The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-23
HAPPINESS AT HOME.
Bill Arp Says It is Moro Valuable
than tho Klondikc-Cross Hus-
bands and COmDlainiur Wives


The poet says that domestic happi-
{ ness is the only bliss of paradise that
t has survived tho fall" If that is SO,
| and | reckon IL is, what an awful sin it
is for man or his wife or a son or a
( daughter to break it up. 1t is worse
than murder, for there is then only
one victim, nnd he is dead but the
| destroyer OF domestic happiness brings
misery to the family, and they must
live on in thoir sorrow. If domestic
peace and love cond be purchased with
money, what price it would bring,
and yet Il can be had without money if
every mcmber Of the family would do
right. | WAS ruminating about this
and wondering If even tho devil was
mean enough to take pleasure in de-
strOyjng the peace OF a household. The
book OF job does not mako him that
mean. fCr JOB suffered no sorrow from
any bad conduct Of wife or children.
satan wants wOrsnippers, aud even
dared to try to Scducc tho Saviour to
al!egiancC; but nc diJ it in an open,
mhuly way and lost. He is an udver-
Sary-a bad onc--a powerful! one ever
oiuCc he was thrust out OF heaven but
according to scripture he has noS vet
lost his power or his cons !quencc, for
tho l.Hrd talked to him in } OBJ and the
Saviour had conference with him in
Matthew, and Micnacl. the archangcl.
bad u dispute with hin about the BODY
OF Moses. lie is bod, self. poised, de.
liant spirit. and uses many arts to Sc
duCc mHnk ind from their allcriuncn
but surely he wouldn't take away and
destroy the only bliss Of paradise that
Is left us. He hasent done it from in
grrSoii, for that notable uan has Il most
loving household, and so have many
iniidcl5 and atheists and skCptcs. My
opinion Is that our original sin has
, moro to do with bad conduct than the
devil. We are born to sin ;ts the sparks
; lily upward, and tho devil urges us on
: ana apOligiHa IS for every mean thing
we do and tries to comfort VS., but be-
5 licvc that it is in the power Of every
= man and woman son and daughter to
: preserve tho family ,ace and to make
homo the most attractive place upon
: the earth. Then why don't th.y DO it?
/ 1T sickens us with sorrow TO read the
family trouble, in the daily papers.
= Sometimes Is .hc husband, sometimes
T. the wife, sometimes the Il" p.,., but
i oftcncr than all together Il .r Lhc s0n
,r that brings tho blight a"d d !. us the
Il doors and makes parents aud sisters
: seek TO hide from the gazs Of men
- What makes the young mon do SO =?
" Every day there is Il new case some
;. where murder, suicide. Cmbc cHH,cm1nt
d, and al Is III X"d up with tho juiis aud
IT. courts and pictures in the ppncrE and
a. the misery OF kindrCG .tud the world >
- cold criticism. How many families
II thNt once moved proudly with the 50.
III clai swelling thr"ng Eavc retired frCm
| 1t to grirvc over the crushing fate Of :.
" hayward son On daughters shame.
n How many families have been broken
~ down by reckless @ons-iu-law. know
le some aged parents whose hair mas
cr grown pr"mNturrIy gray, whose brow,
a are fUrru,'"u with lines Of sorrow and
IN whose ainl!ra are always sad, II tncy
TO smt'c at All.
r. louh" men, pleas" sop and think
IN The happiness Of hpnG is worth mill-
ions OF doIiAls. IL D2u!a the Klondjt:r,
and is tight co" ny, an | no frol N
nils TO cross. The pleasures oi Il nap
py nome excel anything upon rartn,
and t.nt H., had -, ,.E,nnI.. f.,t l,,,, =, .,