The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-06-22


Tact that they had ever enterrvl pul
iie life ~ all. To the unthinkin
multitude they were in the possessio
of all that could tighten and ...righ
ten and accompany old age. "bonal
obedience and troops OF friends.
But those thiags were nothing /
their sight each Of them had ike,
hls heart upon oneobiect--the Whit
tonse-snd failing of that each o
them sas himself beaten and bro
Ken old man defeated in the race o
lie, and cheated out of somethin,
which he had brought himself to b..
hese honestly belonged to him.
y little while before the death ot
Dir George H. prenliss h, said to me
IF Mr.. Clay had been elected presi
dent he would have beeu the wretch
eldest man that ever lived, because n,
would have been proven the bigges,
liar that ever lived" How was ia. {
Mr.. Prentiss . asked. ..Why, sir. "
said the old iouralis "Mr. Clay VA.
Il candidate and aspimut for the
presidency during quite thirty wears
he was an ardent aud al impulsiye
man, with genius for making
friends and he plastered the public
service over three ply deep with
promises eame TO maturity aud were
presented for payment and he reali-
zed the situation, it would have en-
bitered his life aud broken his heart. "
l am SO far sincere in feeling the
repr"of in this regard trne that !
rather think a young fellow in love
with girl that is pretty hard 10 get
at mad better leave her alone, and seek
him d wife somewhere else. tAp-
planse). There must be away down
IN the femme intuition some potent
intuition that stands in the way of
the loveH hut when as the saying is,
"she marries him to g.t rid Of him."
he better look out for Inc future.
Ana | am now talking chiefly to
that branch of workinemen who
have 10 work from the ground up.
We are constantly fixing our hearts
aud hopes upon the possession of life,
as money, or office, or an establish
ment, or a wife, and thinking of sue
cess-therefore SUCCESS IN life may
be fallure-s-tAerefore failure in
life relatively. may be a success, and
to know the truth In advance is to
know that it is the very object from
which they would start back in hor.
rOr.
Success in life is happiness, and
the sucdessful NAB, the happy man,
Is man that believes his own wife
be best woman in the world, zap
plause) that the win. covered cottage
he calls his own is the dearest spot
on earth, (appIause) and he would
not swap his ragged, red-headed,
frowzled brats for the dressed and
best looking kids that could be pro-
duced in his neighborhood. Gap
plause.) Essential as the material
things of life are to happiness and
comfort, they do rot of themselves
bring happiness and comfort. Mil
lions OF money wont save a sensitive
man from the tortures of sore toe,
(laughter) and infinite fame wont
save u proud man from the torments
Of a debt he is unable to pay. Hap
plness is a creation of the mind and
The heart, and not of the stomach or
pocket and that brings me back
TO what was saying awhile aga
about Canada and Mexico, or rather
let me say of some OF our great
and friends who have
found those countries so attractive
hat they have gone to pay them in
tefinite visits.
Do you know for many of these
men | have a sympathy which / can
lot repress, and which | would not
repress If / could. / do not believe
Every man who has come short in
his accounts is necessarily a scoun-
lrel. | don't believe every refugee
must needs be a thief at heart; on
he contrary, ] believe that if the
ruth GOULD be got at it would be
found in many eases that down to
he very hour of flight there was an
lonest effort and purpose to repair,
lone In the most sanguine sxpecta-
ion, or in a moment OF despair. In
Eases of official delinquencies, how
,ften that springs from the neglect
of the official to keep. his public and
private accounts separate and dis
tlnct, and of sudden he discovers a
discrepancy and promises to make it
good. a year passes, the gap is
wider still, he takes the risk and of
course then he makes the fatal
plunge; down he goes into the vor-
tex. Even under the ordinary cases
Of breaches of trust we encounter in
our daily experience. how often they
spring from good intentions to which
the world applies with a very short
name which is supposed to be paved.
Indeed the gambling mania seems to
be universal, and the gambler never
expects to lose.
There is always before his minds
eye the mirage of that capital prize
in the lottery of life. or that winning
hand in the game of his choice and
even among those who habitually
play Tor money it has been observed
that when they win they
laugh, and swear when they lose,
Just as if it was not a certainty when
they set down to the tatle-it must
be one or the other, striking on.
from the result any possibility of sur
prise, one would suppose such per-
sons ought to be more stoical but il
is not so. Each sitting is to them as
though their last, and no man ex-
poets to lose and when he does he is
correspondingly angry. he only ex-
poets to win and what fatal mis-
take does the man make who laye
his hand upon that which he cannot
honestly call his own