ve dollars for his whistle is apt to
blow it louder and longer than other people. So it appeared that when
the "Perkinean Society" applied to the possessors of Tractors in the
metropolis to concur in the establishment of a public institution for
the use of these instruments upon the poor, "it was found that only five
out of above a hundred objected to subscribe, on account of their want
of confidence in the efficacy of the practice; and these," the committee
observes, "there is reason to believe, never gave them a fair trial,
probably never used them in more than one case, and that perhaps a
case in which the Tractors had never been recommended as serviceable."
"Purchasers of the Tractors," said one of their ardent advocates, "would
be among the last to approve of them if they had reason to suppose
themselves defrauded of five guineas." He forgot poor Moses, with his
"gross of green spectacles, with silver rims and shagreen cases." "Dear
mother," cried the boy, "why won't you listen to reason? I had them a
dead bargain, or I should not have bought them. The silver rims alone
will sell for double the money."

But it is an undeniable fact, that many persons of considerable
standing, and in some instances holding the most elevated positions in
society, openly patronized the new practice. In a translation of a work
entitled "Experiments with the Metallic Tractors," originally published
in Danish, thence rendered successively into German and English, Mr.
Benjamin Perkins, who edited the English edition, has given a copious
enumeration of the distinguished individuals, both in America and
Europe, whose patronage he enjoyed. He goes so far as to signify that
ROYALTY itself was to be included among the number. When the Perkinean
Institution was founded, no less a person than Lord Rivers was elected
President, and eleven other individuals of distinction, among them
Governor Franklin, son of Dr. Franklin, figured as Vice-Presidents. Lord
Henniker, a member of the Royal Society, who is spoken of as a man
of judgment and talents, condescended to patronize the astonishing
discovery, and at different times bought three pairs of Tractors. When
the Tractors were introduced into Europe, a large number of testimonials
accompanied them from various distinguished characters in America, the
list of whom is given in the translation of the Danish work referred to
as follows:

"Those who have individually stated cases, or who have presented t