The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-01-07

| the writer would nave III Egypt.
Resides he was no lawyer. But that
made no difference in New York.
For the first time in three year. he
remembered he had a family. He
brought over his oldest son--a lad
of cighteen-and putting him at
work as type-settef in daily pa
per, had him appointed as his "chicf-
clerk" at a salary of $4,000, his two
other sons were also given places al
respectively $500 to $4,000. Mr.
O'Brien drawing the salaries for all of
them-they merely appearing to sign
receipts each month. 1t was FORUM
ate for the country that Mr.. O'Brien's
other child was O girl-elsc she
would have been quartered on the
CITY. The mother and daughter
were permitted to remain in Liver
pool, where they shifted as best they
could, the girl as a shop-girl, and the
mother as a washer woman.
1t is needless to add that Mr.
O'Brien is one of Bos. Twced's sin
csrcst mourners, and that he inveighs
loudly against the ''inioostice, sir, no
shtate inierfearance with municipal
government and he has been
heard to say that 'the raight nv the
people to sclf-soovcrnment, sir, are
stricken down." and, likewise he asks
Indignantly if "this is a free coontry!
or is it dispotism ~
But he mourns not as one without
hope. John Morrisey will answer
b.. purpose just as well as Tweed,
for Morrisey mus. use the same m.-
terial to do the same work. Mr..
0'Bricn and his three sons will all be
On the city payroll ere long, and
trust them to make up for their ell
forced abstinece
Tsmmany will be killed whenever
the decent men of the city take inter
est enough in politics to vote, and
use the influence they possess
They outnumbcr the thieves and can
oust them if they will. But they never
will. Catch New York merchant,
leaving his trade to vote, or to do
political work. Not he. He is too
busy. And so New York will con
tinue to be ridden by the thieves to
the end of the chapter.
There is a steady regular revival
in business in the metropolis. There
never should have been a panic-in-
deed, this Fall and Winter business
should have been splendid. There
was no cause for the troubles that
came upon the county in September.
A parcel of gamblers, like Jay Gould,
DID Daniel Drew, and Vanderbilt,
locked horns in a struggle over stocks.
Down they went, and the business
men fearing panic, did exactly what
was necessary to make one. They
shortened up, banks suspended, de-
cent men were deprived of their re-
sources, and an evil that was feared
became real. Business is resuming
because confidence is restored.
Smith has drawn out Of the hole in
to which he hid himself in September,
and discovers that it isn't much OF a
shower after all. He finds that peo-
pie are going to eat, drink and wear
the same as ever, and must have his
goods. and so he gets his money ont
of it's hiding place, and pays Brown
what he owes him. Brown pays
Jones; Jones Thompson the mill
that stopped resumed, and so it goes.
People wonder that they were eve?
frightened at all. There is nothing
"hard'' in the times, here or any
where else. The times" are all
right, and business viii be very
brisk the remainder of the winter.
But there was one curious feature
about it all. During the worst Of
the pane, when men believed that
the country had gone to the dogs,
and every man was straining to the
Hast point, there was no dimunition
of the trade of the great dealers IN
luXuries. Stewards front was crowd
ed with carriages. and the great jew
elry stores were thronged as ofy1re.
The New York lady of fashion reco9-
nizes no such thing as a panic or
.trirgency in money. 1t is her hus-
bands duty to find money somehow
for her, for not q jot or title will
she Weld of her rights to spend all
the money she chooses. If there be
diamonds she wants she has them.
The $4,000 that the set costs, her
husband must furnish, and he must
do it without murmur. For she is
an imperious dame, and will stand
no nonsense about tlese things.
Half the failurs that occur in New
York NAV be charged up to this ac-
count. Fashion rules with a rod OF
iron, and from its decree there IS
no appeal. Style must be main
tained for whenit relaxes in the leas,,
the relaxer drops out of sight, and
the woman as good as dies. That Is
she dies socially, and there is not one
of them who wouldn't rather die act
unlly.
| Once more, | thank Heaven, there
| is country to draw from. But for
the influx of fresh blood and fresi,
ideas from the country, the great
cities would become worse than can
GERS. But as it takes ten years to
spoil person in New York, and as
thousands make their way here every
/ year, the old Sodom grinds along
after fashion, and will continue to
do SO.
Christmas was more generally
observed here than ever The rioh
gave gorgeous dinners--the poor
modest dinncrs-thc dissolute got
drunk, and the police stations were
full. Curious notions the people
have of celebrating the birth Of the
Savior.
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