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TRADES THAT KILL.Oevapations That Gradually Destroy thoLives of the Men Encased In Them.People are afraid to travel by land or sea and take out all sorts of acoident policies, but there are many legitimate occupations or trades that kill as certainly and steadily as the most ill regulated steam engine. An old writer laid that human life was the cheapest thing on earth. Strange to say, says an English trade journal, you cannot frighten the workmen who know how dangerous is their trade, and not even higher wages will tempt them from 9uch death traps. Lead, in the form of bullets and shot, is a deadly, dangerous thing, but it is also death dealing to all who use it in their work, as house painters, gilders, calico printers, ty^pe founders, potters and braziers.Mercury is a foe to life. Those who make mirrors, barometers or thermometers, who etch or color wool or felt, will scon feel tho effect of the nitrate of mercury in teeth, gums and the tissues of the body. Silver kills those who handle it. and photographers, makers of hair dyes and ink and other prcpara- | tions crc long turn gray, while a deadly weariness subdues them, and soon they succumb. Copper enters into the composition of many articles of everyday life, and too soon those who work in bronzing and similar decorative processes lose teeth and eyesight and finally life. Makers of wall paper growpalo and sick from the arsenic in its coloring, and matchmakers .lose strength and vitality from tho excess of phosphorus used in their business.iNJtric item is usfca uy engravers, oy etchers in copper, by makers of gun cotton and those who supply our homes with lovely picture frames. Its fumes are poiron to the human lungs and soon destroy them completely. Ammonia kills the soapmakers; workers in guano grow deaf; h3*drocyauic acid deals death to gilders, photographers and picture finishers, while zinc is a fatal foe to calico printers, makers of optical glasses and meerschaum pipes.Mankind is by nature brave, and very lew are deterred from action because of supposed danger. If the great buiideis aud engineers of the world wcuid stop and ask, “How many lives will this undertaking cost?” it is probable that the world would be without some of the greatest triumphs of modern thought. Everyday life and common occupa1i( ns aie fall of silent courage, and a.l around aro workers who die in tl.e harness aud are true heroeswithout knowing it.TIME'S TEST.-vVT*- o lovers there are—I know them well—Who learned the lesson lore comes to teach, Whose eyes are bright wirn the old, old light, Whoso hands seek each for each.And this love of theirs seems u thing moat rare, For each of tho lovers has silver hair.His face is mellow with passing .rears,But witli never a line that is lmrd or bleak. Kor face is a rhyme of tho olden time With a tinge of red in her cheek.And 1 deem this more than passing fair,Since both of these lovers have silver hair.\j*t time go by, but lovo may last,As true as ever true love j^ay be.May Theirs be the smile tlmt ml ter awhile Shall wait for you and mo!All, sweeter would seem life’s toil and care If there were inoro lovers with silver hair!
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New Denver Ledge
New Denver, British Columbia, CA
Thu, Sep 23, 1897
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