Connecticut western news., 1891-03-25
how correctly a bushel of beets is measured; and there are not many honest milkcans.

honest milkcans.
 Receptions do not all cluster round city halls. When our cities sit down and weep over their sins, all the sur rounding countries ought to come in and weep with them. There is often hostility on the part of producers against traders, as though the man who raises the corn was necessarily more honorable than the grain dealer, who pours it into his mammoth bin. There ought to be no such hostility. Yet producers often think it no wrong to snatch away from the trader, and they say to the bargainer, "You get your money easy" Do they get it easy? let those who in the quiet field Hnd barn get their living exchange places with those who stand today amid the settlements of commercial fife and see if they find it so very easy.
 While the farmer goes to sleep with the assurance that his corn and barley 'ens sa.szSse "a growing all the night, moment by moment adding to his revenue, the merchant tries to go to sleep, conscious that that moment his cargo may be broken on the rocks or damaged by the wave that sweeps clear across the hurricane deck, or that reckless specu- lators may that very hour be plotting some monetary revolution, or the burg lars be prying open his safe, or his debtors fleeing the town, or his landlord raising the rent, or the fires kindling on the block that contains all his estates. Easyl Is it9 God help the merchantsl It is hard to have the palms of the hands blistered with outdoor work, but a more dreadful process when, through mercantile anHe- ties, the brain is consumedl
 THE LIES OF THE TRADERS .
 In the next place we notice mercan- tile ies-those before the counter and behind the counter. will not attempt to specify the different forms of com mercial falsehood There are mer chants who excuse themselves for devi ation from truthfulness because of what they call commercial custom. In other words, the multiplication and univer salty of sin turns it into virtue There have been large fortunes gath cred where there was not one drop of unrequited toll in the wine; not one spark of bad temper flashing from the bronze bracket; not one drop of needle wo1nan's heart blood in the crimson plush; while there are other great es- establishments in which there is not one door knob, not one brick, not one trinket, not one thread of lace, but has upon it the mark of dishonor. What wonder if some day hand of toll that had been wrung. and worn out, and blistered until the skin came of, should be placed against the elegant wall paper. leaving it's mark of blood-four fingers and a thumb; or that some day, walking the halls, there should be a voice accosting the occupant, saying, ''Sn cents for making a shirt;" and, flying the room, another voice should say, Twelve cents for an army blank et;" and the man should try to sleep at | night, but ever and anon be aroused, until getting up on one elbow he should shriek out, Who's there2'
 One Sabbath night, in the vestibule 1 of my church after service, woman fell in convulsions The doctor said she needed medicine not so much as something to eat. As she began to re- vive in her delirium she said gasping ly: Flight centsl eight centsl eight cents! I wish l could get it done; am SO tired! wish I could get some sleep. but I must get it done! Eight centsl eight centsl' We found after ward that she was making garments for eight cents apiece, and that she could make but three of them in day Three times eight are twenty four! Hear it. men and women who have | comfortable homes!
 Some of the worst villains of the city are the employers of these women. | They beat them down to the last penny | and try to cheat them out of that. The woman must deposit dollar or two before she gets the garments to work on. When the work is done it is sharp | ly inspected, the most insignificant flaws picked out and the wages refused, and l sometimes the dollar deposit is not given back The Women's Protective I union reports case where one of these l poor souls, finding & place where she could get more wages, resolved to change employers and went to get her pay for work done. The employer says: II hear you are going to leave me. !" ''Yes," she said, land am come to get what you owe me-" He made no an swer. She said, Are you not going to pay me?" "Yes," he said, II will pay you, and he kicked her down the stairs.
 There are thousands of fortunes made in commercial spheres that are through out righteous. God will let his favor rest upon every scroll, every pictured wall, every traceried window; and the
 joy that flashes from the lights, and I showers from the music, and dances in the children's quick feet pattering through the hall, will utter the con- God
 ! LIES ARE UNNECESSARY.
 l A merchant can, to the last item, be thoroughly honest. There is never any need of faIsehood. Yet how many will, day by day. hour by hour, utter what they know to be wrong You say that you are selling at less than cost. If so, then it is right to say it. But did that cost you less than what you ask for it2 If not, then you have falsified. You say that that article cost you twenty-five dollars. Did ita If so, then all right. If it did not, then l you have falsified.-
 Suppose you are purchaser, You