Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-08-27

the recklessness OF pure vitality. But
he does not betray his friend. He has
endurance and fortltude, pity and graf
itude IN his ruds nature. III you hurt
him he will hurt you back. But he has
keen hungry annd cold and he did not
Whimper.
The other fellow is genteel and fairly
we'll educated in a system which gives
all the honOrs TO the smartest man, not
20 the best man. He does not set out 10
defy society but TO use it. lie has no
superstition, but he has perverted Inn
aginatiOn and n pampered sensioillty.
He will not earn money; he will inter-
cept it. To labor Is beneath him; be
will gamble. He has two ideals, one is
Jay Gould, the other is Ward McAllis-
ter. These are gemini OF luck; one rep
resents power, the other pusillanimity.
You DO not have 70 go into tenement
houses 70 find this fellow. You can
pick him up 10 Wall or Broad street.
He wears good clothes; be has eXpen-
Bive tastes; he is clever, INSCRIPTIONS,
merciuary and fast. he Forms q dis
tinct group. Heis not twenty-five. He
Is the product OF artificial conditions,
and II You study him you will be
amazed 70 ind how magnidcently he
ignores all the essential and elemental
obligations OF life. To get money and
TO spend il are the governing impulses,
To give an equivalent for IL is an idea
that not only he has OutgrOWn, but the
world has outgrOwn.
This consuming motive transforms
him &c twenty-five into the most audaci-
Gus, reckless young rascal civilization
breeds. The base desire 70 beat some
body 10 the skin game OF smartness is
the deliberate, calculated, systematic
business Of his life. He is commercial
bandit for six hours every day. Heis q
profigate every night What he tilches
from associates or from innocent vic
Tins in the morning be filings into the
lisp Of some abandoned hUssey at night.
PrOfigacy with this set is the symbo |
oi5resourceS. The man who can blow
Z. several thousand on "tOOt" up town
tablishes an indefnable sense Of ad-
lniration; he must be high roller, and
that means that he will stop at nothing.
Wall aud Broad streets are animated
BY these young men. They are the
envy Of q thousand plOdding clerks who
are pinned down 10 the horrible routine
OF giving an equivalent OF services for a
sAlarY: they have found out what life
IA: they can get the utmost enjoyment
out OF it by looking out for number
oae. and not wasting any nonsense
On sentiment Ia the hours Of busi-
ness they glare at each other, they snap
A. each other. Under every smile Is .
lie, under every promise is a job. They
amuse each other by telling how
they hoodwinked a governor" or be-
trayed a friend. They scheme how to
rob each other while they hobno6; they
have but one ambition, It Is keep on I'LL
they can wreck . railroad and be in
dicted FOR their crimes as young Ma
poleOns."
It's 70 this astonishing fact that you
must look for the mischief that strikes
Al the heart OF civilization. 1t is here
that you encounter the temptations and
the consequence Of smartness cut loose
from restraining influences hiding its
own selishnesS under the mask OF 0usi-
ness.
Anything more hollow, more aban-
doned, or more hopeless you will cot ind
IN all the phases OF city life.
These young men are the hawthorne
buds OF greed They live part OF the
time IN q delirium OF competition to
spend the other part Ia paro1ysm OF
ally indulgence. Their pendulum
swings between the bourse and the
boulenHn7 When their faculties are
not on the iniquity Of
gamf expenains sne@-