The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-09-30
is VERY CHEAP.
OCCUPATIONS THAT SHORTEN THE
! LIVES OF TOILERS.

Ny lady delicately tracing embroid-
cry upon fine linen knows nothing and
cares less about the men who fashioned
the needle she holds in her tapering fin
gers. But those men shortened their
lives in the making Of it. Perhaps by
the infinitesimal fraction of a second for
that particular needle, but when they
they ground it and polished it they in
hailed into their lungs the invisible par
ticles Of steel that flew from the whir-
ring stone. Consumption is a very com
mon disease among needle makers.
Human life is the cheapest Thru on
earth. "How many lives will 1T cost?'
is a question that never err tiers into the
calculation Of architect, bridge builder,
manufacturer-of any One who supplies
the necessities Of t'ne world, forwards
its progress or lids to it's comforts.
human lie IL Che one raw material of
WhIch the crop never fails, in producing
WhHC.I there are no strikes. And while
f.nere are Il vast number of trades and
manufactures in their very nature dam
gerous to life, you cannot induce the
men who work at them to take up other
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higher wages will tempt them, which
goes to show that a man has as little re-
gard for his own life as my one else has
for it.
No need TO mold lead into bullets to
make it deadly. Workers of lead, house
painters, artists, gilders, calico printers,
t~ypefounders and typesetters shot found
crs, pOtters and braZiers will tell you
that. 50 will the WOrkmen who handle
vulcaniZed rubber, those who wrap
goods in tinfoil, ever the fishmOngerS
who handle lead counters covered with
brine. Lead poisoning, next to alcoholic
poisoning, is perhaps the commOnest
toxic condition. Lead collie is almost
as prevalent as that other collie that
rouscs the happy father and sets him to
pacing the tloOr with his squalling son
and heir.
When a man suffers with chronic
lead poisoning his digestion is disturbed.
He has no appetite, and his skin usually
takes on a peculiar yellow hue. His
gums show u characteristic blue line,
which is sulphide Of lead deposited
there. He has pains in his joints and
ofttimes paralysis. His paralysis usually
affects the eXtensOr muscles of the hands
and fingers. and SO produces what is
popularity called drop wrist" Once in
Il while lead poisoning affects the brain.
4 case IS recorded where a painter suf-
fcring from it thought he saw wind
bags blown up to look like men," and
other apparitions which made remarks
to him and caused him a great deal of
anxiety. With all due Difference to the
medical faculty, it would seem doubtful
whether talk about wind bags blown
up to look like men" should be taken as
an evidence of insanity. There surely
are such things in real life.
Wcrkuen employed at extracting gold
from its ores, those who silver mirrors,
makers Of b~arOneters and thermometers
have Of course to live in an atmosphere
more or less ~imprcgnHtod with mercury.
So DO those who etCh. who color the
finer sort, Of wool and who take part in
the manufacture of felt hats. In these
latter occupations The mercury is in the
form Of lis ~uitratp. Mercury is the de-
light of every dentist whose heart is
really n his work Too much Of it sal
iv"t,+ "a man and makes his teeth drop
out, 80 that Il mirror s"ilr"rpr /, extremely
apt 10 go mTmb!ing, tGothless. through
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other c,mn,rn54 s,vrrn,nnIv TaLIa
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breaks down tbe ba,Ith of thoso who
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