Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-09-10

Don't come to New York! 1t is good ad-
vice to any young man who is out of EN-
ployment and has his eyes turned longingly
towards the metropolis as the Mecca of his
hopes. The newspapers swarm with adver-
tisements for situations, and the streets
swarm with idle people hunting for something
to do The dull times have thrown out of EN-
ployment thousands of statesmen, clerks,
merchants and professional men, and being
unused to manual labor, they cannot turn
ther hands to digging cellar or carrying a
hod. The consequence is that large class
of respectable persons who once considered
their positions permanent, must now be con-
tent with pittance. A young fellow who a
| little while ago was earning 81, 800 year
as bookkeeper, is now receiving $50 a
month as a clerk T telegraphic operator
who a couple OF years ago was superlntend-
| ing an office at a salary of 5000 a month, is
now manipulating a key for So day. An
officer during the war who subsequently
earned from 1926 to $40 a week in doing odd
journalistic work, is now tramp, and happy
If he gets enough to keep him in board and
clothes. Wherever there is vacancy hun
dreds stand ready to make a grab tor it, and
if one occurs, a merchant don't dare to ad-
vertise the fact from fear of the rush. He
therefore receives his applications by mail,
and must choose as best he can. So repeat,
don't come to New York in search of en-
ployment."
VENTURoLI.
A sad case of restitution, which periodical
ly comes to the front, is that of Venturoli.
| once q famous premiere ddnseuSe in 1.-THE
Black Crook" but now a helpless mbecile
and paralytic. Years ago the city editor of
| the Herald, receiving note from some kind
| ly disposed person announcing her misfor-
tune, sent a reporter to investigate the cir
cumstances. The latter found among the
squalid lodgings on the east side of the city,
little family consisting of Venturoli,
her old Italian mother, and a child.
dish of bones picked out of the
| garbage barrels on the street told how
near they were to starvation. A relief funl
of two or three hundred dollars was quickly
raised, but when it was exhausted the poor
dancer became a street beggar. Not a COM
mon one by the way, in the usual acceptation
of the term. because there is something in
the bent and shrivelled form, the distorted
| face and twisted neck. the tottering limbs
that can move only a few inches at time,
and the great lustrous dark ewes, which never
fails to appeal to the charitable and many is
the dime dropped into her shrunken and USE
less hands. She never asks for a gift, and
having lost the power of articulation, can only
humble her thanks in a word or two of
Italian. 1t is hard case, and there are
hundreds of similar ones, only we don't hear
of them; but if they were known. it takes so
much influence" to get relief from public
Institution that the sufferers frequently die
before the red tape can be unloosed. 1t
seems pity that so much money is sent into
the hands of harpies by people in their Wills
! .,,t,- ha I'D in ot aalay;as md -
| ing by the men and women who make its dis
bursement trade.
| DID He SEE THE Soul?
| week or two ago an incident was related
in these notes concerning soldier who, after
having his leg amputated during one of the
battles around Richmond, felt an intolerable
,ortue in his missing foot until DR.. Sussdorff
the division surgeon, ordered the limb to be
disinterred, washed and reburied, handful
of gravel having been found between the toes
Now, a story comes from the West (and they
never tell anything but the truth out yonderl /,
that scientific explorer has witnessed the
movements of an absent hand through a
microscope of some peculiar construction, and
even seen the passage from a body of de-
parting soul. Given. the amount of fiction
with which the tale is invested, Sir Charles
| Bell, a famous physician. in his treatise on
the Hand written fifty wears ago. suggest, the
i same idea. 10 Wit, that as there is no vacuum
| in nature. every cell and fore in the system
being vehicle If life as far as is known to
natural or microscopic vision, it is reasonable
! to surmise that what we may not see with the
naked eve or the instrument still exists, and
consequently that st. Paul was not so far
wrong when he said with reference to the
day of resurrection, "now we see through a
glass darkly. but then face to face Put