Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-04-25
PRINTERS.


PRINTERS.
Printers, it is said, die at an early age.
This is doubtless caused by the noxious
effluvia rising from the types, the want OF
exercise, constant employment, and the late
hours to which their. work is prolonged.
There is no other class of human beings
whose privileges are so few, whose labor is
so continuous, whose wages are so made
quate, as Printers. If a typo" be man
OF family, lie is debarred of the privilege OF
enjoying their society at all times, because
his hours of labor are almost endless, and
his moments of leisure SO few that they must
be spent to recruit his exhausted energies,
and prepare him for the renewal Of his tolls
Poor fellow he knows nothing of sociabty,
and is shut out from the world as a convict
in prison cell Truly he is in the world,
yet knuws not Of it. Toll, toll, toll, by
night and by day, is his fate, until premature
old age ends his existence. For the advance
meut of science, morality and virtue, the
chords of his heart are sundered one by one,
and when his race is run, and time to him
is no more, he goes down to the grave un.
cared for and unknown, though his existence
has been sacrificed for the benefit OF his
race.
When we hear mechanics crying out
against oppression, and demanding certain
hours for labor and for rest, we cannot but
reflect upon this situation Of our own craft: {:
how every moment of their lives is forced
into service to earn hare subsistence, and
how uucompIaining they devole themselves
to the good Of that same public, who wear
them as loose garment, to be donned when
convenient, and doffed when no longer
needed.
Printers are universally poor men, and for
two reasons. The first is-they rarely ever
receive Il fair compensation for their services
And the second is-that Injured to continual
suffering, privalion, aud Toll, their purse
strings are never united at the bidding Of
charity, and the hard.earned dimes" are
freely distributed for the relief Of their fellow
men. Thus it is that they live poor and die
poor, and if a suitable reward does not
await them after death, sad indeed must be
the beginning, the existence, and the end Of
poor "typos." os."-Pelersbur Express.
No.
HIGuLy lMpoLIrEELady reads Leglsla.
tive proceedings" On motion of MIR. Smith
the ladies were admitted to il seat on the
floor OF the house.
Indignant lady hearer-" y sea: on the
floor, indeed The brutes! should think
the State had better buy chairs instead ot
treating the Legislature TO wine parties on
BIackwell's Island. | wouldn't sit on the
floor TO obge the Legislature nor the Gov
eruor himself, know"
The Wyoming Mirror relates good joke
of an old collector, who was proverbIal for
his puliteness as well as perlinacity. He
was always in the habit of taking a delin'
quent debtor aside when he dunned him.
Que day he met a non.payer upon an nn-
lrequpnled road, some halt 4 mile from amy
house, aud probably the same distance from
any human being. What does the old chap
do but leave his buggy, call the other aside,
and in fence corner politely ask him Tor
that little balance.
BOYS, LOOK AT TuIs.-- That honesty is
the best policy" was illustrated some years
since, under the following circumstances:
A lad was proceeding TO an uncle's to
petition him for sick sister and her children,
when he found a pocket wallet containing
S5U. The aid was refused, and the distress
ed family was pinched with want. The boy
revealed his fortune to his mother, but ex-
pressed doubt about using any portion OF
the money. His mother confirmed his good
resolution, and the pocket book was adver-
tsed and the owner found. Being a man
of wealth, upon learning the history of the
family, he presented the $50 to the sick
mother aud took the boy in his service, aud
he is now one vi the most successful mer-
chants in Ohio. Z" Honesty always brings
its reward-to the mind, if not the pocket,
but it always does, in the long run, to the
pocket as well lis tu the MUD.
RAINING BIRTHSTONE "A gentleman from
Chulahona, Mississippi Informs the Mem
pins Ea"le that there was "; shower OF
birthstone" in that vicinity, during the rain,
about two weeks since. Particles Of brim.
stone, (he says,) were scraped from the
ground the day after the rain by spoonsful;
and by tasting and burning were fully deci.
ded TO be brimstoue, and nothing else
Birthstone is said, also, 10 have fallen
throughout De Suto and Marshall counties,
Miss, during the same rain; and reports OF
il similar shower were in circulation here
about the same time. The Eagle hopes its
Mississippi friends are not alarmed. Such
showers frequently occur in the tropics and
adjacent countries when the trees are in
bloom. The pollen Of the flowers is taken
up by the wind and distributed far and near,
aud out Of such material was our shower OF
birthstone made!
Planters, Notice This,
rTHE FINE YOUNG JACK BOliy;tr, will
i stand the present Spring Season at his own
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