Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-05-06

costly yacht may do we'll enough on th
smooth, CLASSY bay, but cannot live an hou
amid chopped sea.
Another cause of Incidence is severe dis
couragement. There are those around u
who started life with the most sanguin,
expectation. Their enterprise excited ths
remark or all compeers But some sudden
| and overw helming misfortune met them,
and henceforth they have been inactive
| Trouble, instead of making them more de-
termined, have overthrow them. They
have lost all self-relance. They imagine that
Ill men and all occurrences are against them
| They hang their heads when once they
walked upright They nsver look you up in
the eyes. They becoms misanthropic aui
| pronouuce all men liars AMI scoundrsls.
They 60 melancholic AMI threa ibare to their
graves. You cannot rouse them to action bJ
the most glittering offer.
In most clses theSa persons have been hon.
orable and upright all their lives, for rogues
never get discouraged, as there is always
some O. her plot they have not laid and some
other trap they have not sprung. There are
but few sadder 81 yhts than man OF talent
and tact AMI undoubtei capacity giving
up life as failure, like line Of magnificent
steamers rottiny against wharves, from
which they ought TO have been carving the
exports Of a nation. Every great financial
panic produces large cropof such men. In
the great establishments where they were
partners in business they ara now weighers
or draymen or CLERKS on small salary.
Reverie Is also cause o. Incidence. There
are mutitu les OF men who expect to achieve
great success in life, who are entirely un-
willing to put forth any physical moral or
Intellectual effort. They have a great many
eloquent theories OF life. They are all the
wniIe expecting sometnluz 70 turn up.
They have read in Ii yht literature how men
suddenly and unexpecteily cana to large
sstates or fouu a pot OF buried gold at the
loot OF the rainbow OF Good Luck, or had
Iome great Offer made them. They have
passed their lives In reverie.
notwithstanding he is pinched with pow
srty, and any ether man would be downcast
At the forlorn prospect he is always cheer
'ul and sanguins AMI 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 tem.
per. 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
world just at the time when his long thought
OF plans were about to be uccsssful.
Let no young mai begin life with reveris.
There Is nothing accomplished without hari
work. Do not in ldleness expect something
TO turn up. 1t will turn down. Incidence
and wicSe lneSs always make bad luck.
These people OF reverie ara always about to
oegin. They soy, "Wait little" SO VITA
the child who had a cage containing a beau
tiful canary. and the door of the cage was
open aud n cat was in the room. BETTER
shut the door OF tho caga,n said the mother
wait a minute" said the boy. While he
was waiting TIE feline creature with one
sprng took the caniry. The way that
many lose the opportunity OF a lifetime is
by the same principle. They say, wait
minute" Ny advice is not to wait at all.
Again, bad habits are fruitful source Of
ndoence. Sinful induIgences shut mans
shop AMI dull his tools AMI steal his profits.
DissoluteneSs is generally the end OF in
dustry. There are thoss who have the rare
faculty of devoting occasionally day or q
week to looss indulgenceA aud at the ex-
piratioL. OF that time 60 back with bleared
ewes AMI tremuous hands aud bloatod
cheeks 10 the faithful and successful per-
formancs OF their du ties. Indeed their cru
ployers and neighbors eIpsct this amuss-
ment or occasional season Of frolic and
waSsai
Some OF the best workmen and most skill.
full artisans have tins mole Of conducting
themselves, but as the time rolls on the sea-
sou of dissipation becomes moro protractst
and the season of steadiness and sobriety
more limited, until the employers become
disguised and the man is given up to a con-
tnual and ruinous likeness. When that
point has arrived he rushes TO destruction
with astonishing velocity. When a man
with strong proclivities OF appetite has moth
ing 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 or any
form of temptation is an employment which
affords neither recreation nor holiday.
Nothing can be more unfortunate for a
man OF evil inclination than an occupation
which keeps him exceedingly busy during q
| 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 intrac'
ia BILE and uncomfortable. Bad habits pro-
ducs idleneSs, and idenesS 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 life's drudgery, and though
now and then between your seasons OF diss-
pations 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 a man for any
thing but politics.
Now, what are the results Of indolencei A
marked consequence of this vice is physical
disease The nellthiness Of the whole natu-
raj world depends upon activity. The
winds, tossed and driven in endless circuits,
scattering the msts from the mountains, and
scooping out death damps from the caves,
and blasting the miasml OF swamps, and
hurting back the fetid atmosphere OF great
cities. are healthy just because OF their
swiftness and uncontrollableness 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 1t:
victims anu digs trenches for the dead.
All the healtny beauty of that which we
see and hear in the natural world Is depend
ent upon activity aud unrest. Men will be
healthy intellectually, morally aud physi,
caly-only upon the condition OF an active
industry. know msa die every day OF over
work. They drop down In coal pits anc
among the spndles of Northern factories
and on the cotton plantations OF the South
In every city and town and village you dnt
men groaning under burdens rs, In the East
the camels stagger sn1er their loads betweeI
Aleppo and Damascus. Life is crushed ou
every day at counters aud workbenches anc
anvils. But there are other multituies VIII
die from mere inertia. lndulgences ever
day are contracting disease beyond th
catholcon OF alloplthy aad homeopathy al
hydropathy and ececicism. Rather tina
work they rush upon ancsts and scalpes.
Nature has provided for thos, wio vioIat
her laws by inacavity-what rheum for th
eyes, and what gout for the feet and wha
curvature for the spine, aud what structure
for the chest, and what tubercles for I'll
lungs aud what rheumatism for the muscle
and what neuralgias for the nerves. Natu'
in time arraiyns every such culprit at hi
bar, and presents against him an indictmel
of one hundred counts, and convicts him {
each one of them. The laws OF nature vi
not stop their action because men may
ignorant of them. Disease, when 1t com
TO do its work, does not ask whether you u
derstand hygiene or pathology or mater