The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-21
GETTING ON IN LIFE.
A Subject Of Interest to Every Thoughtful
Man Struggling for Success.

The underlying cause OF human dis
content and unrest whether manifested
bv the individual or by the many. is
morbid desire TO be happy. Many
q man would be happy indeed were it
not that he misses true happiness in the
feEerish search for it. Happiness is
Ike rest found without effort and de-
MED to such as forever seek it instead
of enjoying it. The poor man is not
happy because he wishes to be rich.
imagining that riches would bring
peace. The rich man is not happy for
even more reasons than the poor man
is not. He is unhappy because he is
not richer, because he fears his riches
sill take wings and get away from
him, because his neighbor has more
than he has, because he failed TO make
as much as he expected in his last spec
ulation or because he lost instead OF
making. All these and innumerable
other reasons conspire to trouble the
man of wealth. But the poor man
says: Give me his possessions and L
will take care of happiness. There is a
delusion i'm this, and if there were not
uhe plan of this world would be a very
imperfect one. Ii can not be that its
Architect should lay it out on the mar
row plan that none should he happy
unless rich. The fate of humanity
under such cruel conditions would be
deplorable. Only very few of the
of r,a,,I-inI xrn.KlI q
any chance of an existence that would
he tolcrable. That this is q mistake
needs no argument. The law of common
sense, the law of God as revealed in
Inc Bible, the law of compensation;
all law is against such a mOnstrOus
condition to happiness. 1t is not saying
100 much to say that the poor may be
As happy as the rich. There are trou-
bles and temptations that come TO the
rich that the poor know nothing
of. There are sleepless nights i'm the
mansion that are unknown in the cot
sage, and often when least expected.
The banker whom many a poor man
envies may i'm turn envy the man who
attends to his horses for the very peace
of mind that he enjoys and to which
The master is stranger. Men living in
mansions have often lived for years
with the shadow of bankruptcy hang
ing over them, from which they would
only too gladly escape and welcome
honest poverty. Itwere foolish to argue
against the comforts that wealth can
provide, but wealth alone can not even
buy peace, to say nothing of happiness.
Wealth is often curse to the man who,
relieved of its responsibility, would be
happy.
But if any man would be rich and
feels that he can not be happy until he
= possessed of more goods than his fell
,ows. there is a way to become so. One
way is TO be mean, stingy, grasping,
Intent ever on gaining more and spend
ing less. He can stint himself and fam
ilY, deny his wife and children the priv
Icwes that are cheerfullv accorded the
little ones of poorer men, and in
very way make himself and family
bend to the seyerest conditions that he
has devised. This is one of the WAYS
10 wealth and way that is not likely
10 commend itself To honest men. Then
there are other roads TO the accumula-
rich by theft, by fraud. by speculation
and various other ways more or less
Questionable. But il is not this kind
of wealth That the poor man envieS,
for he could not accept ii under the
conditions il was acquired. Besides,
as rulc. with very few exceptions, the
wealth acquired in dishonOrable way
can not be retained and slips away al
Iuost-as quickly as il came.
But il will not do for the poor man
70 conclude that all wealth is acquired
in way that can not be thoroughly
honorable. Many a man is wealthy
and really happy in IFS possession. be-
cause he got it in a way that no man
can question. There are thousands of
men who have great possessions and
who's have come up from poverty by
heir own eNertionS. Their example,
100, may be followed by such a. would
become rich. They got start by prac-
1icing decent economies and by saving
where others wasted. With the money
thus saved they got that ''start" that
"a many long for. And from the
start il became easier and still
easier TO get more, until at last the
goal of riches was reached before it
was realized. The great majority of
he merchants and manufacturers i'm
this country started as poor men, just
as the young mechanic of to-day is
starting in life. They are men who
know how il is themselves" and.
with few exceptions. are glad 10
encourage and assist others who
show a disposition 10 follow their
example. In truth. the world
IF business and traffic i ever on the
watch for just such men. There is a
steady demand for them To fill the
gaps made by death. There is every
incentive for young man TO to- frugal
and persevcring. for the reward.
though slow i'm coming. is sure. He
j. working for man who only few
wears ago was where he is now. and