The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-01-09

We Must Rest.

Work wastes man. Brain work up
on all the system. Provision is made
for the regular wear, but not for an ir-
regular waste or complete exhaustion.
Men need bodily and mental recreation.
Food does much. No man need be
idle for an hour. Idleness is not recre-
alton. But no man can put himself to
a particular kind of work and keep
constantly at it, without weakening his
capabilities for another employment,
and also for that special work to which
he has devoted himself.
Business men mnst learn that it is not
so much the strong pull as the long pull
that does the whole life work. A man
migey break his back or rupture him
self by al. attempt to lift warehouse,
and he wculd fail But he can begin
at the top and remove every piece of
wood, every brick. every bolt, until no
sign of the warehouse remains. But
be must do this in detail, and take in
tervals of rest to accomplish the work.
1t is inst so in business of any kind.
No great fortune is 10 be made in a
day. But there are days that require
the coolest. healtkiest brain, and the
full strength of manhood to carry the
business man safely over, or to give
such impulse to his business as shall
push him far forward. If he be worn
out early those days OF crisis will be
his ruin.
Men must learn the great value of
wise rests, pauses, breathing places.
The horse must not be lasLed up long
hill from the bottom to the top. The
wheels Of the truck must be scotched
until the beast Of the burden takes
breath. Our city railway companies dc
not take horse and drive him from the
Central Park to the Battery, back and
forwards, day any night, getting ali
they can out of him at once. That
would be fools economy, which the
satrlst ridicules in the fable of cutting
open the goose that laid the golden egg
daily.
I am not talking morals; I am talking
business sense. As an investment in a
money point of view, whether man
believes or not.in the Jewish Sabbath
or the Christian Sunday, nature has
written the law OF rest as the law of
activity in every mln. Rest is as nee
essary TO activity az activity IL to rest E.
When there is a giving and limited
supply of water to run mill, 1t is
sheer folly to be pouring it over wheel
which is stopped by distractions.
Quit feeling that you are working
when yon are only spi!ling your life.
Let our business men live much by
living long. 70 live long they muss
live wisely. Wisdom is Knowing the
capability of the machine you work.
You will lose yonr steam, or burst you,
boiler, if you attempt TO drive by a
five power engine m schinery which re.
qnire- ten horsepower to move It,
Recreate! Have y,ur evenings for
other work, revlving brain work, puri.
flying heart work. Take yonr time FOR
the country. Ia the old myth, when
ever Antens was wounded, fell, the
touch of his mother Earth renewed
him. Go III the summer and roll in
the grass. You will hot com, back to
your work any greener. Have your
Sundays, not for drum ming up custom
ers, nor in writing up b),ks, but for
the rest of body aud mind and sonl
Have your little benevolent pet schemes,
some poor family to help, some little
sweet f,wer of goodness in hidden
nook to cultivate, almost anything that
is not your regular, every day routine
of business.