Connecticut western news., 1892-04-28

aSIOnlSnlnS velocity. w nen Ilan WILL wrong proclivities has nothing to do, no former self respect or moral restraint or the beseechings of kindred can save him.
 The only safety for man who feels himself under the fascination of any form of temptation is an employment which affords neither recreation nor holiday. Nothing can be more unfortu- nate for a man of evil inclination than an occupation which keeps him exceed ingly busy during a part of the year and then leaves him for weeks and months entirely unemployed. There are many men who cannot endure protracted leisure. They are like fractions steeds that must constantly be kept to the load, for weeks quiet makes them intract- able and uncomfortable. Bad habits produce idleness and idleness produces bad habits.
 The probability Is that you will either have to give up your loose indulgences or else give up your occupation. Sin will take all enthusiasm out of your work and make you sick of lfe's drudgery, and though now and then between your seasons of dissipation, you may rouse up to sudden activity and start again in the chase of some high and noble end, even though you catch the game, you will sink back into slothfulness before you have roasted that which you took in hunting. Bad habits unfit man for everything but politics.
 Now, what are the results of indo- lencep A marked consequence of this vice is physical disease. The healthi. ness of the whole natural world depends upon activity. The winds, tossed and driven in endless circuits, scattering the mists from the mountains, and scooping out death damps from the caves, and blasting the miasma of swamps, and hurling back the fetid atmosphere of great cities, are healthy just because of their swiftness and uncontrollableness of sweep. But after awhile the wind falls, and the hot sun pours through it, and when the leaves are still, and the grain fields bend not once all day long, then pestilence smites its victims and digs trenches for the dead.
 The fountain, born far up in the wild wood of the mountain, comes down bright for every obstacle against which it is riven, and singing n new song on every shelf of rock over which it bounds, till it rolls over the water wheels in the valley, not ashamed to grind corn, and runs through the long grass of the meadow, where the willows reach down to dip their branches and the unyoked oxen come at eventide to cool. Healthy wateri Bright water! Happy water! While some stream, too lazy any more torun, gathers itself into wayside pool where the swine wallow, and filthy in. sects hop over the surface, and reptiles crawl among the ooze, and frogs utter their hideous croak, and by day and night there rises from the foul mire and green scum fever and plague and death. There is an endless activity underfoot and overhead.
 Not one four o'clock in the flower bed
 not one fly on the window pane, not ont squirrel gathering food from the cones of the white pine, not one rabbit feeding on clover tops, not one drop falling in 3 shower, not one minnow glancing ill the sea, rot one quail whistling from the grass, not one hawk cawing in the sky
 but is busy now and is busy always, ful filling its mission as certainly as any monarch on earth or any angelin heaven NATURE NEVER IDLE.
 You hear the shout of the plowboy, busy in the field and the rattle of the whiffletrees on the harrow, but you dc not know that there is more industry II the earth upturned and in the dumt vegetation underfoot than in all thai you see. If you put your ear to lumI of riven sod you may hear nothing il 1.,A 4 111f
 are at work spades and cleavers and pit drivers and battering rams and inter
 necine wars. do not wonder that th' | lively fancy of the ancients saw in tn, inanimate creation around Floras and Pomonas and Graces and Fauns anC Fairies and Satyrs and Nymphs. Every | thing is busy. Nothing is inanimate except the man who cannot see the Tiff,
 and hear the music.
 At the creation the morning stars sang together, but they were only the chon which was to lead all the stars, and al | the mountains, and all the seas in Godi worship. All natural objects seem a one and the same time uniting in worl
 and joy and worship. In Gods creation
 there is no pause in either the worship | r.,
 ural objects at one and the same time
 is Halloween and Whitsunday and Asl
 Wednesday and All Saints Day. Al
 the healthy beauty of that which we se'
 and hear in the natural world is depend
 ent upon activity and unrest. MeI will be healthy-intellectua morally
 and physically-only upon the condition
 of an active industry. l know men di,
 every day of overwork. They drol
 dow in coat pits, and among the spindle'
 of northern factories, and on the cottol
 plantations of the south.
 In every city and town and village yo lind men grooming under burdens, as Tn the east the camcls stagger under their loads between Aleppo and Damascus. Life is crushed out every day at counters and workbenches and anvili. But there are other multitudes who die from mere inertia. Indulgences every day are con- tracting diseases beyond the catholicon 1 of allopathy and homeopathy and hy- 1 dropathy and eclecticism. Rather than work they rush upon lancets and seal pels. Nature has provided for those who violate her laws by inactivity-what rheum for the eyes, and what gout for the feet, and what curvature for the spine, and what shictures for the chest, and what tubercles for the lungs, and what rheumatisms for the muscles, and what neuralgias for the nerves. Nature in time arraigns every such culprit at her bar and presents against him an indictment of one hundred colnts, and convicts him on each one of them.
 1 The laws of nature will not stop their action because men may be ignorant of them. Disease, when it comes to do its work, does not ask whether you under stand hygiene or pathology or materia medica. If there were not so many lies