The Bossier banner., 1894-09-06

nnd ne is made mp OF copper and gold,
and silver, and zinc, and lead, and coal
and iron. That is not life worth liv-
ing. There are too many earthquakes
in it: too many agonies in it; to many
perditions in it. They build their
castles, and they open their picture
galleries, and they summon prima
donnas, and they offer every induce
ment for happiness to come and live
there, but happiness will not come
They sent footmanned and postil-
lioned equipage to bring her; she will
not ride to their door. They send
princely escort; she will not take their
arm. They make their gateways tri-
unphal arches; she will not ride under
them. They set golden throne be-
fore a golden gate; she turns away
from the banquet. They call to her
from upholstered balcony; she will not
listen. Mark you, this is the failure of
those who have had large accumula-
ton.
And then you must take into consid-
Grafton that the vast majority of those
who make the dominant idea of life
money-getting fall far short of aff1u-
ence. 1t is estimated that only about
two out of hundred business men
have anything worthy the name of
success. A man who spends his life
with the one dominant idea of finan-
cial accumulation spends a life not
worth living.
So the idea of worldly approval. If
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miserable. The two most unfortunate
men in this country for the six months
of next presidential campaign will be
the two men nominated for the presi-
dency. The reservoirs of abuse, and
diatribe, and malediction will gradu-
ally fill up, gallon above gallon, hogs
head above hogshead, and about au-
tumn these two reservoirs will be
brimming full, and a hose will
be attached to each one, and it
will play away on these NOM
inees, and they will have to stand it,
and take the abuse, and the falsehood,
and the caricature, and the anathema,
and the caterwauling, and the filth,
and they will be rolled in and rolled
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choked, and submerged, and strangu-
lated, and at every sign of returning
consciousness they will be barked at
by all the hounds of political
parties from ocean to ocean.
And yet, there are hundred
men to-day struggling for that privi-
lege, and there are thousands of men
who are helping them in the struggle.
Now, that is not life worth living.
You can get slandered and abused
cheaper than that! Take it on a
smaller scale. Do not be so ambitious
to have whole reservoir rolled over
you. But what you see in the matter
of high political preferment you see in
every community in the struggle for
what is called social position.
Tens of thousands of people trying
to get into that realm, and they are
under terrific tension. What is social
position? 1t is a difficult thing to de-
fine, but we all know what it is. Good
morals and intelligence are not neces-
sary, but wealth, or the show of wea lth,
is absolutely Indispensable. There are
ulCh bO-ody 81 hObO1lOuS 1OI UIClT llD-
ertinism as the night is famous for it's
darkness who move in what is called
high social position. There are hun
dreds of out-and-out rakes in American
society whose names are mentioned
among the distinguished guests at the
great levees. They have annexed all
the known vices, and are longing for
al, 1f Il ,ah -
Good morals are not necessary in many
of the exalted circles of society
A life of sin, life of pride, life of
indulgence, life of worldliness, life
devoted to the world, the flesh and
the devil is failure, a dead failure, an
infinite failure. / care not how many
presents you send to that cradle. or
how many garlands you send to that
grave, you need to put right under the
name on the tombstone the inscription:
Better for that man if he had never
been born"
But | shall show you a life that is
worth living. A young man says; II
am here. / am not responsible for my
ancestry; others decided that. | am
| AlOG poiiSipIC 1OI
| God gave me that. But here ] am in
| the afternoon of the nineteenth CEN
tury, at twenty years of age. / am
here, and | must take an account OF
stock. Here / have body which IS a
| divinely constructed engine. / must
put it to the very best uses,
and | must allow nothing tc
damage this rarest of machinery.
Two feet, and they mean locomotion.
Two eyes, and they mean capacity to
pick out my own way. Two ears, and
they are telephones of communication
| with all the outside world, and they
mean capacity to catch sweetesS music
and the voices of friendship-the very
best music. A tongue. with almost in
fnity of articulation. Yes, hands
with which to welcome, or resist, OF
| lift, or smite, or wave, or bless-hands
to help myself and help others.
Here is world which, after SIX
thousand years of battling with TEN
pest and accident, is still grandei
than any architect, human or angelic
could have drafted have two lamp:
to light me-a golden lamp and sill
ve- l&mI-a golden lamp set on The