The Dickinson press., 1907-01-26

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meadows, clear skies, cool brooks, shady
forests and song of birds; no echoes of a
distant paradise. To him the past is
dark, the present miserable, the future
gloomy. He cares not for a tomorrow.
He has no intimation of Valhalla.
The british part of our nature, too
often, governs the spiritual. Were we
to see rich banker exchanging gold
eagles for coppers by count, or a rich
merchant bartering silk for gingham by
the yard, we should deem them worthy
of any epithet in the vocabulary of folly.
Yet the same men buy pains whose cost
is greater than the amplest fund of
natural enjoyments. Their grocer brings
them headaches, indigestion and neural
gia of all varieties. Their butler bottles
up gout and liver complaint, falsely
labelling them sherry or Madeira, or
port, and the consumers have not wit
enough to see through the cheat.
The mass OF society look with envy
upon the epicure, who, day by day for
four hours of luxurious eating, suffers
twenty hours of sharp aching; who pays
full price for a big hot supper, and is
so pleased with the bargain that he
throws in sleepless and tempestuous
night as gratuity. English factory
children have received the sympathy and
pity of the world, because they were
scourged to work eighteen hours out of
the twenty. four; but there is many an
American who is harsher Pharaoh to
his stomach than this; who allows it no
more resting time than he does his
watch; who gives it no Sunday, no holi-
day, no vacation in any sense.
| Our good ancestors enacted a law
that suicides should be buried where four
roads meet, and that a cart load ofstones
should be thrown on the body. Yet,
when men and women commit suicide,
not by cord or steel, but by turtle soup
or lobster salad, they may be buried in
consecrated ground, and under the aus
pices of the church, and the public are
not ashamed to read an epitaph upon
their tombstones false enough to make
the marble blash. Were the barbarous
old law now in force that punished the
body of the suicide for the offence which
his soul had committed, we should find
many cemetery at the cross roads.
The appetite is made to yield the
largest amount of qualification through
temperance. Not only the highest but
the longest enjoyment is obtained
through the true epicurean art. With
health there is no end to the quantity or
the variety from which the palate can
extract its pleasures. Without health
no delicacy that nature or art can pro.
duce can provoke zest. When a man
destroys his health, he destroys, SO far as
he is concerned, whatever of sweetness
of flavor, and of SAVIOR the teeming earth
can produce. To him who has poisoned
his appetite by excesses, the sweet pulp
of grape or peach, the juices of orange
or pineapple are but loathing or nau'
sea. He has turned gardens and groves
fof delicious fruit into gardens and groves
of ipecac and aloes.
| Young people should remember tina,
for every offence which is committed
against the laws of health, nature will
bring them into judgment God never
pardons muscles, lungs, stomach or brain
These must expiate their offences.
Young people who are just forming
their habits of life, or just beginning tc
indulge in those habitual trains o
thought out of which habits grow, SHOULD
know, once for all, that healthy body is
worth more to its possessor than all the
gold of Alaska. Shakespeare makes
mention of the Thousand ills that hesl
is heir to-" If it be true that we inherit
thousand ailments, think that we
needlessly bring upon us another thou
sand by wilfully violating the laws o.
health. Money can buy tolerable sub
: stitute for wornout teeth. departed hair
or a lost limb, but it cannot buy new
stomach or new set of nerves. To be
able to eat, assimilate and digest three
meals day, to sleep eight or nine hour:
each night, to work and enjoy work, te
play and enjoy play, with no knowledge
OF aches and palps-unconsclou OF the
existence Of stomach. lungs or brain
is what mean by healthy hudy Yut
no doubt have seen or heard Of Il palatia
mansion, the home of millionaire. The
grounds, the trees, the flowers, the lawn
the mansion itself were all beautiful t.
look upon. On the veranda, propped W
. in an invalids chair, wrapped in an in
valid's robe, sits the owner of the man
sion and the million. For years he ha'
not been able to work or to walk withou
assistance. His nj ghts are sleeplrss ane
his days full of pain. All this brough
about by Incorporate habits of life. H.
would give his million for good appe
tite, but it is too late, too late.
Young people should indulge an am
bition to lay up stock of health as wei
as to lay up stocks Of any other kind.
should be the ambition of every young
person to possess clean, strong ant
, symmetrical body. St Paul says, "Knov
, ye not that ,ye are the temple of God
and that the spirit of God dwelleth il
, you? If any man defile the temple o
God, him shall God destroy; for tn
temple of God is holy, which temple "
are" And again, II beseech you, there
fore, brethren, by the mercies of Coz
] that you present your bodies living sac
| rifce, holy, acceptable unto God, whicl
is your reasonable service"
Knife River Route.
Its given out on what seems to b.
reliable authority that the Northern Pa