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Show The Chinese Shoemakers. A North Adams correspondent of the SoringSeld Republican, says of the Chinamen recently brought to that town to learn the shoemakiog trade: So much about the tra ie in general. Th' ir capacity for their future work has been but slightly tested as yet, but tnat little has proved it beyond doubt Mne men are n..v at work bottoming, under tuition of some sensiole Americans, Ameri-cans, and have made remavvable pro 2ress. Some of them are already capable of turning out a complete shoe far better than the average of Mr. Sampson's work for some time past and before the 1 -t of July .Mr. Sampson wi 1 have the full force at work, turning out shoes that will rank him at the head of the trade. The Chinaman's imitative faculty is precisely pre-cisely the most valuable element lor rapid and sure mastery of work, it makes some queer inciden's, however. You remeber the story of the man who sent an old coat for the Chinese tailor to pattern his new one by, and how Snip did it so accurately that he copied the patch on the elbow. Well, when the Yankee instructor was nailing nail-ing the heel of one shoe, yesterday, he accidentally bent a peg, and ''John," in his conscientious in.ita'ion, when he came to the same place on the other shoe, also bent a peg ! |
