Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-09
Wait Not For the Weather, But Upon the Weather

bone side the patch and lifted bask- et already more than hah full of red ripe fruit. which I was picking as I found it while at the other work. ~Gee!'' And he walked abruptly off as if he were offended
 Another result was when another reighbor, after a rather too long ses- ion of complaint about the backward ; pe.functory way: 'When're ye goin' to have some sweet-corn?" Got some now was my answer Would you take dozen home with you if you i had it?' He seemed too dazed to make any immediate response. But he took he dozen which I put in his arms ans then remarked as he mean dered off: I don't see how you al ways git things so much earlier than ! we can. I don't see how" That last chap has some warmer 1 ground than any own. He could raise corn and several other things earlier than l can But he's one of these go-it-easy creatures who can't ever work himself up to the point of getting | his early land ready till late in May, and who had rather go fishing on a 1 cloudy day than hang around his farm 1 waiting for some possible chance of setting in a stroke of useful work OF course we didn't strike twelve 1 on everything we planted under doubt l fuf conditions. Some crops are still unusually backward. Some show all the indications of proving complete l failures The point is that there | decently. well. when we put it in We took gamblers chance, and we've ! already won out on several throws. 1 Blessed is the man what don't expect muffin said Sambo flor he an goin' 1 to be disappointed" We have been, in ssn2e particulars,-pl disap- l pointed Which is not so hard to bear as the other sort of disappoint-
 nent.
 Laziness, shiFtlessness, procrastina- i tion,-cali it what you will. the name l matters httle.--is not only a poor way ] to win results, an inefficient, never | get-anywhere way, but it is something
 worse. It is the father and mother of l waste and want and diversity and | Erlvatjon It is worse still;-it is the 1 begetGer Of temptation and the foster l nurse of crime.
 1 Edison was once asked What are l the greatest safeguards against tempt ation ." He wrote in reply:
 l 'I cannot answer the question as I 1 have never had any experience in such 1 matters. l have never had the time l not even five minutes, to be tempted If l were to hazard a guess as to what young people should do to avoid temptation, it would be to get a job
 and work at so hard that temptation 1 would not exist for them.
 We have been told, over and over again, that Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do''
 It isn't necessary to import Satan into any consideration of the idleness question. The idle or lazy man and woman don't need outside suggestion | or aid to set -hem It mischief. They are mischief in their own persons l themselves the source and genera tors
 of it. To attempt to put the blame
 for their own shame on poor Satan is an injustice to an over-w worked devil
 When any one is so busy,-bra!ns 1 body, boots and breeches,- at some
 useful work that nothing else concerns 1 him. he is impregnably armoreG l against ail temptation. whether iron i without or from within Mir. Edisor
 vas absolutely and lndubita bly, right
 Neither any Satan with hoofs and horns hot from hades nor any concealed anC intangible Satan of his own begettine lurking in his own heart can find { chink in his panoply of mail through
 which to thrust even a pin S point O
 temptation
 l Industry terds to advantage. Bu that isnT it's chief merit Industry helps produce results. But that ism
 it's chief recommendation Tndustr! leads to opportunities for leisure. Bu
 that is hardly an argument for it
 Industry is usually valid insura nc, against want. Bat that is only .
 side issue
 The one thing which is important il
 that habit of industry, so persisted
 in as to necome a second nature, lead.
 to higher manhood and womanhood
 It shuts the door slam. in the fac,
 of temptation, before temptation hal
 got around the corner a mile off, or
 it's way'to you wards. The devil hate
 it worse than he hates any holy water
 But laziness is the special brand 0
 fertilizer with which the hot beds O
 temptation and evil are ma nurCi int, duXUriant growth
 What's the use of this sort of tall
 to farmers? you may ask. Did vol