Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1905-07-13

ALL DAY"
where. There isl, t 4 lazy animal to be
found in the whole OF natures cate
CORY, and the same holds good right
down to the tumblebug and the skee-
ter. Even the alternating bear is
sharpening his claws as he sleeps.
It's only when you ascend the sliding
scale to man that you find something
with legs that can sit on the shady
porch of a grocery all day and tell lies
and talk politics and then go home to
supper and wish he was rich.
There may be thief or a sheep dog
or liar in your community, but none
Of them is as great public nuisance
as the lazy man. Wherever six or eight
men are gathered together you will
hear some lying, but the lazy man is
too lazy to even entertain any one with
lie.
Now and then he might furnish bit
Of information-at least, as far as tell
ing whom he has seen pass the store
within the last hour-but 1t Is too much
Of an effort or he Is too busy cussing
the fate that made him the son Of
poor man.
A lightning rod man is satisfied with
beating you out of dollar If times are
SLOW but the lazy man feels sighted
if you don't waste $40 worth Of time on
him during each month. The more
work you have to do the more Of your
time he wants. Now and then from
some cause that no one can solve he
throws off his lethargy and begins to
talk. 1t is always about his GRANDPA
Tiers boils, his grandmother's rheuma-
tism or his own misfortunes, and the
man who won't listen to him till the
last moment is not counted friend of
his.
Once in great while the lazy man
seems to feel that he needs an excuse
for being lazy. Then he tells how the
crows scratched up all his corn, how
the hogs devoured his seed potatoes,
how somebody's bull tore down his
fences and trampled his grass under
by the roots, how it rained too much
or too little and how score Of other
things calculated to discourage the
greatest hustler on earth. If he gets
along to where his oldest girl died
with the measles while he was getting
in his hay and he had to stop work
and his hay was rained on and spoiled
there are tears in his eyes. If he
doesn't get that far he is content to
ask some one for chew Of tobacco
and pocket the whole plug.
In my time as young man our
community was overrun for year or
two by polecats. You could smell
our township for five miles. The price
Of real estate went down 30 per cent,
and many families had to move away,
but yet it was calculated that our one
lazy man did more damage than the
| cats.
Read Of Cato, Pliny, Socrates, Alex
| ander, Nero and the rest Of the old
| boys, my son. There was no beef trust
nor Standard Oil to push man along
in those days. If he wasn't up at day
light and hustling about he got left
He couldn't sit on the head of a crack,
er barrel and move nation with his
eloquence or lick the enemy with his
| tongue
Read Of Napoleon. Washington
Grant and Lincoln. You didn't find
them down at Snyder's in the evening
wondering what was good for lame
back or If next winter was going to be
colder than last. They might quit hoe
Ing corn for few minutes to see cir
Gus parade, but with the passing of the
last camel from Sahara down went
their hoes again and the sweat started
afresh.
The man who invented the steam en-
CINE, the steamboat, the telegraph, the
reaper, who gave us gas and electric
lighting, who first heloed through ;
telephone, do you imagine that any ont
of them spent a day looking at deat
horse in the pasture and wondering
whether he died of the bolts or bro