News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-04-28

fight his natural temperament, whether
it be too fast or too slow, too nervous or
too Emphatic. God help him, for God
only can.
INCIDENCE AND WEALTH.
Furthermore, Incidence is often re-
suit of easy circumstances. Rough ex-
perience in earlier life seems to be neces-
sary in order to make a man active and
! enterprising. Mountaineers 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 onCa had not where to lay
their heads. Locust and wild honey
have been the fare of many John the
| 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 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
untitled for its application, for its hard
ships, for its 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 chopped sea.
Another cause of incidence Is severe
| disbursement. 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 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 scoundrels. They go melan-
cholic and threadbare to their graves.
You cannot rouse them to action by Tho
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, like line of magnifi-
cent steamers rotting against wharves,
from which they ought to have been
carrying the expectations of a nation.
Every great financial panic produces a
large crop of such men. In the great
establishments where they We're part
ners in business they are now weighers
or draymen or clerks ON small salary.
Revere is also a cause of Incidence.
There are multitudes of men who ex-
pect to achieve great success in life who
are entirely unwilling to put forth any
physical, moral or intellectual effort
They have a 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
always cheerful and sanguine and jovial,
for he does not know but that he may
be within day or two of astounding
- --L l.,
with his cheerfulness of temper. All
the world wishes him well, for he never
did anybody any harm. AT last he dies
in Just the same condition in which he
lived, sorrowful only because he must
leave the world just at the time when
his long tfcAght of plans were about to
be successful. Let no young man begin
life with reverie. There is nothing ac-
complished 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
people of reverie are always about to
begin. They say, ''Wait little"
So with the child who had cage con-
tanning beautiful canary, and the door
of the cage was open and a cat was in
the room. 'Better shut the door of the
cage" said the mother. "Wait q min
ute" said the boy While he was wait
ing 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, wait
minute" Ny advice is not to wait at
ALL
SINFUL INDULGENCE AND IDLENEsS.
Again, bad habits are a fruitful source
of Incidence. Sinful indulgences shut a
mans shop and dull his tools and steal
his profits. Dissoluteness is generally
the end of industry. There are those
who have the rare faculty of devoting
occasionally day or a week to loose in
dulgences, and at the expiration of that
time go back with bleared eyes and
tremulous hands and boated cheeks to
the faithful and successful performance
of their duties. Indeed, their employ
ers and neighbors expect this amuse-
ment or occasional season of frolic and
wassail.
Some of the best workmen and most
skillful artisans have this mode of con-
Quoting themselves, but, as the time
rolls on, the season of dissipation be-
comes more protracted and the season
of steadiness and sobriety more limited,
until the employers become disguised
and the man is given up to a continual
and ruinous idleness. When that point
has arrived he rushes to destruction with
astonishing velocity. When man with
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 a man who feels
himself under the fascination of anv
form of temptation is an employment
which affords neither recreation nor
holiday. Nothing can be more unfortu-
nate for man of evil inclination than
an occupation which keeps him exceed
ingly busy during 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 lifes 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