The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-07-04

ministers, lawyers, doctors, merchants,
artists and farmers than have ever
been counted upon, The com mt nifty
is full of laggards End snirkers. lean
tell 1t from the way they crawl along
tie street, from their hardness in
meeting engagements, from the lethar-
giles that seem to hang to the foot
when they lift 1t, to the hand when
they put It out, to the words when
they speak.
Two young men in a store. In the
morning the one goes to his post the
last minute CT one minute behind.
The other is ten minutes before the
time and has his hat and coat hung
up, and is at his post waiting for duty.
The one is ever and anon, III the after
noon, looking at his wa tch to see if 1t
Is not most time to shut up. The 9TH
er 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. The one is very
touchy about doing work not ex-
sctly belonging to him. The 9TH
er Is glad to help the other
clerks in their work. The first
will be prolonged nothing, and he
will be poorer at so years of age than
at 20 The other will be a 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
do. In the drama OF life they don't
want to be common soldier, carry
ing a 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, II 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 il an attorney,
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case by which widows and orphans are
robbed of their portion. Or, if a ply
sician, 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
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have supported his family, but he
wanted to have a 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, ont 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 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 grave-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 "How
much of the world can I 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 ill 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-
ters send In proposals for monument.
The minister at the obsequies reads %
the resurrection, which makes the
hearers fear that II the interruptions
fnancier does not come up in the
general rising he will try to
get corner" on tombstonef
and graveyard fences. All good
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 tho rolling of Dead March in Saul,
and all the pageantry'of his interment
and all the exquisitehess Of sarcopha'
gus, and all the extravaganza Of cpl.
taphology can not hide the fact that
my text has come again to tremendous
fulfllment, Men shall clap their
hands at him and. shall hiss him out OF
his place"