The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-06-07
The Country Boys Idle Search in Town

l. AC Oouubly Ivy 1ule SEARCH IN Town
There are 30 many able bodied mer
idle in Montreal, 80 it is said, that tier,
were the other day over fifty applicants
for the place left vacant by the death OF
street oar driver. In this city, in all
the large cities OF the United States, there
are always large numbers of young men
idle, and it is suggestive that Tor the place
of driver of horses there is commonly
great excess of applicants As a rule
city bred boys are not experts in that
sort of work, and similarly, as IA rule, the
greater proportion of tue meu who apply
for drivers positions are from the coun
try, frequently young men who have come
to town to seek their fortunes. 1t is
who contemplate leaving the farm or the
country shop or store, against going to
large cities for employment. and that
they would, except in rare instances, be
wiser not to do it. The temptations of a
great town are not confined, in the i'm
aginatlon of the country youth, to it's
amusements; those of business p ,ssibili
ties are much greater and more pc
tent. The possibilities of the farm are
few and the field of ambitious endeavor
in the country is narrow, while the city S
possibilities are many and the field
broad, it is commonly believed. So
long as that belief is entertained country
bows will come into town to make their
fortunes. A few Oh them, having excep
tional force of character, or the faculty
of business or professional success large
ly inherent or developed, will succeed.
but considerable numbers will be likely,
sooner or later, to become applicants for
the car drivers place. They know horses,
how to care for and how to drive them,
and when they have been in the city Ion x
enough to find the ways of success closed
against them which they hoped, expect
ed, even, to find open, they go, as d last
resort, to the stables, looking for em
ployment. For a boy or man fresh from
city store or an office, such as is gener
ally looked for, is not an easy thing to
do, not nearly 80 easy as it Was twenty
thirty or forty years ago Yet there is
possibly no other labor which able bodied,
fairly we'll educated men can do which
pays so badly as that of ordinary store Oh
office work. "Clerking' is il poor kind
of trade, because it is SO greatly over
stocked. 1t is true, if obtalned, it ma,
be the gateway of ultimate business sue
cess, but the ability must be extrAordiu
AIRY in these days to enable the country
boy to reach the top OF the tree against
the fierce competition of his thousa nd,
of city rivals, who are generally better
trained tor mercantile and professional
life than he. All things considered, til,
life of the city man Is a good deal harder
than that of the couutryman. If the lat
ter is generally not SO we'll paiL Tor hi.
labor, neither are the demands upon hi,
wages or profits 50 great. Ii, Can liv,
more simply, more unconvenJionally, il
the country, than in the town, and COZ
sequently, more cheapy. Opportunities
for quick money success are occa siou
ally found in town, but opportunities o
happiness are as udoubtedly more mum
erous in the country than in the city
The struggle in the latter is suspended
at times, but is never so iercely con
Quoted as in the former, where it goe'
on forever. But the important thing ion
those to consider who are doing well il
the country, but think of trying to bet,
ter their fortune in the city, is that tn,
road to fortune here lies ofteuer in The
direction OF the Car stables than in thai
of the bank or store. The aj1rity vii
find it hard road to travel, with no gold
en- goal at the end of it.-PhiladelphiC
Ledger.