The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-04-23
Don,f Worry.

about things that either have hap
pened or that he supposes are going
to happen. A man of that kind is
mighty unhappy. Tbs only time he
isn't stepped IN misery is when he
is asleep and even then he is liable
to be afflicted with the nightmare.
The fact is that he seems to gloat In
misery.
The other day he came around
loaded with all the bulletins that
Doctor Crumbine has gotten out and
he was nearly ready to shed tears ne
was so full of misery. "Here it is, "
al have been kicking about drinking
cups right along for years and here
swhat comes of drinking ont of the
same cup with other people. You
see these magnifed illustrations OF
the microbes that each driRker
leaves on the cup when he drinks?
| never intend to take another drink
If water on a train"
! We understand that he actually
rode 200 or more miles without TAX
ng drink of water, just because
lie was worrying about the microbes
He was so dry that his tongue was
hanging out but he simply wouldn't
axe a drink. He had forgotten to
BRING an individual drinking cup
With him but he said afterward that
,e wouldn't have dared to take a
rink anyway because it was his
opinion that the tank that held the
water was full of microbes and he
had his suspicious about the ice.
| He has worried about his health
Until he has worn himself down to
framework of bones. Inside OF ar
-FOUR if you will listen to his tale OF
woe he will give you to understand
that he is afflicted with four or five
diseases and that there are at leas,
half dozen other diseases that are
waiting for a chance to get in or
him.
| When he Isn't worrying abou
himself he takes on 4 lot Of outside
matters to worry about. For some
ime now he has had it figured ou
Just how long it will be until there
will be no more timber in the
country and at the end of that time
The country will either be consumed
with burning dreuths or swept away
With floods. The other day he ex
nibited lot of figures showing thai
n the course of a comparatively
few years the world would be out Of
coal and that as a result everybody
will freeze to death except those
people who live In the torrid zone
They will last awhile longer hs
thinks, bat there is ne psrmanen
hope even for them, as he ha'
figured it cut and that the world ii
gradually losing its heat and that ii
purse of time the temperature will
ifsll so low even IN the terrid zon'
that the people will perish.
i We were surprised the other dal
to find that the worrying man had
new trouble. He has now mad
an estimate that the iron deposits o
the country will soon be used up a
the rate they are being taken GU
of the earth and then without iron
wood or coal we will be up agains
the real thing.
He commends DR.. CruMbine TO
his war on the fly but says that tn
case is hopeless. He has made an
estimate of the number Of house
flies in the country and gives thu
figures at s87,675,234,S95S52' Ioo'
| 768,243 flies all told and ask
how it is going to be possible to ge'
rid of them.
Until recently he didn't seem to
be worrying much about the nation
generally, but within the past noLth
ne has been reading about the Yep
pelin airship ana sees in that the
destruction of the country. He