Wanted--a Chance

The people who say that all they want is ft chance - are you old enough to have found to them out ? Of all miserable souls these used to appeal most quickly to my sympathies. Of course there aru plenty of genuine cases - I think I am expert enough now to detect them at a glance. But I am inclined to think that the vast raajority of chance-wanters are the people most active in throwing ohanees away. I never saw an earnest man long in want of a chance. The trouble is in the man, not in the situation. The individual of all others who has talked to me with the most persuasivo pathos about the lack of fortúnate circumstances, is the man whom I have found most ingenious in evading his opportunities. If the poor devil had pursued the art of aotion with the same inflexibility and industry that characterized his cultivation of that of inaction, the world might have mistaken him for a genius. I have seen him occupy days and weekB in the most remarkable series of moral, mental, and physical skirmishes with duty and opportunity, in which his inexhaustible fertility of resource, perseverance, and valor in a bad cause proved ever victorious. In fict, a chance could never approach nearer than the outpoats - he knew well the enemy"s colors, and took him at a long range. . . " Bpeak of the devil," and se forth. I was about to carry out the above striking military simile, when my young friend oalled to borrow a little matter of f-, and to say that he had been looking all summer for a situation, that he was willing to do anything honorable.und that all he wanted in the world was a - ExoaBe me, sir, - here's some money for you, but I aiu busy and can't talk. - Scrümer'sfor üeptemher.