Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-06

tween laughs. He had selected the
| subject because it illustrated all phases
| OF life, for there are but few other than
nice and naughty things in the world,
| Mr.. Balm urged the importance OF
curing vice before it has gone too far.
| He illustrate the various ways OF hand
| ling vice by story Of the Mayor OF
certain town in France, who, when
warned of that the Asiatic cholera was
| about to swoop down upon the town,
| took a census Of the town and had
graves dug for all Of them. On the
! the other hand he told of the method OF
saving many young people from vice
and sin before they reached the fate
that awaited them. He said the great
est cause of sin and misery
and poverty is idleness. 1t is
worse than intemperance and
all other sins because it fosters them
all. The idler is entirely out OF place
| in this age. When the stage coach
travelled three miles an hour, and the
OK teams labored across the plains, there
may have been some excuse for idle
ness, but to-day when you take break
| fast in New York, dine the next day in
| Chicago, and supper the next day on
| the western plains; when the cotton
that grows on the stalk to-day Is in
coat tomorrow; when the telephone
| and telegraph carry the news of the
world more rapidly team light can trav-
ell; there surely can be no place for the
idler. You may say here is a young man
who has a right to be idle because he
has wealth. Has he right TO be idle
merely because he has wealth? Take
the wealth away and what have you?
You have the finest sample of the van
guard of the great army of bummers and
dead beats.
He dwelt at length upon the import
ance of parents dealing with their
children as children; not treating them
as grown people, who do not need so
much enjoyment to keep their tempers
bright and cheerful and their bodies in
healthfuI condition. Children must
have amusementS and must have amuSe-
ments suited 10 their years, and
unless something harmless is Of
fered at home, they will
find what they want elsewhere, and as
their powers Of discrimination are not
developed, they cannot be expected to
always select that best suited TO their
welfare.
He spoke disparagingly of young men
and young women devoting too much
attention to dress and appearances and
too little to principles and manners.
boys, keep your principles as prim as
your neckties; pay more attention to
your inherenr virtues and their devel-
opment than TO your moustaches; pol
ish your character with the same assid-
nous care that you polish your shoes.
MOustaches grow grey, neckties
become frayed, clothes grow seedy and
shoes loose their polish, but honesty,
virtue and manly principles will be as
bright when you have reached three
score and ten as when your mother first
looked love into your eyet."
He grew eloquent over the import
ance of starting right. 1t matters but
little where You start from, so you start
right. Men have started on the lowest
levels, but, having started right, reached
the very highest pinacies of fame and
usefulness The grandson Of Jay Gould,
fifty years from now may be counting
the railroad his grandfather once
owned, while the grandson of poor
laborer now barely keeping soul and
body together by his toll on one Of Jay
Gould's roads, may then be its presi-
dent.
The speaker was very pronounced in
his ideas of pleasure. Happiness, is
necessary he said, TO good health, good
morals and full development Of the
good in the race. AS TO the burdens
one has to bear, he need only compare
them TO those borne by ones nelghbors.
The poor man may think the millionaire
has a good time, but maybe he has not.
81 knew man only forty-tive years old
who started twenty-five years ago with
only 81, 300, and that borrowed, who to-
day can count himself worth 81, 600, 900;
He owns big lumber works, an immonse
salt factory, two banks, and has his
money invested almost everywhere. He
lives in a palace and is surrounded by
all the things we think should bring
happiness, but his wife must dip a
sponge into bucket of ice water and
battle his face and head for an hour be-
fore he can go TO sleep. l know another
man who has not a dollar whose wife
has to smack him half an hour every
morning before she can wake him.
Which is the happier? Each has the
things the other thinks would make him
happy. It's not what we have that
makesns happy nearly so much as the
way we live.
Speaking to the ladies particularly he
sa tn did not demand OF
men nearly so much as
men demanded Of them. Men
have more self-respect than women.
Where's the man who would walk down
town with his wife or sweet heart when
she was drunk? still. the woman will
walk with the men when they are step
ping high" He spoke of the need for
women demanding Of men the same de-
gree of sobrietY, purity and gentllity
that men demand Of them.
You may ask why 90 not donate
more of my talk TO the girls? They
don't need it. They are more under
the home influence. You can hear a
conversation like this almost any even
ing at O'Clock between mother and
daughter:
MARY did you lock the back doors?"
Yes, mother"
'sAnd the windows"
Yes"
"Are the clothes in of the liner"
81 put them away"
And is Mamie in bed?"
''Yes, l put her to bed an hour ago.
She is well covered, and the windows
are so closed that there is no draught."
"Well, bring in the chairs and lock
the front door," but that door will be
locked with the only boy down town
with a night key in MS pocket to come
in when he plesses at midnight, or,