Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-08-06
For the Spirit Of the Age.
Mind Your Own Business"
wRATHFULLY DEDICATED TO ALL MEDDLERs.
BY XIDIAN.

FAITHFULLY DEDICATED TO ALL MEDDLEhs'
BY vIDIAN. a.
Would that this oft reiterated maxim v
were craven with a pen of iron on the tab a
let of every mans memory. 1t should be 5
written in letters Of brass and hung up at Il
every public place, SO that +" he that runs a
may read" 1t is sound and wholesome !.
advice. 1t is the essence of wisdom, to :
take heed to it. If a father, in sending j
his son out into the world, to battle for I
himself or to earn a name "perennius acre"
he could condense hours of advice into
that little caution expressed by the cap :
ton of this article. Being attended to
and observed, it has made Men-being
neglected, it has brought misery and vex
alton to the one so neglecting, and to the
one whose bushes IS is !" minded itbrings,
| might say, justifable disgust and anger.
Persons of the best disposition cannot keep
down their rising spleen when another
who has no interest whatever in his affairs
suggests this and advises that, thinks that
it would rebound greatly to his advantage
if he would enter into this speculation,
Knows that Ike wiiltcome to n0M 6ng If BE
continues In his present course, and is pro-
foundly convinced that if his advice is not
taken he will rue it. Out upon all such 4!
say |. Mind your own business"-for
it is very likely that it needs it. Take the
beam out of your own eye and trouble not
the mote in thy brothers.
Who constituted you a superior and cen
sor moruno over your %neighbor's concerns ?
If he needs aid, give tiff he asks your
advice, offer tiff he does not, let him
alone. Verify it seems, friend Meddlers,
that you have such hankering after the
interests of other men, that | begin to be-
lieve that, to express it as courteously as
possible and without hurting your feelings,
if you have any at all, you are slightly
"touched in the upper story" You ought
to advise your friends, Off you nave any,
and l doubt it, if they had a proper re-
gard for your interest and welfare, they
would send you to the Insane Asylum
DIR. Fisher says he has room for forty more,
and | doubt not the DIR. would willingly
accommodate you. There, your friendly
inquiries GU and kind-hearted suggestions
(?) would meet with no objections and, if
you could tame a mouse or a spider, you
might offer any number of suggestions as
to the best manner Of building a nest OF
constructing a web. They might, it is
possible, you know, call you in as assistant
architect, and there you would be " in
your glory"-and it is extremely probable
that they would let you pull down anc
build up to yourheart's content. And an
, other great advantage you might posses
: by being an inmate of such a place is, tina
no one there, your mouse and spider no
| excepted, would call you impertinent 0
, punish you fOryour insolence. You Nigh
p browbeat, harass and vex your innocer
n little mouse to the verge of distraction, an
. never be punished for it. You might il
4 struct your spider that if his web W;
!, stretched a little further to the. North
IL made a little stronger to the South,
- thinned out a little at the East, Tor take
; in a slight degree at the West, or if |
r. was a little more active, orif the flies we
a little more abundant, he would vast
n augment his chances for making a dece
q living and | Will venture to say ha
IL ard the assertion, that everything 20
spinning friend would do would be to II
40 up in his hole, stare out at you and in
Il clear voice tell you to i" Mind your oT
n business" But you wouldn't mind TIL
e. it would not throw you out of humor; /
~ you have had that caution dinged il
1F your ears ever since your brain began fl
-or to be affected.
vo My friends, the Meddlers [ am speaki
70 to, so that all who are not in that class m
If, read no farther or may close their ears
MT My friends, | have written these few lii
be for your bene6t-so you need not get N
and "fare up" about it for you dol
know who | am, and you can't find OF
for the Editor of the cage" is too ole
id hand to let you know ; so you might
10, we'll take the dose quietly or we may ha
IL. to serve you as we do unruly childrt
Il hold your nose and pour it down. Fa
we'll be good boys-and above all THU
n. let me whisper in your ear, " Mind "
own business"
law To the readers generally Of this pap
he | would ask them to read the following
ks tract and say if it isn't " good"-y'
no very good.
the Is it anybody's business,
,or- If a gentleman should choose,
To wait upon a lady
10y If the lady don't refuse?
10 Or, to speak a little palmer,
That the meaning all may know
Is it Snybody's business
low If a lady has a beau?
for is it anybody's business
When that gentleman doth call
Or when he leaves the lady,
= Or ifhe leaves at all?
Or is it necessary
That the curtain should-be drawn
To save from further trouble
her. The outside lockers on?
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rthy The substance of our query
Simply stated would be this:
,irn Is it anybody's business
as What another'S business is?
Whether tits, or whether 'tisn't,
lnd We should really like to know
ming For we are certain, if it isn't,
cam There are some who make 1T SO.
1t
in of "Ifiti is, we'll join the rabble
And act the nobler part
o OF the ~tattlers and defamers,
ha1 Who throng the public mart /;
OF But if not, we'll act the teacher,
Until each Meddler learns,
ton 1t were better in the future,
mich To mind his own concerns
Rut g Cb1cnu n SON 00ut."