Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-10-22
A LIFE WELL SPENT.

AhtAN 10 liAS ohA OtAN III SO1
matters.
F. A LIFE WELL SPENT.
What world of time most of us let
run TO waste, which, rightly used, would
enable US to become wiser and better !
This excellent sentiment is at least as
old as Confucius /; hundred successive
genera lions of our ancestors have each,
in turn, Endorsed IFS respectability, until
it has go Itself adopted into calendar
of truths which all venerate, and pretty
much all give the go by.
Even that division of the twenty-four
hours Of the day by the masonic craft,
which attributes eight hours TO acts of
worship and benevolence, eight to affairs,
and the remaining eight 10 refreshment
and rtpGse, would seem 10 be. with the
vast majority of persons, more fanciful
than real, and the actual rule would be
more. nearly expressed by merging the
portion set apart for piety and good
works with that for rest and refreshment,
thus giving two-thirds of each day to the
qualification of merely physical wants
and desires Indeed, its so much the
fashion, and we are so we'll used 10
dawdle over our business, and run to ex-
cesses in our recreations and pleasures,
that we wonder at the ease with which
an exceptional man, like Mr.. A. T.
Stewart, carries the great weight of his
business affairs, and can with difficulty
believe that he still finds time each day
to read portion of some Greek author
IN his original tongue, and that he still
cherishes and graIfies his taste for art,
and surrounds himself in his leisure hours
with persons eminent in the various in-
tellectual walks of life.
Ali this is Introductory to saying that
last week death took away well known
business man of this city, whose. life well
illustrates the attainments possible 10
any business man of fair intellectual
gifts, and points the moral of my fore
going sermon on the value of time Mr..
William Hegeman, born Inl816, was edu-
Gated druggist, and when he died was
head OF the widely-known firm OF Rege--
man & Co., whose several attractive
stores on Broadway have been familiar
to the public for so many years. Now
it is not remarkable that man should
become successful druggist, ifhe works
hard enough and long enough to become
so. But Mr.. Hegeman not only easily
stood first OF the pharmaceutical chemists
of this city, and carried all scientific
studies in any wise connected with his
business to h Ugh point of culture, but
he also gained gre at proficiency in the
arts of painting and music, SO that he
would have been noticeable in the prac-
tice of either art had he not possessed so
many other clai ms to intellectual and
social distinction that these merely stood
for accomplishing Mt in his well-rounded
character. Now this gentleman was,
day by day, an active business man,
giving the usual time and care and
thought to the conduct of a large and
prosperous business. Yet, in those
hours usually regarded as sacred to rest
and recreation, he had, by wise husband
ry of spare hours, gathered fruits in the
garden of knowledge which are usually
the result of the assiduous labors of a
lifetime Verify, the hours are golden.
RELIGIOUS.
The fall and winter of 75-76 will
be made memorable in New York BY a
thoroughly systematized revival move
ment The churches, without excep-
ton, have Joined hands, and an effort
will be made sucn as the world never
saw before Moody and Sankey will
open the ball in BrooklYn-Miller, Bliss,
and a score of other well-knoWn REVIVAL
lists will commence at the same time,
and all th he clergy, with such laymen as
have gift in the wav of prayer and song !,
will second their efforts. The business
of the Christian world, for the next four
months, will be revival. They propose
to fill the air with religion-to make it
the topic of conversation ever ywhere,
and at all times.
Great good will be effected. A sys-
tematically ordered raid viii be made on
the rum mills and the gambling hells,
crooked business of all kinds is to be
assailed in short, an effort is to be made
to elevate the moral tone of the city at
large. Great good will be accomplished
for the churches, and many men outside
are in deadly earnest There will be no
lack of either funds or laborers. 1t will
be q great thing for New York. ID i
BUSINESS
continues fairly good. Since the Ohio
election there has been percepti6le i'm
provement, for the reason that confidence
in, the stability of things has been restor-.
ed Men know now where they are and
what they have to expect. II PennsylVa-
MIA and Massachusetts, do as well, there
will be & greater and more marked I'm
provement.
1t is raining very hard at this writing,
and the city is as disagreeble as aspossible. .
New York, Oct. Goth, 1876, PIETRo.