The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-16
How II Worked.

was the mighty ruler who reigned over
the people of Quellepart for so many
peaceful years. King Levyilhed took a
fatherly interest in the welfare of his
subjects, and was ever on the alert to
| discover some new plan for their we'll
being.
King Levvilhed went in and out
among his people as though he were
one of them instead of being their
| sovereign. and no injury could come to
any, no injustice could be done, and no
opportunity could arise for anchor
ating the condition of even the mean
est of the population, without the good
King knowing it, and Immediately the
injury was healed the injustice was
removed and the opportunity ayailed
Of
In travelling to and fro, King Levvi1-
he'd had noticed one very peculiar cir
cumstance. 1t was this, that by some
sinister fortune the persons best fitted
for positions of trust and responsibility
were never found therein, and that the
persons most skillful in one occupation
were invariably employed in an occu-
patton quite dissimilar. Everybody
held place which everybody else
would have more highly adorned, and
everybody could perform better what
was vainly attempted by another
At the theater King Levyilhed ascer-
tanned, by mingling amongst the critics
in the audience, that the actors were
one and all lamentable failures, and
while the King was saddened at learn
ing this fact, he was, on the other hand,
much pie ased to know that there were
so many fine actors amongst the critics.
The King afterwards ascertained that
these critics, while being good actors,
We're very inferior critics. In short,
they were the least competent persons
that could possibly have been found for
that vocation. This fact King Levvil-
he'd got fr ON the actors, in whom the
critical faculty, as they took occasion
to impress upon his majesty, was
especially acute.
And so it was in every department of
art, science and business enterprise
The works of the most distinguished
artists of his realm had their defects
pointed out by hundreds who, could the
brush have been put into their hands,
would have painted faultlessly; the
men who spent their lives cropping after
the secrets of nature were laughed at
and ridiculed by the many who knew
all those secrets intuitively; and the
man at the head of commercial or
manufacturing establishment could
have learned wisdom, and he would,
from the chore boy hired only three
days gone. -
This. grievous state of things caused
King Levvilhed tC ponder long and ear
nestly, that he might rectify it. He
felt that it would not only rebound to
the happiness of all for each to be
placed where he properly belonged,
but it would also be of incalcuable BEN
eft to his kingdom and increase the
wealth and prosperity thereof should
the right man everywhere be put in the
right place.
E9Iherefore, on certain day, King
Leyviihed made proclamation that all
his subjects, whatever their place, post
or position, should forsake their several
callings simultaneously and meet upon
a great plain, where the King would
meet them and give to each man the
place for which he felt himself best
fitted.
This plan seemed good to King Lev
vilhead, and he straightway set about
to put it to the trial. The people for
sock their occupations, as commanded,
and gathered together upon the great
plain in the presence of the King; but
when the people were asked to choose
that for which they were best fitted, it
was found that each could do every
thing eXcellently excepting that branch
of industry in which he was already en-
gagged.
Here was a dilemma the King had
not foreseen, and he knew not what to
do. 1t is true that each one of his
many subjects thought himself peculi-
arly fitted for editing a newspaper, but
it was, of course, quite out of the ques-
ton that all should become journalists.
A kingdom composed entirely of news
paper writers would be altogether too
peaceful.
The King was quite Overpowered by
the versatility of his subjects, and there
is no knowing how ever he could have
got out of the predicament in which he
found himself, had not his Prime Min
lister, the sagacious Blunderwell, whis-
pered word of counsel into the royal
ear.
King Leyvilhed was pleased with the
advice of his Prime Minister, and com
manAed that everybody 90 back ito the
occupation he had forsaken. y rs
And it was so. Boston Transcript.