The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-20
Rise before The sun,
And make breakfast Of the morning dew,
Served up by nature on some grsssy mill;
Ynu,l find If unerar


Was ever more arrant nonsense written?
Fancy man getting up on a cold, rainy
morning and climbing one of the high
hills about Cincinnati on an empty stom-
ach. and leaving his French coffee and
hot rolls, poached eggs and oyster stew,
to eat-whatP Why, dew. How long
would that fellow last? Wouldn't he be a
fit candidate for LongView. and no ques-
tons asked2 But, the early bird catches
the worm. Yes, but the sharp boy
knocked that delusion in the head forever
and eternally when he said; Father,
there's the point; what in thundcE did the
worm get up so early foI?" He triiled
with destiny; he tempted fate; he should
not have done it. That boy was bene
factor To the human race. He was sound
on the lie-abed question.
The French proverb says. De ht a la
table, de Ia table du tit-''frOm led to grub,
from grub to bed" Get up ana cat. cat
and go to bed again. That's something
like it. Why not? Ali the animals do
it, All nature. the grandmother of us
all, teaches it, Every animal in the
world eats and seeks repose. The COW
eats and lying down, placidly elbows her
cud; the anaconda swallows an OK,
horns and all. and goes to sleep
--"sleep that knits up the raveled
sleeve of care; the birth of each days life i.
sore labors bath, balm of hurt minds;
great natures second course; chief nonr
isber in ife's feast" And yet this is
what they would deprive us of who say
-et up, and who oppose the art of lying
aped.
A Spanish Minister, suddenly raised to
bower, signalized the event by gong to
I'D l.o a
have something TO do. 1t was in bed, at
the little inn at Waterloo, that the Duke
of Wellington received the list of the ter
rible casualties of the fatal 18th of June.
Gray's lode TO Music was written in
bed, and Sam Johnson's 'Lobo's Voyage
to Abvssinia" was dictated to the printers
before the great author of the Lives of
the Poets and photographer had arisen
Peter tindar CDR. w olcott) was SO fond
of lying abed that he received his visitors
lying beneath spreads and counterpanes
Rossini wrote one Of his finest operas in
bed and was too lazy TO pick up sheet
that had fallen away. George ~. lay in
d to read the newspapers and Macaulay
read twenty pages of Schiller before get
ting up. John Foster Thought cut his
sermons in bed and the methOdical An
thony Trollope used to read an hour be-
fore getting M Cynical Pope wrote:
/ wake az night,
Fools come into my head and SO write.
Mrs Macbeth strikes the key note when
she shouts: ITO bedl to bed" People
hunt the world over for pleasure, indulge
in all sorts of mad pranks in their search
for recreation and repose, roam from the
North Pole to the Southern Gross, pene-
trate African jungles and freeze with
Siberians and Laplanders. climb the Alps,
swelter at Saratoga and Long Branch in
pursuit of pleasure. AIasl they seek hap
piness where it is not and neglect it
where it is-in bed.
Never get up 'Fis the secret of glory;
Nothing 80 true philosophy preach:
Think of the names that are famous in story
Never get up is the lesson they teach.
How have men eompassed immortal achieve
mentsy
How have they nodded the world to their Wills
TITS that mid sorrows and threats and bereave-
ments
Never get up" was their principle still.