Show FELT LIFE A FAILURE doleful wa I 1 from man whose M s slon it was to make H s hear ers laugh in some instances a man de light in his profession or line of work and zealously follows it to the end reaping honors as he goes along and deriving satisfaction in his attempts to do his duty another realizes that he Is working below his capacity and Is doing himself no real benefit more than earning his living and being also conscious that he is not a necessity to the life of the world one of the latter class is thus described by a traveling correspondent who tells of having struck the saddest look ing man of two hemispheres he writes it was on a ship sailing from java to singapore A man who was the lery personification of gloom figured among our passengers he was with an australian circus we sailed down through the straits past many inter esting scenes and saw the cargoes of tea and chinese taken on board none of these things concerned my fellow passenger and out of genuine pity for one who seemed so desolate I 1 en h m in conversation his words were the essence of dolefulness what eier subject I 1 broached what part have you in the I 1 finally asked him the clown said he with almost tearful emphasis I 1 thought it jolly when I 1 began but that was 50 years ago now I 1 dont know how to do anything else and I 1 shall hae to be a clown till I 1 die clinton courant |