Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-16
Iowa az an IYestment.

Chicago Times Report OF Bob lngersOlls Lec
turc.
Loveis the only thing that will
nav 10 per cent ofTnterest on the out lay.
Love is the only thing in which the
height of extravaganza is the last degree
of economy. Applause. 1t is the
only thing, l tell you. Joy is wealth.
Love is the legal tender OF the soul
laughter and you need not be rich TO
be happy. We have AL been raised on
success in this country. Always been
talked with abOnt being successful, and
have never thought ourselves very rich
unless we are the pOssessors OF some
magnificent mansion, and unless our
names have been between the putrid
lips of rumor we could not be happy
Every little baby is striving 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
a successful man. The man that has
been the emperor of one good heart, and
that heart embraces all his has been sue
cess. Applause. If another has been the
emperor of the round world and has
never loved and been loved his life is
failure. =,
II won't do. Let us teach our chill
dren the other way, that the happy man
is the successful man, and he who is a
happv man is the one who always tries
To make some one else happy. APP
plausel The man who
MARRIEs A 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 ms
property, who thinks that the title to
her belongs 10 him-that the woman Is
the property of the man; wretches who
get mad at their wives and then shoot
them down in the street because they
think the woman is their property.
loud applause. | tell you 1t Is not
necessary TO be rich and great and
powerful to be happy. \ little while
AGO stood bv the grave of the old Ma
poleOn-a magnificent tomb oil gllt anu
gold, fit almost for dead deity anu
gazed upon the 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
modern world. | saw him working up
on the banks Of the Seine, contemplate
ING suicide. | saw him at Toulon-l
saw him putting down the mob IN the
streets of Paris saw him at the head
Of the army of Italy, saw him crossing
the bridge of Lodi with the tri.cOlOr III
his hand-I saw him in Egypt in the
shadows Of the pyramids saw MN
conquer the Alps and mingle
THE EAGLES OF FRANCE
with the eagles of the crags. | saw him
MT Marengo-at Ulm and Austerlltz. l
saw him in Russia-the infantry OF the
snow and the cavalry of the wild blast
scattered his legions like winters with
cred leaves. ! saw him at Leipsic in de-
feat and disaster driven by million
bavonets back upon Paris, clutched like
a wild beast, banished to Elba. l saw
him upon the frightiul field OF Waterloo
where chance and fate combined 10
wreck 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 widows
he had made--Oi the tears that had been
shed for his glory, and OF
THY 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 a vine growing over
the door, and the grapes growing purple
i'm the kisses of the autumn sun.
would rather have been that poor peas
ant. with my loving wife by my side,
knitting as the day died out OF the sky
with my children upon my knees and
their arms about me. | would rather
have been that man, and gone down to
the tougueless silence OF the dreamless
dust, than to have been that Imperial
impersonatiOn of force and MURDER
known as Napolcan the Great. Loud
and renewed applause.
1t is not necessary to he rich IN order
to be happy. 1t is only necessary to be
in love. Laughter and applause
Thousands OF men go to college 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
certificate they got. [Laughter.l
1t is mostly so in marrying.
THEY STOP COUNTING
when they get married. They think we
have won her, and that is enough. All.
the difference before and after. How
well they looked! How bright their
ewes! How light their steps, and how
full they were OF generosity. tell you
4 man should consider himself in good
luck if woman loves him when he is
-lnin,, his lnNpl hest