The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-23
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 49, 1885,

can tell it from the way they crawl along the
| street, from their hardness in meeting engage
| ments from the lethargies that seem to hang to
the foot when they lift it. TO the hand when they
put it up. to the words when they speak
/ Two young men in a store In Tie morning
the one goes to his post the last minute or one
minute behind. The other is ten minutes before
| the time. and has his hat and coat hung up and
is at his post waiting for duty. The one is ever
anG anon in the afternoon looking at his watch
to see If 1t is not most time to shut up The other
| stays half an hour after he might go, and when
asked why says he wanted to look over some
| entries he had made, to be sure he was right or
to put up some goods that had been left out OF
place. The one is very punctlious about dong
work not exactly belonging to him. The other
is glad to help the other clerks in their work.
The first will be prolonged nothing, and he
Will be poorer at sixty than at twenty. The
other will be merchant prince.
Incidence is the cause of more failures in all
| occupations than you have ever suspected. Peo
pie are too lazy to do what they do, ard want
to undertake that which they cannot do. in the
drama of life they don't want to be a common
soldier carrying halberd across the stage, or a
| falconer, or mere attendant, and 80 lounge
about the scenes till they shall be called to be
Macready Junus Brutus Booth They say,
Give me the part of Timon of Athens rather
| than that of Flavius. his steward" LET me be
| Cymbeline the king rather than Pisanio the
servant After while they, by some accident
| OF prosperity circumstances, get in the place
for which they have no qualification. And very
| soon, II the man be merchant, he is going
| around asking his creditors to compromise for
10 cents on the dollar. Or, if clergyman, he
| is making TRADES against the ingratitude of
churches. Or, if an attorney, by unskillful
management he loses case in which
| widows and orphans robbed of
their portion. Or, if a physician, he, by NAL
practice, gives his patient rapid transit from this
world to the next as the clumsy surgeon of
Charles II. King of Navarro, having sewed up
the feeble limbs of the King in a sheet soaked
with lnt1ammable material, and having no knife
to cut the thread. took candle to burn off
the thread, and the bandages took fire and con-
sumed the King Our incompetent friend would
have made splendid horse doctor, but he
| wanted to be professor of anatomy in uni
versity. He could have sold enough confec-
tionary to have supported his family, but he
wanted to have sugar refinery like the Have
meyers. He could have mended shoes, but he
| wanted TO mend the Constitution of the United
| States. Toward the end Of life these people are
out of patience, out of money, out of friends out
of everything. They go to the poor-house, or
keep out of it by running in debt to all the
| grocery and dry goods stores that will trust
| them. People begin to wonder when the curtain
will drop on the scene. After a while, leaving
nothing but their compliments to pay their
doctor, undertaken, and Gabriel Grub, the
grave digger, they disappear. Exeunt! Kissed
| off the stage!
Others fail in the drama of life through dem
onstrated selfshness They make all the rivers
empty into the sea, all the roads of emolument
end at their door, and they gather all the piumes
of honor for their brow. They help no one, en-
| courage no one rescue no one "How big pile
of money can 1 getl" 'How much of the world
| can l absorbF the chief questions They
| feel about the common people as the Turks felt
towards the Asapi or common soldiers, considering
| them of no use except to fill up the bitches with
their dead bodies, while the other troops walked
| over them to take the fort. After a while this
| prince of worldly success is sick. The only inter
| ha in a eff a.
| possible decease may have on the money mar
| kets. After while he dies. Great newspaper
capitals announce how he started with nothing
| and ended with everything. Although for sake Of
appearance some people put handkerchief to the
| eye, there is not one genuine tear shed between
| Central Park and the Battery, or between Brook
Ign Heights and Brooklyn Hill The heirs
sit up all night while he lies in state,
| ably done with his money. 1t takes all the
| livery stables within two miles to furnish
funeral equipage, and all the mourning stores are
| kept busy in selling weeds of grief. The stone
| cutters send in proposals for monument The
minister at the obsequies reads of the resurrec-
| ton, which makes the hearers fear that if the
unscrupulous fnancer does come up in the gen
eral rising he will try to get corner on tomb
stones and gravey yard fences All good men are
| glad that the moral nuisance has been remove
| The Wall-street spectators glad beans.
there is more room for themselves. The heirs
are glad because they get possession of the lone
delayed inheritance. Dropping every feather
of all his plumes, every certificate of ali his stool
every bond of all his investments, every dollar
of all hfs fortune he DEPARTS and all the rolling
| OF Dead March in SAUL and all the pageantry
OF his lnterment, end all the exquisiteness of
sarcophagus, and all the extravaganza of epitaph-
ology cannot hide the fact that my text has come
again to tremendous fulillment: Men shall
clap their hands at him and shall hiss him out of
| the place."
You see the capring comes before the hiss
| The world cheers before it damns. So it is said,
the deadly asp tickles before it stings. Going
up is he2 Hurrah! Stand back and let his gal
Looping horses dash by, whirlwind of plated har
ness. and tinkng headgear, and arched neck.
| Drink deep of his Madeira and cognac Boast of
how well you know him. All hats off as he
passes Bask for days and years in the sunlight
of his prosperity. Going down, is hel Pretend
to be pearsighted so that you cannot see him as
he walks past. When men ask you if you know
him, halt and hesitate as though you were trying
to call up a dim memory. and say, well, ye-e-s.
! yes. believe once did know him, but have
not seen him for long while" Cross differ
ent ferry from the one where you used to meet
him, lest he ask for financial help. When you
started life he spoke a good word for you
at the bank. Talk down his credit now
that his fortunes are collapsing. He
put his name on two of your
about such things and that you never ndorse
After while his matters come to dead halt
and an assignment, or suspension, or sherfTs
sale takes place. You say. He ought to have
stopped sooner. just as / expected He made
too big splash in the world. Glad the balloon
has burst" Ha-ha Applause when he went up;
sibilant dersion when he came down. MEN shall
clap their hands at him and hiss him out of his
place." So. high up amid the crags the
eagle futters dust into the eyes of the roebuck,
and then with eyes blinded it goes tumbling
over the precipice, the great antlers crashing on
| the rocks.
| Now compare some of these goings out of life
| Hanarfnrn M Ynan nd Tho;
the drama of life took the part that Cod as
| signed them and then went away honored of
men and appauded of the Lord Almighty.
| 1t is about fifty years ago that in compare
ried pair set up home The first guest that
| was invited in that residence the Lord Jesus
Christ, and the Bible given the bride on the day
| of her espousals was the guide of that household