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Volume 9 July 28, 1911. Number 30 
Happiness. : 
Men may differ in their means and 
capacity for obtaining happiness in 
life, but all know that happiness is 
above most of the gifts counted de- 
sirable in life. Everywhere men are 
paying heavy toll to obtain an open- 
ing into this happy way. Some 
never walk therein. The money 
market, the place of business enter- 
prise, the sacred precincts of the 
home and chureh, everywhere we 
find men of every clime and calling 
in search of the immortal prize. It 
is a permanent problem and its quest 
is untiringly pursued by hungry 
-souls. How may I be happy? The 
rich seek for happiness in athletic 
pastimes, in practical philanthropy, 
in the achievements of social success 
or: the ‘‘following of an art career 
for art’s own sake.’’ The less for- 
tunate brother, perhaps, as- the 
world’s goods go, finds it in his 
struggle to maintain the home and 
expresses his purpose and determin- 
ation and character in the product 
of his labor whether it be by hand 
or with mind with those with whom 
‘he labors. Even the degraded sot 
and contemptible pleasure-seeking 
tramp seems to enjoy a debased 
happiness in the pleasures of the eup 
or an open air itineraéy with its pil- 
lar to post existence. The desire for 
happiness is a universal claim. Its 
méthod of conquest varies, only. 
After all it is a personal question 
: : 
.. G. BE. WILLMONTON .... 
' «Attorney and Counsellor at Law- 
and consequently will defy every ef- 
fort of man to gain it in a general 
way. It must always be happiness 
to a person and usually that person 
is the first person singular. <A per- 
son’s happiness must be his very own 
and the product of his own creation 
and indicative of his own power for 
enjoyment. 
Man ean obtain happiness’ only 
when he has acquired a thoroughly 
trained will disciplined by intelli- 
gence and action. Such a trained 
will results consequently in a life of 
purpose without which no life can 
be truly successful. Seneca has well 
said ‘‘there are some who live with- 
out any design at all and only pass 
in the world like straws on a river. 
They do not go, they are carried.’’ 
Such a life ends in ruin and un- 
happiness. A purposeless life is ike 
a ship upon the sea. It floats. It is 
bound nowhere and never tarries 
anywhere. <A purpose is indispensi- 
ble to the happy life. 
If purpose in life be the great 
means of happiness it is.only one 
contributing element among many 
others, some within the power of the 
individual and others beyond his 
control. Among those within his 
own ability to control are high 
ideals, strong and often expressed 
human sympathies, real and enjoy- 
able companionship, a love filled soul 
and an honored home. Add to these 
an increasing knowledge of the 
world in which we dwell, the capac- 
ity and joy of acquiring pleasure 
from the masters of prose and 
poetry, a spirit of pleasure with the 
works of God’s hands and His great 
Book and an_ optimistic energy 
which will thrust away the lions in 
the path and penetrate the clouds 
above to the light and consequently 
walk by faith if not by sight, and we 
have a powerful factor which will 
contribute much to one’s happiness 
in life. 
But the greatest secret of happi- 
ness lays in our social relations. 
For selfishness is social death. Our 
lives are so tied in with the lives of 
others that life is inexplicable save 
in the terms of these ties. These ties 
are the ways to titles in the realm of 
happiness. To live alone on that 
familiar resort of all writers on so- 
ciology, in the wilderness on a desert 
island, would be to exist. and not to 
live. We live and move and have 
our true being in these sacred re- 
lations of life. And the wise man 
seeks not to lessen these bonds and 
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relations, but increase them. The 
bonds make his life. There is no 
way of escape to him who solves 
with courage and enterprise the 
problem of investment of five 
pounds, for he will receive. still 
other five pounds and beyond that 
the rulership over five cities. The 
relationships increase. It is the way 
of life and a man may be born into 
his relations in life or he must make 
them to be happy. Man is a social 
being and his joy in life can only 
increase as it is shared with others 
of his race and kind. 
The President and Reciprocity. 
The passage of the Reciprocity 
Bill will be another triumph for 
President Taft. Left without the 
support of the Republican party by 
the mid-term election he attacked 
one of the most important acts of 
legislation and has put it through 
without amendments and in the form 
which he desired it with the help of 
the Democratic element in Congress. 
To do this has required grit, judg- 
ment and determination and now the 
bill may be safely said to be law. 
It is a personal triumph of Mr. 
Taft. Now it will remain to be seen 
whether Canada will agree and make 
it law. This is likely. The congrat- 
ulations extended by President Taft 
from his summer home in Beverly 
adds to his laurels and is almost as 
great a _ satisfaction to the publie 
because of its broad spirit and gen- 
uime patriotism as the bill itself. 
It is his clear answer to the false 
arguments against the bill. 
“That I am very much pleased 
with the passage of the Canadian 
reciprocity bill through both houses 
of congress goes without saying. I 
believe and hope it will be followed 
by similar action by the dominion 
parliament. 
‘‘In my judgment, the going into 
effect of the agreement will mark a 
new epoch in the relations between 
the United States and Canada and it 
will tend to a marked increase in 
the trade between the two countries 
which will be in every way beneficial 
to both. 
‘*T hope the credit that belongs to. 
See. Knox and his reciprocity assist- 
ants at the state department in the. 
negotiation and framing of the pact, 
and their lucid explanation and de- 
fense of its terms, will not be with- 
held. 
‘‘In a sense, the bill passed was a 
nonpartisan measure, though the re- 
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