The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-09-10
DEATH MAY NOT END YOUR
TROUBLES, HANG TO LIFE
Every Day We Read of Suicides Most of Them Growing
Out of Family Troubles. While Married Life is
Conducive to Greatest Happiness on Earth, So Says
The Tenderfoot.
SUICIDE NOT So
LUTON OF PROBLEM
Suicide not the Solution

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Don Z commit suicide. Death may not
end your troubles. Serving time on
earth beats serving eternity in he'll.
Even II there is no hell, as wicked men
would have us believe, IL would be alto.
gether unseemly TO break into heaven
unannounced. As death comes but once
let God provide the manner aud fix the
time and place. Our chief concern
should be to so live that we may look
upon death as the doorway to eternal
bliss. Our troubles may be but the
and made ft for elysian pleasures. We
don't know, but its worth trying for.
II there is any disappointment let it
come after we have done the very best
we could. We have lost nothing by
doing right, and we may lose every.
thing by doing wrong. Hang on to
life.
This advice would seem to be uncall.
ed for, 30 general is the desire to live
and so tenaciousiy do we grip the life.
line. But papers relate suicide and at.
tempts that fail. Every day we read
of suicides. Most of them grow out of
iamily troubles, OF domestic infelicity.
While marrieu life is conducive to the
greatest happiness on earth. yet IL may
beaet the deepest wounds ana the keen.
est SORROWS that sadden the life of men
and women. But even unhappiness in
the home Is not the solution Of this
or any other problem of life. Hundreds
of men and women are right now con
templating this foolish act and hun.
dreds Of them will take the fatal step.
True. they will escape the ills they have,
but il were far better for them IL they
should remain on earth ~ their natur.
al term of life and either flee from
their torments or rake hell with their
tormentors.
II you are contemplating suicide,
dhn'i do IL. You mrst t.ht II "uu
would win in any effort Of life. Even
happiness comes only with toll and sac.
rifces Only troubles come aninvited,
and we must overcome our troubles or
they will overcome Us. Our tormentors
persecute rs only 80 long as IL furnish.
es them satisfaction and so long as IL
gives ny pain. Whenever we weaken we
invite new troubles and add pleasure
10 those who persecute us. II Is the
courageous man, the hard hitter, the
man who fights till night and then prays
for dawn that he may see to light again,
that wins life's battles. II II cow.
nrd that becomes the football that every.
body kicks. II IL the weakling that
would destroy his own life rather than
make his life worth living. These com.
ments, Of course, do not refer to the
unfortunates who end life while derang
ed by disease, and who arouse our deep
est sympathy. They are blamelesss
both in sight Of God and Of man.
Teddy Will Still be Leader
II there were any who had thought
that the power and prestige Of Theo
dore Roosevelt was waning, they must
revise their figures, in view Of the les.
sons Of the Colonel s western trip, which
would indicate TO a blind man that his
long trip in Africa has not dulled his
grasp of the American needs. Ills
speech at Osawo,amie is almost a posi-.
tive indication that he will lead the
reform elements that are now making
things warm all over the land, II il
against the rules for me to talk politics
in this department and am not going
In do IL now, but just want to quote
Tedd' declaration Of principles at
John Browns town, as being illustra.
tive OF the Roosevelt idea, and then
leave to my readers IL II is not about the
ablest exposition Of the insurgency OF