The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-08

LIFE Is SUCCEsSS.
From Me Home Journal.
Sedentary application is so counter to
unframed human nature that it can
only he acquired at the expense of ii
general subjugation of the whole
frame, bodily and mental, to habit.
Southey, at an early age, found it hor-
rible TO have to renounce his customary
routine and torsRke his desk. ~ am
dragged" he writes, while yet young
man, Into IA party OF pleasure for two
days; an hours hanging would be
luxury to me compared with these de-
tesLable schemes" When disturbance
becomes terrible, when IL is dreadful to
u man, MS it is 10 the student, to be put
out of his way, he has lost, or he has
never possessed, all superb bounding
life. On the other hand, sailors OF all
ranks and ages give us ready-for-
anything impression which ut least
stimulates the thing we mean, and
which constitutes their charm to lands
men. What freshness, what childlike
capability of amusement was, for OK
ample, represented to our minds, the
other day, by the spectacle OF four
bronZed, middle-nged, blue -shirted fell
lows from the MinOtuUr taking drive
of SO many miles and back in an open
fiyl No seaman could ever have tn-
vented the word bOre-lhat word ex-
pressiVe, in those who use il tihabitually
and naturally, of II low standard oil
vital force, and as such filling us with
pity and melancholy, though the bored
one is possibly supported by that sense
of superiority which goes nowadays
with caring for few things. Bor with
us affection takes the line of WEAKNESS
and OF tagging power. We gather
from old writers that vivacity used to
be the thing stimulated
"She tripped and laughed, TOO pretty much
to stand.
The reigning toast would run into
drawinE-roon with AN air of delighted
expectation. And the obsolete terms
for rmale andyism-.'bloods, ,""bucks,"
and SO forth-all point to excess OF vi
vacity as having been once the mode.
AS few persons have taste enough to
manage truly exuberant life grace
fully, it is apt to incur the charge of
vulgarity with more or less Justice.
There is triumphant vulgarity to be
found In all ranks which no doubt
owes its success 10 this quality; indeed,
no one, whether duchess or washerwo-
man, cockney or bagman, can be pie
turesQuely, strikinRiy, dramatically
Vulgar without it. For a full sense of
life caves from self:consciousness, tim
idity, and host of inward restraints,
and will and mus. have a field. This
exuberance being an excess of health,
it has nothing to do with the eXcitabili-
u which burns the candle OF life at
both ends, and which especially belongs
to poets. De Quincy speaks OF the
self-consumiug lire that burned up the
life OF Wordsworth and his sister. They
lived faster than other people; and he
was taken for sixty before he was forty.
The eager spirit had wrought within
him
Those shocks and passions TO prepare
That kill tine bloom before It's time,
And DlRnch without the owners crime
The most resplendenL hair.
This is so little the case with the
healthy vitality OF which we speak, and
which is conspicuous i'll all great men
whose genius lies in action and in com
merce with mankind, that the most re-
mRrkable instan nee of this vigor that the
world has lately seen kept its owner
SprightIy and juvenile till far past the
ordinary age OF man. But this vivacity
of life does not necessarily imply lon
gevity, just as n man may exist TO
hundred without it.. II only enables
person to live While he lives, aid to
enjoy life while he has IL. with the
exception OF three mortal diseases,"
writes, Sydney Smith, II am quite
we'll" Life in him would not flag or
giYe'in. Madame de StIel shocks our
sense OF doc0rum by giving dinner
parties on her death-6ed. When we
living creatures, the most Vivacious, we
understand IL better. Death is an idea
so alien to persons of this temperament
that, though reason assents 10 it as a
fact, it cannot overshadow their minds.
The victims of bile, indigestion, and all
such lowering, depressing influences
may live to old age in spite of them.
but they must still be afflicted by fears
and imaginations suggestive of decay
and extinction, all their faults and sins
being doubled and blaCkened in mems
eyes by the mere misfortune of = sullen
temperament. Charles Lamb was Pc
culiarly susceptible OF the charm of vi
tality and the responsiveness of the NOR
bid temper. He pleads, in favor of the
old comedies, for a world apart from
morals, w here Yigor and life in which the
drdBidtLS persona of these productions
are SO pre-eminent, shall stand instead
OF merit; in fact, be virtue for the time
| being. And he draws a picture of
saturnine HaZlitt which makes bile r
yics, and shows to what excesses a dry
and scanty vitality can reach. 81 took
him." he writes, StO see very pretty
girl, where there were two young girls;
The head and sum Of the girlery We're
| two young girls; they neither laughed
nor sneered, nor giggled,l nor whisper
| ed. but they were young girlsi ana ne
! sal and froWned blaekeriAnd blaOker,
| Indignant that there should be such
! thugs as youth and beauty TIL ne tore
me away before supper in perfect mis-
| cry, and owned that he could not bear
| young girls, they drove him mad. 1t
| is notable ofcHazlitt, aSthe opposite OF
| the airy temperament we have dweit
| upon, that he boosted never TO have
| changed a simple opinion. A fullness
/ of life, on the contrary, leads to variH-
| tion, modification, and advance. Not
\ to change with time and events means
| to stagnate, to brood, tofeed upon ones
self, and, in fact, disqualities II man for
| active usefulness. Ape energetic vitah-
! iy adapts man to the state OF things in
which he IN ust live, and SO of allthtngs
even more than pure Intellect Itself,
! is the way to success. If we wonder,
as we often have, to do, why the gifted
| man is left behind in the race, and the
! fellow he used to beat Is miles before
| him, we shall usually ind that life has
| carried it over mere brains; and so u
must, IL we consider that 1t, OF ali
| things, has most hold over the present.
| Very few men, says swift, live in the
present; most people are providing TO
! live another time. An energetic LIE Is
4 a constant sense Of the now, and n
| faculty of making the most of il.
A CANADIAN excnange reports that
| at the recent session of the Primitive
| Methodist Conference 1t was found. ON
| examination, that two or three OF the
ministers were in the habit of using to-
bacco. This elicited u warm express
| sion of disapproYal, and II was finally
resolve that the practice henceiorth
should he discountenanced, and thntHo