The Illinois free trader. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1840-1841, 1841-03-05
NUMBER AZ.
From the Albany Cultivatof:
Making Anger Holes wiah n CsIrnh1.

piece of board before him.
Trying to make an auger holeI' was
the reply, without raising his eyes OF
suspendmg his operations. Iii 4
Precisely the business of at least
two-thrds of the world, in this blessed
year 1910, is this making auger holes
with gimblet;" | said 10 myself, ~ I
walked musingly onward.
Here is young A. who has Just escap-
ed from the clerks desk behind the
counter. He sports his mustachios,
wears his hair long; has acquired the
power of being shaved carries rattan !;
drinks champaign when he can COM
mand an \ to purchase a bottle, and
treat friend 10 dinner; talks large of
the prices current, fall of western stocks,
and profits Of banking stands in his
boots two inches taller than Astor or
Appleton and speaks of foreign exchan-
ges as would Rothschild or Biddle. He
thinks he is great man, when all others
know he is only making auger holes
with gimblet.
Mr.. b. is rabid politician. He has
labored hard al caucuses, at ward and
town meetings, has talked of the dear
people till the words flow parrot like
from his lips. and has done full share
of the dirty work of party for years
Office has beenrhe lure held on. to lead
him onward. and which has made him
neglect his business, spend his time in
hunting up recruits. drilling the refrac-
tory, and qualifying himself for barroom
argument and stump oratory. He can
settle the affairs of the nation in a trice
diplomacy has no intricacies for him;
he has shaken hands with the President,
and is a great man. He will soon be
used up and cast aside; and will then
see, as others now do, that he is chasing
a jack o'lantern, that he is making auger
holes with gimblet.
There is Miss c. who is really a pref
ty girl, and who might become wo-
man man of sense would be proud Of.
Now, she apes the ton in all things
reads exciting novels, goes TO the opera.
.admires Celeste's dancing, and has nearly
ceased to blush at the most indecent
nudity, lounges on the sofa, glories in
her idleness, keeps her bed till noon,
coquets with male animals as feminine
as herself imagines that she is a belle,
lorgets that her father was a cooper,
llsps of high life, and plebian presump-
ton, and is in fair way to ruin herself.
All this comes of her belief that an auger
hole can be made with a gimblet
Mr.. d., whom have just passed, may
be put down as distinguished professor
OF the gimblet. He was farmer. His
father left him fine farm free Of incumb-
rance but speculation become rife, for
tunes were made in a iwinkling, and d..
iancied Zone thing could be done as well
rs another" So he sold his farm, and
bought wild lands in the praires, and
corner lots in Autographed cities and
began to dream of wealth worthy Of
golden Ind" Work he could not; it
had suddenly become too degrading.
Who could think of tiling or being con-
tented with hundred acres of land, when
| thousands of acres in the broad west were
waiting for occupants or owners. ID. was
not the man to do it, and he operated to
the extent Of his means. At last the
land bubble broke !; autographed cities
were discovered TO be mere boys and
prairie farms, though the basis Of exhaust
less wealth SIANrthless, unless rendered
productive by labor. But DIS beautiful
farm is gone, and as he is now preparing
on compulsion to become pioneer in the
west, he feels that il is difficult making
auger holes with gimblet.
Mr.. l.. is the representative Of quite 4
class. lie had his attention awakened
to the subject Of religion, and obtained
new views of its importance and his own
obligations. Believing what canno, be
disputed, that love Of God and good will
of man is the only true source Of happi-
ness, and feeling, as every benevolent
mind must, a desire for the welfare Of his
race, he felt himself called to declare these
truths to the world; and forsaking his
lapstone, his anvil, or his plough, became
without delay an expounder of the scrip
lures, sell-delegated instructor of man
kind. lie forgot that the age Of miracles
had ceased: and that the ability 10 teach
must now be acquired by the slow bat
necessary process OF human learning.
He begins to have misgivings that he hss
mistaken his call and will probably,
when too late to rectiiy The error. find that
he has spent the best rart .of his liz