Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-10-24

From the Detroit Free Press
How does your club stan on de working.
man queshun?"
Brother Gardner read these lines from letter
on his desk and after looking around upon his
audience, replied:
"Who am de workingman? He am n ma
chinist, carpenter, painter, glazier. car-buider,
molder. wood-sawyer, or Whitewater. He
works for wages. DE amount Of wages am de-
termined by de need OF his services. by de price
OF what he helps to make. bv de demand Tar
1t and by de profits his employer makes A con-
tractor kin no mo- pay a carpenter a day dan
de carpenter kin pay IS cents pound fur but
ter. De law of supply an demand doan' fix de
rate OF wages altogether. A man kin be with
only sartin sum at any craft. Workingmen
realize dis as well as philosophers. De work
lngman has just as far show as de merchant.
supply an demand regulate prices. an goods
are with only so much to any consumer
Il mas no tears to shed ober what am termed
dc condishun of de laborin' classes De boy who
sots out to larn trade betters himself instead
of sacrifcn' anythin'. De man who am alrnin'
~ day ought to lib in a S2-a-day style. II he
KIN arm mo- let him spend mo-. If he can't let
him be satisfied. De average workin' man Ibis
IN comfortable cottage and has it comfortably
furnished His condishun, as dey call it, am
robust health, sound sleep, plenty to eat, good
nre, children in school. an pipe an a newspa-
per arter supper. De workin' man has no busi-
ness Ouyln what ne cannot afford.
An what has popped up in de last score o.
Y ars TO make de labOrin' man discOntented? I
tell We. my frens it am de sperit o. false pride
dat am playin' de ole boy wild de man who has
TO work fur his money. He wants to appear
better OH dan he really ie. He wants house
better dan he kin afford. He wants to furnish
1t better dan he kin afford. His daughter mus
have an organ or pianner, his son W ar fine cloze
an his wife walk out in garments nebber in
tended FUR her. 1t takes mo- dan gon wages
to keep up dis false show. doan believe dar
am one workin' man in fifty who am satisfied to
no wldin his income. IL de man was satisfied
bis wife wouldn't be. 1t has got SO dat de daugh-
Ter OF a lab0rin man am ashamed Of de fack. 1t
has got so dat gals consider 1t a disgrace to do
homework. 1t has got so dat sons OF laborin'
men want to spend money fast. an sunthin' has
got to drap. When de daughter of a white
washer an de wife of q woodsawyer mus have
fur-lined clOaks de condishun of de labOrin'
classes am sunthin' dat no one man kin tackle
Let US purceed to purceedin's."
The newest story from the mines in New
Mexico is from Socorro. where they tell of a
miner whose Bible fell over precipice while he
was doing. He descended into the canon to re-
cover the book and found it lying open on a piece
ofrich quartz that had been dislodged by the fall
His eye fell on the seventh chapter of st. Mat
thew. The miner read "Ask, and it shall be
given unto you, seek. and you shall find" He
searched and speedily found a lode over two
lSC1 III Wlutl tlldt dSSdNS-SO the StOry goes
$Sso a ton. The story teller adds that that part
OF the country has since been overrun by pros
pectOrs with Bibles in their hands,
Lord COleridge says that every educated
speaker of English uses at least three different
languages. When he talks, he uses collOQuial
English; when he writes, he uses literary Eng
llsh; and when he reads his Bible he uses an
antiquated form Of English, which, from its
relations to modern culture. may almost be
called sacred English. So, within the one lam
guage, there are at least three languages,
blending with and overlapping each other, yet
each independent Of the other. having its own
forms, its own vocabulary, and its own rules of
use.
The conduct of the Due de Morny in connec-
ton with the king of SPANS visit to Paris ought
not to pass unnOticed. He resolved to divert
the insults of the pOpulace from King Alfonso,
ana to attract at least portion of them to him.
self. With this view he persOnated the Spanish
sovereign, and. seated in "a splendid embassy
carriage" drove along the Esplanade of the
lnyalides, exposed to the shouts of Down with
the Uhlan!" "DOwn with the Prussians !"
while the king himself, on his way from the
Spanish embassy to the Elysee, took different
route.
The noted one-eyed horse-thief, John Frank
Tort, who was one of the dozen cOnvicts who re-
Gently escaped from Lancaster, Pa. Jail, has
been arrested at Akron, Ohio. Frankfort is
wei! known in the western part of Mary
land. having been concerned in horse-stealing
there.
The Paris artisans are reported to be making
lie as much burden as they can to Germans
in the employ Of Paris firms.
Miss Emily Faithful is returning to this
country this winter to lecture on "Modern
through with them in one seasOn?"-Ftusburg
Dispatch