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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 201, 14 March 1877, Page 2

WEALTH IS NUT HAPPINESS. Thk first mistake which is made lr, most men is making wealth the object of their lives. But wealth, as we know, does not give happiness. The Yamle - hilts, the Stewarts, and the Astois hav •; not been our happiest men. They as-.: not typical men in the home ; they .onot the typical men in social life ; th >, are not the typical men in the doliglo-; of life, or in the progression of learnh which perhaps yields the finest joys m . can know. We can go down lower she and find the men who have only o million or so. or half a million, and tin do not type the happiness of America.homos. Go into their houses. 11 - splendid, how gorgeous, how gaudy th ;. are, and yet they cannot rival the h:tlhomes in the love of a husband and v, : ■ the reverence of children for parem the parents’ guardianship over child rein all the sweet happiness that aifecth spreads abroad like fragrance throng the chambers of our houses. Yon kno that almcst every American gets weah who chooses to, though he Joses again, perhaps : but lie gets it. It not great proof of ability nor cvidcu of success for a man to get wealth . this country and this age. Now, the; it seems to ns that if a young im should picture to himself rather a qm house, sunnily placed on some hillsid with a stretch of meadow in from through which courses a running streav shaded by pleasant trees, with a lovii wife, a group of pleasant-faced anvirtuous children, quietude of days and peacefulness of nights, health and contentment of mind, that would be much better than to set up a fictitious standard and strive incessantly for it as though you must reach it or be utterly undone — Murray.