Connecticut western news., 1896-05-28

have ever suspected. People are too lazy to do what they can do, and want to undertake that which they cannot do. In the drama of life they don't want to be common soldier, carrying 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 great. After awhile, by some accident of prosperity or circumstances, they get into the place for which they have no qualification. And very soon, if the man be a merchant, he is going around asking his creditors to com promise for 10 cents on the dollar. Or, if clergyman, he is making tirades against the ingratitude of churches. Or. if an attorney, by unskillful manage ment he loses case by which widows and orphans are robbed of their portion. Or, if a physician, he by malpractice gives his patient rapid transit from this world to the next. Our incompetent friend would have made passable horse doctor, but he wanted to be pro- lessor of anatomy in university. He could have sold enough confectionery to udfc llS Oou hO " th1Ab- ed to have sugar refinery like the Havemeyers. He could have mended shoes, but he wanted to amend the con- stitution of the United States. Toward 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 it by running in debt to all the grocery and dry goods stores that will trust them. People be- gin to wonder when the curtain will drop on the scene. After awhile, leav- ing nothing but their compliments to pay doctor, undertaken, and Gabriel Grubb, the gravedigger, they disap- pear Exeuntl Kissed off the stage.
 A Moral Nuisanoe.
 Others fail in the drama of life through demonstrated selfishness They make all the rivers empty into their 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 on one, rescue no one. "How big pile of money can get?' and "How much of the world can absorb?'' 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 ditches with their dead bodies while the other troops walked over them to take the fort Aft CT awhile this prince of worldly success is sick The only interest society has in his illness is the effect that his possible decease may have on the money mar kets. After awhile he dies. Great news paper capitals announce how he started with nothing and ended with. every thing. Although 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. It takes all the livery stables within two miles to furnish funeral equipages, and all the mourning stores are kept busy in selling weeds of grief. The stone cutters send in proposals for monument. The minister at the obsequies reads of the resurrection, which makes the hearers fear that if the interruptions financier does come up in the general rising, he will try to get "corner" on tombstones and graveyard fences. All good men are glad that the moral nuisance has been removed. The Wall street speculators are glad because there is more room for themselves. The heirs are glad because they get possession of the long delayed inheritance. Dropping every feather of all his plumes, every certificate of all his stock, every bond of all his invest ments, every dollar 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 exquisite ness of sarcophagus, and all the extrav- agance of epitaphology, cannot hide the mendous fulfillment, "Men shall clap their hands at him and shall hiss him out of his place.
 You see the clapping comes before the hiss. The world cheers before it damns. So it is said the deadly asp tickles before it stings Going up, is he? Hurrah Stand back and let his gallop- ing horses dash by, whirlwind of plated harness and tinkling headgear and arched neck. Drink deep of his madeira and cognac. Boast of how well you know him. All hats off as he passes. Bask for days and years in the sunlight of his prosperity. Going down, is hef Pretend to be nearsighted so that you cannot see him as he walks past. When men ask you if you know him, halt and hesitate as though you were trying to call up dim memory and say, Well, yes, yes, believe I once did know him, but have not seen him for long while" Cross different ferry from the one where you used to meet him lest he ask for financial help. When you started life, he spoke good word for you at the bank. Talk down his credit now that his fortunes are collapsing He put his name on two of your notes. Tell him that you have changed your mind about such things, and that you never indorse. After awhile his matters come to dead halt, and an assignment or suspension or sheriff's sale takes place. You say: He ought to have stopped sooner. Just as expected. He made too big splash in the world. Glad the balloon has burst Ha. hap Applause when he went up, sibilant derision when he came down. ''Men shall clap their hands at him and hiss him out of his place So, high up amid the crags, the eagle fut- ters dust into the eyes of the roebuck, which then, with eyes blinded, goes tumbling over the precipice, the great antlers crashing on the rocks.
 Consecrased to God.
 Now, compare some of these goings out of life with the departure of men and women who in the drama of life take the part that God assigned them and then went away honored of men and applauded of the Lord Almighty. It is about 50 years aga that in con- paratively small apartment of the city