Grass Valley telegraph., 1854-03-30


TRUTHS WELL TOLD.-Horace Greely says
some good things at times in his quaint way.
Read the following, by way of Illustration
"Wanted! young man of industry ability
and integrity, &C., &c.
This meets our eye daily in the column of
Wants. and it is true as the Pentateuch.
Wanted? Of course they are-alacays want
ed. The market can never be overstocked !;
they will always be called for, and never quo
ted dull, or mo sale.' Wanted for tinkers-
wanted for workers-in the mart, on the main,
in the field aud the forest. Tools are lying
ing idle for want of young man; pen is
waiting to be nibbled; tree to be felled; a
plough to be guided village to be founded;
school to be instructed.
They talk about staples and great staples
Honest, indus trious, able young men are the
great staple in this world of ours. Young
man! you are wanted, but not for DOCTOR
No, nor for Lawyer. There are enough of
them for this generation, and one or two to
spare. Don't study profession unless it
be that of bricklaying or farming, or some
other of the manual professions. Don't mea-
sure tape if you can help it It's honorable
and honest, and all that, but then you can do
better. Of all things don't rob the women.
It's their prerogative to handle silks and la
ces, tape and thread. Put on yonr hat then,
like man, don an apron, and go out doors.
Get good glow on your cheek. the Jewelry
of toll upon your brow, and good set of
well-developed muscles. ewould go, if we
could, but then we were young, longer ago
than we like to think and you know, when
ones old, he can't"
Besides. if you become Doctor, you IL have
to wait-because you are too young, say all
the women. If you are Lawyer and likely
to rise, they'll put aweight on your head a la
Swiss, to keep you under, or If you make
good argument. some old opponent. as gray
as rat, will kick it all over, by some taunt
or other, because you were not born in the
year one. And so it will go, until you grow
tired and soured. and wish you had been
tinker, perhaps an immortal one, or anything
but just what you are.
Be farmer, and your troubles are over, or
rather, they don't begin. You own what you
stand on. from the centre of the earth, as
they they used TO say, up to the sky; you
are independent all day, and tired, not wea-
ry at night. The more neighbors you have.
and the better farmers they are, the more and
the better for you.
There's one thing more, young man. You
are wanted. A yOung acOman wants you.
Don't forget her. No matter if you are poor.
Don't wait to be rich. If you do, ten to oneif
you are fit to be married at all, to anybody
that's tit to be married. Marry while you are
young, and struggle up together, lest in the
years to come, something shall advertise
Young men wanted, and none to be had.
The TERM LADY.-The name Lady is an
abbreViation of the Saxon word Leotday,'
which signifies bread giver The mistress of
a manor at the time when affluent families re-
sided constantly at their country mansions,
was accustomed, once week or oftener, to
oisrloute among the poor certain quantity
OF bread: She bestowed the gift with her
own hand, and made the hearts of. the needy
glad by the soft words and gentle actions
winch accompanied her benevolence. The
widow and the orphan rose up and called her
Diessed;' the destitute and afflicted recounted
her praises; all classes of the poor. embalmed
ner IN their affections as the Leofday, the CIV
er OF bread and dispenser of comforts, sort
OF OF, mlnlstering spirit in the world of sorrow,
Who is lady no.c?