Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1884 — Borrowing Trouble. [ARTICLE]

Borrowing Trouble.

The real troubles of life are few : the imaginary sorrow’s are many. Most persons habitually forecast difficulty, and imagine evils that are at least iu the future, if they exist at all. When the time arrives when the sorrow was expected it has vanished, -Many have speculated on the reason for this. Why should so universal an evil exist? Does it grow out of apprehensions resulting from our lack of prescience as to the future, or is it the outcome of disturbed physical Conditions? Dyspepsia or an inactive liver will fill the mind with gloomy ideals. Do all such impressions come from disordered health ? No doubt ignorance, superstition, and ill-health, or lack of mental have much to do with things. -Apprehension and fear are apt to attend what we do not understand. In the old, superstitious times a strange sound, a gloomy day. an eclipse and many other things caused apprehension. Even now there are those who, if they happen to find the number at table to be thirteen, are alarm- d. Dream> are thought by some tohave intimations of trouble. A dream of struggling with snakes means that a secret foe will assail. And so along a catalogue of superstitions. W-e have learned, however, that eclipses are governed by natural laws, and that unlucky numbers or days, and tliat dreams, rarely amount to anything, and are not suggestive causes of special results. Much that was regarded with superstitious awe is now looked upon as an exploded theory. And thus much of what we call trouble is even yet the

result of old superstitions not entirely banished, even from intelligent minds. But these are being gradually dispelled. The light of science is rapidly penetrating what was thought to be mysterious a. few years ago, and it is relieving much that was the cause of trouble and perplexity.— Philadelphia GaU* -