The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-06-06

tion they get. There are more lazy
ministers, lawyers, doctors, merchants.
artists and farmers than have ever
been counted upon. The community
il full of laggards and shirkera loan
tell Il from the way they crawl along
the street, from theiE tardiness In
meeting engagements, from the lsthar-
Qies that seem TO hang to the foot
when they lift 1t, to the hand when
they put II out, to the words when
they speak.
Two young men In q store. In the
morning the one goes to his post the
last minute or one minute behind
The other Ia ten minutes before the
time and has his hat and coat hung
up, and Is at his post waiting for duty.
noon, looking at his wa tch to see II 1t
is not most time to shut up The 9TH
or stays half an hour after he might
go, and when asked why, says he
wanted to look over some entries he
had made to be sure he was right, or
to put up some goods that had been
left out of place. Tho one 10 very
touchy about doing work not ex-
actly belonging TO him. The 9th
or Is glad to help the other
clerks in their work. The first
will be prolonged nothing, and he
will be poorer at 90 years of age than
at 90 The other will be q merchant
prince. Incidence Is the cause of more
failures in all occupations than you
have ever suspected. People are too
lazy to do what they can do, and want
to undertake that which they can not
doA In the drama of life they don't
want to be a common soldier, carry
ing halberd across the stage, or a
falconer, or a mere attendant, and so
they lounge about the scenes till they
shall be called to be something great
After awhile, by some accident of pros
perity or circumstances, they get into
the place for which they have no quail
fication. And very soon, IL the man be a
merchant, he is going around asking his
creditors to compromise for ten cents
on the dollar. Or if a clergyman, he is
making TRADES against the ingrati-
tude of churches. Or II an attorney,
by unskillful management he loses
case by which widows and orphans are
robbed of their portion. Or, If ply
stefan, he by malpractice gives his pa
tient rapid transit from this world to
the next Our incompetent friend
would have made a passable 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 sugar refinery like
the Havemeyers. He 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 go
to the poor house, or keep out OF 1t 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 Grub. the Rrave-digger.
they disappear. Exeunt! Kissed off
the stage.
Others fail in the drama of life
through demonstrated selfishness-
They make all the rivers empty into
the sea, all the roads of emolument
end at their door, and they gather all
the plumes 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 GLOW
much of the world can l alb
sorb?" are the chief questions.
They feel about the common people
as the Turks felt toward the Asapi, or
common soldiers. considering them of
no use except to fill 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 decease may have on
the money markets. After awhile he
dies. Great newspaper cap itals an
nounce how he started with nothing
and ended with everything. AL
though, for sake of appearance, some
people put handkerchiefs to the eye,
there is not one genuine tear shed.
The heirs sit up all night when he lies
in state, discussing what the old fellow
has probably done with his money. 1t
takes all the livery stables within two
miles to furnish funeral equipages, and
all the mourning stores are kept busy
selling weeds of grief. The stonecut-
tiers send in proposals for monument.
The minister at the obsequies reads Of
the resurrection, which makes the
hearers fear that il the interruptions
financier does not come up in the
general rising he will try to
get corner. on tombstones
and graveyard fences. All coed
men are glad that the moral nuisance
has been removed. The Wall street
spectators are glad because there is
more room for themselves. The heirs
are glad because they get possession of
the long-delayed inheritance. Drop
ping every feather of all his plumes,
every certificate of all his stock. every
bond of all his investments, every dol
lar of all his fortune, he departs, and
all the rolling of dead March in Saul"
and all the pageantry of his interment.
and all the exQuisiteness of sarcopha-