| Show tremendous TRIFLES 88 by ELMO SCOTT WATSON PIG TO PORK BARRELS N A brisk october day in 1637 a 0 ON pig belonging to airs sherman a good wife of boston wandered into the garden of a wealthy and wrath r gentleman named capt robert neilene Ne ilyne who killed the wandering porker sirs mrs sherman sued hlin him tor for damages and lost in a gent lemans court she had lone done a lot of talking so jeayne sued her tor for defamation of character tie lie won again also in a gent lemans court then there was a turmoil boston rocked with indignation atlon that part of it composed of the common people they were in the majority but very much in the minority so tar far as their part of the government of the colony was concerned the case was carried to the legislative assembly then known as the great and general court it w was a scorn composed of the governor magistrates and deputies from the several towns but the magistrates who were gentlemen although outnumbered held the balance of power no wonder when they had made a rule which said that no act should pass unless approved by the majority of magistrates magistrate sl 1 mrs shermans Sher mans pig became the symbol of fair play and equal representation for the common people the controversy tro versy raged for seven years the upshot of it was that instead of having a single legislative body controlled by a select group as the magistrates desired or by a majority vote of all as the deputies desired massachusetts got an assembly of two ce cc ordinate branches thus was instituted the system of checks and balances in government which was later incorporated in the provisions for our national congress and in virtually every legislature la in the land so mrs shermans Sher mans martyred marty red pig after a century and a half found an appropriate sepulcher in a branch of government often noted tor for pork barrel legislation a SODA JERK C ONCE NCE it was an shop then it became a pharmacy then a drug store now its a place where you can buy anything from a postage stamp to a new E england boiled dinner dinder if all ali came about through this chain of events rev joseph PrIest lys chapel in leeds england was near a brewery rev priestly was a dabbler in chemistry and he experimented in utilizing the gas that came from the brewery vats this led to his bis devising a method for impregnating water with incombustible bus tible gas then called fixed air when he moved to birmingham he became very unpopular as a republican in politics a nonconformist conformist non in religion and a chemist who mixed up strange brews brens A mob burner his house and laboratory so he sought refuge in northumberland pa where he continued his experiments they interested a philadelphia physician dr philip phi sick and ami lie prevailed apon townsend speak man a druggist to prepare some carbonated tiona ted water for his patients when the patients rebeil rebelled ed at drinking it said ill just add some fruit juice to make it taste better lie he did and there and then ISO 1807 the soda water ater business was born other druggists followed akmans lead more blore and more people began to enjoy the new beverage so the soda fountain became a great american institution at which millions of dollars are pent every year it altered the shop from a pill emporium to a meeting place for a drink which cheers but does not inebriate WINDOW WITH A VIEW TOP in west liberty ohio and S STOP tell you to be sure to see donn platts castle a turreted mansion which that soldier editor and waster master of epigrams and epithets built lit at a cost of visit this castle and take you to a little room eight feet square in one of the towers and tell you this story james ilsley was a close friend of flatts and a frequent visitor to the castle one autumn morning the Ilo loosier osler poet stood to in this little room and looked out the window before him unrolled the panorama of the fertile fields and gently sloping hills of logan county now it was covered with a blanket of frost shining in the morning sun from the barnyard down below there came up to its his ears a medley of sounds the gobbling of a turkey the crowing of a rooster the clucking of a hen for a moment riley stood absorbed in the scene then turned seized a pen ell and began to write what lie fie wrote Is today one of the best loved poems in american literature it begins when the frost Is on the pu pumpkin and the fodders in the shock and we hear the kyluck and gobble of the str strutting ln turkey cock 1 0 western newspaper union |
