Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-01
A LAY DISCOURSE.
Trying to Beat Two Forty With Three
Minute Horse.
from Peok's SUM-

Trying to Heat TWO-EOrty With a Three
Minute Horse.
from Peok's SUM-
4 convict in the Indiana penitentiary
hit the nail on the head when asked
how his downward course began. He
said it began in trying to beat 2 40 with
q three-minute horse. How many peo-
pie in all branches of business are try
ing to beat $40 with three-minute
business? The man who has small
business that is paying him, and goes
Into debt and trys to spread himself
over too many eggs, is trying to beat
$40 with a commute horse. The
girl who is calculated by nature to be
the wife of mechanic, and gets above
her business and looks with scorn upon
a man who earns his living by hard
work, Will look at an old maid in the
glass few years from now, and realize
that she has been trying to beat 2 40
with three-minute horse. The ordi-
nary, everyday sort of man, who is
elected to small Office, by big major
ity, on account of men voting for him
for charity, and who thereupon aspires
to big Office for which he is untitled,
Will be nominated for the big Office some
day and be beaten higher than a kite,
and he will then feel of his aching head,
examine his empty pocketbook, look
around at the debts he has contracted,
and the enemies he has made, and it will
suddenly come to him that he has been
trying to beat 2 40 with tree-minute
horse. The man OF woman who leaves
O profession or employment to which
they are fitted, and in which they can be
prosperous and happy and have friends,
and goes upon the stage to compete
with men and women who have been
brought up to it, and who have made
success by a lifetime of hard work,
will some day realize to their sorrow
that they have failed to beat 2:40 with
a three-minute horse. The young man
who has been left fortune by a dead
father, who has worked lifetime to &C
cumulate riches, and who changes from
beer, that was good enough for him be-
fore, to champagne, and plenty of it,
and who can't find places enough to
spend money without sitting up all
night, and who finds old sledge and pee
nuckle too tame, and adopts draw-poker
and faro, and who forgets that his sis
tiers are splendid company, and gets ac-
quainted with quick girls and buys them
diamonds as big as pieces of alum, will
in few years be walking on his up
pers, and having fur collars pinned on
to linen listers for winter, and he will
wake up some morning with the al
mightiest headache on record and come
to the conclusion that trying to beat
2 40 with three-minute horse is what
ais him. The whole-souled, good fell
low, everybody's friend, gets to drink
ing too hard, and as he is healthy, he
gets an idea he can beat whisky, a game
that so many have tried and failed He
keeps it up until his nose gets red, his
eyes bleared and his voice shaky, andhe
has whisky cough, and his friends try
to reason with him and get him to let
up, but he laughs at them with his good
natured laugh, and tells them that he
has a constitution like horse, and
that nothing can hurt him, and
he asks them 10 take a drink
Some day he gets the jim
jams, and all his friends say, II told you
SO" and they sit up nights with him
and drive away snakes, and just before
he dies it suddenly occurs to him that
him that he has been trying to beat two
forty with a threeminute horse. A
man who is poor and wants to live on
the fat Of the land, marries pretty
little rich woman, and begins to squan-
der her money, and when she tries to
persuade him to stop it, he gets to
treating her like dog, gets worse and
strikes her, and after a while she gets
enough of It and obtains divorce, and
marries man who loves her, and
doesn't want her money, and she is
happy, and her former husband be-
comes a dead-beat and drunkard and
would fain beg for the refuse that drops
from the table of his former wife, and
when he buttons his summer coat
around him on winters night and
walks around block for wind-pud-
ding, and looks into the window and
sees the light of the fire from the CRATE
of his former wife's sitting it oc-
ours to him that if he had not attempt
ed to beat two-forty with three-minute
horse, he could have been in there
toasting his slippers and drinking cider,
and looking into a pair of eyes that
would have always looked their love
for him, if he had been contented with
a three-minute gait, but which eyes will
never look upon him again except in
pity. o, there are thousands Of people
who make a mistake in trying to beat
two-forty with three-minute horse.
LIZ. rzr