The record-union., 1894-10-20

would but manage rightly, could easily
make 5000 year on five acres of fruit
trees and 500 chickens; after placing
money value on every thing in
sight, he becomes restless and wonders
how things are going on back in town.
lie wakes you long before day to tramp
ten miles with him to catch string of
fish for breakfast. He makes you work
for hours like wood-chopper in order to
clear the underbrush from about the
camp. And such a blood thirsty villain
as he is Kill, kill, kill, from morning
till night-rabbits, quail, fsh-it makes
no difference what, only 10 kill all day
long; and each night he puts down in his
little book how many lives he has taken.
oh, what a relief after the rustler Is an
honestly lazy person. OF one who makes
no pretense of carrying gun or even 4
fshiug-rod, but who frankly acknowl-
edges that he goes into the woods for the
purpose of smelling the pines; OF seeing
the red and yellow of the autumn leaves;
of taking to himself all this wild har-
mony OF beauty made up of so many
wonders-of running water, and dancing
sunlight, and fleets of clouds that sail
majestically across the depths of space.
| Though it be the raukest heresy, yet
| will l say it-I admire; nay, L love, a
lazy man.
Poets and philosophers are lazy, and,
indeed, only when mans hands are ab-
| solutely idle can he do his best thinking.
| one cannot even admire as he ought If he
| IS trying to do something else at the same
/ time.
| Some may have read in books that the
! merry farmer lad has an excellent oppor-
| tunIty to commune with nature as he
| drives his team atield and turns up the
/ rich and mellow soil. | submit that with
| u gang and ten or a dozen mules to
/ handle he can do very little cOmmuninG
OF that sort, even if he felt so disposed.
! As matter Of fact, most of his commun-
/ ing Is done with refractory animals in a
manner Of which it must be said that
! though frequently original il is often eX-
| tremely iurId.
| Why, it is only your genuine, simon
pure lazy bones who knows how properly
TO enjoy his eating. From soup to coffee
! he loses no whit of that divine enjoyment
] which comes OF the correlation OF d deli
| cate sense OF taste and the delightful Gre
! ationS of tirSt-claSs chef. Take it in
! conversation; what nuisance that indi-
| Vldual is who having begun story seems
suddenly to conclude that he has no time
| TO finish 1t and brings on the climax be-
! fore your interest in the tale is fairly
awakened. The lazy and wiser man, by
! lingering in the by paths OF detail. not
only gratites his indisposition to hurry,
! but also gently stimulates your inquis-
! itiveness so that, when at length the goal
OF the excursion is reached, you are in a
proper mood to appreciate it.
In argument that rapid person seems to
| think that everything to be said must be
said at once, and the words rush out peil-
nell, each trying to thrust the others
aside. as it were, and humping against
and tripping up ono another. one learns
a valuable lesson when he learns that
! human beings are SO constructed that
they are able to express and to grasp
| but one idea at a time.
! But the lazy man has one serious draw
back-he cannot make money. The
| ruStler, on the other hand, can sell goods
at 100 per cent. profit; he can find pur-
chasers for worthless real estate; he can
get into the public crib with both hools:
| he can steal a million dollars. All hail,
most august Rustler, we hasten TO burn
/ our incense at your shrine!
| Lazy man, devil take you!
FREE LANCE.
Alturas, CAL, October 10, 1894.