Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-06
THE WEEKLY GAzErrE FORT WORTH NOVEMBER

| Suicides have been numerou. il every age
| question is negative. Most people have hours
| of ennui or nemeless unrest, when. for those
hours at least, life is q hopeless LOAD. budna
| mas millions OF followers who believe that the
| best thing possible is Nirvana. or practical an.
Inhalation. Mrs. Browning. thought the pest
| thing God could do for His beloved was to give
| them sleep, which seems in her poem TO De
| Nirvana The life of Chinese coolie Japa-
| nese jinkrikisha man. peasant life in Artnurs
| En- gland or a slaves life in any age, Siberian
exile banished until death, an hereditary drunk
ard, thief, hypochondriac, bearer OF an
| ipcurable disease . nature perverted oy an
| cestral sins, n person not balanced enough to
earn living without ceaseless tSii of the lowest
kind-from the standpolh. OF tnis Mo. I ,Uort5
| one would say none of these lives are worth
| living. Yet we often get proofs that these hVes
seeming to us SO hard. are held by their pos
| SCISSORS as worth the living. Some poor Old,
| half starved, bedridden woman may yet nave
| such 8 sweet, contented Christian disposition
| and hope that she is happier than sinful man
| can be in the soundest body or with the most
| abundant wealth. Each back Is lifted Tor us
own burden.
| any other than himself No person knows an
! others life thoroughly enough to give him SUI
icieut data for conclusion.
| Nv own life has been worth living 20 me-
! have known poverty. but the days when was
poorest gave q spur TO my Vfts 10 devise ways
| to conquer poverty, and the intense aetlvlty
| made those days worth living. have made ana
| lost several fortunes. Somebody saio II thSy
| mad all knowledge in their hands, they would
nnrsuipe it again. i did not purposely let my
fortunes go for the pleasure OF regs!ns them;
| but never lost any sleep when they d!d 60 anu
| have intensely enioye the struggles nave oeen
| led into again and again. L EaVe seen some
severe sickness and have known the pan n ,U Oa
the loss OF loved ones, but nave not seen the
time when life was not worth living, and my
last days here are my brightest and besf
Ny prescriptions to keep Life worth hVinS are
these:
Keep up good cheer. I spent three years,
from 1874 to lSi7-in the principal ciIes ;.S oi
| ritb ~ Cen Thumb. | visited
and conversed with most of the crowned heaos
ana the nobi .ity. was in constant ntae.
| with all sorts of orders OF distinction DuTlns
one of my visits to Paris the contents OF spIen,
did palace belonging TO deceased Fussld t
nobleman were sold at pubic auction; l oou ;
all the gold, silver and porcelain table service,
| sufficient for sixty guests. Every article Was
| deliberately adorned with the noblenan c0at
| of arms The English and French noblhty,who
were present in large numbers, purchased most
| of the other articles, but bid on none OF 'hesg
things, because they had crests OF their own -. l
| had learned to feel that everybody who was
| spybody' should have coat OF arms. ui9
not care what mine should be, SO adopted
| those of the deceased Russian nobeman. When
1 arrived home with my treasures ndu snJ
same crest painted on my family coach anu
placed around 1t motto reaolnG'1 AorT al
| and he Merry In later years concluded
| that sny Americau-born citizen could olspehs5
with ali coats Of arms except such coats as 81 ne
wore on his arms. So / sold my coach TO
Bridpeport public hackman, who drove 1t ABOUT
our streets several years, crest motto, ana an;
still, however, hold strictly to the sen linen.
that we should sll Love God and be merry
Next keep busy. have lived BUSY me.
have never had lime to get morbid. NotnlnS
will make happy surroundings like doing gooa.
Nv recent London trip has gwen me many
pleasant days. My friends Thought was crazy
TO undertake it, and reminded me frequency
that there was legend in the family that was
eighty years old: but told them should go II
nv life was spared if l knew l should lose mar
a million dollars By it. Idleness is the proilhc
mother of discontent and vice. The sven
devils that came into the house when II was
empty, swept, and garnished meyer couid nave
| got in il the house had been hlled Win goou
thoughts and busy deeds. ~.
Again make others happy around you: DO
3 something beside talk and lament others ms ms,
/ | fortunes. Reach ont and help as many as you
| can NY life has covered period In whlch Two
great PHILOSOPHERS have had sway, each OF
| which has important bearing on our CUES
, | ton The doctrine OF evolution, since It has
| 81 ted from the savants down among the people,
| has had great effect on the views of HE many
| bo1d To he shown the scale of being gradually
| ascending through an lncaicuiaoie perlou ol
| time and the place any individual has IN H. II
! is likely on irsr thought. to make any one me
| insignificant. An individual is only an alto IN
| a link which holds two gene atlons together.
1t is with man as with maple seeds. Nature E
, | prokuces millions OF maple seeds but IN the
struggle for existence the weakest perish au /
| only few strongest survive; and these on
the length of time granted to maple trees when
thew too decay and are crowded out by the
: Younger and more vigorous growth 90 man
8 as som view him, is Simply an atom IN srea ~
struggle for existence, where thu weakest perls n
, and the fttest survive, until they BY age or
v sickness become themselves the weakest ana
[ crowded out. II lulS Il tLuS, 10 iAAS "NASA@
n living? 800 .L. .L;s
life, with no personal immortality oenlnd IL, is
worth living. 1t is so to the few httest so long
as thew are fttest. 1t is not SO TO the swarming
millions In earlier days, when l was able to
a hold NV own in life again the world every day
a was worth living, leaving OFT of account any
:, question of future. Nov, when am ieavlng
LIES hardest struggles and trlumphs 10 younger
o men aud am an old man. how il it? Am about
to drop out OF existence, having tulhlleo my
mission temporary atom IN a Temporal
= link between two generations? II l am, Will
d get all the good can out of these last days as
"a fhev mass but yet til ~ are edged with sadness
and tinged with blacklist darkness
This evolution philosophy, winch puts man OF
-, a mar with maple seeds, Is good cheer itself
a | con1ra,ed with the other philosophy OF life
viii name The philosophy instied into me as
e. child wa. relentless indeed. l. would not lei
, | a man die like q maple seed if he was unhttest.
1t miraculously kept him alive endlessly to tor
:. | ment him because he was elected to be unhttest
. No, a thousand times no! Life is not worth NV:
ing il this philosophy is true. Not IN the oIc
t philosophy Of my boyhocd nor In the later ms
. terialistic evolution of my manhood is there any
% affirmative answer to our question possible
d The most favored OF mankind, by shutting theil
ewes to these teachings and refusing to think Of
fael NAV snatch hoars here and there which
u pass for joy; but to think is madness, and tC
u feel is death.
. I thank heaven, since my twentieth year
, I have never been enslaved by either of these
10 awful PHILOSOPHERS. My philosophy IS TheIstit
e evolution or Christian evolution. There Is ar
n evointiop of man as 8 race from lowest ssvagery
to diyinest brotherhood. God is working Thu
out This is a doctrine of hope and good cheer
n and makes the life of the worth living
is There is also an evolution of every individual
from the beginning OF his being to the perfected
l, man The person does not go back to dust
:. am not shout to be crowded off. am going oil
to larger fields and robler effort. This philos
ophy makes compensation possible justice
will be done to every one.
There is cheer and hope for the least OF us
To every Elsie Venner born with serpent faint
to every man heavily weighted in MES strug
ole to every toiier and sufferer, to every weak
eat one, there is time to reap the ripened fruI
10 of such painful sowing. There vs. time Tor JUS
~ God to work out compensation fo- each one
With Him. no bruised reed is broken, no smoul
dering spark is quenched.
If am right, life is worth living for you, kim
reader, for me- for every son of Adam.
P. T. BARNUM.
During recent journey Baroness Alphons
Rothschild was robbed of iewelry valued 9
&C, 900 francs.