The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-05-02
DROVE AWAY WORRY
REMARKABLE MAN VICTORIOUS
AFTER LONG FIGHT.
Experience Of Lorenzo knoIIbin Of
Vermont Leads Col. calIiper to
Make Some Wise Reflections on
Existence.

I'm one respect, at least, the most
remarkable man l ever knew" said
Col. Calliper, was Lorenzo Knollbin,
zcns of my old home town of Stork-
will Centre, VT.
Mr.. 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 heap of fun out
of life on small money capital.
But while he had good health and
good appetite and slept well nights,
and enjoyed life immensely, still he
worried. Habitually he looked on the
cheerful side. but something was sure
to pop out to worry him daily, and
perhaps 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 his
perfect happiness, and get. as we
might say, 100 per cent. of enjoyment
out Of life.
He began by resolving that he
would never worry on Sunday, the day
on which he did no work or business,
when he would naturally be freest
from care. AS a matter of fact he
found things to disturb him even on
Sunday, but he resolutely set himself
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 of the week 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 it
was months before he could fairly say
that he had added Monday to the list
"A working day with its unexpected
happenings and its meetings with var
ious people and in another atmosphere
brought jolts and shocks of charac-
ter far different from those encount-
cred on the quiet and peaceful Sun
day; but finally he did get Monday
tackled to Sunday, nailed to it, in fact,
good and hard, so that he could hon
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.
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 days
troubles, making a sort of accumula-
ton of worries. and sometimes 1t
made him dizzy shutting them off. and
sometimes they got into his conscious
ness. anyhow, spite of all that he
could do, and then he would have to
begin all over again. But he stuck to
it like a man, falling down every now
and then. but always getting up again
and planting himself every time more
firmly than ever on his feet and bet
ter able every time to ward off wor-
ries.
Thus he added day after day. until
at the end of eleven years he had got
Saturday firmly spiked on to the rest.
and he could go from weeks end to
weeks end and week after week con-
tinuously without being worried by
anything. in 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 it is as well for us to be
wholly free from it I 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? don't know. But l do
know that Lorenzo Knollbin was the
most remarkable man | ever knew"