The Progress., 1897-07-31

confidence depressed and new enterprises
f-o,,, starting ont and new houses from
he;np built You know very Wen th''
one despondent man can talk % men iiito
desnondenc while one cheerful physician
con wake up into exhllaratlon WhoLe
ASYLUM of hypocbondriacs. 1t Is no hlnu
ness TO the poor or the unemployed 10Y Sou
to Join in this deploration- III you nav
not the wit and the common sense
of something cheerful TO say, then keep
silent. There is no man that can be 1I1oe-
pepdent of depressed conversation. i!!e
medical Journals are ever illustrating IL.
I was reading of five men VINO resoiNeu
that they would make an experiment ana
see what they could do in the way Oh oe-
pressing a stout, healthy man, ana theS |
resolved to meet him at different points In
his tourney, and as he stepped out from
his house in the mo ing in robust health
one of the five men met him and salo
"Why. YOU look very sick today. What Is
the matter?" He said: Il am in excellent
health. There is nothing the matter.
Rut. passins down the street, he began TO
examine his symptoms, and the second OF
the five men met him and sac why,
how bad you do look" We'll, ne re-
plied. IL don't feel very well" After
awhile the third man met him, and the
fourth man met him, and the fifth nan
came up and said: ''Why, you look as II
YOU had had the typhoid fever Tor SIX
weeks What is the matter With you!
And the man against whom the strauagem
had beer laid went home and died. And
II You meet n man with perpetual ta1k
about hard times and bankruptcy and
dreadful winters that are TO come you
break down his courage. A few autumns
ago, as the winter was coming on, people
said: I've shall have terrible winter
| The poor viii be frozen out this winter.
| There was something in the large store OF
| acorns that the squirrels had gathered and
| something in the phases of the moon and
| something in other portents that mace
| you certain We were going to have haro
| winter Winter came. 1t WAS the 'nlldest
one within my memory and within yours.
| All that winter long l do not think there
| was an icicle that hung through the day
| from the caves of the house. So you
| propbesied falsely. Last winter was com
ing, and the people said: I'VE shall have
unparalleled suffering among the poor 1t
| will be a dreadful winter. sure enough
/ 1t was cold winter, but there Were more
large hearted charities than ever before
poured out on the country; better provi-
sion made for the poor, SO that there have
been scores of winters when the poor had
;. harder time than they did last winter.
Weather prophets say we will have frosts
thls summer which will Kill the barvesss.
| NOW, let me Icli you, you udNe lieu tNioe
about the weather, and l believe you are
lying this time.
Some people are ovcrborne with the
| dolorouspcss of tho times that they say we
shall have communistic outragcs in this
: country such as they had in France. l dc
not believe it. The parallel does not run.
They have no Sabbath, no Bible, no God
| in France. We have all these defenses fol
our American people, and public opinion
/ t. 4, hat fha iy,f ir fry
: attempt cutthroat expedition they will
land in Sing Sing or from the gallows e
: up on tight rope. / do not believe the peo
. pie of this country will ever commit out
!, RACES and riot and murder for the sake O
3 getting bread, but all this lugubrosity O
t tone and face keeps people down. Now
] will make n contract If the people of th,
Ell United States for one week will talk cheer
Q fully, will open all the manufactures;
< will give employment to all the unoccu
: pied men and women; 1 will make a live
Z ly market for your real estate that is eat