The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-23

from being uncommon among young
men. The desires and wishes of youth
are so worldwide, and they are so ready
to fly Off pursuit of the first whim,
that peremptory checks which their
young ambition so often receives from
the authority of parents, and the gentle
but firm dissuasives which they meet In
the affection of sisters, becomes a sad
burden.
Arthur Melton - for so the young
Engllshman called himself-had been
educated to profession, that of medi-
cine. But he was restive under the
slow progress which the conservative
customs of the old world impose upon
rising young man." He wished to
bound at once to a high position; and
finding 1t impossible, was irked by the
sage advice of his father, and rebelled.
He changed his residence repeatedly, at
each change making his prospects
worse, which increased the difference
between himself and friends; until at
last he determined to free himself entire
ly from their interference, and expended
his last funds in procuring a passage
across the Atlantic. His hopes were
high and sanguine as to what he could
effect when once beyond the reach of
interruption from ill7judged kindness
and he landed in New York with
gloomy pleasure that there were none
among the thousands of that city who
might presume to offer him advice, or
to control his conduct.
But he soon discovered that there are
greater evils in the world than the
partiality of ones family, and more
troublesome obstacles to encounter than
the control of father and MOTHER
While his little stock of ready money
lasted, he enjoyed the selfish pleasure of
the {" welcome of an inn, y and delighted
in the mercenary politeness and sub
servience of those who knew no other
rule than to follow his directions so long
as he could pay them for SO doing. His
small capital, however, was soon ex-
hausted. And then he found that there
are eyes more prying and jealous than a
mothers or sisters. The first indica-
tions of narrow purse were the occa-
sions of wise looks from those who had
abridged its circumference; and Arthur
Melton was enraged to discover that
certain agreeable fellows" cooled down
to zero in their friendship, when he at
tempted to obtain "trifling loan.n
The need of money was something en-
tirely new to him. He had anticipated
in the new world such demand for
his medical skill, as would leave him
neither want nor leisure; but he was
met with the disagreeable fact that the
professions are overstocked here as well
as elsewhere. He could find abundance
of gratuitous practice, but this neither
paid his board nor his office rent, and
he was compelled to give up both board
and Office, by the pertinacious manner
in which demands were pressed upon
him. He had no home to fall back
upon he felt the oppressive solitude of
a man entirely alone amid thousands
What could he do? What but emigrate
again ?"
A wise man in his predicament would
have remained in New York. But even
in his short stay there he had made
some acquaintances to whom he did not
like to betray his poverty as if they
had not already suspected it. So he
came to Philadelphia. He came with the
determination - graduate of Oxford
though he was-to accept any employ
ment that he could find, however hum
BILE. He tried several advertisements in
the " want" columns of the newspapers.
He would be teacher of languages, clerk,
book-keeper, anything; but to none of
these public applications did he receive a
syllable of answer. No letters came to
"X," SO" to " Oxford" or " M. D.n
He applied personally to every drug
store which he passed to obtain employ
ment; but alas the wretched con-
ventionalisms" of an "old, worn-out
world'' were in his way in the new
Nobody had employment for man
who could give no references. His val
uables had been pawned or disposed of
one by one, till he was left at last with
out money, or the means of procuring
any, and was compelled to leave the
house where he lodged, cheap as it was,
and find accommodations still cheaper.
A slight blush passed over his face as he
acknowledged that the first remunera-
tive pursuit to which he brought his