Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-05-28

Is glad to help the other clerks in their
work. The first will be aprolonged moth
ing, and he viii be poorer at 60 years Of
age than at 90. The other will be a mer-
chant 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 under
take that which they cannot do. In the
drama Of life they don't want TO be COM
mon soldier, carrying halberd across the
stage, or falconer, or o mere attendant
and SO they lounge about the scenes till
they shall be called to be something great.
After awhile, by some accident or prosper
ity or circumstances, they get into the place
for which they have no qualification, and
very soon, II the man be merchant, he is
going around asking his creditors to COM
promise for 10 cents on the dollar, or, If a
clergyman, he is making TRADES against
the ingratitude Of churches, or, II an at
torney, by unskillful management he loses
case by which widows and orphans are
robbed Of their portion, or, II q. physician,
he, by malpractice, gives his patient rapid
transit from this world to the next. Our
incompetent friend would have made a
passable horse doctor, but he wanted to be
professor of anatomy In university. He
could have sold enough confectionery to
have supported his family, but he wanted
to have q sugar refinery like the Havemey-
ers. He could have mended shoes, but he
wanted to amend the constitution of the
| United States. Toward the end Of life
these people are out Of patience, out of
money, out of friends, out Of everything.
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by running in debt to all the grocery and
dry goods stores that will trust them.
People begin to wonder when the curtain
will drop on the scene. After awhile,
leaving nothing but their compliments to
pay doctor, undertaken and Gabriel Grubb,
the grave digger, they disappear. Exeuntl
Kissed of the stage.
| Selhshness.
Others fail in the drama Of life through
demonstrated selflshness. 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
no one, rescue no one. "How big a pile
of money can getY" and "How much of
the world can I absorbP" 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 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 markets. After
awhile he dies. Great newspaper capitals
announce how he started with nothing and
ended with everything. Although for
sake of appearance some people put hand
kerchiefs to the eye there is not ono genu-
ine 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 equi-
pages, and all the mourning stores are
kept busy in selling weeds of grief. The
stone cutters send in proposals for a mon-
ument The minister at the obsequies
reads of the resurrection, which makes the
hearers fear that if the unscrupulous
financier does not come up in the general
rising he will try to get "corner"
tombstones and graveyard fences. AL
good men are glad that the moral nuisance
has been removed. The Wall street specu-
lators 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 investments,
every dollar of all his fortune, he departs,
and all the rolling of dead March, in
"Saul," and all the pageantry Of his inter
ment, and all the exquisiteness of sar.
cophagus, and all the extravaganza Of
epitaphology, cannot hide the fact that my
text has come again to tremendous fulfill
ment, "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 tiokles before
it stings. Going up, is he? Hurrah
Stand back and let his galloping horse:
dash by, whirlwind of plated harnes:
and tinkling headgear and arohed neck
Drink deep of his madeira and cognac
Boast of how well you know himl AL
hats off as he passes! Bask for days ant
years in the sunlight of his prosperity
Going down, is he? Pretend to be near
sighted, SO that you cannot see him as ht
walks past. When men ask you If yor
know him, halt and hesitate as though yor
were trying to call up dim memory ant
say: "Well, y-e-es, yes. 1 believe onct
did know him, but have not seen him fol
long while" Cross different ferry
from the one where you used to meet hin
lest he ask for financial help. When yor
started life, be spoke good word for yor
at the bank. Talk down his credit nov
that his fortunes are oollapsing. He put
his name on two of your notes. Tell hin
that you have changed your mind abou
such things, and that you never indorse
After awhile his matters come to q deat
halt, and an assignment or suspension o.
sheriff's sale takes place. You say: "Ht
ought to have stopped sooner. just as
expected. He made too big a splash IL
the world. Glad the balloon has burst
Ha, ha!'' Applause when he went up
sibilant derision when he came down
: "Men shall clap their hands at him ant
hiss him out of his place." So, high VI
amid the crags, the eagle flutters dust int
the eyes of the roebuck, which then, will
pice, the great antlers crashing on tn
rocks.
, The First Guest.
! Now, compare some of these goings on
of life with the departure Of men ant
, women who, in the drama Of life, take tn
J part that God assigned them and thel
went away honored of men and applaudet
, of the Lord Almighty. 1t is about 81
| years ago that In comparatively small
apartment of the city newly married pal
set up a home. The first guest invited t.
, that residence was the Lord Jesus Christ
and the Bible given the bride on the da,
of her espousal was the guide of tina
household, Days Of sunshine were fol
lowed by days OF shadow Did you eve
!, know home that for 80 years had n,
vicissitudeP The young woman who lef
/ her fathers house for her young husband
, home started out with parental benedic