The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-03

you got Pressure. The idle people
manner. See, said they, what you brought
yourself to by work, work work You per
sisted in working, you overdid it, Pressure
came on, and you were done forl This con-
sideration was very potent In many quarters.
but nowhere more so than among the Young
clerks and partners who hnd never been i'm the
slightest danger of OVERRIDING il. These, one
and all declared quite piousy, that they hoped,
they would never forget the warning as long as
they lived and that their conduct might be so
regulated as I'd keep off Pressure and preserve
them comfort to their friends, for many years"
just my case-if | had only known it-when
/ was quietly baslIing in the sunshine in my Ken
tish meadow. :.
But while 1 so rested, thankfully recovering
every hour, / had experiences more odd than
this, had experiences of spiritual conccit for
which, as giving me new warning against that
curse of mankind, shall always feel grateful to
the suppostion that was too far gone to pro-
test against playing sick lion to any stray don
key with an itching hoof. All sorts of people
seemed to become vlcariously religious at my
expense. ! received the most uncomprOmis-
ing warning that | was n Heathen; on the
conclusive authority of field preacher
who, like the most OF his Ignorant and vain
and daring class, could not construct
a tOlerable sentence I'm his native tongue or pen
n fair letter. This inspired individual called me
TO order roundy and knew in the freest and
easiest way where was going to, and what
would become of me if / failed to fashion myself
on his bright example, and was on terms of
blasphemous confidence with the Heavenly
Host. He was in the secrets of my heart, and
in the lowest soundings of my soul-he land
could read the depths OF my nature better than
his A b c. and could turn me inside out like his
own clammy gove-for such dirty water as this
could alone be drawn from such n shallow and
muddy source found, from the information of
a benetced clergyman, of whom | never heard
and whom l never saw, that | had not, as
/ rather supposed | had, lived
life of some reading, contemplation
and inquiry; that l had not studied, as l
rather supposed | had, to inculcate some Chris
tian lessons in books; that had never tried, as
! rather supposed had, to turn a child or two
tenderly towards the knowledge and love of our
Saviour: that l had never had, as / father sup
posed | had had, departed friends, or stood be-
side open graves; but that had lived n life of
uninterrupted prosperity" and that | needed
this 'check, ovcrmuch,' and that the way to
turn ii to account was to read these sermons and
these poems, inclosed, and written and issued by
that relate facts of my own uncOmmercial eX-
perience, and no vain imaginngs. The docu-
ments in proof lie near my hand.
Another odd entry on the ily-leaf, of a more
entertaining character was the wonderful per-
sistency with which kind sympathizers assumed
that had iniuriously coupled with the so sud-
denly relinquished pursuit those personal habits
of mine most obviously incompatible with it,
and most plainly impossible of being main
tanned, along with it, As all that exercise, all
that cold bathing, all that wind and weather.
all that uphill training-all that everything else
say, which is usually carried about by express
trains in portmanteau and hat-boX, and par
taken of under flaming row of gasights, i'm
the company of two thousand people. This
of a whole case against all facts
and likelihood struck me rs particularly droll
and was an oddity of which certainly had had
no adequate experience in life until l turned
that curious ily-leaf.
My old acquaintances the begging-letter
writers came out on the tly-eaf, very piously
inhn Nav arl,1
to offer me another opportunity of sending that
Post Office order / needn't make it a pound.
rs previously insisted on; ten shillings might
ease my mind, And Heaven forbid that they
should refuse, at such an insignificant figure, to
take weight off the memory of an erring fell
low-creature One gentleman of an artistic
turn (and copiously illustrating the books of
the Mendicity GSociety) thought it might
spect of gifts misused, if I would
cash up in aid of his lowly talent
for original design-as a specimen of which he
enclosed me a work of art which | recognize as
a tracing from wood-cut originally published
in the late Mrs. Trollope's book on America
forty or fifty years ago The number of people
who were prepared to live long years after me,
untiring benetactors to their Species for fifty
pounds apiece down, was astonishing. Also, of
those who wanted bank notes for stiff penitental
to give away-not to keep on any
account.
Divers wonderful medicines and machines in
Situated Recommendations lOr themselves INTO
the tly-leaf that was to have been so blank. 1t
was especially observable that every prescriber,
whether in a moral or physical direction, knew
me thOroughly-knew me from head to heel, in
and out through and through, upside down. l
was n glass piece of general property, and
was on the most surprisingly init
mate terms with me. few public institutions
had complimentary perceptions of corners in my
mind, of which, after considerable self-eXamina- |
ton, have not discovered any indication Neat
little printed forms were addressed to those cor
ners, beginning with these words:-'I give and |
bequeath.'
Win it seem eXaggerativc to state my belief |
that the most honest, the most modest, and the |
least vain-glorous of all the records upon this |
strange tiy-eaf letter from the sef-de- |
ceived discoverer of the recondite secret chow |
10 live four or five hundred years ?" Doubtless |
It will seem so, yet the statement is not eXagge- |
'ative by any means but is made in my serious and
sincere conviction. With this, and with laugh at |
-he rest that shall not be cynical / turn the fly |
Caf, and 90 on again.