Daily Republican., 1883-06-14
LIVING IN A HURRY.
THE DIFFERENCE BETwEENTHEx,
PRESENT AND
THE PAST.

One of the characteristic peculiaritieS
of the American people at present is the
unhealth want Of repOse. Travelling
on a limited express train is merely ty-
pical of the headlong hurry with which
all the affairs of life are transacted.
Our torefathers were content to take
the world calmly, and attend to their
business leisurely, but things hovs
changed, and now everythingls IL done IN
haste.
In business, men are in hurry 10
get rich they cannot submit to the
good old time way of adding one years.
patient and legitimate gains to those or
the years that have preceded it, but
seek by bold speculation or gambling
in stocks, to make fortune by single.
stroke.
The mechanical wheels revolve with
accumulated speed to keep pace with
the hot haste of those who impel them
The train that makes less than a mile a
minute is voted slow coach, and the
ocean steamer that fails to make the
trip between America and Europe in
side of eight days, is not considered
worthy of patronage. The hurry has
also extended to race horses, and while
few years ago Flora Temple, with hex
record of mile trotted in 2.4O WAS
considered wonder, Maud s. is expect,
ed this year to beat her best time Oft
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The long hours of druggery in she
pursuit of riches, the gangs Of night and
day laborers relieving each other in
coal mines, rolling mills and other
places where the toling never seems To-
cease, are but additional symptoms of
the mad excitement that impels men t0
rush through life in hurry, and bring
up at premature old age in untimely
graves. 1t is not paradox to say that
we are in such a hurry to live that wa
do not live at all. Life slips through
our fingers unfelt, unenjoyed, in the
hurry and haste of preparing to live.
Men pursue the phantom wealth at a.
| lightning speed, and grasp it only to
| find that, like the beautiful but deceiv-
ing apples of the Dead Sea, it crumbles
and turns to ashes in their hand, When
it is toe late, they find that health and
| life have been bartered for shadow.
At present, day of business is a day Of
breathless haste. The duties of the
toilet are hurried through; the break
fast is swallowed without being tastods
laying the foundation for dyspepsia and
it's concomitant evils; the morning il
spent in trying to do the business oftwo
days in the half of one then follows the
race for dinner, which is swallowed in
a hurry, for fear precious moment
might be wasted in properly masti-'
eating the food.
Night comes, and the struggle IT,
maintained, and the hours that should
be devoted to obtaining needed res5 are
spent in toll, until tired nature rev"lts,
and then few hours of hasty sleep IL
gone through impatiently, with fire.
quent startings and consultations Of the
watch lest the morning hours te
wasted.
The worst phase Of the evil seems fo
be that men cannot help p this railroad
fashion oftlying through life. When men
on every side are running at this head
long speed, others must run With theI3 3S 1Ss'
| be borne down, run over anu Hdlhpiou
to death by the mass. Even the one
that moraizes on this universal race IN
hurrying along with the rest, and paDsB
out these few reflections as he runs.