Waste Of Time

Time is grand nbjoot if waste. Consldering how short our span is, it is mervelous how heavily t h:m?s nn hiinri with soma of un, nnd how vve trv nnri vtiinly trv, to " kill " the olil i fieman with the scythe and Imtir a-lss Bv i niercilnl provisión, onr rninds n penr to l)e inonpil)le f dwelling, save nt rare interval, nn the tricklinjï iiway nfriiir frw h:uidfnls of san3, for '.ve phfïuM si.vely sn rund f We waí;hcrl iho deéoírdí tick a!A'nv inio ternilv, nnd our hours (rom our gras. with the terror ani] rernorso tht mia'ht bu perhapt expectad. . But veo yqvf nnd. dwadle, or we ckafe and lmsile, Hrd vve yish grent fminents nf onr Ufe nwav, that it mav he next mon'h, and qu:ir'(-r day, or next week, nnd the ynetioo. of next yííir, nnd we wi.-h somethinï finer higher, ind more happv, than nt present, and - and present Iv np comes tha oíd gren'leman, to tirn tlie hour-W for othera and cut ps down with bis soythe. With reference to troublo and time, many paople scnrcelv peem to know whíit wíisío is. Men hnve spent a Ion lite n o:rvinar cherrvstones nr little hits ot ivory, in wr'üing the " Tliud," or the Testament on asmuch velliim as would go within thö aotppafw of a nutshc-ll ; in studyine; porne nbtniw, but qppretitly Uíeloss art ; in makincr mimi tinv an'omoton thiit. amuefd others for a fevv Tniímtes Professor P riguin, who hiis spemt í'orty-fiva venrs in aatnlntjtfing: birds anrl butterHies, cannot beliove himselfa trirter, or that life can havo u nohler íiitn than an inlimate acquaintnnise wilh wel}b:fiotqd wadtírs and 'leath's head moths. Oaptsin Fits Fluke, aHin, has devoted nearly a long a period to perfec!i;i liimselí' iu billiul'dx, can do such things with the ivopy bahu and hs pet cus as move the sympathy of every maker of a billitird table. Tho captain and tho professor look with mutual soorn npnn the o.ccupations wliio'n ergross the lives of each iithor. Mrs. Sticlierton, vvhose life mav be measured out by the squares nf Beiün wodI work uhii;h hor needie has bcgim iind finisht'd, looks with rontoinpt on lh Nestor of thu hunliiig field, 'Hquire Hark"r, who bonsts th ,t he luis fullowed the bonrids f'or eighty years. and who hus held in his band thu bnishes t i tboiisand Sapley, tho oriëntalist, whose mernory is stured wilh filty barbnric dialeois, ubose iinosyltidyü iHU'-t dio witli him, oince he lins neither books to interprel, nor civilized folk to talk wi h, lias not 1 . ; ï cl out th suin of hU exHtence niucli moro profitably than Ti'obocco, thejuiigler, yiio can do ovurv'tiin" with canis ball.", gwprds and í'ld. fish that iqay booma a mountebank.