The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-05-23

friendP Death Is rest: death Is sleep. What does
man need more than sleep and rest2 Why be
afraid to sleep7 Why be unwilling to escape from
toll? Especially why should hewers OF wood and
drawers OF water be disiRcllned to sleep and restf
What Is there In connection with an everlasting
struggle for life to make ii desirable? Death Is
grand leveler. 1t cares no more for Prince than
for g peasant, and IL must be admitted, IL death
sways its tcepter with such even handed justice
In this world, its victims need not be seriously
alarmed about their future.
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Saturday night, or that portion devoted to re-
nection. may be quite as probably set apart for
the contemplation of life for gloomy or hope
full speculations about death, and it is by no
means an uninteresting fact that poetical and
proverbial philosophers have drawn from prac-
tees, which in the estimation of the excessively
austere. are considerably below the line Of right
eousness lessons relating to life well calculated
| to rivet attention. as for instance the game OF
euchre. John G. SAKE once wrote:
While watching the game. its a within of the
moral to draw from the skirmish of cards;
| And to fancy he inds In the trivial strife,
Some excellent hints in the battle of life.
When. whether the prize be a ribbon throne,
The winner is he who can go It alone"
y
Health, family, culture, wit, beauty and gold
The fortunate owner may fairly regard.
Yet the game may be lost with all these for your
own,
Unless you've the courage to go It alone"
Such fancies are suggestive of facts of nc mean
importance in the battle OF life. To "go 1t alone
there must be courage, self-relisnce. will power
and II success is desired which Will confer a good
Ifo fhoro he
unbending integrity and lofty. fidelity to the
right, a sense of honor and disposition to make
the world better by the victories won. The miser
the hermit, the misanthrope Ego 1t alone
The morose. sullen churls of society, ''gc
IL alone" They assume that success de
ponds entirely on self reliance. and
whether the prize be a bonanza a bone
their motto is to go It alone" OF as much alone
as is possible. But the game of euchre teaches 6
higher and better lesson than to "go it alone'-
a fact pretty clearly set forth by the poet d. A
Levin, in response to the philosophy of SAKE
Says Levin:
You selfshly seek all the honors to hold.
Repelling your neighb0r with glances of stone,
| And the words harshly spoken, I'll 90 IL aloneP
| No! MOI higher up in humanity's list,
Is he who can cheerfully say, "Tll assist"
Then shuttle the pack cut the cards once again,
And let a new moral awaken your strain;
Go! Teach to the world that the battle OF life
Nav be lightened to all who take part in the
strife
If the generous lesson thus taught be not missed,
And each man to his neighbor will say, "pl
assist"
Manifestly to ''assst" is the true PHILOSOPHY. II
makes the world brighter and better. 1t har-
monies discords, it settles strife. 1t warns and
vltalizes men of iceberg natures. 1t is the shib-
boleth word of progress, it is Christianity re-
duced to maxim. When a man says "Ill as
sst /" set 1t down that he has a large heart sglow
with friendship and love. Set 1t down that he is
favorite OF the gods. Peter Cooper was saying
ali along his life for more than a half century,
''In assist" But in the battles of life. in the
game of euchre, there are those who are forever
looking into their hands TO see II they have the
power to ''order up some unfortunate and
make him play a losing game; and they are
never 50 happy as when they can say, 81 order
you up"
To go 1t alone, to take all the tricks,
Leaves an opponent in an unfortunate fix,
But life has another more peppery cup,
1t is quaffed when an enemy ''orders you up"