Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-04-25

or treading on tl.sir heels.
You sometimes behold it in childhood.
The child meplng and lolsnging within
doors while lis brothers and Gisters are
at play, or If he Join them he is behind
in every race and beaten in every game.
His nerves, his muscles, lis bones are
sInitte4l with this palsy He vegctat les
rather tlian lives, creepS rather than
walks, yawns rather than breathes. The
animal in his nature is stronger than the
intellectual. He is generally {; great
eater and active only when he cannot
digest what he has eaten. 1t requires as
much effort for him to walk as for others
to run. Languor and drowsiness are his
natural inheritance. He is built for q
slow sailing vessel-a heavy hulk and
an insufficient cutwater. Place an active
man in such a bodily structure and the
latter would be shaken to pieces in one
day. Every law of physiology demands
that he be supine. Such a one is not re-
sponsible for this powerful tendency OF
his nature. His great duty is resistance.
When | see man fighting an unfor-
tunate temperament, all my sympathies
are aroused, and think of Victor Hugo's
account of Il scene on a warShlp where,
IN the midst of a storm at sea, q great
cannon got loose, and it was crashing
this way and that and would have de-
stroyed the ship; and the chief gunner,
at the almost certain destruction Of his
own life, rushed at it with handspike
to thrust between the spokes Of the
wheel of the rolling cannon and by
fortunate leverage arrested the gun till
no Ioc foe P17f hot cf7.
gle did not seem SO disheartening as
that man enters upon who attempts to
dght his natural temperament, whether
it be too fast or too slow, too nervous OF
too Emphatic. God help him, for God
only can.
INCIDENCE AND WEALTH.
Furthermore, incidence is often re-
suit of easy circumstances. Rough ex-
perience i'll earlier life seems to be neces-
sary in order to make man active and
eaterprising. Mountainous are nearly
always swarthy, and those who have
toiled among mountains Of trouble get
the most nerve and muscle and brain.
Those who have become the deliverers
OF nations once had not where to lay
their heads Locust and wild honey
Baptist, while those who have been fon-
died of fortune and petted and praised
have often grown up lethargic.
They have none of that heroism which
comes from fighting ones own battles
The warm summer sun of prosperity has
weakened and relaxed them. Born
among the luxuries Of life exertion has
been unnecessary. and therefore they
spend their time in taking it easy. They
may enter into business, but they are
untitled for its application, for its hard
ships, for it's repulses, and after having
lost the most of that which they have
invested go back to thorough inaction.
This costly yacht may do well enough
on the smooth, CLASSY bay, but cannot
live an hour amid a chopped sea-
Another cause of incidence is severe
encouragement. There are those around
us who started life with the most san
guine expectation. Their enterprise ex-
cited the remark of all compeers. But
some sudden and overwhelming misfor-
tune met them and henceforth they
have been inactive. Trouble, instead of
making them more determined, has
overthrown them They have lost all
self reliance. They imagine that all
men and ali occurrences are against
them. They hang their heads where
once they walked upright. They never
look you in the eyes. They become
misanthropic and pronounce all men
liars and scoundrels. They go melan-
cholic and threadbare to their graves.
You cannot rouse them to action by the
most glittering offer.
In most cases these persons have been
honorable and upright all their lives,
for rOgues never get discouraged, as
there is always some other plot they
have not laid and some other trap they
have not sprung There are but few
sadder sights than man of talent and
tact and undoubted capacity giving up
life as failure, Ike q line Cf magnifi-
cent steamers rotting against wharves,
from which they ought to have been
carrying the expectations of nation.
Every great financial panic produces a
large crop of such men. In the great
establishments where they were part
ners in business they are now weighers
OF draymen or clerks on small salary
Revere ls also cause of Incidence.
There are multitudes of men who ex-
pect to achieve great success III life who
are entirely unwilling to put forth any
physical, moral or intellectual effort.
They have great many eloquent theories
of life. They are all the while expecting
something to turn up. They pass their
life in dreaming. They have read in light
literature how men suddenly and unex-
pectedly came to large estates, or found
a pot of buried gold at the foot of the
rainbow of Good Luck, or had some
great offer made them. They have
passed their lives in reverie
Notwithstanding he is pinched with
poverty and any other man would be
downcast at the forlorn prospect, he is