Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-15

G4hOO1A44ONS ORt ANY EFAR6h In W dEEHIHGf.#
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A SUBSCRIBER, who complains that he suffers
a good deal from the annoyance of borrower
of his paper, swell able to takeone for himself"
suggests to US that we might, ina general way,
say something about such people that would be
of advantage both to ourselves .'and the people
who borrow" The same SUBJECT has probably
been presented to our attention hundred
tires since wc have been in the newspaper bu-
siness, and we believe that two or three times
we have alluded to the subject, although We are
not sure that we have, even once. We have
never thought worth while to say much, for this
reason: That it was most likely, in the first
place, that general remarks would not be indi-
yidually appropriated, and in the next place,
that if they were, the effect would not be for
any particular profit to u.s. or benefit to the bor-
rover, because most likely if he or she, the
borrower, felt ashamed to borrow any longer,
why he or she would quit reading the morning
news, and SO be TO that extent less capacitatcd
for the every day duties of life. OF course We
think that every body who can make living,
ought to take morning paper. This sas irm
a conviction as ever fastened itself on our minds.
No odds what mans business is, so that he
have one that yields him bread and butter
living, he ought not to DO without his morning
paper. We say that this is most sincere belief
of ours But for all that we are not so foolish
US to think that we can make every person
think as we do on this head, any more than We
could on any other subject. Solomon has told
us, and our experience has confirmed il, that at
least a tolerable degree Of knowledge has to
enter into mans soul before he appreciates
its pleasure or profit, or desires its daily in
crease Therefore, we do not consider that
words addressed either to that portion of raw
mentality among Us that never reads a paper,
either their own or anybody elses, or that
one-degree-advanced tportion that once and
awhile begs or borrows its neighbours, as
likely to turn out particularly available. There
is no one fact better assured to US By our daily
walk and conversation with humanity, than
that most people who live in this world enjoy
very little of their liyes-vcry little to what
they might enjoy. Diogenes divided his range
of acquaintance into those who seat to live and
those who lived to eat" It seems to us that he
was not comprchensivc enough-for there seem;
in our day to be a large class of people who S;
far from living to eat stint their rations belowa
decent guage of either palate or appetite, in. OF
der to make clear profit out Of the saving
They certainly do not belong to either Of Di,
ogenes' classes, inasmuch as they have no ap.
probation of eating to live, further than living
to save something out of the requirements Of a
pleasurablo existence. They are, Of all people,
about the most miserable. They on m average,
we think, get more than their fair share of aches
and pains, curses and ill wills, than people who
either live soberly and philosophically, or than
those, who, like the Sadducees, eat and drink
while they have chance. They go without
enough clothes often, aud get colds and -rhue.
matism, andsuc ailments They go without
plenty of good Wholesome and nutritious food,
and.nature either droops gradually, or invites
malignant influences into the system. They go
without good books, papers, good society, &c,
and let their children go without them, to grow
up like themselves, narrow-minded bigots and
dupes of designing men. Whatplcasure or:proft
have such people in living? Living or dead,
society takes no account of them, farther than
they furnish those pleasures Of existence to
others which they deny themselves. And what
better off in any respect are they than those
who do enjoy life? Nothing at ALL Between
them and rational people, and the two classes of
Israelites who gathered Maunain the wilderness,
we loften think there is q striking parallel
They who gathered little had enough. and they
who gathered much could have nothing over.
Just SO with those people who deprive them
selves of the comforts Of physical life, and the
civilizing aud enrolling agencies Of social and
mental life. They have nothing at last more
than other people, and cheat themselves out Of
all in life that they could have enjoyed as they
passed through it That man who does his
days work and appropriates considerable pro.
portion of its rewards TO the comfort of his
passing life, is the only man who lives as his
/ Creator intended that he should live,-the
proof of which is that he lives longer and hap.
pier than men who are full of anxieties about
cheap methods of getting through existence
AT the Plymouth county (Massl fair last
week, spading match occurred, which attract.
Ell considerable attention a So. -. go,