The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-08-07
SVOREz AND WAGES.

A large number of Italian emf
grants are employed as laborers on
the Welland Canal.
Philadelphia and vicinity has
about eight thousand five hundred
manufacturing establishments.
The rioting Marquette iron
miners are yet under military sur
VIGILANCE in the neighborhood of
the mines.
The Union coal miners of
Braidwood, Ind, Streator, ILL.,, and
of Straitsville, Ohio, continue on
the strike.
The glass works in Europe are
nearly idle, and the proprietors
admit that American makers have
attained a degree OF excellence
that has practically cut them of
from this market.
Manufacturing prospects in New
Jersey are growing brighter.
Newark, Trenton, and Patterson
are giving unmistakable signs of
new life. A number of factories
that had been closed for several
months have been opened, and
several others are going on full
time.
In their annual production of
from $4,000 to 100000 plows, the
Moline Ill. } Plow Works of Deere
& Co. use 900 tons of iron, 600
tons of steel, 200 tons of cast iron,
and 100000 feet of hardwood
lumber. The lot on which the
brick shops are located is 30x3OO
feet in dimensions.
The lint mill at Marion, Iowa,
manufacturing fax tow, fax moss,
and flax cotton, has been in oper-
alton for seven months, during
which time its orders from the
East haye increased so rapidly as
to require the putting of a double
set of machinery and the employ
menL of double force.
A large number of working wo-
men in Boston are out of imploy-
ment. This misfortune is account.
ed for by the Advertiser of that
city, as being one of the unpleas.
ant results of the thin attendance
at the watering places and the
unusual quiet in business circles
which have thrown large numbers
of women ont of employment at 6
time when, least of all, they ex.
pect to be cast upon their own re,
sources, and therefore are more
helpless than ever before.
There is, perhaps, no one in this
world more to be pitied than the
poor mantle man who has got
into the habit of saving until he
saves from sheer delight in seeing
his wealth increase, and of count,
ing every dollar of expenditure
as though its loss was something
that could never be repaired.
Yet it is the duty of every poor
man to sage something. The pos.
session of a few dollars often
makes all the difference between
happiness and misery, and no man
especially with family dependent
upon him, can be truly indepen,
dent unless he has a few dol,
lars reserved for the time of need.
While extreme carelessness as to
the eXpediture of money will make
a rich man poor, wise economy
will almost as certainly make a
poor man rich, or at least make
him, to a considerable extent
independent of the caprices OF
employers and of the common
vicissitudes of life. Nothing is
more important to the poor man
than the habit of saving some
thing; but has little hoard will be.
gin to grow at rate which will
surprise and crafty him. Every
workingman ought to have an
account in some savings bank,
and should add to it every week
during which he has full employ
ment, even if the addition is but
one dollar at a time. If he does
this he will soon find the dollars
growing into tens, and these tens
into hundreds, and IN n little time
will be in possession of n sum
which is constantly vie lding an
addition to his income, which Sc
cures him a reserve fund whenever
one is needed, and will enable him
to do mahy things which, without
a little money, he would be power
| less to do,-PikLsbur0h Posi-.