The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-27

to lose the next issue. Many of these
people have just got through their
days work, and improve this chance Of
making their wants known TO the world.
Here are clerks and porters looking up
situations, eontrssted with cooks and
house-maids, who are offering their services
TO the public. Here is delcate-looking
lass who with modest blush hands in
an advertisement. asking for place per
haps to tend baby. Her history is that
common one in city life of poverty
driving families once rich and eI-
allied to seek bread by hard labor.
Such misfortune is illustrated by the pain
ful histories of sewing girls, music teachers,
governeSSes, ETC., which one can readily
understand when reading the advertising
column. Here too is some tinical youth
inserting personal TO some girl he has
met, who will probably never see the ad-
yertisement, while he will wait day after
day, vainig expecting an answer.
THE sNGINE ROOM
In the vault beneat:s, the mighty engine
is resting from its labors, having Just worked
oil one side OF the paper, and is being pre-
pared for the labors Of the night. The en-
gineer is giving it thorough examination.
Its machinery must be in perfect order, for
a breakdown at midnight would be Il costly
damage. Go up to the second-story where
editors and reporters are hard at work pre-
pairing matter, and every little while jerking
the bell and sending copy upthe elevator
to the composing room. These men will be
on duty until after midnight, and such
work us this tells upon the system in the
most eIhausting manner. All, little does
the reader, as he Tolls over o newly printed
sheet, damp from the press, think OF the
close and trying effort of combined in
tellects, poorly paid and worked hard, and
! the sacrifices of health and comfort
which gave it existence. We may
| ascend still higher to the Composing
room, where the types are set and the pa
per got ready for the press. Here 100 men
are hard at work, and amid the general ST.
lence one hears the incessant click of type.
One great difference between night and day
duty in such an Office is that in the last
hours ofwork all copy" is in manuscript.
| The clippings have been cut up during
the earlier part of the day. and now come
the
THOUGHTS FROM THE FEyERED BRAIN.
Most Of these men, after the paper has
gone to press, put on their coats hastily
and 80 homo, first taking their accustomed
drink at the porter-house which is ever
ready to entrap the victim of appetite Some
of them, however, remain at work until
morning. The reason of this is they are
out Of town men, living in Orange or Nor
risania, and by working all night
they can go home by 6 o'clock in the
morning and stay all day. There was
time when it could be said with
truth, MAN goeth to his labor until even
ing" Now, however, the rule is to a large
degree reversed, and men work by night
and rest by day The day, however, ID
never proper time Tor rest, and the slum-
bers taken at this unreasonable hour are far
less restorative than those of nights, OuI
newspapers reach their present perfection
through the incessant sacrifice of health
and comfort on the part of editors and
craftsmen, and again we exclaim how little
is this considered by those who dawdle over
a morning paper and sip their coffee al
ease, while criticising the labors of that un.
fortunate class referred to.-[Cor. New
York Times.
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