The Prescott daily news., 1909-09-02
JNO M MILBURN
 WRITES A LETTER
Gives Some Interesting Advice Concerning the Blues, of Which He Comics.
 Ses to be Quite Familiar.


 time ago, five oA six years since when 1 was drumming, selling fire | insurance, and running for the legislature, 1 was nOising through the press with my weekly letter. Yes those letters got scattered pretty well over the country. One man told me he saw one of them in New York paper, the one in which the blind rooster story was published. We'll, can't and will not object to this as my letters were not copywrited. So if they are( of any use in filling up news pepers they are welcome to them. I used to write these letters every Monday morning about o'clock and this morningl ] am,up about that time working on this one. Oh, such a change in my own vine and fig tree since my last letter.
 Then l only had to turn on the electric lights by which could see as plainly as by the lights of the sun. Then I had all the conven- fences of a modern home. Then I..could go to the book case and other places about the house and get almost anything I wanted in the way of a book which I rarely ever did. Then I felt easy about keeping the wolf from the door. Many other things were easy with me then that are not now. A little bad management and a fire can put man to feeling right badly when the world and things in general present different as- pect and this gave me the thing generally called the blues from which it has been the fight of my life to eXtricate myself. Did you know, dear reader, that the man or woman with first class case Of the blues is not any ac- count? A man who has been proof against this condition will have it. It is a disease, brought on by disappOintments and brooding A man in this condition sees no good in anything. To a great extent his confidence in others and in himself is destroyed. What he does is mechanically done. He soon becomes a miserable pessi- mist. Men who have aspired to fame and honor, wealth and pres tige, are victims of this disease pessimism and disappointment. It is said that this is what kill ed Horace Greedy who ran against Gen. Grant for president. and scores of others whose i'm pulses were good, who were right i'll life and thought they have gone down under disappointments, the victims of the blues.
 DeaI> reader, I have had the blues. l know what am talk ing about and to put it in just a few words would have thanked some one to have knocked me in the head like hog and let ma go back to mother earth from which Il came. lhave fought it as a man would for his honor, his prop erty and that of his family and at times defeat seemed inevitable, but gradually this monster foe has been weakening his grip. He has loosened his fangs. I see lib- erty ahead. l once saw where | Hon. Thomas F.. Watson in mak- ing a speech told the story A man with his wife started out together in life under very favorable cir cumstance.s They were happy in [ the love and confidence each had | for the other. Both at this time were very optimistic, nothing in the way to perpetual bliss ans happiness of which they were full to the brim. This is the con ditiOn of nearly all married peo- pie. This condition lasts with all G us. but it did not with this 2 couple. Disappointment came and what should have been strength and support gave way and the man took the blues. He had lost all energy and all interest in every thing. Did not care for his children or anyibody's chil- dren. Did not care for his wife or anybody's wife. Life had lost it's charms, and to pass off the stage of action was preferred to his condition. He had told his sl| wife about it but he had talked of II it so many times that she had got II ten used to it. His wife was diff ferent in disposition. Disappoint- ments had not affected her as it had him. They now might be T s<-,~~ T 4 s.-- |