The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-21

energy, honesty, earnestness of
parposc, who can compass many
mental achievements to give them reputa-
ton, to give them standing and influence,
cannot make good living for themselves
and their families "Whatevcris, is right"
says Pope, and we are inclined to think that
Pope had penetrated the arcanum OF
human nature, of natures diyincst law
when he uttered this apotheSm, 1t takes
all sorts of men to make world, for if all
M en- were alike the world would soon come
to a stand still, Why should all men have
the same mental capacities, the same phys
ical Developments If John Smith was ca
pablc, mentally and physically, of what
Sam Wilson is, there would be no diver
sity in the affairs of life. The laws
of nature apply to all things-human and
otherwise, and il is right that ii should be
so. We load a wagon with potatoes and
start to market with them, and before W
have Travelled five miles over any sort of q
road, the big potatoes will have worked
themselves to the top. Go into an orchard
aud the largest peaches are on the top limb,
of the tree. If, as some members of the so.
cialist party demand, the riches Of the
country, money, land, etc, should be
equally divided between all the people, in
less than Il month several somcbodics would
have twice as much as they had at the be-
ginning of the month, while several
other somcbodics would have con-
siderably less Life is as we make
it" was the theme upon which
college friend of ours wrote his gradua-
ting speech and ever since then we have
been impressed with the belief that life is
not as you make it, but it is as it is made
for you. If "life is as we make it, why is
ii that every man is not Il congressman, a
senator, n governor, a president? Every
boy born in the United States is eligible to
the presidency, and if life is as we make
it," why are they not all presidents!
"Thcrc IL a divinity that shapes our ends,
rough hew them as we will" says Shake
spearc, and does not every mans life expert
cnce teach him that this is true? We all
have our hopes, our aspirations, our ambi-
tons and who of tuscan say that we have
achieved them even in the remotest degree?
"Why should we be signing when life's
moments are flying says the old
song, and why should WEI Every day
when we look upward we sec clouds in the
sky, but at the same time the sun is there
in all its cllulgcnce. Every night the dark
ness Is about us and the sky cannot be seen,
but the stars are shining in all their bright
ness. Every sea has its waves, but they are
uninterrupted and create rainbows with
their spray. Every forest is lonely and
gloomy, but birds sing in the boughs of the
trees and the flowers bloom just above
the ground. Every river is dark and
its waters are threatening, but
brooks and rivulets pay them their tribute
and embrace them with murmurs of glad
ness and Joy, forever singing as they go,
Life is real, life is earnest" but does not
fate, an incognito we never know, hold the
helm? Why fear breakers on any shore
whom green islands are smiling every
where? men may come and men may
go, but 30 on forever" sings the brook,
and il is only the brook that goes on for
ever, but like the brook We find many
curve, many "shingly bar" as We go to
final end All these things considered,
why hoard up the dross and the lucrc that
men call money? As Mr.. lngersoll says,
rich men ought to spend their money that
those who are not rich may get some of it
and enjoy it with them. The New York
Evening Mail, speaking of what rich man
of this country once did says "Commo-
dorc Vanderbilt we believe, was the first
man to take his family and a company OF
friends on journey around the wo rid in a
steamship of which he himself was owner,
and not many have been rich enough to
follow his example. Sir Thomas Bras
sey made voyages with his family in the
Sunbeam which were similar in character,
and even more extensive, and Mr. lnman
has recently made cruise which was nota-
bic chiefly for its rapidity. But to-day a
voyage begins which ought to show people
who are destitute Of millions of dollars how
they may sail around the world under
circumstances which will ensure them
the society and the comfort Of such a
family cruise as that of Commodore
Vanderbilt and Sir Thomas Bras
scy, and without any extraordinary expcn-
diturc of money, The steamship Ceylon
sails from southampton, England, to-day,
with party of congenial spirits who have
been brought together for nine.months
cruise around the world by Sir Edward J
Reed, the well-known member of parlia.
mcnt, The vessel is the property of mem
bers Of the party, and each person on board
pays 5000 as the cost Of the trip. II is
probable that, cheap as the price is the
originotors OF the enterprise will find d
surplus In their treasury at the end of the
voyage, The party will visit forty.ioui
different ports, among them San Francisco
where they expect to arrive about tho LIST o
next May. On the way thither they will
stop at Bordeaux, Gibraltar, Naples Con
stantinople, Alexandria, Bombay, Hong
Kong, Valparaiso, Bucnos Ayres, Tencri0t
aud Madeira. No ploasanter method o
going the journey around the world seem,
possible and limitations of the onterprs,
may he expected in America VIII,
cannot the Mackays, the Goulds
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