Out Of Work

Wo have ecen the celebrated man wliose 'foul was gewed up in a eloveí leaf - tho now iiigignilicaut atom of mulo creation - the individual who only counts as one-sixteenth of fl man in the census reports He doos not attempt to t;ecp in the background eitbor a ono would i-upposo it rratural for hirn to do. Not :. bit of it; you may soe liiii) leaning up agaiiinf, the simny wa!l of any corner groccry. with hip hands in his pocket, aud no particular expression in bis face. Six feet high, and often lacher - broad as m ox across the shouldera -- hands that might alrnoat usovo the sido of the house - why on earth ia not the man doing1 ometliú'g '1 VVhy doos not soixtebody shake him ou'. of his torpid sta!o, or poke liim up with a stick, as Van Amburg does bis sleepy lious? ' Oh, lia is out of wovk. Ho haen't anytlnng to do I and íji-es a tremendons yawn, and considers the possibility of gertiag trusted for aunthcr glasn of ■omsthieg !:ot, ' Out of work.' Man alive, are there no broad prairies out West V 110 goriousold wooda wrtitiüg tho settler's ux? no liidden harvests in the generous hoarts of a thouaand sunny alopea f Is there no land of prorr.ise, whoro the stront arm of a determinad man can win the fairent -garden of nueccss? If you have no work whcro you nrs, why don't you go viiiore it is ? A roan is uever out oí work until he is ouc of the world ! ' Nothing to do!' Has ho no overtaskcd vvife at horne, who mainlaiiis liira in his idiene.s.-), 'uy toiHog ai. the needie when tho white-headod babies arfi asleop ? .wbose aching brow and tirei', spina must never be alluded to, because he ' bates to hear women grumble ! Would it degrade him to help her in her cares - even to hold the fretful baby a few minutes, at tho risk of being oaiied ' Biddy' by his boon companions of the procory ? Aman ha no right to gay he has 'no tb ing to do' as !)ng as ono single fellovv creature is porishing at bis ide for lack of an outstretched band to lid and comfort. The faot is the man is shiftlefs, or he would iipeedüy find enough to occupy hia unwonted fcisruté. If he had been Sir Isaac Newton the principal oí attraction of gravitation never would have been discovered, for he would have been fast aeleep under t!io appietree wben the Spitzenburg tumbled down. If he had been a Noah, we should all have boe Dowhere, for he would have sit noddinpr under the shndow of' the palm tree.':, and thü ark never woilld hfive got bulit, sbovïnr or no showc. Could not an asyium bo contrivod Bomewherefor these unfortunates wht) oan't 6ud snything to o ?