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Show If you are a kie fcer and see the shadows of failure in everything that is proposed to help the town, for heaven's sake go into some secluded canyon and kick your own shadow on the clay bank and give the men who are working to build up a town a chance. One Iong-fnoed, yellow-eyed, whiniae, carping, chronic kicker can do more to keep away business from a town than all the droughts, short crops grasshoppers, crickets, cyclones and blizzards combined. I It is not intellectual work that injures in-jures the braic, but motional excitement. excite-ment. Most men can stand the severest sever-est thought and study of which their brains are capable, and be nose the worse for it, for neither thought ror I study interferes with the recuperative influence of sleep. It is ambition, anxiety an-xiety and disappointment, the hopes and feara, the loves and hates of our j lives, that wear out our nervous system ftnd ndan"er the balance of the brain. |