Show the old settler written from salt lake city 0 o my dear san Jua ners no question about it some people really dont care a tinkers whistle they live in a state of blissful indifference so long as they find it poE possible sible to keep warm and have their waist band tight without taking it up a notch their little world lacks nothing they dont worry if they can dodge cold and famine they put on flesh and look as fine as a corn fed steer but there is a big army of aggressive gres sive men and women who have objectives and purposes and ideals they feel a keen sense of their obligation as actors in the big human drama they have cherished hopes and interests they have loved ones for whose welfare they are deeply concerned they worry their solicitude is is etched in deep lines on their faces and they plough through heavy thought while others are sleeping I 1 admire their gumption their energy their integrity I 1 sympathize with them and yet I 1 am astonished in many cases when I 1 know what they are worrying about they worry from force of habit worry has become an iri inseparable separable feature of their devotion to duty if it is something completely beyond their power to remedy they worry about it in a kind of ing yet unremitting sort of way but if it is something within their power to correct by taking the necessary steps they simply delay taking those necessary steps and turn on an extra voltage of worry nine men out of ten of those who worry if you take trouble to find out what they are worrying most about discover that the thing on which they are piling up the most agony is the thing which they could remedy if they would two farmers lost their young potatoes with a late spring frost and late in june farmer B met farmer A and lamented it seems that fate has a special grudge against you and me how so A enquired why is fate freezing our poa po just when they got started you still worrying about that A enquired why 0 I 1 moaned B sorrowfully it was the nain main thing I 1 looked forward to for the surn summer mer me too said A but I 1 planted mine again next day and now looking fine and will do as well as if the frost had not i come ALBERT R LYMAN |