Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-04-30

intellectual. He is generally q great
eater and active only when he cannot
digest what he has eaten. 1t requires as
much effort for him to walk as for others
to run. Languor and drowsiness are his
natural inheritance. He is built for u
slow sailing vessel-a heavy hulk and
an insufficient cutwater. Place an active
man in such bodily structure and the
latter would be1shakenS to pieces in one
day. Every law of physiology demands
that he be supinc. Such one is not re-
sponsible for this powerful tendency o.
his nature. His great duty is resistance.
When see man fighting an unfor-
tunate temperament. all my sylnpathies
arc aroused, and think of Victor Hugo,s
account of scene on u warship where,
in the midst of storm ut 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 lis
own life, rushed ut it with a handspike
to thrust between the spokes of the
wheel of the rolling cannon and by a
fortunate leverage arrested the gun till
1t could he dashed fast. But that strug
gle did not seem SO dishcartening as
that man enters upon who attempts to
fight his natural temperament, whether
it be too fast OF too slow, too nervous or
too Emphatic. God help him, for God
only can.
INCIDENCE AND WEALTH.
Furthermore, Incidence is often re-
suit of easy circumstances. Rough ex-
perienco i'll earlier life seems to be neces-
sary in order to make man active and
enterprising Morntainccrs 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 dclivercrs
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 fortune and petted and praised
have often grown mp letharSic.
They have none of that heroism which
comes from fighting one's-own battles.
The warm summer sun of prosperity has
weakened and relaxed them. Corn
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 IT'S 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 cannot
live an hour amid chopped sea.
Encouragement. There are those around
us who started life with the most san
glline expectation. Their enterprise ex-
cited the remark of all compeers. But
some sudGcn and overwhelming misfor-
tune met them and henceforth they
have been inactive. Trouble, instead of
making them more determined, has
o3erthrown them. They have lost ali
self reliance. They imagine that all
men and all occurrences are against
them. They hang their heads where
o,.ce they walked upright. They never
look you in the eyes. They become
! p-.:3s,antllropic and pronounce. all men
liars and scoundrels. They go melan-
cholic and thrcadbarc 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,
fer rogues never get discouraged, as
there is always SONIC other plot thuy
have not laid and some other trap they
have not er4 ing. There are but few
sadder sights than man of talent and
tact and undoubted capacity giving up
life as failure, like Il line of, maSniii-
cent steamers rotting against wharvcs,
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
establishments where they were part
ncrs in business they are HOW weighers
or draymcn or clerks OH small salary.
Revere 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 effort.
They have a great many eloquent theories
of life. They are all the while expecting
something to turn up. They pass their
life in dreaming. They have read III light
literature how men suddenly and unex-
pectedly came to large estates, or found
a 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 rcverie.
Notwithstanding he is pinched with,
poverty and any other man would be
downcast at the forlorn prospect, he is
always cheerful and sanGuiie and 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 temper. All
the world wishes him well, for he nevc
did anybody any 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 aboat 10
be successful. Let no young man begin
life with revcrie. There is nothing ac-
complished without hard work. Do not
in idleness expect something to turn up.
1t will turn down. Incidence and wick
edness always make bad luck. These
people of reverie are always about to
begin. They say, "Wait little"
So with the child who had cage con-
tanning beautiful canary, and the door
of the cage was open and cat was in
the room. "Better shut the door of the
cage" said the mother. wait min
ute," said the boy. While he was wait
ing the feline creature with one spring
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