The Palatka news and advertiser., 1903-04-17
AVOID THE BLUES.

AVOID THE BLUES.
There are lot of people in this world who seem
to take fendish delight in being miserable and in
making others feel that way too.
Some men, and some women too surround them
selves with an atmosphere of gloom that eternal
sunshine couldn't dispel, and through this distort-
ing medium molehlls grow to mountains and there
tears and groans where there should be smiles.
They wake up the morning with face that
looks like sodden doughnut, and perhaps the sun
is bright and the birds are singing They will
grumble and say, "Oh, we'll, this won't last; we'll
have bad weather yet before night" and should the
sky grow clouded and refreshing rain moisten the
thirsty earth, they shout in gee, 81 told you So"
When they sit down to breakfast they almost cur
die the cream in the coffee, and the most tempting
breakfast does them about much good as a carpet
tack sandwich would. They grow dyspeptic, mo-
rose, pessimstc, cynical, hypochondriacle and get
to be downright nuisances.
After the cynic has been blue certain length Of
time he reaches the brooding stage, and any man
that broods real or fanced wrongs is as dam
gerous "the lean and hungry Cassius." He is
not sane; the outside world is mirrored through q
faulty glass, and nnety-nine times out of hun
dred, he is poor workman whether he digs ditch
or manages big business.
Why? Just because he thinks too much about
what other people think of him and is so afraid
that somebody else going to be shown preferment
over him that he hasn't time to do his work the
way 1t ought to be done. He deliberately destroys
his own efficiency and chances of success, and the
very misfortunes that he imagnes will some day
fall to his lot actually come to him and all through
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friends and snarls out his and worries, till
every one begins to feel that the world would be
better off without him.
If you ever get to feeling blue about things stop
and think what it will mean If you keep tup, and
then pin your mind hard on your daily task that
there isn't room for another thing in your head.
That's the way to keep the haunting spirit Of pes
simism and dependency out of your heart.
And remember the world has time to listen to
your troubles for everyone has troubles of his own,
and the chances are that q good many have a great
deal heavier burden to bear than you have.
Mr.. Bryan forgets the rreconcilable difference of
opinion to which is the prodigal
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Cigarettes having been barred out of Canada the rs-
ing generation of the Dominion will have to think up
some other way of committing face suicide.
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For a new member and one who is without other
bition than his constituents honestly and to the
best of his ability Dr. g. F. Sprague of this county has
Jared exceedingly well at the hands of Speaker Gibbons
The doctor is OH the committees public health, un
finished business Indian affairs and state pensions. All
are less important assignments. DIR. Sprague
was of the original Gibbons supporters though
pledged.
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the naming of the house committees. The successful
man should find it easy forgive his political enemies.
This should apply with special force to the successful
man who is ambitious 1t is understood that Mr.. Wall
of Putnam county opposed Mr. Gibbons election, or at
least not of the original Gibbons men. If this
is the why Mr. Wall, who is an old and intuen-
ta member the house has been relegated to fourth
and fifth places several unimpOrtant committees it
shows narrowness unworthy of Speaker Gibbons and
is amateursh.
Senator Grill is of the most conspicuous and nu
entail members of the state senate, and his recognized
abilities will give him comandingp position in shaping
legislation. Besides being chairman of the important
committee finance and taxation, Senator Grill has
assigned to the committees judiciary rules city
and county organizations mineral and state
prison and convicts. The committees of finance and
taxation, and judiciary the most important in the
senate.
The personnel of the temperance committee of the
House of Representatives may not meet with the ap-
prova of the w. c. T. T. and other bodies of advanced
temperance and anti-saoon workers in the But
with such distinguished moral reformers Harry
Mason the wel-knOwn wholesale liquor dealer of Jack
sonville and JnO P. Wall the reformed dspen
sary advocate acting even to the lump at least some
original ideas the subject of liquor legislation should
result. The unselish devotion of these to the
cause of temperance together with their personal sacr
will tn oka tlair
efforts behalf of this greatest of moral reforms have
more than passing interest
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The majority trustees of John B. Stetson University
are spending good deal of somebody's money in trying
to make it appear that John b. Stetson is prosecuting
President Forbes, and that the fight is simply of
factions for control of the university Every country
paper that be gOld-bricked into publishing their
stuff is furnished with eadyprint half sheet in which
the trustees make abOred effort to prove this PROPOSE
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