Show 73 17 17 A the following sensible sen gible views willie wille pay a careful perusal perhaps the most moat characteristic peen flarity of our social coLdi condition tion at present is the unhealthy want of repose traveling by railroad ia is typical of the headlong hurry with which all the affairs sil afi lairs of life are transacted in business men are in a hurry to get rich they cannot submit to the tedious process of adding one years patient and legitimate gains to those of it its predecessors but seek by bold speculative combinations by autt antl inte illgen through the ordinary channels to make or mar themselves by one bold stroke the mechanical ch anical heels wheels revolve with accumulated speed to correspond to the hot haste of those who impel them the long hours of factory and aud millinery drudges dredges the gangs of night and day laborers re lievin geach other in and coal pits all the eager go ahead pressure of society are but so many symptoms of the excitement which impel men to live in a hurry it is a paradox only in form to say that we a arm are re in such a hurry to live that we do not live at all life slips through our fingers unfelt in the bustie bustle of preparing to live A day of business is 13 a day of breathless baste haste the duties of the toilet are hurried through the breakfast is gulped down without being tasted the newspaper is skimmed with a dim idea of its contents the day is spent in straining to overtake complicated details of business too extensive for the minds grasli grasp it costs coats a race to bo in time for dinner and dinner is curtailed of its fair proportion of the debate or the committee or the theatre or the evening party or all efthem of them even sleep is gop gorf through impatiently with frequent starlings 9 sand and consultations of the watch lest the morning hours houra be lost loat we snore in quicker time than our ancestors snored ignored and the worst of it is that men cannot help this railroad fashion of galloping out of life when all are running at this headlong speed you must run with them or be borne down and run over and bo be trampled to death by the mass even the morall on this universal race rac e run for the sake of hurrying running along with the rest and pant out their reflections as thy run kansas city has a female notary p ab ilo lio in the person of lills panny fanny lyons bridgeport west virginia has hag impeached its ita mayor for drunkenness every cab and public carriage in lon ton don now has painted upon im itis door the tho rates of fares ranes england borland complains that the sapt from this country has haa alum in it they have in boston what they call it pear festivals known as weddings wed elsewhere the president has been sent a suit sult of clothey from siberia made mada of siberian fura and cut in the siberian fashion |