The Hazlehurst signal., 1885-10-22
GOVERNMENT CLERKS.
Biighilne Ensct Of such Positions on the
Energies or Young Men.


Energies or Young Men.
A man of affairs, who has been long
in Washington, said to me this morn.
ing: ~ have two boys who will short
ly bc out Of college / would rather
SEQ them begin life as whitewasherS. or
in any character Of manual labor than
a, ,Govcrpmcnt employees. There Is apos'
sibility for development and an oppor.
tunity for symmetrical growth in doing
work that never comes to the depart
mcnt clerk. Nothing more certainly
vitiatcs the energy of young man than
fixed salary when so little is required
in return. lie grows in Incidence. as
constant Incidence leads to bloat and a.
vice steals upon one who has no lauda'
bic employment. IIc leaves everything
but sclf.denial. and to every temptation
becomes prey. Encrvatcd by clerk
ship: when that ends he finds himself
completely disqualified for the struggle
necessary to existence.
While Richard Bright was Sergeant.
,t-Arms Of the Senate, q young man OF
the finest education AMI the largest
promise, Of whose family his family for
at least two generations had been
friends. applied TO him for a position.
Mr.. Bright did not look with favor up
on the application, but as the applicant
persisted in spite of Encouragement he
yielded and gave him place. At the
,nd of the first year the young man.
though of larger integrity than the ay.
cragc, needed the place worse than in
the beginning. He promised that II re-
tanned for another year he would save
his money and come out with means.
The end of the second year found him
more clamorous for another than he
vas at first. IL am deeply in debt, ="
was his plea, "and have no other means
of paying. and unless retained will
leave Washington in disgrace. His
pride, that required the honorable dis.
charge Of those pecuniary obligations,
,,idencci some worth in the young
elbow, and. upon the whole, his case
was u very melancholy one. But Mr..
Bright knew that acccding to his re.
quest would be no Kindness to him, and
was incxorablc. The young man, al
.crna,cly purple with anger and mellow
with rcmorsc, took his departure
Believing this the great misfortune OF
his life. that his sun had gone down In
darkness Mt MONDAY, he bruised about
.xpericncing hard times, until the
Washington malaria, which is only an
other name for stupor, had gotten ou'
Of his system, when lc braced up and
got u position as tickct-puncher at
gate in Chicago depot. Blood vii
.cll in the railroad business. There lit
could make Use of his capital in the
way Of education; to-day he is one OF
.hc Auditors of the road, and on the
way to fortune.
Set adrift. tho pilgrim, and oil of hi'
lnclcs, aud his cousins and his aunts,
were bitterly dcnunciatory of MIR.
Bright's ingratitudc. but they now a'
heartily commend his excellent judg'
mcnt and no one more earnestly than
the Railroad Auditor a study of this
history reveals that in nincty.ninc case
out OF every hundred the appointment
of a young man, or the appointment o
man who, having no property. SUR
-cndcrs his identity at home and BRING
! family to Washington, is the worst
thing that possibly could bcfall him.
Washington Cor. Indianapolis Sentinel