The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-04

that realm men who would not know ar
adverb from an adjective if they should
meet it a hundred times q day, and
could not write note of acceptance OF
regrets without the aid of a secretary
They bought their libraries by the
square foot, only anxious to have the
books in Russian binding Impersona-
tions of ignorance so sublime they make
the English grammar disreputable, and
| yet they find the finest parlors open to
them. But while good morals or intel
| ligence are notnecessary wealth is every
/ thing, or the appearance of it. 1t makes
no difference how he got his money, if
he only got it. He may have gained it
by failing four or five times, that being
IN this country the most rapid mode of
accumulation The quickest way of get
/ ting into high social position is to buy
all you can on credit, then put your
property in your wife's name, make pro-
vision for some special friends and then
make an assignment and then go, no one
knows where, until you turn up in time
to start again. Don't you see how beau
tlfuily you have put your neighbors In
the same kind of business ia bad pre-
dicament, and so much sooner you can
get
IN HIGH SOCIAL POSITION.
But really get out of money and how
soon you will drop out, and the higher
you are up the harder you will drop.
Tens of thousands of people, anxious to
in it fear they viii lose their grip, and
I, Il f1ara
changes that involve heartbreaks never
reported. Social life is in a perpetual
tiutter with the delicate question as to
who shall be let in and who shall be
pushed out, and the battle goes on, pier |
mirror against pier mirror, upholstery |
against upholstery, Chickering grand |
against Chickering grand, wine cellar
against wine cellar, drawing room
against drawing room, equipage against |
equipage. Insecurity and uncertainty
rampant, and it is wretchedness en-
throned and torture at a premium, and
a life not worth living.
Thus | put before you the lifetime
of great multitude. But
now | sketch for you life worth liv-
ing. A young man says: | am here.
For my ancestry / am not responsible.
Others decided that. For my tempera-
ment | am not responsible. God gave
me that. Here am in the afternoon
of the nineteenth century, and | am
twenty years of age. Let me take an
account of stock: A body which is a
1ivinely constructed engine, and must
put it to the best uses, and allow moth
ing to damage this rarest of machinery.
Feet, and they mean locomotion. Eyes,
and they mean capacity to pick out the
best way. Ears, and they mean tele-
phones of connection with all the world,
md capacity to take in music and the
voices of friendship, the best music. A
ongue, and with it an almost infinity
If accentuation. Yea, hands to wei
come, to resist, to lift, to strike; to wave,
o bless, to help myself and help others
galleries of world which,
lfter 5000 years of battling with tenn
pest and accident. is, even in its dilapi-
lation, better than any architect, human
'r angelic, could have draughted. Two
amps for me, golden lamp and a sill
Ter lamp; the one set on the sapphire
mantle of the sky the other on the Jet
Mantle of the night. More than that,
It twenty years of age have something
hat defies all inventory of valuables-a
oul with capacity to love and hate and
hoose and reject and rejoice and suffer.
Plato says it is immortal. Confucius
ays it is immortal. Seneca says it is
An old book found in our
amily relics, of worn-out cover, some
# its pages almost obliterated by much
,erusal, joins in with the other books,
nd says am immortal.
Now / must ,