Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-12-12
THE CONTRAST IN
TWO MEMS LIVES.
Showing the Reward of Industry
and the Reverse

Once there was man who set out early
in life to lay up Snug Sum for rainy
day The habit grew and as his Shekel
Box filed up bis enthusiasm increased. Pre-
sently be found himself worth Lot of
Money. Instead of letting up, his wealth
served only to spur him on to greater
effort. AT the outset he worked IL hours
day. As prosperity came he gave up IA
hours to his business and from that he
jumped to Is. He got Married, as it were,
to his bushes almost forgetting the woman
that he had married, or the children that
had come to them. Had it not been that
he took his meals at home, and turned in
for few hours rest at night, the wife and
children might have thought they had No
Husband or Father.
But the father Never Stopped to think
about these things, because he was so
Wrapped Up in his business and because he
was making Money so fast he couldn's
count it.
His business was the Whole World to
him. He went to church on Sunday but
one service answered the purpose. He de-
voted the rest of the day to laying plans
for the coming week.
He meyer went out for drive Or took
any form of recreation because he was Too
Busy. He never took pleasure walk be-
cause be hadn't time. He never engaged
in any form of amusement because it looked
to him like Neglect of Business.
By and by the close application and high
tension began to tell on him. His nerves
gave way, his stomach went back on him,
be lost flesh and bad cough got fast in a
spot where il WOuIdn't let 90
He died naturally and rather easy, the
people said The world went on and he
didn't seem to be missed. A lot of rela-
tiyes rather chuokled oyer his Dsmise,
because there was nice bunch of Money
TO Split Up.
The poor fellow meant we'll but he was
victim of too much industry. He simply
worked himself to death A significant
though somewbat lamentahle lesson was
suggested by the inscription on the casket
which contained his name and the usual
line underneath:
Aged ~ years, seyen months and %
days.
Living at theNsame time with the poor
fellow who passed out in the Above Stanza
was shlftless, lazy, ne'er-do- well individ-
ual who raised Full Set of children and
tavern licenses of the town.
His wife did work by the day and this
permitted the rest of the family TO make
Good Showing. The man, who posed as
being the Main Squeeze of the household,
generally got enough together to maintain
good standing with his bar-room cronIes,
and when be didn'b his wife was just that
kind OF a loving woman that she let him
Borrow out of her purse
The fellow went along apparently happy
and seemed to take pride in being able to
live without working much. The way he
sported and made Showing caused people
TO marvel.
Neighbors looked down upon him because
be was worthless and Of no use to his
family, but all the while his nerves grew
stronger, his frame grew more robust, and
his measure of contentment and pleasure
grew Fuller.
He grew old and after his faithful wife
died, made his home with his children
They kept him bordering on affiuence He
bad plenty to eat, plenty of clothes, and
plenty Of tobacco.
He seemed to die as happily as he lived.
AS he passed out Of she pale of human
vision it could hardly be said that his life
had been the same success in dollars and
cents, that the life OF the other man had
been, but it certainly had been filed with
fewer troubles and fewer ills, and, what's
worth more still the front plate bore these
figures:
Aged 81 years, II months and % days."
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