The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1892-06-30

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 a slowsail-
ing vessel, a heavy hulk and an INSULT
cient cutwatef. Place an active man
in such bodily structure and the latter
would be shaken to pieces in one day.
/ Every law of physiology demands that
he be supine. Such one is not respon-
sible fer this powerful tendency of his
nature. His great duty is resistance.
When see man fighting an unfortu-
nate temperament all my sympathies are
aroused, and | think of Victor Hugo's
account of a scene on war ship, where,
| in the midst of a storm at sea,
great cannon got loose and it was
crashing this way and that and would
have destroyed the ship; and the chief
gunner, at the almost certain destruc-
tion 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 it could be dashed fast. But
that struggle did not seem so disheart-
| SHlIIS do JlldU HAL SuleFS Upon WHO dU-
tempts to fight his natural ttmpera-
ment, whether It be too fast or too slow,
too nervous or oolymphatic. God help
him, for God only can.
Furthermore, indulgence is often a
result of easy circumstances. Rough
experience in earlier life seems to be
necessary in order to make man active
and enterprising. Mountaineers are
nearly all 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. Locusts and wild honey
have been the fare of many John the
Baptist, while those who have
been fondled of fortune and pet
ted 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
weal1ed and relaxed them. Born among
the Injuries of life, exertion has been
unnecessary, and therefore they spend
their time in taking it easy. They may
enter into business, but they are unfit
ted for its application, for its repulses,
and after having host 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 can not live an hour
amid chopped sea.
Another cause of Incidence is severe
encouragement There are those around
us who started in life with the most
sanguine expectation. Their enterprise
excited the remark of all compeers.
But some sudden and overwhelming
misfortune met them, and henceforth
they have been inactive. Trouble, in
stead of making them more de-
termined, has overthrown them.
They have lost all in self-reliance.
They imagine that all men and
all 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 scoun-
drels. They go melancholic and thread
bare to their graves. You can not
rouse them to action by the most gilt
tering offer In most cases these per-
sons have been honorable and upright
all their lives, for rogues never get dis
couraged, as there is always some other
plot they have not laid and same other
trap they have not sprung. There are
but few sadder sights than a. man of
talent and tact and undoubted capacity
giving up life as a failure, like line of
magnificent steamers, rotting against
wharves from which they ought to
have been carrying the expectations of
a nation. Every great financial panic
produces large crop of such men. In
the great establishments where they
were partners in business they are now
weighers or dray men or clerks on small
salary.
Revere is also cause of Incidence.
There are multitudes of lien who ex-
pect to achieve great success in 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 read
LII IlgnG literature now men suddenly
and unexpedly came to large estates, or
found 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. Not
withstanding he is pinched with pow
erty, and any other man would be
downcast at the forlorn prospect, he is
always cheerful and sanguine and 10
vial, for he does not know but that he
may be within day or two of astound-
lug success. You can not help being
entertained with his cheerfulness of
temper. All the world wishes him well,
for he never did anybody any harm. At
last he died in just the same condition
in which he lived, serrowful only be-
cause he must leave the world Just at
the time when his -thought-of
plans were about to be successful.
Let no young man begin life with
reverie. There is nothing accom-
plished without hard work. Do not in
idleness expect something to turn up.
1t will turn down. Incidence and wick
edness always make bad luck. These
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