Connecticut western news., 1892-04-28

much effort for him to walk as for others to run. Languor and drowsiness are his natural inheritance. He Is built for a slow sailing vessel-a heavy hulk and an insufficient cutwater. 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 re- sponsible for this powerful tendency of his nature. His great duty is resistance. When l see man fighting an unfor- tunate temperament, all my sympathies are aroused, and think of Victor Hugo's account of scene on a warship where, in the midst of a storm at sea, great cannon got loose, and it was crashing l 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 10 thrust between the spokes of the wheel of the rolling cannon and by a | fortunate leverage arrested the gun till | it could be lashed fast. But that strug- | gle did not seem so disheartening as | that man enters upon who attempts to | fight his natural temperament, whether it be too fast or too slow, too nervous or | too lymphatic. God help him, for God only can.
 | INDCLENCE AND WEALTH.
 Furthermore, indolence is often re- | suit of easy circumstances. Rough ex- i 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 arN brain. | Those who have become the deliverers | of nations once had not where to lay their heads. Locust and wild honey have been the fare of many a John the | Baptist, while those who have been fon- dled 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 unftted 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, glassy bay, but cannot live an hour amid chopped sea.
 | Another cause of indolence 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 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 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 ave not laid and some 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 a line of magnif- cent steamers rotting against wharves, from which they ought to have been carrying the exportations of a 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 or draymen or clerks on small salary.
 Reverie is also a cause of indolence. There are multitudes of men who ex- pect to achieve great success ill 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 always cheerful 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 temper. All the world wishes him well, for he never | ho1 lac ha in just the same condition in which he lived, sorrowful only because he must leave the world just at the time when his long thought 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. It will turn down. Indolence and wick edness always make bad luck. These yeople of reverie are always about tc begin. They say, "Wait little"
 So with the child who had a cage con- taining a beautiful canary, and the door of the cage was open and cat was in the room. Better shut the door of the cage" said the mother. "Wait a 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 a minute" My advice is not to wait al all.
 SINFUL INDULGENCE AND IDLENESS.
 Again, bad habits are fruitful source of incidence. Sinful indulgences shut 8 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 week to loose in
 dulpences. and at the expiration of that