Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-11-22

thousend dollars to invest find 1t such "a
perplexity to know what to do with 1t and
soon after find that we invested 1t where
principal and interest have gone down
through roguery or panic, what must be
the worriment Of those having millions to
invest and whose losses correspond In mag
nitude with their resources!- People who
nave their three or four dollars day
wages are just as happy as those who have
An income Of $500 900 a year.
Sometimes happiness Is seated on n foot
stool and sometimes misery on the throne.
All the gold Of earth In one chunk cannot
purchase five minutes OF complete satis-
action. Worldly success is an atmosphere
hat breeds the maggots of envy and jeal-
ousy and hate. There are those who will
never forgive you il you have more emolu-
nents or honor or ease than they have.
To take you down is the dominant wish
)f most of those who are not as high as you
are. They will spend hours and days and
around newspaper offices to get one mean
Inc printed depreciating you. Your heaven
$ their hell.
dying President OF the United States
said many years ago in regard to his life
ime OF experience, 1T doesn't pay" The
eading statesmen of America In letters OF
Idvice warn young men to keep out OF
politics. Many OF the most success .ful
lave tried in vain to drown their trouble
n strong drink. On the other hand, there
are millions OF people who on departing
his life will have nothing to leave hut a
good nama and a life insurance whose
llumined faces are indices of illumined
souls. They wish everybody we'll. When
the fire DELL rings, they do not go to the
window at midnight to see il 1t is their
store that Is on fire, for they never owned
4 store, and when the September equinox
s abroad they do not worry lest their
ships founder in a gale, for they never
owned u ship, and when the nominations
are made for high political office they are
lot fearful that their name will be over
looked. for they never applied for office
There is so muct b sartiness and freedom
rom care In their laughter that when you
1esr it you are compelled to laugh In sym
oathy, although you know not what they
Ara laughing about.
When the children of that family assem-
Die in the sitting room of the old home
stead to hear the fathers will read. they
are not fearful of being cut off with a mill
on and a half dollars. for the old man
never owned anything more than the farm
If seventy-ave acres, which yielded only
enough plainly to support the household.
rhey have more happiness In one month
han many have in a whole lifetime,
Would to God had the capacity to e1-
plain to you on how little a man can be
happy and on how much he may be
Sretchedl Get you heart right and all Is
light. Keep your heart wrong and all is
wrong. ludt Is priuctpio seiticu III
heaven.
Another thing decided In that high place
that this world is a schoOlhOuse or col
eye for splendid or disgracefu gradua-
ion. We begin in the freshman class of
good or evil and then pass into the sopho-
more aud then into the junior and then
nto the senior, and from that We graduate
angels or devils. In many colleges there is
An elective course" where the student
selects what lie will study-mathemattcs
or the languages or chemistry or philoso-
ohy-and 1t is an elective course we all
AXE in the schoolhouse or university of
his world.
We may study sin until we are saturated
| 9th it or righteousness until we are exem-
| Mfications of 1t. Graduate we all must,
| out we decide for ourselves the style of
graduation. 1t Is an elective course. We
san study generosity until our every word
and every act and every contribution Of
| money or time will make the world better,
or we may study meanness until our soul
shall shrink up to smallness unimagina-
| ole.
| We may under God, educate ourselves In
| a self control that nothing can anger or
| nto an irascibility that will ever and anon
| keep our face flushed with wrath and every
nerve a-quiver. Great old schoolhouse ot
\ world IN which we are all being educated
for Sloly or perditic>i
Some h"ve~a hv graduation
>-eemeni