The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1879-06-20
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Love as an Investment.

Love is the only thing thai will
pay 10 per cent. Of Interest on the
outlay. Love is tho only thing in
which the height of extravaganza is
the last degree Of economy.j Itis the
only thing, ftell you. JOY is wealth.
Love is the legal tender Of the soul
and you need not be rich to be happy.
We1.have all been raised or success
in this country. Always been talked
with about being successful, and have
never thought eursolvas;very rich un-f
less weawere. possesses of somo mag
nificent mansion, and unless our
names have been between the putrid
lips ofTumor we could not be happy.
Es cry lite boyis striving to be this
and be that. tell you the happy men
is the successful man. The man that
has been emperor Of one good heart,
and that heart embrace all his, has
been success. If another has been
emperor of the round world and has
never loved or been loved his life is
q failure.
e 1t wont do. Let us teach our chill
dren the other way that the happy
man is the successful man, and he
who is a happy man is the one who
always tries TO make some one else
happy. The man who marrics wo-'
man to make her happy; that marries
her as much for her own sake rs his
his own not The man that thinks his
wife is his property, who thinks the
title to her. belongs to him-lhat the
woman is the property Of the man !;
wretchcs who get mad at their wives
and then Shoot them down in the
the streets because they think the
woman is their property. tell you
it is not necessary to be rich and
great and powerful to be happy. A
little willie ago l stood BY the grave
of The old Napolcon-a magnificent
tomb Of gilt and gold, fit almost for
q dead deity-and gazcd Cpon the
sarcophagus Of black Egyptian mar.
Fblc, where rest nt:last the ashes ofithe
restless man. leaned over the bal
ustradc and thought about tho career
of the greatest soldier Of The modern
world. / saw him walking upon the
banks Of The Seiney contemplating
suicitle-I saw himvat 'Toulon-I saw
him putting down the mob in the
steets Of Paris-I saw him at the
head Of the army Of Italy-I saw him
crossing tic bridge of Lodi with the
tricolor in his hand-I saw him in
Egypt in'the shadow Of the pyramids
Il saw him conquer the Alps and
mingle thee aglcs of France willI The
eagles Of the crags-I saw him at
Marengo-at Ulm and AusterlitZ.
saw him in Russia, where the infun-
try Of the snow and cavalry Of the
wild blast scattered his legions like
winters witliercd| leaves T saw
INN at Leipsic in defeat and disaster,
driven by million bayonets back
upon Parish, clutched like a wild
beast, banished 10 Iilba. | saw him
escape and rctakc an empire by force
Of his genius. I saw him upon the
frightful field OF Waterloo, where
chance and fate combined TO W eek
the fortunes Of their former king.
And ! saw him at St. Helena, with
his hands crossed behind him, gazing
out upon the sad and solemn sea.
thought Of the orphans and wild
ows he. had madc-ot the tears that
had been shed for his glory, and of
the only woman who ever loved him,
pushed from his heart by the cold
hand Of ambition. And / said l
would rather have been French
peasant, and worn wooden shoes.
would rather have lived in hut, with
q vine growing over the door, and the
grapes growing purple in the kisses
of the autumn sun. l would rather
have been that poor peasant, with my
loving wife by my side, knitting rs
the day died out Of the sky-with my
children upon my knees and their
arms about me. I would rather have
been that man, and gone down to the
tongueless dust, than to, have been
that Imperial impersonation of force
and murder, known as Napoleon the
Great 1 ....