The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-06-03

4 ing on their heels, lOu sometimes bc.
mold " IN childhOcd. The child n.opinr
and lounging within doors while his
orD'hcrs and sisters are at play, or IL he
join them, he is behind IN every rnce
and beaten in every game.
His nerves. his muscles. his bones.
are smittcn with this palsy. He vegc.
tatcs rather than lives, crceps rather
than walks.yawns rather than breathes.
The animal in his nature is stronger
than the intellectual. lie is generally n
great eater, and active only when he
can digest that which he has
eaten 1t requires as much effort for
INN TO walk us for others TO run.
| Languor and drowSinrss are his natural
inheritance. lie is built for slow sail
ing vessel. heavy hulk and an in
sufficient cut-watcr. 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 supinc. Such a one is
not responsible for this powerful ten.
dency of his nature. His great duty is
resistance.
When | see man fighting an unfor-
tunatc temperament, all my sympathies
! are aroused, and think of Victor
| Hugo's account of scene on war
ship, where, in the midst of n 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 almost certain de-
struction of his own life, rushed ut it
/ with handSpikc to thrust between the
/ Spokcs of the wheel of the rolling can
non, and by fortunate leverage arrest
! cd the gun till il could be dashed fast.
! But that struggle does not seem SO dis
! hcartening as that man enters upon
who attempts 10 fight his own tcmpcra-
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 cX-
| pcriencc in earlier life seems to be nee
cSSary in order to make n man active
and cnterprising. Mountainccrs 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
| John the Baptist. while those who have
been fondled of fortune and pettcd and
praised have often grown up lethargic,
| They have none of that hcroiSm which
comes from fighting ones own battles.
nf
| has weakened and relaxed them.
Born among the Injuries of life. eX-
ertion has been unnecessary, and, there
fore, they spend their time in taking 1t
easy. They may enter into business,
but they are untitled for its application,
| for its hardShips. for its repulScS, and
after having lost the most of that
which they have invested. go back To
| thorough inaction. This costly yacht
may do we'll 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 MS who started life with the
most sagacious expectation. Their en-
tcrpriSc excited the remark Of all COM
peers. But some sudden and ovcrwhcl-
ming misfortune met them. and hence
forth they have been inactive. Trouble.
! instead of making them more deter
mined. has ovcrthrown them. They
/ have lost all sclf.rcliancc,
They imagine that all men and all oc-
currcnccs are against them. They hang
their heads where once they walked mp
| right. They never look you IN the
eyes. They become misanthropic and
pronounce all men liars and scoundrels.
! They 60 mclancholic and thrcadbare To
their graves. You can not rouse them
TO action Ivy the most glittcrng olcr
In most eases these persons have been
honorable and upright all their lives,
for rogucS rover get discouraged, as
there is always some other plot they
| have rot laid and some other trap they
have not sprung. There are but few
sadder sights than man OF talent ana
tact and undoubtcd capacity giving mp
/ life As a failure like line Of magnih-
cont steamers rotting against wharves,
| from which they Ought Ia have been
carving the expectations OF n nation.
Every great financial panic produces a
large crop of such men, in the great es-
Establishments where they were partners
| in business they are now weighers or
draymcn or clerks on small salary,
Rcveric is also a cause of Incidence.
There are multitudcs of men who eN-
pect to achieve great success in life who
are entirely unwilling to put forth any
physical, moral or intellectual efforts
They have n great many eloquent the
Dries of life. They are all the while eN-
Meeting something "a turn mp. They