The Kentucky Gazette

WHAT TO DO WITH TROUBLE.

Don't try to quench your sorrow in rum or narcotics. If you begin this you must keep right on with it till it leads to ruin; or, if you pause, you must add physical pain and the consciousness of degradation to the sorrow you seek to escape. Of all wretched men, his condition is the most pitiful who, having sought to drown his grief in drink, awakes from his debauch with shattered nerves, aching head and depressed mind to face the same trouble again. That which was at first painful to contemplate, will, after drink, seem unbearable. Ten to one the fatal drink will be again and again sought, till its victim sinks, a hopeless, pitiful, and total wreck. Work is your remedy. If misfortune hits you hard, hit something else hard, pitch into something else with a will. There's nothing like good, solid, absorbing, exhausting work, to cure trouble. If you have met with losses, you don't want to lie awake thinking of them. You want sweet, calm, sound sleep, and to eat your dinner with appetite. But you can't unless you work. If you say you don't feel like work, and go a-loafing all day to tell Tom, Dick, or Harry the story of your woes, you will lie awake and keep your wife awake by tossings, spoil her temper and your own breakfast next morning, and begin to-morrow feeling ten times worse than you do to-day. There are some troubles that only time heals, and perhaps some that can never be healed at all, but all can be helped by the panacea, work. Try it, you who are thus afflicted.—Exchange.