The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-23

A London physician In the course Of his
testimony on the witness stand said that
he knew a poison instantaneous in its ac-
ton and positively painless. He refused
to tell the court the poison. In the sue
ceeding two weeks this physician SAID ne
had received more than 1900 letters from
men and women In London begging the
name of the poison.
The world has been running many mil
lions of years and we have scientific
proof that man has existed many thou
sands at least
In view of this fact 1t seems strange
that human nature is yet in such an I'M
formed state as the dbove payaArph mol
Gates.
There is great conceit ard crudity in
the mind that contemplate5 suicide
Among the 5000 people who asked the
physician for poison, evidently with the
idea of self-destruction there might have
been three who were i'll of an incurable
disease, old and homeless. That trio of
disasters might save man from being
regarded as cOWardly or insane who
planned suicide. but it could not save him
from being considered most unwise and
rash and foolish.
The old have not long to wait for death
at longest. For those who are not old
IAACA 10 always d pOSSlDlG future, no mat
ter what shadows enVelOp their lives.
There is no disease that cannot be dom
mated and controlled by will power and
science
Proper thoughts, proper methods of life,
proper diet, even without the aid of
skilled specialists, will root out disease.
Poverty is subject to the same laws
1t is disease and under the control of
the spiritual and mental faculties. / do
hnI
circumstances and fate, if he realizes his
own divine nature he can move walls
which seem to be of adamant md mount
obstacles which seem impossible
III the person who is sick and in poverty
will make up his mind with determine
ton. based on belief in God, to overcome
these conditions, instead Of making up
his mind in unbelief to commit self-de-
struction, he will live to rejoice, in place
of dying to regret his vain effort to de-
stroy the lndestructible
where not poverty or disease, but
trouble and sorrow, are motives for sui
eide, human egotism and self-conceIt can
be said to lie at the bottom of the mat
ter.
What man or woman on earth ever
escaped trouble of some sort?
Why should you declare your burden
more unbearable than that of another?
Why are you to be spared sorrow or to
plunge into the unknown in an effort to
escape it, when all about you are people
bearing just as great sorrows and grow
ing stronger through the experience?
1t is not for you to look at your neigh
Dor and to assume that he is more ia
vored by fate than you. You can Judge
of no mans life until you have lived It.
You cannot estimate the weight of his
burdens until you know the exact amount
OF his strength. While his pack may ap-
pear to you to be very light compared
with your own, yet his back may be weak
and sore where yours is whole
A man of social distinction and the pos
SCISSOR of many millions has recently been
dragged through such domestic disgrace
as few poor day laborers ever expert
enced, however they may feel themselves
to be neglected by fate and fortune.
The people who justify suicide on the
grounds that they are especially perse-
cuted by malicious chance are invariably
people of small powers of observation
and peculiarly self-centered in their men
tality.
The world is large and full Of varied
scenery. But the man who holds his own
photograph directly in front Of his e1Zs
shuts out mountains and rivers from MIS-
vision.
If we set our souls and our minds to re-
ceive good results from every experience