The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-04-27

nal in his nature Is stronger than the
intellectual. He is generally a great
eater and active only when he cannot
digest that which he has eaten. 1t re-
quires as much effort for him to walk as
for others to run. Languor and drow'
siness are his natural inheritance. He
is built for slow-sailing vessel, a heavy
hulk, and an insufficient cut-water.
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 SUI
pine. Such a one is not responsible for
this powerful tendency Of his nature,
His great duty is resistance. When ]
see man fighting an unfortunate tenn.
permanent, all my sympathies are aroused,
and 1 think of Victor Hugo's account OF
scene on a war ship, where, in the
midst Of storm at sea, great cannon
got loose, and it was crashing this way
and that and would have destroyed the
ship; and the chief gunner, at the al
most certain destruction of his own life,
rushed at it with handspike to thrust
between the spolxes of the wheel of the
rolling cannon, and by fortunate lev
erage arrested the gun till it could be
lashed fast. But that struggle did not
seem so disheartening as that man en-
ters upon who attempts to fight his nat
ural temperament, whether it be too
fast or too slow, too nervous or too
lymphatic. God help him, for God only
can.
Furthermore, Incidence is often a re-
suit of easy circumstances. Rough ex'
perience in earlier life seems to be nee
essary 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 de-
liverers of nations once had not where
to lay their heads. Locusts and wild
honey have been the fare Of many a
John the Baptist, while those who have
been fondled 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 ofprosperity has
weakened and relaxed them. Born
among the luxuries Of life, exertion has
been unnecessary, and, therefore, they
spend their time in taking 1t 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 can moi
live an hour amid chopped sea.
Another cause of Incidence Is severe
Encouragement. There are those around
us who started life with the most san
guine expectation. Their enterprise
excited the remark Of all compeers. But
some sudden and overwhelming misfor
tune met them, and henceforth they
have been inactive Trouble, instead o
making them more determined, ha.
overthrown them. They have lost al
self-reliance. They imagine that al
men and all occurrences are agains
them. They hang their heads wher'
once they walked upright They be
come misanthropic and pronounce al
men liars and scoundrels They g
melancholic and threadbare to thei
graves. You cannot rouse them q
action by the most glittering offer. II
most CAGES these persons have been hon
orable and upright all their lives, 70
rogues never get discouraged, as ther,
is always some other plot they have no
laid and some other trap they have no
sprung. There are but few saddle
sights than n man Of talent and tao
and undoubtcd capacity giving up III,
as failure, like n line Of magnificent
steamers rotting against wharves, from
which they ought to have been carrying
the expectations Of n nation. Every
great financial panic produces a larg'
crop OF such men. In the great estab
lishments where they were partners II
business, they are now weighers o,
draymen or clerks ON small salary.
Reverie is also cause of Incidence
There are multitudes OF men who ex
pect to achieve success in life, who arr
entirely unwilling TO put forth any
physical, moral or intellectual effort
They have great many eloquent theo
ries of life. They are all the while ex
pecting something to turn up. They
pass their life in dreaming. They hav,
read in light literature how men sud
denly and unexpectedly came to larg
estates, or found pot of buried gold q
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 will
poverty, and any other man would b
downcast at the forlorn prospect, he !
always cheerful and sanguine and jov
ial, for he does not know but that h
may be within day. or two of astound
ing success. You cannot help be enter
taineA with his cheerfulness of temper
All the world wishes him well, for he nev
er did anybody any harm. At last he die
in Just the same condition in which h
lived, sorrowful only because he mus
leave the world Just at the time wheI
his long-thaught-of plans were abou
to be successful Let no young maj
begin life with reverie. There is moth
ing accomplished without hard work
Do not in idleness expect something Il
turn up. II will turn down. Indolenc,
and wiclSedness always make bad luck
These people of reverie are alway
about TO begin. They say, "Wait lit
tie" So with the child who had a cag'
containing beautiful canary, and th'