Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-04
TIRES OF BEING AN IDLER
Man who Inherits Unexpected For
tune Thinks There a. Nothing
Like work.

After all" said man who some time
ago had fortune left q him there's moth
ing like work.
Il used to think that II I had money
enough to live on comfortably. so that
didn't have TO work, / should be happy.
Ny work was one incessant grind, day
after day. the same unending round OF the
same things over and over again, and
used to get so tired Of It all that some
times II seemed as though should fly.
But hadNto keep at It TO liver and so
| did Keep at II till distant relative OF
mine that | had never known was worth
anything died and left me a fortune.
There never was anything that ever
happened TO me that ever gave me half so
much pleasure as that. The first thing I
did ives to shake the work. which l got
rid of as quickly as l decently could and
then set about planning enjoyment
"The one thing Of all that wanted most
was travel I craved change and when
that money came got Il. l set out on MY
dreamed OF travels and found keen de-
light in them all-for a time.
1T was all the same to me whether II
rained or the sun shono. for wherever
was or wherever l was going | was free
10 enjoy It all, and did for time, but
then / began TO find myself In a way apart
and not so much privileged to enjoy these
things as had been at first
For 1 was an idler pure and simple.
while all those to whom ! was indebted for
the possibility of the pleasures OF travel.
the railroad men and the steamship men.
were all workers as were also the hotel
men and the theater people and everybody
to whom l was indebted for pleasures in
sojourn. all workers. SO likewise were all.
in one field or another, all. and finding now
in travelling for rest and pleasure and
recreation delight In every breath they
drew because they were workers
And they were drawn. II not together.
at least toward one another OF their kind
while I. an idler only. had nothing in
common with the world, Even in the far
distant ports where l leaned over the rail
I found myself more and more separated
from the laborer on the wharf who, bound
though he might be to his work, yet had
an object in life, which he accomplished by
labor, while / was a man apart.
'In fact. the more idled the more clearly
l came to realize that the law of the uni
verse is labor, that in nature there is moth
ing idle and the more travelled the more
clearly It came to me how few idlers there
are among men. SAWS
when finally at the end of three years
Of idling had come back again to the city
l had this fact borne in upon me With
greater intensity than ever. and now the
great Joy that had found at first in sheer
loafng was quite departed. b..
1.-THE city was alive with activity with
: men all at work, all doing something. all
accomplishing something, and was out
of it, an idler and-a stranger Actually
men looked at me as strange being and
| some of them with curiosity That / should
be doing nothing when there was chance
they wondered.
Friends that I had known greeted me
and smiled and then-passed on They had
heir work to do and their interests and
| their sympathies were with other people.
So i stood alone, as one set of, until by a
| kind Providence there arose within me
desire to work
i've been at it ever since and am at
It STILL grateful to be back In the fold OF
| men.%-New York Sun.
DIAMoNDS-FFenzer, 18th and Dodge.
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