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Show uu CONTENTMENT. (By Walt Mason) Contentment isn't often seen where men have bundles of long green. The more a nia'h requires, It seems, the more does worry haunt his dreams, and every millionaire I know looks j like a cheap tintype of woe. I have1 a friend who once was broke; then! be considered life a joke; ho filled the air with gladsome song, and no one laughed so loud or long. It was a Joy to meet him then; he was a tonic to sad men. But fortuno slipped around, by stealth, and loaded him with unearned wealth. Ho comes to see me now and then I wish he'd never come again and talks so much of dole and gloom, of properties that ceased to boom, of plants requiring ready cash, Investments which have gono kersmash, the grief that capital endures, the grief no legislature cures ho talks so much along this line, and puts up such a bitter whine, that when he leaves my humble door my feet are chilled, my heart is sore. .Your .wealth .will .buy a lot of things; all kinds of luxuries it brings, but ; you can't tako it to the mart, and IH i buy a glad, contented heart Copy- lH . right. fiH oo r'tH |