Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-02-01

four ahoulders on which TO carry the trials
1t is avery sad thing for pianist wher
she has e husband Who does not like
music. Il is q very sad thing when wife
is not sai.ed unless her husband has what
ia called
w1 "GRNTEEL BUSINESS"
So far as / understand q gen
teel basiness," it is something to
which . man goes at ten o'clock in the
morning, and from which he comes home
at two or three o'clock in the afternoon,
and geteA large amount Of money for do
ing noting. That is, believe, a "genteel
business. and there has been many a wife
who has made the mistake of not being
satisfied pntil the hueband has given up
the tanning Of the hides, or the turning Of
the banisters, or the building of the walls,
and put himself in circles where he has
nothing 10 do but smoke cigars and drink
vine, and get himself into habits that up.
set him, going down in the maelstrom, tax.
ing his wife and children with him. There
are agood many trains running from earth
to destruction. They start all the hours
of the day, and all the hours of the night.
There sss the freight trains; they 60 very
slowly and very heavily; and there
are the accommodation trains
going on toward destruc
ZION, end they stop very often and let a
man q stsouG when he wants 90. But gen
teel idleness is an express train: Satan ia
thy stoker and Death the engineer; and
though one may come out in front of il
and swing the red flag Of danger" or the
lantern Of Gods World, it makes just one
shot into perditiou, coming down the en-
bankinent with shout and wall and
shriek-cresh, crash There are two
classes Of people sure of destruction: First
those who have nothing to do; secondly,
those who have something to do, but are
too lazy o: too proud to DO it.
| have one more word of advice to give
to those who would have happy home, and
that is,
LET Lows PRESIDE IN 1T.
When your behavior in the domestic circle
becomes q mere matter Of calculation
when the caress you give is merely the re-
salt of deliberate study Of the position you
occupy, happiness lies stark dead on
the hearth stone When the
husbands position as head OF the house
hold is maintained by loudness OF voice, oy
strength otarm, by fce Of temper, the repub'
lie of domestic bliss has become depot
ism that neither God nor man will abide.
Oh. ye who promised TO love each other
at the altar, how dare you commit perjnrSf
Let 10 shadow Of suspicion come on your
affection. 1t is easier to kill that flower
than it is to make it live again. The blast
from hell that pats out that light, leaves
YOU in the blackuesI of darkness forever.
HERE ARE A MAN AND WIFE;
they agree in nothing else, but they agree
they will have home. They will have a
splendid house, aud they thiaG that il they
have d house. they will have 8 home.
Architects make the plan, and the mechan'
les execute it; the house 10 cost one hun
dred thousand dollars. 1t is done. The
carpets are spread; lights ere hoistcd, cur
tains are hung; cards OF Invitation cent ont.
The horses il gold plated harness pranoe
At the gate; guests come in and take their
places; the flute sounds; the dancers go
uu and down; and with one grand whlrl
the wealth au1 fashion aad the mlrth oil
the great town wheel amidst the pictured
walls. Ha this is happiness; Float 1t on
the smoking Viands; sound 1t IN the music;
wbirl it in the DANCE; cast it or the sEoT
Of sculpture; sound il up the brilliant stair
way; fash it in chandeliers! Happiness,
indeed Let us build on the centre OF the
psrlor floor throne to Happinessi let all
the gues.z, when come in, bring thslr
lowers and pearls and diamonds, and
throw them on thi5 pyramid, and LET 1t be
a throne; and then let Happiness, the
queen, Eount ths throne, and We will
stand around, and, all chaIices lifted, we
will say, Drink, o queen live forever!
Bat tbs guests depart, the flates are breath
less the last clash OF the impatient hoofs is
heard in the distance, aud the twain OF the
household come back 10 see the Queen
of Happiness on the throne amidst the par
lor loor. But, alas az they come hack
the flowers have faded, the sweet odors
have become the smell of charnel.house
and instead the Queen Of Happiness there
sta there the gsunt form Of Anguish, with
bitten lip and sunken eye, and ashes in het
hair. The romp ofthe dancers who have
| left seems rumbling yet, like iarring
thunders that quaks the floor and rattle the
rlasses of the feast. rim to RIM. The
smiled wine on the floor turns into blood
The wrea,hs Of plush have become Wrig
Cling reptiles. Terrors catch tangled 10
the canopy that overSangs the couch A
strong gust CT wind comes through the
hall and The drawing,room and the bed
chamber, in which alI the ligh!s go out
And from the lips Of the wine'bresker1
come the words, "Happiuessia ia not with US :
An the arches respo1d, 1T is not IN us! !!
And the silenced instruments OF music
thruuued Oh b7 Invisible GngeRs, answer
Uasppiness is rot il US! And the trCze'
lips OF anguish bre * open, aud, seated oil
the throne ofwilted foSer', aud sbe strike
her bony hands to oyether, aud grosne, i
is not in me.
Tha! very night
4CLERE
with salary Of thousand dollars q yea
only one thousand-2cei to his home
set up three months ago, jast sitet the ma
risce dsy. Love meets hinl at the door
love sits with him al the table love talk
over the work Of the 6ay; love takes dow
the Bible, and reads Of Him who came on
souls to save; snd they kneel, and Will
they are kneeliug-right in the! plain rooI
on that plain ca;pet-the apge
| Of God build throne, not OF
, of flowers that perish and fad
r away, but cut Of gaslauds OF besVe
t wreath OF toD ci wFeaiA, RPsrsatt Q
, amarstb, until the throne "a done. The
the harps Of God sounded, aud sudden
! there appeared one who mounted Il
throne, with eye go bright and brow so ia
that the twain knew it WAS Christian Low
And theT kneli at the throne, and, putin
one hard OF each head, she bleses! lasE
1 ami said "EaFF;nsss Ia ~iih mel Al
|, that throne Of celestial bloom wi,hered n
5 with the passing years; and the queen i
{ not the throne ill one day the marEi'
e pair tslt stricken in yeacs-telt theIesaly