The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1874-11-21
SATURDAY, NOV. 81. 1874.
KEEP COOL.

less degree, In passing through
this sublunary sphere, this in
junction is very often appropriate
and pregnant with the deep phi
losophy. That genial poet and
philosopher, John g. SAKE, sums
the matter up in this short verse /:
"Since through the world we're bound to
dodge,
If we living get,
We may as well dodge on right cool,
And not get in fret
And that other philosopher, we
have forgotten his name, express
es the same admonition in the
Eleventh Commandment, as fol-
lows: Fret not thy gizzard," all
of which means "keep COOL"
Oh, how much of human misery
would be avoided if all men and
women too, would regard this in
junction. How many people of
both sexes, now under the ground
would still have been walking
the earth, useful and happy men,
bers of society, if they had learn
ed to keep cool.
We are fast people. We live
fast, work fast, eat fast, do every
thing by spasmodic jerk, and
Thea we die fast and are forgot
ten fast. Now, the admQnition to
keep cool" does not signify that
we should be inert or inactive. 1t
does not mean that we should be
drones in the great human hive,
moping listlessly around and
waiting for something to turn up.
Far from it. Be as dilligent as
possible in the business that you
find to do; set the world on fire if
you can, by the friction of your
activity, but Keep cool. Don't get
excited. Don't let your blood
boil and your brain seethe with
consuming heat. If you do you
are incapable of enjoying life, you
are shortening that life and are
as much of a suicide as though
you blew your brains out at once.
Oh, what sublime philosophy is
in man who has schooled him.
self to look on the bright side of
everything! Who is never ut
terly cast down, though disasters
and business failures assail him at
every step. He is the man who
enjoys life and whose spirit can
not be crushed, because he has
learned to keep cool.
Young men, particularly, let us
exhort you to learn this lesson
well, for in it is the great secret
of human happiness. Your affec.
tions may have been so conferred
in some dear object, that you feel
that she is all the world to you
and that if you should fail to OBJ
tain her for yourself, the world
would be blank and existence a
torment. You feel that you have
nothing else to live for, and dark
ness and desolation take possess
sion of your soul, and you proba
bly, think of rushing, uncalIed for
into the unseen world. Now this
is all because you have not learn
ed to keep cool. Don't make
damphoOl of yourself. There
are as good fish in the sea as any
that have been caught" Don't
NOPE and fret in dark places, but
come out into the bright sunshine
of Gods beautiful world and keep
cool and fret not thy gizzard, and
light and peace will beam upon
your darkened soul. And the
rule is the same in business.
See that man whose blood is
boiling and whose brain is on fire
in the maddening rush after
wealth.-And if he acquires it, is
he happy? No; far from it. He
has kept himself in continual
heat all his life and he cannot
cool off. While acquiring his
wealth he has acquired habits of
life and thought that are averse
to peace and true enjoyment.
Search the annals of the world