The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-29

man. If you thought you were going to
have an easy time in the grocery, you
would make the mistake of your life, for
YOU would have to roll barrels of sugar
in the basement. and cut cheese, and
sort out rotten cabbages. and sprout po-
tatoes in the cellar, and grind coffee.
You act as if, if you went to work in
livery stable, you would want TO sit III
the office, or drive for the crowned heads
but You would have To wash off horses
and wash and grease buggieS and maybe
drive the hearse to cheap funerals. You
could not drive the omnibus the first
day, and that is the ambition of all
boys. If You went to work in a meat
market, you would want to do nothing
but weigh out sirloin steaks that the boss
had cut off, and you would probably
handle them with gloves, or with fork
but YOU would find that you would have
to turn the sausage machine, and fry
out the scraps, and make yourself use
full and greasy. If YOU were in
meat market, and a poor woman came
in to buy a pound OF pork, you would
take the first piece on top Of the brine
and insist that she should take it, but
she would insist that you roll up your
sleeve and dig away down to the depths
of the barrel of brine, into the rock
salt on the bottom, TO find the piece she
wanted, and if You had a raw place ON
your hand it would smart so you would
want to be mustered out of the meat
market and draw pension. Oh, YOU will
never find an easy place to work. where
You can keep we'll dressed and clean,
until you learn your trade.
Many boys see the typesetters in a
country printing office sitting on stools,
doing nice clean work. and they want
to learn the printing trade right of.
The first day, they put you to distribut-
ing 'pi, and You think you have struck
a snap, but the next day You get the
second degree and have to wash the
rollers, and wash the forms carry dirty
water down three flights of stairs ana
carry clean water UP, and do the roll
ing; and when YOU are ready to go home
the second night, there is ink on your
white shirt and clear up to your hair,
and when YOU get home Your mother will
not own you. You want to quit the
printing business right off. You sun
posed It was all setting twpe and editing
the paper, but you will find that you
have got an apprenticeship of years of
dirty work before you, and forget that
you have got to enjoy it, and forget that
sometimes another boy will talke the ink
degree, and YOU viii be advanced. Ii
You have II IN YOU, and take the various
degrees in the employment you seek. yoa
will some day become the grand master
and YOU can have your hands clean. The
suns advice TO you, boy, would be to
pick out some trade that you think yon
are htted for, put on some old clothes.
and tell them that you want to begin AT
the bottom and learn it clear to the
top, and then don't you ever miss
note or shirk anything, and when yon
are graduated, You are in a position to
teach Others. There is no trade that
vol can learn that, will let you remain
1t the top, and keep you clean and
make You easy, except that of inherit
ng fortune, but that trade is already
)yerrun and there are few openings.
Learn something, and learn it well. and
when You are at the head Of the bust
less, with some gray in your hair. Won
,an enjoy thinking of the days YOU
we're dirty and disgusted.'