The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-06-30
Envy.


is the most persevering, prying, observant
and indefatigable in its serpent-like attri-
butes.
When the great Frederick of Prussia
put the question severally to each of his
coutiers, requesting their opinion as the
best remedy to sharpen the eyesight,
some recommended fennel, some one thing
and some another till it came to Actlas,
WHO gravely advised his sovereign to try
Envy
Whatever we do or say, is straightway
snapped up by this lurking, sinister med
dler, and distorted and disarranged by this
eldest born ofmalace, and then given to
the crew ofsem demons ever lurking along
the hedge row of vice, as q by-word and
Imatter of ridicule. Whatever we do i'll, is
magnifed by this imp OF Hate to absolute
wickedness, and even our best actions and
motives are distorted 10 every hideousHess
of aspect All our fsilings ere watched
and blazoned forth to the gaping crowd,
ever ready to grasp at fault to cruelty
him without mercy.
Envy is the lowest, eilest, meanes5 of
all the passions that ever swayed the lu-
man heart. And while Faith, Love, Hope,
Justice and all their sister virtues, com
bine to ennoble and elevate humanity; and
while Hate, Revenge, and blaereyed NAL
ice, are but semi-active qualities, Deepen
dent upon other circumstances foreign to
their influence for their action, for their
very existence, Envy is ever on the alert,
ever in action, playing the inslduous spy.
| Dependent upon no circumstances, in
digenuous to no cline or country, it leaps
into instant being, full-hedged like Miner
va from the brain of fOlympus' Thundercr,
and the first act OF the young fiend is mis-
chief
| Envy is SO cowardly and contemplate
an attribute that it exults in wretchedness,
and laughs and makes it more Wretched
still. The enyious man is more miserable
than the serpent could be, endowed with
wisdom and sensible OF the Almighty's $
avcnging curse; for though he has poison
within him, and can cast it upon others,
yet the plague spot is more fatal to the
menial Of Envy than to any one upon whom
the foul venom is vented, as railways ysrank-
les deeper and deeper in his heart, till
like the maddened scorpion it stings itself
to death.
Envy sold the youthful Joseph into
Egyptian bondage, made Saul a rebel
against God and justice, David a Nurderc,.
Envy gave tie Son of God himself to
an ignominious death Of more than mortal
agony; and in short the demon Envy has
caused more civil and uncivil dissentions,
wars, bloodshed, murders, and al ofevery-
thing that is the opposite of harmony, than
all other causes combined
He that would avoid Envy in himself
must possess honesty and independence
enough to dispise it in others. But he
that would avoid the danger of itin others,
must keep well clear Of their company.
Fanny Fern ritter the Women.
Fanny was muslng one Sunday after
the following style, which she has been
candid enough to talk OUT about. She's
a funny boy:
I've been rcaling the Bible to-day,
an1 it strikes me that our foremothers
were not very correct old ladies. Who
fiirtcd with the cid serpcu,? How came
SIMPSONS hair cut off and his pcepersex-
tinguished? Who perforated Jael's head
with te1pcnny nails? How came Jonah
sent on whaling voyage? Who helped
Ananias tell fbs? Who put Job up to
swearing? Who raised hurricane in
good old Abrams house? Who danced
John the Baptist's head of his shoulders
hey? I'd like to notice (that's all what
stock we are all sprung from.
If THEY weren't teetotally depraved
may l never find out which Of EN- | de-
scended from! They didn't seem to have
the least consideration for future genera
tions .'long since unborn" Now | DONE
calculate, myself, to feel. responsible for
their capers. I've read somewhere in By
ron, believe, that every washtub must
stand on its own pedestal! (or something
like that.) don't believe with saddling
my shoulders with their old-fashioned
;ransgressions.
Curious, though, isn't it? the mischief
women make in the world? Great pity
Noah had't set Mrs. Noah adrift when he
sstook one OF each kind in the ark l
should rather have stood my chance for
a ducking than have been shut up with
such ''promiskus'' men-agerie. Noah
was worthy old gentleman. No men
ton made of his getting tipsy but once, [
believe.
VITAL STAFIsTIcs.-The quarterly re-
turns of the birth, marriages and deaths
in England show that during the last fif-
teen months more weddings have taken
place than were ever known to have oc-