The Middle Aged Man

"I wonder, " said the middle aged man,"why we tak e lifeso hard. At tbe very best we have ouly 75 or 100 years of it, and yet we fume and fuss and worry all through it. I think of it sometinies. Here I ani - well, say, 50, with maybe 20 years anead. The cold chances are against my getting so many, jut take a hopeful view and say I've ?ot 20. But that's a raighty short time, íeh? Bnt just think of frittering away that time in worry ! "Wheu I think of these things, I make up ray mind tbat, by cracky, I will not worry any more, and, oh, I hink I take things more philosophical[y than I used tol But let sume little hing come up! I don't fly all topieces over it maybe, but it drags and grinds. And only 20 years to liva! "What a waste of time! What Door.