The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-11

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up life as failure, like a line Of magnificent
steamers rotting against wharves, from
| which they ought to have been carrying the
exports of nation. Every great financial
panic produces large cropof such men. In
the great establishments where they were
partners in business they are now weighers
| or draymen or clerks on small salary.
Reverie is also cause OF incidence. There
are multitudes of men who expect to achieve
great success in life, wno are entirely un'
| willing 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 have read in light literature how men
! suddenly and Unexpectedly cams 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 pow
| erty, and any ether man would be downcast
at the forlorn prospect, he is always cheer
| full and sanguine and jovial, for he does not
| know but that he may be within day or
| two Of astounding success. You cannot but
be entertained with his cheerfulness OF tenn
| Der. All the world wishes him we'll, for he
never did anybody harm. At last he dies In
Just the same condition in which he lived,
sorrowful only because he must leave the
Of plans were about to be successful
Let no young man begin life with reverie
There is nothing accomplished without hard
work. Do not in idleness expect something
to turn up. It will turn down. Incidence
and wickeiness always make bad luck.
These people Of revsrie are 1ixsys about tS to
the child who had cage containing a beau
titul canary, aud the door OF the cage was
open and cat was in the room. ''Bsttsr
shut the door of the cage" said the mother.
swat minute" said the boy. While he
was waiting the feline creature with one
spring took the canary. The way. that
many lose the opportunity of lifetime is
by the same principle. They say, swat q
minute" My advice is not to wait at all.
Again, bad habits are fruitful source OF
Incidence. Sinful indulgences shuta mans
shop and dull his tools and steal his profits.
Dissoluteness is generally the end OF in
dustry. There are those who have the rare
faculty of devoting occasionally day or
week to loose indulsences, and at the e1-
plration Of that time go back with b!eared
eyes and tremulous hands aud bloated
cheeks to the faithful and successful per-
formaucs OF their duties. Indeed their Gnu
ployers and neighbors expect this emuse,
ment or occasional season OF frolic and
wassai.
Some Of the best workmen and most skill.
full artisans have this mole Of conducting
themselves, but as the time rolls on the sea-
son of dissipation becomes more protracte1
and the season Of steadiness and sobriety
more limited, until the employers become
disguised and the man is given up to con-
tinual and ruinous idleness. When that
point has arrived he rushes to destruction
with astonishing velocity. When man
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ing to do, no former self respect or moral
restraint or the bessechings 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 unfortunate for q
man Of evil inclination than an occupation
which keeps him exceedingly busy during a
part Of the year snd then leaves him for
weeks and months entirely unemployed.
There are many men who cannot endure
protracted leisure. They are like fractions
stseds that must constantly be kept to the
table and uncomfortable. Bad habits pro-
ducs idIeness, and idleness produces bad
habits. The probability is that you will
either have to give up your loose indulgencss
or else give up your occupation. Sin will
take all enthusiasm out Of your work and
make you sick OF LIES drudgery, and though
now and then between your seasons OF dissl-
nations 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 any.
thing but politics.
Nov, what are the results Of indolence? A
marked consequence Of this vice 10 physical
disease. The nealthiness Of the whole natu'
raj world depends upon activity. Tbs
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
hurting back the fetid atmosphere OF great
cities, are healthy just because OF their
swiftness and Observation-Disclosures OF sweep.
But, after awhile, the wind falls and the
hot sun pours through 1t, 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.
All the healthy beauty Of that which We
see and hear in the natural world is depend.
emit upon activity aud unrest. Men will be
healthy-intellectually, morally and physi-
cally-only upon the condition OF an active
industry. know men die every day OF over.
work. They drop down In coal pits, and
and on the cotton plantations Of the South.
In every city and town and village you find
men groaning under burdens as, In the East,
the camels stagger under THAR loads between
Aleppo and Damascus. Life Is crushed out
every day at counters and workbenches and
anvils. But there are other multitude5 who
die from mere inertia. Indulgences every
day are contracting disease beyond the
cathoIicon OF aIlopathy and homeopathy and
hydropathy aud eclecticism. Rather than
work they rush upon lancets and scalpels.
Nature has provided for thoss WHO violate
her laws by inacsvity-what rheuua for the
eyes, and what gout for the feat, and what
curvature for the spine, and what structures
for the chest and what tubercles for the
lungs, and what rheumatism for the muscles.
and what ueuralgias for the nerves. Nature
in time arraigns every such culprit at her
bar, and presents against him an Indictment
Of one hundred counts, and convicts him on
each one Of them. The laws OF nature will
not stop their action because men may bs
ignorant of them. Disease, when it comes
to do its work, does not ask whether you un-
derstand hygiene or pathology or matsria
medica. %
If there were not so many lies written on
tombstones and in obituaries you would see
what multitu les OF the worlds inhabitants
are slain in their attempts to escape the
necessity OF toll. Men cross oceans and con-
tinents and climb the Alps, and sit under
the sky Of Italy or the shadow OF Egyptian
Pyramid. and 20 down into ancient ruins,
and bathe at Baden Baden. and come home
with the same shortness Of breath, and the
same poor digestion, and the same twitch-
ing Of the nerves, when at home with their
own spade they might have dug health out
of the ground, or with their own axe hewn
health out OF log, or with their own scythe
garnered health from the grain field.
There are manV who estimate the re-
spectabIity of an occupation by the little
exertion it demands, and would not have