Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-25

to-day working for six hundred dollars
year that are really worth twelve hundred;
but they say nothing. They work on and
on. A chance comes of making an extra
five dollars by extra work. Mr. Dooless,
who is waiting for the twelve hundred dol
lar salary, wouldn't think it worth while
to make that five dollars; but the other
works at night and earns the extra money.
Gradually the people get to know him as
man who is always ready to work. who
never refuses because the pay is light
and one and another who have an uneasy
feeling that, driven by the hard times, they
have not paid him as well rs they ought
introduce him to better paying people, and
gradually he gets more and more.
There are women who having children
to support or husbands to help put their
pride in the dust and stand on it,-their
foolish pride, mean, not their good hon
est pride of independence. That foolish
pride squirms and twists, and sometimes
almost gets up, but-how the brave wo-
man stamps on it! She will sew or read,
write or keep boarders. If you ask such
one what she considers her work worth,
her answers comes promptly: What it
will bring" She sets no value on herself,
as far as money is concerned, nor does she
feel bound to pursue one beaten track.
One week she corrects proof it happened
Il proOf-reader was sick, and somebody
knowing she would jump at the chance of
work, let her know of the opening. The
next week she is at her sewing machine;
Il friends eyes are weak, and she happens
| -. oh, e.
At once our heroine (for are not such hero
ines P? stamped on her pride, which squirm-
ed horribly and said: Remember she
was your bridesmaid, and doesn't know
how very poor you are you'd better pre-
tend you EnOW of SednlstrCSS." Down
came the foot, and the words spoken
bravely: If may take the work home
| will be very glad TO do it." Another
time there is sudden sickness, and q
nurse is required. She goes; and so. grad
Dally, she requires reputation for intense
earnestness in fulfilling her duty-tllat of
earning money for her chillren-and one
thing leading to another, she learns how
to support her family comfortably and with
: ease.
, Oh that l could get our ministers, our
lloSJ dCColu )llSucu OIdlOIS, W Take up lnlS
subject and preach the doctrine of " tax
| ing the work that comes" Poor people
should never ask: Will it pay? They
t should remember how the man escaped
t from the tower. His wife sent beetle
climbing up the tower wall, and to one of
the legs of the beetle was tied u fine silk
| thread. The prisoner seized the beetle
and pulled and pulled on the silk; by and
t by the silk changed to twine, He pulled
| harder and harder, and then came cord.
1 More vigorous pulling, and at last came
e heavy rope which could bear his weight
= What if he had spurned the beetle, or
r wearied of pulling in the silken thread ?
G Let us, men and women, when we are
4 shut in the prison of pecuuiary distress,
e pull on any thread that we can reach; it
e will grow thicker and stronger in our
| grasp, till at last it bears, and we are out
1 of the prison and on the high road of pros
!, perity, all from never once thinking, /" l
f am worth more than that" My dear
f friend, if you are worth more you can get
c it; but you are not worth more to the one
who makes you the offer of payment.
). Think of this. Hope Ledyard in TIC
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