Show CROAKERS IN ALL PLACES Benjamin F Franklin in in his hi autobiography says There The are are croakers makers in m every country a always alway JO boding on rum ruin Such Sueh a o one then thon i 1 lived in Philadelphia a person of note an elderly man man with a Wise wis look and a very grave manner of ol speaking peaking His name was Samuel Samuel Samuel Sam Sam- uel Mickle This Thi gentleman E a stranger to tee me ate me stopped one day at my door and asked me if I was the young man who had ad lately opened a new printing house Being Being Be Be- ing mg answered in the affirmative he said aid he was sorry orry for me me because because be be- cause it was an expensive undertaking undertaking under under- taking and the expense would be belos los lost for Philadelphia was a sink sink- mg log place the people half bankrupt bank bank- rupt rup or near being so all appearances appear appear- appearances ances anees to tee the contrary such as new buildings and rise of rents being to tee his certain knowledge fallacious fallacious falla falla- cious for they were In n fact fac among the things thing that would soon ruin rain us And he gave me such uch s a detail of misfortunes mISfortune now eXISting eXISt eXISt- existing ing or that were soon oon to exist exis that he left me half melancholy Had I known him before I engaged ed in this business probably I should never have done it This have man continued to live in this decaying decaying de de- place and to declaim the same strain refusing for years to buy buy a house hone there because all was going to destructor at last lat I had the of seeing him give five times time as Be much for one oneas oneas as he might have bought it for far when he first began croaking The croakers are still living They are found m in almost every community With them busi bui tees ness is always bad the weather is IB the tha worst the town in which they live is i. the least let progressive I 1 times time are the hardest the world I f is going to the dogs Do Dee not fear the croaker Some Someday Someday day lay he will croak croak for the last It tims and the world will keep on advancing Be in harmony with the spirit of the times The world is growing better Even the tho croaker has been given the better name of pessimist There a are times perhaps when when w we think we have more than a our share of misfortune But the statement Tie not the worst so 0 long as we can ean say oay This is I. the worst is i is as true today as when uttered by the Bard of Avon three hundred years ago So with apologies to m R. R Louis Loul Stevenson Steven Steven- on son Bon we have have the following following fol fol- lowing philosophy There Thre is so 0 much bad in in the best of life lif And so much good inthe inthe in m the worst of life bf It becomes us u. usall usall all to aim in life bf To seek eek the things that are best beat in life |