Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-03-04
Disappointed Men.

lnu III that Town, gazing Wktlully VI Sc
a mansion here, and popping down al
nm alley Wonder. When you take 81
YOUR ease at your inn, you linda spec 81
in Il corner, looking mOrosely @
aud sullenly miserable, complaining n
that his hot water is cold, his brandy I
adultcratcd, his tobacco the worst he b
hasever had, and doing the best to i
make the company ~ miserable as |
himself; If you arc coming from
church YOU hear him passing ill-na-
tured remarks about minister, clerk,
choir and congregation, and winding
up bv calling Himself a fool for going
al all. Attired in q black frock-eOat,
with shining elbows, and still more
shining buttons, a waistcoat ten years
old, with buttons of different sizes and
different patterns, and trousers, the
original color of which YOU can only
guess: finished off at one extremity
by u shabby greasy, nondescript hat,
and at the other by the still more
shabby remnants Of what had once
been a pair of shoes; this is the man
who will wonder where Young smith
gets all the money he spends, and tells
YOU contidentialE that LlovdsSmith's
employer should have his books eX-
amined. lie would not give parties
to friends, decorate himself with jew.
clry, and have a dozen suits yearly,
and so he tells Smith,
"Sour grapes, my cynical friend, re-
plies Smith. This is the man who
,D,1rr- u-l,t In,Nnr upAnl1 Iatrn ham
ifhis wife had not brought him some
money how long Welding is going
TO stand the extravaganza of his
daughter and the flirting of his wife;
and if Brown is not in trouble, what
ho has m~ortgagcd his honse for, and
given a bill of sale upon his furniture
who, forgetting that every man IA a
fool at least once in his life, has made
his brain the dictionary Of all the FOL
lies of the ueighborhood and rctails
them out whenever he can find a list
ener, insulating that a man who has
done wrong or foolishly once, must
of necessity be always doing wrong
and foolish things.
At a birth he will tell YOU that half
HE human race die before the age OF
live years, and repeat the same thing
more emphatically al the christening /;
at u wedding, he will subtly hopethat,
as the majority of weddings are un-
happy, he trusts this may be an cXcep-
ton, and further hopes that the Di-
yorce Court may have fewer cases
next year, for it is lamentable to find
that the cases are annually increasing /;
and at a funeral, hint that the de-
ceased was non better than he, or
She, ought to have been. sour in tenn
per, cynical III language, disagrceablc
in company, feared by his wife,
stunned by his children, hated by his
acquaintance. and sowing dissension
in himself, he is very miserable OBJ
iect indeed.
Such men are often gifted with great
talents; clever almost TO a proverb,
and accomplished to q high degree,
they are, in their start in life, h eonvy
and admiration of the circle in which
they move. Some take the llattery
of their friends for granted. fondly
funcying they are cut out for fortune.
and cease to exert themselves to hold
i'll fact the position they have nomi'
nally gained by the gifts they possess
and The laudationS Of prejudice
friends. some are too seltconfiden
in the commencement, and unsup.
ported by experience, they fail som
marry young, and the money Whicl
should lay the foundation Of a fortune
is swallowed by the wife at first, an(
the children aftcrward. and somt
spend their savings in 9aity and diSsi
patton, trusting to luck for future cap
ital. But by far the greatest Iumbe
carefully pick out some line in whicl
to employ their energy and thei
brains, and work at that particula
thing with concentrated carnestness
bent upon success. Whether it la
been by a lack of influence, by casual
" ofbirth, by Il combination of I'M
lucky circumstances, or--much NOR
prollble--hy the competition of larg
capitalists and social cliquea. they hav
failed. 1t is not in the nature Of til
majority Of even energetic men
keep fighting against what seems eur
ously like tie doctrine of fate,
1t is the good fortune Of few me
10 be able TO say with Delsratli. :
have attempted many things, and haN
often failed in the beginning; but
have never abandoned the final hoI
of success" They have failed, an
are broken in spirit and effort, givin
in and settling down among disal
pointed men. Why have they failed
We see that they possess higher gif
by nature than thousands of wealtl
men, and a. high ones as leaders
the church. The state, of society al
of commerce, They lave worked
hard aud a, long as successful ont
and handled the same tools, traded
the SANE goods, and worked in Il
sam places. Why is it: We don
know they don't know.
Blu they think over il, brood oV
it. puzzle their brains with the pro
lem until il is bitt6ra as gall and worl
WOO Gradually it saps their bett
natr G.: they magnify their trouble
degenerate from dissatisfaction TO p,
ulancy from being petulant get eros
from being cross, get to be intense
disagreeable, a u nuisance both TO the
-elycs and everybody else.
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