This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...developed until he has become afraid of his fellow man--afraid to open the dodr to a stranger. No man is so poor as he who has nothing but money, and no man is so rich as he who has that which money can not buy." When the last word was written, the mansion disappeared, and the little log house belonging to the mountaineer dropped into its place. The sun shine was kissing the last cold stings from the mountain air, and the sweet silence was broken only by the bark of the squirrel, the stroke of the yellow hammer, the cackling of a hen, the tingling of a far away cow bell, the bawl of a hunter's hound and an occasional whoop of the hunter. Three small children, one of which was hitched to a toy wagon, were playing in the yard. A bunch of chickens were sunning themselves on the south side of a little corn crib, and a cow and mule were eating fodder together close by. Everything on the place was happy, and the little family could commune with the God of nature in a thousand different languages. Their little house there in the backwoods looked more beautiful to me, than the millionaire's mansion, and I know the owner was much richer. His muscles were round and firm, his eyes clear and sparkling, his face flushed with the glow of health, and his big heart so full of divine love that he said to the passing stranger; "Say mister, it is almost noon. Better bring your rig on up and get some dinner." I said to myself, thank God for the little homes in the hills. They are the salt of social life---the salt of the whole earth. The poorest man I ever saw was the son of a millionaire. Feeling that he had nothing to do but spend twenty-six. money, he let it go freely in search of happiness until the first thing he knew he had developed a...
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