Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-14
For the Herald and Tribune.
Poverty.


are more wealthy than our friend.
Poverty breeds wealth, and wealth in
its turn, likewise brings poverty. The
earth to form the mound is taken out
OF the ditch, and the height of one is
about the depth of the other. Wealth
and poverty are both temptations
that tends to excite pride to the discon
tented. The privations of poverty ren
der us too cold and callous and the
privileges of property too cold and con-
sequently the first places us beneath
the influence of opinion, the second
above it. Poverty induces and cher
ishes dependence, and dependence
strengthens and increases corruption.
Whoever is not contented in poverty
would not be perfectly happy with
riches. Bulwer says that poverty is
only an idea in nine cases out of ten. 81
Some men with ten thousand dol.
lars year suffer more for want of
means than others with three hundred.
The reason is the richer man has arti.
fetal wants. His income is ten thou.
sand and by habit he spends twelve OF
fifteen thousand, and he suffers enough
from being dunned for unpaid debts to
kill a sensitive man. A man who
earns dollar day and does not run
in debt is the happier of the two. Very
few people who have never been rich
will believe this, it but is as true as
Gods word. There are people of course
who are wealthy and enjoy their
wealth, but there are thousands with
princely incomes who never know u
moment'speace because they live above
their means. There is really more hap.
piness in the world among the working
people than among those who are called
rich, it is contrary to Gods law of ma.
tnre Tor man to i!re by idleness, he
who lives by the ''sweat of his brow
is the happiest of all. In large cities
many people are unhappy for the want
OF employment. If their lot had been
cast in the country where they till
the soil for their own account this
would never have happened. Have
the courage to appear poor and you
disarm poverty of its sharpest st,ngs,
and let it be said that though he is
poor yet he always pays his debts. He
that has much and wants more ispoor;
but he who has little and wants no
more is rich. The poor mans purse
may be empty, but he has as much
gold in the sunset and as much silver
in the moon as anybody. The richer
man is the more he breads poverty.
thus poverty looks most frightful at a
distance. Of all poverty that of the
mind is the most deplorable and none
but God and the poor know what the
poor do for each other. Nature is
great believer in compensation and to
those whom she sends wealth she sad
dies with law suits and dyspepsia. The
poor never indulge in fine eatings, but
they have style of appetite that con-
verts mackerel into salmon and
that does quite as well. To miss
fortune is not necessarily a misfortune,
but blessed is he that is struck by dis
aster that sets free the children of the
rich, giving them over to the hard bnt
kind bosom of poverty. If there sany-
thing says DR.. Holland that a young
man should be more grateful for than
another it is the poverty which necessi.
tates his starting in life under very
great disadvantages. Poverty is one
of the best tests of human quality in
existance for triumph, over it is like
graduating with honor at West Point.
A young man who can not feel his will
harden if the yoke of poverty presses
upon him and hispluck rise with every
difficulty that poverty throws in his
way may as well retire to some corner
and hide himself. Poverty saves
thousand times more men than it
ruins, for it only ruins those who are
not worth saving while 1t saves mul-
titudes of these whom wealth has ruin
ed. With full pockets and full stom-
aches, good linen and broad cloth on
your back, your heart and soul pie
thoiic in the race of life you fud your
self surpassed by all the poor boys
around you before you know it.
SAILOR
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this item. The first indication of Group
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