Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-12

Puhc'lious ABOUT oolng work not exactly
belonging to him The other is glad n
help the other clerks in their work. Tho
The hrst will be a prolonged nothing and
he will be poorer at sixty than at twenty
The other will be a merchant prince.
Incidence is the cause of more failures IN
all occupations than you have ever susnect,
ed. People are too lazy to do what thew
can do, and want to undertake that which
they can not do. In the drama of life thew
don't want to be a common soldier carry.
ing a halberd across the stage, or a falcon.
er, or a mere attendant, and so lounge
about the scenes till they shall be called to
be a Macready or q Junius Brutus Bootb
They say, "Giye me the part of Timon. Of
Athens, rather than that of Flavin. his
steward" "Let mo be Cym.
beline, the King, rather than Pisano, the
servant" After awhile they, by some &C.
cident Of prosperity or circumstances, get
in the place for which they have no quail
fcation. And very soon, if the man be a
merchant, he is going around asking his
creditors to compromise for ten cents on
the dollar. Of, If a clergyman, he is max.
ing TRADES against the ingratitude of
churches. Or, if an attorney, by unskin-
full management he loses a case in
which widows and orphans are robbed
of their portion. Or, if a physi-
clan, he by malpractice gives his pa
tient rapid transit from this world
to the next, as the clumsy surgeon of
Charles H., King of Navarro, having sewed
up the feeble limbs of the King in a sheet
soaked of infammable material, and hav-
ino M knjfo IN ont tho fIrooI %1ol~
die to burn off the thread, and the band
ages took fire and consumed the King.
Our incompetent friend would lave made
a splendid horse doctor, but he wanted to
be professor of anatomy in a university.
He could have sold enough confectionery
to have supported his family, but he want
ed to have a 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 pa
thence, out of money, out of friends, out of
everything. They go to the p%oor-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
awhile, leaving nothing but their compli-
ments to pay their doctor, undertaken and
Gabriel Grub, the grave digger, they dis
appear. Exeunt! Kissed off the stage.
Others fall in the drama of life through
demonstrated selishness. They make all
the rivers empty into the sea, all the roads
of emolument end at their door, and they
gather all the plumes of honor for their
brow. They help no one, encourage no
one, rescue no one. Elbow big a pile Of
money can l get?" Chow much of the
world can l absorb" are the chief ques-
lions. They feel about the common people
as the Turks felt toward the Asapi, or
common misunderstanding 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 awhile
this prince of worldly success is sick. The
only interest society has in his illness is
the effect that his probable decease may
have on the money markets. AT
ter awhile he dies. Great news
paper capitals announce how
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 Bat
terry or between Brooklyn Heights and
Brooklyn Hill. The heirs sit up all night
while he lies in state, discussing what the
old fellow has probably done with his
money. 1t takes all the livery stables
within two miles to furnish funeral equip
age, and all the mourning stores are kept
busy in selling weeds of grief. The stone
cutters send in proposals for a monument.
The minister at the obsequies reads of the
resurrection, which makes the hearers fear
| that if the INSCRIPTIONS fnancier does come
up in the general rising he will try to get
a corner on tombstones and graveyard
fences. All good men are glad that the
moral nuisance has been removed. The
| Wall street spectators are glad because
there is more room for themselves. The
of the long-delayed inheritance. Dropping
every feather of all his plumes, every GER
tifcate of all his stock, every bond OF all
his investments, every dollar of all his
fortune, he departs, and all the rolling
of Dead March in Saul, and all the pa
gcantry of his interment, and all the ex-
ouisiteness of s%arcophagus, and all the ex-
travagance of ~epitaphology can not hide
the fact that my text has come again to
tremendous fulfllment: "Men shall clap
their their hands at him and shall hiss him
out of the place."
You see the %clapping m before tho
hiss. The world cheers before it damns.
So, it is said, the deadly sap tickles be-
fore it stings. Going up is he! Hurrah
Stand pack and let his galloping horse
dash by, a whirlwind Of plated harness
and tinkling headgear and arched neck.
Drink deep of his MADEIRA and Cognac.
Boast of how well you know him. All hats
of as he passes. Bask for days and years
in the sunlight Of his prosperity. tong
down, is he? Pretend to be nearslghted SO
that YOU can not see him as he walks past.
When men ask you if you know him, malt
and hesitate as though you We're trying to
call up a dim memory, and say: "Weli,
y-e-e-s, yes, l believe l once did kno"
him, but have not seen him for a long
time. Cross a different ferry from the
one where you used to meet nm
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 COL
- II, ,,t his name on two OF your