The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-05-15
HURRY AND WORRY.



The average American is a
unique tyle. He has pecularitles
which seem to indicate a diver
gent species of genus homo ;
marked characteristics which sci
him apart from his kind; a hope.
iulness which renders him ven
luresome dash, an ardacity and
an environment which force him
10 disregard traditions and conven
lionaliiies and make him some
thing Of an anomaly.
He is The busiest and most am
bilious creature on this planet is
positive IN his beliefs and daring
in his enlerprlsc has never learn
ed The meaning of The word sim
possibility" and is simple, anger
ed and reused by difficulties.
His great misfortune is over GER
ebralion. His brain seelhes, boils,
bubbles. He is impatient, wants
the railroad train 10 travel fifty
miles an hour without stopping,
drives his horse and himself at top
speed, thinks nothing of million.
but aims at Il million million, and
secures as much of that aggregate
as he can; is charged with light
ming because il ALWAYS gets there,
aud with The rolling thunder, be
cause it means business. He ad-
mires success so much that he does
not ask any questions as to how il
was achieved; is conservative in
religion, but would like to have il
confine itself 10 limits of Sunday
and not intrude to familiarly into
the affairs OF The week.
He is in an everlasting hurry,
whites out his plans for the future
while pretending TO be asleep in
The cradle, ard at last jumps out
of The world as though he had re-
ceived telegram TO come at once.
This mode of life tells on him.
His hot brain makes his hair drop,
and his head alter awhile resem-
bles billiard ball with two fiery
sparks for eyes. He dlsdains
wig, because he is 50 engaged in
constant thought that he might
get 1t on wrong end 10, or in The
scurry Of business might slip il
round ill he parting runs from ear
TO ear. He hates to look redlcu-
lous, and so goes bald rather than
trust to the possible disasters
which false hair entails.
The stimulous which keeps him
at high pressure is The air. The
coolest blooded man catches the
epidemic of rush and IN spite of |
himself becomes breathless with |
excitement. A foreigner, who |
was so phlegmaiic, that he only |
once a day, strolled down
Broadway, awhile since looking
nto The windows. Gradually he
taught The infection, became reck.
ess and began 10 hurry. He felt
ike race horse on the track and
truck terrific gait. He had had
lothing to do, was a gentleman of
eiSure, with the whole day before
i'm, but The multitude hypnotlzed
i'm. He wanted to go somewhere,
nd to get right off. At last he
rought up at The Fulton ferry.
yas bound TO be the first OF board,
pped over poor apple-woman's
Iand but could not stop to remedy
he misfortune, edged his way to
ne front of the boat, gazed at {
as Columbus did at the
ew found land, jumped ashore
out OF breath, and sud
unly remembered that he had
othing 10 do and had been doing :
al a breakneck rate.
IL was The air, the crowd, the :
eneral hustle, eagerness aud rival :
;, which wore him out and eeht =
m to bed for sleep and rest. His :,
God boiled, his nerves were ting =
~, he was in lever. ;,
We get used 10 that kind Of life =
I'd do not recognize that we are '.
ke conflagration, that the body '
always on fire, with smoke, flame, !,
ackling timbers and a Dakota \
lizard inside of us. Then comes ;
e dyspepsia,and We wonder why, :,
al we are as cross as a bear, or "
and the Lord help
who speaks to us /; or ;,
2 gout, when our enforced idle "
sss fills us with a rampant desire = =
break the furniture ; or paraly- :
5 or appoplexy, when we drop 7
1t of the profession and give !,
,unger men chance 10 20 and !
, likewise. 4
What we need in this country is u
ore iun and more physcal exer- i.
Sc. Dollars look so big 10 us ,
at we would jump across a bot ="
mless pit TO grab them and run
e risk of falling in. We think :;
o much of money and too little = ;,
life, keep piling up surplus .
I'd then die before we have a h
Iance 10 enjoy it, get craze for
sh until at last we care more for 9,
than il is worth. n
When we get TO be older as a ma
IN we shall have more holidays,
ore excursions, picnicS, sports s
ID leisure. Work is good, but fe
o much is doom. We don't W
ugh enough, take life loo serious b,
/, have a keen appetite for en-. q,
yment but can't afford time 10 :;
aiify it.
The best rule, if ycu want 10