The National tribune., 1879-08-01
Love as an Investment.

Love is the only thing known that viii pay per cent
of interest on the outlay. Love is the only thing
economy. [Applause.] 1t is the only thing tell you
Joy is wealth Love is the legal tender Of the soul
laughter land you need be rich to be happy. We
have all been raised on success in this country always
been talked with about being successful and have never
thought ourselves very rich unless the posessors
or some magnlcen mansion and unless our names have
been between the putrid lips of rumor could be
happy Every little boy is striving to be this and be that
tell you the happy is the successful man. The
that been the emperor of good heart and that
heart embrace all his has been Applause.
If another has been emperor of the round world and
has rever loved and been loved his life is failure
1t won't do Let us teach children the other way
that the happy the successful man. and he who is
the happy is the one who always tries make
one else happy. Applause. The who marries a
make her happy that marries her much for
her sake for his not the who thinks his
wife his property, who thinks that the title her be-
longs to himthat the woman is the property of the
wreches who get mad at their wives and then shoot them
down in the street because they think the woman their
property Loud Applause tell you it is not necessary
to be rich and great and powerful to be happy.
A little while ago stood by the grave of the old Napo-
eon-a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold fit almost for
dead deityand gazed upon the sarcophagus of Black
Egyptian marble where rest at ashes of the rest
less man. | leaned the balustrade and thought
about the of the greatest soldier of the modern
world. saw him walking upon the banks of the Seine
contemplating suicide saw him at Toulon-I saw him
putting down the mob in the streets of Paris him
the head of the army of ItayI him crossing the
bridge of Lodi with the tri-color to his handI him
in Egypt in the shadows of the pyramds-I saw him con-
the Ayse and mnge the eagles of France with the
eagles of the l him at Marengo-at Jim and
Austerltz. him in Russia where the infantry of the
snow and the cavalry of the wild blast scattered his e
gons like winters wthered leaves | saw him at Leipsc
in defeat and disasterdriyen hy million bayonets back
upon Paris cutched like wild beast banshed to Elba.
him escape and retake empire by the force of his
genius saw him upon the frightul field of Waterloo,
chance and fate combined wrench the fortunes of
their former king. And saw him at ST. Helena, with
his hands crossed behind him, gazing upon the sad and
solumn
! thought of the orphans and widows he had made
of the tears that had been shed for his glory and of the
only who loved him. pushed from his heart
by the cold hand of ambition. And said would rather
have been French peasant aud worn wooden shoes.
would rather have lived in hut with vine growing
the door, and the grapes growing purple in the kisses of
the autumn | would rather have been that poor
peasant with my loving wife by my side, knitting the
day died out of the skywh my children upon my knees
and their around would rather have been that
man. gone down the tongueess silence of the dream
less past than been that Imperial mpersonation
of and murder known Napoleon the Great Loud
and renewed applause
necessary be rich in order to be happy It
Is only necessary be in love- Laughter and applause
Thousands of go knowledge and get certificate
that they education and that certificate is in
Latin and they stop studying and in two years to
their life they couldn't read the certificate they got
| Laughter
II is mostly SO in marrying They stop counting when
they get married They think they have won her and
that's enough. Ah the difference before and after How
well they looked How bright their eyes How light their
steps and how full they of generosity tell you
man should consider himself in good luck if woman
loves him when he is doing his level best Applause.
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