The Red Cloud chief., 1880-03-25

So into the midnigh; train we climbed.
and the Louisviile and Nashville Rail
road bore Us sway down into the land
Of the sunshine. While ID. po-frr wa-
making up our berfhs, the fat passed.
gers thoughts were esiderily running
On what DR.. Yundeli sasd about walk
Ing, iha; = wise Prori80nce had given a
horse four legs, So that he might xaIk
al he wished. but the same Overriding
wisdom had given = man but two. and
had fixed them 80 they cOuld bend ~
two directions and thus g. = carriage
sea perfectly.
Il; is a lazy, laborssving age" the
tall, thin passenger sad. Man - try-
ing 10 solve the problem Of living and
growing rich without labor or essriion.
II is an age Of l~abor-saving machinery. ="
"And yet. the sad passenger pa, IN.
there never was an Of greater or
more inees-ani activity"
People burn gas" sasd the tall. thin
passenger, dI-regarding the others
statement, because they are lazy
to snuff n candle or ill u lamp"
YES" said the passenger viii the
sandy goa,ee. land they light il with
electricity 10 ave the trouble of scratch
ing a match
"And il was u lazy man." said the
nan on the wooden box, that sat
around cold winter mornings, and shi.-
cred and shuddered, and wished he
knOwed some way of putting enough
coal in the stove 10 last all day, that
finally invented the base-burner. No
active man would ever have thought Of
such aihing."
"Men used To take Il fair amount of
exercise" said the tall, thin passenger,
80 when they had 10 walk from their
homes 10 their places Of business; but
then some ease- loving genius built a
street ear, and now any man who walks
three blocks with 4 nickel in his pocket
will not be recognized in good society"
"And If he will not wait in the cold
half an hour for the ear" said the mar
with the sample-cases, "he is turned
out Of the church"
"And even them" said the passenger
with the sandy goatee, "men took n
little air and exercise on the street ears,
when their business compelled them 10
90 from their own office to other bust
ness houses. But then Edison invented
the telephone, and now a man goes
down Ia his Office in the morning, CLUES
himself To a chair and Is there when the
street ears come along 10 take him To
supper. II he didn't need them Ia walk
up stairs with, man in this lazy age
might trade off his legs for another pair
of hands"
THAT need not keep him back"
said the sad passenger, because
when he wants To- 20 up stairs he
gently but firmly glides into the ele-
yaior.'
The fat passenger looked al the
speaker with a look of approval.
=. My son." he said, nodding his head,
''you are mighty right, he does"
Surely, il must be a. the pa 'sengers
decided, the race is degenerating, physi-
cally. We take all our exercise pro-
f~essionally, As the Japanese hire people
10 do their dancing for them. We play
base ball with salaried mines, we row
with men who can pull for us without
tsking Us away from the counting-room;
when We want Ia walk some robust fell
low take, our money and makes GOO
miles in five days Tor Us. We are a de-
generate race, and have fallen away
from the high standard of physical viz
tue maintained by our fathers. And
Vet a. lie here in the pleasant palace
car of my friend Pullman, with the
joiutless blanket folded about me in un-
yielding plates, and the miniature pill
low slipping down my back. | draw the
curtain 4 little aside and look out at the
snowy landscape and the glittering
starlight, and / stretch myself out and
snuggle myself up in very excess of
comfort, and as | think Of our rugged,
manly, yirtuous, stalwart fathers, plod-
ding over this same road from Louisville
10 Clarksville, in slow-moving stages
and numbering wagons. i close my eyes
in degenerate content, and say, in
sleepy accents:
Dear fathers, virtuous men of iron
frame, if that mode of travel suited YOU,
stick to il. This sort of a thing is good
enough for ne."-Bgrdettc, ga the Bur
ltHgtOH HGUkeyc.