Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-06

Engineers say that if We take the
running time of q river steamboat
to be eighteen miles an hour il re-
quircs Is much additional fuel to
push her one mile an hour more, a.
is required for the normal speed of
eighteen miles. Long experience
and careful calculation have con-
vinced railroad managers that thir-
ty miles an hour is as rapid a rate
Of speed as can be secured prolta-
bly, on our American railroads with
their heavy grades and sharp curves.
English railways 90 more rapidly
because straighter aud more level.
We can make greater speed here,
but the wear and tear of every adj
ditiOnal mile per hour is out of ali
proportion to the increase Of speed
that is gained. Stage-driycrs calcu-
late that they can drive twenty
miles a day if they are content with
six miles an hour. Buff they drive
ten miles an hour their horses eau
not average without injury more
than nine miles a day: that Is, they
cannot travel quite an hour a day
and keep it up week after week.
In other words, il is not the a.
mount il is the intensity of work
that wears. Men Kill themselves
not by working too much, but Icy
working TOO hard. II is high pres
sure that strains the boilers.
These illustrations enforce prin-
ciple which is as applicable 10 the
human mind as 10 machinery
Those men accomplish the most who
work leisurely. lt is better 10 drive
VOIIr. " rrn.a,l= tlsuu 10 let YOUR work
drive you. People that arc always
in hurry often do the least. The
energy that should be utilized in
their work is wasted in their haste.
Americans are not too industrious:
but they are too intense. 1t is not
he who is careful and troubled a.
bout many things whose many
things are accomplished most sue
/ cessfully. Martha is not always the
best hOusekeeper. Never man ac-
complished more in three short
years than Jesus of Nazareth. And
he was never hurried.
Ministers particularly need TO
"slOw their engines" They do not
perhaps work too much, but they
work under too much pressure
/ ,
their parish rules them. The min
lister that writes all his sermons OF
Saturday, and sets up into the small
/ hours of Sunday morning TO com.
plete ii, uses energy enough in com
posing one discourse to compost
half dozen.
Haste is the bcsetting sin of A
merica. We do not run ''with pa
tieAce" the race that is set befor'
US. There is not a day that goes b!
that we do not see in manuscript
book or paper, the signs of hurr!
that is the curse of American htera
ture. Our artists are in a hurry
and good ideas are half drawn be
cause they have not time to stud,
their subject, Our cugraveFs are d
a hurry; and good blocks are spoil
by skillful wOrkmcn who have no
time TO be careful. Our editors ar
| in q hurry; and their crude thought
/. are embodied in editorials write
: at a dash, brilliant, but ineffective
! because not matured. Our writer
are in n hurry; and American book
: are slOvenly in scholarship, an
careless in execution, and MARIE
by rhetorical and sometimes eve
grammatical blunders, that woul
disgrace a college composition. On
| merchants are in a hurry; and the
: launch out in wild speculatiOns th'
: bring ninety-thrce out OF every hui
f dred into bankruptcy. Our mini
: ters are in a hurry; and they sacr
4 fee themselves without scrvir
their parishes by working under
l unnatural excitement.
7 We hear on every side eXhort
a tions to activity, industry, euerg
4 We would fain exhOrt 10 calmnes
e sobriety, moderation, lcisurely j
o dustry.
o But there is no use. We shall III
i even heed our own sermon; and
: course no one else will do so.
= 1t is nevertheless true, that q
Y American people need nothing
: much a. 10 ''slow their engines"