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Show TRUE HAPPINESS. (Charlotte. News and Courier.) , It has been said by a well-known essayist, '"Modern '"Mod-ern science is slowly but surely, sapping the foundations foun-dations of humm happiness;" and he goes on to sing the praises of those primitive times when men led a quiet, pastoral existence in the midst of their flocks and herds, believing the earth to be flat, and that the sun moved, and the stars took cognizance of human lives. In those halcyon days men ate and drank what they chose or rather what they could get without fear of dyspepsia or microbes, and lived to be hundreds of years old without finding find-ing their life a moment too long, since they enjoyed en-joyed every day of it. But civilization and science have changed all that. Instead 'of wearing garments gar-ments of primitive quantity and ease, roving about under the blue sky. where fresh waters and green pastures invite, and leading lives of comfort and peaceful contemplation, men destroy the forests, dry up the water courses, so that the meadows along their banks are no longer green ; they herd together in towns so closely built that they seldom get a glimpse of the sky or obtain sufficient ozone to fill their lungs, burdened by the vitiated atmosphere. atmos-phere. In these crowded places they wear out their lives in the effort to heap up riches, which they have no time to enjoy, and which but demorazile their children. Or they toilfullv build Towers of Babel for others to inhabit, and so exhaust their strength that they are glad to creep into their graves and find rest long before attaining the period per-iod of time that has been allotted to man, and without with-out ever having known what true happiness is. |