The age-herald., 1898-03-24
A Brainy Young Man
 Will lake His Ease

There is one particularly brainy young fellow in Birmingham-not that there are not many young fellows who are Tar apoVe the average in mental development in the city-but one especially who has decided how he will enjoy himself when he has ac- quired wealth and leisure. This brave son of Alabama has had the years of his early manhood filled with imperative duties, ana his comfortable income divided among those who are near and dear to him, ana who are dependent upon him. He IS an example worthy of emulation. So natural- ly, as youthful as he is, he can claim more than his share of experience and constant unremitting labor
 He retains his sunny brightness or dis- position: he does not pose as either martyr or stint; he is only manly, courageous intrepid speciman of southern manhood, who has not shirked his duty, nor grown cynical with self-denial and self-sacrifice. Still, there comes moments to him, as to every human creature, when he ref1ects upon the past, and ruminates about the future. far
 He has decided that when riches come to him-and surely he deserves them-when across the tempestous seas, his ship, heav- fly freighted, reaches the port, he will un- load the cargo and proceed to find pleasure therein.
 
 will not entertain sumptously at first; he will not purchase fine raiment, or expensive sive vehicles; he will simply rent himself office. fit it up with luxurious furnish ings, and have sign, in great conspicuous lettering, "No Work Done Here" put over the door. He proposes to have desk which is never opened; couch upon which he will recline, while waving peacock 8 feathers fan the summer heat away! He will simply follow the rules governing h,rx., nd do inc urhD Q a never done, rest, and absorb the comforts of life, without an effort the experience of single energetic impulse.
 There is nothing remarkable, nothing sin gular in the philosophical trend of this young mans mind He only represents human nature in one of its best types. He is doing his duty faithfully, and is honest enough to tell of his longing desire for rest, and personal qualification.
 The great human family is not unlike him, save, perhaps, in his candor and his self-immolation. The battles, the strivings of every day existence tend to make every one in the thickest of the fight yearn for that place of refuge, over the door or which shall be the inscription "No Work Done Here"
 In the cool, gray shadows one catches glimpses of waving fans; there is an air of restful delight in every nook and cor ner of the apartment. Through the win dows come Gods sunlight and the fra grance of the fields and meadows, and the external hills beckon to the tired, jaded soul. Inside the room there is the mon otonous quiet of repose to be sure. but out side is freedom, life, sweetness, light and work Which shall it be, the labor that makes men brave, true and noble. and forms character and brain, with the in- sistent chisel of time and the hammer of opportunity, or the rest, that only signifies sleep and a cessation of growth. 
 Fortunately in the economy Of nature and the dispensation of an all-wise Creator, there is only one door over which is writ ten "No Work Done Here" and that door leads to the eternal night "When No Man Can Work!'
 Work is life: rest is death.