The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-09-11
CHAPTER '.
IN WHICH YOU JOIN YOUR MASTER.

IN
How the lady worked at home, wdile vou
plodded in the Office, was in this way: See
ing you had no capacity for mining engineer
ing, she deter mined to study this scienc
herself. She saw a way Of redeeming yo
from dependency on Crooks, and advancin
your salary. The objects she tnSaght wor
Thy Of achieving. Being already relation
OF your presidents gave her an access to au
thority, that promised fair 10 Der prospects
She possessed good elementary education
bad advanced far in the sciences was II
fact a scientific scholar.
She now studied Dunn on working ant
ventilation, Of mines, W God on mining an,
railways. She made advances in practice
geology, and mineralogy studied mechani
cal work on engineering, made maps Of es
tates, and plans Of machinery. She became
first class craftsman. She sent to Elliott
Of London, for the best OF engineering in
struments, such as magazine cases Of draft
ing tools, transit, theodOlite level, &c, anC
studied their practical application. At tht
end Of three years she was a first class civil
mechanical, and mining engineer. She pos
sesSed library Of rare and choice we.ks on
engineering and scientific subjects Thesl
were selected from the great houses Of w call
IF London ; Appleton, Of New York Baird
Lippincott, and others, Of Philadelphia. Sh|
had at the end o. these three years becom|
your master, Mr.. Stirring. She began 81
giving you friendly advice; she culminate|
by assuming absolute authority. At 6rI|
she advised you, she advised the presided
also, when he visited the mountains, arI
became her honoured guest She threw OF
such hints to Crooks, as to astonish him
their practical value, when he visited you Il
talk Of business and coal mines. Thed
hints Crooks felt himself bound TO respect
Had the assumption Of authority been sui
den, it would have astOnished you, but vi
lid conceive where advice had ceased, all
where authority had begun, she had work.
on you so gradually. Fguratlvely speakiA
Mr. Stirring, she was your master, compare
with her you were but an old woman. 81,
Tad worked three years, not altogether n
you, but for these Teins she had wanted 4
guiCe the district by. Had you been kin
she would have been the ruler Of your peb
PIE. You would have acted but IS BIZ
Speaking trumpet. This is your relation b
her now Ii is not bad for you that it iS
For a slave, she treats you admirably. YkU
look up to her with a sort Of awe.
AT the end Of three years, that is sevkr
years ago, she married you. As indifferth II
as you had been to pettcoats, you becarae
attached to them-fgurativeIy Epeakinei-
again tied to an apron string. 1t is forNu
ate you possess your own peculiar lypekO
organism. You are docIle and submlssite
In her hands you lave made prOdigious H.
vancement il the scale Of responsibility.
When your wife first got legal control ol
you, you were empty ing into the distI |cI
from fifty TO seventy-tbOusand dollars ReI
month. The nearest Saturday to the 1,kh
Of each month was q great day with yt$nF
pcople-it was psy day. The distributP n
# these sums monthly gained you an al li-
mied amount Of respect. You had itkD
your power to divide so many favors amdbg
business men and contractors, miners I'D
mechanics.
Some had imposed on you when they hd
seen the chance Crooks ad not always
been at your elbow. After Mrs. Ford tdbk
possession OF you, anc condescended Ito
change her name from the poetic one Of Fkd
impositions could well lake place.
The compsry's Ofice was built On N
wlte's rnds, to suit your WiGe,s tas1s
and TO match with your wile's cottage III.
was therefore but step from the cottlee
residence to the company's office. Non
took no important step except it Accorled
with your wife's directions She cckld
give you more instructions in half an h1hr.
than you could execute 10 day. II washer
practice to do so every morning, conforukn ing
to the habit Of writing those instructlb ns
that were likely to be q burden to yoursin.
sapaSiOuS memory. In her hands the aHkirS