Show A WISE COURSE THERE is something decidedly commendable in the step just taken by james G blaine jr realizing perhaps that a name and advantages enjoyed now are re not re liable capital with which to combat the world he has determined to become a practical mechanical engineer and to that end applied to the maine central railroad shops in elmwood the other day for a position the fo foreman looked at Bla blaines inels face then at his delicate hands and proceeded to explain to him the nature of the business how hard and dirty it was and how little the pay for an apprentice which was of course what the young man would have to be to master the calling he was not to be daunted however and mate maie an engagement then and there the next morning early with the overalls and other garb of a machine shop apprentice on he was seen proceeding from the elmwood hotel with his dinner pail in hand tripping along as lightly as though he were going to join a junketing party he went to work and to is at work now hard real work top too for which he will receive for the first six months the munificent sum of eighty cents per day the late louis napoleon had his son the prince imperial apprenticed to a printer and was careful to see that no favors were extended and no relaxation of the rules permitted because of the boys exalted social station this looks now almost like prescience on the emperors part for it was not long after that that the populace who had tossed their ready caps in air and lifted their voices in servile shouts at every sight eight of his majesty was converted into a seething in mass of carbon carbonari axi and petr oleuse who tore down the monuments to bis bisand and his predecessors triumphs the costly buildings he had caused to be erected burned all that would burn and scattered the rest indiscriminately criminate ly some being stolen the remainder going into the seine while he himself first a prisoner then an exile in a foreign land was mentioned only to be execrated the entire family was expatriated and the prince was left to his own resources if he had then put the knowledge acquired in a printing office to use and not gone off to africa to engage in a fight in which he had not even a remote inte interest fest with a people who had never injured him he might have been alive and prospering today there is nothing like learning a trade there is no telling when it may be useful in a practical way and is an excellent thing to know knew whether it is ever brought into raqul or not |