Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-07-10

inventors of candles, lamps and ga.
fixtures are not all sinners. The US,
if intoxicating drinks or other stimu
lants condemned alike by reason, reve
latiOn and the laws of nature, nevel
fails to impair or destroy all there is o
man. Clear cold water, pure as tha
which "leaped from the rock wher
smOte by the wand of the prophet" j:
the'beverage prepared.byGO to invig
crate his creatures" AnacreOn sang
of it:-"To udUr aristOn."
Let me advise young men, if they
would preserve physical and mental
vigor unimpaired, never begin the ust
of tobacco. In recent work by an
eminent medical writer it is said OF its
effects that sin most cases they are
injurious, leading surely sooner or later
to chronic, nervous and digestive dis
orders (Napheys' Transmission of Life
DIR. Pidduek, a distinguished London
Surgeon, goes farther and says Gin nc
instance is the sin of the father more
distinctly visited on the children than
in tobacco using. 1t produces in the
offspring an enervated aud unsOund
constitution, defOrmities and often
early DEATH" In the british Annual
of Science for 1867, it is shown that the
use of tobacco is fruitful source oil
disease, insanity aud death.
The economic view of these subjects
is by far the least important. But this
is not incOnsiderable. The expendi.
lures for Intoxicating drinks and to.
baccO If properly invested would in q
multitude of cases relieved old age from
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intoxicating liquors in the UnitedStates
in 1870 was $500, ,OOO, 900, of tobacco in
all forms $3.50, 900, 900, while that: ol
wheat -four did noteXceed 500, ,0OO, 600
Money usefully applied Is one of the
elements of success for nations and in.
dividuals. "He that provideth not fol
his own household is worse than an
infidel." lie who withdraws from
useful purposes any portion of his earn.
ings and applies them to crafty an un
natural or depraved taste or appetite
so far diminishes one of the means Oh
elements of success. There is perhaps
no passion more to be detested-but
few more earnestly denounced in
Holy Writ than the sordid love of sin.
But the acquisition of a competency to
accomplish the objects of our being,
and to be useful to our fellow men is q
duty recognized by every code of ethics
and religion. The desire to succeed in
this Is inherent In every right think
ing man. With many 1t is a subject OF
deep solicitude. Fortunately, in this,
the Great Republic, the way to reach q
competency is open to every one and
none need fail to attain it. He who
| tills the soil, who fells the forests, who
penetrates the earth in search of min-
eral wealth, who embarks in commerce,
who pursues professional or literary
labOrs, the citizen, all in whatever en-
| plOyment can attain it. He who studies
and understands the elements of sue
cess and will apply them will know
h0ao to acquire. With many the diff
Guilty is not so much to acquire as to
retain a sufficiently for natures wants
and to extend the open hand of charity
on all appropriate occasions. But this
is within the control of all. The real
wants, the elegant comforts of life, all
that taste and refidement require will
not exhaust the resources of him who
understands the elements of success.
But wicked dextravagance ,ex penditures
which give no equivalent i'll culture OF
body or mind and add nothing TO ra-
tiOnal enjoyment, these are among the
causes which leave declining years i'm
| penury, Obstruct the duties demanded
by public spirited enterprise, and close
the hand of charity. Exercise that
true and sacred economy which gires
nothing to vitiate or corrupt, and spares
nothing requisite to cultivate and en-
noble every faculty of our nature and
direct all our energies to useful ends, if
you would achieve financial success
Buy nothing on credit beyond its just
value, nor beyond the certain ability to
pay. Credit is one of the most costly
commodities and is INDUCED to the
ruin of multitudes. 1t is only less
dangerous than suretyship and its
kindred of i'll assorted partnership
But these are themes which grow as
we study them and 1 cannot pursue
! further.
I proceed to name another one of the
elements of success-INTEGRITY.
One of the most charming but not
greatest of England's poets has said
IAN honest man is the noblest work of God. /"
Honesty is in fact but one of the ele-
ments of the "noblest work." 1t is a
duty enjOined by every code of morals
and religion. 1t Is so ACKNOWLEDGED by
the universal assent of mankind in
every age. He who lives upon no
higher plane of ethics than that which
teaches that honesty is the best of
policy" has not risen to the sphere in
which Cicero dwelt, when he taught so
wisely and so well, that we should love
virtue for virtues sake. This is q world
in which there is a mutual dependence
among men. 1t is a world. of mutual
trial,
"God never made an Independent man."
A doubt, suspicion of integrity i'm
pairs or destroys confidence and with
out this no man can succeed. To pro-
tect this and every precious trait of
character from destruction or suspicion
the decalogue has declared ''thou shall
not bear false Witness" and in proper
cases the civil law edds its sanction by
awarding damages against the SANDER
er. Shakespeare well understood the
value of integrity, and the ruin pro-
duced by its loss when he said
..But he that nlches from me my good name
Robs me Of that which not enriches him
And makes mo poor indeed"
Gentleman, some of you may enter
upon the profession of the law. There
is vague idea somewhat prevalent
that honesty is not essential to success
in this-indeed that a certain degree of
villainous cunning mingled with a
readiness to aid and sanction fraud, is
both ornamental and useful. There
never existed a greater mistake or a
viler SANDER. One of our ablest Judges
has said honesty and fidelity to clients
are the essential virtues of a lawyers
calling, no more to be dispensed vita
than courage in soldier or chastity in
q woman" ~.
Fidelity to clients" requires moth
ing inconsistent with the highest type
of honor and honesty. The courts have
determined that lawyer who dishon-
ors his calling by advising client how
ha NAV swindle his Creditors % hv