The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-17
LORENZO kNoLLBlN.
The Most Remarkable Man In Stork
 vile Centre.

From the New York Sun.
 Tn one respect, at least the most remarkable man 1 ever knew" said Colonel Calliper, was Lorenzo Knoll bin, in his day one of the best-known citizens of my old home town of Stork- vile Centre. Vt.
 MT. Knollbin was human, like the rest of Us, and so inclined to worry. Naturally. he was of a most happy dis position, and he got a heap of fun out of life on small money capital.
 But while he had good health and a good appetite and slept well nights. and enjoyed life immensely, still he worried Habitually,r he looked on the cheerful side, but something was sure to pop out to worry him daily, and per haps to disturb him greatly.
 Finally he made up his mind that he would see if he couldn't cut out worrying, cut out that one bar to ms perfect happiness. and get, as we might say. 100 per cent of enjoyment out of life.
 "He began by resolving that ne would not worry on Sunday, the day on which he did no work or business, when he would naturally be freest from care. As matter of fact he found things to disturb him even on Sunday, but he resolutely set hlmsei1 the task of conquering himself on that day, and finally he got so that on that day he was free from worry.
 Then he set out to add the other days to the no-worry list. to add one day at a time, beginning of course, with Monday. He had some fearful wrestling with this job, and 1t was months before he could fairly say that he had added Monday to the list.
 "A working day with it's unexpected happenings and it's meetings With Vari- ous people and in another atmosphere brought iolts and shocks of a charac- ter far different from those encoun- tered on the quiet and peaceful Sun day: but finally he did get Monday tackled to Sunday, nailed to 1t, Tn fact' good and hard, so that he could non estly say to himself that there were two days in the week on which he let nothing worry him.
 And then he tackled on Tuesday, a harder job even than Monday, for the worries that he had tended off and pushed aside and ignored and refused to have anything to do with on Mon day had a curious way of bobbing up on Tuesday to mix in with that day troubles, making sort of accumula tion of worries. and sometimes il made him dizzy shutting them off, and some times they got into his consciousness anyhow, spite of all that he could do, and then he would have to begin all oyer again. But he stuck to it like a man, falling down ever now and then, but alway getting up again and plant ing himself every time more firmly than ever on his feet and better able every time to ward off worries.
 Thus he added day after day, un- til at the end of eleven years he had got Saturday firmly spiked on 10 the rest. and he could go from weeks end to weeks end and week after week continuously without being worried by anything. in a state of absolute, com plete tranquility.
 Whether this great victory ever really profited him l never knew. No doubt state of general freedom from worry is a great and good thing: but whether 1t is as well for us to be wholly free from it am not so sure
 Every enjoyment of existence is by contrast Should we know the de lights of sunshine if we never sat in ! shadow? l don't know. But l dc know that Lorenzo Knollbin was the most remarkable man I ever knew"