Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-04-25

their bodily constitution that all the
work Of their life has been accomplished
with this lcthargy hanging on their bach
or treading on their heels.
You sometimes behold Il IN childhood
The child moprng and lounging within
doors while his brothers and sisters are
at play, or If he join them be is behind
IN every race and beaten in every game
His nerves, his muscles, his bones are
Ernitten with this palsy. He vegetatef
rather than lives, creeps rather than
walks. yaVns rather than breathes. The
snimal in his nature is stronger than the
Intellectual. He is generally great
eater and active only when he cannot
digest what he has eaten. It requires az
much effort for him 10 walk as for others
10 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 zee a man fighting an unfor-
tunate temperament, all my sympathies
are aroused, and think Of Victor Hugos
account Of scene on warship where,
/ in the midst of a storm at sea, great
cannon got loose, and it was crashing
| 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 a handfpike
TO 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
100 lymphatic. God help him. for God
only can.
INCIDENCE AND WEALTH.
Furthermore, Incidence is often re-
suit Of easy circumstances. Rough ex-
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 and 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 John the
Baptist, while those who have been fon-
died Of fortuSe and petted and praised
have often grown mp 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
untitled for its application, for its hard
ships, for it's 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 cannot
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 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
have not laid and some other trap they
have not sprung. There are but few
sadder sights than man of talent and
tact and undoubted capacity giving up
life as failure, like a line of magni6-
cent steamers rotting against wharves,
from which they ought to have been
carrying the expectations Of nation
Every great financial panic produces
large crop of such men. In the great |
where they were part |
ners in business they are now weighers
or draymen or clerks ON small salary.
Reverie is also cause of Incidence. |
There are multitudes of men who ex-
pect 10 achieve great success in life who |
are entirely unwilling 10 put forth any
moral or intellectual effort. |
They have great many eloquent theories
Of life. They are all the while expecting
20 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
/ 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
iowncast at the forlorn prospect, he Is
Always cheerful and sanguine and jovial,
or he does not know but that no may
10 within a day or two of astounding
uccess. You cannot but be entertained
With his oheerfulness Of temper. All
he world wishes him well, for no never
lid anybody any harm. AT last he dies
n just the same condition In which no
ived, sorrowful only because he must
cave the world just at the time when
iis long thought Of plans were about 10
70 successful, Let no young man begin
ife with reyerie. There is nothing ac-