Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1844-11-15

knew that the will was creative, and made to
itself the means for gaining its ends. 1t the
consciousness of this that gave him courage to
hope even in the hour of deepest darkness.
Some time had elapsed since he thrown
out Of regular employment. and even he had been
made to fear often amid his hard struggles. At
ledgth. try he would, he could find nothing to
do.
One morning, after having been idle for week,
he found himself with only q single dollar left,
and no kind of prospect in regard to work. For
the first time he could not relish his food. For
the frs! time his confidence forsook him, and, IN
stead of cheerful woods for iho of his wifo, he
was silent, depressed and thoughtful. To sec
her husband, always before, in every trying stu
alton, 50 assured and cheerful thus drtsessed a
bout their prospects, at dashed the spirits Of
Lucy to the earth When she did to
speak in her husbands presence, her voice
, trsmalous, when siso looked him tho ia "a, h.
could see that her eyes just ready to run
over with tears. He could no. bear this. 1t
caused him the most poignant affection of mind
Early after the scarcely -tastcd morning meal, he
went out with a kind of desperate determination
to get something to do at all hazards.
There is, there must be work for him that is
willing to do it, somewhere he said, half aloud
as he strodo away from his door.
He had not gone far when he met his old fell
low workman, Wilson. The latter looked quite
contontod. Since his last job, he had made a few
feeble efforts to get something 10 do, but failing of
success, was now quite contented 10 eat his bread
quietly and wait patiently until timos grow bet
ter. i he statement from every one he met, that
business was worse than and that 1t no
use to look for work, satisfied his mind.
! 'Ah, good morning Harkcr, he said, with
something of triumph in his voice-soven your
will can't always find way, it seems. So you
are idle STILL
Yes. | have not been abla to got any thing
to do for week.
nd g..
year.
! 'lll get something 10 do before this day is O.
yer, was the half desperate reply.
At street sweeping, them
| Very we'll. Let it be street sweeping, or any
other honest calling that can find. Work |
must and will have
81 want work much as any one, but | am
not quito prepared for street sweeping, saving
wood, or turning carnnn.
If you had wife and three or four children
to care for, you might 30 thankful for the chance
| of turning o penny in either of the occupations
you havo named
But hav'nt, thank fortuner
i have, then; and am willing to work at any
honest calling
By this time the friends who had been walking
Gown Washington street, had nearly reached the
I Battery. Harker, paused at Il corner of street
and said he going to cross the other sido of
Broadway, and look about among the store hous-
Pearl and other business streets, to see If
he couldn't get work ln5orer, light porter
y on are not IN earnest, surelv' Wilson said.
! a laborer or porter.'
Il am in oarnest,' Harke- repliod why no. {?
/ Will i, not be much better for me to work in a
warehouse, or carry small parcels, or Go the err
rands in a store, than 10 sit down, walk idly
about, while my family is suffering! think SO.
Come, walk down upon the battery with me at
any rate Perhaps something Will offer there.
/ Who knows but what you might find small boat
ha friaI. A me IT, n
and two foreign ships of war, lying off in the
stream
This said lightly, bu. i, made tho hoar. of
James Harker bound. Tho suggestion he at
glance was good one. He did not hesitate u
! moment but walked with quicNoned pace to the
battery, and down towards Castle Garden. Sew
eral small boats wero there, IN each Of VIII ich was
|, an active srnan.
What will you charge to take me off to the
Consteaton' q man with lady his arm
asked of boatman, JUS! as Harker and his friend
came up.
Two shillings piece to go, and the Same to
RETURN the reply.
. That is dollar to take US there and back
again7'
Yes, SIR
\ The gentleman and lady entered the boa, and
were rowsd off.
Just the thing CALCULATED Harker. a. the boat
bounded away. Thank you hundred times for
your suggestion. Wilson,
But YOU not in earnest'
/ 4 am His Frightening face spoke more une.
, quivocally than his words
i Nonsense But where will you &c. boas?'
Il Hire one.'
You can't
i Il can try. And where there's will, there's
way And 50 saying, Harker turned away
and took direct to the lower end OF the
Battery, where he soon succeeded in getting boa.
from q man with whom he acquainted. la
this he rowed around to Castle Garden. Wilson
curious to sec where all this would end had rema-
ined standing by the railing of the Battery. He
could hardly believe his own eyes, when he saw
Harkcr come rowing, close under where he stood
& ask, loosely, if no did not wish to go to the
Constellation. But word two had passed
between them, when half dozen men camo uf