The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-07-10
A Good Man Gone

W les, oiu DagueffOtype IhermOn
NJ etcr is dead
70 The soft summer winds as the
% sigh and moan above the peacefl
% graves in the village churchyart
q spend n considerable portion of the
o time In signing and moaning over til
q grave of the lamented DaguerrotypC
O Daguerrotype Thermometer was al
n most perfect man as far as the worI
0 goes, but like every other frail morta
he had his little drawback-a draw
back which rendered him painful,
conspicuous in the eyes of his friend
and acquaintances, and caused him
great deal Of misery.
Daguerrotype was u very slow man
He was everlastingly behind time
1t has always been considered ;
matter of wonder by me and Others O
the inhabitants of VoXville, that ole
Thermometer was ever born at all
1t would have been just like him tc
have put the thing Off century OF
two. This solitary instance Of Daguer.
rotype being on time, stands out in
luminous brightness against a long.
dark career of tardiness. Dapucrro-
types little weakness began at the
cradle and ended at the grave. 1t
pursued him all along the Journey of
life, blighting his happiness, and cast
ing midnight shadow over his ex-
istence generally. 1t does seem to
me sometimes that fate singled him
out from whole world of living
breathing humanity, as the most
suitable individual of the entire lot TO
be Knocked down and fiattened.
When Daguerrotype was a child, it
wasn't Oftener than once week that
he'd cnjoya square meal-he'd always
reach the testal board just in time to
observe his brothers and sisters ener-
getically slowing away the very last
mOuthfuls of food and when he grew
older, and attended the village temple
of instruction, the only thing he
ever learned, was how lorcibIy
hickory stick-let down by the arm of
an irate pedag0gue--could fall on the
Uranium of a small boy who happened
to be behind time.
The night Daguerrotype was mar
ried he came very near mi. sing the |
whole ceremony by failing 10 be on
hand in time. The minister was
ready; the bride, the parents and the
guests were all ready, but AZ they
couldn't very conveniently proceed
lUT 'mItP." WRPEamme without the
was sitting on the back porch, in his |
shirt sleeves, slo,oly Gi0cking his shoes.
They finally got him into the draw
but not until all the guests
nad become Disguised and had de-
parted. Day was breaking before they
got through with the ceremony.
And. 50 it was during his entire life.
| might go on and give a thousand in
stances of how this one little fault of
he unfortunate Daguerrotype was con-
,inualIy getting him into the most eX-
,rucIating situations, and shrouding
lis very existence in gloom and misery.
WHY, even when the time came for
lim to die, and his weeping relatives
md friends were gathered around his
bedside to say a last fearful farewell
ne kept postponing the thing until
hey were all filed with disgust. Once
,hey even had his burial costume
'eady and the hearse at the door, be-
.ause he had hidden them all gOOdby
md said he'd meet 'em again ON II
brighter shore, and all the other sad
hings that every dying person is cX-
,ected to say on such occasions, but
ne suddenly changed his mind and
fingered and fingered for fifteen years,
before he passed away. | don't think
ne would have died then if he hadn't
uddenly lost all consciousness of what
he was about.
1t is my honest opinion that Daguer-
otype will not be on hand at the
inal resurrection, and dissolution and
together of earthly affairs.
think that after the last blast shall
ave been sounded from the trumps,
nd every one but himself has come
orth, it will be just his luck to take a
DOL notion and decide 10 put off his
appearance for awhile.
Daguerrotype THERMOMETERS was
reat and good man in many respects,
nut the memory of his one little fail
no will dwell forever in the minds of
hose who knew him, causing his
lame, which would otherwise shine
With the brightness of the noon-day
nm. 10 become clouded and obscured.
VALENTINE NoN.