Show KNOCKERS 19 MAKE RIVER of DOUBT SEEM STREAM BY OBSERVER tile the other luy day I 1 saw sav a niep showing allowing Colo colonel liel booso volts 0 lUv crof doubt it was waa con call oi dorable roller to bearil that it I 1 is s definitely located in south A merica meri ct for until I 1 saw it on oil t the lie nial map I 1 was inclined to think it ran through the middle of this town us its well as through a nuni nuin bur of other places not far away that I 1 could inen mention tion of course I 1 dont say that every body here is in the habit of taking lity daily dips in it but most of if us are in ili dined to t 0 yield to tile the temptation now low and then this town like every other place lias has a few fellows that are always agin every improvement that is proposed no matter liow how beneficial it is they are sure aure to say buy it cant he be done one they are suspicious of every body that really wants to do anything for the public good ani and if thy cant find any other objection they spread the report that eliat sonie somebody body is getting something out of it they have no faith in anybody or ully any tiling thing and are very proud of it that seems to bo what makes life worth living for them it if one of these fellows should wake up lip some morning hig accidentally III in something thing lie ho would aou ill sink back onto liis his pillow in it a fright and send sent for a doctor and such an all unusual experience might inight re really ally make him sick prot bly nobody would weep if it did what we need here no matter how much of it we already have ii J more confidence in ourselves and in our opportunities diore 66 punch to put it in ili slang the croakers dont do us any good you might think that in time they would get tired of bracing themselves 4 on oil their mulish toes 4 und nd being dragged 0 forward in spite of themselves but they dolit eem to no matter how far ahead you move them the want to stick right thore in agite spi to of tile fact that they fought w with ith all their might inight against being put there at all tile the very people that made the town what II 11 il is in they call drea dreamers and do everything in their power to hamper hit inper them thein their favorite faaoi ite prophecy is impossible and their principal princ occupation is is making their prediction come coine true they seem scein to have wallowed around in ili the river of doubt until they aro soaked full ft 11 of i it t if they could drown in it I 1 might think the stream of some real use the live citizen ci tizell lias has to pull his ili s own sharo share of the load and those of the doubters besides be siles but of course they dont allow liim any credit forab no they blanie blame hini him for trying to do any thing whether lie he succeeds or fails no matter liow how much benefit they got out of liis his efforts themselves NY when lie they think any good tiling thing lias has been killed they are arc happy especially if they had a hand lit in the killing as they usually have lave they never get wine that a good thing cant be killed we have some soine bad cases of if this kind lien her the only thing to bo be done about it that I 1 can think of is ia for the rest of us to bo be as little liko like them thein as possible most of us might inight be a little more hopeful and public spirited than we ure are lot let the doubters splash around in their muddy old river and be happy |