Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-05-04

Hugo's account Of : sccn, on . wss
ship, where. in tho midst Of = storm ~
sea, q great cannon got loose, aud Il
was crushing this way and that, end
would have destroyed the ship: and the
chief gunner. mt the almost certain dc
struction of his own life, rushed Mt Il
with a'handspil<e to thrust between the
spolSes of the wheel of the rolling cam
non, and by . fortunate leverage arrest
ed the gun till il could be dashed fast
But that struggle does not seem so dis
heartening AS that man enters upon
who attempts to fight his own tcmpera-
ment. whether it be too f;.>, ar too slow,
too nervous or too lymrleiic. God help
him, for God on can.
Furthermore. Incidence In often re-
suit of easy circumstances Rough cx-
pcriencc in earlier life seems TO be nee
essary in order TO make n man active
and enterprising Mountainecrs are
nearly always swarthy. and those who
have toilcd among mountains of trouble
get the most nerve and muscle and
brain. Those who have become the de-
liverers of nations once had no where
TO lay their heads. Locusts and wild
honey have been the fare of many n
John the Baptist, while those who have
been fondlcd of fortune and pctted and
praised have often grown up letharyic.
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, cx-
ertion has been unnecessary, and there
fore. they spend their time in taking it
easy. They may enter into business,
but they are untitled for its application,
for its hardships, for its rcpulscs and
after having lost the most of that
which they have invested, go back to
thorough inaction. This costly yacht
may do we'll enough on the smooth,
CLASSY bay. but can not live an hour
amid n chopped sea.
Another cause of Incidence is severe
encouragement. There are those
around us who started life with the
most sagacious expectation. Their en-
tcrprise excited the remark OF all com
peers But some sudden and overyvhel-
ming misfortune met them. and hence
forth they have been inactive. Trouble,
instead of making them more deter
mined, has ovcrthrown them. They
have lost all self-reliance
They imagine that all men and all oc-
currences are against them. They hang
their heads where once they walked up
right. They never look you in the
eyes. They become misanthropic and
pronounce all men liars and scoundrels.
They go melancholic and threadbare to
their graves. You can not 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 . nan of talent and
tact and undoubted capacity giving up
life as II failure like line of macntf-
cent steamers rotting against wharves.
from which they ought to have been
carrying the expectations of n nation
Every great financial panic produces n
large crop of such men, in the great cs-
Establishments where they were partners
in business they are now weighcrs or
draymen or clerks on small salary.
Rcvcrie is also cause of Incidence.
There are multitudcs of men who ex-
pect to achieve great success in life who
are entirely unwilling To put forth any
| PA'N niOdi'
They have Il great many eloquent the
cries OF life. They are all the while ex-
pccting something to turn up. They
pass their life in dreaming. They have
read in light literature how men sud-
denly and unexpectedly come to larlS
estates, or found pot OF buried gold Mt
the foot of the rainbow of good luck.
or had some great offer made them.
| fl.nxr !, al.
Notwithstanding he is pinched with
poverty, and any other man would be
downcast ut the forlorn prospect, he is
always cheerful and sanguine and
| jovial. for he docs not know but that
he may be within day or two of as
tonishing success. You can not help
being entertained by his chccrfulness
of temper. All the world wishes him
well. for he never did any body any
harm. At last he dies in just the same
condition in which he lived. sorlowful
only because he must leave the world
just at the time when his long thought
of plans were about To be sue
ccssful. Let no young man begin life
with revoric. There is moth
ing accomplished without hard work.
] do not in idlcncss expect something to
| turn UP. III VIII turn down. Incidence
and wicllcdncss always make bad luck
These people of rcvcrie are always
about TO begin. They say: wait a
little So with the child who had n
cage containing beautiful canary and
the door of the cage was open and n cat
was IN the room. Better shut the door
of the cage" said the mother. "Wait n
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 q lifetime
is by the same principle. They say:
"Wait a minute My advice Is not TO
wait at all
Again, bad habits are fruitful source
of Incidence. Sinful indulgenccs shut
n 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 devotink
occasionally "a day or n week TO loose i'm
dulgcnccs. and at the expiration OF that
time go back with blcarcd eyes and
trcmulous hands and bloated checks 20
the faithful and successful performance
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