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Title: How to be happy
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: (Frink, Maria Mrs.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Conduct of life
Publisher: Valparaiso, Ind., F. & M. Frink
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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oolish, butthey try to persuade themselves they have been unfort-unate. 17 GANP7 BE D0NE. ATHER up my influence and bury it with me, *f were the dying words of a young man to theweeping friends at his bedside. What a wish isthis ? What a deep anguish of heart there must havebeen as the young man reflected upon his past life—alife which had not been what it should have been. Withwhat deep regrets must his very soul have been filledas he thought of those young men he had influencedfor evil; influences which he felt ought to be eradicated,and which led him faintly, but pleadingly, to breatheout such a dying request, Gather up nrr influenceand bury it with me. Young men, the influence of your lives for good orevil cannot be gathered up by your friends after death,no matter how earnestly you may plead. Then, re-member, your influence is now going out from you;you alone are now responsible; you have now the pow-er to govern and shape it. Then live noble, true, he-roic, God-like lives. 153
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FROM SUCH HUMBLE HOMES TO THE WHITE HOUSE. TH^Y WERE fllxli POOR B0Y8. fOHN Adams second president, was the son of a. farmer of very moderate means. The only starthe had was a good education. Andrew Jackson was born in a log hut in NorthCarolina, and was raised in the pine-woods for whichthe State is famous. James K. Polk spent the earlier years of his life help-ing to dig a living out of a new farm in North Carolina.He was afterwards clerk in a country store. Millard Fillmore was the son of a New York farmer,and his home a very humble one. He learned the bus-iness of clothier. James Buchanan was born in a small town in the Al-leghany Mountains. His father cut the logs and builta house in what was then a wilderness. Abraham Lincoln was the son of a very poor farmerin Kentucky, and lived in a log cabin until he wastwenty-one years old Andrew Johnson was apprenticed to a tailor at theage of ten years by his widowed mother. He neverwas able to attend school, and picked up all the educa-t

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