The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1852-08-27
All Haste aud NO Rest.

4 III tlle cVultIys .nOWtytI ~ iiuy unicli VI
other topics, public opinion is unfquiycca
on this point, thai spcry man must be busy
lnthe Peoples College it has been unani-
mously declared that the azote OF our com
mon air Is nonessential and bore ]. and
/ lhatoxygpn is the only gas fit for enterpri-
Using Yankees 10 breathe.
i Observe The restless look and hurried gait
Iof that young citizen, just emerging from
the doubts and anxieties Of his first ex9eri-
ments in business. He walksas if he was
born day loo late, and had not yet oyerta-
| ken Time. The corugatorsof bis eyebrows
are almost as constantly in use as the fibres
Iof his heart, He shakes your hand with the
greatest cordially, and he is evidently glad
10 see you, but three times while you asked
the state of his lanily he glanced at his
watch, and when you release his hand he
springs away, as if be were The subject Of an
|aceumuated velocity, He must needs be at
his business, at an early hour, although from
motives Of economy or comfort, his home
Emay be miles away from his Office. AT mid
day he has only time to swallow hasty
steak, and a Jenny Lind, hard, pand hurry
back to his clients or his customers. At the
Eclose Of the day he slips a bundle of papers
/ underhis arm, leaps on board the cars Just as
| their motion is quickened into a speed that
nakesit impractieable forany man to follow
him, and reads diligently the Evening Times
until he reaches home, and is re1reshedat the
same time by The smiles OF his patient wife,
I and the fragrance Of het and smoking din
lntr. The little ones are at liberty 10 climb
upon his knees and smoothe out the wrinkles
IoFer his nose until The last cup is finished.
hut no sooner are lis degs exposed, than
'confeund the young Ones they fffust be
put 10 bed" and to all queries of his wife
there comes but one reply:--""pretty soon,
dear; must draw up these papers, now !
land at a late hour he indulges himself in a
few hurried and broken dreams which he
mistakes for sleep. Theswhistle Of the early
train hurries him out Of bed, paste cakes and
coffee, and into the same "cider-mil path
again. Never fairly resting, he is always
somewhat weary. He is mol easy at his task
arld very uneasy WHEN away from il. His
health gradually fails, and his spirits suffer
perpetual depression. Unless some blessed
sickness intervene and force upon him the
rest that morbidly sensitive and iily-educa-
ted conscience will not allow when well,
Ills constitution bends under the burden, and
/ he will require staff fol hisinfirmities be-
; fore the vigor of youth should be burnt out
i, Jonathan has come to believe that he mus
: always be active; and his bow must always
: be bent. When he plants tree he canno
wait patiently for lis slow, ordinary growth
: but must be continually placing some new
3 stimulus about its roots, trimming its bran
( ches and Sitting open its bark, and if it
S buds do not open with the first warm days o
!, Spring, he must pluck it up TO see if ther
y be not worm at the root. He can scarcel
lbe quiet when quietude is essential to deco
/ rum. He stu1ies how 10 turn the converse
/ ton into business, channel, that his friend
S morning call may not provea anentire vast
b of the time SO devoted. AS he wakes oldsh
# becomes more impatient, irritable, frugal an,
e fdgetty. He stops whiting TO save Johr
k Bulls feelings, but he carries tablets and
: pencil, 10 facilitate his meditations in thu
y railroad car or omnibus. "Be short, >" is hi
! Eleventh Commandment, and his favorit,
: quotation is, " Brevily is the soul o
t wit" He thinks that in the millennium tn
u Presidents message will be no longer thai
I. the postscript to a telegraph dispatch, ant
the debates in Congress, in those happy days
will be as brief and as soon ended as a legis
latiye session in Rhode Island He is will
!. ing the sermon should be Of Orthodox lengtl
i on Sunday, but he likes to have the service
e concluded with the Doxology in short metre
s Jonathan is mortal, and all the childreI
i of mortality are subject TO occasional weari
h ness. And what does Jonathan for refresh
0 ment when he is thoroughly tired2 Does b
leave his office an hour earlier? eat iighte
if supper? or retire any sooner? Does he see
8 out somnilerous potions? or consult art 70
The means Of lengthening his usual rcst?-
d Does he lock his door, say goodnight 10 th
legion Of cares that attendat his pillow, an
/. stretch his neryeless limbs fora long an
d wholesome sleep7 No, but quite the reyerst
|. He orders his Common Council to fnd ou
e some hero, living or dead, that he may hor
) or He erecis triumphal arches, gets up a
!. expensive procession, o nd closes the day wit
a magnificent banquet. He relieves the re
n action Of one excitement by the novelty {
another. When he has bought lots and bull
n houses enough for people 10 confess him ricl
!, he gets carriage, buys coat of arms, keep
2 men servants and falls into typhoid fevel
Z lie raves deliriously Cor three weeks, live
!. on stimulants till the "stimulus Of death
! displaces all others-and then poor Jonatha
3 sinks to his first and last "long and undiI
turbed repose," q i.s81ll 81 &
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