The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-08-20
DOES WEALTH BRING HAppINBss9
BILL ARP THINKS 1T HELPS
SOMEWHAT.

BILL ARP THINKS 1T HELP
SOMEWHAT.
The Rich DO ~. AZ ee with Him
as ~ General kuie-he Proposes 20
Divide Surplus With Them.
Tue blues are a masculine malajy
and sfhIct men more than women.
Women have more grief and sorrow,
but when there Is no trouble In the
house they are naturally more cheer
full than Q / notice IL very fire.
queDtly hat while / am worried and !
p~erplexed about temporal things and
can't see nay way out and find myself
in a fit of the blues, my wife and
daughters keep their spirits up and
other women come and goand talk and
laugh and say bright things. That is
all right. 1t would be awful for the
whole family to have the blues at the
same time. Iu fact, nobody ought to
have them and nobody is obliged to
have them. They creep stealthily
upon q man sometimes, and IL he does
not fight them Off he is very poor com
pany. My wife says 1 look like l didn't
have a friend in the world. The best
j remedy is to quit thinking and go to
work. Do sOmething-wOrk in the
garden. chop some wood, fix the win
dow curtains, tie up the flowers, swing
the grandchildren-do something to
divert your mind from yourself. It is
) better TO read q story than to think
and brood over trouble that may never
come. The body is so mysteriously
connected with the mind hat the blues
impair digestion and that causes loss
of appetite and the first thing a 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 q mistake. 1t is the stomach,
andri that is out of order the whole
body is sick. The Bible tells about
bowels OF mercy and bowels of COM
passion.
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. l
had such q letter from q friend the
other day and he wound up by saying !:
:" And now [ think l feel better, plague
take 'em." Sometimes a view from
the other side produces q reaction.
Consider the folks around you who are
worse off and yet keep cheerful and
THANKFUL. "YoLder comes the old
man with his wood" said my wife.
Yes, he is about as old as l am and is
wearing my old coat that she gave him,
and like the "song Alknomoc, he never
complains" He lives six miles away.
He cuts q load of wood one day and
hauls it to town the next day with a
yoke of steers, and when he can't sell
it for 10 n be knows he can haul it
to my house and Mrs. Arp will take it.
He always wea u smile and saws
We are getting on fairly we'll at my
. house-is your people all we'll ?" He
throws two or three chunks of light
wood on top so as to keep the cook in
nnn1 ttf,n Ivnn nnn ~ -
motor in these lightning times, but
they are cheap and don't die and no
body will steal them and they suit an
in6rm old nan better than mules
They never run away or kick or get
out Of temper. A man can drive oxen
until he gets slow and amiab,e and Sc
rene. He becomes thankful for what
little he has got and he goes to meet
ing on Sumo ays and chews his tobacco
and enjoys his religion. Poor folks
ought to enjoy their religion, for they
think how many things the upper
crust have to distract their minds
; from the comforts Of religion. There
are the shows and theaters and sewing
societies and the parties and buggy
rides and bicycles and shopping and
fashion magazines and going to the
springs and visiting and receiving
visits, besides the domestic affairs OF
putting up jelly and jam and pickles
and preserves. The old wood hauler
has none of these things, but he does
have u few texts of scripture that arc
worth them all and more, too. Thu
meek shall inherit the earth and tho
poor in spirit the kingdom of heaven
, and If there is anything else to inheri,
= [ don't know it.
Poets, philosophers and rich mer
have all testified to the vanity o.
, riches. and yet every rascal of them
wants more than they have got. And
t 50 do |. Some of Us are fools enoupt
to believe tina we want money to dc
good with and help other people
There are a few rich men of that kind
) but they are rare. There are still lief,
1 here and there at lonely distances 9
Peter Cooper or Peabody or George
w. Scott, who do not wait until the,
die to do good with their money. Car.
negie and Rockefeller give of a slice
occasionally, but they hold fast to the
big end OF the rope and keep on piline
. up. The New York World sent out in'
qniries not long ago to all of the mil.
( lionaires to know whether or not great
riches brought happiness. Carnegie
said Wealth brings happiness only
when the possessOr feeds the hungry
clothes the naked, endows institutions
Of learning, POUNDS hospitals and does
other countless good works.
, Rockefeller said: Wealth docs
not bring happiness, for no man thinks
himself wealthy. No man is so rich
but what there are others richer thar
he Is, and that fact makes him feel
poor. Practically. there is no such
thing as a rich man Money is like
strawberries and cream-nobody ever
gets enough. Don't you think you
have had enough, Ethel? ' said her
aunt. I may think so, auntie, but
don't feel So said Ethel. No, tho fact
Is that great wealth brings unhappi-
ness"
Russell Sage said "Riches are all
vanity and ~vexation of spirit. Few
people have any idea of the trouble
and Inconvenience that wealth brings,
The rich never ask such q foolish
question as Does wealth bring happi-
ness !? A rich man is constantly in