| Show HURRYING THROUGH LIFE some mens lives fitly re represent presenta a high pressure 1 engine whose capacity 1 1 for work is ia kept up to its highest ten sion eion and to is only stopped long enough to take on water and fuel or for repairs made inevitable by the ceatie ceaseless cea beless less frio tion lion of joint against joint and rod wheel some visionaries vision aries have expressed the belief that the locomotive being the perfection of mechanism approaches so BO closely losely the realm of intelligent beings ft that it partakes somewhat of the conditions approached bed and that it to is really animate nate to sow some e extent many an old refuses to have his mind dis ani an haae ginear rinear sed don on that sub subject eject claiming that abs machine chinsio has its moods humors MB ni hr jd fancies just like other people and and treats it angly without has this absurdity ity we will re verge reverse discussing proposition and say fay that man to is a the engine operated and regulated acted on much the same lame principle as the wheels arms rods other ala and pinions having their elbows fin flue COUI 11 in our mechanism the stroke of odthe the piston rod red to Is merely the with arm revo king out an every driving wheel is a step of th the a forward forward ution or backward the firebox fire box is in eIg stomach in which its food angin ab a macerated aud and the product conveyed ma to I 1 to the entire system the power af indicate laborio laborious labori us ful t and the steam the motive effort ser I 1 with without out which nothing to is the pov iners or neB spiritual part sometimes sometime this ong sometimes ome times low sometimes in is abely high active again at rest but while tensely seen even through the glass glace never SJ its work is visible in ave every ry u r g and nd when it is in gone the loco eft Etl r t t i va veis is dead Is not this a parallel over wor worth tb thinking when an engine pulls out of a yard of care containing human with 0 a ilde HB freight it almost seems to nd other and and the realize its responsibility power steam and the clanging bell diapason which calls out as blend in a mechanism will permit III t alv as nosey off dont be afraid its speed in am m I 1 as it teris fb more and nd more the creases crease of the steam in its iron joints joint si power eat volumes of escaping vapor and great nira stream to the rear and darken she sy sky it uis is at last and will the its destination if not beis beset et soon reach boni accident here occurs another K fin rafn by ant parallel the faster it goes the greater breaker the percentage of wear and lose by friction and jostle fostle and the the race will be made it is RD an sooner travel and corn com rent of modern agent meroe and must obey the mandate im parted arted to its dumb conscious to make haste hastily I 1 this now means not dot only the present trip hot but those to corn come in which the pace must be still further heightened it t hours and more to to take two go used to bogden Tog ogden den and for a while in immell this was satisfactory being placed me ate contrast with journeying in ve over indifferent roads and taking the greater part of the day for it camping out 0 on n the way then after iM opting imar improved oved safeguards the railroad managers badage syl yielded elded to thoeub the public pressure an and d dropped off twenty Minu minutes tep another year or so and twenty minutes more were clipped off the schedule and now all or nearly all of the tho extra hour has disappeared and theon gine makes his course in one half teatime the time liedig he did at first if he could think be would now be wondering when he was next to be called onto on to accelerate his pace and bow much longer he will be able to endure it would sometimes harbor a dread of the threatened collapse of himself and the danger to all in his wake when with limbs battered body rocked racked system strained and power curtailed the last injection of power into the enfeebled mechanism has proved more than it could contain and live we are living very fast in this age faster than we have any immediate comprehension of the circumnavigation of the globe is no longer the event of a lifetime for which preparation is made months ahead of the time of starting it is a plea pleasure suro trip which is sometimes determined upon one day and the journey begun the next we are in instantaneous communication with three fourths of the earth including what was once considered a land beyond it the flowery kingdom the celestial empire of china cron crossing the atlantic is in no longer a voyage it Is a little visit in evolving days now as against months in the last generation and but very few days at that which are rapidly being diminished the speed of horses hones has been increased ninety per cent beyond what our grand grandfathers fat here believed possible and altogether things are flying to the fore at a dizzy rate lot let us pause and consider the greater the speed the greater grester the proportion of danger and as already shown the sooner our journey is in ended iffe if we would mke it pleasurable and enjoy what we see as we go along it would woul d be better to proceed more leisurely to take things moderately and to not permit our minds r bodies to be on a constant wearing strain an engine constructed ted for ten thousand miles of travel with a train of so much heft to draw at a rate of twenty miles an hour will fall short of that amount of journeying if the speed be increase 0 aal aa l the ratio of falling failing off will be greater than that of the additional speed so with us we come into the earth designed and equipped for a pilgrimage of seventy eighty or ninety years whether all reach the allotted time or not depends largely upon ourselves if we are afflicted with the demon of unrest and want to be in constant motton motion we are thus taking off days and finally years from the other end it if we permit a disposition to embark in hazardous enterprises to control us we are always confronted by the danger of immediate collapse and if through vicious habits excessive indulgence in proper things or indulgence at all in forbidden things thing we seek to add to the more mere fleeting pleasures of the times we vre simply defeat ourselves doubly by eur curtailing tailing the capacity for real enjoyment and hastening the he day when enjoyment will not find us it is as well to think of these things now and then and to act upon t hem at all times don dont it abuse the machinery don dont donit it strain the motive power don dont give drafts upon your later life for the hollow and enervating pastimes of today be moderate in mental and phili physical cal exertion expending only so much as Is needed to accomplish your allotted tasks in life and refrain from worrying and retting fretting because it is today and you would like to have it tomorrow in plain and homely but nevertheless useful phrase go slow |
