Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-15

able not only TO ask but to deman1 more
wages and to demand them successfully.
UnskiIei an incompetent labor must take
what is given. Skilled and competent labor
will eventually make its own standar l. Ad-
mitting that the law Of SUP ply AMI demand
regulates these things, l contend that the
demand for skilled labor is very great and
the supply very small.
Start with the idea that work IS honorable
and that you can do some one thing better
than AT yone else. Resolve that, God help
ing, you will take care Of yourself. If you
are after while called into another relation,
you will all the better be quaIifed for il by
Your spirit OF self-reliance, or if you are
called to stay as you are you can be happy
and salf-suppOrting.
Poets are fond of talking about man as an
OAK and woman the vine that climbs it, but
have seen many tree fall that not only
went down itself but took All the vines with
it. [ can tell you of something stronger
than an oak for an ivy to climb on, and that
is the throne of the great Jehovah. Single
or afffance1, that woman is strong who leans
on God and does her best. The needle may
break the factory band may slip, the wages
may fail. but over every goo W oman's head
there are spread the two great, gentle, stu
pendOus wings of the Almighty.
Many OF you will go single handed through
life, ana you will have to choose between
two characters. Young woman, [ am sure
you will turn your back upon the useless,
gigging, painted nOnentity which society
ignomini0usiy acknOwie iges to be a woman
and ask Col to make you humble, active,
earnest Christian.
What will become Of this 90 Hess disciple
OF fashion? What an insIlt to her sex! Her
manners are an outrage upon decency. She
is moro thoughtful Of the attitude she
strikes upon the carpet than how she will
look in the judgment, more worried about
her freckies than her sins, more interested
in her bonnet strings than in her redemD-
tIOn. Her aDn1rpl iS the est mart of
Christian woman. however magnicantly
dressed, and no one has 50 much right to
dress we'll as a Christian. Not so with the
goddess disciple Of fashion. Take her
roAes, and you take everything. Death
Will come down on her some day, AMI rub
the bstre off her ayeIi Is, aul the rouge off
her cheeks, and with two rough, bony hands
scatter spangies AMI glass beads and rinS3
and ribbons AMI lace AMI brooches AMI
buckles and sashes and frisettes and golden
clasps.
The dying actress whose life had been
vicious said The scene closes. Draw the
curtain" Generally the tragedy comes first
and the farce afterward, but in her life it
was first the farce Of a useless life and then
the ira gedy of a wretche1 eternity.
Compare the life and death of such a one
with that of some Christian aunt that was
once blessing to your household. do not
know that She was ever offered Il hand in
marriage. She lived single, that untram-
melel Sne might De everybody 5 bIeSSing.
Whenever the sick were to be visited or the
poor to be provided with bread. she went
with a BLESSING. She could pray or sing
Rock of Ages for any sick pauper who
asked her. AS she got older there were days
when she was a little sharp, but for the
most part auntie was sunJaam-just
the one for Christmas eve. She knew
better than any else how to fix
things. Her every prayer, as God heard
it, was full of everybody who hal trouble.
The brightest things in all the house droppe1
from her fingers. She had peculiar notions,
but the grandest notion she ever had was to
make you happy. She dressed well-auntie
always dressed wel--out her highest adorn-
ment was that of meek and quiet spirit,
which, in the sight of Col, is OF great price.
When she died, you all gathered lovingly
about her, and as you carried her out to rest
the Sunday-school class almost covered the
coffin with japonicas, AMI tho poor people
stool at the end OF the alley, with their
aprons to their eyes, sobbing bitterly, and
the man of the world said, with Solomon,
''Her price was above rubies," and Jesus, as
unto the maiden in Jud8a, commanded, II
saw unto thee arise ~