Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-06-05

fatigue. I never could understand
why the drivers on our city cars must
stand all day when they might just as
well sit down and drive. 1t seems to
me most unrighteous that so many OF
the female clerks in our stores should
be compelled to stand all day, and
through those hours when there are
but few or no customers. These peO-
pie have aches and annoyance and
WEAKNESS enough without putting
upon them additional fatigue. Unless
those female clerks must &C up and
down on the business OF the store, let
them sit down. At the end Of the year
you will find that they have sold as
many goods and made as fine bargains
yea, better; for one clerk with q
clear brain and rested body and radi-
snce will sell more goods than two
clerks with health ~bedraggled.
Then | would have you carry out
this sanitary idea, and put into as few
hours as possible the work Of the day.
Some time ago-whether it has been
changed l know not-there we're 1000
grocer clerks in Brooklyn who went to
business at 5 o'clock in the morning
and continued until 10 o'clock at
night. Now, that is inhuman.
1t seems to me all the merchants in
all departments ought, by simultane-
ous movement. to come out in behalf
of the early closing theory. These
young men ought to nave an opportu-
nifty Of going to the mercantile library,
to the reading rooms, to the concert
hall, to the gymnasium, to the church.
They have nerves. they have brains,
they have intellectual aspirations, they
have immortal spirits. If they can do
a good round days work in the ten or
eleven hours, you have nc right to
keep them hsr messed for seventeen. l
dc not think that any intelligent en-
rioyer a afford to be reckless of tho
physical eld mental health Of his sub
ordinaten.
But you are net only to be kind to
those who are under you-Christianly
kind--but you are also to see that
your boss workman and your head
clerks and your agents and your over
seers in stores are kind to those undor
them. Sometimes a man will get a
little brief authority in q store or in a
factory, and, while they are very cour-
teous to you, the capitalist, or to you,
the head man Of the firm, they are
most brutal in their treatment of those
under them. God only knows what
some of the lads suffer in the cellars
and in the lofts of some of our great
establishments. They have no one
to appeal to. The time will
come when their arm will be
strong, and they a defend themselves,
but not now. Alas, tor some of the
cash boys, and the messenger boys,
and the boys that sweep the store.
Alas, fer some of them! Now, you
capitalist. you, the head man of the
firm, must look, supervise, see those
all around you, investigate all beneath
you.
And then / charge you not to put
unnecessary temptation in the way of
your young men. Do MOI keep large
sums of money lying around unguard-
ed. Know how much money there is
in the till. Do not have the account
books loosely kept. There are temp
tations inevitable to young men, and
enough of them without your putting
any unnecessary temptations in their
way. Men in Wall street having thir-
ty years of reputation for honesty have
dropped into Sing Sing and perdition,
and you must be careful bow you try
a lad of fifteen. And il he do wrong,
do not pounce on him like q hyena. II
he prove himself unworthy of your
confidence do not call in the police,
but take him home, tell why you dis
missed him to those who will give him
another chance. Many a young man
has done wrong once, who will never
do wrong again.
All. nv friends! I think we can az
ford to give every body another chance,
when God knows we should all have
been in perdition il he had not given
us ten thousand chances.
Then If in moving around your fac
tory, or mill, or barn. or store you arc
inexorable with young men, God will
remember it. Some day the wheel OF
fortune will urn and you will be a
pauper, and your daughter will 60 to
the work-house, and your son will die
on the scaffold. If in moving among
your young men, you see one with an
OulluOuS pdilOI VI CuSoh' VI you hCoi
him coughing behind the counter, say
to him: .'Stay howe a day or two and
rest, or go nj and breathe the breath
of the hills" If his mother die, do
not demand that or the day after the
funeral he be in the ore Give HIM
&C least a week to get owe that which
he will never get over.
Employers, urge upon your en-
ployes above MI q positive religious
! life. You can do it. You are in a
position not to be laughed at or scoffed
at or jeered at. You hold the keys Of
the establishment, and by your position
you demand reverence. Now urge all
chose employees into a religious life.
So far from that, how is it, young menP
Instead of being cheered on the road
to heaven some of you are c~aricatured,
and it is a hard thing for you to keep
your Christian int gritty in that store
or factory where there are so many
hostile to religion. Ziethen. Q brave
general under Frederick the Great,
was a Christian. Frederick the Great
was an infidel. One dsv Ziethen, the
venerable, white haired general. asked
to be excused from military duty that
he might attend the holy sacrament.
He was excused. A few days after
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