Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-05-25


our city cars must stand all day when
they might just as well sit down and
drive. 1t seems to me most unright-
eous that so many of the female clerks
in our stores should be compelled to
stand all day and through those hours
when there are but few or no custom
ers. These people have aches and an
noyances and WEAKNESS enough with
out putting upon them additional
fatigue. Unless these female clerks
must go up and down on the business
OF the store, let them sit down
The Duty of Employers.
Bur. above all, charge You. o en-
ployers, that You look after the mora
AM spiritual welfare of your employees
First. know where they spend their
evenings. That decides everything
You dc not want around your money
drawer a young man who went last
night 10 see Jack Sheppard" \ man
that comes into the store in the morn
ing CHASTITY with midnight revelry is
not the man for your store The young
man who spends his evening in the
societ! of refined women or in musical
or artistic circles or in literary i'm
proven ent is the young man for your
stCiC.
One Of my earliest remembrance is
OF old Arthur Tappan There we're
many differences Of opinion about his
politics, but 10 one who ever knew
Arthur Tappan. and knew him well.
doubted his being an earnest Chris
tian. In his store in New York lac hal
room whore every morning he called
his employees together, and he prayed
with them. read the Scriptures TO them.
sang with them. and then they entered
on the duties Of The day On Monday
morning the exercises differed and he
gathered the young men together and
asked them where they had attended
church. what had been their Sabbath
experiences and what had been the
sermon. Samuel Budget had the larg-
est business in the west Of England
He had in a room al his warehouse a
place pleasantly furnished with com
Portable seats and Fletcher'S Family
Devotions" and Wesleyan hymnOOoks.
and he gathered his employees together
every morning and. having sung, they
knel; down and prayed side by side
the employer and the employees. DO
YOU wonder at that mans success and
that, though 80 years before he had
been a partner in a small retail shop
in a small village. at his death be be-
queatled many millions God can
trust such man as that with plenty
Of money.
Present Surroundings.
Sir Titus Salt had wealth which was
beyond computation. and at Saltaire.
England he had a church and a chapel
built and supported by himself-the
church for those who preferred the
Episcopal service, and the chapel for
those who preferred the Methodist ser
vice. At the opening OF one OF his
factories he gave a great dinner, and
there were $500 people present. and
in his after dinner speech he said TO
these people gathered: Il cannot look
around me and sec this vast assem- bl-
age OF friends and work people with
out being moved. feel greatly hon
0red by the presence OF the nobleman
at my side. ard | am especially de-
lighted at the presence OF my work
people. | hope to draw around ne a
population that will enjoy the beauties
OF this neighborhoOd a population o.
wei paid. contented. happy opera
tives. | have given instructions to my
architects that nothing is 70 be spared
to render the dwellings Of the opera
lives pattern TO the country. and If
my life is spared by divine Providence
I hope to see con;entment. satisfac-
ton and happiness around ne"
Tina! is Christian character demon
strated There are others in this coun-
Try and in other lands on a smaller
scale doing their best for their en-
rloyes They have not forgotten their
own early struggles They remember
how they were discouraged how hun
CRY they were and how cold and how
tried they were and though they may
be 60 or 30 years OF age, they know
just how a boy feels between 10 and
20 and how young man feels be
tween 90 and 80. They have nor for
gotten it, Those wealthy employers
were not originally let down out OF
heaven with pulleys OF silk in a wicker
basket satin lined, famed by cherubic
wings. They started in toughest
cradle. on whose rocker misfortune Put
her violent foot and tipped them into
the Geld world. Those old men are
sympathetic with boys.
A Religions Life
Employers, urge upon your en-
ployes, above all, religious life. So
far from that how is it. young men?
Instead OF being cheered on the road
To heaven some of you are caricaturcd,
ard il is hard thing for you to keep
your Christian integrity in that store
or factory where there are So many
hostile TO religion. Ziethen. a grave
general under Frederick the Great
was a Christian Frederick the Great
was Il skeptic One day Ziethen, the
venerable. white haired general. asked
to be excused from military duty tha:
he might attend the holy sacrament
He was excused A few days after
Ziethen was dining with the king and
with many notabes o, Prussia when
said, well. Ziethen. how did the sac