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Show ALL SEEK FOR HAPPINESS The One Thing for Which Mankind May Be Said to Have a Univer-. Univer-. sal Desire. We canuot pick and choose the happenings of life any more than we can select the circumstances of our birth and death; we are but creatures of a wonderful destiny directed by the Almighty. It Is said that many tragedies of life might be averted if we "took our medicine like men" and did not put our personal happiness above everything else. It is as natural nat-ural and to be expected to long for happiness and cling to it as for the flowers to turn to the sun. Happiness is the great lamp of life which lights our way through all sorts of shadows shad-ows shadows that blur the vision and make long nights of our days, shadows that terrify by their grotesque gro-tesque shapes and threatening aspects, as-pects, and shadows that bury in their depths much that we hold most dear. We are jealous of our happiness and guard it as the most precious thing in life and when we watch it go down the long aisles of memory further and further away from our yearning eyes we begin to plead for it, and strive for it, and fight for it. We batter the walks of the past in our vain efforts to call it back before It is too late, and spend long days and waste precious strength in the futile endeavor to clutch It back to our hearts. And all the while, perhaps right at our hands within easy reach, happiness in a new guise stands ready. Charleston News and Courier. |