Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-23
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
HEROES get the monuments and the medals,
and towards live to look at them.


HEROES get the monuments and the medals,
and towards live to look at them.
| Go SLOW. Life Is long enough to allow US
to move leisurely; but the majority seem 10
think otherwise. How we hurry, to be sure.
We run when we should walk; we raVenously
bite food when we should chew 1t; we snatch
sleep when We should court 1t; we talk In
breathless haste when we should be deliberate,
we exhaust ourselves in the pursuit OF pleasure
when we should sip its sweets slowly-in fact,
we act. to use an apt phrase, as IL leach minute
will be our next" This is not necessary at all.
Energy is all right but when misplaced 1t il
all wrong. And how the propelling powers Of
railroads and ships are being pushed to satisfy
this cry for haste and speedI They are over
crowded with steam and fly on rail, through
river, lake and sea in the mad race against
Time. Here loose tie. a misplaced switch.
and, presto! mangled flesh and bones, cries and
groans-Erernity! There crash and a bang.
kissing steam, struggles. prayers, curses,
watery grave-The EndI And all staked on
Get There-all lost by the fall of a stone.
the swapping of bolt. the slip of Wheel the
breaking of cog, the going out Of light II
they had gone slow the danger signals could
have been displayed. the bolts replaced, the
obstruction removed. the collision avoided.
the boiler preserved So go slower. Don't run
through the sunshine only to get stuck in the
shadow. Take life on the installmenr plan. Do
your duty, but do it deliberately. Live to die
in your bed surrounded by what friends you
may have instead of being gathered up in bits
or coff ned in water. Don't take the desperate
chances that are the mile posts on the slippery
road to Get ThereI
The only time lazy men display energy is
when they shirk work.
Mr.. COMFORT has decided not to run for
Congress in the York-Adams district Sensi-
Bile. Congress is not a comfortable place any
more.
the churches.
THE girl who listens TO the soft words Of
lover feels that his voice has the right ring In
it-a wedding ring, as it were.
SCIENTISTS say each adult body carries
enough phosphorus to make thousands OF
matches. This probably accounts for the fame
called love which is developed when men and
women are thrown in contact with each other
IF facts are stubborn things Mr.. Grover
Cleveland must surely be fact.
PEOPLE who would take object lessons in
affection should cultivate dog.
A MULE can transact the same business as
the House recorded the other day.
THE fellow who told you so viii be around
again early in November.
BEFORE you board an ocean racer you must
plank down your fare.
THE grass widow is the feminine dude.
You cannot tell what it is.
THE spunkiest game fowls have the thinnest
combs.
CUPID is breaking down the bars between
the Hebraic and Christian beliefs. Love laughs
at religion as well as locksmiths.
So Ingalls, loans money to Western farmers
at Is per cent interest. If there be Jessica in
Kansas there may be trouble ahead for Honest
John.
THE cleverest rogue has the smoothess
tongue, but it is destined to be used just once
too often.
the stone is lifted the ants fly about in their
misery just as If there were no other stones to
crawl under and be happy. We are easily agi-
tated and made miserable, Notwithstanding the
fact that quietness and sunshine can be found
if we look for it.
If you walk upright you need not worry about
your name getting into the newspapers.
TN aaa tran ba
restaurant to the floor of the House he would
always have a quorum.
THE wife of blind man has to clothe mind
instead of body to fascinate her lord.
WHEN smokeless powder is universally used,
the well-worn phrase about the smoke of battle
rolling away will have to be turned down. The
war correspondents will have to speak of the
smell subs1ding, or something similar.
SARAH BERNHARDr has decided not to use
poisonous asp in Cleopatra" If the snake
bites her she will survive; but the serpent will
probably die.
DON'T overtax the little minds Of the occu-
pants of the over-crowded schoolrooms. From
the number of books many of the wee ones
carry it would seem that some teachers are
crooking backs as we'll as burdening brains.
Go slow, there.
The principal crop in Kansas seems to be
mortgages. It's hard to raise them, too.
AN ill-natured baby is q crying evil
BECAUSE an organ has stops Allegheny
Councils should not stop the organ.
AN Irish Arab and a stage editorl Well,
well. This is the height of unrealism to be
sure.
THEY cannot even whisper secrets or
scandals IN the Sioux City Corn Palace. The
walls have ears, you know. lots OF 'em.
MONEY didn't get tight on mint juleps. at all
events.
PERHAPS Mind-reader Johnstone can guess
what that is at the wet end of cigarette.
THE only notes that can be profitably made
are marginal notes on the edge Of a clever |
book. They bear good interest.