Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-23

sickle made oni of The snarp edges at the
broken glass a bottle and 0Omiom they
arr cut down, sand therc are whole
Swathcs Of them, whole NiurowS of them,
aud ii takes an the hospitals and peni.
tentlarip~ aud graNeyards and cemeteries
to hold this harvest Of hcil Somo of You
are going down uudor this evil and The
never diving worm OF alcohol has wound
around you one of It's coils, and hy ntXt
New Years day tt will have another coil
around YOU and twill after while put
coll around y0urtonguo and coil aronnd
your brain and coil around your lung
and a coli around Your foot aud coil
around your heart and some day this
neyer-dylug worm will with one spring
tighten al the coils at once, aud I'M the
last twist 81 that awful con,0luiion you
viii cry our,
''oll, Ny CupiN
and be gOue. The greatest OF dmmatists,
In the tragedy of The Tempest, sends stau-
goring asrosS the Stage Stephauo, the
drunken butler; but across the
stage VI human life strong
drink sends klngly and Quccnly
and princely natures staggering forward
against the ioOtlighls OF conspicuity, and
then stag gcrlug back into failure I'm the
world is impaticnt1or their disappearance
aud human and dubollc voices i0in
[ Ia Kissing them OF the STAGE
/ Many also nuke a failure IN the drama
OF life through mdOlencO. They are al
ways making calculations how little they
can do FOR the compensation they get.
There are more lazy ministers, lawyers,
! doctors, merchants, artists aud farmers
/ than have ever been counted upon. COM
mpnty Is full Of laggards and shrkcrs
/ | can tel 1t from the way they crawl
along the street from their hardness IN
meeting engagements, from the lcthBrgies
/ that seem 60 hang the foot when they hit
IL, to the hand when they put II ulS to
/ the words when they speak.
Two young men In a store, lu the
morning the one goes to his post the last
minute or one minute behind. The ojhcriS
I ten minutes before the timu aud has his
( hat aud coat hung up and is at his post
waiting for duty. THE one IL over and
anon In the afternoon looking at his watch
4 to see II &c Is not most time 10 shut up.
! Tho Il ler stays half an hour after he
might 90, and, when asked why, says he
wanted TO look over some entries he had
made 90 be- sure he was right, or 10 pat
mp some goods chat had been left out of
place Tho ,ne Is very punctilous nhout
doing wor6 not exactly belonging To him.
The other Is glad To help the other clerks
i'm their work The tlr,t win be proc
longed nothing aud he viii bc poorer at
sixty than at twenty
rnE oTuER WILL M AMEBCHANr rRlNCE.
Incidence ia the cause of more failures
in all occupations than you have ever
suspected People are too lazy TO do
what they can do, and want to undertake
that which they cannot do. In the drama
oflile they don't want 90 loo common
soldier carrying halberd across the
, stage, ora ialopnor or q mere attendant
and so lounge about the scenes I'm they
shall hc called 20 be Aiacready or d
luuius Brutus Booth. They say "GivC
me the part OF Timon Of Athens
|, rather than that 90 llayius, hi,
steward" "Lct me bc Cymhclnc The
king, rather than pisano the servant.
After awhile they, by some accident o
| prosperity or circumstances, get IN IN
place for which they have no quulinca
, ton And very soon, If the man be 4
merchant, he Is going around asking his
/ creditors TO compromise for ten cents OF
, the dollar. OR, II clergyman, he !,
, making TRADES against
: THE INGRATIruDE on CHURCHES.
or, If an attorney, by unskilllul manage
mCnt he loses case In which widows
and orphans are robbed of their portion
Or, II physician, he by malpractice give'
his patient rapid transit from this worlC
to the next, as the clumsy surgeon ot
3 Charles H. king of Navarro, having sewct
. up the feeble limbs of the king In sheet
soaked of inhammnblc material, and hav
ing no knife TO cnt the thread, took d
candle TO burn off the thread, and ia,
bandages took fire and consumed the
Z king our incompetent friend would
have made a splendid horse-ductor, bu
he wanted 10 be professor OF anatomy h
8 university. He could have sold enough
confectionery 10 have supported his fam
! lily, but he wanted 10 have a sugar refinery
] like the llavGmeyers. He could hav,
, mended shoes, but he wanted TO meme
the constitution Of the United States
Toward the end of life these people arr
. out OF patience, out of money, out o
. friends, ont OF everything, Tney go I,
I the poor-hOuse or keep out of IL by run
ming In debt to all the grocery aud dry
I goods stores that will trust them. PEG
ple begin TO wonder when the curtain
. will drop on the scene. After awhile
i leaving nothing but their compliments e
Z pay their doctor, undertaken ana Gabrlc
. Grub, the graye-digger, they disappear
ENeunt
KISSED orr the STAGE.
I Others fail in the drama Of life through
demonstrated svlfishness. They make vi
j. the rivers empty into the sea, all TN
roads Of cmolument end at their door
70 and they gather all the plumes o
= honor for their brow They help no one
I encourage no one, rescue no one. GLOW
i big pile OF money can ! getf, "llOv
+ much Of the world can absorb2" are thu
4 chief questions They feel about the com
= mon people as the Turks felt towards th'
= Asapi or common soldiers, considering
u them OF no use except 10 OH up the ditche
D with their dead bodies while the othc
D troops walked over them to take the fort
1 After awhile this prince Of worldly sue
5 cess Is sick The only interest soclrt,
= has In his Illness is the effect that his pos
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