The Washington bee., 1897-05-29
SAFEGUARD AGAINST CRIME.

SAFEGUARD AGAINST CklhE'
eve must work somewhere. If We
are idle, the devil hires us. 1t IS the
men who stand idle in the market
place to whom the devil gives employ
ment. There is no better safeguard
against crime and sin than occupation;
than having something to do. A pick
ak and spade are Surer preventive
of wrong doing than legislation. 1t is
while men are idle, hanging around
drinking places, or gossiping around
corner groceries, that they concoct
their schemes of crime The men
whom we see with dinner pals in their
hands, in the early morning. making
their way to their places of employ
men, engaged in providing for their
own; these are the men against whom
are no charges of irregular conduct.
Nor are they lodged in the police sta
tions. The police do not know them.
THAT desperate sentiment, the
world owes me living, and living l
will have, has this element of truth in
Int. The world makes living possible
for everv man if he will earn it; II he
will accept this possibility. She owes
the living and she will pay the debt to
the industrious. The places for work
: in this world are almost innumerable,
and the men who are out of work are
not usually the men who are Sinking
; and skulking from it. Or they want
some other work than what the world
! ! offers them and what they can get.
THE OFFICE SEEKERS.
"Men come to this city from al
l quarters of the republic to get some
thing to do from the government; they
have made up their minds that thel
I would like to be ministers to othe
lands, consuls; something higher II
position and salary than they have eve
Shown any fitness for. They hav
their breast-coat pockets filled witt
Recommendations and Endorsements
and thew are anxiously waiting tn
coming in of that tide which will bea
. them on to fortune-the Cleveland
IL the Bryan, or the Mckinley tide.
!, "The best advertisement man Cal
=" have for a better place is to occupy-t
fill the place lie occupies, so that ther
;s NO longer room enough for such
a. man as himself in it What Mr.. Wet
F. ster said, "There is always roor
J. enough at the top, is still true. I'm
6 nence in any department of work is S
le rare that some places, where emlnenc
of is "equired, are always vacant. -.
m "There is false pride as to position
70 Men say, well my father was such an
m such a man." or ] have studied tn
S. and that have graduated with sue
s. and such honors, and it does not D'
S come me to take anything OF an inierlC
e. Grade. What do you care abo'
h heredity here? Whatyou have Studle'
n Where you have graduated IL o
e. comes you to take anything you ca
ed get to take possession OF 1t with yo'
on whole nature, and see what you c.
nv make out of it. The di ignity OF pla.'
depends upon the dignity with wni'
it is filled. If you are a man IN IT, II
manly place. A broomstlck may
of a scepter. Itdepends upon the nal
ro- that sways it. A faithful oootoiac
iS who gazes admirlngly at MS oV
u, 10 touch, is far more dignifed pers
h. than a negligent clerk.
THE MYSTERY EXPLAINED.
"There sometimes seems to be
.ss- great deal of mystery about the ma
Re- ner in which some people are.
the Vanced. They always appear " hd
ere friends who think of them and CO
zen mend them. But the truth is they M
of made these friends by fidelity IN
and trust committed to them.
esi- eff a man has nothing in him, h
de- can anything come out?
the "a great future, great occasio
come only to the man who has D'
improving his circumstances, SO as
ft himself for them. His own gre
ing ness is a part of them. They ne
tom come to inferior men. There is
EOS country in the world where a ma
opportunities to make the most OF n
self are so great as in our own: \
ose in making the most of himself, ne +
ldSo la9' pares for the opportunities to come.
ia1' a man shows himself a superior to
H. environments, it is loud call on
part for a larger one. If he shows h