The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-11-28

ashamed TO look a bean IN the tace
end to wearing your longest coat
for reasons that would be very
manifest il YOU didn't have tie
aforesaid coat on. and which would
create considerable comment If
YOU walked down the street in
your shirt-sleeves, but when YOU
have been able to rustic a steak
and are feeling in a philosophical
mood, the recompenses appear as
great as the wholloping the other
fellow got the other dav.
The current stories about Rus.
sell Sage, the poor old miser who
fingered so long in New York he.
cause he al too stingy to check
his breath, was enough to make the
average man glad he was poor.
What are riches, anyhow, II they
TAIL to make one happy You can
philosopher all YOU want TO, but
there are only two things we are
put on earth tor to he happy our.
selves and TO make others happy.
II we tail in this we are libels up
on the scheme OF a benevolent
creator know this isn't ortho.
doX, AMI II certainly is not business
like, but 1t is a tact, a mourntul
tact. As most men progress their
accumulation OF the maLuma they
lose their capacity tor happiness
themselves, and, OF course, the
capacity OF impartlng it to others
When a man gets in that shape he
might as well be dead, had better
be as tar as being OF real benefit
to the social body Is concerned.
What good did the millions OF poor
old Sage do? What human load
did he ever lit, and what eyes
lighted up at the sound OF his
voice? Unloved, maligned, rid.
iculed, his skinny old carcass was
lowered into no better grave than
"A colored brother and after the
scrimmaye tor his money was 1y,r,
he was forgotten. \ lite like that
is not worth the living. Ii ism {
lite, IL is mere existence, and tina,
lonely old man was deeply % b.,
pitied 10y all vino have known wua,
love is, what It mean, % really
live, Tor II there Is anything m the
scriptural outline, what an array
OF sins OF omission will the old Cu~-
have 10 face when he stands wait.
ing for judgment and wondering
what the great white throne would
cost back in Connecticut Through
all the years that he numbered tn,
earth, no heart vas made warm b,
Russell Sage. not once did De- 4,
his part as a real American citizen.
His whole heart was wound up Or
the chase after the elusive dollar
and his last thought was certainly
that OF the ) with the up
and down bars. SO tar as the rca.
world was concerned he was a ca.
pher with the ring :.Jbed out, Ot
and no use whatever IN the country
in which he was born and in which
he amassed his millions. NJ last
he died, as the good and the bad,
the Just and the unjust, pay th,
debt TO nature.
With some notable and nobI,
exceptions, wealth is usually &C.
CURED at the direct sacrifice OF the
finer qualities OF heart and mind.
When a man advances beyond the
realm OF the well-to.do and reaches
out for more and more, be usually
seals up his heart against every
broadening and refining influence.
No that a mar NAY not become
immensely wealthy and still be- a
good mar in all that the title means
no n but anarchists and fools
believe that he cannot-but IN the
vast majority OF instances his soul
narrows down TO financial lines
and he is utterly incapable OF enjoy
ing the really good things OF this
life. All is the further acquire.
ment OF money. He cannot See
beyond his checkbook, and the
thousand subtle beautlc, OF every
day life are mere incident, 10 him.
So IT goes until he has reached his
maximum OF capital, and about
that time his reserye fund Of health
gives out, and all his money will
not save him from the reaper that
knows neither the rich nor the
poor.
! think that the most pathetic
thing ! ever saw in my lite WAS q
millionaire dying OF tuberculosis in
Arizona. All his lite he had been
piling up the money, until he had
hardly known himself now much
he was worth. Then all OF a sud.
den the great white plague LAID
hold OF him and he came out to
the dry desert to die-and to learn.
1t was the FIRST time in his lite that
the man had really studied man.
kind, and he was astonished. As
the holy stamp OF the long calm
settled upon him he understood
what he had missed, and | have
seen him sit for hours watching
little children playing in the sard,
and there was a hungry look in
his eyes that made my heart ache.
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