The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-27

Practical philosophy Is that which
enables us to look at the ills of life. its
disaPPointments and its diseases, in n
manner which does much 10 surno,Int
them and deprive them of tho power 10
do any permHnentinjury. True phIlos-
ophy has no pretenso nbout It; no
chicanery, no fraud; 1t does not worry
itself in the endeavor to make the worse
appear the better reason, or in making
tEonblesome concealmenls; on tho con-
t@E9TyJ IN IT hnds a happiness and n great
iul rellef even in a fF1lnSuCsis which ON
dangers storm of ridfcule. Who. ifnr
example, does not admire tho moral
courage of the elderly negro noticed
pom Tue hurricane deck OF a steamer
aiteE the taking OF Fort Donelsofi with
q philosophical md retrospectiye cnst
III III couIhtenanee, Iee be squatted down on
s o,rst iis ,s 34ndle, toasting himself
ng1illst me chimney, in n state OF most
profound meditation. Were Won in fI,c
hghtl Had lntle taste OF It M 3
stood your ground, did Your NO IN,
runs. runs. Kun Mt the first fire, did YOU p
-, sa, ana would hnb run soOn1, Ind
kloMu " war coming why, that
Was not very credltnblo TO yOuf conr-
nge.' Dat isn't in my line, sn. cookiris
my perieahun. Well, but have Won no
regard for your reputation p tReDIIto-
lions nuthn to me by the side ohlife5
DO you consider your life worth more
thnn other people'sR' IL's worth more
10 me, sn. Then you must yaIue Il
very hlghlyr Yes, sh, i (loes-inore
than all dis wuId-more dan n million
oD dollars, sR; for what would tlnt ~,
worth ,fth 70 a man wild the bref ont ofI
nun MN seIt-nreserbashun nm de ffTst law
WIZ MLu .il!i. ny. Ihen patriotism nnd honor
are nothing to yOn2' Muffin whnteyeT-
sal regard dem MS among dc yanIties
There is another kind OF philosoDhv.
or which may be called a moral ft5TrS,
Whlch oIten enables men to live nlInve
ulSeilse, ana survive for many wears
FaNages on the constitution, which.
pseying upon Persons OF less strength
oI mind, would hurry them to the grave
in n very short times We Remember to
have heard of a neighbor in early youth
nnineu Hume. He was n Erenf Iniser
ana very rich. He was apparently nj
the point or death. All his broad and
fertile acres had been disposed OF, and
ne ne eeaised 70 dictate U his lawyer, WHO,
knowing lie had lnrge amount of sill
yer and gold in tho house, said to him
inter- n pause "Well, Mr.. Hume. ,yhnf
ulsposltlon VIII you make OF your mon
eey T. My money do you ex pect me
10 .lS give away my money! too ? 1 will
n3t li.Iti 10 III and summoning himself To
Mhnt, under the circumstances, seemed
70 DO a superhumnn energy, ho rose
from his bed, dressed himself broke
tho spell OF his disease and lived some
years afterwards to advocate the nn-
king OF tin hats, us they would not soon
OF two persons having consumption.
with apparently equal chances OF life.
the man who abandons himself to his
inte, hugs the fire, and Is aTrnid to stir
out OF doors lest he should take cold I
inevitably dies in short time; the
other having force OF character, fntlO- |
nliIable determination, and truer phil
osophy, considers that life Is worth 4
striving for, that ho can but die any
how; md braving all winds and wealth |
en-, lights courageously against his mnl- !
ndy, nlld and lives 70 be an old man. Sol |
~ I'm In some forms OF paralysis, rheuIna-
tism and other disablements, the exer- |
else OF true philosophy is manifested /
in brave resolves to five down disease. |
TO live above 1t, and by sheer force OF !
VIII to break the spell which WINS |
thrown over the suecumbing BODY; |
thus the mind may, and oflen docs, be
come power over human mnlhdies |
more efficient than the most famed mod- |
tcines of the apothecary.-HdLF,s ,TonT- |
nal Of Health.