The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-11-19
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!, the morning, overcoming our objections I,
spending the day in the city, had said, 10
y we shall be home by the early train il
time for the concert" OF course, ther,
was no reason why We should not; and
coming In ample time to the "Nypano'
depot, glanced unaccountably at wrong
figures, saw so much time to spare he goes
serenely back to wholesale house Il
accomplish one more errand, We nevel
watched the moments with more breath
, less interest than while that train halted
in the wild hope that some premonitioi
of the need of hurry would give IN impe
tus to the footstep for which we waited.
The instructive thought that we must &C
"anyhow" was rs quickly abandoned as a
swift and inaccurate mental calculation
made il doubtful whether the depleted
cash assets would be equal 10 the liabili
ties; and very grave certainty that no
conductor Of experienced mind and hard.
ened heart would, quietly and without
unpleasant argument, accept any statement
as valid concerning tickets reposing safely
in the breast pocket Of the tardy traveller
who should follow by the next train.
The wheels begin TO turn, the "all aboard"
has hurried passengers into their seats,
the last trunk has been transferred, and the
train glldes remorselessly out and away.
Sympathy for the disappointment awaiting
him who is the innocent cause of our own
disposes of personal regrets, and he
hurries in cheerily remarking that ut
seems rs though it was about time that
train was here" and is amazed TO find
that there is plenty OF time as far as we
are concerned.
The "lady of the house" is delighted to
have us stay 10 supper, and her costly
viands do indeed "go to the spot" uncom.
monty direct, assisting as one would not
have believed in healing the hurt of dis.
appointment-and thereby hangs a sug.
gestion, that romantic youths, overcharged
with sentiment and suffering from vain
regret, might profit by. And we abandon
ourselves 10 the enjoyment Of the unac.
customed luxury Of two hours or so of
unmortgaged time. Not TO be hurried
or forcibly occupied is an embarrassment
of riches, and sets us TO thinking of Nose,
and Methuselah, and the intervening
patriarchal co.idlers whose camels did not
start on a journey until the masters were
ready and applied the prod In their own
good time, never minding If the departure
was deferred day or two or perhaps a
week after the time appointed.
When perplexed oriental business
man wanted rest and could 90 out into |
the wilderness and spend forty years in |
letting the strain on the nerves slacken, |
what could the matter of week Of time,
more or less, signify What majestic
repose Of manner must have resulted from |
such long experience as came TO Adam,
Enos, Seth and Jared Canaan, Lamech,
Mahalaleel and Methuselahl They may
have found length of days a little tedious
when summer came with such tireless
regularity, but what mental balance and |
tone must have been acquired that the
short-liyed modern races know nothing
about who think they do fairly well to
hold out for halt century; and II by |
reason Of strength they go on to four.score
or reach the nineties, become conspicuous
and almost solitary; subjects Of benevolent
wonder, as Of something out Of season;
lonely sentinels on the outskirts of
younger army.
The one little toddler who Is lett in the
waiting.room when all the trains with
passengers and their packages have gone,
slips down from its fathers arms, makes
the journey TO the door and tries TO open
that which will not swing on its heavy
hinges 10 his light touch. Again and
lgAin he is picked up and carried back
In arms only TO repeat his effort; the
shining lights, like so many stars and suns,
ne would pluck in his tiny grasp, never
ieeding the watches and trinkets held out
o entice him, that electric blaze Is so much
more brilliant than they all. His perse.
'erance wins at last, and he is taken out
o see the passing engines and all that
moving panorama Of noise and show that
'egins early and never ceases to have It's
ascinations for a boy. What kings and
ueens they all are, these tender buds of
that break down all conventions,
arriers, and are more powerful in their
weet innocence than they will be when
Iey have added all that can be acquired
y inheritance, conquest or attainment.
The colored officer beams on him as he
asses, rescues him IN his missteps,
'uchlng him with tender Difference as Il he ,
as an angel and the best instincts Of per. {
ms Of every condition are drawn out {
rough common klnship awakened by
,tle child.
The hands Of the clock creep slowly :
und, and the restful quiet Of not being I