The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-12-17

than have ever been counted upon,
Community IN full Of laggarda and
strikeTs, can tell II from the way they
crawl along the streets, from their lar1i'
ness In meeting engagements, from the
lethaTgles that seem TO hang the foot
when they lift II, 10 the hand when they
put II up. TO the words when they speak
Two young men In q store, In the
morning the one goes 10 his post tho
last minute or one minute behind. The
other In ten minutes before the time,
aud has his hat and coat hung np, ana
IN nj bis post waiting for duty The
one In ever and anon In The afternoon
looking Mt hia watch TO aee II II IN not
mOaL time 10 shut up. The other stays
half an hour after he might 90, aud,
when asked why, says he wanted TO look
over some entries he had maieto DO sure
no WAS right, or 10 put up some goods
that had boen left out OF place The one
Ia very punctilloua about doing work
not exactly belonging To him, The
other IN glad TO help the other clerks In
their work. The lrst will be a pro-
lOnged nothing, aud no will DO poorer
at sixty than at twenty. The other Will
be q merchant prince.
IadOlence Ia the cause OF more fall
urea la all occupations than you have
ever suspected. People are TOO lazy 10
do what they can do, and want TO under
take that which they can not do. In
The drama OF life they don't want TO be
a common soldier, carrying a balbert
across the stage, or falcOner, or a mere
attendant, and 10 lounge about the
scenes TIL they shall b. called TO DO a
MacTeady or Juniul Bruina Both
They say, Give me the part OF 'Tlm0n
OF Athens rather than that OF 'Flaylus,
hls steward" LET me be Cymbellne,
the king, rather than Plsan0, lhe ser
want" After q while they, by some ac-
cident OF prosperity or circumstances,
get In the place for which they have no
qualification. And very soon, II the
man be a merchant. he IN going around
asking hls creditors 10 compromise for
ten cents on the dollar, Or, II clergy
man, he In making Trades against the
iDgratitude Of churches. Or, II an at
tOTney, by unskllJful management he
loses case In which widows aud or.
phana are robbed of their portion, Or, II
a physician, no by malpractice gives hla
patient rapid transit from this world TO
the next, on the clumsy surgeon OF
Charles II, King OF Navarro, having
sewed up the feeble limbs OF the King
IN sheet soaked OF inhtmmaole ma
terlal, and, having no knife 70 cut Tue
thread, took a candle TO burn of the
thread, and the bandagaa took IRE ana
consumed the King. Our Incompetent
friend would have made splendid
horse doctor. but he wanted To be pro
fessor OF anatomy In q university. He
could have sold enough confectionery To
have supported hls family, but he want
cd 10 have q sugar refinery like the
Hlyemeyers. He could have mended
ahoea, but he wanted 10 mend the Con
stltuti0n OF the United States. Toward
the end Of life these people are out OF
patience, out OF money, out OF triends,
out OF every thing, They 90 TO the poor
house or keep out OF II by running IN
debt TO all the grocery aud dry goods
stores that will trust them. People be.
gin 70 wonder when the curtain Will
drop on the scene. After a while, leay'
| Ing nothing but their compliments TO
pay their doctor, undertaken, and Gabriel
Grubb, the grave digger, they disappear,
Exeuntl Kissed of the stage.
MANY FAIL THROUGH sELFIsHNEss,
Others fail In the drama Of life
| through demonstrated eelishnesa They
make all the rivers empty Into the sea,
all the roads OF em0lnment end NJ their
door, and they gather oil the plumes Of
honor for their brow. They help no one,
encourage no one, rescue no one, How
big pile OF money can getY' How
much Of the world can | absorbp' are
the chief questions. They feel about
the common people az the Turk felt
toward the asapi or common soldiers,
considering them Of no use except to Oil
np the ditches with their dead bodies
while the other soldiers walked over
them TO take the fOlt After awhile this
prince OF worldly success Ia sick. The
only interest society has In his illness
IL the effect that hls possible deceaae
may have on the money markets. After
awhile he dles. Great newspaper CAPT
tails announce how no started with no
thing and ended with everything. Al
though, for sake OF appearance, some
people put q handkerchief TO the eye,
there II not one genuine tear shed be
tween Central Park aud the Bltlery, or
between Brooklyn Heights ana Brooklyn
HUI. The heirs sit up NJ night while
no lies In state, discussing what the old
fellow hos probably done with hia
money. " takes all the livery stables
within two miles TO furnish funeral
PQnipage, aud all the mourning stores
are kept busy In selling weeds OF grief,
The stone cutters seLd In proposals for
monument. The minister NJ the oh.
sequies reads oil the resurrection, whlch
makes the hearers fear that II the un'
scrupulOus hnancier does come up In
general rising no will try TO get a cor.
ner on tombst0nes and grave yard
fences. All good men are glad that the
moral nuisance has been removed. The
Wall street spectators are glad, because
there " more room for themselves The
heirs are glad, because they get posses
sion Of the long delayed inheritance.
Dropping every feather OF all his
plumes, every cert 0cate OF all his
stOcg, every bond Of oil his investments,
every dollar OF all his fortune, he do.
UhIlhI anu MI bnN iullihk VI NhN bNhh
NJ rch In saul, and all the pogeantry OF
his interment, and all the exquieiteness
OF sarcophagus, aud oil the extraya'
gance Of epitaphology, can not hide the
fact that my text hss come again to tre'
mendous fulAllmeni: "Men shall CLAP
their hands at him, and shall hies him
out Of the place."
You see the clapplng comes before the
hiss. The world cheers before II damns
30, II Ia said, the deadly asp tickles be
fore II stings. Going up, is hep Hur
rahl Stand back and lot his gallopiDp
horses dash by-a wbirlwind OF plated
harness aud tinkling headgear ant
arched neckl Drink deep Of his Madeira
aud cognac. Boast OF how well yor
know him. All hats of as he passes
Bask for days and years In the sunlight
OF his prosperity. Going down, IL be'
Pretend TO be nearslghted, 30 that yot
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