began to make them.  I will say here a little more about human nature and what I have seen and experienced. during the last forty-five years.  Let an ingenious, thinking man invent something that looks favorable for making money, and one after another will be stealing into the same business, when they know their conduct is very mean towards the originator who may be one of the best men in the community; still, nine out of ten of those who are infringing on his improvement will begin to hate and abuse him.  I have seen this disposition carried out all my life-time.  Forty-five years ago, Mr. Eli Terry was the great man in the wood clock business.  As I have said before, he got up the Patent Wood Shelf Clock and sold a right to make it to Seth Thomas for one thousand dollars.  After two or three years, Mr. Terry made further improvements and got them patented.  Mr. Thomas then thought as he had paid a thousand dollars, he would use these improvements; so he went on making the new patent.  Mr. Terry sued him and the case was in litigation for several years.  The whole Thomas family, the workmen and neighbors, felt envious towards Mr. Terry, and I think they have never got entirely over it.  There was a general prejudice and hatred towards Mr. Terry amongst all the clock-makers at that time, and for nothing only because they knew they were infringing on his rights; and to act out human nature, they must slander and try to put him down.  This principle is carried out very extensively in this world, so that if a man wants to live and have nothing said against him, he must look out for, and help no one but himself.  If he succeeds in making money, it matters but little in what way he obtains it, whether by gambling or any other unlawful means; while on the other hand, if he has been doing good all his life, and by some mishap is reduced to poverty in his old age, he is despised and treated with contempt by a majority of the community.

It may not be uninteresting to a great many to know how the brass clocks at the present day are made.  It has been a wonder to the world for a long time, how they could possibly be sold so cheap and yet answer so good a purpose.  And, indeed, they could not, if every part of their manufacture was not systematized in the most perfect manner and conducted on a large scale.  I will describe the manner in which the O-G. case is made, (the style has been made a long time, and in larger numbers than any other,) which will give some idea with what facility the whole thing is put through.  Common merchantable pine lumber is used for the body of the case.  The first workman draws a board of the stuff on a frame and by a movable circular saw cuts it in proper lengths for the sides and top.  The knotty portions of it are sawed in lengths suitable for boxing the clocks when finished, and but little need be wasted.  The good pieces are then taken to another saw and split up in proper widths, which are then passed through the planeing