Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-08-21

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T.aaa5aa .ae1 IS sainS now, that
j the n.4..e. vs.- people everywhere.
in .he sNgt. esNuccss American lie,
wes-o 700 tass fer cur endurance. We
think ourselves getting on splendidly,
when. fn the midst of our successes, we
come 10 o dead halt What is the mat
ter? The nerves or muscles or brains
give out: we have made too many
revolutions in an hour A hot axle!
Men make the mistake of working
according 10 their opportunities. and
not according 10 their capacity Of en-
durance. Can | run this train from
Springfield TO Boston at the rate Of lif-
ty miles an hour?" says an engineer.
"Yes. Then / will run it, reckless
of consequences. Can | be a mer-
chant and a president Of bank, and
a director in life insurance company,
and school commissioner, and help
edit paper, and supervise the politics
of our ward and run for cOngressg Il
can." the man says 10 himself The
store drives him; the bank drives him;
the school drives him; politics drive
him. He takes all the seedlings and
frets and exasperations OF each posi-
ton. Some day, ut the height OF the
business season, he does not come to
the store. From the most important
meeting of the bank directors he is abb
sent. In the excitement of the most
important political campaign he fails
to be at the place appointed. What 10
the matter? His health has broken
down; the train halts long before it
gets to the station. A hot axle!
Literary men have great opportuni-
ties opening in this dag. If they take
all that open, they are dead men, or
wOrse--living men who ought 10 be
dead The pen runs so easy when you
have good ink and smooth paper, and
an easy desk to write on, and the con-
seriousness OF an audience of one, two,
or three hundred thousand readers!
There are the religious newspapers
through which you may preach, and
the musical journals through which
you may sing, and the agricultural pa
pers through which you may pillow, and
the family newspapers through which
YOU may romp with the whole house
hold around the evening stand There
are critiques TO be written, and reviews
to be INDUCED in, and poems to be
chimed, and novels TO be constructed.
When out of a man pen he can shake
recreation and friendship and useful
ness and bread, he is apt to keep it
shaking. So great are the invitations
TO literary work, that the professional
men of the day are oycrdone. They
sit, faint and tagged out, on the verge
of newspapers and books; each one
does the work of three. And these
men sit up late nights and choke down
chunks of meat without mastication,
and scold their wives through irritable
ity, and maui innocent authors, and
run the physical machinery with n liver
miscrably giycn out. The driving shaft
has gone fifty times Il second. They
stop at no station. The steam chest is
hot and swollen. The brain and diges-
ton begin to smoke Stop, We flying
quillsl Down brake!" A hot axle!
Some of the young people have read
till they are crazod - OF learned
blacksmths, who at the forge conquer
cd thirty languages; and of shoemakers
who, pounding sole-leathcr, got to be
philosophers; and of milliners who,
while their customers were ut the glass
trying on their spring hats, wrote n
volume of lirst rate poems The fact
is, no blacksmith ought TO be troubled
with more than five languages; and in
stead OF shoemakers becoming philoso-
pliers. we would like to turn our sur
plus Of philosophers into snoemakcrs;
and the supply OF poetry is SO much
greater than tho demand that we wish
the milIucrs would stick to their bust
ness Extraordinary examples OF work
and endurance may 90 as much good
Because Napoleon slept only tourhours
a night. hundreds OF students have
tried the experiment; but instead OF an
Austerlitz aud Saragossa, there only
came Of il sick-headache and botch
of recitation. ~. he IIW IuiMagG IN
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