The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-24

You will by such process find out that
there Is blind parent or sick sister be-
Ing supported. You will find some OF your
young men In rooms without any fire In
winter ana in summer swelterug In i'll
ventilated apartments. You will find much
depends on the wages you pay or With
hold.
Moreover, 1t is your duty as employer, as
far as possible, to mold the welfare OF the
employe. You ought to advise him about
Investments, about life Insurance, about
savings banks, You ought to give him the
benefit OF your experience.
There are hundreds and thousands OF
employers, am1gad .to say, who are set.
tlng In the very best possible way the des.
tiny OF their employees. Such men as Mar.
shnll OF Leeds. Lister OF Bradford, Akroyd
OF Halifax and men so near at home IL
might offend their modesty II mentioned
their names-these mon have built reading
rooms, lihratIes, concert halls, afforded
croquet lawns, cricket grounds, gymna.
Sums, choral societies FOR their employees,
und they have not merely paid the wages
on Saturday night, but through the con-
tontment and the thrift aud the good
morals of their employees they are paying
wages from generation TO generation for
ever.
Again, | counsel all emplo yers to look
wei after the physical health OF their sub
ordinntes. Do not put on them any un-
necessary fatigue. ] never could under
stand why the drivers on our city ears
must stand all day when they might lust
| us well sit down and drive.
IL seems TO mo most unrighteous that so
| many OF the female clerks In our stores
| should be compelled to stand all day and
through thosn hours when there ars but
| few or no customers. These people have
| nches and unnoyances and wenriness
| enough without putting upon them addi.
| tionHl fatigue. Unless these female clerk
| must 20 up and down on the business OF
| tho store, let them sit down.
But above all | charge you, O employers,
| that you look after the oral and spiritual
| welfare of your employees. First know
where they spend their evenings. That
decides everything. You do not want
| around your money drawer n young man
| who wont last night to see Jack Shep
| pardw man that comes into the store
In the morning ghastly with midnight rev
| elrY Is not the man for your store. The
young man who spends his evening in the
society of refined women or in mualcGl or
| artistic circles or In literary improvement
| is the young man for your store.
| Do not say of these young men, al
they do tholr work in tho business hours,
| that is all have to ask." God has made
| you that mans guardian. | want you to
understand that many of these young men
| are orphans or worse than orphans flung
| out Into society TO struggle for them
| selves.
Employers, urge upon your employees,
| above all, u religious life. SO far from
| that, how is 1t, young men? Instead OF
| being cheerod on the road to heaven some
| OF you are carlcatured, and it Is a hard
| thing for you to keep your Christian integ-
| rlty in that store or factory where there
are so many hostile to religion. Ziethcn,
| grave general under Frederick the
| Great was Il Christian. Frederick the
| Grent was skeptic. One day Ziethen,
the venerable, white haired general, asked
| TO be excused from military duty that
he might attend the holy sacrament.
He was excused. A few days after
Ziethon was dining with the king and
Frederick the Great In jocose way
said, "Well, Ziethen, how did that sacra-
| ment of last Friday dgest2" The venera-
BILE old warrior nrose aud said: "For your
majesty have risked my life many n time
on the battlefield, and for your rajesty
| would be willing any time to die; but you
do wrong when you insult the Christian
religion. You will forgive me II 1, your
| old military servant, cam ot bear In silence
any insult to my Lord and my Saviour"
Frederick the Great leaped to his feet, and
| he put cut his hand, and he said: "Happy
! Ziethenl Forgive me, forgive mel'
oh, there are many being scoifed at for
their religion, and thank God there are
many men MS brave as Zlethenl Go to
heaven yourself, o employerl Take all
| your people with you. Soon you will be
| through buying and selling, and through
with manufacturing and building, and
God will ask you: "Where are all those
| people over whom you had so great in.
| tiuence? Are they here2 VIII they be
here2" o shlpowners, into what harbor
| will your crew sail2 Oh, you merchant
| grocers, are those young men that
under your care are providing food for
| the bodies and families OF men to go
starved foreverI Oh, you manufac-
! turers, with so many wheels flying and
| so many bands pulling and so many new
| patterns turned out and so many goods
| shipped, are the spinners, are the carmen,
| are the draymen, are the salesmen, are the
watchers OF your establishments working
| out everything but their own salvation? :?
| Can 1t be that, having those people under
| your care 1--WE, ten, twenty years, you have
| made 10 everlasting impression for good on
| their immortal souls? God turn us all back
from such seliishness and teach us to live
| for others and not for ourselves. Christ
| sets us the example OF sacrifice, and so do
| many OF His disciples.
| One summer in California n gentleman
who had just removed from the Sandwich
Islands told me this incdent You know
| that one OF the Sandwich Islands is devoted
| to lepers. People getting sick Of the lep-
rosy on the other Islands are sent to the
| isle of lepers. They never come off. They
are In different stages OF disease, but all
who. die on that island die OF leprosy.
| On one Of the islands there was q ply
slclan who always wore his hand gloved,
| and 1t was often discussed why he always
| had a glove on that hand under all clrcum-
| stances. One day he came to the authorl-
| ties, and he withdrew his glove, and he
| said to the officers OF the law: "You see on
| that hand n spot OF the leprosy aud that
| am doomed to die. l mighthlde this for a
| little while and keep away from the isle of
! lepers, but l am physician, and l can
| 80 on that island and administer TO
| the sufforlugs Of those who are
| further gone In the disease, and should
| like to 90 now, 1t would be selfish In me
| to stay amid these luxurious surroundings
when l might be OF so much help to the
| wretched. Send me to the Isle of the
| lopers." They, seeing the spot OF leprosy,
| OF course took the man into custody. He
| bade farewell to his family and his friends
| II was an agonizlng farewell, He
| could never SEQ them again. He was
| taken to the isle of tho lepers and there
wrought among the sick until prostrated
| by his own death, which ut last came. Oh,
| that was magnificent self denial, magnifl
| cent sacrifice, only surpassed by that of
| Him who eXlled Himself from the health
| OF heaven to this leprous island of n world
that He might physician our wounds and
! weep our grlefs and die our deaths, turn
| ing the isle OF u leprous world into great
| blooming, glorious garden. Whether em-
ployer or employe, let us catch that spirit.
Concrete Took Fire.
Concrete is not usually classed
| among the cOmbustihlcs On that tbo