The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-05-15
Love as m Investment.

Chicago Times Report Of Boo Lngersolrs Lecture.
Love is the only thing that will pny 10
per cent. of interest on the outlay. Love
is the only thing in which the height Of
extravaganza Is the last degree of ccono-
my. Applause. 1t is the only thing,
tell you. Joy is wealth. Love is the
legal tender of the soul laughter l.
| and you need not be rich to he happy.
We have all been raised or success in
this country. Always been talked witt:
about being successful, and have never
thought ourselves very rich unless we
we're the possessors Of some magnificent
mansion, and unless our names have been
between TIE putrid lips of rumor we could
not be happy. Every little boy is striv-
ing to be this and be that. tell you the
| happy man is the successful man. The
| man that has Won the love of one good
woman is q successful man. The man
that has been the emperor of one good
heart, and that heart embrace all his, has
been success. Applause. If another
has been the emperor of the round world
and has never loved and been loved his
| life is q failure.
| 1t won't do. lie: us teach our children
the ether way, that the happy man is tho
successful man, and he who is happy
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some one else happy. [Applause. The
man VINO marrles woman TO make her
happy; that marries her as much for her
own sake as for his own; not the man
that thinks his wife is his property, who
] thinks tLnt the title to her belongs to
him-that the woman is tho property of
the man wretches who get mad mt their
| wives and then shoot them down in the
street because they think the woman is
their property. Loud applausc.] l tell
you 1t is not necessary to be rich and
great and powerful to be happy. A little
while ago | stood by the grave of the old
Naoole0n--a magnificent tomb of gilt
anfi gold, fit almost for dead deity-end
g:zed upon tho sarcophagus of black
Egyptian marble, where rest at last the
ashes of the restless man. / leaned over
the balustrade and thought about the
career of the greatest soldier of the mod
ern world. saw him walking upon the
banks of the Seine, contemplating sui
eide. saw him at Toulon-I snw him
putting down the mob the streets of
Paris-I saw him at the head Of the army
of Italy-I saw him crossing tho bridge
Of Lodi with the tri-color in his hand
l saw him in Egypt in the shadows of
the pyramids-I saw him conquer the
lAlps and niingle the eagles OF France
| with the eagles of the crags I saw him
ct Marengo-at Ulm and Austerlitz. l
saw him in Russia, where the infantry
Of the snow and tho cavalry of the wild
blast scattered his ',gions like winters
withered leaves. saw him ut Leipsic
in defeat and disaster-driven by mil
lion bayonets back upon Paris, clutched
like wild beast, banished to Elba. I
saw him escape and retake an empire by
the force of his genius. saw him upon
the frightful field of Waterloo. where
chance and fate combined to wreck the
fortunes of their former king, And
/ saw him at st. Helena, with his hands
crossed behind hira, gazing out upon the
sad and solemn sea.
| thought of tho orphans and widows
/ he had rnade-of the tears that had been
shed Tor MS glory, and of the only woman
who ever loved him, pushed from his
heart by the cold hand of ambition.
And said would rather have been a
French peasant. and worn wooden shoes.
| would rather have lived in hut, with
o vine growing over the door, and the
grapes growing purple in the kisses of
the autumn sun. would rather have
been that poor peasant, with nv loving
wife by my side, knitting as the day died
out of the sky--with my children upon
my knees and thei, arms about me. l
would rather havo been that man, and
gone down to thu tongueless silence of
the dreamless dust, than to have been
that Imperial impcsonation of force and
murder, known as Napoleon the Great.
Loud and renewed anplause.]
It'is not necessary t. be rich in order
to be happy. It is only necessary to be
in love. Laughter and applause. u
Thousands of men go to knowledge and
get certificate that they have an educa-
ton, and that certificate is in Latin, and
they stop studying, and in two years to
save their life they couldn't read the GER
tificate they got. Laughter.]
1t is mostly so in marrying. They
atop counting when they get married.
They think we have won her, and that is
enough. Ahi the difference before and
aiterI How we'll they looked How
bright their eyesl He : light their steps
and how full they were of generosity. /
ltells you a man should consider himself
| in good luckif a woman loves him when
he is doing his level best, IAppiause. I
Good luck Good luckl