Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-01-27

While it Is true that those who havs
established great industries here or else.
where deserve great public credit in adj
dition to the great private fortunes they
have made, they do not deserve as much
credit, or at least credit TO the exclusion,
Of those who have achieved great things
IN art fA
Men die, fortunes are digsipated, but a
noble creation Of genius Is Imperishable.
poem or picture is surer to give a
man fame than fortune. Poems and
piotures--all the works Of geniusLbe
come the property Of the people 81 all
christendom; fortune freq aently never
benefits any other than It's possessors;
oftimes It ruins them
When the palace OF Germany bnrnsd,
recently, a greatest loss was not
the costly marble edlfce, the jewels and
precious stones OF valus so great that
only royal personages can own them. but
the priceless pictures OF Rubens and Van
Dyck. Other stones and jewels may be
found to replace those which were melted
in that confagration, but Rubens and
Van Dyek have had no auccessots-t their
works csnnoi be reproduced The loss
Of those paintlaga was autographed over
the world and 1t was the canse Of more
comment than the loss OF mlllions
Of dollars worth Of stone and mortar de
sttoyed In the grand palace caused.
II great shop were removed from
here or shut down IL would be calamity
but some other or many other industries
would come to take its place. II one boss
dies another boss succeeds him, but when
a Shakespeare, Washington, lincoln.
a Grant, Makart a Lowell dies the
weird has suffered losswhich cannot be
replaced. There isnobody 90 occupy the
place Of a man Of great deeds nothing to
replace the enduring monument he left
BY which to beknown and honored or
loved, as the case may be, throughout all
ages
In accumulatipg fortune a man Is
Sc fish in painting picture a mans
mind is inspired with feeling that com
ing generations will catch the spirit Of
his dream Of beauty and be exalted BY
The idea which lifted him into nobler
sphere
A fortune supplies a mans physical
wants sometimes with surfeit; but the
soul cannot be- cloyed The practice Of
doing good increases the capacity OF en-
joyingit as well as the ability to do
it. There are no such things as
doing too much good. giving the world
too much pleasure filling the homes Of
coming generations with too much OF
the light. warmth. beauty, Intelligence
the spirituelle pleasures--whlch the
works Of art produce eai
Art Is long but there Is no royal road
to fortune, The same devotion and
toiliug industry which accumulates
fortune would bring fame in art. The
difference is that the man who loves his
art has the proud consciousness aad the
sweet solece that he Is pleasing aud olevat-
ing, not alone his neighbors and friends,
bnt the whole IA billy Of mankind
for all generations. The man
who aecumulates fortune rarely enjoys
it himself, and there is always doubt
whether anybody else will enjoy It No
matter how " Use man may distribute bis
accumulations he can never feel sure that
he has done well-that he has not, In
deed, furnished a corpse over which for
tune seeking ghouls may hght and legal
harpies find delight,
There are better things than money,
even in this world