Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-16
Those Dividends.

| himself" He could not if he would;
for every life inflames some other life
for good or ill. In these days all the
strength of the body and the energies
of the mind and the yearning of the
soul are concentrated on the one object
riches. And if it is his intention,
after he gets all he wants or can get, to
"eat drink and be merry or to be a
sincere Christian, based upon the prin-
ciples that controlled the life of Christ
who ''came not to be ministered unto,
but to minister" violates the laws of
nature. How much of the real essence
OF life is there left for one to enjoy, to
make merry or to minister unto, after
life is spent and when the senses are
no longer responsive and the body a
| physical wreck?
We are already nation of dyspep-
tics, known and accepted as such the
world over, and every thinking man
knows the reason why. 1t is because
OF the break-neck speed, the nerve
racking, Notwithstanding pace we are
making in the affairs of this life.
Thousands of men are too busy to take
a vacation; can't leave off business for
a month, week, day. Some men
don't take time to eat more than one
square meal a day, and that at the
wrong end of the day, and eaten in
such violent haste and with so little
regard for the laws of health that the
digestive organs are sure to suffer and
the family physicians pocket-book is
sure to grow round and fat, as a conse.
quence. The system can stand this
nervous tension, this reckless abuse for
a while, but as sure as natures laws
are true the breakdown will come
sooner or later, and the man who is too
busy to take rest, who will thus abuse
his body and overtax his strength and
neglect his health will take vacation
by and by, and when he does he will
leave his home to fall headlong into a
hole in the ground, "six feet due east
and west and six feet perpendicular
long before his allotted time. Being
unmindtul of the pleasures and COM
forts by the way; unheeding the dan
ger signals here and there, and with
contracted ideas, and narrow views
and singleness of purpose, life is made
one mad scramble, almost from the
cradle to the grave.
If human happiness could be meas
ured in dollars and cents; if alpha and
omega of human existence could be
summed up in the word "wealth' then
there would be some excuse for this
mad scramble in which men engage.
But we are told in the old book, writ
ten some nineteen hundred years ago,
that "a mans life consisteth not in the
abundance of the things which he
hath"
Coupled with the modern method of
trying to crowd the whole of life into
as few years as possible, men have an
other way of adding to their burdens
and curtailing their pleasures--a habit
which is more potent for evil, far more
reaching and destructive in it's effects
on the system than is the boiling of
half masticated food or the overtaxing
of the vital forces. 1t is the miserable
habit of worry, so interviewer with the
fast and furious methods-the hammer
and tongs style of business-we prac-
tice in this country and in these de-
generate days. Men worry over little
things and big things, over things past,
things present and things to come;
over things real and things imaginary;
worry by day and by night; worry in
the place of business and on the street,
and last of all and meanest of all is the
worry at home among the family.
Worry ruins the digestion, skaters
the nerves, spoils the temper, brings
headaches, causes insomnia, whitens
the hair and burrows the brow, and
breaks down the system generally. 1t
makes one a burden to his family, his
friends and the community. The little
time we spend at home belongs to our
families. 1t is theirs by right and we
should give it all to them. We will
feel better for it, our appetite will be
better and our sleep sounder.
Variety is the very spice of life. A
wholesome admixture of temper with
our activities, of rest with labor, of
recreation with toll, of pleasure with
business, of health sense with business
sense, will bring dividends without
number, lengthen out our days and
heighten all our joys, cit will bring
more amiability into our lives, more
sunshine into our homes, and more
happiness into our hearts as the days
go by-dividends unalloyed in good
measure, pressed down, and shaken
together, and running over."-Ex-
change.
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