Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-01-16
IdIeness Incidence.

Idleness Incidence.
Idleness was a criminal offense at
Athens and should be regarded every
where, since, '.drones suck not the
blood of eagles but rob beehives. y
Plutarch in the life Of Lycurgus tells
ola classic loater who was one day
fined for this offense, but was greatly
condoled by brother idler as having
been condemned for keeping up his
dignity
Rather do what is nothing to the
purpose than be idle, that the devil
may find the doing nothing The bird
that sits is easily shot, when flyers es-
cape the fowler Idleness is the dead
dead sea that swallows all the virtues,
and is the self-made sepulcher Of a
living man.
We pity any man who has nothing
to do for idleness is the mother of more
ssssssery snSaseniane than al other causes
ever thought or dreamed Of by the pro-
foundest thinker Of the wisest theorist.
'Pray OF what did your brother die 2?
said the Marquis Spinola one day to
Sir Horace We're. He answered: ale
died sir Of having nothing to do
Alasl said Spinola is that enough to kill
any general of US"
Laziness grows on people, it begins
in cobwebs and ends in iron chains
The more business man mas to do
the more he is able to accomplish for
he learns to economist his time. In a
work house at Hamburg, oilers are pun
ished by being suspended in a basket
above the tables, SO they can see and
smell the things provided for the in
dustrious, but are not allowed to taste
them. Idleness is constant sin, and
labor is duty. Idleness is the devils
name for temptation, and labor profit
eth other than themselves.
No pains no gains No sweat - no
sweet. No mill no NAL An idle
brain is the devils work shop.
Incidence is a stream that flows slow
ly on, but yet undermines the found
alton of every virtue. He is not only
idle who does nothing, out he is idle
who might be better employed Much
bending breaks the bow much bend
ing the mind. We have more indo-
lence in the mind than body. Indo.
lence is the paralysis Of the soul.
A LUCKY DREAM-It seems that
+ dreams may be sometimes made of
better stuff than is usually supposed.
The Fort Wayne Sentinel wants us to
believe this story: A gentleman in that
neighborhood had son who was g clerk
Ill omaha, who wrote to his father thai
he. had been robbed Of $1,000 belong
ing to his employer while returning
from a collecting tip. Then the father
fell asleep and dreamed that he was
sitting at q table Of hotel in Nnaha,
and overheard two young men talking
over Tie particulars, Vi d robbery III
which they had been concerned, at the
same time counting the proceeds with
much sxultation. Learnin. as h.
dreamed the number of their rocm, ht
still dreaming consulted the register and
fixed their names in his memory. He
wrote to his son having walked up to
consult the register Of the Omaha Ii tel,
and to see if he found there the names
of John B. Nelson and James Frank in
scrlbed on its pages under the date Of
November. Finding the said names
there, the son caused the arrest of the
said men, when they confessed the theft
S4,8l2 of the money was recovered, and
the offenders are now in the penitenti-
airy. lis a strsnge case, and all We
have to say Of it is, that "there are
more things III heaven and earth than
are dreamed Of in our philosophy,
| Horatio."