The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-10-27
GROWING BETTER

GROWING BETTER.
senator Hoar was am old man when
he died. His was long ana ho.'"'
able career and heliyed through many
great changes In the times and man
ners of the country. A large poilioh
of his life was spent in Washington
and he was acquainted WIN hl'il
public men and new Their ways "ii"
characters. lie saw much thal Wa
good and many things that were oA"'
but his observation did not make hilh
a cynic or "A pessimist I'm his auto
biographv written shortly before his
death he saws: "Ihe lesson which }
have learned u life, which Is impft $50
ed ON me daily. and more deeply as
GROW old. Is the lesson OF good VIII
and GOOD hope believe that to-day
is better than Yesterday, and that To-
morrow will be better than to-day. D
believe that, i'm spite of so many errors
and wrongs, and even crimes my
cOuntrymen, Of all classes, desire "n"'
is good and not what is evil
II is the man Of limited vision ana
circumscribed field of action, of super
fetal observation and mind lacking
that store Of knowledge which gives
value 10 its Judgment, who feels that
human nature is growing more DE
praved and that the country Us going
io the demntiOn bOw-woWs. Inc
greater his lack of knowledge, the
cruder his mind, the gl0Omer the pes
sini,t's view. The man who delights
TO charge wholesale dishonesty ana
immortality unc0nsciously reveals mis-
own inner moral nature.
The world is better than it was-bet-
ter and wiser. There is more charity,
more rational religion, more mon
spent for moral education, charitable,
and humanity helpful purposes than
ever before. The people as "A whole,
high and low, live better, have more
comforts and cOnyeniences and luXu-
ries. are better housed, better clothed,
better fed. better educated than their
ancestors were. While this Is an era
Of great development of wealth, the
accumulation of great fortunes, the
exploitation of many schemes OF graft
and greed, the people are not mere
money wOrshipers. As Gov. Folk re-
Gently said i'm Chautauqua address
"The dollar now is not as potent as IL
has been, and gold is not worshiped
with the devotion Of old. The richest
man i'm all the world is "a beggar FOR
sympathy. The ambition of young
men is becoming more and more not
so much TO get riches as To- get righI
and stay right"
4 NH al
the golden calf have always existed
They are more quickly and ruthlessly
exposed than ever before. The world
is not growing worse. 1t is growing
better. Senator HOar was sane i'm his
belief that to-day is better than yes
terday and that tomorrow will be bet
ter than today. Nashville American
We sometimes think that the world
is growing better and then we don e.
Dr. Talmage said, i'm one Of the best
sermons we ever read from him, that
the Lord reigned, and Of course the
world is growing better, and that
good reasoning. Certainly the time
will come when we will have a "uew
Earth wherein dwelleth righteous
ness" Why it hasn't already cone
we don't pretend to know and what
do we know? Not much, and the lit.
tie that we do know we know That iu
part:
Publicity given to the bad may
make many of Us fear that the world
is going to the bad.
Except for war, shipwrecks, railroad
smashups, wilul murder or fatal cas-.
ualties in general, there is no reason
why men may not live forever, says
DR.. Albert p. Matthews, professor OF
physiological chemistry at the Uni
versity of Chicago. lie claims &c
have chemically demonstrated that
tie immortality Of the body depend.
simply on the discovery of diet
which will keep intact the fundameu
tai principle of the human cell, and
/ it is probable that this will be found
His view is that death is caused phi
marily 10y the cessation Of respiration
which may be kept up indefinitely d
the proper relation between food and
fundamental cells substance is found
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The presidents cabinet now is
Secretary Of State, Elihu Root, Of New
/ York: Secretary of the Treasury, Leslie