Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-02

Suicides have been numerous in every age
These evidently conclude the answer to GU
cnestion IS = negative. Most people have hours
OF ennuI or nsmeie5s unrest, when, for those
hours at least, life is no peless load. Budha
mas millions Of followers who believe that the
best thing possible is Nirvans. or practical an
limitation Mrs. Browning thou n; the best
thi1g ioi could do for His oslovei was to give
them sleep, which seems in her poem to be
nese iinkrlSishs man. . peasant lie in Arthur''
England or slaves life in any age, Siberia i
exile benished until death. an hereditary drunk'
arc. thief. or hypochondriac, = bearer OF an
incurAble disease or nature perverted by an
ces raj sins, person not balanced enough 10
earn living withou. oeaseless toll of The loves;
kind-from the stant point of this world onl",
one would say Mons of these lives are worth
living. Yet we often get proofs that these lives,
seeming to US so hard. are he'd by their Tc5-
SCISSORS as worth the living. SONS poor oi +,
half-starred, bedridien woman may yet have
such sweet. contented Christian disposition
AMI hope that she is happier than : sintLl m III
can DC III the sourdest body or with the most
album liant wealth. Each back is fitted foc its
OWE burden.
Perhap. no mar tell If life be worth living for
any other than himself. No person knows an
Others life thoroughly enough to give him SUI
| hcient data TOR ! coac usion.
MY own life has been worth living to me. I
| have known poverty. but the DAYS when ! was
poorest gave spur to my wit. 10 devise ways
made those days worth living. have made aId
| lest several fortunes. Somebody said II they
| had all knowledge in their hands, they would
let it go that they might have tn pleasure OF
| pursuing it again. dill not purpoiely let nv
fortunes go for the pleasure of .eSaing them.
but never lost any sleep wnen they did go. and
have intensely enjoy Ell the struggles have been
led into gain AMI again. l lave seen soma
the loss of loved ones, but have not seen tlc
time when life no; worth living. AMI my
| last days here are nv brightest and best.
=. My Prescriptions to keep lie worth living are
| these:
Keep up good cheer. spent three years
from 1871 to lin the principal Cities of
| Eur oIyitt ftaf To I viz 10.
and conversed with most of ihe crowned heldS
| ana the nobi ity. was in constant n;ac
| with ali sorts of orders OF distinction. DuTi z
| OF mr visits to Paris the contents OF splen.
| did palace ielongIng to deceased russian
| noolemln were sold ct public au t.oL. bought
all the gold. silver and porcelain table serrlce,
sufhcien. fog sixty CUES 8. Every article was
| elaborase.y adorp cd with the noOlemans coat
| of arms The English AMI French nooiiity, WAC
| were resent IN large mum )ers, purch4-e most
! of The other articles, but bid on none OF these
| things. because they had creSts of their own. l
| had learned to feel that everybody ''%bo wa
| anybody" should have coat of arms. DID
| not care what mine shouli be, 1 adopted
| those of the deceased Russian nobienan. When
l arrived home with my treasures mad In:
! same crest painted on my family coach, and
placed aronnd i motto reaiing, '-oVS q d
| that any AmericaT-b born citizen could d.Spens:
with ali coats of arms except such cots as ne
wore on his arms so 1 sold nv coach to
Bridgepor. public hackman, who drove it about
our streets several years, crest. m 3tto, IN all
l sti l. however, hold strictly TO The sen ImeIt
that we should sIl Love God ANA be msrry.' ,,
Next, Keep busy. l have lived 4 busy life. l
have never had lime to get morbid. Nothing
, Will n IKE happy surroundings Ike doing COOL.
My recent London trip has 5 w. many
pleasant days. My friends thought was ,r4zy
to undertake il, AMI reminded me frequently
that there was legend in the family that was
eighty years DID, but toll them should 20 /!
my life WAS spare il knew l should lose ia
a million dollars b. it. IilelesS is the prolific
mother Of discomfort and vice. The ven
devils that came into the house wh@n 1t was
empty, swept, and Garnished nev could have
got in if the house had been filed with good
thoughts and busy deeds.
Again. make others happy around you. Do
something beside talk aud ament others mis-
fortunes. Reach out AMI help as many as You
great PHILOSOPHERS have had sway, each of
which has an important bearing on our cues
ton. The doctrine OF evolution, since IL mas
81 ted from the savants down among the people,
has had great effect he views of lie many
hold To be shown the scale of being gradually
ascending through an incaiculaole period of
time, and the place any ind .vidual hss in it, l.
is likely, on frsr thought, 10 make any one life
insignificant. An individual is only an alto in
a link which holds two gene atoms together.
II is with man as with maple seeas. Nature
produces millions of maple seeds. tut in the
struggle for existence the weakest perish an I
only few strongest survive; and these on.y
the length Of time granted to maple trees, when
they, too, decay and are crowded out BY the |
younger and more vigorous growth. So man.
as som view him, is simply atom in a great |
struggle for existence. where tn weakest perish
and the fttest survive, until they BY age or
are crowded ont. Ii this is true. Is life worth |
living?
Many arguments are made to prove that this |
life, with no PERSONAL immortality behind it, is |
worth living. It IL so to the few ittest long |
as they are fttest. II is not so 10 the sxarming !
millions. In earlier days, when / was able to |
hold my own in life again the world, every Day |
was worth living, leaving out OF account any |
question OF future. Now, when am ,eaving |
life's hardest struggles an triumDhs to younger
men and am an Old man, how il itf Am about
to drop out OF existence, having fulfilled my
link between two generations7 If l am, will
get all the good can out of these last de- IS
they pass. but yet tn y are edged with sadness
and tingpd with blacklist darkness.
This evolution philosophy. which puts man on
. par with maple seeds, is good cheer itself
conn aied with the other philosophy of life I
a child was relentless indeed. l. would not lei |
a man die like map! e seed il lie was I'm test.
ment him because he was elected to be unfttest.
No! thousand times no! Life Is not w1rth liv-
ing if this philosophy is true. Not in the Old
Of my boyhocd nor in the lat, ma
terialistic evolution of my manhood is there any
affi rmative answer to our question possible.
The most favored of mankind, by shutting their
eyes to these teachings and refusing to think or
feel, may snatch hours here and there which
pass for ioyi but to think is madness. and to
feel is dea h.
l thank heaven since my twentieth wear I
l have never been enslaved by either of these
awful PHILOSOPHERS. Ny philosophy is Theistic
evolution or Christian evolution. There is an
evo,utio ion Of man as a race from lowest savagery
TO divinest brotherhood. God il working this |
out. This is doctrine of hope and good cheer,
and makes the life OF the worth living. |
There is also evolution Of every individual |
from the beginning OF his being to he perfected !
man. The person does not go back to dust. / |
am not about to be crowded off. l IN going on
TO larger fields am robler effort. THIS phlos-
ophy makes COMPENSATION possible. Justice |
will be done 70 every one.
There is cheer ami hope for the least OF u.s. |
TO every Elsie Vennef born with seruent taint |
10 every man heavily We GIFTED in life's strug- |
gle, to every toiler and stuff .rer to every weak
.st one, there is Tina to ap the ripened fruit |
Of such painful sowing. There is time or Just |
J od to work out compensate 70. each one. |
With Him, no tru. sed reed is broken, no smoul-
iering spark is quencheIi.
II am right, life is worth living for you, kind
.eader, for me. for every son of Adam.
p. T. BARNUM.
During recent journey Baroness Alphonse
30 hschild robbed OF jewelry valued at
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