Connecticut western news., 1884-05-07
A Hot Axle.

A Hot Axle.
 The express train was flying from Cork to Queenstown; it was going like sixty-that is, about sixty miles an hour. No sight of Irish village to arrest our speed, no sign of break-down; and yet the train halted. We looked out of the window; saw the brakeman and crowd of passengers gathering around the To- comotive and dense smoke arising. What was the matter? 4 hot arle!
 I thought then, as I think now, that is what is the matter with people every where. In this swift, "express," Amer ican life, we go too fast for our endur- ance. We think ourselves getting on splendidly, when, in the midst of our successes,w we come to a dead halt. What is the matter The nerves or muscles or brains give out; we have made too many revolutions in an hour. 4 hot acle.
 Men make the mistake of working ac- cording to their opportunities and not according to their capacity of endur- ance. "Can run this train from Spring field to Boston at the rate of 50 miles an hour?"says an engineer. Yes. ''Then I will run it, reckless of consequencesr Can be merchant and president of bank and director in Reinsurance company and chool-commissioner and help edit paper and supervise the pol itics of our ward and a run for con gress ? 'I can P the man says to him. self. The store drives him; the bank drives him the school drives him ;politics drive him. He takes all the scoldings and frets and exasperations of each po- sition. Some day, at the height of the business season, he does not come to the store. From the most important meeting of the bank directors he is ab- sent. In the excitement of the most important political canvass he fails to be at the place appointed. What is the matter? His health has broken down the train halts long before it gets to the station. 4 hot drle.
 Literary men have great opportuni- ties opening in this day. If they take all that open, they are dead men or worse-liring men who ought to be dead. The pen runs so easy when you have good ink and smooth paper, and easy desk to write on, and the consci- ousness 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 periodicals through which you can plough and family news papers in which you may romp with the whole household around the evening stand. There are critiques to be writ ten and reviews to be indulged in ant poems to be chimed and novels to bt constructed. When out of mans pel he can shake recreation and friendshil and usefulness and bread, he is apt tt keep it shaking. So great are the in vitations to literary work that the prof fessional men of the day are overdone They sit, faint and Jagged out, on tn verge of newspapers and books; eacl one does the work of three And thes men sit up late nights and choke dow chunks of meat without mastication ant scold their wives through irritability ,,oo,,1 ippooaof o,,tbo,.o 1, physical machinery with liver misera bly, given out. The driving-shaft ha gore 50 times a second. They stop a no station. The steam-chest is hot an, swollen. The brain and digestion be gin to smoke. Stop, ye flying quills "Down brake p 4 lot arle.
 Some of our young people have read till they are crazed-of learned black smiths, who at the forge, conquered 3 languages and of shoemakers, who pounding sole-leather, got to be philos ophers; and of milliners, who, whil their customers were at the glass tryin on their spring hats, wrote a volume frst-rate poems. The fact is, no blacl smith ought to be troubled with mol than five languages; and instead ( shoemakers becoming philosophers, " would like to turn our surplus of phi nsophers into shoemakers; and the SUI ply of poetry is so much greater tha the demand, that we wish milline1 would stick to the1r business. Extr ordinary examples of work and endu ance may do as much good. Becau: Napoleon slept only four hours nigh hundreds of students have tried the e. pertinent; but, instead of Austerlitz an Saragossa, there came of it only sic headache and botch of recitation DE WITT TALMAGE, Home Science 4 May..
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