The Whip-poor-will\u27s Echo Song

1. Oh, meet me when daylight is fading,And is darkening into the night;When songbirds are singing their vespers,And the day has vanished from sight;And then I will tell to you darling,All the love I have cherished so long,If you will but meet me at evening,when you hear the first whip-poor-will\u27s song ..... Whip-poor-will! Whip-poor-will!You hear the first whip-poor-will\u27s song;Oh, meet me; oh, meet me When you hear the first whip-poor-will\u27s song ..... 2. \u27Tis said that whatever sweet feelingsMay be throbbing within a fond heart,When list\u27ning to whip-poor-will\u27s singing,For a twelve-month will never depart;So then we will meet in the woodland,Far away from the hurrying throng,And whisper our love to each other,When we hear the first whip-poor-will\u27s song.Whip-poor-will, &c. 3. And in the long years of the future,Though our duties may part us awhile,And on the return of this evening,We be severed by many a mile;Yet deep in our bosoms we\u27ll cherishThe affection, so fervent and strong,We pledged to each other this evening,When we hear the first whip-poor-will\u27s song.Whip-poor-will, &c

Letter from [John Muir] to [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1872 Aug 28.

Yosemite Valley Aug 28 /72Dear Mrs Carr. My horse & bread, etc is ready for upward. I returned three days ago from Mts Lyell, McClure & Hoffman I spent three days on a glacier up there planting stakes etc.. This time I go to the Merced group one of whose Mtns shelters a glacier. I will go over all the lakes & morains etc there. Will be gone a week or two or so. Hutch\u27 wants to go with me to help me !! but I will etc etc Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mtns. I feel strong to leap Yosemite walls at a bound Hotels & human impurity will be far below. I will fuse in spirit skies I will touch naked God Farewell, or come meet in ghost between Red Mtn & Black on the star sparkled ice. Love to all their & to Moores & Stoddar

Letter from John Muir to Helen & Wanda [Muir], 1904 Mar 30.

[1][letterhead]SydneyMarch 30 1904Darling, Helen & Wanda. You seem nearer now for though still far my face is now turned homeward.It is about 9 o\u27clock & at noon we sail. I\u27ll see a little of the palmy balmy tropic isles, Manila & perhaps Gannett is he has not gone home.I\u27ve collected big lots of New Zealand & Australian plants. My03351 [2]last botanical trip was nearly 3000 miles long - from here to Queensland where the grand wild forests of Araucaria are - the Bidwelli & Cunninghamii - But I must not begin mentioning species or there will be no end. I always thought of you & Mamma when I was gathering ferns & mosses in fresh dewy woods. [3]03351you always came to mind also when I saw snowy mountains & floods of crystal water. My - how glad I\u27ll be to get home & find you all well & happy I hope little Dorothy is strong & blooming now as well as Mirriam.Keenie I hope will know me & give me a hearty greeting But poor Tom will not be there to meet me I am quite well & weigh 148 pounds!![4]Don\u27t tell the Coleman wives & mothers that I mentioned cat & dog on the same page with their babies.Good bye dears for a month or two. The Siberia which leaves Hong Kong April 30th is due in San Francisco about the 28th of May On this ship the Empire I go no farther than Hong Kong. The rest of the way by the Siberia,Ever your affectionate father John MuirDarlings God bless yo

Manufacturing engineering practices in the metal fabrications sector of Ghanaian industry

The purpose of this paper is to find out manufacturing engineering (ME) practices in the metals sector of the Ghanaian industry. The paucity of such works in the literature means that the real state of ME practice is largely unknown, despite the fact that it remains an indispensable support function to industry. ME involves design and specification of tooling, production processes, process planning and technical problemsolving. Following ME principles make it far more likely that products will meet their design specifications and made within the estimated cost and time. In this study the practice of ME is investigated using a questionnaire sent to 50 sampled metal processing firms in three major cities but returned by 25 of them. Thirteen of them are from Kumasi, 5 from Tema, and 7 from Accra. Data gathered were analysed using descriptive statistics including graphs. Comparisons were also made with global best practice found in the literature. The results suggest that the classical functions of ME are being practiced to various degrees in the firms studied. However, production facilities employed are mostly of the conventional type and equipment such as computer numerical control machines (CNCs), industrial robots, automated material handling systems, and flexible manufacturing systems are not in place. By this absence, many advantages of CNC and other automated production machine tools such as higher precision and repeatability, greater flexibility, reduced cutting and idle times etc., are missed by metal processing firms in Ghana. Further, firms do not use any computer systems for design/manufacturing, a situation that can only be bad for competitiveness and growth, because computer aided design (CAD) and manufacturing systems, including computer aided process planning, accelerate the design process to integrate it with manufacturing by eliminating artificial barriers that lead to long lead-times. In addition 40% of respondent firms retain manufacturing engineers who do not contribute to Design for Manufacture (DFM) or Design for Assembly. This confirms a major factor responsible for a reported low rate of new product introduction; moreover, where manufacturing engineers do offer some contribution to DFM, they do not consciously have product innovation in mind as a target goal, a situation which can best be described as unprogressive.Keywords: Metal processing, manufacturing engineering, practices, Ghan

Letter from C. S. Sargent to John Muir, 1894 Jan 8.

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,HARVARD UNIVERSITY.Jamaica Plain Mass., January 8, 1894My dear Mr. Muir:Thank you. The Silva is coming on slowly. The fifth volume appeared in October and the sixth is fairly on the way. I am working hard at it in order to get it off my hands in time to pay you a visit this spring. I should have accomplished this easily if the grip had not got the best of me in December and caused me to lose nearly a month\u27s time. However, I still want to get away, if I can, in time to see something of the Spring vegetation of California which will be quite new to me.Planned it [illegible] a dozen years [illegible] - 1893When we meet we can talk over that trip to India which I am still keen for, and all the more so if I can have the pleasure of your company.We often think and speak of your visit to Brookline and I hope the time is not far distant when you will come and see us again. I am glad you had such a good time on the other side of the ocean.With kind regards,I am,always faithfully yours,C. S. Sargent.John Muir, Esq.,Martinez, Cal.0176