People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — Which arc You? [ARTICLE]

Which arc You?

There are two kinds of people on earth to-day, Just two kinds of people, no more, I say. Not thp sinner and saint, for ’tls well understood The good are half bad, and the bad are half good. Not the rich and the poor, for to count a man’s wealth You must first know the state of his conscience and health. Not the humble and preud, for in life's little span. Who puts on vain airs is not counted a man. Not the happy and sad, for the swift flying years Ering each man his laughter and each man his tears. No; the two kinds of people on earth I mean. Are the people who lift, and the people who lean. Wherever you go, you will find the world's masses Are always divided in just these two classes. And oddly enough, you will find too, I wean, There is only one lifter to twenty who lean. In which class are you? Are you easing the load Of overtaxed lifters who toil down the road? Or are you a leaner, who lets others bear Your portion of labor and worry and care? —Ella Wheeler Wilcox in Harpers Weekly.