Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-07-24


Peace is In my bosom, Mother,
Harkl hear the angels call
Don't y0W he2S them stN0in0, Mother
t Listen to The musics swell
God be with you, Fare yoS soel.
Written for the Cedar Falls Gazette.
MEDITATIONS OF A LOAFER.
"There Is q type Of Incidence like this:-
A ship in hsrbor not signal flying,
The waves anstirred, about her huge sides lying,
No breeze her dropping pennant-lag to kiss,
Or move the smallest rope that hangs aloft."
Ed. Gazette Finding dirty, crumpled
piece Of paper in the street, while taking a
walk through town one day last week,
opened it and seeing it headed "Medita-
t:ons," concluded it to be some kind Of liter
ary effort. Ny curiosity was not sufficiently
excited to induce me to read the paper at the
time, but put it into the pocket Of my mem-
orandum book and carried it home with me-
To-day happening to recollect the paper
took it from the place of deposit, and with
some trouble was able to make out the great
er part Of the writing; though, being writ.
ten in pencil, some parts were nearly or quite
ilegible. 1t would appear to be the refec-
tions of loafer, written in . fit Of disgust
with himself, and as it may aid other loafers
in similar reflections, l have taken the trouble
to copy the paper and send it to you for pub.
lication. Yours,
DAN De ounLr.
ooh, how wearisome and futile is the task
of trying to make shadow appear substance
to give the appearance of length, breadth
and depth to- void! As I pass along the
streets feel that am the sham of a man
yea, the abortion of sickly sham Worse
I feel that all l meet know me as I am.
manage to put on the outer shell of gen
tleman, to 60 decently dressed, by" =
= Here a .fec lines
are toantiNg.
+" As pass by industrious laborers in my
sleek broadcloth, I affect some repugnance
at beholding their rough clothes and sweat
grimed faces. lam careful not to speak with
them, lest it might be thought that am ia.
miliar with labor of that kind, or that am
on terms of intimacy with men who are
obliged to labor. Yet God knows that !
never pass group Of men engaged upon
any useful work butt envy them-envy
their honesty. They are substance and
know nothing Of the labor necessary to give
shadow the appearance of being such. They
are no shams; what they are they appear
to the laborious art of pretending they arr
strangers. Had my lot been cast with then
how happy might | have been! Ny mus
cles crave the invigorating stimulus of labor
idleness robs my body Of its juices, hollow.
my eyes, thickens my skin and paints it q
jaundice hue. Ny feeble knees totter unde,
nv wasted"
= Hero about three
. Anes are gone.
"How vain it 10 for man to attempt to es
cape the curse pronounced against SHINING
man - In the sweat of thy face shalt thou
eat bread;' what ills befall him who would
shun this-let Us not call it curse, but wis<
commando But for certain insincere re.
spect which is paid to well-dressed vagabond
ism, should long since have yielded to the
opportunities Of my body, and turned my
hand to some useful employment. This re.
spect, small and unsubstantial a It is, is NOR.
than would be yielded me were I clothed in
the rough dress and bathed in the sweat of 4
day laborer. Still-though love it and live
for i'll cannot but feel that the Differences
paid me is very similar to that which might
be yielded to decent suit Of clothes hanging
in front of tailor's shop. What is inside
Of my clothes when l walk abroad is no more
than the air that fills the tailor's swinging
garments. often see something in the eye
Of the alert and brisk merchant, as he mods
and hastens past me, that cuts me to the
soul; though the ladies smile and chat with
me, yet often suspect"
- Here line in IL
= LN i i1leoiNs.
"Some times my clothes-I might say ou,
clothes, for am the representative Of . largs
class-become thread bare and shabby; thi.
adds to the torture Of my position, for thu
respect that was before grindingly yielded il
now 30 slight q to b. hardly deserving o.
the name. And il is with difficulty that