The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-08-03
GheQntelEiqetrter,
How 10 Get on In The Wor rmaa IN"
secure the Greatest succes"
and Happiness.

aud Happiness
Robert Collyer made the dedicatOry
,Deech the other day when the new pub
I liz hall was taken possession Of in Shoe
mi Pa, and among other things
hssxpIsiped what he chased as the prin'
cinIe. Of life. First, he said, came the
power to do good, honest days work
secondly, the power to make a good home
and have family Of noble children
thirdly, to lose no time about doing these
things; and lourthly, to be content aitel
thew are done. To do good days work
he said, lay at the root Of all true living
Men want TO get the greatest possible
sum of,money for the least possible work
Young men, as they emerge from sGhT p;sn
and colleges into the arena Of real 't ~
co0uet with the chances which seem 10
them as thick as blackberries, wal'i h
for something to run against them oy
which they may become wealthy wl"l .ho
DELAY. They forget that the man WI" ~,
doeS not put his heart into hls %orH ,b ~
ways fails. tbs Of this sort Oh mel Iu ,"~
the Micawbers-thc men who arc away
waiting for something TO turn up-ate
made But il they had read Tue lesson
tanaS, Nv Micswbcr they would have up,
'auSn ,bs iact that he had at last, and
t ats." 10 "cbieyed success, TO turn up
something for himself. The gola on .i me
Pacific c9as. wouldn'tturp up Of itseli.
SoI II seemed as though the Almighty
b, Ind designed that the gIittefing riches Of
the earth should only be awarded TO man
as A legitimate result Of labor. He re.
Ierred in y humorous way 10 the expert
ence Of Evans, IN engine builder OF the
last century, who got up an engine whose
wheels and piston.rod and other appoint
uents we're all in good order, yet some
how. when the machine was called upon
to lift a weight it stopped at once: For
this reason it was christened Evans
gentlcmnnly engine" from the fact that
the province Of gentleman in those days
was to do nothing. So now, hcsaw every
day scores OF young MEN, polished to the
last degree, who were content to depend
upon their "old man" or their relatives,
and, failing these resources, TO 90 down
and down and down, until at last the,
were Lost sight Of in the very dIegs OF
poverty and misery. Almost az bad ms
these were the young men who went TO
Washington, secured places which they
knew they could not ill, and thus drained
tho public purse. Compared to this sort
Of man The brawny, toil.browned me-
chanic was the true gentleman. Nay,
further than this, the honest, hSrd-work-
ing blacksmith, who knew how to do an
honest days work, was far better than
the minister OF Tue Gospel who dawdles
aimlessly through the week and breaches
poor sermon on the Sabbath.
Next, as to a good home. Many men
marry who don't find wives, and many
women marry who don't find husbands.
In these days young ladies' want what they
are pleased 10 term ''all the accomplish.
ments." In this list they do not include
washing or ironing or baking or sewing,
bnt "tatLing and embroidering and paint
ing wonderful shepherdeRes with pink
eyes, and jabbcring French, Of which all
that need be said was that no Frenchuam
could understand il. The young man
was educated about the same. lie would
play billiards rather than read books,
liked cards better than his Bible, and
knew the "hells" about. town better than
the insides Of the CHURCHES. In the course
Of time he meets the Young lady in socie:
", views her rs n paragon OF beauty ana
virtue and gives her what little is left OF
his heart. Snch wedding as this re-
minded him Of the case OF a Yorkshire
friend OF his, who was met at the door OF
the church just after his marriage by an
acquaintance. "Now thoust COON TO the
end o thy troubles, lad" said the new
conner. Beaming with deligh. the new.
made Benedict escorted his bride home.
Soon he found that he hadnot fallen upon
u bed OF roses, and meeting his acquaint-
ance one day, he said reproachfully:
"Thou tells me Lwere at tho end o. my
troubles" ."Aye, lad!D was the reply,
"but I didn't tell thee which end" In
some cases married life degcncrated into
tyranny on the one side and slavery on
the other, and then there could be no hap.
py home. Ono might as well try To raise
damask rose on an iceberg.
He had been asked by womans rights'
people whether he used tho word 30 hey"
in the marriage service, and if so, was It
used to the man rs well as to the woman.
He was prepared to say that he did not
use il. He had asked woman very dear
to him to obey him more than once, and
had found that she would-when-she
wanted to. Laughter.) This convinced
him that the use OF the word was super
luous. In further discussion OF this
branch Of the subject, Mr.. CollyCr told
the story OF Detroit man, who, being
congratulated on his marriage by the
minister, replied philoSophically, "Ies, |
considered the subject pretty well, and de-
Cided 1t was cheaper to marry than to
hire housekeeper." Possibly, although
the ayowal may seldom be made, many
marriages are made for similar reasons
A mighty question for Americans was
US 10 the next generation. Americans
are dying out, and the children Of foreign
stock are peopling the country. The
speaker alluded to the plenitude OF chill:
dren in England, where families Of six and
eight are common, and those OF sixteen
are not deemed extraordinary, contrast
ing the state OF families in this country,
A great argument, used by young men
nowadays against matrimony was that
they did mot want TO take young women
from their luxurious homes to live in
cabins. As to this he would say that no
Young woman unfit to be poor mans
wife was worth having. The worst thing
young man could do was to shunt of on
u side track and wait for train OF cir
cumstances to pick him up. The best
thing he ever did was to marry at &c,
when he was making 70 cents day and
ind himself-and had to Sind" his wife
too. Laughter.l His advice was to all
Young men: "POp the question now y
God would provide bread II men would
provide mouths, and were willing to help
themselves. It was wrong 10 make spring
begin at the end Of June, and yet many
Young men deferred marriage until the
best and freshest years Of their life had
passed, only 10 learn after long delays
that the women OF their hearts would
have come to them gladly years before
had they been asked.
IA 10 contentment, the last OF liiss
principles, Mr.. Collyer said that II was
an element strangely lacking in the aver
ayo Anartcan 'nhev Nre alWaYN CXDect,