Show TJ T- T f- f J V r 1 i X V 4 j I. I S- S fT 1 J L 1 t THE BRITISH JOURNEYMAN r A Lite ot p Poverty erty With n a finale In InThe inThe The he Poor has an unattractive unattractive un un- un The English journeymen Reuben Gold Reuben attractive life says in le an ln article on Viage Village Life Ale in Old England in the May MayNew I New ew England Magazine Starting out to miles away at six his work perhaps morning with witha o'clock in the summer slimmer a heavy basket baskot of tools and food lood over ove his bis shoulder he lie often works until then eight absolutely half an hour bour is allowed him for lor his hal cheerless meal mearo of cold tea and b bread lad and fat bacon at nt noon ho he has bas an hour or less for what dinner ho he has has has' brought with him and at nt live five o'clock ends his days day's task he sometimes taking a light lunch in iii the middle of the tho afternoon As with the farm laborer rheumatism early eary seeks him mm him for a victim and at nt sixty he be is quite p apt n to be a n useless old man with a l a crick in his back a burden to himself himsel and his relatives Earning at nt his best and in the height of a n busy season not to exceed one dollar dolar and twenty- twenty five cents per da day dat with long stretches of either sickness or 01 no work invariably family his hands I a large on hi possibly a drink habit which makes every spare penny burn in his pocket and the cost of provisions not on the whole below that prevalent in America for lor the same some quality of supple supplies he neither accumulates savings saving's nor apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap wishes to Let him endeavor parenty to rise above his fellows or ot furnish more comfortably his little cottage e- e which the landlords landlord's agent keep so o neatly without but whose hose interior is 19 neaty apt to be cheerless enough enough lie he would in in many communities be scoffed at and shunned at the alehouse as ns a n aman aman man too proud for that state of life le unto which it hath bath pleased God to call cal him bim Then again the union will i receive him when at last lat his wo worl worl- worl ris rising ing wg days dYs are over and he looks forward for- for ward waid with com complacency or shall shaH we wes s say ty with sullen indifference to ending his days as ns a pauper The picture i is is gloomy enough enouch but Merry Engl England nd is filled with ith such if yo you care to look for them S |