Show 9 7 M J I 1 I 1 I 1 A MOSSBACK we wo know what a silurian la is now tell ua us what a mossback back ia is I 1 writes a valuable subscriber A mossback is arnan roan who dont want to keep up with the procession through long years without stir it lias has gathered a coating of tho the green plant and he ie Is afraid to move for fear some of tho tile valued accumulation will shako off A mossback Mo Is 1 a man who has sunk into a bog box of progressive non ness and cud it easier to lie still than to get out into lie tile sunshine Bun shino of advancement lie ile ia is tho the man who ho says everything Is kavull m ell enough ns as it I 1 is the world never hears froin from him unless his own little mud hole Is 1 to bo disturbed and then he croaks till you can hear him a mile A mossback prefers a slough to a paved avenue he lie prefers bull rushes to marble columns be he prefers a sunken log on which he lie I 1 may na y eit sit and blink tg a rushing steam engine he prefers the song of mosquitoes to the hum of spindle he prefers the fitful gleam of the firefly fire fly to the grand flash of furnace fires A mossback wont move himself and he lie wont let others move him 11 he forgets orlever or never knew that the world was iras made for improvement lie ile wants the earth wita with the fullness e 88 thereof and believes that the way to get it ia Is to settle into ahe slime of bis his own morass of inaction and pray that it lim may ay speedily ingulf the rest of the visible universe A mossback Moes back ie is a creature life is I 1 a negative proof that man developed from the clam he lie is showing how easily and quickly a man can get back into clani clam hood A mossback Mobs back is a man NN who ho would not accept the blessings of heaven if ho he bad had to rustle to get them |