The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-04-21

and that IS all there is Of it. Your
mother may die, or your child
YOU pay for the time TO attend the
funeral.
OF course work so exacting is well
paid for Is it? Let US e The
lowest salary paid 10 regular sales
men in this establishment is seven
dollars per week, and the highest
twenty the great majority Of them
receiving from twelve to fifteen dol
lars per week. Out of this twelve to
fifteen dollars the salesman has TO
pay first, seven dollars per week for
board-and such board For that
sum be gets a room eight by zen feet,
in an attic, and TWO meals per day Of
the cheapest and meanest the markets
afford, cooked in the vilest and most
atrocious style possible his; washing
costs him not less than one dollar per
week-for cleanliness is required
which leaves him but four dollars.
Then be pays at least o dollar per
week for car fare, postage stamps,
and other incidentals, leaving him
three dollars 10 90 on for clothes aud
such novelties. He gets sick occa-
sionally, and losing an hour now and
then is unavoidable, all of which
makes large holes in his small sal
airy.
To sum it all up, be works like a
galley-slave three hundred and twelve
days III the year, twelve and a half
hours per day, and gets a most
stinted living, and nothing more.
Many a good-looking clerk in Stew
arts his day would expose naked
feet if be took his boots of, for going
without stockings saves the cost OF
buying and the cost Of washing
And the wearing of black scarfs to
cover the shirt front is not generally
a matter of taste. The shirt costs
three dollars and the washing costs
twelve and q half cents every time.
A black scarf and a collar is made to
do duty for q shirt.
And these poor fellows dare not
strike for better pay, or complain IN
any way. Should one intimate a
desire for more, off goes his head,
and a hundred stand ready and ca
ger to take his place. And what is
the ultimate reward for this? Promo
ton comes in time to those who have
especial fitness and more than super.
human industry and energy. In
such an establishment, if you live
long enough, and know enough, you
can get up the magnificent salary OF
t~wenty-four dollars per week!
Young man, if yOu don't Ike your
farm learn a trade, but avoid the
counter. A good mechanic can al
WAYS get work at some price, and
when business is good at good prices,
but the counterjumper, Heven help
him, is as complete q slave as a
South Carolina negro before the war
What becomes of them when they
get old the Lord only knows. Prob
ably they never get old. 1t is likely
that clearinghouse hash and steak
does its perfect work on them before
they reach thirty, and that they go,
if they were pious and good, where
they will be in no danger Of meeting
any of their greedy employers. How
sweet it must be for One of Stewards
twelve dollar clerks to die!
Don't, l beg of you, ever think o
T clerking in any of its forms. Dom
be q salesman, a bo~ok-keeper, a any
thing about the great mercantile
concerns. They are prizes TO b'
drawn, but the Kentucky Library
was a certainty in comparison
Where n gets a prize ten thousand
draw blanks, and a blank in thii
line of life is the blankest thing in tht
world.
WHAT BERGH Is DOING.
Henry Bergh, who is hated by
every %two-legged brute in New York
has enlarged his sphere Corporations
He has survived all the sneers anC
jibes at his Society for the Proven
tioa of Cruelty to Animals, and ha.
got the brute truckmen and car-dri
vers down to a very decent point
Now be has organized = Society fO
the Prevention Of Cruelty to Children
He proposes to stand between help
less children and cruel guardians
and more than that, to take tb'
thousands upon thousands of home
less children of the city under hi:
charge. He will take them out o
; the street, place them where they viii
be cared for, have them educated and
taught to be useful men and women
There is no wider field Of philanthro
ply or one in which more good cal
be done. The drunken father Of
mother will net be allowed to bea
a helpless child at will-if such q
parent keeps control of its child, il
will be not Bergh's fault. The Ital
ian padrone who imports young chill
dren, and trains them as street beg
CARS, and the whole race of thieve.
and mendicants who use children t
get money for themselves, will fnC
Bergh in their way, and 50 clothe.
with authority as to make his inter
position effective. All honor t
Henry Bergh. the practical philan
thropist.
BEECHER.
Beecher has Teen on the stand for
six DAYS, but has developed nothing
new. His time has been taken up il
explanations, all of which are salts
. tory to his friends and entirely IN
! satisfactory to those opposed to him
E 1t is a pity that a a occupying hi
position should have done so NAM
things that require such elaborat
explanation. And likewise is it curl
GUS that Beecher's denials are take.
as truth without question by so man,
people who refuse to believe a wor,
of Tilten, Moulton, or Mrs. Moulton
Beecher denies point-blank th.
truth of every allegation, and pro
fesses TO be able to account for ever
letter or document produced agains
him in a way that will establish hi
innocence to the satisfaction Of tn
T world. / earnestly hope ne may
but / am bound to say he has no
done it yet. To-day be stands pre-
cisely where be did six months ago
excep; that his statements have now