Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-06-07
LOVE AS AN INVESTMENT.

| AON IA nO hN AN GO III LIN L
Love is the only thing that will pay II
per cent. of interest on the outlay. Love
is the only thing in which the height o.
extravaganza is the last degree OF econo'
my. 1t is the only thing, | tell YOU
Joy is wealthy. Love is the legal tender
of the soul-and you need not be rich t
be happy. We have all been raised OF
success in this country. Always beer
talked with about being successful, anc
have never thought ourselves very ricl
unless we we've the possessors of somt
magnificent mansion, and unless oul
names have been between the putrid lip:
of rumor we could not be happy. Every
little boy is striving TO be this and be
that. tell you the happy man is the
successful man. Tho man that has won
the love of one good woman is success
lul man. The man that has been the
emperor of one good heart, and that
heart embrace all his, has been success
If another has been the emperor of the
round world and has never loved and
been loved his life is failure.
1t won't do. Let us teach our children
the other way, that the happy man is the
successful man, and he who is a happy
man, always tries to make some one else
happy the man who marries woman
to make her happy (; that marries her rs
much for her own sake as for his own
not the man that thinks his wite is hi
property who thinks that tho title tC
her belongs to him-that the woman /,
J the property of tho man wrotches who
get mad at their wives and then shoo
them down in tho street because they
J think the woman is their property. l tel
you il Is not necessary to be rich and
great and powerful to be happy. A lit
tie while ago l stood by the grave of Ma
poleon-a magniice tomb of gilt and
| gold, fit almost for dead deity-and
gazed upon the sarcophf gus of black
Egyptian marble, whore rest at last the
ashes OF the restless man. | leaned over
the balustrade and thought about tho en-.
reer of the greatest soldier of the modern
world. saw him walking upon the
bankaef Seine, contemplating suicide.
saw him at Toulon-I saw him putting
down the mob in the streets of Paris
saw him ut the head of the army of Italy
l saw him crossing the bridge at Lod
with the tri-color in his hand. | saw
him in Egypt in the shadows Of the pyr
amids-I saw him conquer the Alps anG
mingle tho Eagles of France with tn,
eagles OF crags, saw him at Marengo -
at u I'm and Austeritz. | saw him in
Russia, where tho infantry of the snow
and the cavalry of the wild blast scatter
his legions like winters withered leaves
| saw him at Lcipsic in defect and dis.
as:er-driven by million bayonets back
upon Paris-clutched like n wild beast,
banished to Elba. 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
com bined to wreck the fortunes of theil
former king. And | saw him at ST.
Helena, with his hands crossed behind
him, gazing out upon the sad and sol.
eiia.oo mn sea.
thou, sLt of the orphans and widows he
had mado- ~ ia tears that had been shed
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for his glory, and OF the GHitAS> woman wh'
ever loved him, pushed from his nssrt oy
the cold hand OF ambition. And | said !
would rather have been a French peasant,
and worn wooden shoes. l would rather
have lived in a hut, with vine growing
over the door, and the grapes growing
purple in the Kisses Of tho autumn sun.
would rather have been that poor peasant
with my loving wife by my side, knit.
ting as the day died out OF the sky-witi
ny children upon my knees and theil
arms about me. / would rather have
been that man, and gone down to the
tongueless silence Of the dreamless dust
than to have been that Imperial imperso
nation of force and murder, known al
Napoleon the Great.
IT is not necessary to be rich in order
to be happy. 1t is only necessary to bC
in love. Thousands Of men go to College
and get certificate that they have az
education, aud that is in Latin and they
stop studying, and in two years to save
their life they couldn't read the certificate
they got.
1t is mostly so in marrying. They stoJ
courting when :hey get married. They
think we have won her and that is enough
All, the difference before and after. How
we'll they looked ! How bright their
eyes How light their steps and how
full they were Of generosity. | tell you
a man should consider himself in good
luck if woman loves him when he Ia
doing his level best. Good luck Good
luck
A HEN STORY. Young America" "