The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-11

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The Merrimack Manufacturing
5 Company, of Lowell, began on
: Monday last, to pay their mill
: hands by the hour instead of by
the day. By this arrangement the
employee will receive pay for only
the number of hours worked, and
the new regulation is no doubt
adopted in anticipation of the ten
hour law, which goes into opera
ton on the first of October. BY il
the worker will get only ten
hours wages for his day.
| PhiIadelphia boasts of her goat
and calf kid manufactures, claiming
supremacy in this industry, as in
most other kinds of leather, and
states that she furnishes New York,
Boston, and the West with the bulk
of their supplies of goat, calf, kid
and morocco. She converts 1000.
600 goat skins annually into leather,
and has twenty morocco manufac-
tories and fifteen calf kid, besides
I'VE tanneries and twenty-five cur
rying establishments.
The Michigan Southern Railway
is about to introduce one of the prin-
ciples of the civil service of reform.
General Superintendent Paine, it is
announced, intends hereafter SUBJ
jecting applicants for positions on
the Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern Railway, as engineers or conduc-
tors, to q strict examination by
competent committees or boards.
Those who are not in every way
qualified for the position will have
but slim chance of employment.
A word discharges from service
twenty thousand persons engaged
in the coal mines of the Wyoming
aud Lackawanna valleys, in Penn
sylFania, bnt what will be the re-
suit Have these persons, and
those depending upon them, the
means to keep body and soul to-
gether until the prOprietors of the
collieries shall again resume oper-
ations? Serious questions the cap
italists of that region may have to
answer. Yet the latter certainly
have q good reason for the act,
though it might have been made I
less sweeping.
The man with good firm health !
is rich. So is the man with clear
conscience. So is the parent of
good and happy children. So is
the clergyman whose coat little |
children of the parish pluck, as he
passes them at their play. So is |
the wife who has the whole heart |
of a good husband. So is the |
maiden whose horizon is not |
bounded by the Coming man." but |
who has purpose in life, whether
she ever met him or not. So is tho |
Young man, who lying his hand on
his heart, can say, 81 have treated |
every woman i ever saw as / |
should wish my sister treated by |
other men," So is the little child |
who goes to sleep with kiss on
his lips, and for whose waking q |
kind blessing waits.
The strike of the linen weaVers
and spinners in and about Belfast,
Ireland, continues, the effect of
which are being felt in this country.
The spinners' strike has rendered |
it impossible for Messrs. Barbour
Brothers to obtain some grades of |
material necessary for the running
of the Passaic Mills, at Paterson,
n. j, and these mills will probably
be temporarily closed within q
week, throwing q large number of
hands out of employment. 1t is
thought by Messrs. Barbour Broth |
ers that they will not be compelled
to close their mills for more than
about two weeks, and it will be |
their endeavor to give employment
in the mean time to every operative
whose services can be rendered
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An old man named Ockerman,
said to be ninety-five, and the old
est inhabltant. of Cincinnati, is in
destitute circumstances, and last
week was on the streets of that
wealthy but stingy city, asking
not for alms-but for some light
suitable to a man of
years of age, that he
might earn enough to keep the
wolf from the door and not become
q public burden. A man whose
lifetime spans the history Of a great
city should not be permitted to
suffer by the crowding generations
which have come after him, and it
is due to Cincinnati to say that the
almost centenarian is to be proVid-
ed for so that he and his venerable
wife may spend the rest of their
days in cheerful comfort.
Sunstroke may be prevented by
mixing oatmeal with the drinking
water of persons employed in out
door or in heated exposures, and
with the drinking water
of horses. In New York city these
simple preventives are used on all
the public works, and by most i'll
not all of the street railroad COM
panies. The meal water soon be-
comes very pa!atable. Both man
and beast will go through a hot
days work with moro strength and
comfort than by the use of simple
cold water, the imprudent use of
which SO often causes sickness and
death. Contractors would find it g
paying Investment to furnish their
men with oatmeal water, and the
same may be said of street railroad
companies in regard to their poor
horses. Oatmeal wa
ter will add very much to their ca
pacity of endurance, and save many
a horse from dropping off prema-