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Show WORKED TO DEATH. Tha London in7v Anci ot" tho 2th ult. ci-unii':iils editorially on a ot A-atli whinh ha.t mor.'- 'Iian a local wgt.Uicaot:.?; A young '. ;t u,,'l l iu an Kuxli.-li poful lt-ltiKriii.il ultwe, . wli.; n-yuiar bourn til' work re I rum " 1 p.tu. ut 0 & id. i or t1i'ut-)u hour a ' .by, ami tk:y moluliiiK tlni whole ot Hit; nithr, and wlio aouirlmK: to reiaaiu ai lii (,o,H ( -uty-ine ltoiiih, Mi'i ou u.; oo.-iiijn thirty icveii, re-.(iitiniml re-.(iitiniml temporary Iriivu of iiL-ciioe ibe riarunlay previous, wan ruru'i, look -.irk ti- xi tiny an.l ilit-J in an hour. A H)t-niti-tt:in fiamiiiitioii hhowt-ti that ....I In ..vh-iii.iii.ii from -oiihtmii'tii'D, and it tor.jnir b jaiy rc-lurtitid rc-lurtitid a vcrdici acoirdinly. I he youuK in mu wun literally wmi'd to .l.-mh, ihroiixh u un-n ile economy hirli .lamuudcd uwirf w-.rL ami longer huurw than bin iiliyr-ieal powers could fnduiu. Whilo it hxs huvn ctutuiiiiiry in Kdijiiiiid tor mort of tho oooiiiyiinj KOveruiucnl elerki.liii3 to 1a; made public tarncbJ, exuiui-lm of idle urns aud liuy live?, it in ju.t tme ; ibut rlerU in tho post ofli.io department depart-ment have ht;eu overworked and underpaid. under-paid. And nine) ihe tek'Kriiph hues havo pan.4t;d Dtidur lha cuntrul of tho ptwul dttparrniuiH, it appears tho wme oxceMiivu work is demanded iroui ita operator-. '('be death of this youuy oiuu ia but one illustration of a policy which ia generally adopted by corporations, and ' which often producer moat fatal ro-tml(-i. In the oao relerred to one death oceurrcd, and if exhausted ua- . i Luxe had tailed to perform its required duties the reateHt injury that could have happened from a blunder made in a mo mem of sleepiness and prostration, prostra-tion, would have been uu error in telegraphy tele-graphy which might have cost money but could hardly havo been irreparable, liut if, innU-ad or' bciug at nn operating , i-aMe, ht had boon puinnrmo on ai railroatl, with two trains ihundcriug j alouK to tnoet and puyw each ot her, and , hw duty required him to have his points closed that they ini.hi pass ; freely; aud, he, worn out by long hours and keen watchiog, had become sleepy and stupid, and left the puinii, open, who would have been to blame for the horrid death, into which scores might havo been hurled by tjio terrible and , inevitable collision? This in no purely ituaiuary case. It counterpart occur-, red, and that not ho lonp uo, -'- the cast; lud disaatora caused by overworked overwork-ed men occupying positions of grave responsibility aro of too fregucot occur-reuee. occur-reuee. Corporations mar havo no wuls, but thoy have a koou regard for their own interests; yet it is a miserably miser-ably poor policy that destroys property worth moro than the salary of a hundred hun-dred men for ten years, in trying to iavo the wugcsi of one or two. It is of a piece with the same policy which seat a hundred souls to eternity and destrosvd a valuable ferryboat, in the' WestitM explosion, by running a vessel ves-sel with a defective boiler 2nd a careless care-less and iik'ouipeienl. eoneiUenily, a cheap, engineer. |