Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-21
whirlpool of city life where strong ships

whirlpool Of city life where strong ship
have gone down, and for twenty year
not one word has been heard from mel
Vessels last week went nj on the Altar
tic Ocean looking for a shipwreckcd Graf
that was left alone and forsaken on tn
sea n few weeks ago, with the idea o
bringing it into port. But who snal
ever bring again into the harbOr OF peac
and hope and heaven that lost womanl,
immortal, driven in what tempest, aflam
in what contlagration. sinking into wha
abyssy . God, help! q Christ, rescue
II woLD's WANTS.
My sisters, give not your time to learn
ing fancy work which the world may dis
pense with when hard times come, bu
connect your skill with the %indispensa
bles of life. The world will always wan
something to wear and something to ea'
and shelter and fuel for the body, anC
knowledge for the mind, and religion fol
the soul. All these things will continue
TO be the necessaries, and If you faster
your energies upon occupations and pro.
LESSONS thus related the world will be un,
able to do without you. Remember that in
proportion as you are skillfnl in anything
your rivalries become less. For unskiiled
toll, women by the million. But you
may rise to where there are only a thous,
and; and still higher till there are only q
hundred; and still higher till there are
only ten; and still higher in some partic.
ular department till there is only "A unit
and that yourself. For a while you may
keep wages and a place through the kind.
ly sympathies of an employer, but you
will eventually get no nor compensation
II a you can make yourself worth.
woMEN's WAGES
Let me say TO all women who have al
ready entered upon the battle of life that
the time is coming when woman shall not
only get as much salary, and wages as
men get, but for certain styles Of employ.
ment women will have higher salary and
more wages for the reason that for some
styles Of work they have more adapta.
ton. But this justice will come to wo-
man not through any sentiment of gal
lantry, not because woman is physically
weaker than man and therefore ought to
have more consideration shown her, but
because through her natural finer taste
and more grace of manne and quicker
perception and more delicate touch and
more educated adroitness she will i'm GER
tain callings be to her employer worth ten
per cent. more or twenty per cent more
than the other sex. She will not get it by
asking for it, but by earning it, and it
shall be hers by lawful conquest.
A WoRD TO THE MEN.
Now, men Of America, be fair and give
the women a chance! Are you afraid that
the will do some of your work and hence
harm your prosperitics2 Remember that
there are scores of thousands efmen doing
women's work. Do o be afraid! God
knows the end from the beginning and He
knows how many people this world can
feed and shelter, and when it gets too full
He will end the world, and if need be
start another. God will halt the inven-
tive faculty, which by producing a ma
chine that will do the work of ten or
twenty or a hundred men an and m
Will leave that number of people without
work. | hope that there will not be in
vented another sewing machine or reap
ing machine or corn thresher orany other
new machine for the next five hundred
years. We want no more wooden hands
and iron hands and steel hands electric
hands substituted for men and women
who would otherwise do the work and
get the pay and earn the livelihood.
WOMEN WHO HAVE FOUGHT THE BATTLE
ALONE
But God will arrange all, and all we
have TO do is to do our best and trust Him
for the rest. Let me cheer all women
fighting the battle of life alone, with the
fact that thousands of women have in
that way won the day. Mary Lyon,
founder of Mount Holyoake female sem
mary, fought the battle alone: Adelaide
Newton, the tract distributor, alone;
Fidelia Fisk, the consecrated missionary,
alone; Derothea Dix, the angel of the in
san asylums, alone; Caroline Herschel,
the indispensable reinforcement Of her
brother, alone; Maria Takrzewska, the
heroine of the Berlin hospital, alone;
Helen Chalmers, patron of sewing schools
for the poor of Edinburgh. alone. And
thousands and tens of thousands of wo-
men of whose bravery and self-sacrifice
and glory of character the world has
made no record, but whose deeds are in
the heavenly archives of martyrs who
fought the battle alone and, though I'M.
recognized for the short thirty or fifty or
eighty years Of their earthly existence,
shall through the quintillion ages of the
higher world be pointed out with the adj
miring cry, These are they who come
out of great tribulation and had their
robes washed and made white in the blood
of the Lamb.
ENCOURAGEMENT o SINGLE WOMEN.
Let me also say for the encouragement
of all women fighting the battle of life
alone, that their conflict will soon end.
There is one word written over the faces
of many of them and that word is despair.
My sister, you need appeal to that Christ
who comforted the sisters of Bethany in
their domestic trouble, and who in his
last hours forgot all the pangs of his own
hands. and feet and heart as he looked
into the face Of maternal anguish and
called a friends attention to il, in sub
stance saying, John. ] cannot take care
of her any longer. Do for her as | would
have done if / had lived. Behold thy
motherl' If under the pressure of unre-
warded and unappreciatcd work your hair
is whitening ard the wrinkles come, re-
joice that you are nearing the hour of es-
cape from your very last fatigue, and may
your departure be as pleasant as that of
ISABELLA GRAHAM,
who closed her life with a smile and the
word Peace" The daughter of a regi-
ment in any army is all surrounded by
bayonets of defense, and, in the battle.
whoever falls, she is kept safe. And you