Show cheerfulness ESS yesterday wo we published tho the mournful intelligence that george Cri sinon aged twenty three years and a resident of sugar house word vard in in salt lake city had bad tak en his own life we have no per bt knowledge of the young mans antecedents but it appears from the most reliable sources of anfor informer tion that he lie was of a melancholy disposition and given to gloomy reveries the indulgence of this morose tendency of his nature appears jears to have led him into 0 the desperate state which prepared him for 1 ila a buie suicides iddis grave his case is only a duplicate of hundreds of others who annually shuffle off the bonds of mortal existence because life be becomes coines totally doleful and A some ta to their morbid imaginations A false idea of happiness and the despondent sophistry resulting from entirely mistaken conceptions of Y v J what really yields true joy and dc do light of the most permanent and exalted description is at the bottom of all such deplorable tragedies it is altogether a wrong notion to think that wealth of itself is an un failing fountain of happiness or that ilja even essential to the most enraptured and complete enduring felicity which mankind is ca capable of drawing from life it is a fact which all thoughtful men of long experience will readily corroborate that the measure of human con contents teriN 0 ment and enjoyment depends almost entirely upon the way vay we look at things and events if we accas pt Vs i torn tom ourselves to cheerful thoughts j and strive to smile pleasantly habitually haj baj bitu ally and moreover always en 1 deavor to look at the brightest side of every passing cloud why then our dispositions will in time at any rate take on something of the con con genial brightness I 1 of our tho thoughts that give life its most enchanting aspect wo we remember of af pf once witness ing ling a frightful railroad lp australia A party of ff 0 young in eai started out on a a short I 1 bort pleasure trip and as the day do y was warm they crowded out on the platform of one the coaches suddenly two of them who were engaged in some playful but foolhardy dy scuffle lost their balance and fell onto the track between two cara cari the train was moving rapidly and quicker than thought the heaby rear coach had passed over the unfortunate youths though both were subsequently picked up alive one had an arm mangled in a frightful manner and the other had bad a leg terribly shat shot the young men were conveyed to a hospital in a city near by the broken and crushed members vero were amputated and every medical and arid surgical ical aid promptly rendered it happened that the young man who lost hie his arm was cursed with an ati obstinately melancholy nature and although his parents were very rich and lie had no need to fear want yet as he lie began to realize the extent of his injuries a morbid despondency seized him andin and in spite of all the doctors could do he pined away and died nor was his injury so much accountable for his death as his own mental morbid surrender 0 of fall all hope but the young 0 man who had lost a leg lc and sustained the most serious brailes manifested from the start an ardent desire and determination to survive although he lib was without friends and a comparatively ively poor stranger in a strange land anahis and his constant cheerfulness apparently did much to hasten the time when he was wits able to hop on crutches and laugh and joke with his old acquaintances it seems to us that this circumstance illustrates the power P ower which an bally pleasant mind may at all times and in all vicissitudes exercise over the body and the young especially cannot give too much care caro to the eradication of all species of ill temper tern per and gloomy re veries which arc are in fact only malignant r distempers dis tempers of the mind that are responsible for most of the mis cries which afflict mankind cultivate a spirit of roi couto rt sy and generous lindline kind line s nourish thoughts ta of the beautiful the lovely and the serene and life will vill at once begin to yield the choicest fruits of f happiness which will never bo be ob scared by the horrible hoi idea of suicide |