Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-06-23
weakened circulation are easily. chilled.
laying the foundation for diarrhns. bill.
Gus collie. lung-fever. or consumption.
Mistaken Industry,

Some men miscarry because they have
mistaken mere activity for energy; con-
founding two things essentially different.
they have supposed chat II shsy were sl-
ways busy they would be certain to be
advancing their fortunes. They have for
gotten, or have never taken into consider
alton the fact, that misdirected labor u
but waste Of activity. The psrson who
would succeed in lite is like Z marksman
firing at a target, if his shots miss the
mark they are waste Of powder; 70 be
sure of any service, they must tell 10, or
near the very centre.
So in the great game Of life. what man
does must be made to count. Or the labor
is wasted. The idle warrior cut from .
shingle who fights the air on the top Of .
weathercock, instead Of being made 70
turn some machine commensurate with
his strength, is not more worthless than
the merely active man. who. though busy
from sunrise to sunset. dissipates his labor
on triaes, instead of aiming right and ae-
complish something. v,.,a
Everybody knows some one in his or
her circle Of acquaintance. who. thoug
always active, has this want Of calculation
and energy. The distemper, II speh it
may be termed, exhibits itself ID various
ways. In some cases the man hiss mere
ly an executive faculty when be should
have directive one. in other language, ID
makes capital clerk for himself, when ke
ought to do the thinking of the business.
In other instances. what has been done
was not done at the right tune or in the
right way. There Is too often no distinc.
ton made between objects Of different
magnitudes. but as much labor is bestow-
ed in trivial affair as on , matter Of yast
moment. :,
There are too many people who are a.
most continually toiling and fuming. and
yet never accomplish anything. they ap.
pear to begin in the middle, Of st-th,
wrong end, consequently eome.out wrong
They have. application, physical strength
are economical, but somehow oil The sun
shine turns into darkness With tham. .ani
whatever Of gold they touch turns int
dross. working hard. they stonchs the pils
yet it i continually growing less,ts :.
Look for example at yondsf hard work
ing farmer. he is SO indqetfious that b,
never "lets the grass grow under his feet
yet somehow bis fences are never up. hi
fields are fullof weeds; bis cattle ate altayl
lean, hiss heep and hogs die, ofsdisesss q
poverty. and his horses, however sleek and
strong they may have been when they sont
into bis hands soon lose both. Yet hs Il
far from asluggard. he'rises early and tolls
late, and when not sleeping. Is working,
and very '.hard worker be Is too:" HI
is temperate; industrious. but. and ,there
is the trouble, be cannot get along. opn
never make both et,ds meet, aud Biz
friends and neighbors look in wonder :,
his retrogade. But the fact Is this. bis
industry. great and unweary as It is. il
misdifected. .5sia ? q isss9 saii g.
"And what" to use. another's common
sense saying, ..'he saves at the spigeot be.
wastes at the bunghole,", never commenc-
ing at the beginning Of anything, Our
farmer, however, is not only one In uur
circle who labors in vain. s.ss sF'l Fe's
We could speak Of do4ens in different
professions. who, like him. are aindustri-
GUS. perhaps careful and shrewd. but al
ways come out wrong. Let, suoh.. Who
read this, remember that misdirected In
dustry is as bad. II not worse. than idle
ness; for twill not only carry yc4 70 the
gates Of poverty. but haSrass yon through
life, and make existence almost burden.