The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-05-11

inheritance. He is built for slow sail
ing vessel, heavy hulk and an in
sufficient 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 de-
mands that he be supine. Such one is
not responsible for this powerful ten
dency of his nature. His great duty is
resistance.
When | see man fighting an unfor-
tunate temperament, all my sympathies
are aroused and / think of Victor
Hugo's account of scene on war
ship, where, in the midst of a storm at
sea, a great cannon got loose, and it
was crashing this way and that, and
would have destroyed the ship; and the
chief gunner, at the almost certain de-
struction of his own life, rushed at it
with handspike to thrust between the
spokes of the wheel of the rolling can
non, and by fortunate leverage arrest
ed the gun till it could be dashed fast
But that struggle does not seem so dis
heartening as that man enters upon
who attempts to fight his own temperaf
ment, whether it be too fast or too slow,
too nervous or too Emphatic. God help
him, for God only can
Furthermore, Incidence is often re-
suit of easy circumstances. Rough e&-
perience in earlier life seems to be nee
essary in order to make 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 no 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 of prosperity
has weakened end relaxed them.
Born among the Injuries of life, ex-
ertion has been unnecessary, and, there
fore, they spend their time in taking it
easy. Thew may enter into business,
but they are untitled for its application,
for it's hardships, 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 not live an hour
amid chopped sea.
Another cause of Incidence is severe
encouragement. There are those
around us who started life with the
most sagacious expectation. Their en-
terprise excited the remark of all COM
peers. But some sudden and overwhel-
ming misfortune met them, and hence
forth they have been inactive. Trouble,
instead of making them more deter
mined, has overthrown them. They
have lost all self-reliance.
They imagine that all men and all oc-
currences are against them. =. Thas.5ang
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 glitterlng 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
saddcr sights than man of talent and
tact and undoubted capacity giving up
life as failure like line of magni6-
cent steamers rotting against wharves,
from which they ought to have been
carrying the expectations of a nation,
Every great financial panic produces a
large crop of such men. in the great es-
tblishmcnts where they were partners
in business they are now wcighers or
draymen or clerks on small salary.
Reverie is also cause of Incidence.
There are multitudcs of men who ex-
pcct to achieve great success in life who
are entirely unwilling to put forth any
physical, moral or intellectual efforts
They have great many eloquent the.
cries of life. They are all the while eX.
pecting something to turn up. They
pass their life in dreaming They have
read in light literature how men sud.
denly and unexpectedly come to large
estates or found Il pot of buried gold al
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 bt
downcast at the forlorn prospect, he is
always cheerful and sanguinc anc
he may be within day or two of as
tonishing success. You can not hell
being entertained by his chccrfulness
of temper. All the world wishes him
well, for he never did any body any
harm. AZ last he dies in just the SAME
condition in which he lived. sorrowfu
only because he must leave the work.
just at the time when his long-thought
of plans were about to be sue
cessful Let no young man begin lif,
with reverie. There is moth
ing accomplished without hard work
do not in idleness expect something tc
turn up. 1t will turn down. Indolenc,
and wickedness always make bad lack
These people of reverie are always
about to begin. They say: ''Wait q
little" So with the child who had q
cage containing beautiful! canary ant
the door of the cage was open and ca
was in the room. Better shut the dool
of the cage" said the mother. "Wait 4
minute" said the 10y. While he wa,
waiting the feline creature, with on,
sprinr. took the canary. The way tha-