Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 October 1877 — Page 2

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.v„ THURSDAY. OCTOBER II. 1877.

THE CHRIST."

"Carry me acrou -.,4^

The Syrian beard, rose up aud braccrt •Bit huge limbs to the accustimtd toll: "My child see how the waters boil 1 Tbeniirht-btacked heavens look angry fgced,

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JS "I'll carry thee with Joy, If need be, safe as nestling dove Fo» o'er this stream I pilgrims bring

In service to one Christ, a king, Whom I have never seen, yet love." •j "I thank the." Bald the boy.

I.'££i« ft': Cheerfu\ Arpobustook !. The burden on his shoulders g'eat

And stepped into the waves once more When, lo they leaping, rise and roar, And 'noaththo little cli.Id's weight

tottering gtant shook. -1! "Whe art thou?" cr:ed he wild,

struggling in the middle of the ford '•lioy as thou look'st, it sccnis to me The whole world's load I bear in theet "Yet—for the saVeof hrist, thy Lord,—,..

Carry mo said the child.

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Arprobus swerved,

other bank—and then

A voice said "thrlstopheros be For as a child thou carried'st me, 'Xlic knig of angels and °f men, 4 '1 he Christ whim thou hast served!

And In themoon'ight blue

The saint saw—not the wandering boy— But him who walked upon the sea And o'er the plains of Gallilee, Till, il'led with mystics awful joy, n, His dear Lord Christ he knew* 4 "Cm

Oh, lltt'e is all loss,

And brief the space'twlxt fehore and shore, if thou l^ord Jesus on us lay, Through the deep waters on our way, The burden Cbristopheros bore— '1 carry lliee across. _S£.

HOW ACTORS ARE PAID'

Salaries ofSome of the Leading Players i^in New York. The pay of leading actors lutsidoof New York ranges from |60 to 1150 a week, and those of minor urtors from $15 to $60. In New York small'utility people get from $25 to $40, the women having iheir' resses supplied by the manager A ood negro minstrel is usually paid fi om $20 to 140. A good Dutch comedian, like Williams or George Knight, averages 8 00. Halle*: girls are paid fl to $2 a night, and of coun have their dresses from the thentri alwatdrobe.

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the best paid theatrical people. Jshe-woou, at Waltaek's, gets $75 a week, while Roberts and Witham.of the Fifth Avenue, gets.$100 a we«k. MattMorxan, Veogtlin and Leary are paid by contrac t,so much a scene, averaging about $200 a com lote set. Stage managers average from HO to(75a week, and business managers outs do of Mew York are paid a littlo bett'T. Prompters are rated at *25. The business managers of the New York theatre® aro wvll paid Tooker, formerly of Booth's, got while there $100 a week and a percentage on tie sale o' tickets Stephen jjlskr, ol the Filth Averne Theatre, has had considerable i. ore, it 's said Theodore Moss «f Walliick'H, is said to bo a partner of Mr. "Wal'ack itr.d Jt. Palmer, of the Union Square, is a pa tnerof Mr. Shook. Augustin Daly is have made a laige sum by writing plays, but his recent fa*lure shows how cast money can be lost. The death of Davenport and the loss of Fanny, who can-ri'.li-d her engagement was more than he could boar in resent condition.

Tbe salaries paid to New York actors and ac rcssis »ro given below: Miss Clara Morris. when at Union Square last season, tCOO a week, furnishing her own dresses. Fanny Davenport is said TO have received |750* week lust year at the Fifth Avenve. and 11,000 a week when starring. Rose EytJngi' got t85l a w. ek at the Union Square Ada Days had Pi 0. Kate( laxton had $175 Ac. These salaries em large but when one considers many beginners aro broken down to »a' one good performei, and how brief the range popularity miy be, ana also the expens* suchaiife,ltisnotso large atier all.

When org« 'larke was in New York ho han$125 in 1 50a week: John Gtlber got 1150 vv am DttvMge SIO1',Jnmes Lewie $15",

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Beckett 1450. O it. Thorne 1250 John Breugham $2UU, II J. Moniagno $225. Charles Fish-r $150. C. A Stevenson $75, J. W. Carrot! $7t Sa aricp aro paid for seasons of eight months. Leadine men like Thorne ai.d Brou.hamaud Dav'dge, have annual bcncll sii) addiMon to iheir sala lea. John Brougham netted 11,000 by one benefit at the Fl

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ut the 1'mon Sq.uare. org. Re gnold. during his engHffem'n^ hera last sea on, paid $250 In gol. per week. South'rn pliys on s'hai fi one-hal' th house aft tr expenses, and Lawrem-e Barrett has the same terms. Edwin Booth was tho ly Ann-ricap tragetiian wl ohadaclenr hatf or thoh.use, but Faun Davenport was to veiiadtiie same enormous fee. Booth while paving under engagements to Mr. FO"» a«t stasjn, in the South, got $600 a jrht. Geo.-ge F. Roweh.isSSOOn week. The late it L. Davenport hud from $50(» to $1000. chcr once was equally well paid, iut could not \T ol't ilii SU'h terras. Joe Jeffe^on has been pai a high as $8,r)00 a week, and his managers were said to have made mone? by his engagement. Charlotte Cusbman was allowe half th«k whole house. Such is the puwrrof the star performer to tone both manage* and performers to bow to the tiic-tat-8 'Stars,'however, are very rare, ev-n tne so-caljed -rtunate class not to be enTied. rheg iiieand gl tterof the perform•nce is ne hing, but the reality of si agi-Ufe is ve fferenu—Macanley's N Ylettei to Rochester Demoorat.

A man in Nottingham, England, carries on a trade in worms. He has several persons in his emplo) who collect them in the meaddws and pasture landa in the neighbor hood. They are sold by the thousand or the quart for bait by fishmen. A fresh-cought worm is very delicate and tender, and easily breaks when put on the hook, but when a worm is properlv edu--catedr'he is as tough as a bit of india rubber, and behaves as he ought when put on a hook.

Commenting on a recent statement in this column to the effect that "P.ofessor Hall, the discoverer of the moon of Mars, began life a carpenter," a correspondent aavi: ''That is probably the rea on why it -was he who first 6aw the satellites, and it not only adze to his honors, but augers well for future aspirants for astronomical fame, though 'tis plane that his case is the excep ion rather than the rule. We square away to let any other craft compass thithat can. We have done our level best

The new reformatory prison lor woman convicts in South Framingham, Mat.s i* divided into three sections, the strongest being for the most intractable. Those •who have children under eighteen months old will be allowed to retain them, and occupy a special apartment and for thos. who are too aepraved to be placed side by side with unhardened women twenty rooms are provided in which they must work alone.

Brigham Young's death was being dis cubsed at a London dinner part}, when a voung lady started the rather bold contention that the principles of Mormonism should for the future be reversed. •Times,' she said, 'are so bad, and fashions are so expensive, that it is absurd for one man to have four or five wives whereas, if each woman had four or five huibands, see how much cheaper it would be lor each husband and"—the point which seemed most to commend itself to her—"how much better wives could dress/'

WANTED TO GO IN STYLE.

BY MAX ADELEB.

As the day6 approached for the execution of Brierly, the condemned man had some conversation with the SherifTabout the arrangements for the affair. He 6aid: "Mr. Stout, my friends here tried to get the Governor to reprieve me until after the first of December, but it's no use. He won't do it. It don't strike me as the fair thing, because I've got a bet on the election, and if I'm hung before it comes off, hoWm I going to tell who wins? I'm reading an Indian story, too, in the New York Weekly, anJ now they're going to reel me off before I find out if the girl is rescued from the yilliaii, and if the hero finally gets possession of his property. Rough, ain't it? But I s'pose I've got to stand it. And what I want to know is, if you can't fix me up this proceeding with tome little comforts and conveniences, so's when I do go. I'ie have some kind of style aHout it?" "What can I do for youi" "Why, it struck me that maybe it might add to the cclat of the situation, if you'd rummage round and get a brass band to come and perform get it to come and bust out into some kind of an overture or something, when I come on so's to kinder introduce the performance and break the awkwardness of it. Then I thought maybe you wouldn't mind putting on your swaller-tail and kids, and mounting the platform and singing something —6'pose'n we say .'Robin Adair,' or a song like that, just t® keep the audience interested until I come. Seems to me it'd be a good idea. Now, since I've been locked up here. I've written out a lecture on "Babies and the Immortality of the Soul," that I want to deliver and when you've got though I might go out and cead the lecture to them, and have my photograph taken in the,moat impressive and eloquent portions of it. "The-night before we might begin the celebration with some fire-works. Professor Johnson might squirt off a lot of rockets, and pin some of those whirligigs against the wall and let them go sizzing around, and could have Roman candles and blue-lights banging and blazing around the yard. And the exhibition might close with a fiery tableau ot General Washington hugging the Goddess ol Liberty, while the Star-Spangled Banner fizzed and spurted, and sparkled around them, and an American eagle in green and red fire flapping its wings overhead. Now wouldn't that be a big thing? It would be impressive." 'Don't see hpw it can be d«ne. Brierly.' said the Sheriff. 'The county won't allow money to pad for it' 'What! not when it's the last request of a dving man:' 'I'm afraid not.' 'Going

The ghos't of Brierlyhas not turned up yet, and the hair of the Supervisors remains down.

LOVE AND ASTRONOMY. Napa Cat Register. "By Jupiter! these are lovely nights. Nothing Mars the serenity oi the scene," exclaimed young Jones the other night as he Saturn on the porch 'neath the silve*y rays of the crescent moon, with his arm around the waist of his Venus. But when the old woman opened the window above them and turned a pitcher ot water on their devoted heads, they thought they had encountered Neptune. She simply remarked to them as they started for the gate: "Here, come back! You can't comet over my daughter in that milky way." Jones retorted: "Uranus off, and Ifll be hanged if I come back till I get ready," and his girl took his arm and he started off with a speed like the messenger Mercury, who is said to have wings on his heels, and silence reigned once more. The old woman says she will planet differently next time.

Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster king ataims, writis to a Paris paper concerning the vexed question of MacMahon's ance tors: 'Ireland is too proud of the great names she has contributed to the military glory oi France, such as Sarsfield, Mahony, Thomjnd, and MacMahon, not to be interested in establishing their Irish descent. Now Mahon, second son ot Mor toi?h O'Brien, King of Ireland, who died at Lismore in 1119, and was great-grand son of the iamous Brian Boroimhe (killed 1014 on defeating the Danes at Clontarf) founded the MacMahon branch chiefs of Corcaviskin and Clonderalaw, County Clare These MacMahons were the ancestors of Jean Baptiste MacMahon, the Marshal's, grand father who became Seigneur of Eguilly,and who by a doc ument, dated 1749, established his descent from the O'Briens, Kings of Ireland."

Nervous gent, who has gone west lor his health, disrobing in his room in hoiel in Idaho, sees strange pair of boots under the bed. Violent and tumultuous bell. Enter porter. 'Porter, am I in the wrdhg room? Whose boots are those?' Porter, reassuringly: 'Oh, yes, sir, it's all right, sir this is your room, sir. Last gentleman slept in this room, sir, somebody cut his throat, sir. Them's his boots, sir. Ought to have been took away betore, vr. I'll take 'em now, sir. G'night, sir.' Nervous guest sits up and hears strange noises all i.ight. Hair turns gray before morning. Feels much healthier when be gets on the train and starts east. Explains to landlord that he likes the climate, but his mother is alone and he has to hurry back home.—[ Hawk Eye

Here is a Turkish fable: Abdullah went to the house of Nasereddin to borrow his mule. Nasereddin, who was a ready lender, said that the mule was not at hone. At that moment the mule brayed loud enough to wake the echoes. "What did you say, Nasereddin, that your mule was not at home—but I hear him." "Go thy way, false Abdullah," said his neighbor, "you are not a true friend, for you believe the mule and refuse to take my word." S •fvV

A large orce of men are busilv at work ip the machine shops^ for the Polytechnic institute: *.1

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walk me out and drop me oft

without an}' music, or torch-light procession. or speech? Ain't even going to have the flag of my country flying over me?' 'The Supervisors won't allow it.' "Oh, very well, then—very well. If that's the kind uf a country this is, then it's all right. I'd rather die than live. But one thing's certain when I'm gone it'll be mighty queer if I don't come back and roust around some of those Supervisors at night and scare up their hair, then it'll be because there ain't any such things a? ghosts. You mark me. I'll frighten the immortal liver out of them if 1 have my way you see if I don't

TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY

MB. VOOBHEES-

Lanra Knin (Tpon ihe Tall 8y««n»re. Correspond* me (ludnnkliComniati*ll

TERRK HAUTE HOTTSE,

TERBE HAUTE, Ind., Oct, 3, i$77. I have just heard the lecture of Mr. Voorhees on Jefferson, and to Fay that it is capital does not convey an idea of its merit. For once it is the lecture before the man which commends itself to the taste and understanding—not the man behind the lecture. Not bat what Mr. Voorhees is an interesting man. Early in life he achieved a reputation for oratory which has been ably sustained. He carried off the palm at college: acd, although years have elapsed t-ince what might be termed his first national effort— the defense of poor Cook, concerned in the famous 'John Brown Raid," it is yet fresh in the minds of the public. It was only ihe otherday that I beard Mr. Wm. Henderson say that he had just re-read that epeech with new delight. In^his judgment Mr. Voorhees is a more eloquent man than Henry Clay, and is possessed of more ability and learning.

One word of that defeme of *Cook which, in the subsequent ptirring events of the civil war, is apt lo be underestimated, if not entirely overlooked. Mr. Cook was Ihe brother-in-law of Ashbel P. Willard, a Democrat and governor of Indiana. The governor's wife was a native of Connecticut. She had but one brother. He left home when quite a lad, and after a brief period of irregular correspondence, ceased to communicate with tbe family. He had been long mourned as dead, when he came to light in the lead of O^sawato tnie Brown. To most of ycung Cook's friends this was more distressing than the belief hi his death. There was a single exception in his father. He had instilled the principles which cropped out in the misdirected effort at emancipation, and in his secret heart thers were pride and exultation. He honored his Hon as a martyr. Governor Willard could not be expected to sympathize in any such sentiments. He could have little personal interest in the roving brother-in-law, with whom he

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scarcely acquainted, but on account of Mrs. Willard and her sister*, his solicitude was so much that he left no means uf grace untried. In his extremity he appealed to Mr. Voorhees, who, wi'h ready friendship and high courage, undertook Mr. Cook's defense. The quality of the courage required can not well be realized at this date. He was remonstrated with by his political friends, who declared the effort would blast all his prospects of success. The late John L. Robinson, for one, was out of patience with him, aqd said,Mr. Buchanan would remove turn from office. Mr. Voorh^ea held the position of United States district attorney. Mr. Voorhees replied that his mind was made up, let what might happen He went to Virginia, and in the study of the young insurgent's character and history, added ihe incentive of personal interest to the championship of a desperate ctuse. His m:»io.t,lesa eloquence failed in its direct aim (his client was executed), but it lived and bore fruit in the sen**.- of justice i? quickened. John Brown, the fore-runner of tmancipation, is as immortal as Abnh&m Lincoln.

This reminiscence of Mr. Voorhees career is not inappropriate in view of the large prominence he gives in his lecure to the anti-shvery doctrines and ac of Jefferson. From that period in hi* life may date, indeed, the close attention Mr. VoDrhecs has given to the principal actors in American history. He is best known to the public as an advocate and politician. Very few ore aware that )-e is a student. For instance, it his been his habit for years to have some literary work on hand for recreation and profit. As long as eighteen m^nthR ago he began tbe study of Jefferson, to the end.of drawing a comparison betwsen him and Hamilton. In the {.-recess Hamilton soon dropped behind. To use the words of Mr. Voorbeef: "I found there wa-? nothing .0 him.. He was an aristocrat, ad vocal iug centralization of power, a:td leai itg to a monarchic*! form of government. He never performed an act, or uttered a sentiment thai is of any acc unt today, or had any influence in his day and gen eraiion. If Burr had not killed him he would not be remembered, excepting in the brilliant association with Washington, and in the stately and beautiful busts and por raits oMiimRelf which have been handed down. As for Burr he is not worthy to be named with Jefferson." "What sort 0) a man in our da could yon like Mr. Hamilton to?" I asked.

No on« thai 1 can think of." "The character of Jefferson, on the contiarv,' con inued Mr. Voorhees, "presented a study of powerfal ahd singular at 1 ractivenesH There is too much in it, IU fact, to be condensed within the compas* of lecture. I have endeavored, therefore, by a plain and simple state merit of the principal acts of his life, to illustrate his broad, liberal and advanced statesmanship and universal, and tender humanity."

It will not forestall the interest in Mr. Voorhees'lecture to say that, in pursuance of this train of thought, he begins with that portion of Mr. Jefferson's pualic Bt-rvicts where the average stuuent generally leaver off, to-wit: his retirement from-the Colonial congress, after the Declaration of Independence, premising, of course, a brilliant transcript of his spontaneous career as a republican patriot and statesman in an age of regal form and practice. To that period his career had been.: one of acknowledged heroism. Hi the brave chevalier without reproach. Wnen, however, in his own state—in .e Old Dominion folly wedded to traditional usages—he toi up the lauce against the laws ef primogeniture and entail it was no longer a sentiment. It became a rasp ing reality, and provoked the bitterest haired and opposition. There are old Federalist monarchists and descendants of that Virginian stock who. hate the name of Thomas Jefferson to this1 day. Not content with revising the laws of property, he betook his energies to destroy the union of church and state. It existed in its most tyrannical form in Virginia. In Quaker Pennsylvania, Catholic Maryland and Baptist Rhode Island only of the colonies was there freedom of conscience. This was not all. In the very drafting of. the Declaration of Independence there was a clause [afterwards erased] condemning human slavery, and Jefferson provoked the animosity of the worst species of property holders. There was still another element which he was called upon to subdue—the anti-repub-lican, monarchical faction, who opemy declared the government cf Great Britain the beet in the world.

In all these great radical reforms of

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general education and prosperity, popular government, freedom of conscience and human liberty, Mr. Voorhees is very happy in the delineation of Mr. Jefferson's character. The entire absence of 'personal and party views is worthy of note. All in all the subject is handled skillfully and justly, with an amount of suggestive information which gives Mr. Vcor bees high rank among the week-day preachers of the times. There is an instructive lesson that one who runs may read, to politician, preacher or layman.

One areag* I must be allowed to quote, prefacing that it was received with oearty applause. Speaking of the death scene, Mr. Voorbee* said "All wos well with him. No wail or lament or remorse shook his serene and peaceinl »rnl in that supreme hour. He had played a great part in the world, and lie was leaving it without a stain. He lipd entered the service of his country in bis yout'j, rich in lands and taoney. He was dying at the sge of eighty-three, poor, with the iron hand of debt clutching at all his worldly good3. He was not attended by the ministry of wealth, but he was attended by the glorious consciousness that a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,'' 'V:'5' JS

Mr. Voorhees had a very fine audience in point of number and quality. He lectured at the Opera house under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association. ID addition to its proper representatives be was heard by many old friends and admirers. Tbe attention was unusually flattering. During tbe entire delivery, something over an hour, not a single person left the house. He was considerably embarrassed when he began to speak, but gradually warmed up to the occasion. His voice was clear and pleasing, and his manner dignified and impressive. It is the highest personal encomium to say that bis appearance and stylo of rpeaking were worthy of the lecture.

Mr. Voorhees is already in receipt of invitations enough to fill the season, but he is loth to give up his business, which is large and lucrative. To-night he will deliver his lecture at Greencastle, where, at this writing, every reserved seat is engaged. L. R.

BEY. JOfiEPH COOK

Tbe Opening of Hta Boston Con me of lectures—Hallway Strikes and Low Paid Labor* [Boston Advertiser.]

The Rev. Joseph Cook opened the course of thirty lectures which he is to deliver the coming season at Tremont temple, Monday noon. A large and well pleased audience gathered, and greeted the reverend gentleman with cordial applause as he appeared before it. Many familiar faces of prominent scholars and professional men were seen before him, and the course may be said to have had a very auspicious opening. The subject of Mr. Cook's prelude was suggested by the recent railway strikes, and his ^remarks about low-paid labor, starvation wages and second-rate business men se» med to be in accord with the sympathies and opinions of his bearers. The subject of the lecture wae "Unexplored Remainder* in Conscience," and in it he boldly outlined the coursa of discussion to be pursued in several subsequent lectures.

In his customary remarks on current events Mr. Cook spoke as follows: In the year 1877-America has seen her first, but. probably not ber last, insurrection of hunger. Low-paid labor has at least occasionally not had enough to eat, and therefore a thin flame of fire burst i.ut of the hitherto rarely ruptured social soil on a line extending from Bal timore to San Francisco. This ominous, wavering, but intense radiance rose from a fruitful, a largely unoccupied, and a monumentally anoppressed country. Our cities gather to themselves the -.ramps, the roughs and the sneakf several of them con ain organized bands of emigrant communists and this loose material caught fire when the sudden flame shot up from the vo'canic crevice. We were n»t very swift in putting down tbe conflagration. It happens, therefore, that in a land which has twice been washtd in

grandmotherly sel We are all agreed thtt it takes two to make a bargain, and even low-paid labor forgot that first -nrinciple of social science occasionally. The chief trouble came, however, not from the working-men, and not fr tui the real piince* of capital, but from Becondrate business managers, who hardly know how make a fortune except bv cut-throat competition.

How many railways of this country are iu receiver*' hands? We talk of various cures for the il*s of our railway strikes but is not one of the most practical remedies a requisition by law that every iailwav corporation, and every monied company that is in debt at,d yet in receivers' hands and in business, shall be compelled to lay aside at least one per cent, of its income as a sinking fund pay its debt? We must in some w»y insist upon i' tha unprincipled c«mpe tition shall not grind the faces oi 'ht poor Your Vanderoi't did not grind thoce faces. 1 do not kuow thai Thomas Scott did however, I think be is paid a large salary not f-r his knowledge of legitimate railroading, but for his knowledge of illegitimate railroad ing. [Laughter.] No railway deserves to succeed whose managers would ttemble if their ledgers were turned inside out and read by the whole American people. Here, for instance, are two railway companies, each containing a dozen men. A majority in each company secretly arrive at an understanding with each other. They rin, in fact, though not in name, a third company. That third collection of managers owns no railroads, but it has a majority in two companies that do own, porhape, competing lines. By making a ring, they can turn aside, for a time, to their own uses, a very large part of the profits of both these railway companies. They have not a wheel, they have not a track, of their own, but they put into their pockets a lion's share of the proceeds of the companies in which they have a majority. They place profits on board one car and turn this oft* upon a side track, and when the train of their enterprise reaches the station further on they announce that there is nothing left for the stockholder! and, of course, if stockholders suffer, workingmen must.

Mines and factories and railways are likely to be heard of in the maturity of the American republic, not as loudly, but, perhaps, a^ pointedly, as the cotton-fielJ and tht rice-swamp were in its infancy. As the old world nas had peril enough frcm industrial questions to already make

classic much of thoWerature of the conflict between labor Ad capital, this new and young world does not act unwisely in turning attention* with all the power of Ameriean conscientiousness and shrewdness, upon the inquiry. What are comfortable wage*, and how can they be paid? Is it possible to arrive at a definition of starvation wages?

Suppose that a man were to put forward the proposition that anything less than twice the cost of the uncooked food for a family containing several small children is starvation wages to the unassisted father of that family, would you think such a position very heretical? Regard for a moment tbe arithmetic of lowpaid labor. After all, the pulpit has the right, and the platform,—especially if it be as free as this one,—at least this will take the privilege of looking into the vexed arithmetic of the very ^or. A man has in his family a wife and three children. He must, therefore, feed five mouths. What do you pay for jour board each week? Five dollars, perhaps, and it is not very good at that. What could you get the bare fooJ for, without any charges for cooking or rent? Three dollar-? Two and a hall? Two? I diould not like to live and do hard work ten hours a day on food that cost less than two hundred cents a week, or twenty-nine cents a day. You would not. But I am at the head of a family, and my wife has only health enough to cook the food and take care of the children and the house. She really earns nothing except in acting as a housekeeper and as a mother to my children,—there are three ol them,—and now I must maintain five persons. Food certainly cannot keep soul and body together and cost less on the average than a dollar a week. I must starve or have five dollars for the uncooked food of mv family. How much do I earn a day? A dollar, without board. My children cannot earn anything. If I obtain work every day, I have at the end of the week a dollar left to pay ffr rent and everything else. It is bard times with my family? The children must have shoes, or they will be hooted at in the street when they go to the public school. America is indeed kind. She opens the school to the poor but I ought to be able to put shoes on the feet oi my children and yet I'cannot always put coats on their backs, nor even can I have ragged calico for my babies at times, for I have but a dollar a day, and they c»n earn nothing, and my wife is a little ill. But I {must send my children to school, or I drop to a lower social scale. My chil dren ought to go 10 church, but they have nothing to rear. I ought to send my wife to church I ought to go myself and I am not to be excused for keeping away, because it would be better for me if conscientiousness were diffused throughout the community, and I know thai one great object of the church is to diffuse conscientiousness, in order that property may be safely diffused. I ougi to be, with my brethren of the laboring class, in God's house every Sabbath i.tty and I ought to be there with rny children. But 1 must pay five dollars a week lor the food of my family, and I earn but dollar a day or a little more. Some of my brethren earn but ninety c^ntn, and I work but six days in a week. I want to get my children a few school book I ought to take a newspaper. There must be now and then a doctor bill paid. I must have a little coal in the winter end it is not possible for me to buy it us tbe millionaire does, in great quantities, I must buy it by tbe basket, and uiy wood in little parcels and it is hard times. I have been dropped from employment. Tuereis often not much for me to do. I cannot always find work six days 0! tbe week.

Undoubtedly there are corporations that have paid as wages more than they have received as profits. Workingmen have sometimes been retained in place at a temporary loss to their employers. But supply and demand are the law*of business, and I am discussing the dull average sky of low-paid labor under that rule and not the starrj expectations.

I sat in a parlor beyond the Missis sippi, with two leaders of business, one of theiu a millionare and the other nearly such, and we added up the necessary ex

blood, and was an hundred years old, ciety suffered painfully for several weeks! penses of a family of five, in which from three things—a strike of low-pc-id children are supposed to be too young to labor, a riot of roughs and sneaks, »nd

labor remuneratively and we found that

lfdefense. [Laughier.Jisuch a family could not very well live

through a year, respectably, in our climate and according to the standard of the working men of America, if the father is their only support and is paid less than ten or twelve dollars a week. The low« paid laborer often has wages that aire less than $600 a year. Your Massachusetts bureau of labor in 1875 published a large collection of details from the life of families in this commonwealth, and asserud that "the fact stands out plainly tha the recipient of a yearly w^ge of less than $600 must get in debt."—(Pub. Doc. No, 31,1875. p. 380) I know how bigu wages often are in the ranks of skilled labor, but,

John Bright used to say,

''The nation lives in the cottage." I undertake to maintain here in Boston, where heresies are popular, the astounding proposition that if tbe unassisted father of a family of three children, who can not labor remuneratively, is paid no more than twice ihe cost of the unprepared food for his family, he is on starvation wages.

Deadwood Ieatb,.

(Cincinnati Enquirer Correspondence,] As I was resting iq a camp on the oat skirts o! Dead* ood, a jolly-faced man caine along and asked for a job. He was told that every man was working for himself, and making might/ poor wages at ihat, when he replied: "Gentlemen, 1 b*v n't had one good meal in three weekr,

haven't been able

to get akday1s work I'm dead broke, and the curtain is going to ring down on this ti*g*dy right here and right now!"

He stepped aroocd the fire, polled revolver frcm a miner's belt, and then retreating back a pace or two, he said: "Gentlemen, I am going to hell!" I've starved around the Black Hills for three months, and if there is any bigger hell than this I'm envious to see it! Excuse me for wasting ammunition,bat here I go —crack!"

H© pat the muzze of the revolver to his forehead and never kicked after the report. No man rose op to restrain him. After a few minutes the owner of the revolver walked over and secured It, and, as he wiped a spot of blood' off the barrel, he growled oat: "Blast his eyes! Why didn't he jump over some cliff, or go oat and let the Indians tickle him to death!"

THE little difficulty that occurred last evening, in front of Do wl ing IIall in no wav reflects upon the dance jjiven by the 'nail feeders."

What is, Vegetine.

It Is a compound extiac'ed from barks, roots and herbs. It is Nature's Remedy. It is perfectly harmh sa from any bad effect upon the system. It is nourishing and strengthening. It acta direct upen the blood. It quiets the nervous fystcm. It gives ycu good sleep at night. It is a great panacea tor our aged fathers and mothers, lor it gives them strength, quiets their nerve.*, ard gives them Nature's sweet sleep, —as has been proved by many an aged person. It is the great Blood'Furifier. It is a soothing remedy for o«r children. It baa relieved and cured thousands, it is very pleasing to take every child likes it It relieves and cures all dUevcs originating from impure blood. Try the VK«Kt'INE. Give it afat, trial for jour complaints then yon will say to y«mr lrlend, neighbor and acquaintance, "Try it it hat cured in 1

Reliable Evidence.

The following unsolicited testimonial from Rev. O T. Walker, formerly just or of Bowdoin Square Churth, Boston, and at present settled in Providence, R. I., must be deemed as re: iab'e evidence. No one should fail to ob^ rvo that this testimonhl is tbe result if two years' experience In tha use of VEGET1SE in the Rev. Mr. Walker's tnmily, who now ).ronouiice it invaluable

PROVIDBNCK, K. J. lWTransltStrttet. H. R.

STEVEK8,

Esq.:

I feel bound to express with my signature the h'gh valuo I pl:»ce upon your vE«ETlfiE. My family have used It for the last two years Inner\ous d« bility it i« invaluable, and I recommend it to alf who need an invigorating, renovating tonic.

O.T.WALKER.

Formerly Paa'or of Bowdoin Square Church, tfoston.

1 he Best Evidence.

The foll^winf letter from Rev. E. S. Best Pasior 01 tno m. E. Cnuron, Natick, Mass., will be read with interest by many physicians also those suffering from the same dis* eas^asaffl cted the son of the Rev. K. S Best. No person can doubt this testimony as there is no doubt abont the curative powei of VEGETINE.

NAT.'CK, Mass, Jan 1st. 18T3h

MR. 11, R. STXVINS: Dear Sir— We have[good roa-onr for rcgardlngyonr VEGETINE a medicine of the greatest value. We feel assured that it his Tieen the means otsavingour son's life. Ho is new seventeen years o( age for hi* leg, caused by scrofu ons affliction, and was ^o far re uied that nearly all wh# saw him thought his reoivery impossible. A council of able ph slclans cou give us but the ain tst hope of his ever rallying two of them derlar ing that he was beyond the rea of human remedies, that even amputation conld not save him, as he had not vigor enough to eudure the operation. Jus then we commenced gi /Ing hlra VEGEIiNE and from that time to the pre'eqt be has been continual mproving. He has lately resumed his studies, thrown awav his crut hes and cane, and walks about ch-ertu ly and strong.

Though there is still some discharge from theopenin* where his limb was lan d, we have the nllest confidence that In a a uttle limeltH will be perfectly enro l.

He ha- keu about three dozen ttlesof VE4KTINBs but lately uses but lit' o.as he dec ares he is too well to betaking uK-di.-mc.

RespcHfullv yours, BE.& BEST MRS. L. C. K. BEST.

PREPARED BY

H.E.

Stevens, Boston, Mass. 'f tv

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