The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-03-12

So into the midnight train We chm peu'
"a me Louisville and Nashville Rail.
.asd hore us away down into tie land
80 ia snnshine. While the porter was
.nsring up our berths, the fat passen-
.,sr's thoughts were evidently running
- what Dr.. Yundell said about walk
10 that wise Providence had given
horse four legs, 80 that he might walk
Ill 10 wished. but the same overruling
,y;sdom had given a man but two, and
nsd we'd them so they could bend In
two directions and thus ft carriage
seat perfectly.
..,, th;n messenger said. {" Man Is try |
mo 10 solve the problem Of living and
GROWING rich without labor or exertion.
n l. An age Of labor-saving machinery"
And yet. the sad passenger put IN,
..there never was an age Of greater or
more incessant activity"
"Peoplc burn gas, said the tall, thin
passenger, disregarding the others
Statement. because they are too lazy
20 snuff a candle or fill lamp"
EYES, said the passenger with the
sandy goatee, "and they light it with
electricity to save the trouble Of scratch
ing a match"
And II was u lazy man." said the
man on the wooden box, "that sat
around cold winter mornings, and shiv-
ared and shuddered, and wished hs
knowed some way OF putting enough
coal IN the stove to last all day, that
finally invented the base-burner. No
active man would ever have thought OF
such thing
Men used to take fair amount OF
exercise said the tall, thin passenger,
s.when they had TO walk from their
homes TO their places Of business; but
then some ease-loving genius built a
street car, and now any man who walks
three blocks with a nickel in his pocket
will not be recognized in good society.
uAnd II he will not wait in the cold
half an hour for the car" said the man
with the sample-cases, "hc Is turned
out Of tho church.
And even Them said the passenger
with the sandy goatee, "men TOOK
little Air and exercise on the street cars
when their business compelled them Z
90 from their own Office 70 other dust
ness houses. But then Edison invented
the telephone, and now man goe
down TO his office in the morning, glue
himself to chair and Is there when IN
street cars come along TO take INN 7
supper. II he didn't need them 70 wal
M stairs with, man in this lazy az
might trade off his legs for another pal
OF hands"
..That need not keep him back,
said the sad passenger, Decaus
when he wants to 60 up stairs 7
gently but firmly glides into the eli
vator.' NJ, 4,
The fat passenger looked at u
speaker with look Of approva
s.My son. he said, nodding his hea'
"you are mighty right, he does II
Surely, it must be as the pa 'senge
decided, the race is degenerating, phys
cally. We take all our exercise pr
fessionally, as the Japanese hire Peep
10 do their dancing for them. we PHI
base ball with salaried mines, we RI
with men who can pull for as witho
taking us away from the counting-rcor
when we want To walk some robust 4
low takes our money and makes y
miles in five days for US. We are q
generate race, and have fallen aw
from the high standard OF physical y
tne maintained by our fathers. A
vet ne | lie here in the pleasant pala
car Of my friend Pullman, with
iointless blanket folded about me in =
yielding plates, and the miniature !
low slipping down my back, | draw
curtain a little aside and look out al
snowy landscape and the glitter
starlight, and stretch myself out
snuggle myself up in very excess
comfort, and rs l think Of our rugg
manly, virtuous, stalwart fathers, pr
ding over this same road from LOUSY
70 Clarksville, in slow-movlng sta
and numbering wagons, close my z
in degenerate contents ana say
sleepy accents !.
"Dear fathers, virtuous men OF !
frame. II that mode Of travel suited y
stick to il. This sort Of thing : e
enough for me. Burtistfc, IA ne
imgton Harkeyc