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Show WASHINGTON CLERKSHIPS. But wc have iu this country a mul titude of iittlo places, a multitude of ' clerkships in Washington; and tne question is whether, on the incoming of the new administration, these men shall be all turned out. In the first ' place, they are on starvation salaries, just barely enough to keep eoul and body together, and respectability on the outside; and if there is a youug 3 man iu this audience, I beg of him, "Never take a clerkship in the city of Washington." Don't you do it! Never do yen put yourself where you have lo-duck your head and take . off your hat to everybody else.. Don't you do it. Don't put your happiness don't put your fortune in the o power ofanother-man'sbreath. Don't you do it! You never will have any manhood; you never will have any vertebra; you never will have any realsquare spunk; you cannot have it; and you will loso confidence, and you will begin to think, il you cannot have a regular payment each month ol f'J-1.75, that you cannot possibly - make a living in this world. It will take all the pluck out ol you. You will have to live so pinched, so narrow, nar-row, and so contracted that you will have to smoke a pipe all the week with the-expectation of. a five-cent cigar on Sunday. I beg ot you not to discount your future; X beg of every youiig man, have the courage to take what comes, let it be least or let it be famine, but don't sell the gift that fortune may have for yoa lor a. pretty aalary of $'60 , or $70, or 100 per month. Don't doit. Gowesl! LOVE IN A LOO CAKIN. I would rather have forty acres of land and a log house with one room, yes, and tho woman 1 love, and some lattice-work over the window, so thut the sunlight would fall checkered on the baby in the cradle, anil a few hollyhocks at the corner of the house; I would rather have thut, and a nice path leading down to the spring, where I could go and hear the water gurgling; I would lather live there and die there than be a clerk of m.y government on earth, Now, all I mean by this civil service relorm is, that, if any poor devil has bnen su unfortunate un-fortunate as to get into that place, leave him there rather than lo destroy somebody olse every year. Bob lu-gorsoll. |