Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-07-14

sleeps IN our Woodland Cemetery And there
are still others, equally dear, who have left
thing but memories OF good behind them, and
passed before US into the silent lind.
The spirit Of enterprise, always char lcteristic
of our High School boys, has led mary away
from the walls Of their Alma Mater But
wherever they are, whether ploughing the seas,
OF delving in mines, OrSsitling in the cOuuting-
room, we feel certain that we can trust the
honor Of the school to their keeping AnG in
the years u come, when cur yeneraiel mother
shall count up her jewels, some OF these, her
wandering sons, will doubtless stand Ia the
crown of her rejoicing.
Though our early days abound in pleasant
recOleciions, they are not all the echoes Of
lrOlc AMI sport. There were hours spent ia
l4rd study. There were lessons carefully
learned and mental discipline gained whose
fruits IRE Just npeninE souls were armed for
the battle of life, whose weapons are even now
gIesming and flashing in the morning sun.
seeds OF future usefulness were sown, which
are just sprihs,ing up in luXuriant growth. But
the stalk is yet tender and the oeaTled grain
! only given promise OF its Appearing.
Il becomes US to think whether or no We are
rightly tilling what has been committed Us, and
ere making ready TO reap the full fruits OF our
ilbors. To this end let me invite your atten-
tion 10 the consideration Of tie theme,
BOOKS AND BUSINESS.
This world has often been compared to
great workshop wherein the laborers toll with
sineWy arms and labor soiled faces. And we
/ a.e told that the need OF praise is only given
/ TO those who, by painstaking diligence and long
continued application have wrought out for
themselves the crown of the successful. In
| fact, on looking back through history, we seem
J To see the force of the comparison. But if we
cast careful survey about US, 1t may appear
! otherVisx.
To the great mass Of mankind the world IS
merely the great temple where the money
changers sit at their tables, gathering in their
I golden treasures No other end appears in
view. Cheat ourselves as we may, BY proposed
deeds of philanthropic beneyOlence, it is nav-
ertheless true that money is King" and they
are prime ministers and privy cOunsellors who
1 sit nearest the throne. The goal proposed 10
youth of the present day, has fallen from the
/ high sounding talismans Honor and Pane tO
mere money Once 1t was, do this that YOU
may benefit the state then, act thus and 50
that you may become h0nOTed ami known. But
now save here and there it IS, My son, get
honor, get wisdom, but with all your gettings,
get money! This is the KEY that unlocks the
door OF fashion. this the magic wand at whose
beck the Kaleidoscope Of the civilized world
takes new change, this the bell whose linking
I announces a new act Of the DRAMA and ghsn
the euItain rises the back scene Is still the *
change and the Bourse
/ Verify the love of money is the root of all evil,
and as there once entered one who Oyerlhrew
the tables Of the money changers and drove
out those who sold doves and oxen, even so.
there is a call for Young America to drive out
these sordid and sOuldestroying aims. What
Il shame : What a satire upon humanity 10
\ know that, because Wall street faneied it had
cause for commOtion, the world trembled Do
seem unreasonable Convince yourselves Of
the truth. Whom does the world honor -
Whom do the common voice Of mankind hold up
for examplesi Is it Fulton OF AsiOr Robert
Raikes or Stephen Girardi Howard OF Roths-
child Is it the sell-saerifeing or the selfen-
riching
Young ALADDIN descends into the mystic
cave, ualsoRUred ai.d unknown He loads him
| SELF with Jewels and Kings daughter awaits
bis coming. Cinderella SITS weeping in The ash
es. The fairy touches her and prince feels hon
Ored with her alliance. Yet fear that the glass
slipper was hardly aGpotent as the coach and
six With The lIyeried footmen. Even Eros, god
:, ,ougb be be, fires away blindly and misses his
| mar Ill Plutus has tipped his arrows for him
Fairy tale or sober reality, tho facs is patent,
trust that / am no Cyne, and that the words
| lust uttered are words Of truth and sObemess-
| If they are it is high tine TO change them for
! something better. | gladly accord their due
place to men of business. No man honors
more highly than DO, the LawTences, Peabodys
and Grinnells of our land. and no one despises
more heartily the mammon worship Of the age
A strict attention T. business and a careful
study Of literature, though seemingly inc5m-
I l. I
| that the cares Of the former are necessarily
great and that the latter demands leisure and
quiet But that the same man may be at once
successful in business and letters is no idle
yagary. For years Charles Lamb sat at his
desk in the India house, and though 1iligent in
business and oppressed with family cares, found
leisure 10 gain deservedly high reputation
among the best of our English Essayists. The
Historian Of the Mediei. Wm. Roscoe, was a
Liverpool Merchant Grote, the accurate and
voluinin0us Historian of Greece q London
Banker-Bacon, Rogers, Franklin, BrOugham-
but IT is idle 10 multiply examples. The histo
nv Of all ages has shown that they have
accomplished most who have attempted most
believe with Dr. Adam Clarke, that ''tbe old
adage of too many irons in the FIRE conveys
an abominsble lie; keep them all sgoing,
tongs, poker, shovel and all"
There sometimes creeps into the popular mind
the idea that when one has graduated, his or her
e dueaiiOn is finished. He who adopts such an
IL is truly 10 be pitied Our education ends not
with life itself There should be 4 steady, on
ward sfOwth in our acquaintance with both men
/ and le4ter.. 1t is Of little use that our loun-
tans be Glad with water If it is suffered TO
become stag nam nothing but living water will
satisfy our Tesuirr1uenis. So it is with the
mind However uell stored at the outset, il
there is 10 effort taken to keep it bu5bhBg and
gurgling with new thoughts and Eew ideas, 1t
| will necessarily stagnate. Every call upon 1t
| m 7st be answered lIOm the old surply, which
will in time become insufficient for the demand;
and Vther, we are so constituted that our intel
lects M ust either advance or Tecede. The mo-
ment III, v esase 10 90 on-upWard-they begin
to 90 ba, 'k-downward. Again say, there
must be : c, instant. underwriting advance.
The mere a -tisity of business viii not ill the
place that belop @ TO books. True it is, that in
the hustle and h, Nrry q active life in the daily
contact of man va Ii ElaG, IN the strife for mer-
camille success, the mind cftan grows rapidly.
A peculiar talent is oil ten deSsloped which fairly
astonishes the mere student The judgment Of
clear, cool headed man OF businsss Is often
times Of she very highest order 1t sLEikes the
uninitiat 81 with something Of the same wonder
produee5t by the well exeeu ted plans a , Ma
Poleon. The talents require't are not less N the
one tha in the other.
The student often fails in this respect Spell
bound nth authors, who though dead, yet speak,
he too ften dwindles away into the mere book
worm, useless to every one and a burlen upon
the COZ nm unity Voluntarily shut out from the
iife-giNine beams Of the sun and ths communion
Of his fellow men, he is incapable Of performing
his part IN the great drama in action around
him, and tades away into deserved Obseurty.
On III other hand. there Is often sad lack
in brsin esG men Fully eRgrOssed in the cares
of their s...,,,,,; n they not uafreouently for