Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-11-05
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 "Tm kinder lookin' ardiz1ae fla. ket for Tired man," he exeIAi1,e sss.s he stopped at of the sza1<Is azd hlbb'ed at an onion. "I Lindes u<sa 'ne. but yet, I kinder hope I wonst ba able to find Il m-"
 '' How's that p
 Wall, there ain't no profit in hired man no in re. No, sir, he's no good any long r."
 What, the reason 2"
 0, do1, Il reasons. First and fore most, mes have changed, and the hired man las changed with them. An sir, It nak, s me sal when I think of t-e hired m Il we had before the war great biz fellow, with the strength os an aud the vim of locomotive dn't have to ho!l my luags out to get "ne 'eu out of bed at o'cl. ok ill the III lnng, and 1t was all ! could do to Coax 'euu to go 10 bed at 10 o'clock at Il gIt. I'm afraid We shant never see no more hlred ni1n wuth keepin' around for llIer bodr,i
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 its sad and more, too. Now, as I sa d, l wans hired man. I'm wiling to pay Sll or SIP month for a smart one. Some farmers want man to woIk ;tll day ant al. Sht, but tuat ain't mic. have nev, r ask, q one to get out of bed before 5 o'ciock-never I allns give my mrn thre, quarters of an hour at i.oon, unles, the Il, gs git out, or cattle are III, or a shower Is coming up. Aaer mun has worhed right along for E | or nlne l,curs his system wants at east halt au hour to brace up in. They don qut work on ,zne tarms til $ o'c.o; but Pn 20 slz.s Ia sizavsSdriver. Ae nuf past tell my ma 10 <aock of. \ he h-,s to do afser that is 10 {eed thu stock, cut Q little woo !, uiou some grass tvr lue horses, mix foul c<z<. 1Al up he wat Through st.ift n k1n{z24 in the smoke-house and pull C fe4 4ess|z iii fhs garden. 1 never itad . {fis9d HIzs whe tldn't grow fat on my wt}fk4 nj tIi6x a'lns l. 1t ma feeling thaE tfer issszzl | half earned their W ag. S." 1zE'zz \.
 He stopped ioug enough to efrss M [ \ from iii, - Q, and tnen went 0s<ss
 An now look at the hred%fnaz ss GO day He we.,rs white shin ts aaxSS.- lars. lie won't eat with knife. Ex wants napkins when he eats, and if we, don't hmng up X clean towel once week he wipes on bis habdk, rchtr. Call him at aud he gets up at G. He wants q wno.e hour at noon, and alter supper ho 1 tcots oT to sing .ng- school or sits down so a newspaper. Fifteen years ago If my hred man was sick half day ! could dock h.m. Ii he died l could Sake out :. month wages for the trouble. He WAS g'ad to get stofe-orders for his pay, aud would wash Ill the rain-barrel aud wipe on the cloth s. inc. There's peen change, sir-an awful change, aud If a reaction don't set in pretty soon ,ou will witness the downfall of agriculture Ill this country"
 Then you won't hre another?"
 Wall, 1 can't just say. Work is powerfully pressing, but I'm going slow. Before l hire hun I want to know whether he's man who'll pass his plato 10. more meat and t..ters, and whether we're got to use starch Ill doing up his shirts. The last man had took me to task for not holding tamily prayers twice day, and, after I had done so for three months, 1 found 1t was only 8 game of his 10 beat me out of half an ho&r day. He thought he had pretty soft thing, and he looked mighty lone- some when cut -Oid Hundreu" down to two lines, and got through with the Lords prayer Ill forty seconds. "-Frse ! E,r.As