Arizona republican., 1899-06-03
MAN OUT OF WORK
Smoking Ouf Hunger and
 Living on Nothing.
Instances in Which inc Fien Leerncd Their Value In the WOGId-Once in While They Telegraph Han 10 AcCtps $lO,OoO Year.


 The SupeTfuous man. The world is
 fuI. of sur-rfuous man, poor fellows,
 They are the. easy going kind from
 whom nature has withheld the gifts
 Sf energy, pugnacity and tenacity. She
 may, on the other hand, hare loaded
 thsm with many sweet attributes of
 kindness and tte love of simple and
 sweet things and thus have pronounced
 upon them the modern doom, for busi-
 ness is business nowadays and master
 and man each pay the ether for what ! he gets in return. Perhaps at no time l in the history of the world have men received so nearly the true reward for | service as they get and it takes 1 strength and persistence to make ones worth known and keen it up to sam ] pie. For this reason there are a large number of men whc are always .'out i of job They cannot help ic, they
 do nothing r-0n cunced to warrant their discharge from their situations nor do they do anything meritcrious enough to permanently retain them. Fer this reason they are c-lor,ess. These are the superfluous men.
 
 the unfortunate temperament that will not permit him to make friends; who is seIf-centered, with no little tan- tacles that reach out and hold him to those who might be cf service to him Ii he has ability he may retain his po- sitic1 in spite of his qualities. The man who has nc ability, who can do nothing well and who cannot learn Wanders from one situation to another, uever very long in each. He may be intelligent and cOmpaniOnable, well educated and well bred, but he fails to grasp the business of life.
 But besides tlsse are the men Of real usefulness who are often out of work through i'll luck CT business condi- tiOns. Some of these find work again readily enough, others wait and watch lcng- The worst Of it all is losing your grip Then you sink out If sight and those who once knew you i'll 9 business way know you no more. You are as an atom, and an atom is hard t0 see when one is not looking diligently for it.
 As to getting work again after one has lost I situa5i there are some men whc lose heart and are done for To them there is on,y Ons situation in the world, and that is lost. The other fel- low says to himself: Somewhere i1 the world is a man who has work for me to da. 1 am going tO find him." And find him he does, if he can hold on long enough. There is a story of the [ boys who were picking bIackberries. l One picked all over the patch and | royed frcn bush to bush looking for | the biggest, the other stuck t0 one | bush until he had finished it and then 1 went cn to another. When the sun . went down the boy who stuck to one ! bush had 3 pai.ful cf good average bar- ries. The other boy had about the third Of, a Pailful and his lips were | stained black
 The most helpless man when he gets out of work is the young Enslishman. The IriShman doesn't stay out of a sit uaticn long. The German soon finds work. The Frenchman can turn his hand to waiting on a table, but an never. The Englisanan has pluck and generally an honor and a pride that keeps him on his feet longer than any Of them.
 There vas once 9 young Eaglishman who lost his situation in bank through q change in the management. He had been living up to his salary If S125 a month. so that when he left the bank he had $35, a lot of English clothes that he had cast aside and a pipe He left his luxurious lodgings md tOCk cheap room. He knew what was coming. Day after day he walked he streets of Chicago looking for an other situation. He was q good man 1t his business, but no one needed aim.
 He got living down tc, a science. A up of cff0ee and a roll for breakfast, rvT7 l - sandwich at noon, five cents, dinner, with some of his friends three ur cour ines a week and always Cn Sunday, lOthing: at ether times twenty-five ;ents. In this way his $25 lasted | 0ng while. Every morning he started ut to look for work At every place hey listened to him and read his let- | CTS Of recommendation, but shook heir heads and said: You might ( lrop in again next week. but really. { ve have so many applications, ere" [ de grew to know this by heart. Every : morning when he started out he con j iGered that his days work was tc. 0a ( oOkIng for a situation, and he worked 1 t it as if he were being paid Q salary or It. Fortunately he had plenty of lothss, brought from England and l 0ng ago discarded for American | armerts. These he began to wear. t nd they gave him an air Of well be- lg that did not jibe with his pcc!Eet- I ooI. When he grew hungry he 7alked and smoked his pipe, and when e had plenty of tobacco he was al- avs sure of being able tc smoke out is hunger Gradually he fell cut of ] ouch with the men tc whom he wen, r l search of work. His friends who q ad- asked him to dine occasionally for q Ot him. His clcthcs went the way of T clothes after q while. But in the \ leautime he had learned the art of | 1cking resactpabIe on nothing and his hunger without food. H. [ ad learned 10 darn and mend, to cook 8 mple things ever a lamp on tin | late. to hone 2 razor, to wash under I cthes and handkerch;efs surreptiOus- in 3 bathlub, and many other val f able things. At last he came to the