Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-06-22
Early Rising.

| a@AO 40 q Sspieoi dCtcVole OF the reign o
Louis XVI of France, according to which
some ladies got 1t into their heads from som.
book they had been reading, that it must o,
a glorious thing to see the sun rise But a,
that took place in the only hours in which
they were uniformly in bed, what was to b
done? After much consideration, it being O
course impossible for them to think of RISING
so early, they resolved to have party to si
up all night and ride out just before day te
| the top of a neighboring hill and witness the
strange phenomenon. This was duly per.
! formed, the friends then all went to bed. as.
| tonishcd at the degree to which they had ru.
| rallied themselves. Daniel Webster. il
seems, during many years Of his residence in
Washington, used to get up an hour before
| sunrise in winter, light all the fires with bis
own hands, having knack at that sort O,
thing, and then start off to market with q
basket on his arm, to purchase himself the
daily provisions, gaining afterwards, no doubt
| many an hours march on most of his associ.
ates.
In New York there has been formed a
Young Mems Early Rising Association, all
the members of which are pledged to be up
at certain hour. 1t originated with about
half dozen young men, who having kept
up this habit for some years, were surprised
at its beneficial effects, at the success in life
of their associates
A little watchful experience will render
this not surprising to any thoughtful man. -
He who rises at FIVE instead of seven. daily.
adds perhaps ten years of the brightest hours
to his life of active thought and exertion :
Life will be prolonged, health and happiness
viii be preserved All other animals bat
men sleep through the dark hours and wake
with the light. The time of all the occupa-
tions Of the day will be moved forward or
backward by the time of rising The early
man takes time by the forelock, and is always
beforehand with his competitor and his en-
emy. anticipates his designs, and has all his
affairs arranged SO that they.cannot be dis
turbed or molested. Not the break fast alone
but all the meals, and the hours of retiring
will be governed by this habit. Such man
will drop to sleep in his chair at nine o'clock
So much the better. Consider the effect on
the young man It is at the late hour that
bad company becomes most dangerous By
ron abuses the moon as the light beneath
which thousand times more wickedness is
done than the sun, and he who at twenty is
never out at ten, will find it has saved him a
fortune, and earned for him character be-
fore he is forty, Of which he may well be
proud Many q young man IN college has
been saved from dissipated habits By the
ringing of the college bell for prayer at FIVE
o'clock After getting up thus early and
working hard at study all day. he was glad
to get to bed between nine and ten, fairly
worn out with honest, hopeful toll, instead of
making night of it in idle dissipation
In married life this habit of being early to
bed is worth years of life and happiness. The
children are never wakeful till they have got
through their first sleep. But after that, if
a man has got all his ropose to get, it will be
so often broken soon to break down He
will become nervous simply for want of sleep
sleep that he would have got from nine to
midnight, unbroken, but which he cannot Sc
cure after. Intellectually a man can do twice
the work while his MIND is calm and clear, as
it is early in the day, and as it is not and
cannot be later. 1t was before ten o'clock
generally that Sir Walter Scott wrote his
sixteen pages per day of those novels which
are the delight Of the civilized world, and it
has been before niEe o'clock that, in our own
city, DIR. Barnes has written those commen-
taries on the Scriptures of which four hun
Cred thousand volumes have been sold in this
country, and as many more in Europe. The
very self-denial and self-command Indicated
and encouraged by this habit is not it's least
value. He who learns to govern himself in
one matter will in others.-Phila. Ledger