Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-12-16
Attend TO the DIgagreeable First

1''i'g SINCE a gentleman adVan-
Ceo III years beyond the ordinary span of
AumEn lite, and who has been more than
esuaiiJ successful, respected and cheer
f9!, through a long business career in
THIS city remarked that no small share
OF MS success had arisen from one ruIn
odopted and carried cut through many
years, a. G.. uniformly to attend to the a,,oe}
6ssdgresd5te duty OF 1IECn UrsJ - "SSoO
as possible first
In early life he declared he was natur.
hand in much Of the every dav business
Of life, from the opposite habit of Ieavirc,
the disagreeable duties of business nntiI
toSt. Letters were Ezlswered, books
unposted, and all that could be deferred
7Tas left for a more convenient season.
Vbiea never came.
* sence of the injustice he was thus
= doing himself, at last burst upon him,
nnd The above selfdevised remedy was
IA result. q most ss;,iiT IPTT;;s;ng change
49, -lace to himself and all around
ID not between seventy and eighty he
a1s1-arsd nd, days since, a letter un-
~osteJ mn. NOT account that was not
e. one con 1 'ebt owing, nor a care
t y. "n{ o oonasq lhnce that human fore
~ eou1 aTert. For many years.
sulnie L OK L"lher, Le never failed to take
1870. -, III 'slng, or came down to
go - - I'D Nothing is ever
~ y =: 80 uthis house or grounds,
80 No BUSINESS counts, amounting at
'lhee . 70 nearly nsf a million annually.
Esre always balahed to cent at he
close of the year 0N' az 'ife
-. = (fis,o.-.
n nc storniest times of 1857.
that Ill ms business SO honorable
AZ. - houses esteemed far veal,
80 80 sIIs:Pedec, or had to seek extan.
16as' ~. ms p,Ssed through as easily as
go .ne sAitul pilot puides a Shin
saIeiy into port No protast e' . sup
shade OF suspicion, everI , u even
ne was m blsiness, to anT PPeeneu' @n ~
eohdIqct, orcredit of the ho1sst " III tne
e--:. ere heaTy osses sustained by thu. "ere
~ ~ one eve feared loosing By X pu1
Inc, secret e the whole was in the I'm
II I'm 10 attenl to the most disarraa .1I's,
duties OF ea5h day f;,Sf '''- eeAole
1here ar ten thousand mon o,.o.--
& yeaf IN ting country, ruined bv nofbiny5
80 nan amply attending to pIaoca-I3
matters int, aud deferrino: the d;sa '-s.l.'
sole 10 the lass--t'' m ''ii-s'''s rec
-. 9 =: - zz----sn Tue duties Of
Gaeh 5a5 IN the day, but beginning with
{ the pleasant they prolong the time in
3 these, and Rake up to find that the dav
q hea passed and left them no time to get
through the whole Disagreeable mat
tiers then accumulate for want of time
end still more for. want of inclination af
ter the eneTyation of pleasure, until han
Piuess is thrown into confusion. and the
most important matters to success in
life are dismissed in the most make-sbift |
hurr5i or altogether omitted.
On the otllef hand, he who places sucb |
duties flrst, when the mind is cain, and
clear, and without fatigue, will not onlv |
ara time for them, but accomplish them |
IA half the time, because the attention |
IS FRESH Nor viii such duties long re-
--Inala disagreeable. Use will make then,
easy ana difficulty will render them even
enticine- The habit of COURAGE and
eom9atiye energy viii be kept IN. and
the habitgal and certain conquest Of oh.
ct3eles viii make the presence of diff
cuiiy rather an exciting stimulus.