The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-06-19

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bio until now he vas On ono aide |
ot Tie baF aad ! wa ca th6 other He
took q drink and took the money
We ere about even on that score.
Wbats lAe dilieroncog A nice, sweet,
Weli-mauuered girl or young woman
who waits on the customers Ia d large
dry goods house is on one eide Of the
counter aud q rich aristocrat.o lady Is
on the other. One had money, the
other had goods aud they exchanged
that's all, Which Ia ahead ia the
comedy Of life and which will be ahead
when the play Is ended and final iudg-
ment is rendered. With one life is q
fashionable farce; With the other
struggle for bread. "Give rs this DAY
our daily bread" is her morning
prayer.
The position Of these working girls
is a hard one al best, but kind words
aud fair wages soften il down greatly.
They beg for these places Aad get
them, but Why women should not be
paid as much as men for similar SER
vice ! cannot understand. Ny infor-
nation is that they are paid about
half aud the Employers excuse Is that
competition is very great aud as others
cut rates they must do so, too, for la
Dor is worth only what it will bring
aud q woman's labor can be had cheap
er than a mans. That is not q good
excuse. II is not to the interest ofthe
employer to get labor on such terms.
Twenty dollars a month will not keep
young woman N good health and
good clothes aud leave anything for
sick mother or q child, or for doc
tors bill. A big.hearted, generous
man will inquire into the condition OF
every female employe he has, and as
far as possible make it his own con-
Germ. They are, as it were, his wards
for the time, and he cannot escape the
responsibility.
Before the war there we're no shop
girls, but for thirty years this great
transition has been going on, and now
the south, like the north, is full Of
working girls. The children and
grandchildren Of those who once were
proud and independent are now forced
to become their own bread winners
There is no perception for them. 1t is
daily food for daily labor. The rich
are growing richer by short cuts and
questionable means, oil of which in
their last analysis come from the earn
Jugs of the toilers and grind the faces
Of the poor Widows and orphans
whose husbands and fathers left them
stock or bonds in a great railroad have
lived to see it wrecked by the unscru-
i pulous schemers and by the time the
/ wreckers had done with it thei-
stock and their bonds were worth
less. Daniel Webster got a fee Of
$4,000 for making q speech in
the Myra Clark Gaines case, and il
was Eoised by the press as an enor.
, nous fee, but now a common lawyer
gets $4,000 for. bringing the money
of q wrecked railroad into court. An
! incorporated company accumulates 6
, million dollars surplus and asks the
court what to do with it. There wa:
no fight, no contest, but the lawyers
who took the decree are awarded
} SIS, 900 for bringing tho money into
) court. Receivers and lawyers prey
{ upon the carcasses Of corporations like
| buzzards upon the carcasses of brutas
9 and but little is left for creditors Of
stockholders. These are the thing
t that fill the people with distrust ant
, disgust and paralyze industry and in
! timidate capital. know q lady ant
t she is sitting near me now whose father
! left her $40, 900 of stock in railroad
in Alabama. 1t was good stock anC
had good prospects, but the schemerr
9 got it into court and had receiver
2 appointed and it was wrecked and solo
? to the bondholders for a song and ash,
E lost every thing but the certificate
; When she comes across it now among
: her archives hear her hummjng TIM
: sweet old song, ''This world is all a feet
ing show" But let the working girl
e cheer up and always look on the brigh
I side. If they can't get married le
. chem look around and see how nue.
/ misery marriage brings-how few wo
men are happily mated. Encourage
cheerful disposition, and If you can
. be happy, be as happy as you can
Trust in the Lord and do good. Tt
Z not all of life to live nor all of deaf
, to die. There are many blessings tina
= cost us nothing. I never pass by M
neighbours Mrs. Field's) front var
that is radiant with beautiful flower
D but what think how cheap they ar
] to me. 1t is a good idea to sometime
? think of that poor little boy who's
/ mother covered him with straw one BIZ
ter night and put an old window shuttle
on the straw to hold it down
"Mother," said he, ''it isent ever
) little boy that has shutter to hol
down his straw. is it?" And there