The Want Of The Times

In an exceedingly well-written article in tho April iiumber of the Southern "■ ■' and. Factory on " üur Tonng Men," the writer takes in review all tl; professions, and shows tho folly of eo many young men of good intollects wasting thcir lives in a futile attempt to secure wealth and dignity, or easo and gentlemanly leisure, by entering some one of the so-called learned professiöns. Toil is tlie lot of humanity, and no ono can bccome successfnl who attempts to sliun it. The very faet that so many young men who enter the professions from an ignoble lovo of case, is sufficient to account for the many failures that are found in the professions. We want working young men - men who are not ashamed to be found at work either in tho field or in the shop. Wirt never uttcred a truer sentiment than when he said, " There is no excellence without labor." Tho Crcator of tho uni■versc did not consider it unbecoming his high nature to work, and the creature cannot accomplish the higher ends of his nature without it. Tho want of the times, says the Field and Faclonj, is a race of young, educated working men. " When it was announeed first that 'labor is royal,' tho sentiment ■was ipplauded, and everybody adopted it and admired it as a noble utterance. But uiifiivtunntuly few aspire to belong to tho royal famiiy if labor is to certify to the genuineneM of their letters patent. No, our ycung men are not fond of work, How few go to agriculturc as their . sphere ! How few boldly and manfully seizn the plow handles and till the soil, and thu. Mibduu the earth '. But our people woirj out thcir Hvjs abusing the freedman as a laborer, and then, as a Temody, apply to soino immigration society for foreign whito laborers, and fail with them as signally, wasling their means aucl going in debt year by year, instead of taking hold thoms "lves and learning to be independent of all soëh mitsicri:, eqwvooftl help. Ijot at least half of our young men (or better still, threequartcs} go into farming ; lot them do it rot simpy as a modo of gettinjr, but lot them make it their honeet profession, and go into it hoartily ; let them farm scientifically, laboring thcmsclves, and looking into every part of their business with their own eyes, economizing time, labor, and all other means; road about farming; writc about it ; take agiicultural journals ; keep away from towns, lillages, and political gatherings, except. when they find that thcir duty to the country demands it, and this process, woll kept up, will teil in its influeuoe poflrerfhriy and favorably ou tho next genera tion." If this advice was followcd, we should hear no more oomplaint of ]ard times; we should feel no more dependence upon a 6ervile race ; we should emerge from the slough of despondency, and take our place high among tho favored of the earth. In one of our Western States whero a revival of religión was in progress Mr. 4luidd and Antiquid beoame convinced of fchc neocssity of a chango, of heart, and Both sought it at the altar, at tho samo lime. The raeetiug kept up until a lato ïour, when Mr. (Juidd Deeame weary and concluded to relieve himself by taking a chow of tobáceo. He cautiously took out his plug, hut unfortunately it slippcd iroa his hand on the floor. Ho immediutcly began a Boarch for the tobáceo, which had to be oondooted altogeüier by the senae offeelimg. Wbilfi be was en gagcd in seazobing for his lost pronerty, Bis ixoighbor at his siile had beeome very earncst. in tho work of geeking salvation. At lengtli he feit that he had obtained the pearl of greai prioe, and in the fullnessof his joy shouted : "l'te gal Ut" Keighbor Quidd just at that instant found ihe object of his search and hc answered, " No, you havn't ; fov here it is."