friend, Till you've looked at the other side—

Till you've weighed in the balance of the jusfc All the minute words and deeds. Aye, winnowed the wheat and left the chaff, And counted the golden seed 3. Who knows, when you let the sunlight in, And open the window wide, Bufcyou'll find more white than black, my friend Then look at the other side.

Although, in all your daily toil, To hurry may be your plan, G-o slow, and let moderation reign In judging your fellow man. Just put yourself in his place awhile, And then be sure to do As you, when the saddest trials come, Would have men do unto you

If we"\i<ry to follow, each day we live, This beautiful golden rule, Be sure of this, in the wide, wide world "We can find no better school. The tale-hearers then we may defy, Whatever they may confide. For we shall be sure, ere we condemn, Tj look at the other side.

To secure some provision for the woil - men of the Fatherland, and to cut the ground from under tbe feet of the Socialist agitators, Piince Bismarck, a few j'eais since, started schemes of compulsory insurance for accident or illness. The fir^t of these insurance laws was passed in 1885 and obliged every workman to insure against sickness, relief being afforded for thirteen weeks. In 1884 another law the operation of which has since been extended, was pissed, compelling employers to insure against accidents. Legislation making provision for old uge has yet to eoine* The first report issued showed a total of 3,725, 313 work-people insured, the indemnities amounting- to £85,000. The e>*penditure was about 4s Bd. on every £50 of wages paid, but after theinitial expens s are defrayed it will be much less The experiment will be watched with keen interest by all nations, but it is ton soon yet to affirm its success. — Exchange.

Mark Twain as an Inventor.

THE BEST TYPE-SETTING MACHINE. IN THE WORLD. It is not generally known fhat the genial humourist who is famous throughout the civilized world ns " Mark Twain " is a mechanician of no ordinary kind. For several years he has been engiged in perfecting a type setting machine of his own invention,- and at last his patient toil has been, so he declares, crowned with success. He writes to a correspondent, under date Hartford, January sth, 2 p.m,, as follows : — " Tbe machine is finished ! An hour and forty minutes ago a line of movenble type was Fpaced and justified by machinery, for the first time in the history of the world ! And I was there to see. That was the final function. I had befoie seen the machine sot type, automatically distribute type, and automatically distribute its elevon different thicknesses of spaces. So now I have seen the machine, operated by one individual,, do the whole thing, and do it a great deal better than any man at the case cando it. This is by far an? away the mo?tf. marvellous invention ever contrived by man. And it is not a thing of rajrs and patches, it is made of massive steel, and will last a century. She will do the work of six men, and do it better than any six men that ever stood at a case. The death wairant of all other typr"setting machines in this world was signed at 12.40 this afternoon, when that fir-sis line was shot through this machine and came out pei fect'y space 1 and justified* And automatically, mind you. There was a ppeck of invisible iliit on one of those non panel typ\ W-'ll, t hemachine allowed for that, by inserting of its own accord a space which was the 5 000 (it is not quite clear what Mai'le Twain means by this fraction — it wuuid be 1-5000 or 1-200) of >m inch thinner than it would have used if the dirt h.-id been absent ' But when I send yon tl.& details, you will see that fiat's iir»t'riinr for this machine to do ; you'll see- that .t knows more an 1 has t;ot mow brains than all the pi inters in the wodd pif together.'* Directly find indirectly MaikTw.in has spent many thou.««in<fs of porm s upon his invention, and ir< "nbn.nl.mily willing to spend more." ]f, ho\v<>\u\ the machine is e-npuble of d<> : nt, r ;ill tlmt iscluime! for'it. his wo.k as mi invpnlor m:iy be considered to bo emnploLe<l. — . Pall Mall Gazette.