Death In Life

The other day I heard a Cabinet Minister tnlkiug to a young clnip wiio wnnted a place. " My young lncnd," isaid he, "dou't apply. Saw wooil, drive cow, miything honorable, lmt preserve your independenc". I have n man in luy departmont who lias bron in lorty yoars. " "Forty yeaie?" " Y(R, every day of it. He ramo in iu 1820. WeJÜ, ho gets about thts same salary he had to oommeuoe witli. The othor day he cnme to ín Bfiying ' I oiipjlit to have die;l fui-lv yeai'8 ago.' ' ViMi don't mean that,' I. said, 'Ycs,' said he, 'I mean tlmt. 1 liftve been Imru'd in this building forty yenrs, and I hn'd jiiKÍ un wcll been buried in the grave. Wli:it's the differeuee beteeu toralfs'? Oí wliat advautage linvc I been to mysclf in bete? I had ïiothing wheu I eame iu, and liave got nothing nmv. I am disinialiiied for nnythiug. I f I was tumed out to-day I would starve to-niorrow.' Ho muoh for a Govennnoiit position tlmt youug men are so anxious to a-et. The.y liad better let it nlopfij" -