Connecticut western news., 1900-01-25

pElce or ulsapprovaI from which he
 will never rise. Just go to that man
 and unroll the scroll of 100 splendid
 Americans who, after occupying high
 places of promotion, were relegated to
 private life and public scorn. Show
 him in what glorious company he has
 been placed by the anathema of the
 ballot box.
 There Is man or woman who has
 made a conjugal mistake, and vul-
 ture has been put into the same cage
 with dove or a lion and lamb in
 the same jungle. The world laughs at
 the misfortune, but it is your business
 to weep with their woe. There Is
 merchant who bought at the wrong
 time or manufacturer whose old ma
 chinery has been superseded by new
 invention or who under change of tar
 if on certain styles of fabric has been
 dropped from affluence into bankrupt
 cy Go to him and recall the names of
 90 business men who lost all but their
 honesty and God and heaven. Let
 them know there are hundreds of good
 men who have gone under that are
 thought of in heavenly spheres more
 than many who are high up and going
 higher. All will acknowledge that
 good and lovely Arthur Tappan, who failed in business, was more to be ad-
 mired than William Tweed in posses
 sion of his stolen millions.
 Go to that literary man who is starv- ing with a brilliant pen in his right
 hand, his literary position lost, his books unstable, and tell him of the
 mightiest of the past and the present
 who suffered from nonappreciation.
 Show the discouraged author whose
 manuscript the publishing house will
 not take that among the rejected man. uscripts of the publishing houses for awhile were Paradise Lost" and "Jane Eyre" and Thackeray's ''Vanity
 Fair" and ''yestiges of Creation" and Uncle Toms Cabin" and that Shakes peare was comparatively unknown in England until Germany acclaimed its appreciation of the greatest of drama lists. Unroll before that discouraged public man the cartoons in the time of Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lin-
 coin and James c. Blaine and show all the misnterpreted and pursued the fact that they have 1t no worse than many who have preceded them and
 that In most cases 1t is jealousy at sue cess that has caused the assault.
 Lift the Fallen.
 Hear 1t! The more you go to busy ing yourselves in other mems mat ters the better if you have design of offering relief. Search out the quar-
 rels, that you may settle them; the fallen, that you may lift them; the bangs, that yoG may assuage them. Arm yourself with two bottles of di- vine medicine, the one tonic and the other an anesthetic, the latter to soothe and quiet the former to stimu- late, to inspire to sublime action. That
 mans matters need looking after in this respect. There are 10000 men and women who need your help and
 need 1t right away. They do not sit down and cry. They make no appeal
 for help, but within ten yards of where you sit in church and within ten min- utes' walk of your home there are peo- pie in enough trouble to make them shriek out with agony if they had not resolved upon suppression.
 If you are rightly interested in other mems matters, go to those who are just starting in their occupations or pro- fessions and give them boost. Those old physicians do not want your help, for they are surrounded with more pa tlents than they can attend to, but rheer those young doctors who are
 counting out their first drops to pa- tients who cannot afford to pay. Those | old attorneys at the law want no help | from you, for they take retatners only | from the more prosperous clients, but cheer those young attorneys who have | not had brief at all lucrative. Those | old merchants have their business so we'll established that they feel inde- pendent of banks, of all changes in l tariffs, of all panics, but cheer those young merchants who are making | their first mistakes in bargain and sale. That old farmer who has POO acres In best tillage and his barns full of har- vested crops and the grain merchant l having bought his wheat at high prices | before it was reaped needs no sympa- | thy from you, but cheer up that young ! farmer whose acres are covered with | big mortgage and the drought strikes | them the first year. That builder with contracts made for the construction of half a dozen houses and the owners ! impatient for occupancy is not to be | pitied but give your sympathy to that | mechanic in early acquaintance with | hammer and saw and bit and amid all the limitations of journeyman.
 Be a Busybody.
 Go forth to be a busybody in other mems matters, so far as you can help | ing them out, and help them on. The world is full of instances of those who spend their life in such alleviations. ! But there is one instance that overtops
 and eclipses all others. He had lived | in palace. Radiant ones waited up- | on him. He was charioted along | streets yellow with gold and stopped at | gates glistening with pearl and ho- | sannaed by immortals coroneted and
 in snowy white. Centuries gave him ! not pain. The sun that rose on him | never set. His dominions could not be
 enlarged, for they had no boundaries,
 and uncontested was his reign. Upon
 all that luster and renown and en- vironment of splendors he turned his
 back and put down his crown at the foot of his throne and on a hbeak De
 cember night trod his way down to a
 stone house in Bethlehem of our world. l Wrapped in what plain shawl, and pursued with what enemies on swift
 camels, and howled at with what
 brigands, and thrust with what sharp
 lances, and hidden in what sepulchral crypt until the subsequent centuries