The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-02-27
Late Hours.

character of those who keep late
hours. Bad hours and bad deeds
are believed to be generally found in
company. That they who sleep
should sleep in the night is a tru
ism in harmony at once with the or
der Of nature and of good society
If the regulation, once enforced in
England, that every light should be
extinguished at the ringing of the
curfew bell, or nine in the evening,
was a little arbitrary, it must have
imposed a valuable restraint on the
practice of vice. We are reminded
by the result of recent trial in this
city, how deeply these impressions
have rooted themselves to the popu-
lar mind. The accused was in that
case not proven by direct evidence,
to be guilty of the charge preferred
against him; but the fact that he
was seen about the premises of his
paramour about three o'clock in the
morning, turned the scale against
him and secured his conviction.
Late hours are incompatible with
successful business. The trader, the
banker, or the manufacturer who
keeps late hours, never succeeds.
This is the rule, and the exceptions
only prove its truth. There are
plenty of reasons for this, and every
man of experience knows how to at
tach to them their proper weight.
Late hours unfit a man for business.
1st. On account of the physical
effects. In these days Of sharp COM
petition, nothing but good abilities,
applied with the most unyielding en-
ergy, will achieve success. The
trader who comes to his Office half
exhausted for lack of natures sweet
repose," with his brain muddled, his
step heavy, his eyes dull, and his
nerves irritable, is pretty sure to be
grabbed with his clerks and his Gus
toners; he is behind with his work,
spends his short and hurried day in
a state of fretful anxiety, augmented
by the harassing surroundings Of
neglected business; has no time to
look ahead to trace out his future
course, and justly weigh the pros
poets; his fevered brain cannot calm
ly take in the situation as his cool
headed neighbor, who has had his
full eight hours of dreamless, sober
slumber, he forgets his notes, his
debts, and his promises and engage
ments generally, which results in
quarrels and suits. He seeks his
friends sympathy and consolation,
by declaring how terribly he is over
worked. He bewails his lot, and
thinks it will kill him: and sc it will.
Not the work but his bad habit. It
will be found that nine out of ten of
these "over-worked" people are the
victims Of some exhausting habit.
It is when the vital forces begin to
slacken, and the nervous system
flags, that the worst mischief Of late
hours set in. Stimulants and a high
er pitch of excitement become indis-
pensible, and the result is soon re-
duced to one of two alternatives,
reformation orruin.
I'd. The moral effects are not less
important in considering this dan
gerous vice. To keep up the un-
natural excitement, which sets at de-
fanee the course of nature, whisky,
tobacco and cards are the chief
1t is not often that topics
of science, art, morals or religion are
till break ofday with sober
sense, and for the purpose Of mutual
Improvement. These are mid dsy
topics. They do not intexicate,
but edify. 'gFhose that be drunken
are drunken in the night" "Rioting
in the day time'' is represented in
the Bible as the last stage, when all
self respect is gone-When the bot
tom round in the ladder of degrade
tios is reached. Late hours make the
small beginning, "the parting Of the
ways" the point at which the path
Of vice is entered upon. Welded to
bad company, as they are apt soon to
be, an endless progeny of vices, fol-
lies, failures troubles spring up to
plague their victim. 1t lis the fitting
occupation of bats, owls and hungry
wolves to squeak, screech and howl
in the dead hours Of night; but the
young man who would achieve any
success in business life must to bed
aarly-must work in the day and
sleep in the night--TOronto None
tdrV Times.