The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-08-24
A TRANP'S SPEECH.
Delivered Last Night to Squad
of Trsmpa-0n Love Of
Ones Business.

!. Last evening gang Of abont . dosel
;. tramps sai eating lunches. which they had
q begged or stolen. back Of tho RAzo1
Office.
Among them we're tramp printers, cigaI
n makers, harness makers and two or three
e ver-atiie heats who conli chisel living
drinka and tobacco ont of either oOe of q
z half dozen trsdes. The conversation turn
:, ed on getting along IN the world. and one
of the tramp printers claimed that the se-
cret Of sncce-a lay in loving your busi-
? mess. He wac opposed earnes,iy by the
Others, until finally Incoming excited, be
mounted a barrel and delivered the follow
: ing harangue TO his fellow buns:
. The man who s~es nothing but q pecun-
!. isry equivalent for HE labor ia his bnsi-
ness. j. bereft Of the principal element
of success.
Mere existence does not ill up the mis-
sion for which man was intended by God
Almighty when He threw him together. A
dog Accomplishes that much and he may
not ne much of a dog either. A man who
works simply for subsistence, unless he is
actually 40 crowded by the sharp shoulders
and rough hands of necessity, that he can
not hope to attain higher. is compared
with Whist he might be like a two inch ten
On in four inch mortise, he may wabbIe
around in It but he don't fill it. A man
can't even be a fir.t-cIass liar unless from
inherited o. acquired motives be loves y.
ing. (Cheers.j All the great liars Of the
world who have scrswled their signatures
| in capital letters in the diary of time have
| been per~one Who would have lied for
nothing when they could have made mon
ey BY telling the truth. Laughter, and .
voice, that's true hit him again. Those
are the men, who though theJ labor for
time unappreciated, they are finally vindi-
Gated BY Time and the waiermelons of suc-
c.ss and the peaches and cream Of promi-
nemce are rolled into their households.
There's Ella Perkins (Applanse). he has
got his work in pretty we'll, On lying
n voice, how abont the McGreeeor or
Bender fsmily.') And Ellis reputation il
one Of the fast colorr; all the showers Of the
subsequent years which Time has folded
away IN his bosom, will be unable to
make that reputation fade. So with every
business. Love your BURNERS and il will
reciprocste.
There's Henry Ward Beecher. "a voice.
take him away When he vas kid he
Was no more endowed BY nature with fe-
male heart masting Influences than you
are my dear and intelligent readers.
(Cheers) But look al him nov, Why,
when he lectnred over In Illinois . year
ago, . large assortment Of women, dainty
daughters, mature matrons, casey grass
widows and bald headed. toothless feme-
| mines al dropped the crotchetine and chill
dren, and hastened t. see him, and waited
patiently for their turn, even A. the hairy
checked hum waits nj . barber shop, 10
shake hands with. and with open mouthed
admiration % gaze on the Brooklyn Bible
bangor aud female heart breaker. All
thiA vas owing To the fact that i.c loved
the business and stuck right to it until his
reward came aronLd Inquiring for him.
So with all professions, occupations or call
| inga, the route TO success is grounded t.y
rough roads either dusty or muddy, trim
med with dog iennei, ornsmented with
thick nnderarnsh and csnoPied by full
assortment OF red hot sanhean- or never
ceas,ng rains, vet beyond all these there is
to the hoy or girl, who grid. mp h;s or her
kidney pad End sticks 10 business for the
love Of il, future made plesAsnt with
leisure and comfortable by competency.
Along the side of the route will he fonnd
human characters which have laid down
BY the way, hugging . bottle As some other
phxntcms which they have left their busi-
/ ness to pursue and embrace Be not Of that
style, nv learned bearer, for I am credi-
BILE informed BY clergymen, whose rePuta-
ton for truth and veracity in the neigh
borhood where they are acquainted, is
good, that all such characters will 60 to
hell. "A voice. that's . fact.) The love
of business is the egg, none Of those eggs
are unreliable, from which is Matched the
spring chicken OF iuck. Success is a silent
partner Of attachment to business. and ever
stands ready to invest capital in the firm,
the moment it eees evidences Of good faith
in Its partner. Fellow toughs lay right BY
your business, even a. the junior nickeIless
tramp does by his co-trsmp who holds him
up and begs or rather beats for him, and
> you will reap your own or somebody eisc's
reward. Success is "a contagious and ss
hard to get rid Of As email pox, TO those
Who love their business. A preacher who
loves not his business is hypocnte,a ply
stefan, . quack, . lawyer, . shyster, jour.
salist, fraud and tramp on . migratory
caricature on humanity. Did you ese'
aotice your old mother making biscuits :
\ After the biscuits are oil cut out, there an
come corners and strings o1
dough remaining, not enough
to make Q normal sized biscuit. She take,
these remnants, wsds them up in a COB il
u her hands and bakes them. They are sad
Il wrinkIed and ugly. Your palate SHE
q away from them and your stomach don
IL desire to make their acquaintance. Th
gastric juice fires them from your stomach
=, - room ~ possible. The capillaries refus
., TO transfer them TO the circulation, an
., they hang around with their hats Cd. reach
ing out their arms ready to don On
kind Of . Uniform; to serve any kind q
q servant. But every organ Of The bod
OF wants them TO leave. No organ vi
H. shake hands with them. So with . ms