THE UNEMPLOYED IN AMERICA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1631, 11 March 1884, Page 3

THE UNEMPLOYED IN AMERICA.

A New York agent for the unemployed has furnished some statistics to the New York journals respecting the present condition of labor in that city. At the beginning of September tbero wore 5000 bookkeepers in New York seeking places, mostly between 25 and 30 years of age. Thevo aro already .' 23,000 bookkeepers in the city, includ- '' ing a great number of mon who could work at a hundred different things, but who persisted in keeping books or remaining idle, Scarcoly any earn 25 dollnrs a week, and not many 20 dollars, the averngo being from 15 to 18 dollars; and good bookkeepers could . • .be furnished at from 15 to 12 dollars per week. Thcro were a great many applicants, chiefly Germans, and a great many places in the bnrkeeping lino, The Germans have supplanted the Irish in this business, and during the" dynamite season," it was hard to find a berth of any kind for an Irishman.- Book-canvassing is a profitable business, and women are the best at this, one earninjj 25 dollars a day when she fairly goes to work. But she only works at the most three days a week, Messrs Appleton said one of their canvassers made from 20,000 to 25,000 dollars: a year Serviceable boys are ■ difficult- to procure. Out of fifty applicants not more thau. 20 will be be woith trying, and five out of the 20 worth keeping, the odds being 10 to 1 against the boy. Boys will get 5 dollars per week, but they are lazy, careless, or want to do something else; or their parents say they are overworked, The number of persons unemployed in New York and Brooklyn is extraordinary, and a gentleman «ho recently advertised for n clerk at 10 dollars a week.received-700 replies. This is the result of tlio forcing system of State Education. .REMEMBER THIS.; If you arc sick Hop Bitters will surely aid Nature in making you well when all else fails. If you are costive or dyspeptic, or are suffering from any other of the numerous diseases diseases of tho .stomach or bowels, it is your own fault if you remain ill, for Hop Biltors is a sovereign remedy in all such complaints. If you are wasting away in any form of Kidney disease, stop tempting Death this moment, and turn for a cure to Hop Bitters. If you are sick with that terrible sickness Nervousness, you will find a "Balm of Uileiid" in the use of Hop Bitters. If you are a frequenter, or a resident of a miasmatic district, barricade your system against the scourge of all countries—malarial, epidemic, billious, and intermittent fevers—by the use of Hop Bitters. If you have a rough, pimply, or sallow skin, bad breath, pains and aches, and feel miserable generally, Hop Bitters .will give you a fair skin, rich blood, and sweetest breath, health, and comfort,' hi short they cure all Diseases of the Stomach, Bowels, Blood, Liver, Nerves, Kidneys, Bright's Disease. £SOO will be paid for a case they will not cure or help. Druggists and Chemists keep. That poor, bedridden, invalid wife, sister, mother, or daughter, can be made the picture of'health, by a few bottles of Hop Bitters, costing but a trifle. Will you let them suffer 1