Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-02-01

standing like ligh ouse on the top o
your head, and gives a clear and full
use of the whole of it. One OF the ways
to eConomiEe time is temperance in diet
temperance in sleep, temperance in all in'
dnlgences.
Let me say a word as to the way Of using
time skiIifully. y wise planning so as tC
secure time cannot be overated. We are
to search for time as we search tor silver
or treasures. Most men expect time tc
chase them. No, you must chase time
The habit began early of ssying, every
day, "How can I secure out of the twenty.
four hours OF this day portion of time
for study, for reading, for meditation" il
continued, will redeem, perhaps, a third oi
your life from overburdeusome work, OF
| absolute waste. But il you expect time TO
measure all the departments of knowledge
OF which have spoken, you must engineer
tor it with II determination that you will
have 1t. You have no idea of the time
that is within your reach, or of the value
Of that time. cannot undertake to give
it TO you; but wish you would make an
analysis OF the twenty-fOur hours Of the
day. Spend this first week in January in
taking an account OF stock. There are
twenIy-four hours in each day: find out
exactly what use you make of every one
of these hours. think we should have
some most extraordinary histories if some
men would go through Monday, and Tues
day, and Wednesday, and Thursday, and
Friday, and Saturday, and see how they
employ the time in each of those days.
think they would have q sober Sunday,
they would find such a disproporIiOn in
the ways which they disposed of the hours
aud the minutes, or a waste of them alto
gether. Men are, in regard to time, as in
the West herds are in regard to their food,
where they are turned out to feed upon a
stack, from which they pull out more than
they eau eat, and trample it under foot
You go every day as 10 n stack. and pull
out mouthtuls of time, which. instead of
being wisely emp Dyed, ale troddeu under
foot.
In every community there
ought to be public library to supplement
the libraries Of the family. When in OK
ford, and London, and Paris, and Munich,
and Dresden, and Milan, l visited the
public libraries in thos places, could not
help feeling, "0h, what public libraries!
no common people to enjoy their advanta
ges. In my own country, where there is
u common people, hungry for books,
luGEd hEe uO DuUllC WIN NClJ
few exceptions" In Europe they have
the libraries, but they have not the people.
In this country we have the people, but
we have not the libraries. Boston has set
us the magnificent example Of free pub
lie library. When you go to Boston, do
not fail to walk down to the foot of the
Common and look att. am proud OF 1t.
Any man may 60 in there, and find the
papers Of the day, aud magazines; and he
may extend his researches in history and
human knowledge without money and
price There is there every pos
sible convenience and facility for reading
aud study. Now, who will associate his
name with a free public Library in Brook
Iyn, and hand it down to other days and
other generatiOns7 went, in Edinburgh,
to see hospitals, where men that in their
day though they were kind enough and
good enough, were by no means remark
able, but who in fortunate hour conceiv-
ed of, and attached their name to, Some
great charity that lives still, though they
are dead. Their bones have mOnldered
to dust; but their power stands, and they
are working, and will for ages to come
How blessed it is for man that acquires
wealth to- feel that he owes to tue commu-
nifty in which he acquires it portion, and
,ndows some great institution of charity! |
And what does Brooklyn need more than
I building worthy of the city, filled with |
books and means Of information, to which |
al can 90 rs freely as the air goes!
Let me say, in closing, that it is this
knowledge und intelligence of which
have hren speaking tonight that is to
give the real titles 1t is the difference
in citizen power that is going to rank men. |
There are no classes here. There are fu-
tile attempts TO make classes; but they |
are like wrinkles on the sep-shore, which
the waves rub out Us fast as tH6v are nIade.
But there are two things that you cannot
rub out, and these are the natural supe-
riority of one man over another, and the
acquired superiority Uftrue culture. Ed
ucation and distinction in this country
lre going together. Intelligence aud
will give all the titles that we
lre tU have The times in which we live
nre drawing lines ON one side of which
men read, and on the other side of which
tIIey do not: and will write Loyalty and
Liberty on one side, and will write Sia-
very and Rebellion on the other. Com
mon schools are lighthouses, on the one
side OF which are deep waters and danger
Gus ravines, and on the other side Of which
nre safety and intelligence 1t is by in1
telligence that we are to mentain our ms
titutions. If we arc to have morality
and liberty; if we are to have a great peO-
pie, conservative, true tothemselyes, true
to their laws, and easily governed because
it must be because you
have u people that are educated. You
must educ tte, or you will go to destruct-
ion. But you are not going to destruction,
for You will educate. ..-. 20
May God make this thrifty
year to you! May he give you SO much
material prosperity as is for your good;
but especially may he quicken in you
thirst for knowledge ,aud an aspiration
for II truer life Be better wOrkmen, and
more knowing workmen. Be worthier
.S;ti5nns and mora fhnUphtful citizeus