News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-07
TALKS WITH THE BOYS.
WHAT NJ. QUAD SAYS ABOUT MAKING
WAY IN THE WORLD,
AS n jewelers. Apprenticeship Routine Of
American Farm Life-I.ife in the Lumber
Camps.
From the Detroit Free Press.l

From the Detroit Free Press.1
A watchmaker's Geweler's) apprentice
must bind himself to serve for four
years. Don't take up the trade unless
you feel that it is the one you were born
for, because you must have q true eve.
delft hand and large stock of patience
and perseverance. An apprentice re-
ceives from 81 to 81 per week the first
year, furnishing his own board. The
wages for the second year are from So
to 81 and at the end of the fourth wear
he must be fine workman to receive
$50 per week.
Ii you desire to learn typesetting you
should enter an office where YOU can
learn to be thorough printer. In
the Offices of the big dailies the trade is
divided up. The typesetters or compos-
1tors learn only that. Another class
learn only job work. Another class feed
the press, and another class superintend
the feeders. Few of them are thorough,
alI-round printers; and one class cannot
do the work of another. In a daily in
small town there are fewer classes,
and on a weekly the compositor can
learn the job and presswork as we'll.
You would have to serve for three years
in any event, and the first years salary
would be from 50 to So per week. In q
city You would board yourself at these
figures, but in town you would proba-
bly, find home with the publisher.
The routine of American farm life has
plenty of hard work in it. In summer
you will be out before sun-up. If two
or three COWS are kept you will do all
the milking. If five or six are kept you
will assist. You will feed the working
stock, take care of the pigs, and after
breakfast go to the pillow or other
work. You will be expected to work
in the field until shutdown, and then
milk and do other chores after supper.
In winter you will not be out as early,
and there will be no field-work. In
place Of it you may split rails, chop
wood, mend fences and do odd jobs.
The pay is fair, the living good, and you
will not be without friends. The chances
are that before you are 25 years of age
you will have land of your own, as this
is a country where an honest, hard
working man is certain to get ahead.
Lumbermen start for the woods in
November.
After your first day in lumber camp
you will doubtless be willing to affirm
that it is the hardest work ever laid out
for boy of your muscle.
The pay runs from SO to S25 per
month and board. The provisions con-
gist ofsalt beef and pork, beans, potatoes,
bread, coffee, molasses, etc. The men
eat together and sleep in rough hunks
in big 'shanty." The work is from
daylight till dark, and it consists OF
chopping, teaming, loading, skidding
and other work requiring strong arms
and stout backs.
A lumber camp is the last place you
should start for. The men are, many of
them, rough and wicked. They are far
removed from all moral restraint, and
have but little care for backwoods law.
The evenings are spent in card-playing,
drinking, smoking, and wrangling.
Is there anything better for you TODD?
Yes, q thousand times better IF there
is no opening for you to learn trade in
Toronto pack up your clothes and set
out for some other field. If you have to
half the time, keep going until you find
an opening. As a mechanic you may
come up a respectable and respected
man, aDle 10 earu IdlE support Ior
family. As lumberman you will be
loafer in summer and dog in winter,
you will have neither home nor moral
Influences. You will be cast among a
bad lot, and in time be as bad as any of
the gang.
at your age boy cannot afford to
make mistake. Give up all thoughts
of the lumber camps and start ont to
find the trade you are fitted for. Efyou
are rebuifed by one man try another.
There's place waiting for you some
NYhera