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of Rothschild, the Jewish banker, is, that when he read that 

 the income of Louis Philippe, the then king of France, was 

 only fifty dollars a minute, his eyes filled with tears, for he 

 was not aware of the existence of such destitution ! 



We are very apt to think, with some envious bitterness, of 

 men rolling in wealth, and do not stop to consider that these 

 men are in a small minority, not only compared with the 

 whole population, but even compared with the number engaged 

 iu business of the same kind. Just look around now, and 

 see how in every city there are hosts of business men who 

 are in trouble and anxiety, whether they may not lose all they 

 have accumulated by long years of work. Thousands of 

 artificers, mechanics and laboring men iu the trades, who are 

 men free-handed, and live only from hand to mouth, thrown 

 out of employment and depending for their bread for them- 

 selves and families upon the dole of the unions or public 

 charity. 



The possession of all imaginable comforts, is no reason why 

 a man should quietly submit to even a slight discomfort, if 

 the cause can be removed ; but it will be very foolish to allow 

 any discomfort, however great, to make him forget the advan- 

 tages he enjoys. " God," said a college preacher to the grad- 

 uating class, "means very few of us to do anything in partic- 

 ular, " and, therefore we are at liberty to look about and 

 better our conditions as we can. But it was the evident 

 intention of the wise Creator that the country should support 

 the cities, and that there should always be a race of men 

 called farmers, who should live in the country and raise the 

 necessary crops. A goo 1 many of us, therefore, have to get 

 our living in the country, and dig out a living for other people 

 from the soil. Dissatisfaction, and longing for some other 

 business, are not always proof of our capacity to succeed in 

 any other than the one we are in. If you inquire into the 

 wrecks stranded all along the shore of our cities and towns, 

 you will find a large percentage are farmers' sons who have 

 left the farm to embark in a business with which they were 

 unacquainted, and have come to grief. The men that fail in 

 business, whether merchandise or agriculture, or anything else, 

 are generally those who have had no proper education for the 

 calling they engage in, — no real love for it, — carry it on 



