Prefers To Loaf

K. r. Hall tells of a recent !iajppïuog right ln'vc in Aun wkU-h nakes one doubt the exlsteuej of hard imes in the year of our Lord 1897. Mr. Hall needed some work done Wedtesday so he went to a group of men who spend most of their ti-ne on Du : eopner "#a}t'ing for work" and isked orie r thé men f Ue wanted i Uttle joh. The man laesibated .ml isked wi),ii kind of work ii was. Mr. Hall told hi'n tliat he wanted to flnd i man who was wüllng to work m matter whal kind of empJoyrneni it was and passed on to another man The second man took the job anil worked in Mr. Hnll's yard Cor Coui hours. He tola Mr. Hall'a hired -n.-n that bis was the ftrst job he had hai Eot reu days. Oul of plty the felloiw waa offered an afternootn's job of s,r,v ing wood. 'i'iiis he 3harply i-e fused, saying: "No, I don't saw woo Cor any man"- and he lidnt. Tin sooner such men gel oul of onr citj the better Cor us all. A man wii ld rather starve iimn accept hon Ie employment to which, chance, he ís nol accustomed would (a better lonk for i-ome other coinrauaitj to support hirh through the winter.