The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-08-05

that could be recognized, and the couple re-
solved then and there to keep their treasure
IN q less infaammable safe in the future.
LAZY, LABOK.SAVING AGE.
Sd. Burlette. in the Burlington Havt E,e
So into the midnight train we climb.
ed, and the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad bore us away down into the
land of the sunshine. While the Dor
ter was making up our berths the fat
passengers thoughts were evidently
running on what DR.. Randeu said
about walking, that a wise Providence
had given horse four legs so that he
might walk all he wished, but the Same
overruilng wisdom had given a man
out two, and had fixed them so thew
could bend in two directions, and TINS
fit carriage seat perfectly.
1t is lazy, labor saving age the
tall, thin passenger said. "Man ia
trying to solve the problem of living
without labor or exertion. 1t is an age
of labor saving machinery
And yet, the sad passenger put i'm.
there never was an age of greater or
more incessant activity"
People burn gas, - said the tall thin
passenger. disregarding the others
statement, "because they are too lazy
to snuff candle or fill lamp.n
Yes," said the passenger with the
sandy goatee, "and they light it by
electricity to save scratching match,
And it was lazy man. % said the
man on the wood box, s'that sat around
cold winter mornings, and shivered
and shuddered, and wished he knowed
some way of putting enough coal in
the stove to last all day, that finally
invented the baseburner, No active
man could have thought of such a
thing"
Men used to take fair amount of
exercise" said the tall, thin passenger,
" when they had to walk from their
homes to their place of business, but
then some ease loving genius built a
street cal. and now any man who walks
three blocks with nickel in his pOck-
ct, will not be recognized in good soci-
ety."
And if he will not wait in the cold
half an hour for the car" said the man
with the sample cases, che is turned
out of the church."
"And even then, }" said the passenger
with the sandy goatee, "men took a
little air and exercise on the street cars,
when their business compelled them to
go from their own Office to other busi-
ness houses. But then Edison invent
ed the telephone, and now a man goes
down to his office in the morning, CLUES
himself to a chair, and is there when
street car comes along to take him to
supper. If he didn't need them to 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,r
said the sad passenger, " because when
he wants to go up stairs he gently but
firmly glides into the elevator"
The fat passenger looked at the
speaker with pleasant glance of ap-
proval. "My son." he said, nodding
his head, "you are mighty right; he
Does" 8et .fsss
Surely, it must be as the passengers
decided, the race is degenerating.p phys
ically. We take all our exercise pro-
as the Japanese hire people
to do their dancing for them. We play
base ball with salariei mines, we row
with men who can pull for US without
taking us away from the counting
room: when we want to walk, some
robust fellow. takes our money and
makes 500 miles in five days for us.
We are a degenerate race, and have
ALLEN away from the high standards of
physical virtue maintained by our faith
,rs. And yet, as l lie here in the pleas
mt palace car of my friend Pullman
with the jointless blanket folded about
ne in unyielding pleats, and the min
ature pillow slipping down my back,
draw the curtain little aside and
ook out at the snowy landscape and
he glittering starlight, and I stretch
myself up In very excess OF comfort,
IS I think of our rugged, manly, vir-
uous, stalwart fathers, plodding over
his same road from Louisville to
in slow moving stages and
umbering wagons, close my eyes in
content, and say, in sleepy
lccents: $s-ss-f AsE
"Dear fathers. virtuous men Of iron
rame, if that mode of travel suited
you, stick to it. This sort of thing is
rood enough for me-"
And slept. And if any of the faith
RS have conceit enough to think they
AN beat me in a square sleep. I'D just
ike to try few of them in go-as- YOU
,lease match, hest man to make 500
,o,,ro oloo,> IN fiuo dave