The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-01-01 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

IMPROVIDENT WORKMEN.  There are many good and generous people who are occasionally deterred from exercising that benevolence of which their means and their inclination would admit, by considerations of the personal unworthiness of the ap• plicant for assistance. It is only necessary to take in hand the advocacy of any charity to be encountered wits objections of this sort. Especially is this the case in regard to institutions intended for the assistance, in times of need, of the working classes. If we press for contributions to a fund for granting relief in a season ~f sickness, we are told that men in receipt of regular wages should "lay up fur a rainy day ;'' if weattempt to further the claims of a fund for providing support in old age and infirmity, we are shown how easy it would be fur every man who has a business in his fingers to provide some little store for that time which may cOme...-wlien "no man can work." We can are  Elny that the industrial classes `ten thoughtless, extravagant, and im_ mident. They are so to a larger extentt, undoubtedly, than the classes above them. A clerk, for example, will often make a better shoa, and maintain his family far more comfortably, on his hundred pounds a year, than the journeyman on his folty-five or fifty shillings per week. It must, however, be remembered that the working classes, so-called, work harder than any other class. We du not mean to say that they do a larger amount of work than others. To assert that would be altogether wrong, in view of the extent of labour that will be gone through by the clergyman, the doctor, or the lawyer. The hardness of the toil of the working-man consisti rather in its monotony, its ceaselessness, anti to come extent its hopelessness. tie knows that wh At he is doing to-41y he will have to do next week, next year, and probably in ten years to come ; he knows that he must work continuously, not spasmodically, and that when his hand tires his subsistence fails; and in many instances he knows that the end of it will be to leave a wife or tinnily dependent either on their own scanty resources, or on the benevolence of the world. It can hardly be wondered that, under these circumstances, he is particularly apt to obey the scriptural injunction in its letter, and "take no thought for the morrow ;" to enjoy life while he may, and to believe that "sufficient for the day is the evil thereof." There are exceptions to the rule, we are proud to say. Among our toiling millions are many bright examples of forethought, self-restraint, and providence; and it should be the endeavour of every one .who possesses influence with the class to multiply these examples, and to promote the habits which render a man independent of his fellows, either in respect to his own or his dependent's needs.—Printing  On Wednesday morning, Private Henry Stephenson, of the Ist battalion 10th regiment, attached to the 2nd battalion of the same corps at the North Camp, Aldershot, committed suicide by blowing out his brains with a rifle. He had served 16 years, and was sober at the time he committed the act. HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND Pt'As.—Fear:not. Though surrounded by circumstances disadvantageous to health, these remedies, properly applied, will cut-short fevers, influenza, inflammation, diphtheria, and a host of other complaints always lurking about to seize on the weak, forlorn, • or unwary. The superiority of Holloway's medicines over others for subduing disease has been so widely and fully proved that it is only necessary to aslr the afflicted to give them a trial, and if the instructions folded round them be followed, no disappointment will ever ensue, nor dangerous consequences result. In hoarseness and ulcerated sore throat the Ointment should frequently be rubbed on the neck and upper part of the chest; it will arrest increasing inflammation, allay disquietude, and gradually cure.