The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-06-11
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| bna6 were leIC over from the night DeIore,
or the crumbs they chew on their way
| through the street. Here they come
The working girls of New York and
Brooklyn. These engaged in head work,
these in hower-making, in millinery,
paper-box making; but, most overworked
of all and least compensated. the sewing
women. Why do they not take the city
/ cars on their way up? They can not afford
| the five cents. If, concluding to deny her
self something else, she gets into the car,
! give her a seat. You want to see how
Latimer and Ridley appeared in the fire.
| Look at that woman and behold a more
horrible martyrdom, hotter fire, more
agonizing death. Ask that woman how
much she gets for her work and she win
| tell you six cents for making coarse shirts
and finds her own thread.
! speak more fitly of woman's wrongs
| because she has not been heard ia the
! present agitation. You know more of
what men have suffered. I said to a col
ored man who, in Missouri last March,
| came into my room in the morning TO build
| my fire: 'Sam, how much wages do you
people get around here?" He replied:
''Ten dollars a month, STRIP 1 asked:
"Have you q family?" "Yes," said he,
'swife and children" Think of ID; S120 a
| year to support family on. My friends,
there is something in this world awfully
atwist. When I think of these things I
| am not bothered as some of my brethren
| with the abstract questions as to why
! God let sin come into the world. The only
| wonder with me is that God don't smash
this world up and start another in place
! of it.
One great trial that the working classes
| feel is physical exhaustion. There are
| athletes who go out to their work at six or
seven O'Clock in the morning and come
| back at night as fresh as when they start
| ed. They turn their back upon the shut
6le or the forge or the rising wall, and
they come away elastic and whistling.
| That is the exception. l have noticed that
when the factory bell taps for six O'Clock,
the Woodworking man wearily puts his
/ arm into his coat-sleeve and starts for
home. He sits down in the family circle
resolved to make himself agreeable, to be
the means of culture and education to his
children; but in five minutes he is sound
| asleep. He is tagged out-strength of
body, mind and soul utterly exhausted.
/ He rises in the morning only half rested
| from the toll. Indeed he will never have
/ any perfect rest in this world, until he
| gets into one narrow spot which is the
only perfect rest for the human body in this
| world. l think they call it gravel Has
| toll frosted the color of your cheeks? Has
it taken all spontaneity from your laugh
teri Has it subtracted the spring from
| your step and the luster from your eye,
until it has left you only half the man you
were when you first put your hand on the
hammer and your foot on the wheel? To-
morrow, in your place of toll, listen, and
you will hear voice above the hiss of the
| fTPu oac md bo Of ha uv,I
the clatter of the shuttle-a voice not of
machinery nor of the task-master, but the
voice of an all-sympathstic God, as he
says:
Come unto me all you who labor and are
heavy laden, and / will give you rest.
Let all men and women of toll re-
member that this work will soon be over
Have they not heard that there is a great
holiday coming? o! that home, and no
long walk to get to it. o! that bread and
no sweating toll necessary to earn it. OF
| these deep wells of eternal rapture and no
| heavy buckets to draw up. / wish they
would put their head on this pillow stuffed
with the down from the wing of all Gods
! promises. There remains a rest for the
| people of God.
| wonder how many tired people there
are in the house to-day. A thousandf
| More than that Two thousand people
who are tired, tired out with their life,
tired in hand and foot and back and heart.
| All there are more than two thousand
people bere to-day, supposing all the rest
! to be in luxury and in ease. Yonder is a
woman who has her head down on her
hand. What does that mean? Ask her.
1t has been tiresome week to her.
"OP she says, "when win I ever get
any rest?"
May God comfort all who toll with the
| needle and the sewing machine, and have
compassion on those borne down under the
| fatigues of life
Another great trial is privation of taste
and sentiment. There are mechanics who
| have their beautiful homes, who have their
| fine wardrobes, who have all the best
fruits and meats of the earth brought to
their tables. They have their elegant
| libraries. But they are the exception.
| A great many of the working people
of our country are living in cramped
abodes, struggling amid great hardships,
| living in neighborhoods where they do
not want to live, but where they have 90
! live. do not know of any thing more
| painful than to have fine taste for paint
| ing and sculpture, and music and glorious
sunsets, and the expanse of the blue sky,
| and yet not be able to get the dollar for
the oratorio, or to get picture, or to buy
one's way into the country to look at the
setting sun and at the bright heavens.
] While there are men in great affiuence,
who have around them all kinds Of lux
uries in art. themselves entirely unable to
| appreciate these misunderstanding their
| books by the square foot, their pictures
| sent to them by some artist who is glad
| TO get the miserable daubs out of the studio
there are multitudes of refined, delicate
women who are born artists and shall
reign in the Kingdom Of Heaven as art
lists, who are denied every picture and
every sweet song and every musical in
strument. Oh let me cheer such persons
by telling them TO look up and behold the
inheritance that God has reserved for
them. The King of Babylon had hang
! ing garden that was famous in ali the
ages, but you have a hanging garden bet
ter than that. ALI the heavens are yours.
They belong TO your Father, and what be-
long to your Father belongs to you.
But have no time this morning longer
to dwell upon the hardships and the trials
Of those who toll with hand and foot, for /
must 20 on to offer some grand and glori-
Gus encouragements for such; and the first
encouragement is, that one Of the greatest
safeguards against evil Is plenty to do.
When men sin against the law Of their
country, where do the police detectives go
TO find them? Not amid the dust Of fac
tories, not among those who have on their
"overalls;" but among those who stand
with their hands in their pockets around
the doors Of saloons and restaurants and
taverns. Active employment is one Of the
greatest sureties for pure and upright
life. There are but very few men with
character stalwart snoU sh to endure con-
secutive idleness.
Sin is an old pirate that bears down on
vessels whose sails are tapping idly In the
wind. The arrow Of sin has hard work to
puneture the leather of an old working