Show SOMETHING WORK EELS BUS AND WAGE PAYERS A PLEASANT event eventt bat that occurred a short time ago at lowell massachusetts is worthy of ricord because it is out of the usual line ol of relations between emple and the employed sarah norcross had worked at the boott cottonmill cotton mill sin in lowell steadily for a period of half a century of course she was getting old and could not do as much at her draw drawl iBs Hg in frame as she could coald twenty five years ago for she was sevesty leventi five anve years of age besides there had bad been great changes in the alyle hod and mainer ot of work new machi machinery hery had bad been introduced trod and instead of coarse beaus a and nd blue drilling the finest fabrics known to the trade wera beina deuced danced what did her employers do cast her afriat adrift and say she was now too old to 14 be of any service pervice to them cat down her wages to starvation point and tell her if she like it she could go inform her she was too old for modern business and mut mu t make way for quicker eyes and nial nimbler bler finners fingers no none of these toe following letter to the agent will best explain the course pursued toward the faithful worker 00 STATE STREET boston i june une 16 1 dear mr dum cummock mock 1 I enclose a check to your order for boo will you yoa be kind enough to give this money to miss bliss sarah norcross 8 and say to her that it is a little present from the stockholders and directors la in recognition of the fact that she has completed her year of continuous service at the boott cotton mills this is a longer term than any of the rest or oe us ciu cin c iu in show and it is pleasant to know that all through triese years she has never found a reason for desiring to leave us please grease to assure miss bliss norcross that her shall be reserved for her as long ions as she cares lor for it and that when she ceases to occupy I 1 ii i we shall still keep our interest in her welfare yours faithfully ELIOT C it was a cheering sit sight to behold when the agent called her aside tram her work in the big mill anti gathering the hands around read lier ce lue letter and handed her the check the old lad lady was astonished as well as delighted 1 gd ted and so were her fellow laborers but the sensation of the hour was complete when agent gain mock drew from his bis pocket a klusti covered case and revealed a handsome gold batca which ne he handed to sarah as fl a present from himself and a token of his bis appreciation of her ber fidelity the applause which droke broke forth was not only a sign of appreciation ot of this generosity but of good eff effect eer it produced upon her fello w la borers who could not fail to be urged to emulate her steg steady and honest service it is otten often said there should be no sentiment in business so much work for so much pay the more of the work and the tae less of the pay that is possible being the motto of the uin em and thi the vry very reverse that of I 1 the employed it is a mistake sentiment often sanc sanctities titles trade and takes away its sordid influence and a boad of union between the wage worker and the wage payer paver must beef mu 1 advantage taase lowell spinners will be bound to do better service than if sarah Nor norcross criss had bad been discharged as old and incompetent after fifty years of steady work there are ways in watch la laboring horing people can caa sab serve the interests te resti of their employers who have little sense ot of what they lose toy by the penuriousness which them mistake for economy and the heartlessness which they erroneously consider is hec necessary essary to strict business it will be found by experience that in the long run it pays to treat men and women no matt mattor matter or how bow menial ma may be their occupations as human beings of the same race as the rich of the same original parentage as the highest and mightiest of the earth they are the sons and cauthers dau of the almighty father and have souls and sympathies and rights and A FUTURE FUTURE and in the cycles of eternal change and progress who knows how the conditions of the present may be re versed how the humble may be exalted and the haughty abased and how ati be who in this life had a surfeit of good things may come dowa to low estate and be thankful for a small favor from the hand of a former tier ser vast now exalted to a throne kindness generosity appreciation ot of faithful service are never entirely thrown away tor for even it if received receive with ingratitude as they sometimes are the gains in himself by his bis magnanimity and it is sure to brink bring its fruits which are the ver very y opposite of those that spring from rom the roots of selfishness hardness and closefisted close fisted listed severity we commend the example of the lowell cotton firm to employers generally and the pattern of steady faithful and devoted labor offered in the life of the aged cotton spinner to those who toll toil for a living slid and to whom either in this life or that which to is to comei come duty well pert performed ormed will mill surely bring brim a rich reward |