The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-06-05

go dnd when asked why, says h
wanted to look over some entries h,
had made to be sure he was right, 81
to put up some goods that had beer
left out Of place. The one is verJ
touchy. about doing work not ex
actly belonging to him. The 9th
er is glad to help the other
clerks In their work. The first
viii be a prolonged nothing, and be
VIII be poorer at 60 years of age thar
at 20. The other will be a inerekan.
prince. Indolence Is the cause of more
failures in all occupations than you
have ever suspected. People are toe
lazy to do what they can dc; and Want
to undertake that which they can not
do. In the drama of life they don't
want to be a common soldier, carry
ing halberd across the stage, or a
falconer, or mere attendant, and SO
they lounge about the scenes till they
shall be called to be something greek
After awhile, by s5niia accident of pros
perttg or circumstances, they get into
the place for which they have ne qualii
fication. And very soon, II the man be a
merchandise is going around asking his
creditors to compromise for ten cents
on the dollar. Or if a clergyman, he is
making Trades against the inerati-
tude of churches. Or if an attorney,
by unskillful management he loses a
case by which widows and orphans are
robbed OF their portion. Or, If a ply
Stefan, he by malpractice gives his pa
tient rapid transit from this world to
the next. Our incompetent friend
would have made pass=bla horse doc
tor, but he wanted to be professor of
anatomy in a university. He could
have sold enough confectionery to
have supported his family, but he
wanted to have q sugar refinery like
the Havemeyets. lie could have
mended shoes, but he wanted to amend
the constitution of the United States.
Towards the end of life these people
are out of patience, out of money, out
of friends, out of everything. They 20
to the poor 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 cur
tain will drop on the scene. After
awhile, leaving nothing but their COM
pliments to pay doctor, undertaken
and Gabriel Grubb, the grave-digger,
they disappear. Exeuntl Kissed off
the stage.
Others fail in the drama of life
through demonstrated selfshness.
They make all the rivers empty into
the sea, all the roads of emolument
end at their door, and they gather all
the plunies of honor for their brow.
They help no one, encourage no one,
rescue no one. "How big a pile of
money can 1 get?" and "HDw
much of the world can 1 alb
sorb?" are the chief questions.
They feel about the common people
as the Turks felt toward the Asapi, or
soldiers, considering them of
no use except to I'LL up the bitches
with their dead bodies while the other
troops walked over them to take the
fort. After awhile the prince of world
ly success is sick. The only interest
society has in his illness is the effect
that his possible d5cease may have on
the money markets. After awhile he
lies. Great newspaper cap itals an
1ounce how he started with nothing
aud ended with everything. Al
though, for sake of appearance, some
people put handlerchiefs to the eve.
there Is not one genuine tear shed.
The heirs sit up all night when he lies
n state, discussing what the old fellow
has probably done with his money. 1t
axes all the livery stables within two
niles to furnish funeral equipages, and
Ill the mourning stores are kept busy
selling weeds of grief. The stonecut-
ers send in proposals for a monument.
The minister at the obsequies reads of
he resurrection, which makes the |
hearers fear that if the interruptions
inancier does not come up in the |
GENERAL rising he will try to |
ret corner" on tombstones |
md graveyard fences All good |
men are glad that the moral nuisance
las been removed. The Wall street |
peculators are glad because there is |
more room for themselves. The heirs |
re glad because they get possession of |
he long-delayed Inheritance. Drop |
ing every feather of all his plumes, |
very certificate of all his stock. every |
'ond of all his investments, every dol |
ar of all his fortune, he departs, and |
IL the rolling of dead March in Saul" |
nd all the pageantry of his interment, |
nd all the exquisiteness of sarcopha-
us, and all the extravaganza of cpl !
APOLOGY can not hide the fact that
ny text has come again to tremendous
ulfllment: Men shall clap their
ands at him and shall hiss him out of
is place."
You see, the clapping comes before
he hiss. The world cheers before it
amns. So, it is said, the deadly asp
iclles before 1t stings. Going up, is
e? Hurrah! Stand back and let his
alloping horses dash by, whirlwind
f plated harness and tinkling head
ear and arched neck. Drink deep of
is Madeira and cognac. All hats off
S he passes. Bask for days and
ears in the sunlight of his
Going down, is he?
'retend to be nearsighted, so that you
an not see him as he walks past. When
leIi ask you If you know him, halt
nd hesitate as though you were try
1g to call up dim memory, and say:
Well, y-e-e-s, yes; believe once did
now him. but have not seen him for
long while" Cross a different ferry
rom the one where you used to meet
i'm lest he ask for financial help.
Then you started life he spoke a good
ord for you at the bank. Talk down
is credit now that his fortunes are
He put his name on two
your notes; tell him that you have
hanged your mind about such things,
nd that you never indorse After
while his matters comes to a dead
alt, and an assignment or suspension