The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-04-04

II does net pap TO keep company
with croAksrx. and II il surprislne
how many OF them one meets tn
spite OF AL efforts not 20 associate
with them. Thrae-fourths OF The
people are perpetual oomplainera
and grum0lsrs. Nothing ever suits
them and their chief happiness ap-I
parently consists OF seeing how mis-
cradle they can be. You can count
them by the dozen, no doubt. II
your neighborhood 10 free OF them.
and you can only let the people
know in, you will have o wonderful
immigration to your section, for
there are many people who would
go almost anywhere to escape them.
They get up in the morning COM
planning, they go to bed complain
ing and the hours between time are,
spent In complaints and In direful
toreboding about the future.
-.
know q merchant, and there are
several of him, who is never salts
fed with his days business. He
may sell FIVE times the goods he ex-
pected at the beginning of the days
business, but he growls the live
long day about not doing more. 1t
matters not how the cash may be
coming into his till, he 10 alarmed
lest his competitor is doing better
than he. He knews that the trade
which should be coming his way Is
going to another stere and conse-
quently he is unhappy, Force from
him an admission that he is doing
pretty well at present and he will
begin to forecast a financial storm
which he alone can see on the no.
rixon; the heavy rains of this spring
are sure to be followed with a very
dry summer that will parch the
crops; the presidential election will
unsettle financial conditions and
create worldwide panic; the war
in the east will in some mysterious
way reduce the prices on all staple
products; or q hen In Collin county
has laid an egg with an inscription
on the she'll predicting the end of
the world by fire in 4040.
-.
Such a man can do more to de-
press a fellow than all the real evils
that ever befall a country. In fact
we generally have enough strength
to withstand anything that ever
really happens, it is these imagin-
airy troubles that ara the hardest on
us. 1t is the business of the
grumbler to keep them alive and to
keep the really optimistic man from
feeling too good. / once had to pass
on my way to business regularly
every morning one of these chronic
prophets of I'll omen. He was usu-
ally waiting for me and / suppose
for any other victim who came his
way. / would start out from home
cheerful, perhaps whistling all the
way to town and thinking how good
it was to live in such a country.
When he caught me on the way, he
would begin to pour his tale OF woe
into my ear, and from that he
would drift into conditions general |
ly, past, present, and prospective. |
He would never turn me loose I'M
til he had filled me as full as posi-
BILE with the same fancied troubles
that haunted him, and 1 went about |
my business all the day, as blue as
could be. | saw where association |
with one OF this temperament was
leading me, and / resolved to quit |
i, even IL l had to walk q block to
avoid him. Since then have at all
lines studiously avoided associa-
ion with people who delight In look
ng on the bad side of things, and
.hink l shall live longer for It. Ger
.ainly | shall be able to get more
out of the time do
i've.
-.
OF all classes, | believe farmers
ire most inclined to complain of
conditions and to anticipate troubles
which never come. | do not wish to
,e understood as saying that all are
hus affected, and am glad to know
hat the number Is becoming less all
he time. When cotton brought Ii
'ents pound knew a few who COM
blamed because the price was not
" aud who insisted that IL could not
De profitably grown for less than
hat. Yet these same farmers had
planted when the market did not
Justify an expectation that the price
could exceed six cents. Let a week
PASS without rain and some farmers
~ill begin to see signs that the dread
'ul dr0uth of 1850 or some other his
ioric year Is to be- repeated. Let IL
rain for week and nothing but the
aek ofgbullding material could keep |