Miscellaneous.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1970, 21 February 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

Miscellaneous.

Afraid. Some people can never get on, IM their chance be a* good as it may, They stammer, and shuttle, and stick Where others will dash right away ; They say it's for want of a cheek, That the world isn't properly made, But it's pluok and not cheek that they want. " Yes, the truth of it is, they're afraid., A man will set eyes on a girl, And think her divine, and all that, But he doesn't march up there and then, And tell her his mind smart and pat ; He hums, and he haws, and he blushes, And day after day is delayed, Till at last some one weds her right off. Yes, he's lost her by being afraid. There's many a man with good hands, That oan work with true strength and true skill, Gets shunted aside just because He'll not push where another man will ; He sweats and he groam in the mud, And lets himself sink into shade,. Yet he might have been famoua and rioh, If he hadn't been soft and afraid. There are men who are upright and true, Who shut themselves in their own den — They daren't step into the front, Aud take up their stand there like men ; They live and grow rich out of sight, And never are known but in trade, Yet they might have been honored and blest If they hadn't been still and afraid. Stand up then, and don't be done down By cheek, and by swagger, and brag, For a man should stick up for his rights, Whether wealthy or not worth a " mag ; " The God that made one has made all, One heaven to us all is displayed, And if a man does what is right There's no one need make him afraid. The Ncios Letter.

A Brief Sermon on Cranks. TnE Burlington Hawheye publishes a great denl of nonsense, but sometimes in its amusing way it states indisputable facts. The following ia from a recent issue : — What would we do were it not for the cranks ? How slowly the tired old world would move, did not the cranks keep it rushing along I Columbus was a crank on the subject of American discovery and circumnavigation, and at last he met the fate of most cranks, waa thrown into prison, and died in poverty and disgrace. Greatly venerated now 1 Oh, yes, Telemachus, we usually esteem a crank most profoundly after we starve him to death. Harvey was a crank on the subject of the circulation of the blood ; Galileo was an astronomical crank ; Fulton was a crank on the subject of steam navigation ; Morse was a telegraph crank. All the old abolitionists were oranks. The Pilgrim Fathers were cranks; John Bunyan was a crauk ; an v man who doesn't think as you do, my son, is a crank. And by and by the crank you despise will have his name in every man's mouth, and a half completed monument to hie memory crumbling down in a dozen cities, while nobody outside of your native village will know that you ever lived. Deal gently with the crank, my boy. 01 course, some Cranks are crankier than others, but do you bo very slow to sneer at a man because he knows only one thing and you can't understand him. A crank, Telemaob.ua, is a thing that turns something, it make the wheels go round, it insures progress. True, it turnß the same wheel all the time, and it can't do anything ehe, but that's what keeps the ship going ahead. The thing that goes in for variety, versatility, that ohangea its position a hundred times a day, that is no orank,

that is the weather vane, ray son. What ? You nevertheless thank heaven you are not » crank? Don't do that, my son. Miy he yon couldn't be a crank, if you would. Ileaveu is not particular when it w<inU a weather van* ; alnn^t any man will Ho f< r that. But when it vi>\nU a crank, my b >v, it looks about very carefully for the beat man in the community. Before you thank heaven that you are not a crank, examine yourself oaref ully, and see what i* the great deficiency that debars you from ->nch an election.