Year: 1876

a steamer on the Hudson river, a whil since, it was reported that eleven per

 sons were drowned,-six walters ant five passengers.

 I It is painfully sad and hard world

 any way one takes it. It is full of sOr

 row and loss and suffering and death

 and one cannot very we'll stop to thlnl

 of it, or unclose his ears to the sur

 rounding walls of anguish, for fea

 his heart will faIl him and the flood.

 sweep down the gates of his fortitude

 But It Is an especially hard world or

 walters. These seem born solely tC

 bear the whips and scorns of time.

 Just look at the case Tn hand; only {

 small, unpretentious drowning of elev

 en persons, and the quota of the suffer

 Ing race of walters is placed at six

 This may be one of those " drowning

 providences behind which smiling

 face is represented as being hidden.

 but to unimaginative people and the

 carnal mind it seems little rough on

 the walters. Sull we have no doubt

 It was exactly so, and that the flats

 and kitchen of the house not made

 with hands were cOrrespondingly rein forced on the identical occasion. It is very hard, but not out Of the usual ten or of walters life. From the early

 breakfast to the late dinner he is the victim of the most untOward fate and circumstances. The merry round of the holidays, the joyous wedding fes- tivities, the sickly gloom of the inva- lids chamber, carry one and the same meaning for him,-added care, increas- ed responsibility, more urgent need for effort and service. For him there is no indulgence in the senslbilities or more refined feelings of life. Resent ment of insult and wrong is loss of Oc- cupatiOn; poverty is the very usual attendant of the profession, and pover- ty is very cruel. Then again, there are the Obtuse facts that walters are proverbially dumb, and when they get an opportunity they are as insolent as walters, and these unfortunate and dis couraging features bring the lot of the whole class around agaln to the un- relievable low average of hard.

 There is only one comfort for this class and that is that the profession is a necessity of life. Men may live without love or wives or homes or happiness or change of heart and linen, but they must have food, and in this restaurant living world they can't very well get food without walters. And from the occupation affordingI constant employment, it becomes al means of amaSsing money and Tn time, stepping up and into a more congenialI position. Even ill an unobservant ex- perience, We have known many in- stances of such advancement. We have known of restaurant walters who by strict economy, and a partial recog- hilton of some of the less important rights of guests, have stayed sufficient ly long in one place to be able, in the end, to buy out the proprietor himself, and after running the establishment, and enjoying the subtle delight of rul- ing the destinies of other walters, for a few months, have been very glad to assign for the benefit of creditors. While such giddy heights are not of ten reached, there are lower levels which may be considered quite within the attainment of average ability and industry. We have known of just smart walters, who have been able to supply as high as six out side families with food, sub rosa. 9th CTS, we have known, a grade lower in ability, who, having entered into an ar with neighbOring restau- rant for a percentage, have driven away one half of the bOarders at their own restaurant, before the game was found out. Walters, still lower in capac- ity, have come to our knowledge, who had joined hands with an adjacent and had served boarders with two pieces of mince pie at one sitting. Farther down, we have been cOgniZant of walters who would eke out a scanty salary by supplying pet bOarders, for a consideration, with del icacies which other boarders would never see. On lower rounds, walters have fallen within our observation who have been under trifling pay to- some private lunatic asylum, and have driven boarders there by bringing plates to the table under thelr arms, knives, forks and spoons in their pOck- cts, napkins between their teeth, so many dishes in their hands at once that certain dishes would rest in the contents of other dishes, or bringing al boarder coffee or tea, and making him wait for the usual condiments therefor until he went raving mad, or sitting down opposite a boarder and rehears- ing to him all his the .iter's) private grievances and defects of his fellows.

 There are other and lower grades of ability and requirements in walters, but we have instanced sufficient tOI