The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1895-08-27
WHO ARE HAPPYi
The Rich Say That Wealth Does
Not Bring Happiness
Arp Th,Dfs it Helps Some But He q sur
That the wooIhauler Has Abou. as
Much Genuine Happiness
as Anyone

The blues are masculine maladv and
afiiict men more than women. Womer
have more grief and sorrow, but wher
there IS no great trouble in the house
| they are naturally more cheerful than
the men. / notice 1t very frequently
that while l am worried and perplexed
about temporal things and can't see my
way out and find myself in fit of the
blues, my wife and daughters keep
their spirits up and other women come
and go and talk and laugh and say
bright things. That is all right. II
| would be awful (, the whole family tc
have the blues at the SINE time. In
fact, nobody ought to have them and
nobody is obliged to have them. They
creep steadily upon q man sometimes,
and ii he does not fight them off he is
very poor company. My wife saws
| look like / dident have friend in the
| world. The best remedy ia to quit
thinking and go to work. Do some
thing-worS in the garden, chop'sons
wood, fix the window curtains, tie ur
the flowers, swing the grandchildren
do something to divert your mind from
yourself. 1t is better to read story
than to think and brood over trouble
that may never come. The body is sc
nysteriously connected with the mind
that the blues impair digestion and
that causes loss of appetite and the
first thing man knows he is sick sure
enough. 1t has been supposed that the
heart was the seat of the affections and
| emotions, but that is a mistake. 1t is
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the whole body is sick. The Bible tells
about bowels of mercy and bowels OF
| comparison.
Another good way to drive off the
blues is to write letters to kindred and
friends and ventilate your troubles and
abuse somebody. Give your feelings
an explosion and you will find relief.
/ had such letter from friend the
other day and he wound up by saying
And now think feel better, plague
take EN-" Sometimes view from the
other side produces reaction. Con.
| slider the folks around you who are
worse off and yet keep cheerful and
| thankful. "Yonder comes the old man
with his wood" said my wife. Yes,
he is about as old as am and is wear.
ing my old hat and coat that she gave
him. and like the ''son of Alknomoc, he
never complains" He lives six miles
away. He cuts load of wood one day
and hauls it to .own the next day with
yoke OF steers, and when he can't sell
| it for rs cents he knows he can haul il
to my house and Mrs. Arp will take it.
| He always wears a smile and says;
I'VE are getting along fairly well at
my housc-is your people all we'll p
| He throws two or three chunks OF light
| wood on top so as to keep the cook in
| good humor. Oxen are an awful slow
motor in these lightning times, but
they are cheapand don't die and nobody
| will steal them and they suit IN infirm
| old man better than mules. They
never run away or kick or get out OF
| temper. A man can drive oxen until
| he gets slow and amiable and serene.
| He becomes thankful for what little he
has got and he goes to meeting on Sun
days and chews his tobacco and enjoys
his religion. Poor folks ought to en-
Joy religion. for they don't have much
| else to enjoy. Just think how many
| things the upper crust have to distract
their minds from the comforts of reli
gion. There are the shows and .hea
| ters and sewing societies and the par.
| ties and buggy rides and bicycles and
shopping and fashion magazines and
going to the springs and visiting ahd
receiving visits, besides the domestic
affairs of putting up jelly and jam and
| pickles and preserves. The old wood
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does have few texts of scripture that
are worth them all and more too. The
meek shall inherit the earth and the
poor in spirit the kingdom of heaven,
and ii there is anything else to inherit
don't know it.
Poets, philosophers and rich men
have all testified to the vanity of rich
es. and yet every rascal of them wants
more than they have got. And so do /.
Some of us are fools enough to believe
that we want money to do good with
and help other people. There are a
few rich men OF that kind. but they
are rare There arc still left here and
there at lonely distances a-Peter Coop
er or Peabody or George w. Scott, who
do not wait until they die to do good
with their money. Carnegie aud Rock
efeiler give off slice occasionally, but
they hold fast to the big end OF the rope
and keep on piling up. The New York
World sent out inquiries not long age
to all of the millionaires to know
whether or not great riches brought
happiness. Carnegie said: Wealth
brings happiness only when the pos.
.aesor feeds the hunurv clothes tha