Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-12-14
TRUE REsPEcTABILITY.

TRUE RESPECTABILITY-
In Ohio, when | lived there, | knew
eminently educated German gentlemen
earning dollar day breaking stones
on a maeadamizeI road Measured by
avocation they were low; but they were
thinkers, ranking higher-they were
honorable
a man who has been hard worker
all his life SAYS to himself: Il have
smart boy. I'll give him chances
never had III give him good educa-
ton. Yes. I'll make lawyer out of
him. GImmoderate laughter. In the
month of June there will be five hun
dred thousand blossoms ON every apple
tree. There will be about three hun
dred apples, and the remainder will drop
to the ground. 1t is the same in all
professions. Out of five hundred thou
sand candidates there will only be three
hundred professional men.
THE CURSE OF WEALTH.
The great trouble is that men are
more anxious to be rich than to be hap
py. ! never knew minister who
warned his people about being extrava-
giant, who refused to receive good sal
ary. never derived wealth, never ex-
horted you about being economical, for
| would just as lief walk into my yard
and say to my COWS, "Oh, Alderneys,be
careful of your milk = Laughter.
A man may be rich ard yet be fool.
Of one hundred who have wealth, but
one knows how to use it. The insane
notion that if a man only had wealth he
wouldn't want anything else, has been
the ruin of many young men. Sudden
wealth and immense wealth are the
dream of many men in cities who have
left their farms and workshops to come
here. venture to say that there are
5000 young men here between twenty
end thirty years Of age who have moth
ing to do.
NEW YORK Is FULL OF THEM.
do not wish to be disrespectful, but
ask one of them if he can do a days
work He W L answer, No Are you
good on shipboard No, I've never
been to sea. Can you make a chair
No. Are you blacksmith No. Are
you carpenter No Is there any
thing Oh Gods earth that you can do
No, not a thing. [Laughter.] Now,
think, what can you dot Well, | am
good bookkeeper. Laughter.) They
can do nothing and can get nothing to
do. Not alone is this the case in New
York, but in all the large cities Of the
Union.
WHAT THEY LAUGHED AT.
Thousands of young men would starve
to death on a hundred acres of land be-
cause they couldn't raise corn. They
would be houseless and homeless in a
lumberyard- with all the
leather in the Swamp at their command.
They have abandoned work and want
something nice and easy. think that
the respectable German in his $ix by
nine attic, pe@ging away at his last, is
much more respectable than the young
man who has left his fathers farm be-
fore he learned to work You ought to
90 to nv house and see the number of
applications that are made to me daily.
Why, people must think that / own
Central Park, and Prospect Park, and
the Postotiice, and the Custom House,
and the Navy Yard. Laughter
They won't believe that | have no in
luence in Washington. Laughter
But never turn them away. sym
pathise with them and assist them when
can. ! never say, Young man, 90
West" Loud laughter | try to en-
courage them.
WORD TO TIE RICH.
Mr.. Beecher next addressed himself
to the wealthy members of his congre-
CATION and said Even if you are worth
million to-day, your son may be forced
to beg his bread because he cant work.
Your daughters cannot be chamber
maids, or cooks, or washerwomen-
what's to become of them Laughter.
In one thing | would have you Juda-
lied. There is an old and true Jewish
proverb which says, ''He who brings up
his child without trade, brings him
up to steal" The papers tell US of peo-
pie going to seek their fortunes in
America. 1t should he, work for their
fortunes. Tell your children to work.
They say it will kill them. Shall they
live !? No. Laughter. Shall they
commit suicide ? No. What then
Simply this. Eat the bread you earn,
or don't eat.
Mr.. Beecher closed with a touching
peroration, in which, speaking of the
rising generation, he said LET them
be men who earn their living by the
sweat of their brow, and who can hold
up their big, hard hands and say they
never took a penny they did not earn"
CUPID'S AMBUSCADES.-The
sly archer, Love, shoots his arrows from
many coigns of vantage, but it is doubt
tul if he delivers his heart-taking shafts
from any ambush with more effect than
when he arms them from the braids and
folds and ringlets of a superb head of
hair. Ladies who have not been favored
by Nature with this crowning charm of
womanhood, can readily and certainly
increase the volume of their hair aud
impart to it silken lustre by using
LYONS KATHAINoN as daily dressing
while those whom Providence has bless
ed with a superahundance of this "Glo-
ry" of the sex, can preserve it, undimin-
ished, III quantity and undiminished in
beauty TO the latest reriod of life. There