Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-22
LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS.

Old Msrmaduke Longstreet set the
richly inlaid tomatoe- can down on the
tessellsted pavement, and paused with
the ready beer-keg poised upon the chine
OF It's fellow. For 8 moment he stroked
his grizzled, shaggy beard in silence
| long years ago, when the invasion OF
English nobility taught the bloodies:
blood of the republic how to live without
working. old Marmaduke had sworn 9
| terrible VOW never to shave or wash his
face again or comb his hsir egain-and
then he spake:
"Nsy. am not scsthed, good wot, by
all this furry on the street. In time
foresaw the elimination OF this wild
spirit of reckless speculation and feverish
activity, miscalled enterprise, and wisely
guided by that conservatism which il
ever part OF my nature, held myself alooi
from the thousand and one inflated
schemes that have precipitated this fiuan-
cial crash and disquieted time. Right
thankful am that 1 worshiped not at
any shrine of the god of Msmm0p, and
confiuing my operations closely and rigidly
within the legitimate lines, am now
holding no stocks the integrity whereof
may be in the least stfscted by the wreck
OF wild cat institutions and che collapse
of speculative bubbles. My children's
patrimony is safe. Will you DIN me7"
And pouring the fosming tomsto.can to
the brim, they drank to the safe old ways
Of solid business, and separated to pur-
sue their daily conservative operations ON
old-established and eminently solid lunch
routes. 1t is safe to say the worst Is
over.
"THR SLEEP OF THE LABoRING MAN Is
SWEET"
Cases of prolonged sleep are not rare
st this time of the year. A man in Balti-
more lay down in q room on the second
floor of handsome residence about 8
O'Clock on an afternoon in early spring
and fell asleep. lie has slept almost
continuously ever since, only rousing
himself now and then for something 10
eat. He is paper hanger, and promised
solemnly that he would have that room
finished by early autumn, as the people
ere expecting company in July.
It is Tot expected, however, that
he will awaken until some time
in September-probsbly the last week
in September. Tue people of the house
are pot at all surprised or disturbed.
They have lived there twenty-seven years
and have lodged peper-hangers every
year. A pspeShanger will stand more
sleep than painter, but he cannot whis-
tie one tune all the week, nor can he
whistle 1t even for q very short time on
so shrill key. But then the strongest
painter in the world cannot sit still on a
cornice in the blszing sun and think SO
long as feeble roofer. The roofer does
not care to pound any while the
family is out Of the house. The
hour for family worship Is his popu-
lar working hour. "Let me make the
noise on the root" he says, Sand 1 care
not who makes the prayers" But when
it comes to sitting on swing scaffold,
and gazing earnestly IN at the windows
of your dressing room, the observsnt
painter wanders away with the white
cake amid the envious gnash-
ing of teeth oy his amikble rivals In prsc-
tical industry. In these restless, high
pressure days what is wearing out the
American people is driving hard work
and too little recreation.