The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-06-03
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nave been men and women who have
not spent their time in lamenting oye1
she necessity OF drudgery, but have &C
cePted that necessity, and have SC
tolieo' III humble work and great. in
fordinary hours and in supreme mo.
ments, as to turn the baser metals a
,honotonous and seemingly irrelevant
laoors INTO the fine gold OF present sue
cess and ultimate triumph.
IL Is not necessary to multiply exam
pies to show that men who have al,
tnelr time cat their disposal" accom-
push less, In any chosen line of work.
tnan those who are able to devote to
that line of work but a part of their
busy hours. Take literature. for in
stance pursuit which seemingly re-
cures, more than any other, the nndi.
ylded time and thought of its servants
ne intellectual history of the world
SHOWS that the vast majority of it's great
writers have been men employed in
pursuits monotonous and apparently in
cohgruous with the best achievements
Yoi tne mlod-plrsuits which one would
say must not only have taken up large
fsnare OF their TIME, b,ifalso have made
great demands upon their intellectual
forces, or have dultejt them into wear;-
ness and repose. To mention renowned
American authors only, we And that
Loangfel'ow, Lowell, Holmes and Tick.
nor have filled Professors chairs for
many iong years; that Bryant, Whittier.
Howells, Cunts, Warneir,,s Bret Harta'
Aldrich and Bayard Taylor have done =
great share OF their best writing in tours
after their routine newspaper work had
Deen performed;, and that Hawtbarna
irving, Motley, Hildreth,, Marsh and
Bancroft have fulfilled ,onerous ob]ioa.
LIONS IN posts OF public service. Not a
rev rev OF our American writers also have
niied clerkships, as did Charles Lamb.
OF engaged in banking, as did Samuel
hogers, or even conducted mercantile
establishment, as does William Morris
Inc rule bears wholly in one direction.
a, ana the exception is rarely to be found.
!, = ne nearest approach to an exception of
the SORT, among our chief writers. is To
be found in the case of Prescott. but
prescott, though removed from the me-
cesSity OF money-making, was also re-
moVed from its possibility by a physical
maiady which surely was as exactino as
any ordinary drudgery, and. as likely to
impair or destroy good work bv man
less resolutely determined to overcome
an obstacles. Another American his
,orian' Parkman, has also. like Prescott,
oeen obliged to work despite a serious
affection ofthe eyes, which, in his case,
prevents his writing more th an five min
utes at time.
Thus it is, not only IN literature bnt
n every department of good and help
Illi work, that those succeed who
though busy with. humdrum tolls. or
hindered, make success 81
'aklng what little time theyehave for
llgher labors, instead of REFUSING to
AXE 1t because it is little. Better IS an
lour well spent than twenty four hours
occupied in fdfehess, or, What IS little
better, in grumbling over our enforced
occupations. And no one is SO bnsv1
hat he is obliged really to waste his odd
moments. ne simply because he thinks he
S wasting his even ones. Just as air
annot be all oxygen, or house all win
lows, or a day all sunrise, or plant all +
lower, SO a life cannot be devoid of a
argc proportion of elements which +
eem neither bright nor beautiful. bnt
Vhlch are essential to the excellence
T rather to the very existenee-of it's
lghest achieveme nts.-S. s. Times.