Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-05-12


morals or intelligence are not necessary
wealth is everything, or the appearance OF
it. 1t makes mo- difference how he got his
money, if he oily got it. He may have
gained it BY failing four or orGve times, that
being in this country the most rapid mode
of accumulation. The quickest way of
getting into high social position is to buy
all YOU canon credit, then put your property
in your wife name, make provision for
some special friends, then make an as
signment ard then 60 no one knows where,
until you turn up in time to start again
Don't you see how beautifully you have put
YOUR neighhors in the same kind of business
in bad predicanent and so much sooner
Won can get IN high social position, But
really get out of money, and how soon you
will drop out, and the higher you are up
the harder You will drop. Tens of thou
sands of people anxious to reach that social
realm, and thousands in it fear they will lose
their grip and every year and month and
dav there are changes that involve heart
breaks never reported. Social life is in
perpetual futter with the delicate question
as 20 who shall be let in and who shall be
pushed out, and the battle goes on, pier
mirror against pier mirror, upholstery
against upholstery, Chickering grand against
Chickcring grand, wine cellar against wine
cellar drawing room against drawing room,
equipage against equipage. Insecurity and
uncertainty rampant and it is wretchedneSs
enthIoncd and torture at premium and a
life not worth living.
A Life Worth Living.
Thus | put before YOU the lifetime mis-
takes of great multitude. But now
sketch for you a life worth living, young
man saws: II am here. For my ancestry
nm not responsible. God gave me that
Lei me take an account of stock A body
which is a diyincly constructed engine, and
must nut it to the best uses and allow moth
inr to derangc this rareSt Of machinery
Feet, ard they mean lOcomotiOn. Eyes
and they mean capacity to pick out the best
way. Ears, and they mean telephones ot
connection with all the world and capacity
to take in music and the voices of friend
ship. the best music. \ tongue, and
with it an almost inhnity O
accentuation. Yea, hands to wei
come. to resist, to Iift, tostrikc, to move
to bless, to help myself and help others
Surrounding galleries of a world which
after 5000 wears of battling with tempest
and accident is, even in its dilapidation
better than any architect, human or an
gelc could have draughted Two lamps
for ne, a golden lamp and a silver lamp
the one set on the sapphire mantle of the
SKY, the other on the jet mantle Of the
night More than that at 20 years of age
have something that defics all inventory Of
valuables, a soulwith capacity to love and
hate and chose and reject and rejoice and
suffer. Plato says it is immortal, COntuciu,
saws il is immortal Seneca says it is i'm
mortal. An old book found in our family
relies of worn-out cover, some ofits page
almost obliterated by much perusal joins il
with the other books and says am immor
tai,
Plans of Life.
Now | must lay ont nv plans for sixty
years in this world and that will make me
eighty. may not live an hour but mus,
have plans and 30 | take in calculation
sixty more years added to my past twenty
and must keep in mind that these sixty
years are Il short preface TO the 100000
Guintillions of years that make up the vol
umr of my existence These then are my
resources and nv opportunities If there
be an al-wiSe and all-b"ncfccnt Being any
where in the universe to help me | want
Him at this tremendous junctdre. The old
leather-coycred hook among the family relics
saws there is God and that for the SAX of
His son. one Lold Jesus, He will help To
him apply. now ! start for it. Sixty years
to do for myself and to do for others This
BODY ! shall develop by all industries by all
gymnastics. BY all fresh air and sunshine,
and this soul it shall be swept and gar
nishrd and glorifed by all that | can do for
it. and all that can get God to do for it.,
cm going to have it Luxembourg of all
grand pictures. an orchestra of all grand
haimomics, a palace in which God and
righteousness shall hold dominion. Won
der how many kind words | can utter in
ihc remaining sixty years that will bring me
70 eighty. will try. wonder how many
kind deeds can do in these six coming de-
cadcs. will try. Lord God help me in
this conservation.
Busy Life.
Well, busy life opens for that young man.
Disappointments chase him. Graves open
all around him. He makes mistakes and
falls but never surrenderS his faith and his
life is one of blessing to himself and bless
ing TO others. God forgives his errors and
makes everlasting account Of his holy en-
deavors and greets him at last with We'll
done good and faithful servant" You can
chisel on that mans tomb the words His
was q life worth living"
A Family History.
In the olden time among the mountains
of New Hampshire there sits mother
There are six children il, the house, four
sons and two daughters. The farm is
small and very rough, and it requires very
hard work to coax ont Of it living. 1t is a
mighty tug to make the two ends of the year
meet. The boys are sent to school in win
ter and work on the farm in summer. The
mother with her own hands knits all the
stockings for the little feet, is the mantua-
maker for the boys and milliner for the
girls. and the presiding spirit Of the whole
household. The only musical instrument
in the place is the spinning wheel. The
food, though plain, is always well prepared.
The winters, though very cold, are kept out
by blankets she quilted. On Sabbath day
when she appears in the house of Col with
her family, the minister looks down at them
and thinks of the description Of good
housewife in Proverbs: Her children arise
up and call her blessed, her husband also,
and he praiseth her" Years pass on, and
two of the older boys ask for college eiu-
cation, and then the economies Of the New
England farmhouse become seyerer and
the calculations closer, and until the boys
are educated it is battle to get bread. One
of the BOYS entered the gospel ministry and
in pulpit of wide influence breaches right
eousness, temperance and Judgment of God.
The other son enters the law aud passes on
into legislative halls and commands the
of listening senates while he pleads
for the oppressed and the doEn-troiden-
One Of the Younger sons enters commercial
life at the foot OF the ladder and climbs mp