If riches could bring happiness, John Anderson should be a happy man; and yet he is far from being happy.

He has succeeded in making money, but failed in every thing else.

But let us enter his home.

As you open the parlor door your feet sink in the rich and beautiful carpet.
Exquisite statuary, and superbly framed pictures greet your eye and you are ready to exclaim, "Oh! how lovely." Here are the beautiful conceptions of painters' art and sculptors' skill.

It is a home of wealth, luxury and display, but not of love, refinement and culture.
Years since, before John Anderson came to live in the city of A.P.