The Penn's Grove record., 1892-04-29

ofaoie ana upright all their lives, for rogueS
never get discouraged, as there is always
some o her plot they have not laid and som
Otner trap they have not sprung. There are
tut lew siider 81 ghts than a man OF talent
ami tact AMI unJoubte1 capacity giving
up life as "A failure, like a lima of magnificent
cane %rottins against wharyts, from
which they ought to have been carrying the
exports of a nation. Every or at financial
panic produces a large cropof such men. In
the great establishments where they were
partners in business they are now weighers
Or drlymen or clerSs on SIN | salary.
I'eyerie is also a cause o. Incidence. There
are multitudes Of men VIII } eNDect to achieve
great success IN lite, W no are entirely un.
willing to put forth any physical, moral or
Intellectual effort. Th,y have a great many
eloquent theories of lifs. They are all the
while expecting sonsthjng 10 turn no.
They nav read in light literature how men
s1 idenly and unexpectedly cams to large
estates, or foun1 a pot Of huriet goll at the
foot OF the rainbow OF Good Luck, or had
some great offer ma lG the IL. They have
passed their lives in ~reveris.
Notwithstan ling he is pinchei with pow
erty, and any ether man wouli be downcaSt
at the fOrlOrn prospect, he is alw avs oh ser-
fui and sanSuina All jovial, for he does not
know but That ne may be within a day or
two of astoun Ing success. You cannot but
be entartaine I with his cheerfulnass of tenn
per. All the world wishes him well, for he
never dill ANYBODY harm. AT last he dies in
| just the 81 ue condition in which he livei,
sorrowful only because he must leave the
world just at the time when his iOng-thought,
of plans were about to be successful.
Let uo young mau begin life with reveris.
There Is nothing accomplished without hard
wOr%. Do not in idleness expect something
to turn up. 1t will turn down. Incidence
ami wicke iness always make bad luck.
IUHse people of reverie are always about to
begin. They say, 'Wait a little" So VITA
the child who had a cage containing a betu-
j tltul canary, and the door Of the cage was
open and a CIT was in the room. "Better
shut the door of the cage" said the mother.
WYATT Il minute" said the boy. While lie
was waiting the feline creature with one
spring took the canary. The way that
many lose the opportunity of a lifetime is
by the same principle. They say, wait .
minute" My advice IS not 10 wait at all.
Again, bad habits are a fruitful source OF
mdolencs. Snful induigences shut mans
! shop and dull hfs tools AMI steal his profits.
Dissoluteness Is generally the EN- OF in
dustry. There are those who nave the rare
faculty of devOting occasionally a lay or a
| week to loose indulgences, al at tho ex-
p~lratior. OF that time 60 back with bleared
ewes AMI tremulous hands and bloated
cheeks to the faithful and successful per-
formance OF their duties. Indeed their en-
! ployers and neighbors expsct this amuse-
| ment or occasional season of frolic and
| wassail.
Some of the best workmen and most skill.
full artisans nave this mo lie of conducting
| themselves, but as the time rolls on the sea
| son of dissipation becomes more protracte 4
| and the season of steadiness ami sobriety
| more limited, until the employers become
disguised AMI the man is given W to a con-
tinual and ruinous Iileness. Wh,n that
point has arrived he rushes to destruction
- tt. - -l-@t- ~ 100.
with strong proclivities of appetite has moth
ing to do, no former self respect or moral
| restraint or the beseecalnss o. kinlrei can
save him. The only siiesy for u man who
| feels himself under the fascination OF any
form oftemptation is an employment which
, affords neither recreation nor h ,liday.
Nothing can be more unfortunate for "A
man OF evil inclination than an oc1u pation
| which keeps him exceedingly busy during a
part of the year and then leaves him for
weeks and months entirely unemployed.
Thers are many men who cannot ndure
| protracied leisure. They are like ira .tious
| stseIs that must constantly be Kept TO the
load, for a weeks quiet makes them intrac
ia bile and uncomfortable. Bad habits pro-
duc4 iiIeness, and idlenesS pro incas bad
habits. Tbs probability Is tn 1t yJu will
either have to give up your loJss maui sencss
or else give up your occupation. Sin will
take all enthusiasm out OF your WORK and
maze you sick of life'5 drulgery, ami though
now aud then between your seasons of dissl-
pations you may rouse up to a 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 a man for any.
thing but politics.
Now, what are the results of indolence2 A
marked ~onsequen of this vice is physical
disease. The healthiness Of the whole natI-
raj world depends upon activity. The
winds tossed and driven in endless circuits,
scattering the mists from the mountains, and
scooping out death dAmps from the caves,
ard blasting the miasma of swamps, and
hurting back the fetid atmosphere OF great
cities, are healthy just because of their
swiftness and uncontro!lablenesS OF sweep.
But, after awhile, the wind falls and the
hot sun pours through it, 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.
AL the healthy beauty of that which we
see and hear in the natural world is depend
ent upon activity and unrest. Men will be
healthy-iutellectually, 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
among the spindles Of Northern factories
and on the cotton plantations of the South.
la every city and town and village you find
men groaning under burdens as, in the East,
the camels stagger ender their loads between
Aleppo and Damascus. Life is crushed out
every day at counters and workhenches and
anvils. But there are other m~ultitudes who
die from mere inertia. lndulgences every
dav are contracting disease beyond the
cathoIicon of ~allopathy and homeopathy aud
hydropathy and eclecticism. Rather than
work they rush upon lancets and scalpels.
Nature has provided for those WAC violate
ner laws by iuactivity-what rheum Tor the
eyes, and what govt for the feet, and what
curvature for the spine, and what structures
for the chest, and what tubercles for the
lungs, and hatrheumatism for the muscles,
aud what neuralgias for the nerves. Nature
in time arraigns every such culprlt at her
bar, and presents against him an inilctment
of one hundred counts, and convicts him on
each one OF them. The laws of nature will
not stop their action because men may be
ignorant of them. Disease, when it comes
to do its work, does not ask whether you I'M
derstand hygiene or pathology or materia
medica.
If there we're not 50 many lies written on
tombstones and in obituaries you would see
what multftudes 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 go down into ancient ruins,
and battle at Baden Baden and come home
with the same shortness of breath, and the
same poor digestion, and the same twltch-
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 a log, or with their own scyths
~parnered health from the grain field-
There are many who estimate the re
spectahlhty OF az occupation ny tine httie
e~xertion it demands, and would not have
their children enter any employment where
their hands may be soiled, forgetting that
a lahorer's oyeralls are just as honorable as
a priests robes and an anvil is just as re-
spectacle as a pulpit. Health flies from the
be OF down and says. ~ cannot sleep
here's and from the table spread with
ptarmigaa and epicurean viands, saving, II
cannot eat here" and from the vehicle OF
soft cushions and easy springs, saying, VI
| cannot ride here" and from houses
luxuriously warmed and upholstered, say
| ing, II cannot live here" and some day you
/. meet health, who declined all these luxuriant
| places, walking in the plow's furrow, or
sweltering beside the Kissing forge, or spin
ming among the looms or driving a dray, or
timing a roof, or carrying hots Of brick up
the ladder OF a wall,
Furthermore, notice hat Incidence en-