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soon becomes strong in body and in mind. He is given the 

 active mind and he can accomphsh in fifteen minntes more 

 effectual work than his slnggish adversary is capable of in 

 any time. He is fitted to write a book, paint a picture, try 

 a law suit, perform a marxelous surgical operation, make a 

 fortune, woo a bride, or perform any other great work he 

 sets his mind upon, and when after a hale and hearty old age 

 he winds u]) his line for the last time, and is gathered to his 

 fathers, they carve upon his tombstcjne: "His life was fair 

 and level and when death had set him free, he said, 'I see the 

 devil, but he can't get me.' " 



We find that this man is a good example of the spender, 

 and as such plays an important part in the scheme of life. 

 Ask any citizen of Maine or Florida, as well as many other 

 delightful countries, and they will tell you that the most im- 

 portant crop which the pecjple woik is the tourist crop. 

 His is 



A legion that never was listed. 



It carries no color nor crest, 

 But split in a thousand detachments, 



Is breaking the road for the rest. 



Legislatures meet in honor of the tourist and railroads 

 bow to his princely will. 11ie city clerk who spends eleven 

 months in a hall bedroom, and who trembles with fear at the 

 frown of the manager, can buy himself a lance-wood fishing 

 rod and travel to some distant fishing ground, and pass as a 

 potentate among the good people he finds living there. I 

 have seen such a scion of city life tip a rich farmer U) the 

 extent of a quarter with a lordly air, and the tip was thank- 

 fully received and pocketed, lliat farmer could ha\'e Ijought 

 up a regiment of such men and was an influential man in his 

 county and state. The tourist had here a taste of what it is 

 to belong to the nobility, and though he had to return to the 

 state of slaverv into which he had \-oluntaril)' sold himself, 

 he could return with a head held high, spurning the ground 

 on which he walked. He could at least have said that he lixed. 

 He had also the satisfaction of knowing that he had left that 



