New-York daily tribune., 1854-04-27
SEED FOV sORROW.

rleId Advertised for on ofcs clerk or Okkeep,r
n our lost morning issue and before dinner he WAS
Obliged 10 come dowL aud beg that the advertisement
he stopped forthwith, rs his pre- Dises were crowded
with applicants aud his own time engrossed 10 gettiog
rid Of thcm. And his we have every 20 believe,
is a very general experience. Yet at thi, very hour
reaI or quite every sober skllful effective mechanic
or artisan in ou city bas abundance of work while from
tie ming districts every eide have urgent calls
for Industrious labOrers We doubt wheh, there ia AZ
tlis moment 4 comfy in the Union wherein mechanics
farmers Of good character are Dot ia a, v. demaua
ct good sage. have been paid in any April suce
IS36-or perhsps ever. An intelligent competent
ollirg worker WHO respc-ts Is himself meeus TO esrn
his money does not drink chew 0baccO ia this
Coy in deua1d amOs. every where; he may have good
wages aud, if single and prudent he cin save some
thing; be can vita suia family, if hi, wife is caDa
bic at frugal even with large family too young to
tsrn any thing he csn make a living if blessed with
health and strength; yet Thousands every side are
running away from certain comfort and ultimate
petcUce to swell tie legion of surplus lawyers DOCTORS
clerks &C. WHO do nOt balf live, because they can get
ICthrg TO co-the world having enough such as they
sspre to se without them AMI not choosing to discard
tie doctors. lawyers. clerks dc whom it has tried
ard feels confidence in, for ser whose caps
cities uDtr6d and OF wpom it knows little good
WlluoD ever grow wiser The fresh breath of
tie COunry careers through our filthy streets daily
sid Clteu psses hslf wsy over our Cry before it
quite corrupted b! their reekiug abomilatOns. Tie
BIRDS singing their bl'he carols on every lanlwarl
sce aIo ever, influence would seem 10 be calling the
needy from he payements 10 the fresh green turf YET
here OF n IN fho has al
wondering and psiuing that they can find nothing
t. 90
We Know that macy Of theu have excuses-ig
Iolarce o. Onr language ignorance of rural pursuits
ii lesth bodily inf nifty relatives who cannot be
taken away VITA hem; means to 60 upon aud 40
Yet krOw further that half of these are no ex
cuses at all ard tie rest miinly poor ones A man
W. knows how to plOS, plart an] NOW needs 10
know sery little English to qualify him for country Ia
Tor; aud he will learn more very fast in farmers
family Ignorance Of fa'm laJ,r il more serios
drawback; but hearty, wiling pan may very soon
TRIM pc over that Let him ask the first honest-look
ing farmer lie mees to take him on trial for few
ontbs, teach hin how 10 work, and pay him what
ever beyond his board he may have fairly earned when
he quits, and all will go right. Eyen though he should
mers work he will thus have qualified himself for e-
fciency thereafter and need never NOR stand idle nor
voIk for nO'lpg. liza mans health is bad here il is
probable that the City does Dot agree with him and
that country air and rustic labor wi do him good
Want of means i. excuse for he who has but few
slrgs may well spend these 10 travelling inland u
quest If work az in standing die here. In short nine
tCn'hs Of al the destitute and idle here would proba.
lily find work by earnestly seeking Il anoog the farm
ers, and oulL at any rate 10 make the attempt.
As 70 The uDg men who dssert5g their fathers
irms in quest OF clerkshfs and the like in cities we
are suIe most Of them VIII rue The movement First
becsuse it is erain that here are too maly would be
clerks sready so that every new asprlbt to nercan-
tie appren'iccslip must either starve himself out or
'oue ore tlse Nex because mercantile success i. in
god degree lottery and 1t /. certain tha where 80
many stte1l lt this career, nu-. 20 10 the wal
II every teith man were 10 turn merchant or clerk
good share OF them must TAIL not because they are
comPeten or extrayagsnt icatentive 10 business
bur because the producers and will not pay so
aIy meD for erely exchanging thei respective pro
tucts But every farmer may lire If he masD within
bnself and carno, be starved out by lack OF other
neh favor Let each youth be first thoroughly in
stIucted IA farming echsnic art and then If
be chooses be may try something else 10 the COMFORT
rg consciousnsss that be FL back Oh his orgiaal
caln g If unsuccessful in tie other